“Dance the World: A Dance Fusion Workshop” will be part of the 2017 Hawaii Performing Arts Festival’s 13th season this summer, joining the festival’s vocal, instrumental, collaborative piano and directing programs.
“Dance the World: A Dance Fusion Workshop” will be part of the 2017 Hawaii Performing Arts Festival’s 13th season this summer, joining the festival’s vocal, instrumental, collaborative piano and directing programs.
The new multidiscipline dance program will be from July 3-18 in Waimea.
Directed by Angel Prince of Hawaii’s Prince Dance Theater and assisted by Catherine Turocy, artistic director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, the workshop will offer a unique combination of contemporary and classical dance classes and performances.
Drawing on the creative force of cultural fusion through improvisation, “Dance the World” will be taught by master teachers in jookin, baroque, tango, hula, ballet and modern dance.
Faculty includes Ladia Yates, who competed on “So You Think You Can Dance” and is a nationally known hip-hop and jookin artist, and ballet teacher Rachel List, formerly on the faculty at New York University and Barnard College and currently director of the dance program at Hofstra University.
Dance students 18 years and older will have an opportunity to expand their creative skills, culminating in onstage performances with live music, beginning with HPAF’s performance of “Stabat Mater” by baroque composer Giovanni Pergolesi on July 7-8 at Davies Chapel on the Hawaii Preparatory Academy campus in Waimea. The performance will be free to the public.
The deadline for applications is April 15. For more information, visit www.HawaiiPerformingArtsFestival.org or call Prince at 217-3008.