Pones offers programs for all ages, all bodies, and all experience levels. These programs are recommended for everyBODY!
Programs below are available based on your schedule – book 1 session, 2 sessions, or 8+ sessions! Amount of recommended sessions are listed below, but the recommendation is flexible.
Dance 101: Explore Your Expression
Dance 101 is a workshop for everyone – from novice to advanced – and no special shoes are required. Dance 101 teaches the foundations of dance and can be integrated with any theme, curriculum, educational standards, and/or social emotional learning tie-in.
Ideal for kinesthetic learners, this workshop integrates concepts through physical movement, ensuring retention. Through arts integration, this workshop can be aligned and tailored to any grade level and content. Workshops offer students the opportunity to experience grade-appropriate curriculum in a fun, kinesthetic, and engaging way. Students can explore various styles of recreational, cultural, and social dance with this introductory course to the basic terms, steps, and concepts of each style. This workshop familiarizes students with key dance elements while igniting their imagination, and interacting through activities involving critical thinking and movement.
Dance 101 will help students:
- Absorb and retain curriculum content
- Communicate with others
- Gain critical thinking skills
- Participate in collaborative activities
- Foster creative expression
- Build self-confidence and a positive body image
- Discover a fun way to stay healthy with physical fitness
Example: Students could physically experience what it might feel like to become the water cycle and see what evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, infiltration, and collection might look like if it were a dance. Once students feel these movements in their own bodies, they may better understand how the water cycle works and remember this information for years to come.
Example: Students learn the tools of dance including Body, Energy, Space, and Time through interactive activities. Students could then use dance tools to abstract an 8-count and create collaborative choreography. This workshop can be a sample of different dance styles or focus on any style of dance, such as hip hop, ballet, salsa, or African. *Please let us know your integration preferences when ordering this program.
Maximum Audience: 30
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $130/class, $260/2 classes, $390/3 sessions, $520/4 sessions, etc.
Max #Sessions per Day: 5
Arts in Healing Classes
Dance can provide healing mentally and physically for participants. This class works to engage both mind and body and to integrate them into a single form of self-expression. One of the benefits of dancing is an increased sense of vitality—an awakening and renewal of life energy. Participants will experience decreased depression and improved mood while strengthening positive feelings about oneself.
This class is not about dance technique, but rather, improvisation, the mobilization and exchange of energy, self-expression, and the creative process. You will learn in ways that are authentic to how you are feeling and experiencing life, in the context of a supportive environment to release tension and help you become comfortable moving.
Dance is movement, and movement is a process of ongoing change. Moving with your whole body, you learn to both yield and resist, to tune in to strengths and vulnerabilities, to try new qualities of action and behavior to assist in the healing and recovery process.
- Low Impact Class – Come as you are and leave your inhibitions behind during this easy movement class. Feel the music and have fun moving your body from a chair or while standing and executing simple actions. This class will help develop balance, increase flexibility, and improve your memory, mental health, and mood.
- Step it Up – There is no wrong way to move! In this class enjoy exploring how your body works through basic motions and dance. Express yourself creatively to the music while interacting with friends and meeting new people. Each class will draw from a variety of dance disciplines including line dancing, musical theatre, Charleston, jazz and more! This class will help develop balance, increase flexibility, and improve your memory, mental health, and mood
Maximum Group Size: 30
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $130 per session, recommended 3-10 sessions
Max session per day: 3
Dancing On The Globe
Students will learn about different cultures and the dances from those places. They will look at the world in a new way through the lens of dance in cultures from around the globe through original and learned choreography. This interactive and hands-on approach to learning will bolster student’s understanding and retention about different cultures. Learn dances such as the Kakilambe, Salsa, and Bollywood.
Dancing on the Globe will help students:
- Think globally and enhance cultural empathy
- Experience basic to advanced dance choreography
- Discover a fun way to stay healthy with physical fitness Foster creative expression
- Absorb and retain curriculum content
Maximum Audience: 30
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $130/class, $260/2 classes, $390/3 sessions, $520/4 sessions, etc.
Max #Sessions per Day: 5
Dancing Through The Ages
While Dancing through the Ages, students will explore various styles of recreational, cultural, and social dance from 1920s swing, 1950s sock hop, 1970s disco, and 1990s hip hop. Students will learn choreography and make connections from past dance styles to present dance trends.
Dancing through the Ages will help students:
- Learn about historical events in a new and fun way
- Think critically about different perspectives and develop empathy
- Communicate with others
- Build confidence through self expression
- Discover a fun way to stay healthy
NOTE: This workshop can be a survey of different dance styles or focus on any time period or ideas. We recommend 1 dance style per session. Please let us know preference when ordering the program.
Maximum Audience: 30
Length: 60 minutes (3-4 day workshop)
Cost: $130/class, $260/2 classes, $390/3 sessions, $520/4 sessions, etc.
Hip Hop and Collaboration
e use hip hop as a tool to discuss and discover how empowerment and collaboration are valuable parts of being a young person. How do these ideas go together? Hip hop thrives on collaboration and our focus will be on celebrating and uplifting one another.
Hip Hop and Collaboration will help students:
- Empower themselves and others
- Collaborate and communicate with others
- Creatively express themselves
- Build self confidence Discover a fun way to stay healthy
Example: Each week we will focus on building up our peers through dance. We will discuss supporting one another and its importance. Then we will start to build a dance about these compliments. Using the tools of dance and collaborative skills, we will create original choreography as a group.
Maximum Audience: 30
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $130/class, $260/2 classes, $390/3 sessions, $520/4 sessions, etc.
Max #Sessions per Day: 5
Moving with the Movies
udents will learn dances from movies across the globe and through history. Dances include Bollywood dances from Indian movies, modern choreography from Disney musicals, and golden era dancing from old Hollywood. Students will think critically about new perspectives as they experience different dances from film.
Moving with the Movies will help students:
- Think critically about different perspectives and encourage empathy
- Communicate with others
- Express themselves
- Build self confidence
- Discover a fun way to stay healthy
Maximum Audience: 30
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $130/class, $260/2 classes, $390/3 sessions, $520/4 sessions, etc.
Max #Sessions per Day: 5
Music Video Maker
Star in your own Music Video! First learn the basics of dance and vote on a theme and song. Then create a storyboard and film original choreography to be edited into an original music video.
Example: Start by learning the basics of dance and abstracting an 8 count. Then vote on a theme for the music video such as community change, a specific curriculum topic, or spreading joy. Each session participants will create and film original choreography, which will be edited into a music video.
Maximum Audience: 30
Length: 60-120 minutes
Cost: $130 per hour (required 1.5 hours minimum, recommended 2-8 sessions) + $50 video editing fee
Max #Sessions per Day: 5
Arts and Advocacy
Students will use the art of movement to advocate for changes they want to make in their lives and communities. Students are transformed into performance artists through a fun and exciting workshop led by professional dancers. They will engage their creative sides and think critically about issues and topics relevant to their own lives while creating, rehearsing, and performing an original piece all their own.
By the end of the program students will have learned:
- Basic theatre and dance concepts
- Effective communication
- Collaboration
- How to stand up for what they believe in / become an activist
- Catharsis through expressing their beliefs and ownership of their convictions
- A creative modality through which to communicate, different from lecture
Students will perform their work as empowered individuals, and create something completely unique, meaningful, and fun.
Example: A class of eighth grade students voices a list of issues that are significant to them: acceptance, recycling, college, sports, and school uniforms. Collectively, they select ‘sports’ as the topic to focus on for their production. Specifically, they have noticed that extracurricular sports are too expensive to participate in once travel costs, uniforms, equipment, and fees have been calculated. They investigate ideas that will make sports more affordable so that everyone who wants to participate is able to do so. In small groups they utilize provided composition worksheets to guide their examination of how to create positive change in sports. The students are challenged to funnel their discussion into action by creating a piece that uses multiple art forms – theatre, dance, spoken word, visual arts – to express their ideas. Students perform their original work for their peers at the end of the workshop.
Recommended Grades: 6-12
Maximum Audience: 30
Cost: $130/workshop
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