Introduction
SOCAPA’s Summer Dance Program is a Jazz and Hip Hop intensive that also features specialty classes in Breakdancing, House, Wacking, Lyrical, and African. Classes are geared towards learning cutting-edge choreography at a professional pace and preparing routines to be featured in live performances and weekly music videos shot by SOCAPA instructors. This provides students in our Dance Program with a video portfolio featuring a number of their performances in a variety of projects.
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
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 Curriculum
SOCAPA’s Dance Program is divided into Intermediate and Advanced levels (with an additional Beginner level offered in New York City only). There will be a placement and assessment class on the first day of the Program, where students will be evaluated by their instructors and assigned to a level based on experience and skill. While all classes will be taught at their respective level, instructors will work hard to cater to each student’s individual needs.
Intermediate: The Intermediate Dance Program has been designed for dancers with a minimum of three years of training. Students should be familiar with basic dance terminology, and should be comfortable with a single pirouette.
 Advanced: The Advanced Dance Program is intended for more experienced dancers with a minimum of five years of dance technique, including ballet. Students in this Program should be well versed in dance terminology, and should be proficient in turns and leaps (e.g. pirouettes, chaines, fouettes, jetes, etc.). Dancers at this level will focus more on strengthening and expanding their Jazz technique, but will also be exposed to the aforementioned disciplines.
Beginner: The Beginner Dance Program is a new addition to our New York City campus for 2008, and is designed for the novice dancer primarily interested in Hip Hop and Breaking. At least one year of dance experience is highly recommended, and students should expect a rigorous intensive that will also include some Jazz technique fundamentals.
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Schedule
 On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, SOCAPA Dance students take classes throughout the day, starting in the morning and reconvening after lunch, and rotating between studios. Although most classes concentrate on learning choreography for the weekly music videos, others are geared towards technique and across the floor progressions, or focus on developing style, stage presence, and confidence. In addition to regularly scheduled classes, there are special guest instructors, make-up and costuming sessions, performance and audition classes, and a photo shoot with SOCAPA’s Photography students (NY Program only). Students are also assigned a choreography project, which they are allotted time to work on outside of class. On Thursdays and Fridays, the Dance group is directed in their culmination music videos shot at several exciting locations, and they also perform their work on stage for a live audience in conjunction with the Acting Program’s theatrical presentations. In this way, students gain invaluable experience in both video commercial and concert styles of dance and performance.
Showcase Festival
On the final Friday afternoon of the three-week program, SOCAPA holds its "Showcase Festival" followed by a reception for friends and family. All the acting reels, photography slides, music videos and student films are shown on the giant silver screen. In addition to the projected work, there are live dance performances, actor monologues, and a photography exhibit. We encourage you to invite your fellow collaborators, friends and family. Although we do have a final live performance/film screening of all the two-week work just for the camp, please note that students in the two-week program do not have a final showcase festival for friends and family.
College Credit Option
High School students in the three-week Filmmaking, Acting for Film and Dance Programs may opt to take the course for three AP College Credits issued by Long Island University. [ More Info on College Credit ]
Extra-Curricular
We at SOCAPA believe that you should work hard and play hard. Discipline and drive are two of the most important attributes of all successful artists, but hey, what's a summer without the beach? Every evening, Monday through Friday, we plan an activity for the students, whether it be a barbecue on campus, a dinner in the city, a cool-off swim, a theater/musical performance, or a film screening. On the Saturday afternoons that are not devoted to shooting and performing, we organize a group excursion. This could include a trip to a museum, the beach or a Broadway show. Past evening and Saturday excursions have included trips to Coney Island Amusement Park, live tapings of MTVs "TRL," Shakespeare in the Park, shopping in SoHo, Unity Sessions Hip-Hop Concert in Prospect Park, Universal Studios, Pilobolus Dance Group at the Joyce Theater, Jones Beach, Off-Broadway Shows De La Guarda, Stomp and Rent, Six Flags Amusement Park, Fourth of July Fireworks, and Bryant Park Film Screenings, to name a few.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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SOCAPA - The Best Choice
For the aspiring young dancer, SOCAPA is by far the best choice. We offer small classes, and an exciting teaching staff comprised of industry professionals with recent and ongoing experience as performers, educators and choreographers. Drawn from some of the top universities and dance programs, including Alvin Ailey, Broadway Dance Center, NYU and LIU, and having taught and performed all over the world, the instructors at SOCAPA guide the students through the Program with delicacy, energy and skill.
Summer Dance Program Sample Work
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