Störling Dance Theater is in residence at The Culture House Academy of the Performing arts.
All Artist Development classes are held at The Culture House's 20,000 square foot facility located in Olathe, Kansas.
Since 1996, The Culture House has been dedicated to providing excellent arts education and creating original works that uplift the individual and benefit the community.
Today, The Culture House serves over 800 students in its schools of Dance, Theater and Music.
Our mission is to “To Transform Communities through Arts and Culture”
Our vision is:
To positively influence communities, locally and nationally, through artistic endeavors and develop intellectual and moral faculties through education.
To educate youth in the performing arts and civic responsibility, equipping them to effectively influence the culture around them for positive change.
Support professional artists in a community of excellence, creating a healthy perspective on life and the arts.
To find out more about The Culture House, contact us at 913-393-3141 or visit us at www.culturehouse.com
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Join the professional instructors and staff of Störling Dance Theater's Artist Development program for nine months of intensive training and become the dancer and artist that is uniquely you.
Störling Dance Theater, the neo-classical dance company best known for its powerful, storytelling productions of the human experience, offers one of the most unique Artist Development Program's in the country.
Through instruction in the foundations of its unique styles in Ballet and Modern dance, Störling Dance Theater's Artist Development Program offers the pre-professional dancer creative insight and technical proficiency second to none.
If you desire to grow as an artist and individual, the Störling Dance Theater Artist Development program is for you.
During this intensive, nine month program you will:
Develop your dancing technique
Develop succeed tools for your life and career
Develop spiritual maturity
Develop physical and mental discipline
Develop a well rounded appreciation of the arts
Through its unique teaching curriculum, students will learn advanced techniques in Ballet and Modern dance as well as Jazz, Tap and Corporeal Mime, the physical theater technique that has shaped the powerful performances of Störling Dance Theater.
In addition to instruction in dance technique, students participate in classroom studies of culturally and spiritually relevant literature, attend arts performances and exhibits throughout the city, engage in discussion groups of modern cultural thought, and learn the significance of Judeo-Christian thought as it relates to the arts as a whole.
What would great training be without great performances? At the heart of Störling Dance Theater's Artist Development program is the uplifting of young artists to create and perform works of art that will encourage and benefit the lives of individuals and communities.
Each student participating in the program will culminate their studies by writing, choreographing, and designing individual works as well as collaborate with other students to create and design an ensemble dance concert performed at the end of the session. This yearend concert offers students a fun and exciting opportunity to put their recent trainingin to practice and present it to the local community.
An Interview with Kathleen Norberg
Recently Christiane Lisabe had the chance to sit down with Artist Development Program alum, Kathleen Norberg to discuss the impact of the ADP program on her life and career.