Valerie Williams Co'Motion Dance Theater -- Modern Dance Company
Kids' Co'Motion
Nature of Things
July 12-31, 2010
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Kids' Co'Motion is an annual program designed to train children ages 8-18 in modern dance technique, composition theory and practice and production. Each day students spend an hour on technique, an hour on composition and improvisation and two hours rehearsing for a final, fully produced dance performance.
The first two weeks of the workshop take place in the beautiful Betty Toman Dance Studios at Iowa State University's Forker Building. The third week is spent in the Ames City Auditorium. The day begins at 10:00am with a technique class taught by a professional dancer/teacher. The students learn more about dance technique as well as gaining strength, flexibility, coordination and control. At 12:00 we break for a half hour to eat lunch and relax minds from the rigors of the morning. At 12:30 we reconvene for two hours of rehearsal for the final performance.
We will look at Nature and the Nature of Things for our dances in 2010. We will be working with composer and percussionist Matthew Coley, who will create music that develops with our dances.
The Kids' Co'Motion performance workshop teaches more than dances to students: Kids' Co'Motion builds choreographers, helps students gain confidence in their own ideas and teaches them to organize those ideas and structure them into dance. Students not only study with master choreographers and teachers, but compose dances by themselves and with other students, taking advantage of everyone's ideas.
This year's Kids' Co'Motion workshop is July 12-31. KCM will meet from 10am-2:30pm Monday through Friday, July 12-30, with performances at 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday, July 30-31, 2010.
For more information contact us at dance@comotion.org or by calling 515-232-7374 or by writing to us at 129 East 7th, Ames, Iowa 50010
Dimensions, 2003
All our great photographs are by Sam Wormley
Kids' Co'Motion is supported, in part, by grants from Ames Commission On The Arts (COTA).
Thanks to ISU Department of Kinesiology
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