ORCHESIS Dance Program
Main Contact for ORCHESIS:
ORCHESIS Dance Group
Tamara Bliss, Director
E-mail: Tamara.Bliss@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-0770
FAX: (780) 492-2364
E-409 Van Vliet Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H9
Orchesis is a modern and jazz dance program offered by Campus Recreation for dancers of all abilities and experience.
Full membership offers participants
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Dance training through weekly modern and jazz dance classes.
- Performance opportunities with yearly membership, such as Dance Motif, an annual concert showcasing Orchesis choreography and talent
- Various technical styles of modern dance such as Limon, Graham, and Cunningham with floorwork, barre exercises and traveling movement phrases, accompanied by live musicians
- Jazz classes emphasize the practice and perfecting of technique, within the jazz idiom
- All classes consist of preparatory exercises, locomotor work across the floor, stretching and the learning of dance phrase combinations.
- Participation in 2 modern and/or jazz dance classes at their level as they choose
- Annual Members are eligible to apply for the Dorothy Harris Dance Award and the Orchesis Summer Study Award
Orchesis membership information
**Please note that some photos and pages on the ORCHESIS site are Adobe PDF files.
Photo credits: Linda Harmon,Tracy Kolenchuk, Bryan Sim and Jose Teres
<-- Go to Orchesis Photo link in the left hand column to view pictures from past performances
<--Go to the OSDI link in the left hand column to read dancers' comments about the 2008 Orchesis Summer Dance Intensive
CHOREOGRAPHERS FOR MOTIF 2009:
David Flewelling - (AFA grant guest choreographer) Rehearses on Saturday
Geraldine Manossa – (guest community choreographer) (Rehearses Wednesday evening)
Kathy Metzger-Corriveau - faculty (Rehearses Monday evening)
Jeannie vandekerkhove - faculty (Rehearses Thursday evening)
Miriam Esquitín - faculty (Rehearses Thursday evening)
Jacqueline Herbst - faculty (Rehearses Tuesday evening)
Tamara Bliss - faculty (Rehearses Tuesday evening)
Lindsay Eales - member (Rehearses Friday evening)
Anastasia Maywood - member (Rehearses Sunday afternoon)
Kelsie Acton - member (Rehearses Sunday afternoon)
Jenna Pylypow - member (Rehearses Wednesday evening)
Francois Chevennement's redo of "Perspectives" concert piece for Orchesis will rehearse on Sunday mornings beginning October 19th.
Questions regarding 2008-2009 choreography may be addressed to Motif Coordinator, Andrea Tarrant: foggygirl7@hotmail.com
For changes, additions, or errors in website
contact Lindsay Twerdoclib
Email: lindsayt@ualberta.ca
Full membership offers participants
-
Dance training through weekly modern and jazz dance classes.
- Performance opportunities with yearly membership, such as Dance Motif, an annual concert showcasing Orchesis choreography and talent
- Various technical styles of modern dance such as Limon, Graham, and Cunningham with floorwork, barre exercises and traveling movement phrases, accompanied by live musicians
- Jazz classes emphasize the practice and perfecting of technique, within the jazz idiom
- All classes consist of preparatory exercises, locomotor work across the floor, stretching and the learning of dance phrase combinations.
- Participation in 2 modern and/or jazz dance classes at their level as they choose
- Annual Members are eligible to apply for the Dorothy Harris Dance Award and the Orchesis Summer Study Award
Dance training through weekly modern and jazz dance classes.
Orchesis membership information
**Please note that some photos and pages on the ORCHESIS site are Adobe PDF files.
Photo credits: Linda Harmon,Tracy Kolenchuk, Bryan Sim and Jose Teres
<-- Go to Orchesis Photo link in the left hand column to view pictures from past performances
<--Go to the OSDI link in the left hand column to read dancers' comments about the 2008 Orchesis Summer Dance Intensive
CHOREOGRAPHERS FOR MOTIF 2009:
David Flewelling - (AFA grant guest choreographer) Rehearses on Saturday
Geraldine Manossa – (guest community choreographer) (Rehearses Wednesday evening)
Kathy Metzger-Corriveau - faculty (Rehearses Monday evening)
Jeannie vandekerkhove - faculty (Rehearses Thursday evening)
Miriam Esquitín - faculty (Rehearses Thursday evening)
Jacqueline Herbst - faculty (Rehearses Tuesday evening)
Tamara Bliss - faculty (Rehearses Tuesday evening)
Lindsay Eales - member (Rehearses Friday evening)
Anastasia Maywood - member (Rehearses Sunday afternoon)
Kelsie Acton - member (Rehearses Sunday afternoon)
Jenna Pylypow - member (Rehearses Wednesday evening)
Francois Chevennement's redo of "Perspectives" concert piece for Orchesis will rehearse on Sunday mornings beginning October 19th.
Questions regarding 2008-2009 choreography may be addressed to Motif Coordinator, Andrea Tarrant: foggygirl7@hotmail.com
David Flewelling - (AFA grant guest choreographer) Rehearses on Saturday
Geraldine Manossa – (guest community choreographer) (Rehearses Wednesday evening)
Kathy Metzger-Corriveau - faculty (Rehearses Monday evening)
Jeannie vandekerkhove - faculty (Rehearses Thursday evening)
Miriam Esquitín - faculty (Rehearses Thursday evening)
Jacqueline Herbst - faculty (Rehearses Tuesday evening)
Tamara Bliss - faculty (Rehearses Tuesday evening)
Lindsay Eales - member (Rehearses Friday evening)
Anastasia Maywood - member (Rehearses Sunday afternoon)
Kelsie Acton - member (Rehearses Sunday afternoon)
Jenna Pylypow - member (Rehearses Wednesday evening)
Francois Chevennement's redo of "Perspectives" concert piece for Orchesis will rehearse on Sunday mornings beginning October 19th.
Questions regarding 2008-2009 choreography may be addressed to Motif Coordinator, Andrea Tarrant: foggygirl7@hotmail.com
For changes, additions, or errors in website
contact Lindsay Twerdoclib
contact Lindsay Twerdoclib
Email: lindsayt@ualberta.ca
