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intensive b
Intensive B: July 11th – 17th
Intensive B – SCD Jazz SAMPLER:
Sarasota Contemporary Dance is EXCITED to bring back their SCD sampler classes, Intensive B will focus on a variety of Jazz classes. Intensive participants will be able to experience and learn from 5 different Sarasota Contemporary Dance company members, all with varying backgrounds and embodied practices. Participants will experience influences from Fosse, Broadway, Afro-Fusion, to Commercial Jazz. This class is a great way for participants to immerse themselves into SCD by getting to know the company members and receiving their professional training!
Summer Intensive Details
- Open to High School Students through Professionals (minimum age 14)
- Participant Performance Friday alongside SarasotaContemporary Dance, virtual performance available for purchase
- Contemporary Dance, virtual performance available for purchase
- Daily Classes include: Contemporary, Jazz, Afro-Fusion, Improvisation
- Participant Rising Choreographer Program (3 per program) see details below
- Guest Faculty: Orange Grove, Madison Bender, Gabriel Speiller
- SCD Faculty: experience a variety of SCD teachers throughout your week-long intensive!
- SCD Rep will be restaged by SCD Company Members Jessica Obiedzinski, Melissa Rummel and Samantha Miller
Summer Intensive Tuition
$100 Non-refundable Summer registration deposit (Must be paid for each intensive you are attending)
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$400 for 1 intensive
$150 Internship Payment
30% off final deposit if attending 2 intensives
50% off final deposits if attending 3 intensives
Housing Prices
$100 non refundable (due before MAY 1st to secure a spot)
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$350 + $50 Cleaning Fee
Total : $500
INTERNSHIP
- Age requirement – 18 & up (only 3 interns per intensive, receive half off tuition)
- No experience necessary! Candidates will help on registration day, set up and break down each day, assist teachers with music, and help with basic tasks throughout the program.
Costume Internship:
$100 non-refundable summer payment
class description
CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE
Madison’s Contemporary class begins with a guided warm-up that integrates sensation-based improvisation with fluid stretching and strengthening. Emphasis is placed on awakening the mind–body connection, helping dancers build awareness of themselves and the space around them, while preparing the body for dynamic movement. The class progresses into improvisation and across-the-floor set phrases that may incorporate floorwork and contemporary technique. The class concludes with learning and workshopping phrase material, encouraging dancers to explore musicality, intention, and personal interpretation within the combination.
SCD JAZZ SAMPLER(SCD Teaching Artists):
Sarasota Contemporary Dance is EXCITED to bring back their SCD sampler classes, Intensive B will focus on a variety of Jazz classes. Intensive participants will be able to experience and learn from 5 different Sarasota Contemporary Dance company members, all with varying backgrounds and embodied practices. Participants will experience influences from Fosse, Broadway, Afro-Fusion, to Commercial Jazz. This class is a great way for participants to immerse themselves into SCD by getting to know the company members and receiving their professional training!
SCD Rep:
Participants will be able to learn repertoire from Sarasota Contemporary Dance during the SCD Summer Intensive. Works originally choreographed by Artistic Director Leymis Bolanos Wilmott, restaged this summer by one of SCD Company members.
SCHEDULE
GET TO KNOW Your Guest Teaching artists
Madison Pineda Bender is a professional dancer, creator, and educator based in St. Petersburg, FL. She began her early dance training in Sacramento, CA, and Keller, TX and moved to New York City, at 16, to attend The Joffrey Ballet School Jazz and Contemporary Program. In 2021, Madison graduated from The Juilliard School with a B.F.A. in Dance, receiving the Martha Hill Award and the Juilliard Career Advancement Fellowship Grant. She also trained at the Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Dance Festival, the Nederlands Dans Theater Summer Intensive, the Arts Umbrella Summer Dance Intensive, and Springboard Danse.
Madison has performed the works of Martha Graham, Crystal Pite, and Paul Taylor as well as new creations by Ohad Naharin, Desmond Richardson, Andrea Miller, and Darrel Moultrie. She was chosen to present her work in Juilliard’s 2019 ChoreoComp program and later, worked as Rena Butler’s choreographic assistant for the Juilliard New Dances: Edition 2021 production.
From 2022-2023, Madison worked as a company dancer and teaching artist with GroundWorks DanceTheater, performing new creations by Antonio Brown, Peter Chu, Rena Butler, David Shimotakahara, Spenser Theberge, and Sidra Bell. Madison staged and rehearsed choreography by Rena Butler on the students at George Mason University and worked as her choreographic assistant for a new creation at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Madison joined Peter Chu’s company, chuthis., in 2024, and performed last summer at Orsolina28.
Madison premiered a new solo by Peter Chu and showcased her work at the BEACON 2025 dance festival. She was commissioned by the Florida Orchestra to choreograph and perform for their 2025 Soundwaves Chamber Series: The Soldier’s Tale and for their 2025 Youth Concerts. This fall, Madison premiered a new trio at the Dalí Museum as a 2025 Momentum Artist with the support of St. Petersburg Individual Artist Grant. She looks forward to returning to the BEACON dance festival in March to premiere a new piece and perform new works by Peter Chu and Nicholas Garlo.