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Dance N.O.W. Festival Workshop & Choreography Session
Dance N.O.W. Festival (Next of Westchester) Workshop & Choreography Session
Date & Time: August 16, 2025 10:30AM-4PM – See Schedule Below!
See Pricing Below
Dancers ages 11 – 22y.o are invited to join RDA for our inaugural year offering a workshop session!
This session will be led by a guest artist, Robin Cantrell. Robin will lead students through a series of movement generating exercises in order to create a unique piece of choreography based on the participants’ own stories. The class will focus on developing improvisation techniques, improving floor work, and experimenting with partnering concepts. All of this will be done with an emphasis on creativity, joy, and expansiveness of movement.
Choreography from the workshop will be performed on Sunday, August 17 at our performance event; dancers must be available for both days.
Schedule for the Day
10:30 – 12pm, Workshop
12 – 1pm, Break for Lunch
1 – 4pm, Choreography Session
Pricing
Regular price: $55 per dancer / $50 per dancer if registering with a studio group of at least 3 dancers
Deadline: Thursday, August 14 @ 11:59pm
Workshop Artist: Robin Cantrell
With a professional performing career spanning two decades, Robin Cantrell has worked with numerous dance companies including City Ballet of San Diego, Rioult, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, and, most notably, as a member of Battery Dance for 17 years. With Battery, Robin has performed, taught, and presented her own choreography in over 65 countries around the world. Her original works for the company have been shown at New York Live Arts, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Battery Dance Festival in NYC. She is the subjectof the award-winning documentary Moving Stories, about the company’s cultural diplomacy work. She serves as an adjunct professor at both Vassar College and PACE University.
Robin currently dances for Gabrielle Lamb’s PigeonWing Dance and is the Artistic Director of Indelible Dance: a Brooklyn-based dance company that creates otherworldly dance films and presents multimedia immersive dance events.Her most recent dance films have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including Best Screendance of the Year at the 2022 Independent Shorts Awards.
Robin is also the co-founder of Constant John Productions. The company creates dynamic films that tell their stories entirely through dance and music. She serves as the Director of Dance at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Society and curates a quarterly dance series called 12×12 in Brooklyn, NY.
Robin Cantrell is a native of St. Paul Minnesota and received her BFA in ballet performance at the University of Utah as a Willem F. Christensen scholarship recipient. She loves her pet bird very much and continues to expand her mindfulness practice.
Bethany Arts Community is proud to be partnering with Rivertown Dance Academy for a second year to make this festival a reality for all local youth dancers!
If you have any questions, please email dance@rivertowndanceacademy.org.
