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Senior Seminar/Scene Interactive
This Fall the School of Dance held Master Classes for our Senior B.A. dance majors. The workshops included talent agents and choreographers from New York City. These workshops were provided in conjunction with a partnership with Scene Interactive.  Please read more about this unique opportunity posted in our Dean Bullitan. Click on the weblink in the margin and look for some of our Dean Dancers.
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Alvin Ailey
Our dance majors have an opportunity available to only a few select colleges: to audition right at Dean for an Independent Study program with the world-renowned, nationally credited Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York. Candidates who are accepted into the selective and rigorous American Dance Center Summer Intensive Program earn college credit.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2008 SUMMER INTENSIVE AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ACCEPTED STUDENTS...

Jennifer Carr, Brittany Ashlaw, Brittany Klash,
Sara Renstrom, Jessica Miranda, Alexa Mourbarak,
Kristen Carlson, Kristen Vollhardt, Jenny Lawless, Jessica White,
Alyssa Guerin, Marissa Levesque, Jamie Lovell,
Alyssa Wheeler, Joelle Plourde,Nicole Zaccari, Sharlane Connor,
Elizabeth Flynn, Eileen O'Neil, Rebecca Kennedy, Amber Salo,
Taslym Abdul-Hamid, Natsumi Fujita, Dominique Anderson,
Michelle Poirier, DJ Kostka, Autumn Briggs,
Caitlyn Croteau, Laura Moen, Rebekah Zammuto

Dance Extravaganza -  Dance Magazine, Feb 2005 (pdf)
Our dance program features master classes with professional dancers and choreographers, such as Maurice Hines, Jay T. Jenkins, Derek K. Grant, and AC Ciulla (pictured). Dance Extravaganza instructors

Master Class instructors have also included: Denise Jefferson, the late Gregory Hines and Danny Sloan, Merce Cunningham, Tina Gerstler, Brad Musgrove - dance captain of the Fosse cast, Michael Taylor of the Gus Giordano Dance Company in Chicago, and Dan Joyce of the Mark Morris Dance Group.

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Jay T. teaching master class

Last fall Dean College dance students took a step closer to stardom walking � or dancing � in the footsteps of four renowned professionals who have already made their mark.

Jazz/Tap Dance Extravaganza Five Minutes to Curtain, held October 2004, featured Maurice Hines of Cotton Club fame as well as Footloose choreographer and Emmy winner AC Ciulla, and Bring in �Da Noise, Bring in �Da Funk dance captain Derick K. Grant. What brought the event home, however, was participation by choreographer Jay T. Jenkins, a 1977 graduate of Dean Junior College. Jenkins has distinguished his career plotting steps for Prince, Salt-n-Pepa, Chaka Kahn and Cyndi Lauper, among others.

Before anyone took to the stage, the pros offered Dean�s 160 dance majors a taste of what it�s like in the real dance world.

Every dance major was invited to take part in the sessions. The four pros later determined which students would be invited to perform in the program finale, a show that featured solo performances by the four pros.

Jay T. is choreographer for his Dance Company, Jett�, in New York City. He is also an alumnus of the American College Dance Festival (ACDF) and has choreographed for film, foreign artists, music videos, and concert tours.

Being a musician gives him an edge when it comes to staging live musicians for concert tours, giving them movement without taking anything away from their playing.

Jay T. uses the thematic schemes of concert dance and encompasses them with commercial dance. His ability to combine different styles and aspects of dance gives him the unique ability of being able to relate to and stage even non-dancers and make them feel at ease at whatever they are performing.

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Maurice Hines
coaches Dean students

Star of stage, screen and television, Maurice Hines commenced his acclaimed career at the age of five, studying tap at the Henry LeTang Dance Studio in New York City. In addition to performing and touring with his brother, Gregory Hines, he pursued a successful solo career, distinguishing himself from Broadway to Europe, as well as in the film The Cotton Club.

Internationally, Mr. Hines has had the pleasure of directing and choreographing the musicals Havana Night in Cuba and an all Latin version of The Red Shoes in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has also created new shows such as Broadway Slow Jam, inaugurating an entertainment complex in Holland.

Mr. Hines is directied and choreographed the Broadway production of The Me Nobody Knows. In addition, Yo Alice, the new urban hip-hop fantasy he conceived, directed, and choreographed is currently being produced as a film and live production..