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Select Navarre Dance Students Receive Instruction From Dance’s Best and Brightest Stars

For Immediate Release – Celebrity choreographers including Brian Friedman, Cris Judd, and Tyce Diorio were on hand to lead local Navarre dance students through an intense two days of dance training at the 2012 PULSE On Tour workshop in Atlanta, GA. The workshop, emceed by Carmit Bachar (of Pussy Cat Dolls fame) featured multiple sessions catered to individual skill and age levels.

The PULSE On Tour workshop is a travelling show designed to empower young people through dance while teaching the skills needed to hone their performances to a professional level.

“We are proud to provide this incredible opportunity to train in a non-competitive environment which inspires all who attend,” say PULSE promoters.

A Time to Dance studio is committed to bringing the very best training available to its dancers.  Last fall, three students from the Navarre dance studio were singled out for awards at a similar PULSE workshop.  This time, both members of the Navarre dance studio’s Company and Performance teams attended classes and learned from industry insiders including:

  • Brian Friedman (creative director for X Factor USA and choreographer for Britney Spears, and Beyoncé)
  • Cris Judd (back-up dancer for Michael Jackson and Jennifer Lopez)
  • Tyce Dioro (dancer/actor worked with Janet Jackson, NSYNC, and Jennifer Lopez)
  • Dave Scott (Choreographer and dancer who works in movies, television, and more)
  • Desmond Richardson (Tony Award nominated choreographer)
  • Robert Hoffman (American Choreography Award winner appeared in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Step Up 2, and more)

The students were supervised by A Time to Dance’s Creative Director Brieane Schell who took the opportunity to network.  She convinced Cris Judd (pictured above with several Navarre dance students) to come by the Navarre studio in June to host several workshops and fine tune choreography for the Competition Team.  Schell also potentially lined up additional workshops this summer with Travis Wall (Emmy nominated creative director for the Fox Network’s So You Think You Can Dance).

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Pulse 2012

We had a great time this past weekend taking dance classes from Cris Judd, Tyce Diorio, Brian Friedman, and many more!  Check out some of the highlights.

Photos from the event are here.

Navarre Dance Students Earn Accolades at CAMP PULSE Workshop

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Three dance students from A Time To Dance studio in Navarre recently attended a CAMP PULSE workshop and earned accolades from some of the hottest choreographers in tween
dance today. Two won scholarships to further their dance studies in Las Vegas and New York.

A Time To Dance Navarre Dancers Win Scholarships and Awards at the Camp Pulse Dance ConventionCAMP PULSE features choreographers from popular TV shows, music videos, and feature films. More than 700 young dance students attended the two-day CAMP PULSE held Oct. 22-23 in Mobile, Ala. Dancers from Navarre recognized at the event included:

  • Karlee Dillard, 13, winner of the only scholarship awarded to attend CAMP PULSE in Las Vegas, Nov. 19-20.
  • Megan Gragg, 13, winner of a scholarship to attend classes at Broadway Dance Center in New York City.
  • Caitlynn Funkhouser, 6, recipient of a “Rock Star” award.

The young dancers were honored by CAMP PULSE instructors, including Rosero McCoy (of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew and Disney’s Camp Rock), Lane Napper (of Nickelodeon’s iCarly and VicTORIous!), Nancy
O’Meara (of Fox’s American Idol and Disney’s High School Musical) and Kherington Payne (of Fox’s Glee and So You Think You Can Dance).

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