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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Master Class Workshop <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Instructor: Megan Pitcher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saturday, October 15<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>$15 per class<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Register online at <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">www.beckcenter.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>4:30-6:30 pm Modern Jazz (All Levels Teen/Adult)<br><br>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. <br><br><br>6:30-8:30 pm Modern & Floorwork (Int/Adv)<br><br>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>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 <span class=yshortcuts>Ohio University</span> and trained at Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam and Bates Dance Festival. Her choreography has been presented by the Junction Arts Festival in <span class=yshortcuts>Toronto, </span>DUMBO Dance Festival (NY), <span class=yshortcuts>Philly</span> Fringe Festival (PA), Outlet Dance Project (NJ), Michigan Dance Project, <span class=yshortcuts>Cincinnati</span> Fringe Festival, <span class=yshortcuts>Columbus</span> Dance Theater, Playhouse Square, The Cleveland Playhouse and <span class=yshortcuts>Cleveland</span> Public Theatre. Pitcher has served as an adjunct faculty member at <span class=yshortcuts>Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio State University </span>and Beck <span class=yshortcuts>Center for the Arts</span>. She has presented workshops and residencies through ACDFA, Ohio Dance, Hathaway <span class=yshortcuts>Brown School</span> and <span class=yshortcuts>Shaker Heights</span> Ensemble Program.<br><br><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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 catalog is available online at <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">www.beckcenter.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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 <a href="mailto:mszucs@beckcenter.org">mszucs@beckcenter.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Register online 24/7 at <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">www.beckcenter.org</a> or call 216.521.2540 x10.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>