Intensive Class & Performance Photos
Our 15th Annual VG/DE 2024 Summer Intensive at Green Space has come to a close and we’re currently reflecting on the moments that made a week as special.
Our exciting 7-day program consisted of a variety of classes, from Contemporary Technique, Improvisation and Yoga-Lates, to Valerie Green's Skimming the Surface, to our companies' Repertory/Performance Lab class that culminated in a studio performance where our participants presented an excerpt of our newest piece RITE to an enthusiastic and supportive audience of friends and family.
“I was honored to teach repertory in this year's intensive. The participants worked their butts off. It was very rewarding to see them improve day to day, over the course of the week. By the end, they not only had 21 minutes of choreography that they performed (with vigor!), but gelled as a group of movers and friends."
- VG/DE Company Member / Repertory Faculty Aidan Feldman
The student’s willingness to try new forms of moving, transformed the room info a safe movement space where curiosity was sparked and the discovery for various pathways of dance ignited.
“Teaching improvisation in VG/DE’s summer intensive put me in my favorite intersection to inhabit - an exploratory space in which I can challenge, question, and deepen my own pedagogical/artistic practice, as well as a space of service and collaboration, specifically with helping the students access more ease in inhabiting the repertory’s improvisatory moments. I felt a clear sense of personal development as much as I felt appropriately integral to the program as a whole, and the students’ receptiveness was a breath of fresh air amid the city summer heat.” - VG/DE Company Member, Improvisation Faculty Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán
This long running program is open to the public and in collaboration with local CUNY Schools in offering scholarships to developing dancers in need of support. Each year offers different educational offerings and instructors to keep it fresh! We are delighted to have served so many local students over the years in such a valuable summer program.
“I am feeling thankful that I got to be a part of a wonderful opportunity to become stronger and learning to be more present and aware of my weaknesses, physicality, and emotions. I feel like I have a lot more skills to work with to be the best version of myself.”
- Student Testimonial