Early-Arrival Program

EARLY ARRIVAL PROGRAM

Each year, the dance department offers a pre-semester program in August for any students interested in dance at Goucher.  The early arrival program provides a venue for students, beginners through advanced, to train intensively with Goucher faculty and guest artists before the start of the academic year.  The program provides a wonderful opportunity for new students to meet current students and department professors, to settle into their residence hall, and to get adjusted to the college campus without the demands of a full academic schedule.  The program consists of classes in ballet, pointe, modern, and jazz techniques as well as workshops and lectures in various topics.  Additionally, we have our first Guest Artist Residency of the year during early arrival.  Students have the opportunity to take class with the artist in residence as well as audition for the artist's choreographic work that will be performed at the Goucher Repertory Dance Ensemble Concert in November.

If you have questions about this program please contact Rick Southerland at rick.southerland@goucher.edu.

2013 PROGRAM DATES        Monday, August 19 -- Saturday, August 24, 2013

Sample Schedule

Students will arrive and complete check in procedures the morning of Monday, August 19th and begin moving into their residence halls.  Classes will begin late Monday afternoon and run through Saturday. The 2013 schedule will be available at check-in.  First-year students will join the rest of their class for important orientation events beginning late afternoon of Thursday, August 22.

PROGRAM FEES                                                                                                

Please note that all students' pre-paid college meal plans will begin on Thursday, August 22.

Early Bird Discount - $20 off Tuition if registering online during the month of May only.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration is online only. First-year and transfer students are strongly encouraged to complete and submit all college housing forms by June 1.  Housing placement with other students attending early arrival programs will be considered so that students can be located in similar residence halls and on similar floors.  After this date, it is not possible for this type of accommodation to be made as all students will have been assigned rooms for the year.  We encourage you to submit early if you know you are coming early to campus.

Register for the 2013 Early Arrival Dance Program

2013 EARLY ARRIVAL GUEST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - EMERY LECRONE

Since the premiere of her first ballet in 2006, Emery LeCrone has choreographed more
than forty dance pieces. Hailed by The New York Times as "...inventive...a ready for
primetime knockout" and by the New Yorker as "ambitious...expansive and dynamic,"
her highly acclaimed work has attracted numerous grants and new commissions for her
choreography.

Alastair Macaulay, The Times senior dance critic, has written, "Emery LeCrone's Chamber
Dances generated real excitement from its engagement with its score, its propulsive energy
and its structural complexity . . . Ms. LeCrone, often responding to both pulse and melody in
the music at the same time, creates spatially multidimensional works that make her dancers
look galvanized both above and below the waist. She has a sense of gesture and a feeling for footwork."

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina Ms. LeCrone trained at The Greensboro Ballet and then
attended the University of North Carolina School of The Arts where she studied closely with
Melissa Hayden. After several summers on scholarship at the School of American Ballet she
joined the North Carolina Dance Theatre under the direction of Patricia McBride and Jean-
Pierre Bonnefoux. During this time, she performed featured roles in Balanchine's Serenade,
Walpurgisnacht Ballet, and Stravinsky Violin Concerto and worked closely with well-known
contemporary choreographers Alonzo King and Dwight Rhoden. In 2007, Ms. LeCrone
moved to New York City to pursue choreography.

Ms. LeCrone's enthusiastically sought-after work has been heavily commissioned in New
York and across the country. Last season she was selected as a New York City Center
Choreography Fellow (2011-2012) and she premiered new ballets for The Juilliard
School's annual New Dances program and the New York City Ballet's renowned New York
Choreographic Institute. She also received a New Essential Works (NEW) Grant (2010),
directed by Damian Woetzel, for the creation of Divergence for Oregon Ballet Theatre, and
created new pieces for the Solomon R. Guggenheim's iconic Works & Process performing
arts series, and for Colorado Ballet as part of The Vail International Dance Festival, North
Carolina Dance Theatre, and Minnesota Dance Theatre, among many others.

In addition to participating in several prestigious choreography competitions such as the
National Choreographers Initiative, The A.W.A.R.D. Show!, and Ballet Builders, Ms. LeCrone
has previously served as resident choreographer for Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet
and is in her fifth year as choreographer-in-residence for Columbia University's Columbia
Ballet Collaborative, of which she is a founding member. Ms. LeCrone is dedicated to
teaching dance and has worked at renowned university level dance departments and
schools including the University of North Carolina School of The Arts, Academy of Dance
Arts, The Studio New Canaan, Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance, Greensboro Ballet, Hartt
University, Barnard Dance Department, and Peridance Capezio Center.

Currently Ms. LeCrone resides in New York City and continues to teach, perform, and
choreograph. Upcoming commissions include Columbia Ballet Collaborative (May 2013),
Minnesota Dance Theatre (May 2013), and St. Louis Ballet (October 2013).

For more information about her work please visit www.emerylecrone.com