Classes are for students 18+ unless otherwise noted.
Fees are for one adult and one child unless otherwise noted. Please register under adult’s name.
Classes for high school students
Deepen your appreciation of dance as a dynamic and evolving performance art. Through readings, video analysis, and group discussions, you will gain a broader understanding of dance as a contemporary art form. Enlarge your critical perspective by exploring key issues in dance and contrasting the viewpoints of influential choreographers. We’ll examine notable 20th-century figures such as Isadora Duncan, Nijinsky, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, and many others, considering their contributions to shaping modern dance.
Kelley Donovan has performed work by Ann Carlson and Liz Lerman. She is on the dance faculty at UMass Boston and has been a guest artist at Roger Williams University, Summer Stages Dance and has taught modern dance and choreography at Dance Complex, Green St. Studios, Mark Morris Dance Ctr. and teaches private lessons in technique and choreography over zoom in Cambridge. Her work has been produced by World Music/Crash Arts, Boston Ctr. for the Arts, MIT, Mobius, Tufts, Salem State, Harvard. In New York she has shown work at Movement Research, Martha Graham Dance Ctr, Cunningham Studio, University Settlement, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, and 92nd St. Y. She is currently producing a virtual series called The Speakeasy in 2020 inspired by the 1920s Speakeasy with poetry, dance, music and other performing arts monthly thru 2020. Visit kddcompany.wordpress.com
Kelley Donovan
