AN INTENSIVE JAZZ EXPERIENCE
FOR ADVANCED DANCERS
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JUNE 3-7, 2025
9:15am-3:45pm
DJD Dance Centre
SPRING INTENSIVE OVERVIEW
The DJD Dance Centre is a home for jazz dance to live and thrive and as such, we invite dancers from across the globe to come and experience jazz today and dream about what it can be in the future.
DJD strives to cultivate a solid understanding of the history of jazz dance and music while building a high standard of jazz technique that emphasizes stylistic and vernacular nuance. The Spring Intensive, taught by DJD artistic leaders along with current and past company members, will introduce dancers to the DJD aesthetic and philosophy and will work to build a jazz community that spreads far and wide.
JAZZ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Jazz is born of Black American culture and its roots lie in the turbulent history of the African American experience. We acknowledge this history and recognize ourselves as guests in this form. We are inspired by and benefit from traditions born of a culture that is not our own. We strive to be respectful in honouring the roots and history of jazz, we dance with reverence for those who came before us, we dig deep to go forward, we strive to appreciate rather than appropriate.
INTENSIVE CONTENT
Jazz Technique
DJD Repertoire
Rhythm Play
Creative Process/Improvisation
Swing/Vernacular Jazz
AfroCuban Dance
West African Dance
Jazz History
Restorative Practice
SOCIAL EVENTS
Welcome dinner
DJD 40th season retrospective movie night
TUITION
$450+gst (regular price)
$350+gst (student price)
REGISTER HERE
