Dance Like Someone is Watching
Culver’s very own dance company, Dancevision, is a performance dance experience, coupling classwork and choreography with guest artist residencies to craft a group of well rounded, quality dancers who receive a letter of achievement sweater and pin annually. Many dancers pursue and accomplish Honors in Dance in the senior year.
WHAT IS DANCEVISION?
The Dancevision program is an audition based extracurricular activity that takes place after school during recreational time. Each year Dancevision performs two weekend shows in addition to mini programs during special events and athletic halftime shows. The company is led by Mentor Instructor and Fine Arts Chair, Mrs. Cathy Duke, a 1970 graduate of Culver Academies and founding director of the Dancevision program and Emily Smith, Ballet Instructor.
GUEST ARTISTS
Similar to many colleges and universities the artist-in-residence program offers students in dance the opportunity to study, observe, and work with professional dancers. Guest artists set choreography on the group annually. A long standing relationship exists between Dancevision and Nick Pupillo, Director of Visceral Dance Chicago. Nick conducts master classes several times within the school year.
Some of our other recent guests have included Shaping Sound, Ann Reinking, Eric Jordan Young from New York, Rick Pessagno from Las Vegas.
INTERESTED?
We’d love to connect with you. For more information regarding Dancevision or the Culver Fine Arts program, please reach out to Emily Smith at emily.smith@culver.org or Ingrid Dehler-Seter at ingrid.dehler-seter@culver.org.
