Contemporary Dance Intensive: Creative Collaboration: Youth Summer Program

July 17-21, 2023 

Ages 13-17 (8th-12th graders) | To avoid injury and maximize enjoyment, participants should be dancing at least 10 hours per week.
Camp Instructor: Leah Cox 

9:00–9:30 a.m. | Drop Off
9:30–11 a.m. | Contemporary/Modern Technique Class
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Phrase Work
12:15 –1:15 p.m. | Lunch
1:15–3:45 p.m. | Collaborative choreography
Friday Afternoon – informal performance – Time TBD

In this contemporary/modern dance intensive, you'll further your dance technique, deepen your artistry and develop your collaborative skills in a community of passionate dancers.  Each day will include classes in contemporary/modern dance technique, phrase-work and collaborative choreographic methods.  The week will culminate in a showing for friends and family of the dances we choreograph together based on a theme we choose. Our time together will be rooted in positive reinforcement, exciting challenges and shedding perfectionism for curiosity and imaginative play. Join us for a week of inspired, joyous and shared dancing! 

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Registration open now through June 23. 

Tuition: $500 per student

Some scholarships are available. For more information, please email tadsummercamps@austin.utexas.edu
Discounts are available for UT faculty, staff and students. 

ABOUT LEAH COX

Leah Cox grew up in Spring, Texas.  Her senior year of high school, she attended North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating with an emphasis in ballet.  Leah attended Texas Christian University, where she realized she loved ballet, but was more at home in modern dance forms.  She spent fourteen years performing, creating new dances, teaching, setting repertory and developing education programs for the NYC-based Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.  Currently, Leah dances with Liz Lerman in her latest project, Wicked Bodies, and makes dances for herself or for dancers in universities. Cox’s current role as an associate professor of dance at The University of Texas at Austin provides her with many opportunities to dance and collaborate with students and colleagues. 

LEARN MORE ABOUT SUMMER PROGRAMMING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE