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Students participate in dance classes ranging from beginner to advanced in Jazz and Ballet. Tap, Flamenco and other styles of dance are often incorporated into performances. The majority of classes are offered in the afternoon hours during the sports period from 3 PM to 6 PM. Students may take dance to fulfill the sports requirement or it may supplement participation in another sport. Dance performances are a regular feature of the dance program.
Interested students may also earn academic credit in Choreography I which is offered during the academic day. This class is an introduction to various dance styles and studies the works of well-known choreographers. It includes short dance studies leading up to final projects three times a year. The projects involve group work that is done during the class, and homework involves the planning and production of an independent choreography project. All dance projects are presented before an audience at the end of the semester. The following classes are offered each sport season at Grier:
- Beginner Jazz
- Intermediate Jazz
- Beginner Ballet
- Intermediate Ballet
- Advanced Ballet
- Contemporary/Jazz
- Pointe
- Stretch/Floor Barre
- Beginner Tap
- Intermediate Tap
- Advanced Tap
2008-9 Dance Workshop Schedule
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October 24th - Master Class with Michele Assaf
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November 5th - Master Class with Hubbard Street Dance Company
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January 31st - February 1st - Urban Jamm Competition
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April 4th - Grier School Gala Workshop/Performance
Guest Faculty:
--Tyce Diorio - So You Think You Can Dance
--KiKi Lucas - Resident Choreographer, Houston Metropolitan Dance Company
--Tracie Stanfield - Broadway Dance Center, Artistic Director, Synthesis Dance Project
--Chio Yamada - Broadway Dance Center
--Mia Price - Oklahoma! (Broadway)
Frogs (Broadway)
Spamalot (National Tour)
Chicago (National Tour)
--Kurt Robinson - Musical Theatre, Broadway Dance Center
--Michele Assaf - Broadway Dance Center, President of Tezoro Productions
--Joshua Pelatzky - Assistant to Michelle Assaf, Broadway Dance Center
--Mariah Carey - Butterfly Tour Choreographer, Rolling Stones Tour, Tony Award Nominee
Special Performers:
--The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company
--Synthesis Dance Project
--Lehrer Dance
--Fluidity Dance Company |
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Grier's Performing Arts Center, which opened in July of 2006, has a large foyer area which itself is spacious enough for small gatherings. A high ceiling in the entry makes it bright and inviting. From there, you are able to walk along a corridor that follows the southern exposure of the building beside floor to ceiling windows nearly twenty feet high. From this corridor you enter into the main room from a central door. During normal school days, this central area is divided with a partition that effectively creates two very large dance studios of identical size with adjoining changing rooms and bathrooms. Both have theatre style seating. The value of this new space is most evident on performance days when the partition separating the studios can be retracted, opening up the space into one large area with seating for 280 audience members. The total area of the performance floor space is 9,600 square feet. The lighting and sound systems for the center are of exceptionally high quality.
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 New dance class with Ms. Young
 Grier's Performing Arts Center
Jocelyn Hrzic is a graduate from Point Park University with a B.A. in dance. She danced/directed for Norwegian Cruise Lines and Royal Carribean. She also danced with Maxine Sherman's Company and Theatre West Virginia. She danced on full Scholarship at Steps on Broadway in New York City.
Joci teaches master classes for Penn State University and Point Park University, as well as set choreography. She started The Gala Weekend performance at Grier School with guest teachers A.C Ciulla, Mia Price,Tracie Stanfield, Paul Abramhamson, and Chio Yamada. She just started her own professional dance company called "Fluidity".
Joci has been artistic director for the Grier Summer Program the last two years as well as teaching at Point Park's international summer dance workshop and Allegheny Ballet's Summer workshop. She has studied with Mia Micheals, Joe Lanteri, Dwight Rhoden, Wade Robson, Val Suarez, Max Stone, Tyce Diorio, Jason Parsons, as well as many others.
Jocelyn is married to Matt and has a two-year-old daughter named Jillian.
Andrea Young is a recent graduate of Pennsylvania State University. She has graduated with a B.S. in Supply Chain and Information Systems from the Smeal College of Business. In addition, she has a B.A. in Integrative Arts with a concentration in dance. Andrea has been involved with dance since the age of 5 and has studied a vast variety of styles and techniques. Andrea is the computer skills teacher and also assistant dance instructor here at Grier School.
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