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To register or for more information contact us at Staff: Anna Kravets, Executive Director | ||||||
| Anna Kravets Aerobics Jewish & Israeli dance Social Dancing | Anna Kravets was the artistic director and choreographer of the Jewish Ensemble ‘Firelech’, a group that was well known in Europe and Israel. Anna moved to Boston in 1999 and in the year 2000 she organized a Jewish Musical Theater with the same name "Firelech". Anna has an extensive dance background as a performer, choreographer and teacher. She started Jewish dancing at the age of eleven and has had the privilege of studying over the years with many of the legendary Jewish and Israeli dancing greats: Nikolai Margolin, Raisa Svischyova, Shlomo Maman, Moishe Telem, Moshiko Galevy. Anna also studied in London at the Israel Folk Dance Institute. Anna was the first who found professional Jewish choreographers around the former USSR and taught them Israeli dancing. Anna has taught Israeli Dancing workshops and classes over the last 14 years in the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Poland and Lithuania. Her students created a lot of Jewish Performing groups in Eastern Europe. Anna has received awards for her choreography on an international level in Holland, Russia, Poland, Sweden, and Israel. | ||
| Natalya Zurman Ballroom & Latin Dance for children & adults Social Dancing | Ballroom and Latin Dance, Henriette Gruzdev studio in Lithuania, Dance studio of Vyacheslav Hlopkov in Moscow Specialty: Ballroom, Latin Dance and Acrobatic Rock-n-Roll Natalya is a winner of the ballroom competitions in Russia in1990, 1992 and Lithuania in 1993, 1994. She has taught Ballroom, Latin dance and Acrobatic Rock-n-Roll at the studio of Moscow University, Vilnius Ballroom School. Her program at the Art Studio will include all variety of ballroom dancing — ‘from the tango to the Rock-n-Roll’. | ||
| Dana Sussman Hip Hop & Dance for 4-5 years olds Jazz for 7-10 years old children |
Dana Sussman is a recent graduate from Tufts University and will be attending Northeastern University School of Law in the fall. She was a member of the audition-only, hip hop dance group at Tufts, called Spirit of Color. Specializing in hip hop and jazz dance, she has been dancing for 17 years, 3 of them as part of a regionally competitive dance company. She is currently managing the dance program at the Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols Day Camp in Cambridge. She has extensive mentoring and tutoring experience with children as well as teaching dance. Dana's hip hop classes will consist of a fun, athletic warmup and stretching segment, followed by choreography taken from the most current dance trends from NYC and LA. Students will learn to move and groove just like their favorite singers and dancers, while exercising and having a great time! Dana's jazz classes will involve a structured warmup and stretching segment, followed by work on technical jazz moves, including pirouettes, leaps, and leg extensions. Bar work will be included. The students will then learn a jazz routine drawing from Broadway dance influences such as Bob Fosse and Twyla Tharp. | ||
| Ilya Demba Saxophone & clarinet | MA, saxophone, and clarinet, Music
College, Ukraine. Ilya has played with various jazz, rock and pop bands, and symphony orchestras. As a member of a rock-band, in 1995, he won a Grand Prize at a festival "Chervona Ruta" in Sevastopol, Ukraine. During his college years Ilya assembled and conducted a childrenís jazz band with followers among both young and older audiences.lyaís classes are always a fun place to be. Even if you have never played in an ensemble before, you should definitely try it! Ensemble playing requires dedicated music students who are comfortable with note reading, time and key signatures and basic rhythmic patterns. | ||
| Maksim Lyubarsky Instrumental Band Piano & Keybord Lessons | Maksim has studied piano since he was 7 years old. He received his MA from Odessa Conservatory and has won numerous awards in the Ukraine and Russia, including first places in the Kryvoi Rog and Dnepropetrovsk Jazz competitions. In 2000, as the recipient of the BEST scholarship (Berklee Entering Student Talented Scholarship), he came to Boston to further his musical studies at Berklee College of Music. While attending Berklee, he received the Berklee Technics piano award. As a collaborative pianist, Maksim enjoys working and performing with many different instrumentalists as well as singers. | ||
| Zhenya Kravets jazz & folk dances for children | I have been working with Firelech Theater for over three years now, and really enjoy it. I have been dancing for almost twelve years now. Dancing has been a part of me ever since I started dancing. Now I am a major in Child Development in school and enjoy kids company a lot. The reason why I love teaching dance to kids is because I am perusing me career as an educator as well as I am giving these kids all of my knowledge of dance and all that surrounds it. The two classes that I will be teaching this year are Jazz and Folk. In the beginning I will teach your kids the basics of warming up their body and fully knowing their body. As we go along I will teach them basic steps that will soon lead to a full dance, which afterwards you will be able to see at their annual recital. My two classes are always fun, full of laughter and enjoyment. I wasn't a kid a long time ago and that's why I know what they want and what they expect of me. Also as being an adult I know what parents want to see and hope for when they sign up for dance lessons. I promise I will full fill all of your hopes and all of their dreams. | ||
| Erin Washington Ballet & tap for children & adults | I have been teaching ballet, preschool ballet, jazz, tap and modern at Pauletteís Ballet Studio in Newton for the past 5 years. I started dancing at the studio when I was 10 years old, taking ballet, jazz, and tap. Before that I competed in gymnastics at the Gymnastics Academy of Boston, but I soon learned that dancing was what I loved. Before long I added on pointe and modern dance classes to my schedule at Pauletteís Ballet Studio. I also had the privilege of being an assistant teacher while I was in high school. This led to the Dance Education Training Course I attended from the Dance Teacher’s Club of Boston, where I learned more about dance and how to teach children. In 2002 I graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where I majored in New Media and minored in Dance. I performed in three modern dance shows, two of which included my own choreography. I also danced in the hip-hop opening number of the Evvy’s, Emerson’s annual student-produced award show, which was aired on closed-circuit television. Throughout college I taught classes to children and adults at Pauletteís Ballet Studio. I also taught hip-hop to elementary after-school students at Needham Public Schools in the spring of 2004. In the past year I have taken a few aerial dance workshops, learning trapeze and basic aerial acrobatics such as is performed in shows by Cirque du Soleil. No matter what the age of the student, the classes I teach have a strong emphasis on technique, always with a bit of fun. Students will end up with a solid knowledge of the fundamentals of ballet and tap, and perhaps higher-level skills as the class is assessed. Ballet is the basic foundation for many forms of dance, teaching positioning, alignment and steps that are used in other forms such as jazz. Tap is a fun way to make sounds, using your feet as a percussion instrument. In both classes I will start with the basics and make sure every student understands how to dance correctly and injury-free, as that is the best basis for improvement. I show my love for dance through teaching, and hope to pass on my knowledge and enthusiasm to my pupils. | ||
| Carolyn Coe Vocal Ensemble Musical Theatre for children & youth Private Voice Lessons | Carolyn Coe is a Musical Theatre graduate from the University of New Hampshire. She studied both theatre and voice at Goldsmiths College in London, England. Carolyn has been performing since the early age of three and has recently found a love for directing. She has been trained vocally in both the classical and Broadway genres. Currently, she runs the Nottingham Theatre Project in Nottingham, New Hampshire, which provides theatre for both children and adults. | ||
| Joy T. Christianson Music for 4-6 years old kids | Joy T. Christianson is currently finishing her last year at Berklee College of Music studying Music Education and jazz vocals. This fall she will be student teaching at the elementary school level within the Boston public school district. She studied classical voice at the university level for two years and transferred to Berklee after receiving a scholarship from the Berklee World Scholarship Tour in 2001. She is certified in the Early Childhood Music program ”Musikgarten” for children ages 3-6. Joy‘s early childhood music classes will provide singing traditional American folk and Jewish songs, simple instrumental games, creative movement and story telling. It is her hope that these classes will foster an environment of musical creativity and enjoyment for the young child. | ||
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50 Sutherland road, Brighton, MA 02135
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