Summer Dance 2012 for Connecticut Concert Ballet and DancEnlight

Registration for Summer Programs for Connecticut Concert Ballet and dancEnlight will be held June 13, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Connecticut Concert Ballet, 280 Garden Grove Road, Manchester, CT.  Registration may also be completed by mailing in the forms found at http://ctconcertballet.org/summer.html or http://dancenlight.org/summer.

dancEnlight Summer Intensive for Youth placements are now available for ages 6-12, no audition is required. Lorelei Chang has designed the program for youth to offer a variety of dance classes to expand a student’s knowledge of dance and the arts and to inspire them with inventive ideas. Dance and Chinese Calligraphy class is one of her signature courses. It gives children an opportunity to experiment with creating their own characters with a traditional calligraphy brush on rice paper, how to use a brush to inspire their movement, then compose a dance phrase based on the characters they made. Besides Dance & Calligraphy, dancEnlight also offers Yoga for Kids, Stretch of Happiness, Ballet, Modern Dance, Making Dances, Monkey Circle, Claps for Joy, Pilates for Kids and Chinese Dance. There will be an informal showing at the end of the week.

The program for youth will run one week, from July 9-13, 2012 at the Manchester studio. Ages 6 to 8 years old attend from 9 a.m. to noon; 9 to 12 year olds attend from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Also available at registration will be Connecticut Concert Ballet’s many summer offerings  including weekly classes, Discover Dance Camp for ages 3 to 6 and CCB’s Summer Ballet Intensives for the serious ballet student ages 9 and up. Classes in Jazz dance and Individualized Pilates Reformer instruction will also be offered. Classes start June 18, 2012.

Lorelei as well as CCB artistic directors David Lawrence and Wendy Fish-Lawrence will be available at the registration for questions about the various programs offered and placement levels.

dancEnlight is a nonprofit multi-cultural professional modern dance company led by artistic director Lorelei Chang, originally from Beijing, China. Lorelei’s choreography has been presented at the Beijing International Dance Festival in China, American Dance Festival, International Dance Festival in Hong Kong, and Dance Festival in India, International Arts & Ideas in New Haven, 5x5 Dance Festival in Hartford, Rebound Dance Festival in New Haven, and many other venues including Tokyo, Japan. She was honored to be invited to perform with her twin sister, Mai Nakanishi for the Grand Imperial Charity Banquet hosted by the former Indonesian president’s wife in Tokyo on Oct 1st, 2011.

dancEnlight was founded in 2008 and is currently in residence at Connecticut Concert Ballet in Manchester and Windsor, CT, and at Trinity College in Hartford. dancEnlight is dedicated to fostering the arts through excellence in dance, education and artistic collaboration. It performs in the US & Japan under the direction of artistic director Lorelei Chang. For more information on dancEnlight, please visit www.dancenlight.org or call 860-558-6146.

Connecticut Concert Ballet is a semi-professional 501(c)(3) classical ballet school and performing arts organization with studios in Manchester and Windsor, Connecticut and has 300 students from over 35 towns in the Greater Hartford, northern and eastern areas of the state. CCB brings fully staged ballet and dance productions to audiences from all over Connecticut twice a year including the Nutcracker in December and Dynamic Directions in May. For more information on the school please visit www.ctconcertballet.org or call 860-643-4796.