This unique program offers cultural enrichment and adventure with fun, value, and dance. Its an experience you will remember and cherish for the rest of your life!
Synthesis Performing Arts and Dance Center presents The Global Dance Exchange program. We invite young talent and performers from overseas to experience American dance and culture, as we hope to inspire the next generation to love and commit to the beauty of the performing arts.
With the Global Dance Exchange, we have established a new institute for cultural enrichment, education, and performance experience for youth from around the globe. By exchanging positive and creative energy, this project will provide opportunities for new and upcoming stars to discover their creativity and help make their dreams come true.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Global Dance Exchange is designed as an intensive one-week dance program. The short-term approach has proven to be very effective and affordable for foreign students as it provides an opportunity for dance students to experience professional training in the United States from the best master dance teachers, the ability to improve their spoken English, and a way to experience American lifestyle.
The Global Dance Exchange provides a fast, safe and easy way to obtain dance training in the United States. We guarantee that your dance exchange adventure will be enjoyable, educational, and memorable.
Our master dance teachers have been carefully chosen for their educational expertise, uniqueness, and quality. The dance classes are specially designed for students who wish to enhance their skills in the most popular dance styles, such as, Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz Funk, Lyrical, Tap, Hip-Hop, House Dance, Poppin’ and Lockin’, Break Dance, Wacking, Krumping, and more. The Global Dance Exchange is designed for Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced levels.
The Global Dance Exchange’s intensive dance training is created to improve dance technique, develop style, body conditioning, improvisation, and learn the secrets of stage presence and confidence. Students will learn choreography and will be assigned to prepare original pieces to perform at the end of the program.
Students are not required to know the English language, although it is certainly helpful if they have a basic understanding of the English language. Please refer to the three packages that have been carefully designed to provide international dance students with the most intense dance learning experience, comfortable travel accommodations, as well as sightseeing of top tourist attractions in Los Angeles, California.
GOALS OF THE PROGRAM
•Learn a variety of dance styles offered by American dance masters
•Develop dance skills and share the love of dance with others
•Improve basic spoken English ability and dance terminology
•Attain a better understanding of American life
•Develop leadership skills and self-confidence
•Appreciate the value of cultural exchange between nations
•Build friendships, respect differences, and appreciate art overall
APPLICATION PROCESS
We accept Preliminary Application Forms up to six months in advance.
To qualify, applicants must be between the ages of 16 and 25 years old. Participants must be independent and mature enough to adjust to the different values, lifestyle and attitudes of a foreign country. You must also be a high school or college student in good academic standing, and must have at least one to two years of dance experience, be in good health, and have excellent character references. The most important requirement for the preliminary application is to have a serious commitment to dance and to be an active participant in the program.
After your Preliminary Application Forms has been accepted, the Final Application will be submitted with your payment.
Final Application and fees must to be submitted and paid three months in advance of arrival. For example, if your program begins on February 15, a Final Application and payment of fees must be completed before November 15.
The following chart will guide you to identify the time-line of your program and payments:
PROGRAM START DATE
APPLICATION MUST BE COMPLETED BY
January 15 October 15
February 15 November 15
March 15 December 15
April 15 January 15
May 15 February 15
June 15 March 15
July 15 April 15
August 15 May 15
September 15 June 15
October 15 July 15
November 15 August 15
December 15 September 15
Complete the application along with the required materials and payment.
Apply online or mail a completed application with payment to:
GLOBAL DANCE EXCHANGE
SYNTHESIS DANCE CENTER
600 PLAYHOUSE ALLEY, SUITE 401
PASADENA, CA 91101
