TEENS

The Company has enjoyed numerous residencies at multiple high schools including Manhattan’s Beacon High School, the Fiorello H. LaGuardia H.S. of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Talent Unlimited, and the School of the Arts (SOTA) in Rochester, New York. At both LaGuardia and SOTA students performed the Company’s acclaimed dance Encore. In 2011 the Company choreographed on DanceWave Company ll, a Brooklyn-based dance troupe of teenagers selected by audition from all over New York City.

PROGRAMS FOR TEENS

Explorations

The Company began a relationship with The Yard, a renown colony for the performing arts on Martha’s Vineyard, in 1998, working with high school students at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs, and during summers directing Explorations, an intensive workshop for young dancers to immerse themselves into the processes of creating dance.

Click here to watch the Yard Video. See our other YARD video here [link to Yard 2001 video on SPECIAL PROJECTS page]

Summer Dance Festival

Please visit our FESTIVALS page to learn more about our summer programming.

Workshops

Since 2004, DGDC has collaborated with the Center for Arts Education to provide workshops as part of the Center’s Career Development Program, to introduce the art and business of dance to high school students from the City’s five boroughs.

For booking information please CONTACT US.