This class will explore excerpts from a variety of different dance works and phrases that offer an overview to Suzzanne’s choreographic work and style. Structured more as an investigation and exploration, we will look deeply into movement phrases, character development, emotional nuances, spatial architecture, and performance qualities – and then deconstruct to create new material based on individuality and personal expression.
Choreographic Devices
6-week course | 90 minutes per class
This course is designed to develop and enhance choreographic skills in creating and structuring dance woks. We will explore a range of devices for expanding and inventing new movement material through a combination of theoretical study and practical application. After a large body of material is created, it will be varied and manipulated and pushed towards the maturation of a new work. This class is for participants who are seriously interested in creating dance and exploring an interest in choreography in a peer supported environment.
Understanding the basic elements of Dance Composition: space, time, energy, and how to develop a choreographic routine.
Movement Generation & Exploration: techniques for generating original movement material, developing specific vocabulary through phrase work, the teaching of phrase work to peers, and individual experimentation.
Structuring and Form: intentional movement organization. Understanding and exploring new choreographic structures, forms, and thoughtful use of performance space.
Music: understanding basic musical structure, rhythms, polyrhythms, expanding the musical palate, and how to deeply listen and somatically embody sound.
Feedback and Revision: presenting a work-in-progress or a series of phrasings and receiving constructive feedback from peers.
Final Presentation: creating a complete choreographic work for a final performance to be professionally filmed for personal or professional use.
Competition Coaching | Audition Preperation
Groups | One-on-One
Competition dancers ages ~14–18 preparing for college.
Services
- Live Video Coaching — $85
- In Person Coaching – $150
- College Audition Strategy — $75 per session
- Free 20-min Consultation
About Suzzanne’s Expereicne Coaching
Suzzanne Ponomarenko is a New York–based choreographer, dance educator, and performer. She is a Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College, Harlem School of the Arts, and Notes in Motion where she teaches BFA seniors about the realities of building a career as a working artist.
Suzzanne has extensive experience developing dancers as artists and individual business owners of their craft, as well as creating choreography and preparing dancers for professional environments.
As an independent choreographer, she has created, produced, toured, and presented work throughout the United States and internationally and can work with you artistically while creating a business strategy for success.
Her coaching combines professional dance experience, college-level education, choreography, and individualized mentorship to help young dancers confidently take their next step.
How it works: Book a session or reach out to learn more.
- Book
- Send your goals/video
- Meet online or receive personalized feedback
- Keep working toward your audition