This pre-conference session is intended for high school students interested in partaking in a pre-professional/college dance experience stimulated by Contemporary movement practices and Post-Modern dance-making frameworks. The session is three-fold: technique class, choreography and performance. During the morning, students will have an opportunity to physically engage in a contemporary technique class, partnering and improvisation. The movement classes will lead into a collaborative choreography process in efforts to build a "dance" based on the connections, patterns and curiosities students generate throughout the day. Students will perform in the evening's Student Sharing event at 6:30 pm.
Open to students grades 6-13 who are currently enrolled in a private or public school dance program are encouraged to attend. Students must have at least three years of dance experience in any dance genre or style.
Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier, born and raised in the Inland Empire, is a teacher, dance-maker and performing artist based in Riverside, California. Her interest as a first-generation Mexican American woman artist values “movement “as a means to corporally dismantle bi/cultural stereotypes of gender, class, race and citizenship on traditional/nontraditional U.S. platforms. Founder and artistic collaborator of "rosa and joey dueto collective" and "Primera Generación Dance Collective," Frazier received a BA in Dance and an MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside. She is a full-time dance teacher and co-director of the A.B. Miller High School Dance and Conservatory program in Fontana, California and adjunct faculty at Riverside City College.
Joey Navarrete received his BFA in Dance at California State University, Long Beach Department of Dance in 2014, where he was awarded The Dizzyfeet Scholarship. He has worked with various artists such as Bill T. Jones, Doug Varone, Keith Johnson, Robert Moses and GERALDCASELDANCE. Navarrete is a BASI certified full-time pilates instructor in Long Beach, CA. He is a visiting guest artist at Riverside City College and A.B. Miller High School Dance and Conservatory where he teaches contemporary dance, contemporary repertoire and lighting design. Looking forward to grad school in the near future, Navarrete continues to build and perform work with longtime dance partners and collaborators, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier and Jobel Medina.