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Inlet Dance Theatre fosters a year-round educational environment where students of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels come to us for instruction.

Inlet Trainee & Apprentice Program

The fee-based Inlet Trainee & Apprentice Program is for individuals who are serious about dancing professionally or for preparing to obtain an undergraduate degree in dance. The purpose of the program is to prepare young adults for auditions for professional companies or entrance into a college dance program.  Prospective students must have completed high school and/or college course work.

Program includes:

• Three days per week Hawkins-based release modern technique
• Two additional technique classes per week designed around Trainee needs
• Rehearsals with Inlet Dance Theatre
• Education outreach training
• Performance opportunities
• Instruction in dance composition, improvisation, non-traditional partnering and other movement styles
• Personal mission statement development, business administration and other related skill development
• Focused mentoring relationships
• Winter and spring breaks

Inlet Youth Ensemble

The Inlet Youth Ensemble is for committed students ages 12-18 who are considering future instruction in dance or pursuing dance at a post high school level.  The Youth Ensemble offers exclusive instructional time with the Inlet Company Members and Artistic Director.  In addition, the Youth Ensemble is given opportunities for multiple public performances to expand the educational process.

Dance Classes

[ CLASS OFFERINGS 08-09 ] PDF
[ REGISTRATION FORM ] PDF
[ MEDICAL WAIVER FORM ] PDF
[ YOUTH ENSEMBLE AUDITION ] PDF

Download and print your registration form and medical waiver form here, Then bring your completed forms along with your first payment to the studio 15 min. before class begins to allow time to register.

Inlet’s Class Offerings are pre-professional classes for ages 3-Adult taught by the company members of Inlet Dance Theatre.

Classes are available for Modern Dance, featuring Hawkins-based modern dance release technique.  Ballet classes instruct students in the fundamentals of line, turn-out, extension, footwork and ballet vocabulary.  Classes begin at the barre and progress to center and across the floor combinations.  The Art of Composition, Improvisation & Nontraditional Partnering includes Inlet Dance Theatre’s unique performance improvisation and nontraditional partnering style with instruction in dance composition.  Not to be missed! Inlet's Children’s Training Program is a pre-professional program designed to give children well-rounded training at any age.  Each class combines Modern Dance and Ballet technique with creative problem solving instruction. During creative problem solving, children will be guided through imaginative play and exercises that stretch their brain as well as their body.

All classes curriculum are linked to the National Standards for Dance Education. 

Summer Dance Intensives

[ 2010 SDI Registration Form ]

Beginning every June, Inlet Dance Theatre hosts a fee-based modern dance instructional camp for dance students.   SUMMER DANCE INTESIVE is an agressive six-week summer camp for ages 12 though adult and includes curriculum such as hip-hop, modern dance technique, nontraditional partnering, improvisation, composition and performance.   The camp annually culminates with free public performances at Cain Park's Evans Ampitheater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

 

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Inlet Outreach Initiatives

Inlet Dance Theatre expands the reach of its education programs by traveling out into communities.  Often times, local schools and/or civic arts organizations will invite Inlet to their town to offer community programs, residencies or assembly performances.  Inlet has an extensive list of communities that we have partnered with in addition to connections we’ve made through our affiliation with the Ohio Arts Council.

Community Programs

Inlet Dance Theatre collaborates with communities to design and implement programs that engage local residents in the dance making process and usually culminate with a performance in a community space.  For example, Inlet works with community members in Chagrin Falls (OH) in a series of workshops to create masks, costuming, and puppets.  Inlet then conducts movement workshops and culminates the experience by creating an award winning section in the annual Blossom Time Parade.

Program includes:

• Planning phase: Inlet and key community members collaborate to discover the scope and vision for the overall project.
• Implementation phase: Inlet works with the selected core group from the community teaching movement and other workshops focused on the culminating event.
• Culminating performance: Members of the selected core group perform, often with members of Inlet Dance Theatre, in a culminating public performance.
• Evaluation phase: Inlet meets with key community members to assess the process and final performance piece, to collect feedback from community members, and to collate media coverage.

Residencies

Inlet Dance Theatre conducts residencies in schools, through community arts organizations, and in communities.  Inlet residencies allow a diverse range of students to dive into the dance making process, regardless of their previous dance experience.  Inlet residencies link with national and state dance and academic standards while engaging students in the creative thinking process in an empathic environment.

Inlet Dance Theatre is on the Ohio Arts Council’s roster for the Artist in Residence Program.  This program provides an avenue of funding for schools, arts organizations and communities.

Residencies include:

• Planning meeting(s)
• Initial performance of Inlet Dance Theatre
• Student population assessment and core group selection
• Staff workshop
• Curricular teaching
• Culminating performance
• Follow up

Assemblies

School assemblies are generally 45 minutes long and include narration linking the performed repertory to academic standards.  School assemblies may be performed in a gymnasium or auditorium for up to 200 students.  There is a pricing break for schools whose student population is greater than 200 requiring back-to-back assemblies. Contact us for booking or more information..