Karitos 2008 - Dance Faculty

Alyce Roeder: danced with Nashville Ballet for 3 seasons before joining Milwaukee Ballet in 1991 - 2002. She was one of 2 dancers in the United States to be awarded the covenant Solo Seal of the Academy of Royal Dancing. Alyce is currently the director of Dance El Elyon at Elmbrook Church, Brookfield Wisconsin. She’s a teacher, choreographer, national and international movement minister. Alyce’s great joy is teaching others worship through her ballet school “Steps of Grace”.

Advanced Ballet/Praise Class
Alyce will give an intermediate-advance technique class. This is a class for dancers with 4 or more years of formal ballet training. You will experience how to use your training for heavenly glory.

Beginner Ballet
God deserves excellence! Basic ballet technique is a foundational discipline every dancers needs to give God the best. Training also frees the dancer and helps to expand your vocabulary for choreography.

Choreography Clinic– Alyce Roeder & Cory Ratliff & Linda Wade
This is your chance to share your dances with the Faculty. They will share their thought and suggestions. Come ready to dance with CD. First come; First served.

Dancing For An Audience of One
Alyce will discuss the important of leaving the world’s concept of dance and embracing God’s creative plan for this discipline. You will learn how to move from Dancing in the World to Dancing with Jesus.

Processional Rehearsal
Dancers who would like to join us in the closing processional Saturday evening must attend both rehearsals. Ladies come with a modest, full length Praise Garment; complete with leggings and gauchos underskirt. Men, long sleeve shirt, and black pants. Alyce Roeder & Linda Wade facilitators.

 

Mimeistry - Theo and Jolie Williams
As Masters and ordained ministers Theo & Jolie travel worldwide, leading troupes, performing and teaching as far as God calls them.

Theo: (Director of Mimeistry, B.DIAC, B.MA, and Master Mime) Known for his excellence in performance, directing and choreography, Theo has toured in such places as the Bahamas, Hawaii, Europe, Africa and all across the US. Theo has received extensive training in the art of mime, including the world famous Marcel Marceau, who acknowledged Theo as “the Future of Mime”. Theo also has training in Corporeal Mime, Ballet, Jazz, Fencing, Acrobatics, Japanese Swordplay, Drama and Physical Theatre. He grew up in South Africa, and is now studying for his Doctorate in Worship Studies. He is the Executive Director and Principle Teacher of Mimeistry’s School of Ministering Arts in California.

Jolie:(B.MA, M.W.S. and Master of Mime) known for her excellence in choreography, storytelling, and strong performance is an Executive Director of Mimeistry and Principle Teacher at Mimeistry’s School of Ministering Arts. Marcel Marceau, personally invited Jolie to study with him in Paris, France. Jolie from Wisconsin has attended Youth With a Mission's Discipleship Training School (DTS) and assisted many teams in Mexico, Guatemala and the Philippines. 

Through Mimeistry Jolie met her husband Theo and they were married in August 2004.

Mime Basics: A class that works on the foundations that all mimes and movers need to know -- from body posture, to hand designs, to the basic illusions.

Physical Characters: An exploration of body positioning for emotions and characters. Learn how to move in character and create your own. Includes Angels, Demons, and Saints.

Mime and Forms: An alternative mime/dance class which interprets music as it blends the technique of mime and dance in expressive movement. This class will help you to learn to give a clear and precise message to the body of Christ.

Ministry in Movement: What differentiates ministry from entertainment? A class that answers that question and provides Biblical foundations for the mime, dancer or any minister in the arts.

Mime Illusions: A class that does all the “fun” stuff in mime: walks, run, robots, and more. Make the invisible visible.

 

Dance Eternal
Kim Brunner & Linda Wade: teachers, choreographers, and evangelistic ministers.

Kim: Founder of Dance Eternal through Eastbrook Church Milwaukee, WI. She currently teaches ballet at Above the Clouds, Inc and Eastbrook School of Fine Arts in addition to being Dance/Movement Director for Karitos.

Linda: President of inner city arts program “Above the Clouds” in Milwaukee Wisconsin attends Berean Family Worship Center. Her desire is to teach others to apply God’s Word in their Praise Dance as well as give them a strong biblical foundation on worship.

Sculpting A Dance
Learn to take and mold your dance in a way that expresses clearly the visionfrom God. We will choreography dance phrases together.

The Creativity of God
“In the beginning God created…” The arts belong to the LORD, and He is raising an army to retake them. Anointed artists who move in HIS creativity will see the heavenly power of God manifested in their dances.

Processional Rehearsal
Dancers who would like to join us in the closing processional Saturday evening must attend both rehearsals. Ladies come with a modest, full length Praise Garment; complete with leggings and gauchos underskirt. Men, long sleeve shirt, and black pants. Alyce Roeder & Linda Wade facilitators.

Cory Ratliff
Worship leader and movement minister. Assistant Liaison and Creative Production Pastor at Sign of the Dove Church, Waukegan IL. Cory studied music at the University of Illinois where he also took classes in modern and jazz dance. In 2004 he began teaching dance as a part of worship. Pastor Cory has traveled to Eastern Europe where he has had the opportunity to instruct young people in the dance. He is currently the Director of a boy’s movement ministry “Bring It On” which uses dance to encourage young people to come to Christ.

Modern Dance
Discover how to take this non-formal dance style and inspire audiences to ponder your eternal message.
You will be challenged to be passionately expressive from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet.

Taking Your Worship to New Level
When you learn to go deeper in your personal worship time with the Holy Spirit your ministry of dance will be taken to a new level; a supernatural level.

Ed & Cherise Easley
Youth directors at New Restoration Christian Church of Milwaukee. They are the founders of “Urban Praise” that trains youth for street ministry. This high energy form of praise has touched lives regardless of age, race, gender, or denomination. The also teach Christian Stepping and Interpretive Praise.

Urban Praise
Holy and high energy hip hop praise will be shared at a basic level. Expect to learn a dance. Great for youth!

Urban Praise and Beyond
In depth teaching about properly starting and directing an Urban Praise ministry. Emphasis will be made on keeping it “Holy” in movement and music.

Steppin
In Steppin you create the music and praise thru Godly hand clapping, foot stomping, rhythmic making choreography. Scripture and praise chants will be incorporated.

Maura Hoagland
Maura has received extensive ballet and modern training in dance companies of Boston, MA and Louisville, KY. Maura was the founding Coordinator of Dance Immanuel, an interdenominational dance ministry. She emphasizes sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and guides people into freedom in worship, intercession, and prophetic movement.

Dance and Creative Movement as Intercession
We will start with a short teaching on the role of the intercessor and how dance can be incorporated into intercession. Then the larger portion of the class will be devoted to intercessory worship and yielding to the Holy Spirit’s direction.

Discovering YOUR Dance
A series of simple exercises will give you a heightened awareness of movement in order to unlock the vast resources of physical expression inside you. Develop movement vocabulary that goes beyond traditional technique. Recommended for all levels.

The Spontaneous Movement Team
We will explore exercises that will develop other-focused thinking and group improvisation skills necessary to allow the Lord to minister prophetically through us as a team.

Using Props To Enlarge Your Territory
Come and explore the myriad possibilities props provide to those wishing to express themselves physically and prophetically. Time will be set aside to learn some flag technique. Please bring any props with you to this “hands-on” class.