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 Linda Garofalo at linda.garofalo@goucher.edu.

2011 PROGRAM DATES        Monday, August 22-Sunday, August 28, 2011

Students will arrive and complete check in procedures the morning of Monday, August 22^nd and begin moving into their residence hall.  Classes will begin late Monday afternoon and run through Sunday. The 2011 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 25th.

PROGRAM FEES

Please note that all student's pre-paid college meal plans will begin on Thursday, August 25^th.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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.

Click here for the 2011 registration form.  The registration deadline is Friday, July 1st and payment MUST be received no later than Friday, July 22nd to reserve your place in the program.

2011 GUEST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - BALLET -AMY SEIWERT

Amy Seiwert, a native of Cincinnati, enjoyed a nineteen-year performing career dancing with the Smuin, Los Angeles Chamber and Sacramento Ballets.  She moved to San Francisco in 1999, the same year she won the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur Choreography Competition in Quebec.  As a dancer with Smuin Ballet she became involved with the "Protégé Program" where her choreography was mentored by the late Michael Smuin, and became Choreographer in Residence of that company upon her retirement from dancing in 2008.  Her work is in the repertory of Ballet Austin, Ballet Met, Smuin, Atlanta, Sacramento, Colorado, Louisville and American Repertory Ballets as well as Ballet Nouveau Colorado and Robert Moses KIN.  She was named one of "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine, one of the "Hot 20 under 40" by 7x7 Magazine, and her first full evening of choreography was named one of the "Top 10" dance events of 2007 and 2010 by the SF Chronicle.  She was awarded the Gerbode Emerging Choreographers Grant, the SF Arts Council's Individual Artist Commission, and the SF Foundation's "Fund for Artists" Grant.  Twice she has worked with dancers from the New York City Ballet, participating in the NY Choreography Institute at the invitation of Peter Martins.  She also directs im'ij-re, a contemporary ballet company in San Francisco that collaborates with artists of other disciplines and is committed to experimental work from a classical base.  Collaborations include works with visual designers Marc Morozumi and Matthew Antaky, composers Darren Johnston and Mason Bates, and software artist Frieder Weiss. www.amyseiwert.com.