Look who is taking over http://www.dance.com

Check  it out, Intrigue Dance Intensive is taking over Dance.com for the week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shannon

Dancebrought2u Choreography and Lessons

Dancebrought2u now working with Spruce Creek High School Colorguard

I will be working with the Spruce Creek High School Color-Guard for their auditions upcoming in May as well as working with them this summer! I am excited to do something new and different!

"Make your own good luck..." :)

Shannon
http://www.dancebrought2u.com

New Video, "Stupid" Contemporay Jazz Improvisation

Shannon Johnson Thomas http://www.dancebrought2u.com

Improving contemporary jazz to Stupid by Sarah Mclaughlin

How many years does it take to shape a dancer?

Martha Graham stated "It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely"

The thing about dance is, it takes so long to be able to really find that "comfort" dancing offers to us as humans. The early years are spent sweating, stretching, doing steps over and over, building a vocabulary and body placement....it is almost as if by the time the dancer really gets to really "dance" they either quit, graduate high school and move on to college and don't dance anymore....It is always when they start to reach their potential too.

Shannon
http://www.dancebrought2u.com

Dancebrought2u Choreographer showing new piece at Papillon Spring Dance Show!

Shannon Johnson Thomas will be showing a new piece at the Spruce Creek High School Dance Show entitled, "Here With Me." There are 13 dancers in this contemporary jazz piece.

Come see the Show April 30th at 7:00pm at Spruce Creek High School, 801 Taylor Road Port Orange Florida!

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Capezio ACE Awards 2010

Here are some awesome videos from the
2009 Capezio Award for Choreographic Excellence http://danceteachersummit.com/videos.php

To enter for 2010, check out
http://dancemedia.com/events/dance-teacher-summit

This is a great opportunity for choreographers to expose their work to one of the most influential audiences in dance. I hope to be a part of this someday and am excited to see who will take it this year! If you are looking for choreography or master classes in the Central Florida area, please contact me at shannon@dancebrought2u.com


Shannon
http://www.dancebrought2u.com

Those who inspire, re inspire Dance in Daytona Beach Florida

Educating yourself as a dancer and instructor requires hours and hours of hard work in the studio, countless hours of weekend trips to take different classes and workshops, time spent watching and analyzing and figuring out how to get your students looking the best they possibly can, pedagogy classes, choreography classes, teacher's training classes....patience, passion and integrity. I feel these qualities are few and far between and those that have them will always be my heroes...who I look up to, who I try to model my teaching style after. I try to take little bits from each of these inspiring people (near and far) and sprinkle them on my dancers. I hope my students think of me this way.


There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul. *Isadora Duncan

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