About Kat Wildish Summer Performing in NY Experience
Description
August 3-25
Mondays & Wednesdays 9:15pm -10:30pm
Saturdays 2pm - 4pm
Full Workshop
Full Workshop plus 30 classes
Kat Wildish Performing in NY Summer Intensive is a 3-week ballet intensive that includes 30 ballet classes, 15 hours of rehearsal time and three performances of classical repertoire at The Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City. Spend your summer with one of New York's Master Ballet and Pointe technique instructors for all ages and levels. Kat Wildish brings over 30 years teaching and performance experience from the World's great stages and will pass on ballet's grandest traditions to you through her signature hands-on teaching style. Held conveniently in midtown Manhattan at The Joan Weill Center for Dance, home of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, this workshop will refine your dancing. With just 15 hours of rehearsal time participants will prepare for a performance of classical repertoire in a New York theater. Learn, refine, practice, and perform in the month of August!
Workshop Costs:
- $150 per person which includes:
- Costumes
- Participation in performances
- Tech/dress rehearsals
- 3 Performances
- Rehearsals
Performances:
- Saturday, August 24 at 7:00pm
- Sunday August 25 at 3:00pm & 7:00pm
Performance Costs:
$20 Performance Participation Fee
This fee is non-applicable to students registered through the Ailey Extension.
Please Note: Hotel accommodations are not included in the workshop fee. Upon registration, discounts for select NYC hotels are available to students. Email khill@alvinailey.org for more information.
Instructor
About Kat Wildish
Kat Wildish is a high-caliber dance instructor, currently teaching multi-level ballet and pointe technique for children and adults. She trains teachers for the Dance Educators of America, and her performing credits include New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and numerous international companies. Kat is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Ford Foundation Scholarship under which she attended the School of American Ballet. Her classes are very danceable, with a classic sense of line, musicality, placement, and style.
The barre exercises are not just a warm-up series, but are anatomically sound and designed to improve the body. All parts of the dancer are exercised to promote harmony of movement according to each individual's level of training and ability in a non-competitive atmosphere. Kat Wildish teaches an integrative, fundamental maintenance syllabus for all types of dancers. Kat Wildish is also an ABT® Certified Teacher of Primary through Level 7/Advanced and Partnering of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
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