Adrienne Hawkins
Bio
Ms. Hawkins holds a BA in Education from Arizona State University and an MFA in Dance from Connecticut College.
Ms Hawkins has been Artistic Director of Impulse Dance Company of Boston, for over thirty-five years. Impulse Dance Co. toured Nationally and Internationally, and opened for Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Al Green. She is also co-artistic director of Bass Line-Motion, a music theater, poetry and dance group Exploring - spirituality, identity & social issues. She opened and ran Impulse Dance ‘the studio’ for ten years. Ms. Hawkins has won numerous choreography awards, she has set choreography on the National
Ballet of Iceland Repertory, Ballet Plus (Denmark), Dance Express (Denmark) Northwest Florida Ballet, Portland Ballet, Rainbow Tribe and over 70 works on Impulse Dance Company. She has choreographed rock musicals, music videos, commercials and industrials. Ms. Hawkins has taught the art form of Jazz dance throughout Europe, Iceland, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and
the Caribbean. Ms. Hawkins has taught at The Harvard summer Dance Program and The American Dance Festival in Connecticut, North Carolina and Japan. She has been a guest Artist at numerous Colleges in the US including Harvard, Mt. Holyoke, UMass Amherst, The Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Connecticut College, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, RIC and the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard to name a few. Ms. Hawkins also performs, does community service on various Board of Directors, such the Boston Dance Alliance, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, The Stand Theater (The McCormick Center for the Arts) and mentors’ dancers in organizing and grant writing.
Class Description
The Art Form of Jazz
This 3-hour jazz workshop begins with technique building and gradually develops into learning to apply your technique to movement to make you a more aware and powerful performer. The first hour is on the floor, mapping the body to find places of
weakness, awaken them to create lines of energy and connecting points of power. The second hour is finding those points to include and define them in your technique, movement and performance skills. The third hour we'll learn moving combinations and choreography to incorporate qualities, power, spatial awareness and performance in the body, using first and
second hour to enhance the Art of Dance and Movement.
