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SWS

The staff, faculty, and students who make up the Six Week School (SWS) are a diverse and eclectic group — ranging from students seeking an early artistic experience to those with an eye on the professional world. The school provides pathways into both contemporary concepts and historical approaches shaping the future of dance. The faculty play an active role in integrating these varied approaches.

Students attend the ADF for six weeks, June 5 – July 20, 2008. Full-time students take three two-hour classes that meet on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. WFSS (pronounced “woofs”) are classes that meet on Wednesdays, Friday evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays. They are an opportunity for SWS students to draw connections by personalizing, creating, and expanding their experiences at the ADF through participation in a variety of artistic endeavors — a festival within a festival. Practice includes technique classes as well as those that include the making, articulation, and performance of work. Projects, seminars, jams, salons, and showings express multiple ways students might choose to connect and present work in alternative contexts.

photo by Sarah Holcman