Ursa Major
An Academy From T. Lang Dance
Mission
School of T. Lang Dance is a movement school for youth ages 13–18. Inspired by the trailblazing choreographic and teaching practices of T. Lang Dance, the school extends the company’s devotion to movement as a force of memory, imagination, and transformation.
At URSA MAJOR, students are not shaped to fit existing systems. They are invited to learn how to perform and choreograph entirely new worlds.
Vision
Ursa Major, an academy from T. Lang Dance, is a conservatory-style training ground for young artists, built around concentrated Signature Labs led directly under the artistic direction of T. Lang. Students train across four disciplines, Improvisation, Choreographic Process, Movement & Technology, and Ancestral Soul Movement, developing technical skill, creative voice, and the discipline to think and create as real artists. This is not recreation. It is serious training for young people building a life in this work.
Constellation Tracks
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Explore dance as invention, research, and storytelling with our dance improvisation class.
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Learn to choreograph with your body and with creative emergent technology with our choreographic process class.
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Hone your performance technique, endurance, kinesthetic form, and presence with our ancestral soul contemporary class
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Explore what it means to become adance major to dance company member to an embodied knowledge design director in our junior repertory company class. Here is where our students learn, perform choreographic works, build portfolios for their liberal art college or trade trade admissions, and learn new sustainability practices that ensures their dance making thrives.