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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 conveniently located Annex at 130 S. Sheldon Ave (1/2 block South of Dunkin Donuts). 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.
The Kids' Co'Motion performance workshop teaches more than dances to students. Kids' Co'Motion builds creative 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, they also compose dances by themselves and with other students, taking advantage of everyone's ideas.
