谭雅/TANYA
苏菲英皇芭蕾舞高级导师
英皇芭蕾舞高级注册教师
10年专业芭蕾舞演员
担任凯勒艺术表演学院主管16年
美国国家舞蹈教育机构专业成员
舞蹈教学硕士学位
在我的芭蕾舞蹈老师教学经验中，中国学生的暑期拥有长达2个月的休息时间，当学生在暑期休息停止芭蕾练习时，往往会让上学期中取得的进展和成就得不到有效的保持，因为肌肉记忆和运动需要以一致和循序渐进的方式发展。缺乏适当的锻炼，会让学生的身体失去了灵活性和力量。最重要的是，长达两个月的休憩，通常让学生会在接下来的学期里花上3到4个月的时间来重新恢复她们的技术、灵活性和肌肉力量，因此也限制了她们新学期的进步。
芭蕾夏令营舞蹈训练为学习芭蕾舞的学生提供了一个独特的机会，让学生可以在空闲的暑期提升和锻炼自己的身体、技术和艺术。所以在美国很多专业芭蕾舞学校都会开展夏季假期舞蹈训练，让她们在下一学期可以更快、更高效地学习与提升。因为在夏季的芭蕾舞蹈训练中，学生们不像日常上课一样，除了应付日常课程外，还需要参与芭蕾舞课程，她们仅仅只需要专注于她们的舞蹈训练，每天参加一定量的芭蕾练习课，舞者的身体可以获得更多灵活性和力量，同时这些特别的课程还允许学生在正确的身体位置和技术上更一致地提醒学生，使他们能够发展肌肉记忆。
有时候，学校的夏令营也会为学生提供一个独特的学习机会，让学生与专业芭蕾舞团和其他芭蕾舞专业学生一同学习，因为除了学校提供的优秀训练课程之外，我们相信让学生接触到来自世界各地的优秀舞蹈老师是非常重要的，接触多样化的教学方法，跟随不同舞蹈背景与经验的老师学习，有助于她们舞蹈发展的多样性、视野开阔性，更加全面地了解国际芭蕾。
所以，苏菲的孩子们让我们一起在苏菲夏令营里提升芭蕾技巧与视野吧！
Why Students Should Attend a Summer Dance Intensive
In my experience as dance teacher, when students don’t take summer dance intensive their training suffers. The developments and accomplishments achieved during the academic year are often not maintained and in some cases even reversed! Muscle memory and movement understanding needs to be developed in a consistent and regular manner. When students take the entire summer off, they don’t make the necessary progress and in some cases lose some of the technical proficiency they had achieved during the year, and their bodies lose flexibility and strength. Attending a summer dance intensive often gives students a boost in their training and body flexibility and strength, so they feel more confident and accomplish in their training the following academic year. Most significantly, students who do not attend summer dance intensive often spend the first three to four months of the following academic year re-building their technique, flexibility and strength thus limiting the rate of their progress.
Summer dance intensives provide a unique opportunity for dance students to work rigorously in developing their bodies, their technique, and their artistry. In a summer dance intensive, students come to class during the day when they are not as tired from their school work and everyday activities and can focus entirely on their dance training. The intensity of attending dance classes everyday and taking a variety of classes each day allows the dancer’s body to gain flexibility and strength. The classes also allow student to be reminded more consistently on the correct body placement and technique allowing them to develop muscle memory. Students often make significant progress during a summer dance intensive that allows them to improve faster during the academic year.
Sufei Art Education is fortunate to offer outstanding professional ballet training through from our international and nationally qualified faculty. In addition to the excellent training we provide, we believe it is important to expose our students to other excellent dance faculty from around the world. It is helpful to students to be exposed to different teaching methods, and to dance teachers from different backgrounds and experiences. This exposure helps them develop versatility. Summer intensives offer a unique opportunity for students to network with ballet companies and other professionals as they develop their careers in dance. When the students of Sufei Art Education demonstrate the quality of our training program, our school can be recognized in other parts of the nation and the world as an excellent place to train.
In conclusion, in addition to improving their technique and artistry, dancers who attend summer dance intensives continue to engage their minds even if not in school. Dance allows them to keep working on memory skills (as they learn different combinations and choreography), visual-body coordination, and also develop mathematical skills as students must identify movement patterns, and musical patterns. All of these have been shown to help in the development of cognitive skills. Finally, attending a summer dance intensive allows the dancer to continue working on discipline, focus and time management skills.
