Youth Dance Intensive with DancEast Company
June 3 - 7 • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM • $400
for dancers ages 10 - 15
Learn from the professional dancers of DancEast Company during this rigorous week of Ballet and Modern technique plus Contemporary composition and improvisation. Be part of creating and performing an original piece at the end of the week.
Intensive Instructors
Marcela De La Vega Luna, originally from Mexico City, began her career as a professional dancer in 1996, dancing with Danza Conteporanea XXI and Púrpura Danza-Teatro. By 1999, Marcela became a member of “Escueadron Jitomate Bola” theatrical, comedic, circus troupe under the direction of Anatoli Lokachtchouk, in Mexico. She went on to perform the role of “Future” as a dancer in “Zumanity” by Cirque Du Soleil in Las Vegas. She added to her experience by becoming a Pilates instructor in 2007 and a Reiki Master in 2014.
Sandy Perez started out dancing in an afterschool program and has since explored any form of movement available to her, from studio training in Hip Hop, Salsa, and Bachata to cultural dances like Huapango, Zapateado, Hula, Bhangra, Malaysian folk dance, Tinikling, Stepping and Chinese traditional dance. Blending all of these relationships in her body, she turned to contemporary dance just two years ago to utilize its freedom and abstraction to tell underrepresented stories through her work.
Kaylee Lane is a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She has been dancing for 23 years — training in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, modern, hip hop, and more— and she is in her second year of teaching. Kaylee received her B.A. in Dance from Western Kentucky University and now is a member of DancEast Company. She also frequently dances with Found Movement Group. Kaylee’s choreography has been showcased in Nashville’s Kindling Arts Festival, for the TN Arts Commission, and by DancEast Company.
Lily Sekeres began her dance training with DancEast at age 4. Her expertise spans genres - from Ballet to Jazz, Contemporary to Tap, Modern to Acrobatics. As a teen, she participated in multiple intensives, including Perry-Mansfield, New Dialect, and Nashville’s Metro Parks Dance Division. She took advantage of opportunities to expand her learning by taking open classes at Middle Tennessee State University and Western Kentucky University, and she co-choreographed and performed an original work at the Going Dutch Festival in Elgin, IL. She has been a member of DancEast Company since its founding in 2022.
