When a friend tells me they need dancers for an upcoming project, I’m happy to get the word out! Veronica Mendonca, Director of VAm Studios reached out to me to share this Call for dancers:
3 Dancers needed for a music video shoot end of July, must be available to rehearse between July 17th and July 30th. Looking for dancers who are strong in Contemporary dance style(s), with partnering experience. Please submit resume/bio, headshot, and video link by July 14, 2022 to info@vamstudios.net
Video submissions preferred through YouTube, but other options are accepted as well (Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox links, etc.) Paid rehearsals and day of shoot.
Wish I could join in the fun, but I’m a little too busy these days! Excited to have everyone back to dancing and creating after these crazy few years. Please reach out to her if you’re interested. She’s an amazing person and I’ve heard she’s a lot of fun to work with!
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Upcoming Events at Dance Conservatory Seattle:
Exciting things happening at DCS! We get to host some great events! Here is one coming up at the end of the month! This event is being held by one of our DCS Dancers, Jenny McGrath & her Co-Movement Therapy friend, Rachel Smart. Join these two lovely people on Sunday, July 31st from 10 am- 1 pm for their Movement Therapy Workshop. We’re thrilled to have them at DCS!
Register online:
https://indwellmovement.as.me/schedule.php
Or, click on the “live events” page and scroll down to “upcoming events” and click the “register now” button.
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Mathew Heggem and MODERN Class is back at DCS
Starts next week, July 17th
Sundays from 6- 7:30 Pm
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Along with our other classes, we’re happy to have options!
Lauren Reins is back for two FRIDAY nights this July!
Contemporary/Jazz Class
Ages 15- Adults ~ July 15th 7:00- 8:30 pm
Kids Ages 10-16 ~ July 30th 5:30-7:00 pm
Ages 15-Adults ~ July 30th 7:00-8:30 pm
Lauren Reins is a dance educator, choreographer and the founder of Motivation in Movement, a mindset training program, and wellness coaching practice for dancers. She has been a dancer for over 30 years. She grew up in Portland, OR where she trained at various studios in jazz, ballet, lyrical, contemporary and hip hop. When she was 18, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in dance. She graduated from The Edge Performing Arts scholarship program and went on to dance professionally for a decade doing various television, film, stage, and commercial dance jobs. She then went on to get her Bachelor degree in Psychology, as she started her teaching and choreography career. She has been teaching and choreographing now for over a decade. She also became a certified wellness and enneagram coach, and opened Motivation in Movement.
Her mission is to connect with as many dancers as possible through the art of dance, mindset training, and self exploration practices. To co-create a space where vulnerability is celebrated and therefore unlocks authentic performance onstage and in life. To help each dancer embrace their own story and ultimately find confidence in who they are as humans. “My hope is that through training the whole dancer, body, heart, and mind, they are able to experience the love, light, and unique artistic self expression that dance has to offer.”
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Two MORE Wednesdays with Bennyroyce Royon
For his Contemporary Class
July 13th & July 20th at 10 am
**Please let us know you enjoy his class by attending!
Maybe we can get him back again in the FALL!
Bennyroyce Royon is a Filipino-American director, choreographer, and teaching artist working between Seattle and New York City. He graduated from The Juilliard School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. As a performer and collaborator he has worked on Broadway (The King and I), Off-Broadway (Artist of Light), at The Metropolitan Opera (Madama Butterfly, Turandot, The First Emperor), at the New York Philharmonic (The Cunning Little Vixen), and with dance companies including Armitage Gone! Dance, Sidra Bell Dance New York, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, Alaska Dance Theatre, The Nilas Martins Dance Company, Collective Body Dance Lab, Cas Public, and Bad Boys of Dance.
As a dancer, Royon has been noted by The New York Times for his “keenly focused, succinct way with movement.” He has worked with choreographers Aszure Barton, Karole Armitage, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Christopher Gattelli, Greg Zane, Sidra Bell, and Carolyn Dorfman, among others. He has appeared on PBS Great Performances, Good Morning America, and the music videos of Son Lux and My Brightest Diamond.
In 2010, he founded Bennyroyce Dance, a project-based contemporary dance company. His company has performed at venues in New York City including The Joyce Theater, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, Bryant Park Presents, and more. Bennyroyce Dance has also performed in Seattle, Bellevue, Oberlin, St. Louis, and New Orleans. Composed of a multicultural group of broad-minded artists, Bennyroyce Dance delivers fresh, inventive, and inventive works with “glimmers of ballet vocabulary and lots of edge.” They inspire, educate, and uplift diverse audiences through performances, education, and community building.
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Our super talented photographer, Marcia Davis is offering photos session packages for dancers!
Here’s the face behind the camera!
Contact Marcia at: thatdavisgirl206@gmail.com
to schedule your shoot with her.
She’s officially our resident photographer!
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