All State Dance Ensemble 2021
We are excited to have All-State Dance Ensemble in person for it’s 3rd consecutive year. Here is what you need to know:
Choreographer: We invited Brooklyn Draper again to work in-person with our dancers this year.
Dates: November 18-20
Location: Taylorsville High School, masks are STRONGLY encouraged.
Registration: We have extended the registration deadline to November 5th. Please audition your dancers by having them perform the audition material prepared by the choreographer and attached in a link below. You will choose who you feel best fits Brooklyn's aesthetic and choreography. Make note of who is capable of learning material quickly as well. This is a very fast paced learning environment.
Please Register your dancers by November 5th.
Don’t have an NHSDA chapter? Start one! It will be required in future ASDE events. Go to www.NHSDA-ndeo.org. All participating dancers will receive 3 points towards their NHSDA.
This is a great opportunity for students to continue to dance, create, perform, and make connections with professional artists and their peers from across the state. We are excited to have Brooklyn partnering with UDEO again this year in support of our secondary school dance artists.
How does it work?
Dance Company directors will hold a small audition from their dance company seniors using footage of a phrase provided by the choreographer. From there, they will choose between 5-10 dancers (depending on the size of your dance company, it can be less than 5), to attend rehearsals for the All-State Dance Ensemble.
Please try to send the National Honor Society for Dance Arts members or at least those who will have their NHSDA points within the academic year.
Send your BEST! Your most TALENTED!
Use these videos to audition your dancers: The first video is a Modern/Contemporary Combo and the second one is a Jazz Combo.
Give priority to NHSDA Seniors and then NHSDA Juniors.
If you have exceptional dancers that are not yet able to be inducted into NHSDA but will be eligible, you can let them join. Sophomores and freshman? Only if they are exceptional and mature enough to work in fast-paced, professional, creative setting, and inducted/eligible for NHSDA.
What does it cost?
Dancers will need to pay $60.00 to attend and their director will register them through the UDEO website. It will be a similar process to registering and paying for Utah High School Dance Festival.
When/Where/What is the schedule?
Rehearsals and performance will take place at Taylorsville High School. A detailed schedule is coming soon.
November 18th
| 3:00-4:00pm | Intros and Warm-Up |
| 4:00-5:30pm | Opening Number |
| 5:30-6:00pm | Dinner Break |
| 6:00-7:45pm | Finale |
| 7:45-8:00pm | Break |
| 8:00-9:00pm | -Work on solos (prompt given by Brooklyn)
-Put dancers into groups and talk about costumes. |
November 19th
*Groups will be determined by Brooklyn at the end of the first day. Each dancer will be in 2 groups. Therefore, each dancer will perform in the opening number, finale, and 2 pieces of choreography.
*Dancers will bring costumes this day for Brooklyn to look at (we will talk about costumes for each group Thursday
*When dancers are not working with Brooklyn, they will be reviewing on their own and with their other groups.
| 8:00-8:30am | Warm-Up |
| 8:30-9:00am | Review Opening Number/Finale |
| 9:00-11:00am | Work with Group 1 |
| 11:00-12:30 | Work with Group 2 |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:30pm | Work with Group 3 |
| 3:30-4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00-6:00pm | Work with Group 4 |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:00-9:00pm | Review everything/run through the show! |
November 20th
*When dancers are not working with Brooklyn, they will be reviewing on their own and with their other groups.
| 8:00-8:30am | Warm-Up |
| 8:30-9:00am | Review Opening Number/Finale |
| 9:00-10:00am | Group 1 |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Group 2 |
| 12:30-1:00pm | Group 3 |
| 1:00-2:00pm | Group 4 |
| 2:00-3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30-5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00-5:30 | Company Warm-up |
| 5:30-6:30 | Dress Rehearsal |
| 7:00pm | Performance! |
Our 2021 Choreographer Brooklyn Draper
Brooklyn Draper is a performer, choreographer, educator, and researcher currently residing in Missoula, MT. She received her MFA from the University of Utah in 2019. In 2012 she received a Post-Graduate degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London, UK and in 2011 she received her BA with a minor in Anthropology. Brooklyn has had the honor to perform In the U.S., China, and the UK and to work with over 20 choreographers including Hagit Yakira, Gary Lambert, Eric Handman, Pamela Geber Handman, and most recently Anouk van Dijk. Companies that Brooklyn has performed with include Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company, Co.da, Porridge for Goldilocks, Triptych Figures, and various project-based works.
Brooklyn’s choreographic work has been shown nationally and internationally through Mudson, WCDC, Artist Interrupted, Beijing Dance Academy (China), Bonnie Bird Theater (U.K.), Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (UT), Flatlands Dance Theater (TX), Utah Metropolitan Ballet, Utah Valley University, and University of Montana. Her most recent works “All Thorns and No Flowers" and "Void and Withered" premiered in Missoula, Montana Fall 2019. In November of 2018, "The Wallflowers" premiered at the Hayes-Christensen Theater (UT). "The Wallflowers" was recently chosen to be shown at the ACDA Northwest Conference in 2019.
Brooklyn was co-director and founder of Salt Lake City-based dance company, Triptych Figures, from 2014-2016, where she regularly choreographed, performed, and taught workshops for the company. Triptych Figures was dedicated to collaboration and activism within the Salt Lake Community. She also co-directed Speakers’ Corner SLC 2015-2017, to provide a space dedicated to the dialogue of the present by bringing citizens, politicians, scientists, activists, and artists together to work on solutions.
While attending the University of Utah, Brooklyn received a Certification as a Laban Movement Analyst through the Integrated Studies program under the mentorship of Peggy Hackney and Janice Meaden. Brooklyn’s most recent research was a study under the mentorship of Tom Welsh, to determine the percentage of modern dance majors who have detectable Leg Length Discrepancies and correlations of self-reported orthopedic complications. Brooklyn was also the recipient of the Sally Fitt Award Spring 2018 from the University of Utah and was also awarded the prestigious University Teaching Assistantship to design and teach her own course, "Collision Theory: The Essence of Collaboration" for Spring 2019. Brooklyn is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre & Dance at the University of Montana.
