Classes and Education


Company Classes
June 3 through August 5, 2010 in Tremont
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Antaeus Dance’s company classes are open to the public and offer instruction in modern dance technique for intermediate to advanced movers. Classes are held in the company’s third floor studio in Pilgrim Congregational Church. Free parking is available in the church lot on West 14th Street.

Classes are taught by Artistic/Executive Director, Joan Meggitt.

Meggitt’s training has been devoted to the modern dance technique of Erick Hawkins, which she has studied under numerous company members, most notably Kelly Holt, James Reedy, Cynthia Reynolds, and Gloria McLean. The modern dance technique of Erick Hawkins integrates strength and vulnerability, cultivates grounded elegance, and embraces dynamic subtlety. Classes utilize Hawkins’ principles, including his innovative relationship to time, through athletic phrases that develop out of concise floor and center work. Meggitt characterizes the practice as “living out loud by dancing from within!”

General: $10 per class
Students/Professionals: $5
No registration fee. Walk-ins welcome.
Photograph © Marty Horvath


Allegheny Summer Dance Intensive
August 9-20, 2010 in Meadville, PA

The Summer Dance Intensive is an in-depth dance experience offering two classes daily in modern dance technique, study in improvisation and composition and a performance seminar focusing on embodiment and presence. Classes in yoga and a massage seminar are also offered. Students are provided with performance opportunities in Antaeus Dance in Concert, the Company’s annual fall concert at Allegheny College. Joan Meggitt has been directing the ASDI since 1999 and will co-teach the Intensive with current Antaeus Dancers Heather Koniz and Sherri Mills and former Company member Carla Monzo.

To register by phone, or to request additional information, please contact the Allegheny College Dance Program at (814) 332 – 2813.
Photograph © John Seyfried