[NEohioPAL] Dance Master Class/Workshopswith Megan Pitcher

[Melanie Szucs]

Master Class Workshops
Instructor:   Megan Pitcher
Saturday, October 15
$15 per class
Register online at www.beckcenter.org or by calling 216-521-2540



4:30-6:30 pm Modern Jazz (All Levels Teen/Adult)

Access your strength and power through an energizing warm up and progressive traveling combinations.  This all levels workshop will move quickly through basic techniques designed to inspire beginners and challenge those with more experience.  The end of class will be devoted to a spicy, dynamic, rhythm based combination incorporating jumps, turns and personality.


6:30-8:30 pm  Modern & Floorwork (Int/Adv)

Slow down and center with a Bartenieff / Klein based warm up designed to increase range and articulation for on and off center dancing.  Then, move through exercises for alignment, stability, flexibility, strength and brain function.  Class will culminate in an intense, spatially diverse combination moving into and out of the floor and through space.



Megan Pitcher’s work spans from concert dance to musical theatre and from film to installation art.  She is currently pursuing an MFA from Columbia College in Chicago on a full fellowship.  She received her BFA from Ohio University and trained at Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam and Bates Dance Festival. Her choreography has been presented by the Junction Arts Festival in Toronto, DUMBO Dance Festival (NY), Philly Fringe Festival (PA), Outlet Dance Project (NJ), Michigan Dance Project, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Columbus Dance Theater, Playhouse Square, The Cleveland Playhouse and Cleveland Public Theatre.  Pitcher has served as an adjunct faculty member at Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio State University and Beck Center for the Arts.  She has presented workshops and residencies through ACDFA, Ohio Dance, Hathaway Brown School and Shaker Heights Ensemble Program.


Beck Center Dance offers age appropriate early childhood classes in KidsNDance, preschool dance, preballet, and boys dance; youth and teen division classes in ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, contemporary, and hip hop; and adult classes in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, tone & stretch, and gyrokinesis.   The complete class activity schedule is available online at www.beckcenter.org.


The Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood.  For more information contact Melanie Szucs, Associate Director of Dance Education at 216.521.2540 x26 or mszucs at beckcenter.org,


Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring regional artists.