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Elite Performance Training (EPT): DANCE
Elevate skills to acquire artistry, connect with the audience, excel at auditions and competitions, win scholarships, and book professional jobs.
Take your competition piece to the next level.
Develop consistent turn technique.
Learn to audition with confidence.
Achieve ultimate flexibility.
Develop skills to pick up choreography quickly.
Get tools & tips that will make you stand out.
Learn to mimic any style.
Learn to express vulnerability onstage
Learn to connect with your audience.
Learn nutrition for peak performance.
Get strength without bulk.
Remove mental blocks.
Training Techniques
Flexibility & Turns
Flexibility & Turns Technique
Reach your personal flexibility potential. Gain stretch behind the leg to achieve length in leaps and extensions. Acquire skills for consistent turns and multiples on both right and left. Learn to free up mental blocks that can keep dancers from achieving optimal flexibility and technique. Excel at dance etiquette. (Extend: Fouette’s/Foundation Flexibility Breakdown)
Performance & Pick Up Choreography Quick
Performance & Pick Up Choreography
Define and stylize your movements to be a Power Performer. Learn how to bring out genuine emotion and achieve connection with the audience. Hone skills to become a confident, versatile dancer who can perform multiple styles of dance. Become a standout performer, the type that the audience “has to watch!” (Extend: Follow & Freestyle)
Audition Prep
Audition Prep Technique
Learn tricks of the trade to book the job or get the scholarship. Improve freestyle/improvisation skills, learn how to pick up choreography quickly and present yourself in a professional manner. Strategies to deal with the sometimes negative aspects of a highly competitive field. Gain real-world life skills to build confidence in promoting yourself, regardless of what career
you choose. (Extend: Promotional Material/What to Wear/Make Connections)
Cross Training for Dancers
Cross Training for Dancers Technique
Build strength without bulk. Train for lasting endurance and awareness of motion, resistance, & momentum. Learn to be quick, sharp and defined in your movements. Explore benefits of weight resistance training and dancing from your center core. Understand how to knit abs flat to stabilize the spine and help protect against injury. (Extend: Optimal Fitness/Mind Muscle)
Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness Methods
Focus on the overall well-being of a dancer. Master FLiP® Start With Happy positive mindset tools and positive self-image methods. Gain knowledge on how to fuel a dancer’s body. Work on professional/personal goal and life transformation skills to help create happy, healthy and fit dancers. (Extend: Customize Nutrition Targets/12-Week Transformation Course)
Creating Choreography & Improvisation
Creating Choreography & Improvisation Techniques
Improve musicality. Develop story telling to engage the audience. Learn the value of being vulnerable and trusting your instincts when creating movement. Learn staging, formations and levels to create visual interest. Perfect your ability to choreograph many styles while honoring the creation of your own. (Extend: Advanced Teacher Training)
Experience + Reflection = Growth
Pricing: Studios, Companies, Dance Teams
1.5 Hour Intro Session (local studio discount)
20 student minimum
$ 75
per student
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Beyond "Acting"
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Musicality
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Genuine Story Telling
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Express vulnerability
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Connecting to audience
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Team Building
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Improv Techniques
1-Day
5 Hour Session
20 student minimum
$ 375
per student
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Beyond "Acting"
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Musicality
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Genuine Story Telling
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Express vulnerability
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Connection to audience
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Team Building
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Improv Techniques
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Flexibility & Turns
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Level Up Seminar
1.5-Day
7 Hour Session
30 student minimum
$ 499
per student
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Beyond "Acting"
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Musicality
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Genuine Story Telling
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Express vulnerability
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Connection to audience
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Team Building
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Improv Techniques
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Flexibility & Turns
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Pick Up Choreography Quick
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Remove Mental Blocks
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Level Up Seminar
2-Day
10 Hour Session
30 student minimum
$ 699
per student
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Beyond "Acting"
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Musicality
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Genuine Story Telling
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Express vulnerability
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Connection to audience
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Team Building
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Improv Techniques
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Flexibility & Turns
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Pick Up Choreography Quick
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Remove Mental Blocks
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Audition Prep
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Performance Turns
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Goal Setting
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Cross Training
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Level Up Seminar
Examples only. Each workshop is customized. Travel and accommodations may be additional.
Pricing: Individual Accelerated Private Training
Performance • Self Confidence • Flexibility • Turns • Goal Setting
My Passion is to Help You Succeed
Small town, big dreams, big hair, and an unquenchable passion for dance—that was me.
Maybe that’s you, too (minus the big hair).
My passion, determination and skill took me from Bountiful, Utah to dancing on Kids Incorporated and Saved By The Bell; performing live for millions on the Academy Awards; meeting Gene Kelley; working with Paula Abdul; choreographing for Michael Jackson Productions, becoming a University Director; sharing the stage with my idol, Debbie Reynolds; being chosen as a semi-finalist for Oprah’s OWN Show competion (from more than 15,000 entrants); and teaching/performing around the globe.
After 30+ years, my career continues today, as I help dancers like you on your journey. I have experienced hundreds of auditions, both as the performer looking to be hired, and as the director doing the hiring. The knowledge I have gained being on both sides of the table is priceless, and I love sharing what I’ve learned.
Elite Performance Training (EPT) is for you, the dancer who has the desire to do your best and attain brillance doing something you love…DANCE. The true job of a proficient dancer is to embrace the artistry, connect with the audience and make them “feel something.” It’s letting the joy you feel for dance come from your heart and show in your expression every time you move.
Using positive teaching methods, I have established training skills that amplify the “IT” factor and challenge students to excel to their highest potential. The key is well-rounded training that addresses mental preparation, confidence, interpersonal skills, etiquette and professionalism. EPT sessions train the WHOLE dancer. They can help a student go beyond talent/technique to develop the skills needed to pursue and maintain a long-lasting career in dance.
I have a passion for dance that goes beyond words. Whatever your goals, from becoming a power performer to making dance your career, I would love to help you on your journey in the dance world.
It's Possible!
Tamara’s students have:
appeared on So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars
earned scholarships to Broadway Dance Center (NY), The Edge (LA)
earned scholarships to conventions & ballet intensives nationwide
booked professional Broadway shows, TV, film, cruise ships, etc.
secured agents and managers
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