Teachers
and Course Descriptions of Oak Street Dance Studio
Rosalind Schrodt
Artistic Director of Moment
in Time Dance Company, of Ashland, Oregon.
She has performed and been active in dance
since
she was 7 years old. She founded The
Moving Center Dance Theatre in Taos, New
Mexico, 1973-1976. She has worked
with Beverly Pollack, has studied
extensively with David Hochoy, Kitty
Daniels, and Bill Evans. Roz has
choreographed more
then 100 dances.
She
has won awards for her choreography, and
received two National Endowments for the
Arts grants for her dance
productions. Roz has a Bachelors Degree in
Humanities from Southern Oregon
University. Roz completed the
Bill Evans
Certification Program in 2007. This 4 year
program includes the study of Labon Movement
Analysis and The Bartenieff
Fundamentals. She has consistently
taught Modern Dance Technique classes for
the last 40 years. She has taught
workshops in
New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington,
the Republic of Mexico and in Bali,
Indonesia. Roz has mentored many
dancers
that have gone on to have successful careers
in dance. She loves the art of dance
and conveys this love to all of her
students. Roz
has been guest artist with Liquid Fire
Mantra, as a choreographer and performer for
their Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green
Show. She has been guest artist
for Pioneer Dance Co. and performed in Bill
Evans Teachers shows in Pt. Townsend.
Roz continues to make new dances for Moment
in Time Dance Co. A recent
concert brought in Flamenco dancer Elena
Villa and
Musician Grant Ruiz. This was a
collaboration on music and a fusion of
modern dance with Flamenco
dance.
In 2016, Roz produced "Sounds of the Tree
of Life." This dance concert joined
with the sound healing music of Consuelo Luz
of
Santa Fe. The six dancers will
all experienced the power of sounds of the
Seven Chakras that they portrayed in this
healing dance.
It was performed in April 8, 9, &
10th, 2016 to full audience for all 3
shows. Her newest works have
been performed in Dance
Dialogs and in the Bill Evan Teacher
Reunion.
In 2019, MIT performed to 3 full houses
"Thoughts" with 8 dancers in the company.
Currently she is working in Collaboration
with Musician Composer Martin
Watkinson. They just had two concerts
in collaboration
April 30th and May 1, 2022 to a very
welcoming audience!
Winter 2022:
Intermediate
and Advanced Modern Dance classes will
restarting May 19th
Thursdays 5:30 to 7 pm and New Class
starting Mondays May 23rd 5:30-
7pm
Modern
Dance Technique
Roz
directs her class to help develop
strong, supple bodies needed to master
Modern Dance. "I look at each student
as an individual, learning in their
own way. I present the material in
many different ways to reach each
student where they are
at in this point in their dance
training. Roz is greatly
influenced by my study of the human
body kinetic wisdom. " and Bill
Evan's teacher training.
The
Advanced/Intermediate classis specifically
for the experienced students that are
interested in going into performing
and/or are
already performers.
These classes are Scheduled for
Monday and Thursday 5:30pm to 7:30
pm. and Sundays 10;30 to noon.
It is the company class
for Moment in Time Dance Co. t
will continue through the year as MIT
has some shows coming up.
Please Email to learn more: rozinthismoment@msn.com
Dancers Toning and
Conditioning Class, " Private lessons and training"
From time to time we are asked to
give the benefits of good dance training
to people who just want to be in better
shape. This course is being
offered for all
ages regardless of experience to become
friends with their own body
again. The work out has been
developed through many years of study and
development.
It includes many forms of optimum
conditioning exercises and an deep
stretches. Give yourself that
special time for your health and well
being.
Learn how to work within your needs and
ability. Please email her for
further information, rozinthismoment@msn.com
Dance for Fun:
An int./adv. Modern Dance class with Liz
Finnegan Liz Finnegan
has a
BFA in modern dance as well as training in
Ballet and Jazz. Her class is designed
for the seasoned dancer,and performer.
Classes are for those who may want a weekly
class to keep up on technique, stay in
shape, learn new choreography,
and
meet other dancers.
Class is on
Wednesdays, 5:15 to 6:45pm
.
For more
information please callLiz
at (541)488-3443.
Emily Wilson's classes Modern
Dance for Children Class meets on
Wednesday 1:50 to 2:50pm
Beginning Ballet on Tuesday
afternoons. Contact Emily for
times
About the
instructor
Emily
Wilson is the mother of three
elementary aged children and new
member of the “Moment in Time” dance
company. Her academic
studies in college included minoring
in Dance. During her studies she had
the opportunity to take a variety of
dance history and movement classes
including the Alexander technique,
West African dance and Laban Movement
Analysis as well as choreograph her
own dances and perform in
guest and student choreographed
pieces each year.
Emily's
performing arts developed from a young
age originally with voice lessons and
auditioning in Boston, MA for the part
of "Cosette" in Les Miserable.
While she recalls having a bit of
stage fright at the downtown
skyscraper (John Hancock) building
that day, she found her singing voice
in her community churches where she
would sing in front of a large
crowd, often accompanied by her
sister playing the piano. Emily
found the Mary Flynn Murphy school of
dance during her time living in
Belmont, MA and had a wonderful
experience with trying ballet, tap and
jazz for the first time.
When her
family relocated to Salt Lake City, UT
she found a creative movement
class at the Virginia Tanner school
first and then started to study ballet
at the Christensen Center, and
joined a musical theater group. She
recalls her strict Russian teacher
whom she will never forget for
teaching her the importance of working
hard in ballet class, and introducing
her to pointe shoes. Emily then found
the Ballet West conservatory, where
she studied ballet technique and
pointe, character, jazz, and
pilates. She performed in
their "Nutcracker" for 4 years
as a child, in the roles of
"buffoon", "party girl" and as
"Clara" for a statewide tour to
elementary schools. She also
performed as a solo child in Ballet
West's "Midsummer Nights Dream".
Emily has
attended several dance workshops
during her college and post college
years including the American Dance
Festival on scholarship, a Merce
Cunningham intensive in NYC and most
recently, a Martha Graham intensive.
She enjoys
drop-in adult ballet classes when
possible and especially her regular
modern dance technique classes with
Rosalind Schrodt. for more
information write Emily at:
emewilson@gmail.com
Classical Ballet
With Priscilla Quinby
Ballet class
focuses on classical
technique, with emphasis on
alignment, weight transferring,
and musicality. She specializes
in breaking things down to
basics, so even advanced dancers
can better assess habits and
tendencies. Multi level classes.
Meeting all year long on
Saturdays 10am to 11:30 am
PRISCILLA
QUINBY
DANCE BIO
Priscilla
graduated as a dance major from
North Carolina School of the
Arts after studying at the
Pennsylvania Ballet Company
School where she grew up near
Philadelphia and in New York
with Maggie Black. She then went
to Belgium where she studied at
the total theater school
connected to Maurice Bejart’s
Ballet of the 20th
Century called MUDRA. On
returning to the US she danced
with the CETA funded company
called Dance a la Carte in L.A.
and started teaching in Ashland
in the 1980’s and dancing with
Oregon Dance Theater.She then moved to New
York and appeared on Broadway in
Meet Me in St. Louis and The
Secret Garden, doing many off
Broadway and regional
productions as well. She moved
back to Ashland in 2000 and has
been teaching (mainly at Oak
Street Dance Studio) ever since.
Taiko Drum Classes with Pam
Vellutini Pam has been conducting her classes
for all ages for many years in the Rogue
Valley. She provides the
drums and
great skill training drummers.
Her classes are consistently offered
September through June on
Tuesdays 3:30 pm to 7:30
pm. Pam is not teaching at
this time.
You may contact her at 541 482 4234
Call
her at 541 951 8028
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Flamenco
Dance with Linda Andrade
Linda is a very
experience professional Flamenco dance
teacher. She often has live
accompaniment of
well known Guitarist, Grant Ruiz.
She comes to town on Saturdays and
teacher 3 classes. We recommend
calling her to decide which class
you can attend. She may be
reached at 818 602 0129
