DANCE (classes and workshops)
Catch Clare Cook at DeLarue Dance Centre's Summer Dance Workshop!
CLARE COOK: DANCE TEACHER
Clare has taught dance for over nine years in various studios, workshops, and school programs in Louisiana and New York City regions. She has worked with children, teens, adults and professional dancers in the areas of modern dance, ballet, jazz dance, dance improvisation, and creative movement idioms. In 2010, Clare joined the Louisiana State University Department of Theater faculty as a guest teacher of modern dance, and she continues to choreograph and teach dance workshops regularly in Louisiana. Recently, Clare began working as a dance and movement teaching artist with The Metropolitan Opera Guild and Arts Connection. and prior to this served as the Education Director for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, coordinating the company's in-school education program in public and private schools in the New York City region. Clare's teaching philosophy encourages dancers to push the boundaries between building and executing a natural technical facility and simultaneously developing a personal movement personality and artistry.