State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara, CA
June 22 - July 17, 2020
At Gail Towbes Center for Dance, State Street Ballet's 10,000-square-foot facility located in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara
www.StateStreetBallet.com
Summer Intensive Dancers:
For your CV, read "The Techniques" page under "About,"
then click on this link to go to the "Acting Quiz"!
Previous Summer Intensives
Dancers explored sensory techniques of the actor and experienced the joy of being in action while performing - creating deeper emotional expressivity, more nuanced movement - and having more fun!
Contact to learn how Acting Technique for Dancers training can enhance your next workshop or intensive.
Ballet West
Thank you, Peter LeBreton Merz and Cati Snarr, and thanks to your enthusiastic and talented dancers!
I was amazed that the acting techniques had such an immediate effect on the dancers; they quickly applied the techniques to their other classes and to choreography.
Cati Snarr, Ballet West Academy Principal
I learned to dance "like noone's watching!"
Mia Sosnowski, Dancer, Ballet West Summer Intensive
[Dancing is] easier and more fun, the more in character you are!
Allison Lambert, Dancer, Ballet West Summer Intensive
I learned how to visualize my environment and act like I'm really there.
Sophia Simmons, Dancer, Ballet West Summer Intensive
Now we know how to make things real on stage - like facial expressions.
Kayla Norman, Dancer, Ballet West Summer Intensive
University of New Mexico with Modas Dance
Thank you to Layla Amis and Duncan Cooper, and to your wonderful dancers!
The specificity of acting choices helped me get to the root of where movement is coming from and made my choices more organic.
- Natalie Brittain, Modas summer intensive dancer
It challenged me to get out of my comfort zone and use my imagination and creativity.
- Angie Gamboa, Modas summer intensive dancer
It was really fun; a different way of portraying characters in dance!
- Victoria Pacheco, Modas summer intensive dancer
Dancers (intermediate through professionals) studied essential acting techniques applied to the dance, with an emphasis on making specific acting choices for heightened authenticity and artistry.
Contact to learn how Acting Technique for Dancers training can enhance your summer intensive.