Adult Contemporary Dance  

This class is open to adults with previous dance training at an intermediate level who are interested in continuing to dance as a form of fun fitness. It is primarily designed to prepare mature dancers to become members of Encore Dance Project and train them for rehearsals and performances.  Each class fuses the director’s various dance training, technical background and influential roots in dance to create a personal movement style of Contemporary Dance all her own. The style blends classical ballet, jazz, and release-based modern dance technique with contemporary cultural trends an influences. Each exciting and dynamic class will explore movement to a variety of music and styles which will vary from week to week, session to session. Through a series of warm-up exercises, rhythm sequences, floorwork, across the floor patterns, and complex dance combinations dancers focus on improving their performance skills and celebrating the joy of dance at any age in every class.

Adult Hip Hop                                                                                                                       

Hip-hop dance includes a wide range of styles notably breaking, locking, and popping, as well as newer dance industry trends in particular response with studio/commercial hip-hop, sometimes called L.A. styles and Jazz Funk. What separates hip-hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often freestyle (improvisational) in nature. Each high energy and fun class consists of the basic steps, vocabulary, and variations of the dance form with unique moves, fancy footwork, and floorwork. Through daily warm-up exercises and dance routines students gain strength, endurance, coordination, musicality and self confidence. This class aims to introduce the hip hop dance culture to students in a fun and appropriate manner..

Adult Tap                                                            

Tap classes fuse the classical American tap styles evoking images of top hats and canes with the ever changing influences of contemporary popular culture. Each exciting and dynamic class will explore rhythm sounds made by movement to develop musical timing. Through a series of warm-up exercises, rhythm sequences, across the floor patterns, various tap combinations and dance routines dancers focus on the development of a sharpened sense of rhythm, rhythmic variations, coordination, performance skills and clarity of sounds incorporated into every class.

Adult Vocal Performance                                   

Vocal Production class includes all aspects of singing such as; vocal technique, expression, interpretation, performance, improvisation, phrasing, intonation, swing, awareness and training of one’s own authority, singing with recorded music, singing with a choir and/or ensemble, working with other theatrical performers. While every fun and energized class aims at optimizing the student’s technical and artistic vocal level, the students will also be encouraged to develop performance skills, self confidence, stage presence, voice projection, and public speaking skills.

Encore Dance Project Company Class/Rehearsal                                                            

Encore Dance Project (EDP) was created to provide opportunities for individuals to perform who may not currently have that available to them due to age. Due to the physical wear and tear on the body, age traditionally is a limiting factor in dance. The Movement Center does not believe this is true. EDP helps address the needs of older performing artists and gives them a chance to learn, create and perform in new, original dances. It also provides the community of Honolulu with the opportunity to witness and support mature adults participating in the performing arts. Encore Dance Project is supported in part by the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts. Membership to EDP is by audition only. For more details about EDP please contact the Artistic Director, Chansri A Green.

For more information or to register for classes please contact us at 808 7358641 or by email at The Movement Center <tmc@movementcenter.org>