INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED BALLET
Saturday 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

POLYNESIAN AEROBICS
Thursday 7:30 – 8:30 AM

ADVANCED MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE
with Barbara Selinger, DDC artistic director
Mon & Fri 10:00 – 11:30 AM

DDC’s modern technique classes are designed to encourage articulation and versatility, and prepare dancers for the infinite demands of contemporary choreography. Based on the Humphrey-Limón tradition, the classes emphasize both technical and performance skills through contrasting dynamics and stress the importance of using the body as an expressive instrument. Classes focus on alignment, movement efficiency, strength, control, flow, and the use of breath to achieve total body connectivity.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED BALLET
with Betty Mawhinney, DDC ballet mistress
Wednesday, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Ballet classes are for those with previous dance training who want to pursue further development of their performance skills by practicing classical ballet technique. The traditional sequence of a barre warm-up followed by center work in movement combinations of adagio, pirouette, petit and grand allegro are designed to enhance the dancer’s training in becoming a technically strong, versatile, musical, creative artist.

Fee: $15 per class plus a $15 registration fee (once per year)
Buy a Class Card – 10 classes for $100, no registration fee
Use your class card for any of the above drop-in classes.
Card expires May 29, 2010.
Call 313-943-2135 or email nicole@detroitdancecollective.org
Visit DDC’s website for more information
www.detroitdancecollective.org

DDC City Dance Center, Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
15801 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, 48126

A special opportunity to train with one of Detroit’s finest dance professionals, Michael Woodberry Means, is being offered at the YMCA. Mr. Means will lead weekly classes for teens and adults in ballet and modern dance beginning on Saturday, January 9 and running through Saturday, February 20. The classes take place at the Boll Family YMCA, 1401 Broadway, in downtown Detroit and are a program of YArts, the Arts & Humanities Branch of the Metropolitan Detroit YMCA.

“Intermediate Ballet” is scheduled from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. and focuses on developing and establishing classical ballet technique. Floor barre work and centre floor dancing are emphasized to improve the leaps, jumps and turns of the intermediate level dancer.

“Modern Dance” follows from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. and is designed for the advanced beginner and intermediate dancer. Exciting techniques from modern dance legends Lester Horton, Martha Graham and Jose Limon are introduced and practiced in the class.

Michael Woodberry Means was awarded the 2009-10 Michigan Dance Council Teacher of the Year. A former member of the Peter Sparling Dance Company, Michael is a certified dance instructor for K-12 students and adults.

Class fees are only $35 for each seven week session. Online registration is available for YMCA members by visiting the website: ymcadetroit.org. Nonmembers may register at the Boll Family YMCA or call 313-309-9622. Funding from the YMCA Endowment Fund supports participation by Detroit area teens in the dance program.