Workforce Development and Community Education: Summer 2023

27 Textbook Required LEARN THE ARTS IN PEEKSKILL The following four courses are offered by SUNY Westchester Peekskill, located at 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY. To register for these classes, call 914-606-7300 or email peekskill@sunywcc.edu Painting En Plein Air in 24 Hrs Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. This class will be offsite. CE-ART 2020PE, 8 Sat., June 3-July 29 (skip 7/1), 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $277. #9329 IN-PERSON Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults in 24 Hrs Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make a portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2334PE, 12 T/Th, June 20-July 27, (skip 7/4), 6:30-8:30 pm, $311. #9330 IN-PERSON Painting & Drawing for Adults in 24 Hrs Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2146PE, 12 M/W, June 26-Aug. 7 (skip 7/3), 6:30-8:30 pm. $277. #9331 DANCE Exploring Dance! A collaboration between SUNY Westchester Community College and Rivertown Dance Academy Rivertown Dance Academy, located at 15 N. Broadway in Tarrytown, provides excellence in dance education without cultural or financial barriers. A comprehensive schedule offers a curriculum in ballet, modern, tap, and jazz dance taught by faculty with extensive teaching, performing, and academic credentials. Individual placement classes and regular progress reports are all part of a Rivertown Dance Academy education. All classes in this box meet in-person for 10 sessions and cost $221. Ballet Training at the barre and center work develops students’ dance vocabulary, alignment, coordination, core strength, flexibility, and musicality. Adult/Teen Absolute Beginner Ballet: CE-DANCE 2050, 10 Sat., July 1-Sept. 2, 12:00-1:00 pm. #9196 Adult Ballet I/II: CE-DANCE 2007, 10 Mon., June 26-Aug. 28, 6:15-7:45 pm. #9197 Adult Ballet II/III: CE-DANCE 2008 Sec. A: 10 Wed., June 28-Aug. 30, 9:00am-10:30am. #9198 Sec. B: 10 Sat., July 1-Sept. 2, 10:30-12:00 pm. #9199 Modern Dance Progressive instruction introduces dancers to the techniques of contemporary movement forms. Classes consist of a center barre, progressions, and a combination as dancers explore movement through various shapes of the body, levels, directions through space, and weight transference. Adult Modern I/II: CE-DANCE 2013, 10 Fri., June 30-Sept. 1, 9:00-10:30 am. #9200 Adult Modern II/II: CE-DANCE 2051, I, 10 Thurs., June 29-Aug. 31, 6:15-7:45 pm. #9201 Tap Dance Dancers master tap vocabulary and techniques in classes that emphasize the development of musicality and exploration of a full range of styles Adult Tap I/II: CE-DANCE 2014, 9 Tues., June 27-Aug. 29 (skip 7/4), 9:00-10:00 am. #9202 Adult Tap II/III: CE-DANCE 2049, 10 Wed., June 28-Aug. 30, 6:30-7:30 pm. #9203 Hip Hop Currently one of the most popular & influential styles of our time, this vibrant dance form evolved from street dancing into a cultural phenomenon. Class begins with a cardio warmup followed by combinations that focus on rhythm, energy, individual style, and dynamic versatility. Adult Hip Hop I/II: CE-DANCE 2009, 9 Tues., June 27-Aug. 29 (skip 7/4), 6:30pm–7:30pm. #9340 Jazz Technique-based, concert jazz classes consisting of a center barre, progressions, and a combination based in any of the various jazz styles. Progressive levels build dancers’ awareness of body rhythms, coordination, performance quality, and the ability to master increasingly complex and intricate choreography. Adult/Teen Absolute Beginner Jazz: CE-DANCE 2052, 10 Thurs., June 29-Aug. 31, 9:00-10:00 am. #9204 Adult Jazz II/III: CE-DANCE 2012, 10 Mon., June 26-Aug. 28, 9:00-10:30 am. #9205 NEW! IN-PERSON Lunchtime Conditioning and Stretch This class will focus on strengthening core stability, improving balance and coordination, and creating more flexibility. Designed for dancers and non-dancers alike, students will learn to listen to their body and develop confidence to move while avoiding injury. CE-DANCE 2056, 10 Wed., June 28-Aug. 30, 12:15-1:15 pm. #9369 914-631-4302  dance@rivertowndanceacademy.org www.rivertowndanceacademy.org

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