Strauss CommUNITY - Foundations of Dance Workshop

Name: Strauss CommUNITY - Foundations of Dance Workshop
Start: 2025-08-14T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-14T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 111 Cotton

Schedule

Thu Aug 14 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

111 Cotton | Monroe, LA

Our Strauss CommUNITY Dance Workshops are back and better than ever! This year, we're offering three levels of classes so you can take the classes that best match your skill level. Our Foundations classes are open to ALL SKILL LEVELS.
Join instructor Kelsea McCrary for a series of classes that focuses on foundational technique to enhance your skills and refine your turns, jumps, footwork, and more. Each week will hone in on a certain ability area, incorporating vocabulary, center floor and across the floor combinations to grow every dancer's confidence in movement. The classes are designed to build on each other, as dancers progress through skills. With upbeat combinations and a welcoming atmosphere, these classes are for dancers of all levels that have a willingness to try and a love for moving to music! The skills that you'll work on are a perfect complement to the advanced/intermediate jazz workshop, so come ready to challenge yourself and build a strong foundation.
Classes will begin with a warm-up that incorporates flexibility, musicality, and an overview of the highlighted choreography that dancers will learn.

Class Dates and Times:
Tuesday August 5th 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (turns)
Thursday August 14th 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (jumps)
Sunday August 17th 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (combinations)
Thursday August 21st 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (footwork & formations)
Tuesday August 26th 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (combinations)
Classes will be held at 111 Cotton.
111 Cotton St.
West Monroe, LA 71291

* MEET THE EXPERT *
KELSEA MCRARY has over 30 years of dance experience, beginning at the age of 4 in the dance studio. Her portfolio of styles ranges from traditional disciplines in ballet and jazz to modern dance, contemporary, and hip hop. As an award-winning competition circuit choreographer, McCrary has also coached the Bearcat Belles at Ruston High School and the OCS Eagle Line. She has served as a guest judge, choreographer, and teacher for the ULM Hawk Line, Miss Crain Studios, and Carolyn's Dance Land along with over 11 middle and high schools in Region 8. She performed for the University of Louisiana Monroe's Warbonnets and Hawk Line, and continued her dance education there with classes in ULM's Repertory Ensemble curriculum. Most recently, she won 2nd place in Twin City Ballet's Lip Sync Battle in 2023 and ULM Dance's Distinguised Alumni Award in 2023.

Programs of Strauss Theatre Center are supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment of the Arts, ArtWorks.