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Summer Intensive Reviews

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Northwest Dance Intensive

Summer Intensive Reviews

General

Dancer age

1
1

First time at a summer intensive?

1
1

Year of SI

1
1

Weeks available

1
1

Weeks attended

1
1

Reviewer

1
1

Curriculum

Techniques taught

1
2
1

Partnering (based on age)

1
1

Dedicated men's program?

2

# of boys in level

2

Other dance genres

2

Quality of other classes

Not Helpful
1
1
Helpful

Injury Prevention

Strength classes?

1
1

PT offered?

1
1

Extra fee for PT?

2

Injury rate

2

Teaching

Who taught?

2

Guest teachers

2

Year-round teachers taught

1
1

Attention from teachers

Very Little
2
A Lot

Technique improved?

No
2
Yes - Tremendously

Studios

Dance floors

1
1
2

Studio space

Cramped
1
1
Lots of Space

Studio cleanliness

Dirty
1
1
Spotless

Schedule

Classes per day

2

Saturday classes

1
1

Saturday class duration

1
1

Leveling

Leveling

1
1

Leveling type

1
1

Did students move levels?

2

Leveling fair?

1
1

Students per class

1
1

Performance

Performance?

2

Rehearsals happened

2

Casting equitability

Uneven
2
Even

Rehearsals detracted from class?

Completely
2
Not At All

Housing - General

Housing provided

1
1

# of roommates

1

Bathrooms

1

Coed bathrooms

1

Air conditioning

1

Where did they stay?

1

Housing - Supervision

Curfew

1

Curfew reasonable?

1

Room check

1

How strict were dorms?

1

Infraction handling

1
1

Housing - Cleanliness

Laundry available

1

Laundry free

1

Housing cleanliness

Dirty
1
Spotless

Cleaning required

1

Meal Plan

Meal plan

1

Food quality

Gross
1
Excellent

Enough food

1

Dietary needs?

1

Activities

Weeknight activities

1

Weekend outings

1
1

Attended weekend outings

1

Favorite

  • The one weekend outing was a lake trip, but the dancers went to a park and did a photo shoot together that was not planned by the intensive and that was fun.

Least favorite

  • idk. none? the outings were fine.

Logistics

Quality of handbook

Spotty
1
1
Comprehensive

Program communication

Limited
1
1
Comprehensive

Transportation

1
1

Neighborhood safety

Not Safe
2
Very Safe

General Comments

Overall recommendation

Definitely Not
1
1
Absolutely

Best aspect

  • Northwest’s repertory and rehearsals - a lot of individual attention and corrections that helped the dancers progress.
  • There was one teacher there who was really amazing and the rest was meh.

Least liked about program

  • Nothing - there really wasn’t anything that we really didn’t like.
  • The staff and planning.

Suggested changes to program

  • It would be nice to have more diversity in the styles of dance they offer.
  • Better communication and planning. There was no schedule and even during the intensive it would change and be replaced sometimes multiple times a day. Also, the head teacher (Jehrin) and some of the other staff were not very supportive and not helpful. Air conditioning was not provided and two girls got heat stroke, one of them had to miss a day. because of it. The teachers said that happened every year but they never told anyone until during the intensive.

Culture of program

  • The faculty was very attentive, supportive and friendly. All of the other dancers were very nice but there wasn’t a strong sense of community and connection cultivated among them.
  • Closed minded and monotonous.

Other comments

  • Well, the intensive was mostly to teach a new technique called "beamish body mind balancing," something which I was not aware of at the beginning. A lot of the ballet classes were taken up with lectures about the technique and we didn't do a lot of real dancing. Also, the staff seemed kind of sketchy when it came to money or their lives outside the intensive. Apparently this intensive was better previous years but the director died and now a new director is there who isn't very good and is teaching the technique differently. A lot of the girls who had come previous years said they weren't coming back next year because it was so bad this year.
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