Recital and Picture Day Information 2013

Hello Families,

Please Save the Date! This years all studio recital will be on Sunday, June 9th at 3:00pm at the Crocker Theater at Cabrillo College. There are NOT performance fees for your child to participate. The only required payments will be for costuming (full list of all class costuming below) and tickets for any family member interested in attending the event. Tickets will go on sale May 1st for the event through the Crocker Theater Box Office.

Also, our Annual Picture Day event is coming up on May 18th. All kids/teens in current classes are welcome and encouraged to attend. We will spend most of the day taking photos and to make it a bit easier,  we have created a schedule with each class designated to a specific time (See Below). Please have your child here at the studio 10 minutes before their first time slot. All dancers should come with hair done and light make up where appropriate as well as in their first costume.

We ask that all participating dancers bring $10 to the studio day of (in the form of Checks made out to Motion Pacific or Cash).  This small fee will help pay for the time of the photographer and our teachers and give you access to your child’s photos for download available to you by June 18th.

Picture Day Schedule:

10:30 Saturday Combo
10:50 Breakout Ballet
11:10 Thursday Combo
11:30 Jazz 1
11:50 Preballet
12:10 Teen Company
12:30 Tap 2
12:50 Tap 1
1:10 Teen Contemporary
1:30 Hip Hop 1
Lunch Break
2:40 Ballet 1
2:50 Break Thru Ballet
3:10 Jazz 2
3:30 Kids Co
3:50 Jazz 3
4:10 Aerial
4:30 Hip Hop 2
4:50 Ballet 2/3
5:10 Hip Hop Funk

Recital 2013 Costume Requirements:
Costumes purchased online will be through either:
Dance Wear Solutions or
Discount Dance Supply

Monday Classes
3:30pm
Hip Hop 1: Students create costumes using Black/Silver/ Electric Blue. Sneakers must be worn.
Aerial Dance: Tops should be purchased through Dancewear solutions online # 3732. Students will additionally wear black leotard under as well as jazz shorts or capris and nude tights. Bare feet.
4:30pm
Hip Hop 2: Students create costume using black/white/silver, “Fancy/Casual”. Ie suspenders, bowties, hats etc. Tennis shoes must be worn
Teen Contemporary: Order bottoms from Discount Dance Supply online. # MPs01 in black. Students will also need a tank top in any shade of purple. Barefeet, Foot Undies or Socks.

Tuesday Classes
3:30pm
Breakout Ballet: Order from Discount Dance Solutions online:
Leotard- MT 2214 in grape
Tutu- 99-4410 in purple
Students will also need pink tights and ballet slippers.
Ballet 1: Order from Dancewear Solutions Tutu in black and red #S3378. Students will also need black leotard, pink tights, pink ballet shoes.
4:30pm
Jazz 1: Order from Dancewear Solutions online top # MJ3461 in Lime, Peacock or Bubblegum (color was assigned in class). Students will also need black dance shorts and black jazz shoes.
Jazz 2:  Order from Dancewear Solutions online #ML2833 on Kelly green. Students will also need black jazz shorts, nude tights and black jazz shoes.

Wednesday Classes
3:30pm
Kids Company: Order from Dancewear Solutions # MT3832 in black. Students will also need nude tight sand black jazz shoes.
Ballet 2/3: Order from Dancewear Solutions skirt# S184 in white. Student will also need pink leotard and pink ballet slippers.
4:30 pm
Tap 1: Order from Dancewear Solutions skirt # S3868 in Emerald. Students will also need black leggings, black tank/T shirt/leotard and black tap shoes.
Tap 2: Students create costume using a combination of black/white/silver. Black tap shoes with fun and outrageous laces, highly encouraged!
5:30pm
Jazz 3: Order from Dancewear Solutions top# SA3889. Students will also need black bottoms (dancers choice). Nude foot undies/shoes/barefeet (dancers choice).

Thursday Classes
2:30pm
Tap/Ballet Combo: Order from Dancewear Solutions Online, dress in Lemon. Students will also need pink tights and pink ballet shoes.
3:30pm
Preballet: Order from Dance Wear Solutions:
Leotard- MT2214 in plum
Tutu- S3858 in plum
Students will also need pink tights and pink ballet shoes.
4:30pm
Hip Hop Funk: Students create costume with color palette discussed in class.
5:30pm
Teen Company: Students will need short dress/long skirt in muted earth-tone colors, booty shorts, belt and barefoot or socks.

Saturday Classes
9:30am
Tap/Ballet Combo: Order from Dance Wear Solutions tutu # S3557 in rainbow. Students will also need black tank/t-shirt/leotard and black bottoms (shorts or leggings) and black tap shoes.

Mill Works Summer Dance Workshops

Starting this Saturday, July 14th Motion at the Mill will host five workshops from visitings dance artists over the next month. This is a great opportunity to build your repertoire, hone your skills, refine your technique or just come to move. Teachers from Oregon to LA, Chicago to Oakland, without needing to to travel beyond your own backyard (so to speak).

Contemporary Dance with Jennifer Camp (Oregon)
Saturday, July 14th 9am-11am $20

A Re-Education of the Body the work of Barbara Mahler grounded in the principles of Klein Technique with Rebecca Alson-Milkman (LA)Tuesday July 17th and Friday, July 20th 11am-1pm $20 each or $35 for both

Contemporary Technique & Somatic Concepts with Stephanie Nugent (LA)
Saturday, July 21st 9am-11am $20

Improvisation Workshop-Presence Perception Performance with David Lakein (Chicago)
Sunday, July 29th 12:30pm-4pm $50 or $40/students

Contact Improvisation with Daniel Bear Davis (Oakland)
Saturday, August 4th 1-4pm $40 or $30/students

To hold your spot in a workshop, please call (831) 457-1616 or email Abra@MotionPacific.com

Workshop Details:

*Contemporary Dance ~ Master Class with Jennifer Camp

This Contemporary Dance class is based on a fusion of classical ballet and modern technique. Camp’s approach incorporates a free, full body movement style initiated from spiraling from the torso and articulate spine work, while combining complex leg and footwork, with a focus on musicality and expressiveness of the body.

The class will begin with a classical ballet barre, then transition into contemporary center work, which will include improvisation, and choreography from Camp’s repertoire.

*A Re-Education of the Body the work of Barbara Mahler grounded in the principles of Klein Technique with Rebecca Alson-Milkman
Tuesday, July 17th and Friday, July 20th 11am-1pm

A Re-Education of the Body is a way to explore one’s capacity to move, bringing insight into the workings of one’s body. It brings efficiency, increased facility, and creativity. The work done in class facilitates process, and from the openness to process comes an openness to the wealth of options we often overlook – in our work, in our lives, in ourselves.

In this class, we aim at releasing the muscles so we can get down to the deepest tissue, the bone. When the bones are aligned we become connected, we become powerful and strong. We align the bones by using the muscles most responsible for the transfer of forces through the body – the psoas, the hamstrings, the external rotators, and the pelvic floor. We do not work to “exercise” these muscle but rather to “wake them up”; to use them for support for and realignment of the bones. Movement, and the treatment of each individual student’s body, mind and spirit with kindness, respect and generosity is our ultimate goal. And finally and most importantly, the body does not exist alone but in connection to the ground, the space, and to others.

(taken from writings by Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein.)

*Contemporary Technique & Somatic Concepts with Stephanie Nugent

With a foundation in traditional modern dance forms, a sound understanding of human anatomy and inspiration from somatic practices including anusara yoga, contact improvisation, and counter technique, Stephanie Nugent has been performing, teaching and choreographing contemporary dance and dance improvisation for over twenty years.

Join Nugent in this intermediate/advanced class where you will be challenged to engage in kinetically ecstatic and virtuosic dancing by releasing into space and committing to the process of dancing. The class consists of somatic-based exercises designed to engage the kinesthetic body/mind, while freeing oneself from excess tension. Students will learn to fall through space in every direction, creating endless possibilities for direction, redirection and counter-direction.

*Improvisation Workshop with David Lakein
Presence Perception Performance
What is presence?
When do transitions happen; do they exist?
How does being watched change our awareness?

We explore different pathways to how we can enliven our presence and engage our perception, as inspiration ebbs and flows and material develops and transforms. This nourishes our investigation of which compositional options are available to us while improvising; especially when feel overwhelmed by an overabundance of stimuli. As we experiment with varying approaches to locating a physical attitude and placing a specific intention, we gain an entrance into examining the roles we embody—functional-experiential-narrative. All in order to uncover what motivates-supports-drives us to communicate states-emotions-thoughts with the world.

Is anyone really watching?
Why should they?

This workshop is for all adventurers who want to probe their understandings about the improvising body/-/mind and question their assumptions about the performative moment.
It is open to movers and performers from all disciplines and training backgrounds, for amateurs and professionals.

*Contact Improv: A Practice of Physical Inquiry with Daniel Bear Davis

Inquiry: 1. a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge. 2. an investigation
Inquire After: to ask about the state of health or condition of.

In this class we direct our physical inquiry to the principles operating in weight exchange, counterbalance, and support situations. We will use improvisational investigations as well as proposed partnering motifs as strategies for integrating new possibilities into the dance. By binging a respect for our given anatomy to on-going inquiry into the possibilities of an unfolding moment, we will safely and skillfully explore a range of physical encounters. By inviting the spirit of inquiry into each moment, every touch, every invitation, every weight transfer unfolds in a dynamic nexus of possibility and choice.

Spring Recital Coverage on CTV

Our very own local TV station, Community TV will be running broadcasts of this years Spring Recital. Check it out!

This program is scheduled to play on Comcast 25/Charter 71, and will also be streaming LIVE at http://www.communitytv.org on the following dates and times.
Spring Recital 2012 Motion Pacific Dance Studio (ID# 13662)
1 hour 48 minutes

7/2/2012 at 8:00 PM
7/3/2012 at 6:00 PM
7/4/2012 at 9:00 PM
7/5/2012 at 7:00 PM
7/6/2012 at 3:30 AM
7/6/2012 at 3:30 PM
7/7/2012 at 10:00 AM
7/8/2012 at 12:30 PM
7/9/2012 at 4:30 PM

Pictures, Pictures and more Pictures!

Below we have included links for each classes photos from our May photo shoot, along with directions for download.

We also received images from our Spring Recital. You are welcome to any of these photos as well. Here is a link to those
photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/116461493004660009098/MelloCenterDance?authkey=Gv1sRgCPj_yMfa5ZWDhAE

Directions for Download Copy and paste the desired url into your browser.
Once you click on an image, you will see below it a small tab labeled: Options. Click on the Options tab and one of the choices is: Download Full Resolution Images. Click on that selection and you will be able to save the image to disk. The images are high resolution – the actual size of the image depends on how tightly it was cropped.

Saturday Combo

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5758099894230346497?authkey=CIHLsc7PzqnL9wE

Ballet 3

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5747353869696863873?authkey=CLWxy-D-ktXpswE

Thursday Combo

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5747354612114363441?authkey=CIHXma2p84a5Tw

Jazz_3_4

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5747715717735229809?authkey=CImlgriwiZKgmgE

Pre_Ballet

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5747735346740687553?authkey=CNSbu6GJ6I3zxQE

Teen_Company

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5749189249841609553?authkey=CM7_0Zud1_6-Rg

Ballet_1_2

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5749212125516447953?authkey=CPjE7e2h3sCB8AE

Tap_1

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5751079849936561697?authkey=CLX-iqG9huWJjQE

Teen_Contemporary

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5751078646887286113?authkey=CKqtt_CV_o3WsgE

Hip_Hop_1

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5753284723930561649?authkey=CMi8toe0p9_YZw

Dance for Theater

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5753290945913473185?authkey=CKe06KfGrrvuMQ

Creative Movement

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5753296472889395809?authkey=CNazuuPIld63Gg

Jazz_2

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5755903439397328417?authkey=CNGK4qu7gaHPOw

Kids_Co

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5757692222811575985?authkey=CJfq97PRndqW9gE

Jazz_1

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5757706311861718625?authkey=CKjxyP6Wuu_hdA

Acrobatics

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5757719944664484353?authkey=CNO0_7y4g4akGw

Hip_Hop_2

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5758034060632697393?authkey=CPS90t2RvcToZw

Breakout Ballet

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5758075491109182593?authkey=CPGD9aORgdKMLw

Hip Hop Funk

https://plus.google.com/photos/108870591123318879653/albums/5757831498181621761?authkey=CPv_8NrhsNHV4wE

Important-Recital Details

Spring Recital: Day of Reminders (Please Read in it’s Entirety)Box Office Opens at 1:15pm. Doors open at 1:45pm. Curtain: 2:00pm. You may purchase tickets at the door or in advanced either at the studio or online.

Call time will be 10:30am for all dancers EXCEPT dancers in:

Hip Hop 1,  Tap/Ballet Combo Classes,  Preballet, Tap 1 and Creative Movement. Those classes are asked to be at the theater at 1:00pm in full costume with hair and make-up done.

Day Of Reminders:

When arriving at the Mello Center, please come to the backstage door and sign-in your child. We will have a great group of adult dancers as well as instructors backstage to assist the younger ones in quick changes, supervision etc. We are asking that there are NO parents backstage except designated volunteers.

All dancers in Hip Hop 1, Tap /Ballet Combo, Preballet, Tap 1 and Creative Movement, will perform in the first half and should be picked up at the backstage door during intermission. They are welcome to sit with you through the remainder of the show.

Dancers that are finished performing after the first half  (most kids 8-14 yrs) but are not required to be picked up at intermission will stay and watch the remainder of the show from the balcony. This space will be supervised. Those students will then participate in our final bow. When the show is finished older kids should be picked up by their parents at the backstage door as well.

Please see SHOW ORDER below.

Note: Please pack your child a light lunch and water. No soda or juice please. Please pack only non-staining food. Keeping in mind they will likely be in costume.

We are seeking parent volunteers for the following:

-One Box -office attendant. To assist the front of house manager, Jenna.

-Two ushers to open doors and hand out programs. Possibly assist box-office.

-Two chaperons to supervise the balcony during the second half and escort kids down for the bow.

-Two parent to check-in kids preshow. One at 10:10am and one at  12:40pm.

-Two parents to assist with the little one’s backstage.


-This year we will be holding a Bake Sale preshow and at intermission to raise money to support more scholarships at the studio. We currently offer over $3,000 in scholarships a year and would like to increase our ability to make dance as accessible as possible to kids in our community. If you are interested in baking something for the sale or helping oversee it day of.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact me directly at the studio or reply to this email.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Thank you,
Abra
Director
(831) 457-1616

1-Kids Company
2-Flex (Audiafauna)
3-Creative Movement
4-Breakout Ballet
5-Hip Hop 1
6-Teen Contemporary
7-Saturday combo
8-Dance for Theatre
9-Jazz 2
10-Tap 1
11-Jazz 1
12-Ballet 1/2
13-Combo Thursday
14-Hip Hop 2
15-Preballet
16-Ballet 3
17-Dietzman and Co (Unluck)
18-Hip Hop Funk
INTERMISSION
19-Acrobatics
20-Teen Company (contemporary)
21-Adult Tap
22-Adv Jazz
23-Cardio Funk
24-Hip Hop basics
25-Beg/Int Hip Hop
26-Jazz Basics
27-Kids Company 2
28-Jazz 3/4
29-Flex
30-Teen Co
31-Dietzman and Co (High for this)

Tickets on Sale NOW!

Tickets for Motion Pacific’s 15th Annual Spring Recital are now on sale.

Tickets are $15/general and $10/children 12 and under. Lap kids are FREE.
You may purchase tickets online at:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/247394

You may also purchase tickets in-person at the studio beginning May 7th.

Picture Day- Saturday, May 19th

Hello Motion Pacific Families,

It is such a fun time of year here at the studio. Everyone is all a buzz with talk of the Spring Recital.

As a reminder, our Annual Picture Day event is coming up on the 19th. All kids/teens in current classes are welcome and encouraged to attend. We will spend most of the day taking photos and to make it a bit easier,  we have created a schedule with each class designated to a specific time (See Below). Please have your child here at the studio 10 minutes before their first time slot. All dancers should come with hair done and light make up where appropriate as well as in their first costume.

We ask that all participating dancers bring $10 to the studio day of (in the form of Checks made out to Motion Pacific or Cash).  This small fee will help pay for the time of the photographer and our teachers and give you access to your child’s photos for download available to you by June 19th.

We are happy to answer any questions you may have. Please never hesitate to call, email or stop by the studio.

Picture Day Schedule:

10:30 Sat Combo
10:50 Ballet 3
11:10 Thursday Combo
11:30 Jazz 3/4
11:50 Preballet
12:10 Teen Co
12:30 Ballet 1/2
12:50 Tap 1
1:10 Teen Contemp
1:30 Hip Hop 1
Lunch Break
2:40 Dance for Theatre
2:50 Creative Movement
3:10 Jazz 2
3:30 Kids Co
3:50 Jazz 1
4:10 Acrobatics
4:30 Hip Hop 2
4:50 Breakout Ballet
5:10 Hip Hop Funk