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Dance Professional Workshops
Educators with Gerri Houlihan
June 25–July 1, 2025
Creative Process with Robert Battle
July 2–8, 2025
Physical Practice with Netta Yerushalmy
& ADF Faculty
July 20–26, 2025
Inspire Your Professional Practice
Expand your toolbox and collaborate with a vibrant community of professional artists and educators.
Train
- Be immersed in daily classes and dialogue with your workshop leader and ADF guest faculty, focusing on creative process, pedagogy, or movement practices.
Connect
- Establish relationships with fellow professionals and guest artists.
- Expand your national network for future collaboration.
Grow
- Attend professional performances.
- Have the freedom to customize your schedule with optional classes and discussions in the ADF Summer Dance Intensive and Scripps Studios.
“The ADF Dance Professional Workshops are my happy place. I have yet to find another dance workshop where seasoned adult dancers/educators get to move, learn, and bond in classes with a variety of dance legends.”
–Sandi Scheuber, DPW 2024 (over 10x participant)
Program Requirements
All interested applications must meet one of the program criteria to participate in a workshop.
Creative Process
- 5 years of professional experience, with 3 of those years as a choreographer
- Undergraduate degree + 3 years as a professional choreographer
- Completed graduate or in-process degree + 3 years as a professional choreographer
Educators
- 5 years of professional experience, with 3 of those years as an educator
- Undergraduate degree + 3 years as a professional educator
- Completed graduate or in-process degree + 3 years as a professional educator
Physical Practice
- 5 years of professional experience in dance
- Undergraduate dance degree + 3 years of professional experience
- Completed graduate or in-process degree
Educators with Gerri Houlihan
June 25–July 1, 2025
Dance educators replenish their creative and pedagogical capacities through community-building with fellow educators, focused classes that develop skills, and opportunities for engaging in the wide range of classes and performances ADF offers.
Schedule Includes:
- Technique class with pedagogical strategy and content labs
- Professional development discussions. Example topics: Assessment strategies, Creating inclusive classrooms and curricula
- Focused sessions on teaching aspects. Example topics: Working with a musician, Constructing a rich/diverse class playlist
- Summer Dance Intensive classes of your choosing
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Creative Process with Robert Battle
July 2–8, 2025
Examine the art of Dance Making from the perspective of a choreographer and curator. As the former Artistic Director of the AAADT, I possess years of experience selecting works and observing various approaches to Dance Making. During my time as a student, I was fortunate to study composition under Bessie Schonberg. With her mentorship, I explored many tools and devices, which I still use today, and am eager to share with you this summer.
Physical Practice with Netta Yerushalmy & ADF Faculty
July 20–26, 2025
Experienced professionals cultivate and expand their physical practice through mornings filled with a mix of movement styles and techniques offered by a variety of ADF faculty, and afternoons led by Netta Yerushalmy, that will focus on active creative practices and play, and lead to rep building and full physical exploration.
decomposing and recomposing with Netta Yerushalmy
Attuning to our dancing bodies as sites for excavation—of knowledge, education, culture, indoctrination, belonging, ideation, and imagination—we’ll manipulate forms and reconfigure pathways. We will work from the inside out, thinking and dancing through formal/compositional terrains as well as through subjective/introspective ones. Come ready to dance fully, talk openly, listen deeply, and look carefully.
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DPW students receive
- Immersion in daily classes and dialogue with your workshop leader and ADF guest faculty, focusing on the creative process, pedagogy, or movement practices.
- Additional weekly drop-in classes
- 1 free ticket to all ADF performances during the one-week intensive
- Ability to reserve studio space for personal research, technical practice, or creative work
- Ability to receive Continuing Education Credits (CEU) for DPW attendance
- A chance to expand their professional community and exchange ideas with diverse artists
See if ADF is offering a class near you!
Questions?
Contact us at school@americandancefestival.org