Workshops

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LIMITED NUMBER OF OPENINGS AVAILABLE!

Praise and Worship Directors: - Receive a 5% tuition discount for each registered participant you bring with you!

Not a teacher or a classically trained dancer, but love to dance for the Lord? Are you a member of a church or ministry dance team, or considering starting one? This year, you can be a part of Ballet Magnificat’s 23rd Annual Summer Dance intensive!

Open to females ages 18 and up, our format provides an opportunity for praise and worship dancers from a wide variety of backgrounds to come together with others to learn, share ideas, and be refreshed in the Lord.

Praise and Worship Directors: Bringing your group? You will receive a 5% tuition discount for each registered student from your dance ministry attending the workshop. (Only one director per group receives discount.)

At Ballet Magnificat! we seek to honor Jesus Christ and make Him known to the widest possible audience through the medium of dance. So how does that happen at our Summer Intensive? We begin each day with praise and worship and an opportunity to hear personal testimonies from Ballet Magnificat! staff and professional company members.

Also, all students (young and old) are assigned to counselor groups. These groups meet for prayer and Bible studies in the evenings. Participants often find that treasured friendships are formed in their small groups as they discuss, learn, worship and dance together.

Creative Worship sessions take the dancer from the classical setting and allow them to use dance and creative talents as a worship tool. Participants are encouraged to use their dancing as an expression of adoration to the Almighty Creator.

Ballet Magnificat! is an inter-denominational ministry. Our members attend a variety of churches including Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, and non-denominational charismatic. It has always been our policy not to encourage one denomination over another, but rather to respect one another's choice of worship and to celebrate our common faith in Christ.

We offer a variety of classes and activities created especially for you.

Examples:

• Praise & Worship Technique Classes – (A) those trained in classical ballet may take regular workshop classes (B) technique classes broken down to a creative movement approach for dancers without classical ballet training
• Technical training for the praise and worship dance group: basics you can take back and use with your group
• Choreography and Rehearsals
• Professionalism in your Dance Ministry Presentations
• Incorporating banners, flags, streamers & tambourines into worship dance
• Variations – dances you can take back and use
• Children and Praise and Worship Dance
• Conditioning
• Tools for Creative Worship Sessions
• Biblical Foundations for Local Dance Ministries with John Vandervelde, Alpha Dancer and Company Minister
• Anatomy, Physiology and Dance Therapy
• Creative and Improvisational Worship
• Special Dinner - hosted by Keith and Kathy Thibodeaux. Guests love this wonderful opportunity to hear Keith and Kathy's vision and pick their brains for help in implementing their individual ministry's vision. We'll take a trip across Jackson to one of their favorite local restaurants for this event.

You will be a part of the awesome evening Bible studies, creative worship sessions with the companies, as well as meet, study, pray, worship and interact with individuals from across America (and the world) as we all come together in Jackson, MS, for this annual workshop.

A COMPANY PERFORMANCE will take place on the first Saturday that you are here. The Alpha and Omega Companies will come together for this performance. 

LOCATION AND HOUSING

• Classes and chapel meetings held at Ballet Magnificat! studios and Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi.

• Belhaven College dormitories reserved for out-of-town teachers who wish to stay on campus.

• Meals served daily by the cafeteria on campus.

• Participants are required to bring bedding, towels, and personal toiletries.

• Coin-operated laundry facilities available in each dorm.

• Prior to the workshop, participants are prayerfully divided into groups.

• Counselors are assigned to each group to provide assistance, moral support, spiritual encouragement and Bible studies.

• Participants choosing to stay off campus are responsible for their own meals and transportation to and from Belhaven College each day. Meals may be purchased at the Belhaven cafeteria for $6.50 per meal and meal cards are available for purchase at the cafeteria. There will also be a charge for the Special Dinner with Keith and Kathy.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE

We provide a shuttle for those on-campus participants coming by plane, train, or bus on arrival and departure days, with greeters assigned to check in each arriving person.

Preferred Arrival and Departure Times:

Arrival Date - July 6

Preferred Arrival Times - Driving: 10pm - 4pm, Flying: 8am - 4 pm

Departure Date - July 14

Preferred Departure Times - Driving: 6am - 10pm, Flying: 6am - 2pm

$50 Registration Fee
	Room and Board	**	Tuition	Total
July 6 - July 14	$542.32	$28	$380	$950.32 plus Reg. Fee
Receive 5% discount if all payments (besides Registration Fee) are made by check or money order.

** Special Dinner with Keith and Kathy Thibodeaux at one of their favorite local restaurants.

Room & Board includes dorm room on Belhaven University campus and all meals except for 3 off-campus meals to be paid for individually by you. 

Off-campus fees:

$50 Registration Fee
	**	Off-campus Tuition	Total
July 6 - July 14	$28	$455	$483 plus Reg. Fee
Receive 5% discount if all payments (besides Registration Fee) are made by check or money order.