28th International Dance Course Antwerp

 From 30th June up to and including 7th July 2012, dansstudio arabesque organizes the 28^th International Dance Course Antwerp.  This course has grown to become one of the most important dance courses in Europe, not only concerning the great number of participants and lessons, but also thanks to the quality of teachers and accompanists and specially the ever surprising and innovative disciplines in the schedule.

New this year is the possibility for students from 8 years on to stay overnight at the boarding-school Spectrumschool.  For these children a good accompaniment with evening programs will be provided.  All courses are concentrated in one location, the students don’t have to go from one place to the other.

There are lessons for each level :

• 55 different lessons a day in many dance techniques and dance style disciplines at all levels, given by professional teachers from Belgium and abroad.
• Amateurs, semi-professional and professional dancers from 8 years on can take the following lessons : classical ballet, master class classical ballet, classical ballet for contemporary dancers, pointes and variations for girls, variations for boys, pointes and stretch, jazz, contemporary (different styles), hip hop, Mad Flavour (mix of contemporary and hip hop), flamenco, musical (singing and dancing), Pilates, yoga, choreo jazz and choreo modern/Lyricals.

New lessons this year :

• Breakdance by Rabbani Sayed
• Hip hop by Lloyd Marengo
• The repertoire of 2 world famed choreographers, William Forsythe and Mats Ek will be presented to semi-professional and professional students from 16 years on.
• Work of the renown young contemporary choreographer Sagi Gross.  He will also teach his repertoire to the students of this dance course.

By attending the courses of repertoire, future dancers can extend their dance language and their network, giving them the opportunity of profiling themselves more accurately in the dance scenery.  It is a unique opportunity to be able to learn some work of these 3 top choreographers within one course.

Choreographer Min Hee Bervoets of the TV program “The Ultimate Dance Battle” will also be teaching at this dance course.

Choreographer Laurent Flament of “So You Think You Can Dance” will guarantee fantastic jazz lessons and will again teach a choreography to the advanced students.