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intensive A
Intensive A: June 6th – 12th
Intensive A – SCD MODERN SAMPLER:
Sarasota Contemporary Dance is EXCITED to bring back their SCD sampler classes, Intensive A will focus on a variety of Modern 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 Horton, Limon, Release Technique, to Postmodern. 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 MODERN TECHNIQUE
Using principles of weight, momentum, and energetic connection into space, we will explore movement that is virtuosic and complex. Influences of classical technique are fused with contemporary and improvisational movement practices while we explore floorwork, inversions, weight shifting, and partnering. This class will dynamically move between solo explorations and set energetic phrase work. Participants are encouraged to explore their own decision making process in interpreting, executing, and ultimately transforming the movement material.
SCD MODERN SAMPLER(SCD Teaching Artists):
Sarasota Contemporary Dance is excited to launch a NEW intensive class, the SCD Modern Sampler. 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 Horton, Limon, Release Technique, to Postmodern. 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
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS OF ORANGE GROVE DANCE
Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves are acclaimed directors, choreographers, filmmakers, and mixed media designers. As a collaborative duo they have been creating dances together for over fifteen years through their founding and directing of Orange Grove Dance. Their award-winning works are noted for bringing virtuosic athleticism, mesmerizing design landscapes, and powerful imagery to their audiences.
Lauded for their versatility and vision as artists, Krogol and Reeves redefine the possibilities of dance as a communicative form of art that can meet audiences well beyond the confines of traditional stage venues. Through OGD, their genre spiraling works and commissions have been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages, museums, film festivals, underground tunnels, city streets, black box theaters, public parks, botanic gardens, and high-end hotels. Internationally, they have been Artists-in-Residence, creating choreographic and cinematic works in Finland, Iceland, Italy, Spain, and China, with their most recent tour to the Edinburgh Futures Institute in Scotland.
Krogol and Reeves are Helen Hayes Award winners for “Outstanding Choreography in a Play” for their work in Round House Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2020). Additional honors and commissions include: 2026 Voxel Invited Artist-in-Residence, 2025 Pola Nirenska Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award, 2025 ACDA Screendance Adjudicators, 2025 Dance Place Company-In-Residence, Baker Artist Awards (2024, 2023, 2021), 2024 Voxel AIR, 2023 Rubys Artists through the Deutsch Foundation, The Carla Fund for Choreography and Performance (Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation), Maryland State Arts Council’s Artist Awards, and the Inaugural Ric Rose Distinguished Alumni Award.
In 2018, Krogol and Reeves were featured in the June edition of Dance Teacher Magazine in a spread titled “Living the Dream: How One Couple Makes Their Life Together in Dance,” which highlighted their journey of building a life and a body of work through Orange Grove Dance.
As faculty, they have served at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, Towson University, George WashingtonUniversity, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Florida, University of Maryland, and the Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences in China. They have also directed residencies at American University, Dickinson College, Sweet Briar College, Virginia Commonwealth University, Hillsborough Community College, and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel.
In 2019, Krogol and Reeves developed and launched the OGD Intensive, a unique summer intensive where dance, design, and film collide. Intended for serious pre-professional and professional dance artists with an interdisciplinary practice, this rigorous and immersive week-long intensive features an exciting lineup of classes, workshops, and labs. The OGD Intensive allows artists to get inside of OGD’s creative processes while continuing the development and exploration of their own artistic voice. In 2022, the OGD Intensive found its new home at Sweet Briar College where artists spend a week with the company. This July Krogol and Reeves completed their fifth year of directing the OGD Intensive.
M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland
B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Florida