Dance & Company will be hosting two March Masterclasses with guest artists on Sunday, March 5th, at 1:00 and 2:30. Intermediate/Advanced dancers ages 13+ are invited to take part in the afternoon masterclasses given by dancers Katie Dean (Contemporary/Modern from 1:00-2:15) and Suzanne Miller-Corso (Jazz from 2:30-3:45). Each class is $15 per dancer. Sign up online soon if you'd like to participate since space is limited. We hope you can join us!

1:00 Modern Masterclass with Katie Dean

Katie Dean is a performer and designer originally from Virginia, who has performed in New York City since 2009. She grew up dancing at Dance and Company and is excited to be returning this winter! Dean has performed in work for visual artists and choreographers including Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Xavier Cha, Megan Chu, Jessica Cook, Ayano Elson, Jennifer Harge, Ivy Baldwin Dance, Julie Mayo, Melanie McLain, Phoebe Osborne, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance, Nadia Tykulsker, Hannah Walsh, and others, in collaborative work with Heather Robinson, in music videos, and in video work by Mia Lidofsky and Celia Rowlson-Hall. She has performed in spaces including MOMA PS1, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Guggenheim Museum, the New Museum, the Jam Handy, the Queens Museum, Artists Space, a dinner table, and a storage unit, and her performance work spans physical theater, work for museum spaces and concert dance. Since 2021, Dean has split time between Sperryville, Virginia (where she lives with her husband Mike and her cat Pez Dispenser), and Brooklyn, New York. Dean is currently working with Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance for a show in Clifton Forge, VA this April 2023, and she recently completed a project in Winter 2022 with Ivy Baldwin Dance. More at katiedean.net/performance.

2:30 Jazz Masterclass with Suzanne Miller-Corso

Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, 2009-2010, and Distinguished Service Award 2017-2018 for the College of Visual and Performing Arts at James Madison University (JMU), Suzanne Miller-Corso is a Professor of Dance at JMU. She has performed professionally in the musicals Hello Dolly, Annie Get Your Gun, and A Chorus Line and abroad in Sydney, Australia in Phantom of the Opera. Additionally, she performed during the Aloha Bowl in Hawaii during half-time. Her performing experience includes work with choreographers Daniel West, Remy Charlip, Derrick Evans, Maurice Fraga, Daniel Burkholder and Vincent Thomas. Her choreography has been presented at the Jack Guidone Theatre at the Joy of Motion Dance Center in the D.C. area, the Harris Theatre Millennium Park in Chicago, and the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas. She has been a two-time finalist in the Leo’s Jazz Dance Choreography Competitive Event at the Jazz Dance World Congress in New York and Chicago. Her original work also has been presented in Colorado, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New York, Texas, and Florida. For three years, she served on the Board of Directors for the American College Mid-Atlantic Regional Dance Festival Association. Suzanne is a certified instructor in the Beginning, Basic and Intermediate Levels of the Nan Giordano Certification Program® (NGCP®). She received her M.F.A. degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a B.F.A. degree in Dance from Towson University.

Sign up online today! Email dancencompany@gmail.com with questions.

Dance & Company

March Masterclasses - March 5th at 1:00 (Modern) and 2:30 (Jazz)