CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
FOR 2012 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM!

The Yard is currently accepting applications for the 2012 Internship. If you are interested in applying please visit the info page here.
All application forms and supported materials should be emailed to Michele Sasso, our Director of Communications & Artist Services at MicheleSasso@dancetheyard.org no later than Thursday March 1st, 2012 by 5pm EST.

Families
Free Saturday Family Matinees All Summer
The Yard’s weekly Saturday matinees are interactive guided tours of each week’s festival program.  Fun for audiences of all ages, they feature excerpts from the weekend’s show performed by The Yard’s world-call festival artists.

Performance Opportunity for Ages 5-10:
Bessie Schönberg Performance Project- Creative Movement Play with Creatures and Robots

Performance: Friday September 3rd, 2011 and Saturday September 4th, 2011
Rehearsals and workshops would start week of August 8th, 2011

Students will use their imaginations to orient their bodies in time and space, develop rhythm and coordination, and transform into otherworldly creatures.  Freedom of expression and improvisation will be encouraged and further developed through art projects that build costumes, sculptures, and drawings (using recycled materials).  The workshop will culminate in an interactive lecture demonstration as the kids lead the audience through their worlds of transformation. 

Instructors:  Kai Kleinbard and Cori Olinghouse

Kai Kleinbard was born and raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.   His approach to movement is influenced by his study of waving with Future Ninja, voguing with Archie Burnett and Benny Ninja, and Aikido. Kai has worked with artists Kota Yamazaki, Mina Nishimura, Gerald Casel, Jimena Paz, and Cori Olinghouse. He tutors privately (grades K-12) and specializes in developing and organizing his students' work and learning habits. Kai is a certified Alexander Technique teacher and teaches emergent learning with his partner, Cori Olinghouse.

Cori Olinghouse is a dance artist and certified Alexander Technique teacher.  She makes dances that explore the plasticity and shapeshifting capacities of the body, space, and time.  Her work has been presented by Danspace Project, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Bennington College, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, and Movement Research.  Cori danced for the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2002-2006. In 2005, Cori began a dancing dialogue with Bill Irwin and has since been studying voguing with Archie Burnett and Benny Ninja from the House of Ninja.  Teaching credits include: Alexander Technique classes to the Trisha Brown company members, guest classes at New York University, Rutgers University, Hunter College, Bennington College, Ohio State University, and Tseh in Moscow.  Cori teaches emergent learning with her partner, Kai Kleinbard.

If you are interested in participating, please call 508.645.9662 or email JesseKeller@dancetheyard.org

Open Community Classes (See our class listing for details)

Adult Classes (Open to children 6th grade & up with prior dance experience)

Kids’ Classes

• New Fly Time: KidsMakeDance Children's Summer Movement Workshop
  (under the direction of Deborah Demast from NYU's Steinhardt School)