Dance Calendar

Looking for upcoming classes and auditions? You've come to the right place!

We will be updating this page with Fall 2008 events soon. In the meantime, you can see events and programs we've offered in the past below.

"Creative Movement" Dance Programs' newest class!

Creative Movement uses movement and music to stimulate children's physical and intellectual development. In these classes, parents move with their child in playful movement activities using rhymes, music, and props fostering coordination, creativity, rhythmic skills, and health boosting exercise. Now with two sections!

Creative Movement for Parents and Infants

For babies 3 months to not-yet walking. Creative Movement uses movement and music to stimulate a child's physical and intellectual development by combining the developmental richness of music and imaginative play with the health-boosting benefits of physical activity. Babies delight in movement for movement's sake. In this class, parents will move with their babies in playful activities using rhymes, music, and maniplatives designed to foster that delight. Infants will strengthen bonds with their care-givers while increasing gross motor, communication, and rhythmic skills

Dates and Times

• Saturdays, 10-10:45 a.m.
• with Rebecca Valls and Tracy King Perry
• Dates:
  Feb. 9, 16, 23, and March 1
• Harjo Dance Studio
• Rice Recreation Center

Fees

• $30 - Rice students, faculty, and staff
• $40 - Non-Rice

Registration:
Register and pay at the Operations Desk located at the entrance of the Recreation Center (Gymnasium). Registration begins two weeks prior to the start of the first class.

For more information: Rebecca Valls, rvalls@rice.edu, 713-348-5773.

Creative Movement for Parents and Toddlers

For children walking to 2 and a half years of age and their caregivers. Creative Movement uses movement and music to stimulate a child's physical and intellectual development by combining the developmental richness of music and imaginative play with the health-boosting benefits of physical activity. In this class, parents will move with their toddlers in playful activities using rhymes, music and manipulatives designed to increase coordination, rhythmic skills, and creative thought.

Dates and Times

• Saturdays, 11-11:45 a.m.
• with Rebecca Valls and Tracy King Perry
• Dates:
  Feb. 9, 16, 23, and March 1
• Harjo Dance Studio
• Rice Recreation Center

Fees

• $30 - Rice students, faculty, and staff
• $40 - Non-Rice

Registration:
Register and pay at the Operations Desk located at the entrance of the Recreation Center (Gymnasium). Registration begins two weeks prior to the start of the first class.

For more information: Rebecca Valls, rvalls@rice.edu, 713-348-5773.

"Keep on Dancing" Spring session is open!

The Dance program is once again offering it's extremely popular "Keep on Dancing" specialty class to any and everyone interested in re-kindling their dancing roots.

“Keep on Dancing” is a dance class for adults who want to study jazz and modern dance technique with an emphasis on the fun and fulfillment of learning and performing dance combinations to music. Each class begins with exercises for dance fitness, covers basic dance techniques common to ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance, and then culminates with dance combinations for the practice and joy of performing.

Classes, Spring 2008:

Jazz/Hip-Hop

• Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
• with Jackie Nalett

The class begins with a traditional jazz technique warm-up (plies, isolations, footwork) followed by combinations choreographed in a music video style.

Dates, Fees, and Registration:

For all classes:

• Jan. 24 - March 20
• 8 classes
• Harjo Dance Studio
• Rice Recreation Center

Fee:
For 8 classes: $30 students, $40 faculty/staff, $50 non-Rice

Registration:
Sign up begins Jan.17 at the Operations Desk inside the Recreation Center.
Class space is limited to 24 participants.
Registration will be on a first come first serve basis.

Register and pay at the Operations Desk located at the entrance of the Recreation Center (Gymnasium). Registration begins two weeks prior to the start of the first class. For more information: Rebecca Valls, rvalls@rice.edu, 713-348-5773.

For information contact:

• Leslie Scates
  Assistant Director for Dance Programs
  Recreation Center
  Dance office: 713-348-5773
  lscates [at] rice.edu