Curriculum
CRM’s Immersive Summer Intensive curriculum focuses heavily on professional mindset coaching, integrating specially curated seminars and observation of professional rehearsals within the students’ daily schedules. These offerings, in combination with physical training courses, can significantly increase a student’s rate of progress as they strive for a professional career in dance.
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This class is structured like a traditional ballet technique class, but the combinations and instruction will be designed to highlight qualities and approaches that help students progress from an academic mindset towards a more professional approach.
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By strengthening proper alignment and pointe technique, this class will help dancers develop the confidence and stability required to engage both classical and contemporary approaches to dancing en pointe.
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Contemporary ballet on today’s professional dance industry draws from a wide variety of aesthetic influences, requiring dancers to be more versatile than any previous generation. Our contemporary classes are designed to develop physical awareness that allows students to readily adapt to new movement styles.
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Building from ballet technique and incorporating methodologies of contemporary dance, choreography classes will challenge young artists with new movement aesthetics and skills of repertoire retention and progression.
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The practice of yoga encourages greater bodily awareness and can be an incredible tool for injury prevention and career longevity. This class is included as a primary offering in order to amplify the importance of mindset and personal care.
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Disciplines like ballet often target specific muscle groups leaving others underdeveloped. Conditioning classes will help young dancers build a more balanced physicality supporting long-term physical health.
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The flagship course of the Immersive Summer Intensive Curriculum. A guided session where aspiring young dancers observe professional rehearsals and analyze the different tools and practices that contribute to their success.
Specialty Lectures & Discussions:
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Research is unlocking fascinating discoveries about the connection between physical and mental well-being. In Mind/Body Movements we will discuss the unique mental vulnerabilities of balletic training, the challenges of pursuing a dance career, and we will identify several tools that can help aspiring dancers overcome those challenges to realize their greatest potential.
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This conversation will address the question: How do you achieve elite athleticism with inspiring artistry? We will outline strategies for success at different stages of professional development, and how to determine the best personal approach amongst a multitude of perspectives.
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What is the real difference between a pre-professional dancer and a professional dance artist? From Pre- to Pro- breaks down the distinguishing characteristics that can help young dancers make the leap to the professional realm.
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Get to know the resident artists of the Marin Choreographic Residency in a series of deep-dive question and answer sessions.
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
*Photo by Chris Hardy
SAMPLE SCHEDULES FROM OUR 2024 PROGRAM
DAY 2…
9:30a-11:00a Ballet Technique Class with Ben Needham-Wood
11:15a-12:15a Repertoire with Katie Currier
12:15a-1:15p Repertoire continued with Alex Brown
1:15p-2:00p Lunch
2:00-3:00p Choreography with Ben Needham-Wood
3:00p-3:30p Observation with Ben Needham-Wood
3:30p-4:00p Discussion: From Pre- to Pro with Ben Needham-Wood
4:00p-4:30p Conditioning with Sadie Brown
DAY 3…
9:30a-11:00a Ballet Technique Class with Brandon Ragland
11:15a-1:15p Repertoire with Ben Needham-Wood
1:15p-2:00p Lunch
2:00-2:30p Observation with Ben Needham-Wood
2:30p-3:30p Repertoire with Brandon Ragland
4:00p-4:30p Discussion: Mind-Body Movements with Ben Needham-Wood
DAY 4…
9:30a-11:00a Ballet Technique Class with Lauren Jonas
11:00a-11:30a Q&A with Lauren Jonas
11:45a-12:30p Repertoire with Kevyn Butler & Lauren Jonas
12:30-1:15 Repertoire continued with Alex Brown
1:15p-2:00p Lunch
2:00-3:00p Choreography with Ben Needham-Wood
3:00p-3:30p Observation with Ben Needham-Wood
3:30p-3:45p Discussion: Athletic Artistry with Ben Needham-Wood
3:45p-4:30p Yoga with Leigh-Anne Albrechta

