Summer Intensive Registration
To enroll, please email Kelly Brunk at with the following information, or you may fill this out and give it to Andi Abernathy:
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Dance Training/ Experience
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Kansas City
Contemporary Dance Workshop
Kansas City
Contemporary Dance Workshop
summer intensive
Kansas City Contemporary Dance Workshop is a summer intensive program focused on developing and challenging advanced dancers (ages 12 and up) through rigorous dance technique classes and dance related lectures, including anatomy, injury prevention, and dance history. The workshop also allows participants to work with choreographers who are very active in today’s dance world; choreographers who have worked throughout the U.S. and beyond world in dance companies, industrials, and other dance venues. This year, we will be adding another component: the teachers will be choreographing a piece, which will feature every participant and will be showcased at the performance on Thursday. As well, we will be holding a mini-workshop for younger dancers (ages 8-12), which will be held after the performance.
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday9:00 AM / Welcoming/ Registration / Yoga / Floor Barre / Yoga
9:30 AM / Stephanie
10:00 AM / Modern / Modern / Modern / Rehearsal
10:30 AM / Andi / Stephanie / Kelly
11:00 AM
11:30 AM / Contemporary / Contemporary / Contemporary
12:00 PM / Stephanie / Kelly / Andi / Performance
12:30 PM
1:00 PM / Young Modern
1:30 PM / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch / Stephanie
2:00 PM / Massage / Massage / Massage / Young Contemp.
2:30 PM / Improvisation / Improvisation / Improvisation / Andi
3:00 PM / All / All / All / Young Improv.
3:30 PM / Kelly
4:00 PM / Contact Partnering / Contact Partnering / Contact Partnering /
4:30 PM / All / All / All
5:00 PM
5:30 PM / Injury Prevention / Anatomy / Dance History
6:00 PM / Kelly / Kelly / Kelly
6:30 PM / Dinner / Dinner / Dinner
7:00 PM / Rehearsal / Rehearsal / Rehearsal
7:30 PM / All / All / All
8:00 PM
teacher bios
Kelly Michael Brunk hails from Kansas City, Missouri and graduated with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Pre-Business. In 2007, he studied abroad at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) in Salzburg, Austria, where he performed many Forsythe works, including Enemy; and in January 2008, he performed a self-choreographed solo in Vietnam’s two largest cities: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). He has worked with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, the Second Avenue Dance Company, the Dance Company of San Francisco, and has performed in industrials in Las Vegas and other venues. As well, he has choreographed for pageants, professional cheerleaders, and concert and commercial dance pieces. Currently, Kelly is a dancer for GroundWorks DanceTheater.
Andi Abernathy has been a teacher and choreographer for Priscilla and Dana’s School of Dance for eleven years and grew up training there at the age of 5. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Missouri, Kansas City in 2006. She has worked with several modern and jazz choreographers around the country and is currently dancing with the new Kansas City-based modern dance company: Seamless Dance Theatre. Mrs. Abernathy is known throughout the United States for her choreography, which has received several awards and recognitions at regional and national levels. She has choreographed for numerous college and high school dance teams throughout the Midwest. She has worked in Los Angeles, among many other places, with big name choreographers including Doug Caldwell, Mark Meismer, Chris Jacobsen, and Dee Caspary.
Stephanie Ruch started her dancing career at the age of 3 at Priscilla and Dana's School of Dance. She continued training in jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, modern, and hip-hop until she graduated in 2004 from Oak Park High School. Throughout these 15 years, she was the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships at dance conventions and competitions. In 2004, Stephanie began assisting and traveling with modern choreographer Chris Jacobsen around the country at dance studios, workshops/intensives, and conventions. She has also been teaching modern, jazz, ballet, and hip-hop for the last 6 years. Stephanie is a graduate of UMKC Conservatory of Music & Dance with a BFA in Dance Performance. She currently works with Seamless Dance Theatre and Wylliams Henry Dance Theatre and choreographs for numerous high school and college dance teams in Missouri.