October 19, 2008 – 8:51 pm
Hey Community,
As your new Blog-mistress, it’s my job to schedule classes and update the blog on class times and locations. I’m learning how to play with all the different pages on the blog so bear with me the first couple weeks. Here is the schedule for this week. And I will update the appropriate parts of this site shortly.
-Dominique
Monday: Jazz 5-6pm in Leeds Studio
Tuesday: Tribal Fusion beginner 4-5pm
intermediate 5-6pm both in the Crew House
Ballet 6:30-7:30pm in the Crew House
Wednesday: Modern 6-7pm in the Crew House
Thursday: Tap 4:30-5:30 in Leeds Studio
October 14, 2008 – 7:03 pm
Welcome back… I hope everyone had a wonderful break! I certainly did. Just wanted to let people know that we will have class this week even though it’s only Wednesday and Thursday. I just put locations up a few minutes ago.
Also, I’m pretty sure that it’s back to my turn for the weekly blog posting and as I can’t think of anything that I should write about concerning dance in the five colleges this week, I’m putting up a link to a blog I sometimes look at when I’m bored and in need of temporary entertainment. Danceminute is a blog published by a woman based in New York. The idea is pretty simple- she puts up videos of dance(ish) happenings that are one minute or less in length. She travels quite a bit, so the videos are from all over the world and some of them are really pretty cool. Check it out here: http://www.danceminute.com/blogframe.html
October 5, 2008 – 12:52 pm
Hi Everyone. I was just down at the dance office signing out our space for the week and wanted to let you know that the schedule page has been updated to show the right locations for this week. There are a few changes from last week- Tribal will be in the Crew House on Tuesday, and my Modern class will be for 6-7pm this week.
I’m sorry that things change so often from week to week, but that’s the nature of the system for signing out studios.
Have a great week!
Meleta
September 30, 2008 – 6:40 pm
Hello my lovely dancers!
This week is my turn to tell you guys about myself. So here goes… My name is Dominique Barbeau, and I’m a sophomore. I hail from Wheeling, West Virigina (yes we are our own state! and we’re not part of the south!) I am a Biology major, Chemistry minor, and a member of Celebrations Dance Company. I started taking ballet when I was 3, and since then have taken jazz, tap, pointe, modern, lyrical, hip hop, European folk, Japanese sword, and belly dancing. Unfortunately, the rigors of bio, chem, and pre-health requirements here at Smith keep me from taking dance classes; which brings me to why I love the SCDC!
I really believe in what this org offers because it allows anyone to take/continue dance classes. This is my second year on the e-board; last year I was social chair, and this year…well, we’ll see in a couple weeks. I hope you’re as pumped as I am about this org, and you make–and get–the most out of it.
Remember, we have two exciting master classes this Saturday: Salsa and Argentine Tango. Plus we’re already planning a couple more fun things for this semester. Stay tuned~
-Dominique
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~Ted Shawn, Time, 25 July 1955
September 29, 2008 – 11:01 am
Okay, so I totally messed up last night when I said that ballet was the only class in the Crew House this week. In fact, Contemporary will be in the Crew House too. So here’s the correct list of where everything is. Pay attention to this list, NOT what it says on the schedule right now, because the schedule has not been updated for this week (Sept29-Oct. 3):
Jazz – Leeds
Tribal (both classes) – Leeds
Contemporary – Crew House
Modern – Leeds
Tap – Leeds
Ballet – Crew House
September 28, 2008 – 6:47 pm
Hello everyone,
Just a reminder to pay attention to where classes are being held each week because they occasionally change! I signed out our spaces for this week and just want to be sure everyone knows that ALL classes this week EXCEPT for Katie’s ballet class will be in the Leeds studio. This is a change for those of you who took jazz in the Crew House last week. Katie’s class will stay in the Crew House.
I’ve also heard that people are a little unsure of where exactly these studios are. So… The Crew House is down by the pond. Go down the concrete stairs and it’s the building on your left. Go in the door and straight up the stairs to the studio. Berenson and Leeds are both in the theater building (Mendenhall). If you come in the door on Green Street, walk straight ahead, down the few stairs, turn right, go through the room with the mirrors, and then when you get to the ugly orange hallway you’re in the right place.
Thanks and hope to see you in class this week! Stay tuned for information about the Salsa/Tango workshop next weekend!
Meleta
September 25, 2008 – 3:17 pm
Hello Dancing Lovers,
So, this is a pretty fancy-schmacy blog we got going. Last year I taught Intermediate Tap for SCDC and had the lovely title of Head of Master Classes… this year, I’m not so sure of what title I hold but I am glad to be on the E-board again this year.
Little bit about myself : I am from Central New Jersey and started dancing at the age of 3 with ballet. From that moment on, I was hooked and began to take classes in tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, pointe, hip-hop, contemporary, and musical theatre. I literally grew up in the competition world, you know the type – cheesy smile, ridiculous rhinestones and sequins, and all that jazz. My favorite style of dance has always and will always be tap. Since tap is practically nonexistent in the Pioneer Valley, I am mainly focusing on jazz and modern here at Smith.
I am a sophomore living in WILSON and doubling majoring in government and psychology. But, at heart I like to think of myself as a dance major. I enjoy caffeinated beverages, fuzzy socks, over-scheduling myself, cranberry mayo, and procrastinating on the paper that I better get back to. Feel free to contact me at dkim2@email.smith.edu with any questions, concerns, or funny jokes.
Dance on,
Danielle
“Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts.
For it is no mere translation or abstraction of life.
It is life itself.”
- Henry Havelock Ellis
September 17, 2008 – 10:24 am
Hi Everyone,
I’m Meleta. This is week two of our attempt to let you all know some more about us which means that it’s my turn! In case you don’t know, I’m the Treasurer of SCDC which actually means something this year because we’re going to get a real budget from ORC for the first time! So anything to do with money, I’m your girl (at least SCDC money I mean). This year I’m also going to be teaching a modern class for the org.
So. Some fun facts about me- I grew up in Jackson, Wyoming where sports and the outdoors are really important. You wouldn’t think that a small town in Wyoming would have a strong arts/dance scene, but it does! I started dancing there when I was 4, doing ballet just like Katie. Then when I got a bit older I expanded my horizons and discovered modern and choreography (also just like Katie. We’re pretty similar.) Now here at Smith I mostly do modern and enjoy making dances and costumes for the student shows.
Last year I spent the fall semester in Washington, DC doing the American Studies department’s Smithsonian internship program. I worked at the Air and Space Museum and it was pretty cool. (If you want to know about the AMS department or the Smithsonian come ask me). Besides being a reading machine and dancing as much as I can, I like to make things like clothes, jewelry, drawings, whatever.
I think that’s enough so I’ll finish off with a quick summary of what going on with the org right now. Last night we had our first GB meeting which was well attended. Thanks to everyone who came! We’ll be posting the class schedule here on the blog and sending it our to the email list very soon and classes will start next Monday. Hope to see people there. Our first big event coming up is our Salsa/Tango workshop on October 4th. Stay tuned for more.
That’s all! Hope to see people around.