Intro to Theater & Dance Performance

Grade(s): 5-8

Cost: $225

Schedule: 12:45 PM - 2:10 PM

Description: Participants will explore the process of live theater and performance (acting, dancing, and general performance) in a dynamic, safe, challenging, and creative theater setting devoted to having FUN and developing self-confidence. Students will perform age-appropriate dances (jazz, character, salsa, hip-hop, Broadway musicals). This dance class will be fluid and responsive to dancers' ability and interest.

Instructor Dr. Lizette Ortega Dolan has been performing and creating movement nearly all of her life. As did many children, she trained in ballet, tap, and jazz - except she never stopped. Lizette graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a double major in History and Dance, along with minors in Education and Drama, danced while at Harvard earning her Master's in Teaching and Curriculum and a teaching credential in dance. She has performed and choreographed professionally in Bay Area companies since 2002.

Her dance education and performance experience prior to CAL was ballet, salsa, tango, jazz, tap, and musical theater. While at CAL, she gained a deep understanding of and appreciation for modern dance, specifically Graham and Cunningham, not only as art forms, but as solid foundations from which she continues to base her own technique. She's taught multiple forms of dance to children and adults consistently since 1998 and produced, directed, and performed dance, theater, and spoken word extensively.

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