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14 South Park Street, 2nd Floor
Montclair, NJ 07042
USA
(973) 655-9819
Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts (SMAPA) mission is to provide comprehensive, inclusive developmental training in dance and related theater arts for children, teens and adults.
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Hosted by former SMAPA PWE member Lauren Bomberg, LPC, BC-DMT and Gabrielle Milani, MPH, LCAT, R-DMT, this workshop explores dance/movement therapy as a non-performing career option for dancers. Come prepared to move!
Suggested donation $20 to support our scholarship fund.
Come join our free Open House on Saturday, September 17, 2022 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Drop in to tour the studio, browse our nonprofit Dance Store, meet the staff, and sample some free dance classes for ages 3-adult. The Open House is free and open to the community. Bring your friends!
Ballet (ages 8+) Kai Davis
Afro-Haitian (all ages) Julio Jean
Creative Movement (ages 3-4) Cece Mitchell
Hip Hop (all ages) Chris Lin
Pre-Dance (ages 4-5) Cece Mitchell
Modern (adults) Sharron Miller
Pre-Modern (ages 5-7) Cece Mitchell
Pre-Ballet (ages 5-7) Cece Mitchell
Contemporary Modern (ages 10+) Heather Robles
Tap (ages 8+) Jonathan Luks
Choreography & Improvisation (ages 10+) Heather Robles
Join us this August for RESILIENCE: a contemporary dance workshop. All levels welcome, ages 10-100.
August 15 - 19, 2022, noon - 2p.m. $225
SMAPA is thrilled to announce a new dance workshop this summer with Heather Robles. In this dance workshop, we will focus on:
-Honoring our personal story
-Sounding our inner landscape
-Fortifying deep listening and courage
-Locating innate resilience in our body and history
-Joy as resistance
All participants will have the opportunity to create and take home a resilience map at the end of the week. Nourish your body and spirit in this week of gentle, strengthening contemporary dance technique followed by guided choreographic and improvisational explorations of RESILIENCE.
Heather Robles (she/her/ella) is a nondisabled Latinx queer cis woman who lives on the stolen land of the Lenape and Canarsie peoples in what is now called Brooklyn. She is the Executive Director of the NY Dance & Performance Awards, The Bessies, founder and Artistic Director of Alma Dance Company, a certified birth doula at Our Birth Doula, and Policy Development Consultant at New Yorkers for Culture & Arts. A Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer, she has worked with many artists including Yvonne Rainer, Sidra Bell, Pavel Zûstiak, Nathan Trice, DANCENOISE, André M. Zachery, Buglisi Dance Theater, Soluq Dance Theater, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Fredrick Earl Mosley, and Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance. She is on the board of Renegade Performance Group, Brooklyn Dance Festival, Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts, and a member of Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s Curatorial Advisory Team at Gibney. Heather is also a dance educator, teaching artist, producer, and advocate for mental health in the dance field.
Email info@smapa.org for more details.