Dance Instruction at Klein


	DANCE INSTRUCTION AT KLEIN

	CLASSES FOR KIDS
	CLASSES FOR ADULTS
	PRO CLASSES

	TUITION AND FEES
	GENERAL POLICIES
	DRESS CODES
	DAILY SCHEDULE
	SCHOOL CALENDAR

	FOUNDERS
	INSTRUCTORS

	SUMMER SESSION

	KLEIN DANCE, INC.
	811 LAKE AVENUE
	LAKE WORTH, FL 33460
	561-586-1889


	Kathleen Klein has a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership. She is currently the director of the Department of Dance at Palm Beach Atlantic University. She formerly served as the executive director of Klein Dance, Inc., a thriving school for dance, a small alternative performing space and Palm Beach County's professional modern dance company- the Demetrius Klein Dance Company. She has always been active in the actual training of the school's 300 students and is known for her ability to reach her student's highest potential by emphasizing technique, discipline, imagination and accomplishment. Ms. Klein received most of her professional training in the northeastern part of the country with a multitude of various artists in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She was employed by the School of Hartford Ballet in Connecticut while attending a rigorous teacher training program and dancing a demanding performance schedule. Ms. Klein has an extensive background in dance technique, pointe and partnering, ballet theory, kinesiology, dance history, dance theory and most important for her dance education students - dance pedagogy. She take pride in teaching special audiences; physically and emotionally challenged populations who might otherwise never experience the magic of the performing arts.

	A revolutionary in the world of modern dance, Demetrius Klein has made an impact both nationally and internationally as a critically acclaimed dancer and choreographer. With his post-modern creativity and his name sake company, Mr. Klein continues to break new ground, taking audiences on a exciting journey through the world of dance. Since forming The Demetrius Klein Dance Company in 1987, Mr. Klein has produced, been produced and presented a large assortment of movement pieces in many different venues. His work, described by the Village Voice in New York City as, "fully wrought and interpreted, beautifully phrased, precisely weighted and brilliantly executed", has appeared at the Merce Cunningham studio, Mulberry Street Theatre and Performance Space 122 in New York City as well as in the Region Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Mr. Klein has received two choreographic fellowships from the State of Florida, three commissions from the Southern Ballet Theatre in Orlando, Florida, the Hector Ubertalli Award for Artistic Excellence from the Palm Beach County Council for the Arts, a 1995-1997 choreographic fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been named a 1998-1999, Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Respect for Mr. Klein’s work in the dance world has been and is shown through the choreographic commissions he receives from well renowned companies such as, The Southern Ballet Theatre in Orlando, Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Eisenhower Dance Ensemble and Jacob’s Pillow. He has collaborated with Bessie award winning New York choreographer, Ralph Lemon to produce a duet which appeared in the Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancer’s Project (the Ted Shawn Legacy.) This piece of work traveled to forty cities in the United States as well as Russia, Estonia and the Netherlands. It was also introduced into the repertories of the Harid Conservatory, Florida State University, Florida International University and the University of Minnesota. Mr. Klein also collaborated with Gary Lund and Giovanni Luquini on the premiere of Raw Footage, which was commissioned by Tigertail Productions for the 1998 Florida/Brazil Festival. Mr. Klein and his company have worked hard over the past thirteen years to bring new and enthralling movement to the stage. Work such as, The Forgotten Spaces Project and The Earth Studies Project have led the company from Winston-Salem, North Carolina to The Emerson Majestic Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. They have toured to Philadelphia, Washington and New York while continuing to maintain an active performance schedule in Lake Worth, Florida, where they have produced over thirty full concerts in the past five years. Adding to their success, The Demetrius Klein Dance Company recently appeared with Mikhail Baryshnikov and The White Oak Dance Project, in an evening length dance concert, Ocean Dance 2000, in Hollywood, Florida. Demetrius Klein has also premiered two new pieces, Houdini-Memories of a Conjurer and Boys, Men and Elders, an evening length dance based on the ancient and modern male rites of passage. Demetrius is also well known for his innovative teaching techniques, which he shares with dancers from all over the United States. Not only does he teach in the Klein Dance School, but he also travels the nation to give lecture/demonstrations and teach at places such as, the Harvard Summer Dance Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Florida Dance Festival in Miami, Florida, the New Arts Festival in Fort Myers, Florida and at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida.