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Our Pre/Professional Dance Intensive offers a full weekend of classes designed for professional dancers and pre-professional dancers alike. Dance teachers are also welcome! Each day will consist of technique classes, Q&A sessions, audition prep, and more. The day will run 9-5 Saturday and Sunday. This intensive is aimed at Intermediate to Advanced dancers ages 13+. Find full schedule details below!
Click “Classes” and scroll down to the list of “camps” to find the Pre-Pro registration on DSP.
Saturday + Sunday
Saturday + Sunday
Teacher can take classes free
8:30am | Check-in
9-10:15am | Progressing Ballet Technique with Chelsea Hilding
10:15-11:45am | Contemporary with Jake Tribus
11:45-12:45pm | Lunch
12:45-1:30pm | NCDF/Industry Q&A with intensive artists
1:30-2:30pm | Jazz with Jake Tribus (New Class as of 8/13)
2:30-3:30pm | Hip Hop with Eli Motley
3:30-4:45pm | Moving and Making with Caitlin Dutton-Reaver
8:30am | Check in
9-10:15am | Contemporary Ballet with Courtney Liu
10:15-11:45am | Contemporary Rep with Jake Tribus
11:45am-12:15pm | The Dance Photography Experience with Andrew Bowen
12:15-1pm | Lunch
1-2:15pm | Contemporary Fusion with Eli Motley
2:15-3:15pm | Musical Theater with Courtney Liu
3:15-4:15pm | Emotional Wellness for Dancers with Christina Motley
Saturday + Sunday
Saturday + Sunday
Jake Tribus (he/him) is a 2020 graduate of USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance under the direction of Jodie Gates. He currently dances for Gibney Company, and joined in 2020. Tribus’ past training includes intensives with Netherlands Dance Theater, Batsheva Gaga Technique, The Juilliard School, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Additionally he has performed repertoire from choreographers William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Jîrí Kylián, Twyla Tharp, Johan Inger, Sharon Eyal, Paul Taylor, Victor Quijada, Aszure Barton, Sonya Tayeh, and Dwight Rhoden. Jake has performed on stages including The Joyce Theatre (with Gibney Company and the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance), The Shed (with A Quiet Evening of Dance by William Forsythe), the Kampnagel International Summer Festival (premiering Where There’s Form by Aszure Barton), and in 2022 the Fire Island Dance Festival (choreography by Akira Uchida and Micaela Taylor). He has also performed in music videos and on stage for artists including Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Lorde, Backstreet Boys, and Janet Jackson, among others. He most recently was a featured dancer in a fragrance campaign for fashion brand Carolina Herrera under the direction of Stephen Galloway. Jake is the recipient of a 2022 Princess Grace Award in Dance. Jake was a lead actor and dancer in “Daytripper,” a film directed and choreographed by James Whiteside in partnership with All Arts (a program of PBS). He is originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, where he began his training at CC & Company Dance Complex. He also trained at Next Generation Ballet in Tampa, Florida, under the direction of Peter Stark.
Courtney Liu is a choreographer and Assistant Professor of Music Theatre at Elon University. Courtney’s music theatre and concert dance choreography has been commissioned by Forestburgh Theatre, Duke University, the Ciompi Quartet, Thistle Dance, Barriskill Dance Theatre School, and the American Dance Festival in collaboration with the Nasher Museum. Courtney has served as Assistant Dance Captain at the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and as Assistant Director for Norwegian Cruise Lines.
Courtney is a dedicated dance pedagogue and dance education research who has published her pedagogical research in the Journal of Dance Education (JODE) and presented papers/posters/workshops at the Embodied Learning Summit, CORPS de Ballet International, the Appearance Matters Conference, and the National Dance Educators Organization.
Performing credits include the Broadway cast of the Phantom of the Opera, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Queen of the Night, AEA & Disney Developmental labs, the Broadway Dance Lab, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Busch Gardens Theme Parks, various performances sponsored by the American Dance Festival Performances, and guest performances with the Cincinnati Ballet and the Peridance Contemporary Dance Company.
Courtney is also a Giordano Jazz Certified Teacher in Levels 1 & 2, and a Luigi Jazz Certified Teacher in Levels 1 & 2. She also has ABT® Teacher Certification in levels Pre-Primary through Level 3, and is a RYT-200 certified yoga instructor.
Courtney graduated from Duke University with an MFA & a BA. Her affiliations include the Actor’s Equity Organization (AEA), National Dance Educators Association (NDEO), & CORPS de Ballet International.
Elijah (Eli) Motley (Greensboro, NC) is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and MFA Graduate of Dance and Choreography. Eli holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Theatre and a Bachelor of Science in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and an MFA in Dance from UNC-Greensboro. In 2015, Elijah joined a Hip Hop company called Baila Fusion where he began learning Breaking, Popping, House, and Krump. His studies took him to Israel for a summer semester to Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and New York City to study Gaga movement. After graduation he performed three seasons as a company dancer for Chicago Dance Crash and became a freelance performer/ choreographer in the Chicago area. Eli also taught Breaking, Popping, House, Modern and yoga at various studios in the city and conventions around the country. He has been commissioned to set choreography by various companies, taught at studios and public schools in Chicago, and co-founded a dance collective called Concepts Dances. In addition to performing, he teaches dance in university, private studio, grade school, and festival settings.
Chelsea Hilding, M.F.A. (she/they) is a lecturer at UNC Greensboro and Wake Forest University in ballet and dance history. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Dance at Texas Woman’s University where she received the [Wo]Mentoring in Graduate Education grant for her work in radical ballet pedagogy. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for Jacksonville Dance Theatre, where she was previously a Company Dancer and Rehearsal Director, Chelsea serves on the Advisory Board of Obremski/Works. She earned an M.F.A. in Choreography from UNC Greensboro where she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate Award for the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She has presented her research in radical ballet pedagogy at Dance Studies Association, Corps de Ballet International, National Dance Education Organization and numerous universities. Her experience also includes positions such as Company Manager for Gibney Company, Director of Adult Programming at Greensboro Performing Arts, Resident Choreographer and curriculum developer for the St. Augustine Ballet, Artistic Director for Braided Light Dance Project, and Founder and Owner of Screen Door Dance Room. Chelsea is certified in Pilates from Balanced Body University, Progressing Ballet Technique, Russian Pointe, and is an RYT-200 yoga instructor.
Caitlin Dutton-Reaver is a graduate of the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, studied at the London Contemporary Dance School, and holds an MFA from Montclair State University. She has performed on concert dance stages and site-specific venues in New York, California, Georgia, and London for choreographers/companies such as Jody Oberfelder, Regina Nejman, Calpulli Danza Mexicana, Amalgamate Dance Company, Lane Gifford, Rosalind Newman, Nelly van Bommel, Backhausdance, Motion/TRIBE, Lauri Stallings, and Richard Alston. From 2015–2020, she devoted the bulk of her performing career to Third Rail Project’s Bessie award-winning immersive theater production Then She Fell with nearly 1,100 performances in three roles.
As a choreographer, Caitlin has presented dances domestically and internationally since 2010. From 2014–2019 under the moniker caitlin+dancers, her company was presented in numerous traditional and site-specific venues throughout NYC and the surrounding region such as the Martha Graham Studio Theater, Socrates Sculpture Park, City Center Studios, Brookfield Place, Grounds for Sculpture, WestBeth Artists’ Residence, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and the Falchi Building. She has also toured along the East Coast to Vermont, Georgia, and North Carolina. The company rebranded as Stray Projects in 2020 to incorporate a wider range of performance including immersive dance theater, and premiered Of Others at The Bellewether in NYC and the Dances series in a variety of iterations in Durham and Greensboro, NC.
Caitlin has taught movement courses at Montclair State University, UNC Greensboro, and Dance Project; and immersive/creative workshops at The Juilliard School and the Fordham/Ailey BFA program. She is thrilled to return to Dance Project on August 17 to teach Moving and Making.
Andrew Bowen is a photographer who works exclusively with dancers. He creates a space where dancers are respected and supported, given the time they need for their creative process, and have the dedication they deserve from their photographer.
Beyond the dance community, images that Andrew creates with his dancers have received accolades from professional photography associations. Andrew is a master photographer through the Professional Photographers of America and a master portrait photographer through Master Photographers International. His work has been accepted at multiple gallery shows and recently earned third place in the portrait category of the International Image Competition.
Accolades aside, Andrew believes that the dancer is the most important artist in his studio. He avoids the term “photoshoot,” preferring to consider time with a dancer as a creative dance retreat where dancers can explore their art in a safe and supportive environment.
Dance Project is a non-profit resident organization of the Greensboro Cultural Center, made possible by a significant in-kind contribution from Creative Greensboro, the City of Greensboro’s office for arts & culture.
Dance Project is a non-profit resident organization of the Greensboro Cultural Center, made possible by a significant in-kind contribution from Creative Greensboro, the City of Greensboro’s office for arts & culture.