Sunday, July 26, 2020

NDI Live! and Camp TV WNET July 27 - July 31

JULY 27 - 31, 2020
Join our FREE online dance classes this week! All videos will be available on NDI's Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube channel after the video has aired.

Here is the schedule for July 27 through July 31, 2020:
NDI Dance! with Andrea Davey-Gislason and Calia Marshall (All ages)
4 pm EDT • Monday, July 27 on Facebook, Instagramand YouTube
Come discover the young inventors of today and uncover your own inner dance inventor! Led by NDI Teaching Artists Calia Marshall and Andrea Davey-Gislason, you will learn an energetic dance and groove to original music by NDI Musician Todd Keller and NDI Associate Music Director Yakir Ben-Hur. In this class Calia and Andrea will help you put all the choreography together!
DREAM Project@Home (All ages and all abilities)
4 pm EDT • Tuesday, July 28 on Facebook, Instagramand YouTube
To view with closed captioning, please watch on YouTube.
Find your audience! DREAM Project@Home series continues! This class series focuses on introducing the NDI style of dance class to children with a wide variety of abilities. In this 35 minute class, Kay Gayner (NDI Associate Artistic Director), Agnes McConlogue Ferro (Board Certified Pediatric Physical Therapist), Elizabeth Sellner (NDI Teaching Artist), Michelle Phillips (NDI Teaching Artist), and children with and without disabilities from the NDI DREAM community provide strategies for adapting movement for different levels of abilities. Steps are broken down and choreography builds throughout the series culminating in a mini-performance. Musical accompaniment is provided by NDI Musicians Tony Allen, Yakir Ben-Hur, and Micha Gilad.

Join us and share this class with your community for a dance class experience that is one of a kind! Families and children of all ages and with a wide variety of abilities are encouraged to participate! Please note that for this week’s DREAM video, we are re-airing week 4 of the series, featuring choreography to James Brown’s "Superbad."
Warm-Up Wednesdays! (All ages)
8 am EDT • Wednesday, July 29 on Facebook, Instagramand YouTube
Start your morning with an energetic warm-up with NDI Teaching Artist Dufftin Garcia! Join Dufftin for a joyful boost to your week that includes groovy music from NDI Musician Shahar Mintz.
NDI Dance! with Jessi Colón and Jennifer Aks-Neuman (All ages)
4 pm EDT • Wednesday, July 29 on Facebook, Instagramand YouTube
NDI Teaching Artists Jessi Colón and Jennifer Aks-Neuman along with NDI Musician Tim Harrison are leading a joyful dance class series. This fourth and final class of the series will continue its curricular focus celebrating Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul.” Grab your sneakers and join us for 20 minutes of heart-pumping movement!
Body Percussion with Yakir Ben-Hur (All ages)
4 pm EDT • Thursday, July 30 on Facebook, Instagramand YouTube
Join us for another joyful, hands-on exploration of rhythms from the Middle East with NDI Associate Music Director Yakir Ben-Hur. Use your body as a drum to create exciting rhythms and sounds. Find a comfortable seat and get ready to move and groove!
NDI Jams! with Carlos Thomas (All ages)
4 pm EDT • Friday, July 31 on Facebook, Instagramand YouTube
NDI Teaching Artist and longtime STOMP member, Carlos Thomas, will lead us in a rhythmic workshop guaranteed to get your groove on! Carlos will show us how to transform household objects into rhythm instruments. Plus, as an extra special treat, Mr. Thomas will share an original piece of music composed specifically for NDI!
Thank you to this week's video editors, Jennifer Aks-Neuman, Yakir Ben-Hur, Andrea Davey-Gislason, Kay Gayner, Micha Gilad, and Carlos Thomas!

Tune in for updated class schedules on our website, nationaldance.org and on NDI's social media channels through InstagramFacebook, and Twitter.

Check out the previous weeks' videos on NDI's Facebook, Instagram, and YouTubechannel!

Come dance with us!
Camp TV WNET
This summer, look for NDI classes on television through Camp TV, a new one-hour public television series from The WNET Group, bringing the day camp experience to homes nationwide weekdays on public television (check local listings). In the New York metro area, Camp TV airs at 10 a.m. on WLIW21; 11 a.m. on THIRTEEN; and 12 p.m. on NJTV. Episodes are also available to stream at camptv.org.