AIYF Dance School
The Festival's Dance Summer School has been running for 25 years. The Dance Summer School was introduced over 20 years ago and has welcomed outstanding teachers from major schools and companies worldwide including the Paris Opera Ballet School and the Kirov and Bolshoi companies. To this day the School remains an important and unique course in Scotland.
The Dance Summer School was held annually as part of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. The school offers an intensive course in dance for students aged 12–16, a performance course for advanced level students in full time training for a career in dance, a music theatre course and a 'taster day' for younger dance students.
in 2009 AIYF Dance Lab was created as a new development for the AIYF Dance Summer School. Dance Lab is an opportunity to explore dance styles in depth with guest masterclass tutors from Scotland and abroad. Each masterclass ran over two or three days and encouraged participants to extend their dance vocabulary and techniques.
Dance Lab has a strong emphasis on how the dancer creatively develops their own dance while keeping a strong technical reference point. Each day the dancers have warm up classes concentrating on technical aspects of dance and then these are developed by the different masterclass tutors through creative, improvisational and choreographic challenges. As well as classical ballet the masterclasses explore contemporary styles of dance through body contact, improvisation, contemporary jazz and hip hop.
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