NEW DANCE SCHOOL COMING TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD FREE OPEN HOUSE/CLASSES JUNE

Attention Parents of toddlers, tweens and teens: Here is an affordable alternative for the summer and beyond... Neighborhood dance classes for boys and girls. Below the Covenant Ballet Theatre open house information. Please rsvp your caregivers, children and/or yourselves should you plan to attend. Adult dance classes can be formed upon interest.....
Meet Covenant Ballet Theatre at Namaste Yoga of Kensington

Open House June 26, 2013 3:30-5:30pm Meet Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn for an afternoon of fun, FREE demo sessions with their professional faculty! Speak with Artistic Director Marla Hirokawa and register for CBT’s Summer in Motion dance camps (more details below). 
Schedule:
3:30-4               Beginner Ballet for 8 & up, Sonia Jones, ABT® Certified Teacher
4-4:30               Beginner Modern & Composition for 8 & up, Matthew Westerby,        Laban Dance Centre London
4:30-5               Creative Movement for 3-4 yrs, Sonia Jones, ABT® Certified Teacher
5-5:30               Pre Ballet for 5-7 yrs, Sonia Jones, ABT® Certified Teacher 

Summer in Motion with CBTat Namaste Yoga of Kensington Youths from 7 years to teens with little to no experience in dance, can enjoy the exhilaration and rigor of the dance arts with professional and nurturing instructors of Covenant Ballet Theatre Dance Academy. The half day, week-long camp offers classical ballet, modern dance and composition classes. Small, intimate classes ensure personal attention. 
Schedule,
M-F:10-11am Ballet
11-12pm Modern
12-1pm Composition 
Cost: $350 per week; $600 for 2 weeks Enrollment limitations: Minimum 5 students to a maximum of 10 

Motion I with CBT Instructors Sonia Jones, ABT® Certified Teacher & Kristin Licata, Fordham/Ailey BFA: 
July 22-26: For ages 7-9 years
July 29-Aug 2: For ages 10-14 years 
Motion II with CBT Instructors Marla Hirokawa, ABT® Certified Teacher & Matthew Westerby, Laban Dance Centre London: August 12-16: For ages 7-9 years 
August 19-23: For ages 10-14 years For the younger set, ages 4-6yrs, enjoy 4 summer classes that introduce your child to the wonderful world of ballet through fun and imaginative exercises, stretches and games. 
Schedule: July 22, 24, 29, 31, Mondays & Wednesdays at 9-9:45am Cost: $75 for 4 classes; $20 p/class
Enrollment limitations: Minimum of 5 students to a maximum of 12 Register by emailing: marla@covenantballet.org  WHO IS COVENANT BALLET THEATRE OF BROOKLYN? For video & more information: www.covenantballet.org CBT is an arts organization with 25 year old roots in south Brooklyn who has been spreading the love of dance in Brooklyn and beyond. Passionate about providing excellent professional standard performances and dance instruction, the company seeks to foster an intelligent appreciation of dance as an art form through it’s dance academy, contemporary ballet company and arts education programs. CBT activities are designed to reflect Christian, wholesome family values and ethics in the arts. 
Artistic Director & Instructor: MARLA A. HIROKAWA trained and performed professionally in Hawaii, California and New York. She received her BA in dance (Cum Laude) at the University of California, Irvine and founded Covenant Dance Studio in 1987. She is currently CBT and CBT Academy’s Artistic Director.  She has taught at Broadway Dance Center, the Brooklyn Academy for the Performing Arts, and is the ballet and modern dance professor at Kingsborough Community College. She was a Teaching Artist for the New York City Ballet Education Department and currently creates and directs all CBT’s educational programs.  Marla is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary though Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. Instructors:
SONIA JONES is originally from Lancaster, PA and recently received her MA in Dance Education/American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Pedagogy from New York University Steinhardt. Through this program she is an ABT® Certified Teacher who has successfully completed teacher training in Primary – Level 7 & Partnering of the National Training Curriculum®. She was an Education/Physical Therapy Intern at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and has taught in its Children’s Division and has a B.S. in Biology from Millersville University. She is also a Qualified Associate Teacher of Grades I –V of the Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet. Miss Sonia is also on faculty at the Huntington Center for the Performing Arts. 
KRISTIN LICATA received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Fordham University/Alvin Ailey program.  She has taught dance at the Cornerstone Learning Center, NY School of the Arts, NJ and in Oregon as part of a residency with Hope DanceNYC.  Kristin has been an instructor with the academy since 2008 and a principal dancer with CBT since 2009. 
MATTHEW WESTERBY trained at the Laban Centre, London. He has taught in a variety of professional and community settings, and to all ages and abilities. His teaching credits include Laban, Random Dance Company, Smallpetitklein, the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance, Stagecoach Theatre Arts (all UK), for Silesian Dance Theatre (Poland), and since moving to New York, for Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Dancewave, and for CBT's Dance Academy and AIE programs.  Matthew has been a principal dancer with CBT since 2005. 
TESTIMONIALS:“About twenty years ago I had made up my mind to quit dance. I was placed into the dance program of my Jr. high school because the art program, my first choice, was filled to capacity. During the first few days of school, one of my dance talent classmates asked me where I was studying dance. I told her "nowhere"; I was done. She insisted that I go check out her studio, Covenant Ballet. I told my Mom, who forced me to take a trial class despite my bitter complaining. I expected a bunch of nuns with sticks. There was no WAY I would go back to dance, and especially not under those circumstances. 

“The trial class resulted in my discovery of two things: 1) there were no nuns involved 2) I could perhaps, maybe, just for a little while, stand just a little bit more dancing - because this teacher and this studio were, well, different. Twenty-something years later, here I am: still dancing. My son is now in his 5th or 6th year (I lost count!) as a student at CBT. Ms. Marla did not only teach me dance steps; she taught me to LOVE dance and to be an artist, which is worth so much more.” -- Jackie Burke-Montoya  "Not only were the classes affordable and the instructors talented, what I admired most was Marla's vision and passion in creating a dance academy that would inspire and cultivate the love of dance and provide top-notch professional training to its students."  - Denise Liu, academy parent  "Covenant Ballet provides a warm, supportive environment of learning, where the focus is on dance skill and expertise...I am impressed as to how the instruction is geared towards the needs of each individual student." -Arlene Ayoub, academy parent "How wonderful that you have succeeded right here in New York in creating the kind of place that produces the dancers that go on to professional careers as well as the studio that non-professional dancers enjoy and appreciate."- Sophia Fatouros, Faculty at the Alvin Ailey School & Dance New Amsterdam 
Marla A. Hirokawa, Artistic Director            Wilhyn, Namaste Yoga of Kensington
Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn
2085 Coney Island Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11223
718-891-6199
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