SUMMER INTENSIVE
/ July 1, 2013 – August 3, 2013
GUEST INSTRUCTORS
LINDA K. JOHNSON / Contemporary Dance Forms (teaching first four weeks)
Based in Portland, dance artist Linda K. Johnson has been working throughout the West Coast as a choreographer, performer, and educator for over 25 years. An Oregon native, her concerns as an artist are social and environmental. Since creating her first site-based, large-scale interdisciplinary performance in 1992, Johnson has gone on to author over 15 major works. She has been awarded artist residencies at Rauschenberg Residency, Yaddo, Caldera, and the Sitka Center to further these interests. A recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in 1999, Johnson’s work has been generously funded by public and private sources, and has received critical review in many venues including Dance Magazine, Landscape Architecture and Metropolis Magazine. PICA/TBA:08 & 12, On the Boards, TEDx/Concordia, American Society of Landscape Architects, Third Angle New Music Ensemble, among others, have commissioned or presented her work. Major recent works include the South Waterfront Artist-in-Residence Program and The City Dance of Lawrence and Anna Halprin. In 2011, she was one of four dance artists featured in Dance: before, after, during at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University. Johnson is honored to be a custodian of Yvonne Rainer’s seminal post-modern work, Trio A, and has performed as a soloist in works by Bebe Miller (Rain) and James Canfield, among others. A sought-after teacher, she has taught for extended periods at Mills College, Jefferson High School, University of Oregon, Reed College, and Lewis and Clark College. She co-founded Conduit, and is an adjunct faculty member at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. In Fall/2013, Johnson will set a mixed ability version of Trio A on the Axis Dance Company in Oakland, and she will be one of 12 featured artists in a new book – New Explorers, about landscape, feminism, and hybrid performance practice. She is in the final stages of meeting the qualifications to teach The Alexander Technique, a somatic form that deeply influences her teaching and performing. Johnson was the Director of Education and Outreach at OBT from 2000-2005.
SARAH GAMBLIN / Contemporary Dance Forms (teaching fifth week)
Sarah Gamblin, Associate Professor of Dance, was a member of Bebe Miller Company from 1993-2000 and Bill Young and Dancers from 1996-99 with whom she toured various cities in South Africa, Portugal, Poland, St. Petersburg, Russia, Estonia, Peru and Venezuela as well as numerous cities in the US. In 2000 Gamblin earned the MFA in Dance from the University of Washington. In Seattle she performed with Rob Kitsos, Lingo dancetheater and Amii Le Gendre. Gamblin joined the dance faculty at Texas Woman's University in 2002 where she teaches modern technique, composition, choreography, improvisation experiential anatomy and in 2006 founded Dance Lab, a student performing group devoted to improvisation in the dance making process and performance. Her choreography has been produced at the Fort Worth Dance Festival, the Out of the Loop Festival, the Houston Fringe Festival, the Cultivate Dance Festival in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, The New Genre Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation, Bates Dance Festival, Dan’s Silver Leaf and Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio. Sarah's work has also been produced in Washington at the University of Washington, The Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards and in New York City at the Flea Theater, Hundred Grand and Dia Center for the Arts. She has set original choreography on Mam-Luft Company/Dance of Cincinnati, OH, the University of Montana, the University of Wyoming, and Texas Christian University and had set Bebe Miller Repertory on students of the University of Hawai'i and University of North Texas.
PRICING
Pre-Ballet (ages 4-6) |
1 class/week |
$140 |
FIRST STEPS |
1 class/week |
$140 |
Level 1 (ages 7-13) |
3 classes/week |
$275 |
Level 2 |
3 classes/week |
$280 |
Level 3 |
10 classes/week |
$785 |
Level 4 |
16+ classes/week |
$1,200 |
Level 5 |
20+ classes/week |
$1,600 |
Level 6 /
|
20+ classes/week |
$1,605 |
Pre-Ballet and First Steps students must remit the entire balance with their registration materials. Levels 1 – 6 students must remit a $200 deposit* with their registration materials. Summer Intensive tuition will not be prorated for missed days. These payments hold your space and are non-refundable. Classes will be closed once enrollment limits are reached.
*We offer a payment plan for Levels 1 – 6 that divides the tuition into 2 equal payments after the $200 deposit is paid. If you wish to use our payment plan, you will be charged a $40 finance charge. Details will be provided with your offer of admission.
HOUSING
Housing is available to out-of-town students and is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Local, year-round SOBT families host visiting students for the summer. The hosts are approved by SOBT and arrangements for housing are facilitated by the School Administrator. Students from out-of-town will automatically receive a housing form with their offer of admission. A fee of $1,500 is paid directly to the host family for room, board, and transportation.
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