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Naomi Jason
Naomi was born and raised on Salt Spring and started dancing as soon as she could walk. Her first teachers include Sue Newman, Robbyn Scott, Alisoun Payne and Constantine Darling and since leaving the island at 16, there have been many many others. She has explored many styles of movement extensively, including: ballet, modern, competitive rhythmic gymnastics, jazz-funk, african, flamenco, yoga, qigong, sommatics, clowning and fire-spinning. In 2004, she completed her professional training at LADMMI, an internationally recognized school for contemporary dance. She spent the following 5 years soaking up the rich cultural and artistic environment that is Montreal. Over the years, she has worked and apprenticed with various choreographers, taught dance, gymnastics and circus and choreographed and performed her own work. Freshly back to the island from the big wide world, she’s excited to work with both children and adults to cultivate freedom of expression, grace, body-awareness, inspiration and joy! |
Dance Troupe A new program for you to join! Classes start January 18th 8 years and up Dance troupe is dedicated to creating innovative choreographies for performance on stages, in lobbies, on streets and at festivals. Exploring hip hop, breakdance, work with props, gentle acrobatics, contemporary, ballet, contact improv and more to create dances that are fun to do and watch and can be performed on any occasion. Naomi and her assistants work to bring out everyone’s special talents, help students to improve skills and aquire new ones. Members must be focused, inspired, willing to work hard, enjoy being creative and not be afraid of trying things for the first time.
Wednesdays are practice days with a short warm up and then creation and practice of choreograhpies. All troupe members must sign up for Wednesday’s class. Thursdays are optional training/creative laboratory days at the Fulford Hall. These days are for fine-tuning skills, creating choreography, exploring music, making costumes and general team building. Adults and parents are welcome to drop-in to help with projects on Thursday. This session we will explore the theme of the elements, creating short pieces for each one.
Bring what you have, come as you are and learn to work on co-creating choreography that will inspire you and others.
Students who wish to participate in Troupe must be enrolled in one other dance class! Wednesdays 5-6 Fee $200.00 Thursday drop-in fee paid to Naomi
Get Inspired!!!watch these kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=166ORmR3Ks0
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Questions? Shelley e-mail: office@saltspringartsacademy.ca phone: (250) 537-4294
