Roots & Branches: Jazz | Ballet | Modern

Roots & Branches: Jazz | Ballet | Modern

Camps | This class is completed

Ages: 7-10

8/21/2023-8/25/2023

10:00 AM-12:30 PM PDT on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri

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$285.00 USD

The roots of jazz, ballet, and modern dance run deep! Join us for a fun week of discovery with dance classes in all three styles. Understanding the lineage and history of these dance forms allows us to explore and follow the branches that grew and continue growing from the roots. Your creativity and unique voice will become part of the exciting and ever changing world of dance! Dancers and artists share their creativity with family in an informal presentation on the last day of camp.

  • Clothing: Dress for comfort and ease of movement. Dance clothes such as leotards, footless tights, sweatpants/shorts, leggings, t-shirts, dance skirts, etc. Students dance in bare feet.
Wilson, Bri

Bri Wilson (she/her) was raised in Petoskey, Michigan where she started dancing at age seven under the instruction of Heather Raue, Karrie Benedict, and Stephaine Cope. She earned her BFA in Dance from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California, and supplemented her collegiate training with intensives at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Movement Invention Project. Since moving to Seattle in 2018 she has worked with Elia Mrak, The Three Yells, Beth Terwilleger + The Gray, and performed in Converge Dance Festival, 12 Minutes Max, Soft Concrete I, and Next Fest Northwest.

Bierly, Tiffany

Tiffany Bierly (she/her) is a Seattle-based educator, choreographer and performer, with an MFA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University as well as a BA in Theater and a BS in Kinesiology from Pennsylvania State University. Over the past eleven years, she has instructed dance and fitness classes at various universities, studios, and senior centers. Tiffany has performed in works by Elisha Clark Halpin, Christie Bonade, Sarah Gamblin, and in dance films directed by Jordan Fuchs, Melissa Sanderson and Yea Jean Choi. Since relocating to Seattle, Tiffany has danced for Melissa Sanderson, Emily Curtiss, Peter Kohring, Leah Russell, LanDforms Dance, and Gedney Barclay. Additionally, she is the ‘tiff’ part of tiffana, a collaborative duo with Ana Puzycki. tiffana has presented work in ‘Monomyth I’ and 'Soft Concrete I.'