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Grier Summer’s Intensive Dance Program is geared toward the serious intermediate to advanced dancer, ages 12-17. These campers take dance classes for three out of four activity periods, dancing four and a half hours five days of seven for three weeks. These classes include, but are not limited to, stretch and strength, ballet and jazz technique, and choreography for performance. Styles in performances have included ballet, classical jazz, African, lyrical, hip hop, and modern.
 A performance marks the end of the session's work.
 Grier's Performing Arts Center is superbly equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and flooring.
 In three short weeks, the participants put together impressive performances.
All dance classes, as well as the final performance, take place in the 9,600 square foot Performing Arts Center on the Grier campus. With built-in seats for 280, a state-of-the-art floor and sound system, and a sliding separation wall, the Performing Arts Center is the perfect environment to spend the summer practicing and performing!
 Leadership campers like Cristina help to give the dance program a strong core of experienced dancers.
 In some pieces, dance and theatre are combined.
The Intensive Dance Program is led by Jocelyn Hrzic, Head of the Grier School’s Dance Department, choreographer, and coach of the school’s award-winning dance team. Mrs. Hrzic’s classes are designed to make the most of the three week session, and she strives to develop students’ strength, technique, musicality, and performance qualities.
 A variety of dance styles are included in the instruction.
Intensive Dance campers participate in all camp activities. The dancers dance for three activity periods and can choose another activity for the last activity. Choices may include ceramics, mixed media, Grier Summer Players (theater), pool games, outdoor sports, creative writing or foreign language for fun. The Intensive Dance Camp is only offered during the first session of camp.
Grier's Performing Arts Center, which opened in July of 2006, divides with a track-mounted partition that effectively creates two very large dance studios of identical size with adjoining changing rooms and bathrooms. Both have theatre style seating. The value of this space is most evident on performance days when the partition separating the studios is retracted, opening up the space into one large performance floor space measuring 9,600 square feet. The lighting and sound systems for the center are of exceptionally high quality.
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