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Jubilate
Presents
"A Call For the Nations"
Jubilate Worship Dance Conference 2012
Jubilate Worship Dance Conference
"Praise His Name with dancing..." Ps. 149:3
2012 "A Call For the Nations"
IMAGINE!
Peoples of all nations worshipping our Lord, dancing together, sharing their love and devotion of Jesus Christ with each other - as one Body living out the Kingdom of God on earth!! This is the inspiring Vision for 2012 JWDC!I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.
For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth. Ps. 57-9-11
All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.
Ps. 22:27-28
Come and experience this 2 day
Jubilate Worship Dance Conference!
-Many participants come early to the Friday day instructional sessions, but the official conference opening event happens with a participant worship dance concert Friday evening, free and open to the public. Conference attendees must sign up in advance to participate.-Students will receive dance technique, meaningful worship dance sessions, and experience opportunities to explore worshiping with streamers, tambourines, flags and silks. -Dynamic teaching sessions offer indepth study on relevent current information for furthering your dance ministry; from a serious examination of praise garments, to an understanding about the qualities of good leadership, to how to make a difference with your dance, to a serious look at how dance ministers on the mission field! -AND, for the first time at Jubilate Worship Dance Conference, you will have an opportunity to explore dance, worship and ministry from other countries! There will be sessions led by faculty members selected for their knowledge of the culture and dance of other countries. They will not only teach a cultural dance but also offer relevent information about how Christianity and mission work have influenced their people groups! -Then we will join together in a culminating dancing worship event, open to the public, celebrating through multi-culture worship dance. Session Descriptions
"Technique
"Basic Dance"
Lindy Bravo teaches basic dance elements in a worshipful presentation using the natural movement technique called harmonics which gently warms up the very beginner worship dancers.
"Ballet" - Beginner, Beginner-Intermediate, and Intermediate-Advance [Judy Gardo, Denise Ellison)
"Modern Dance" - Beginner. Intermediate-Advance (Ronya-Lee Anderson-Thompson)
Worship Sessions - All Levels
"Worship Dances" of "Worship Repertoire" - Beginner, Intermediate, Advance (Various Faculty)
Repertoire refers to a dance piece. For the upcoming conference, various faculty present choreography in specific sessions which can be adapted for your own use in dance ministry.
"Silks and Flags" (Will offer a beginner level and advance level)
Jean Mabry teaches the many ways to billow silks plus many different choreographic ideas for the use of silks and flags in worship pieces plus the significance of the colors. Jean also designs silks and we hope to have a session with her learning the dyeing techniques she uses. Dancing silks are so gentle and graceful that they have been a bridge into many churches that have been closed to dance and movement. They are very easy to use and can easily be danced with by children and grandmothers alike. The wind of the Spirit is felt as they silks dance in various rhythms and movements. As they slip into a canopy, many people feel led to lay down under them and allow the billows to wash over them. There is a sense of entering into the Bridal Chuppah (canopy). His banner over me is love. (Song of Songs)
"Dancing into Your Healing" -
God wants a relationship with us and desires us to be complete healed of all that is the way of that relationship. Dance in worship is more than just the expression our relationship with the Lord. It can be a way of connecting to the healing Spirit of God. (Lindy Bravo)
"Moving Prayer Meditations"
This session offers an approach to enter into deep prayer and meditation through a series of dancing prayers based on scripture with two or three worship movement phrases incorporated into each meditation. Each prayer has a theme focus - such as "Thanksgiving", "Praise", "Intercession", "Worship", "Surrender", and "Unity" with an overall guiding purpose of lifting up the name of our Lord. (Denise Elision)
"Dancing Prophets"
This session is half teaching and half movement. Discover the rich material for your worship dance through the movement the prophets used to speak God's words! (Ronya-Lee Anderson Thompson)
"Instruments of Praise" (Streamers/Tambourines)
Looking for new and fresh ideas for using "instruments of praise?" Understand the significance of these instruments. And gain more efficiency in helping others praise the Lord with them. (Pat Robison)
"Designing Worship Flags"
Have you ever had a visual in your mind for a flag or banner and never took time to explore it? Now is your chance to develop it. (Ellen Cureton)
"Choreography"
Two choreography classes will be offered. Level 1 will discuss different approaches used to develop worship dance and how to implement these techniques. A handout with all basic choreographic elements will be provided and demonstrations will be offered for those who need it. Basic choreographic issues such as choreography structure and how to use the music and lyrics will be discussed. Level 2 will deal with developing a worship dance vocabulary and how to use different dance techniques in worship. Different choreographic patterns and ideas for worship, liturgical and praise dance will be discussed. The instructor will also provide choreography help for individual participants if there is time. (Domini Boling and other faculty TBA)
American Dance in Worship
"Hip Hop" (Alli Rogosich)
Two levels will be offered to contemporary Christian music. Beginner, Intermediate-Advance
Alli Rogosich teaches modest moves to popular Christian wrap.
"Clogging" (Belinda McFerren)
This style of dance can be worship to contemporary Christian music. Come experience lots of fun. Clogging shoes are recommended or hard sole shoes. (Belinda McFerren)
International Cultural Worship Dance
"West African" (Ronya-Lee Anderson)
This class will be offered in two levels if there is enough people of different levels are interested.
"Israeli - Messianic" (Linda Liegel)
This class will be offered in two levels. The beginners will learn dances which include different Israeli folk dances from different places in the world, with African, Morrocan, Latin, and Greek influences. "Jewish people live around the earth and according to where they live the sounds and styles of dance will vary." The advance dance taught in the Intermediate-advance session is Atah Belibe, known as the generations dance, done in Arabic, Spanish and Hebrew, three cultures, three singers and one dance. Linda's knowledge and history of the Jewish people, the first Christians, makes these sessions important for all praise dancers!
"Roma Gypsy Dance" (Alicia Jones) Alicia, fresh back from one of her many trips to the Ukraine, (Where she is establishing a kindergarten for the Roma Gypsies.) teaches the fast pace Roma Gypsy dance mostly danced by men. This will be an exuberating class. After she shares the culture of these Gypsies you may leave this session sharing a burning heart with Alicia for this impoverished people group!
"Hispanic" (Carmen Del Castillo) This Hispanic worship piece is called, “Cristo es mi Roca” (“Christ is my Rock”). The music was composed by Carmen's pastor's wife. It uses tambourines. The tambourine is used frequently in the Hispanic ministry "because the Bible refers to it many times as an instrument of worship, celebration, and war." We plan to incorporate some of this dance into the Saturday worship celebration.
"Indian" (India)(TBA)
"Hawaiian" (Eagle Debbie Goggins) People who have witness the Hawaiian dance in worship describe it as "really beautiful."While you learn the Hawaiian dance, Debbie will share with you the struggle of the Hawaiian people to keep their culture alive and how Christianity has brought the western culture into their worship.
"Irish" (TBA)
"Chinese" (TBA)
"Native American" (TBA)
"European Folk Dances" (TBA)
Teachings
"Praise Garments" (Eagle Regina Stevens)
There is much more to using garments during worship than putting on something that feels good or looks beautiful. Besides the modesty issue, learn how to best use the worship and praise garments, the meaning of different aspects of the garments, how color texture and much more is relevant to what you are conveying in your dance.
"Dance and Missions" (Lindy Bravo)
Dance can be choreographed to make a strong impact to many cultures. But many cultures have a spiritual dancing background which must be considered. The meaning of movement and gestures have different meanings according to the culture.
"Spirit of Leadership" (Domini)
Leadership workshops typically do not include one essential ingredient according to Dr. Myles Munroe, author of The Spirit of Leadership: Cultivating the Attitudes that Influence Human Action. Looking at leaders from the Bible. Domini Boling will share with you the secrets in this book about the necessity of having the "spirit of leadership" when leading your dance ministry.
"Dancing for the World" (Ronya-Lee Anderson Thompson)
Do you want to make a difference with your dance? This is a new teaching Ronya has developed and taught this past years at other conferences.
Conference Instructors
Ronya-Lee LaVaune Anderson Thompson holds a MDiv degree from Duke Divinity School and a B.A. in Dance and English/Literature from the University of Maryland. Ronya-Lee is also Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Dancing by the Power Ministries, a non-profit organization that seeks to transform the lives of young people through performing arts ministry, namely dance. She has taught, studied and engaged in sacred dance for the past 14 years, and travels throughout the United States leading workshops on sacred dance, teaching on both the physical and spiritual levels. As director of Dancing by the Power Ministries she has recently begun an annual worship dance conference in the Washington DC. In the summer of 2006 she was a guest artist with Dance for All youth company in Capetown, South Africa. While there she also served as interim youth pastor at Woodstock Methodist Church. She has also toured both nationally and internationally as a member of the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble.. Additionally, Ronya-Lee has worked as a member of Too Near the Edge, a performing arts company, in which she toured in “Night of Renewal,” dancing, singing and acting. Ronya-Lee's teaching experience includes modern, tap, jazz, ballet, and hip hop. Ronya-Lee gives all glory and honor to the Most High God who has ordered her steps and loved her unconditionally since the moment of conception.
Lindy Bravo trained at London College of Dance and Drama and was a principal of a dance school in England for many years. She is a qualified teacher of the Royal Academy of Dancing. The Lord has now called her and her husband, Danny, to lead Wheresoever World Ministries which uses the arts to minister God's saving, healing, delivering grace to individuals and groups. From Iceland to Indonesia, America to Africa, and Finland to Ecuador, she loves to see Jesus' name lifter high and God's blessings poured out on His people.
Jean Mabry has been teaching praise dance for the past 25 years to adults and children. Her love for international folk dancing and worship dance has resulted in several worship dance teams in Tennessee and surrounding states as well as an Israeli and international praise dance team called Benote Tzion (Daughters of Zion). In 2004 the Bezalel School of International dance was formed. In 1991, God began a new work through Benote Tzion using silk banners. The silk techniques passed along to many Jubilate Conference attendees came from Benote Tzion! Jean has written a small booklet on "Dancing Silks," their beginning history, instructions for completing the moves and photos of the movements. The booklet will soon be available at the Bezalel School website, www.bezalelschool.org. Jean also taught herself to dye silks and teaches this art around the world. She says, "When you make your own flag or dancing silk of the vision in your heart, it speaks powerfully in the heavenlies!" Jean splits up the year between two residences, one in Tennessee and the other in Israel. She views worship dance as "a wonderful expression of our heart toward our Creator! When words can't express our heart, then movement can take over and lift our praise higher on wings of the Spirit." Note, Jean will teach two levels for silks. The intermediate-advance level will only be offered to participants who have had a basic level class of working with the silks.
Judy Gardo studied ballet in London at the Kathleen Crofton School of Classical Ballet, in New York at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, the Joffrey Ballet School, and the Ballet Ruse de Monte Carlo. She has 27 years of teaching and choreography experience and helped start the worship dance classes with Mrs. Domini which became the Jubilate School of the Arts. She also has a BA degree in Dance from Meredith College. She presently teaches ballet to all ages in local dance studios. During the Jubilate Worship Dance Conference, when she is not teaching some of the ballet sessions, she is working behind the scenes in technical preparations for the concert and the worship event.
Denise Ellison Denise Ellison is a North Carolina School of the Arts graduate and a former principal dancer for Ballet Kloss in Philadelphia. Denise has taught ballet to children and adults during the past 30 years and has been involved in Dance Ministry over 20 years. She was the assistant director to Jubilate’s outreach ministry, DanceReach. During that time she produced many choreographic pieces with which the dancers ministered in various settings, including youth rally concerts and nursing homes. More recently her interests and accomplishments have included spreading the Gospel through workshops with a focus on prayer and dance videos online. During the fall of 2008, Denise designed and partnered with a team in conducting worship workshops in Cuba with Wheresoever Ministries headed up by Lindy and Danny Bravo. She is a frequent instructor with JWDC. This past year she has increased her work with Wheresoever Ministries and is teaching in the Triangle Region.
Alli Rogosich (Hip Hop) has been dancing for 13 years not counting her years of twirling around her living room as a little girl. What began as a simple invitation to join her church's dance ministry at Crossroads Fellowship, developed into a passion that led her to pursue classes at Meredith College in ballet, modern and hip-hop. In 2002, she joined a hip hop dance team with GX International (a division of Youth with a Mission). She traveled and toured internationally with GX for 3 years, using relevant hip hop as a platform to share the Gospel with thousands of young people around the world. Upon returning to Raleigh, NC in 2006, she taught hip hop locally at Taylor Academy of Dance in Wake Forest, NC and also at Clubs in the City, an inner city youth ministry. Alli has a passion for incorporating dance, particularly hip-hop, with the Gospel as an outreach, as well as using dance as a means of worship. She has been married for 11 years to a wonderful and supportive husband and has 2 amazing young boys.
Linda Liegel (Israeli/Messianic) is the former leader of Yeladim Shel Yeshua, (Children for Salvation) at Beth Hallel in Roswell, Ga. She teaches Israeli Messianic dance classes and heads up her own group, Simcha Hallel. Simcha Hallel ministers at numerous outreaches with Jubilate Ministries and at other local events. Her creativity and knowledge of Messianic Dance render her a dynamic instructor and an authority in this dance style.
Alicia Jones (Roma Gypsy Dance) is a former student of Jubilate School of the Arts and former member of the Jubilate Dance ministries youth company. She now holds a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and is a MDiv student at Southeastern Baptist Seminary. Having been on as many short-term mission trips she has been able to fit in between school semesters, Alicia is now on track to go full time as a missionary in the next year. She is currently laying the ground work to open a kindergarten for the Roma gypsies in the Ukraine! She continues from time to time to minister through dance at her local church, Fairview Baptist in Apex, NC.
Debbie Goggins (Hawaiian): Deborahline Jay Healani Whitford-Poaha-Goggins (Debbie) was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and learned to dance hula when she was a young girl. In her early twenties she recalls asking the Lord to turn the talent He gave her around to be used for His glory. Although God opened the doors for her to dance in Hawaii, California, Florida, and North Carolina, it wasn’t until December 2003 that she truly discovered her passion to dance for the Lord. Since then she has ministered through dance as a guest instructor and dancer in Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and Texas at conferences, for churches, weddings, retreats, and in assisted living facilities, as well as in her local community. In 2007, Debbie received her dance ministry license with Eagles International Training Institute (EITI) with Apostle Pamela Hardy and was ordained through the International Covenant Connect in 2010. She serves as an instructor with the The Eagles Network in NC under Eagle Ruby Timberlake and Pastor Sumaya White. Debbie is a retired Air Force Reserve veteran and resides in New Bern, NC with her husband, a retired Air Force active duty retiree. They are expecting a Valentines grand child on February 14th 2012! Debbie says her purpose for dancing is, "for the Lord is to see many lost and hurting souls set free and delivered from the bondage of Satan as John 8:36 states, 'If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.'
Belinda McFerren (Clogging): Belinda has been dancing all of her life, but her favorite types of dance are praise/liturgical dance and clogging. When she was a student at Appalachian State University, she danced on the ASU Clogging Team and was a Tweetsie Railroad clogger/dancer during the summers. She has taught clogging for over 15 years and is a Nationally Certified Clogging Instructor. She currently teaches praise dance at her church, Horne Memorial UMC. Mrs. McFerren enjoys working with the Head Start program as a mental health consultant.
Carmen Del Castillo (Hispanic): Carmen feels dance is her passion and views worshipping God through dance not only as her calling but her "reason for being." The following is her testimony. "Three and a half years ago my human mind could not have fit the most remote idea of what God planned to do in my life. I had already spent three years serving God through worship and I thought that is what I would do forever, but God knew my passion for dance, and therefore began to burden my heart about a dance ministry. I began to pray that He would open the doors. Months later, on the occasion of an anniversary of our church, my pastor asked me to choreograph a dance, which that was the first time I led worship through dance. Since then, God has been equipping me for His work... The Holy Spirit has provided all that I have needed to continue this ministry, and I know that He will continue to do so for the glory of His name." Carmen now heads up a dance ministry of 8 dancers over 12 years old and 10 dancers ages 6-11 at Iglesia Nueva Esperanza (New Hope Church) in Raleigh, NC. They use tambourines, flags, ribbons, hoops and improvisation in worship. She remarks, "We seek to be worshippers in spirit and in truth."
Regina Stevenson (Praise Garments) is from North Carolina and has been walking with the Lord for the past 39 years. She is a graduate from Pamela Hardy’s Eagles International Training Institute and has been licensed in dance ministry by Set Free Ministries. Though “dancing in worship of the one true and living God for 6 years,” Regina’s recent dance ministry activities include choreographing for the “Black Nativity, a musical play by Langston Hughes, which was performed in Raleigh, NC during the 2011 Advent season. She also is the founding leader of Titus II Community Dance Ministry and the owner of Anointed Garments RAFS in Raleigh, NC. Through her praise garment business, Regina consults with individual dance ministers to create “the garments of your dream.” She will share her knowledge of the importance of design, color and spiritual message invoked by praise garments in her teaching session. She will also offer her services to the 2012 conference attendees for those who want their own praise garment designed for them! Regina is a deaconess at Baptist Grove Church in Raleigh, NC where she and her husband serve as a team.
Pat Robison (Streamers/Tambourines) comes to us from Westchester County New York where she began and directed for 8 years two after school dance groups with elementary children, "On Bended Knee" and "King's Court Dancers." Her dance training includes two summers with Kathleen Turner where she learned to "break free" in her worship. Since coming to Raleigh in 2006 Pat has started two dance teams that minister to local Nursing Homes, churches and in other outreach venues to the poor and homeless. In 2008, she was privileged to teach a group of Japanese students in Okinawa, Japan on how to minister through worship dance! Pat currently dances with Wheresoever Dancers an outreach of Wheresoever Ministries. Her heart is to see all God's children worship Him with all of their heart, mind,soul and spirit.
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Registration/Fees/What to Bring/Lodging, March 2012, etc.
Fees: Before Feb. 20th - Fri and Sat $65/ Sat only $48
After Feb 20th - Fri and Sat $75 and Sat only $60
Members of host church, White Plains UMC registers free
Friday and Saturday lunch of turkey or ham/cheese on mini-sub or wrap bread-$6
Scholarships: A limited number of partial and full working scholarships are offered. Participants must be able to set up and break down before and after the conference time and be able to move chairs. There may be partial and full scholarships available based on financial need as well. One must apply as soon as possible. Call or email 919-606-7986, or email Jubilateschool@nc.rr.com
How to register: Participants register online. This year the schedule and official sign up for sessions will happen at check in. Sessions which do not have enough interest based on the registration will be dropped from the schedule. Therefore pre-conference registration is very important. Fees can be paid in two methods, mail-in or by paypal. Go to registration page. Note: unregistered guests must have permission to observe sessions. Teachers/dance team leaders will be charged regular fee to observe. No photos or videos are permitted during the sessions to protect minors.
Friday Worship Dance Concert: The Participants' Friday worship concert is the official kick-off of the conference though many people choose to come to the Friday sessions which begin on Friday morning. The concert is open to the public and free of charge. This unique event provides, in one venue, various styles of worship and liturgical dance as a coherent worship experience. The attendees witness a sense of community during this time of sharing; participants have the opportunity to experience the way others minister through movement; and those ministering receive affirmation from other worship participants.
Friday night concert participation: a separate application should be filled out by the leader of the group. The application will be posted on this website.
Youth: There are sessions planned for youth of various dance experience. It is important for these minors to have someone other than conference staff on church campus during the sessions.
What to Bring: Bible, modest dancewear, proper dance shoes, sneakers for hip hop, cover up sweaters and leg warmers or sweats, (building gets cool), water, no colored drinks, worship garments for worship time. Be prepared to slip into street clothes over dancewear when moving around the church building. NO spaghetti strap leotards without cover. Note: In order to protect minors in the class, no photos or video will be allowed during any of the sessions.
Church Location: The conference will be held at White Plains UMC United Methodist Church, 313 Southeast Maynard Road, Cary, NC 27511.
Lodging: Hampton Inn, 202 Asheville Ave., Cary, N.C. 27518. By phone: Tel: 919-859-5559 Special Rate: $69/ night double occupancy: Ask for Jubilate worship Dance Conference group rate. You may book online. Click here: Hampton Inn Use the Group Code: JUB
Special rate available through February 28, 2012 .
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Schedule
2012 Jubilate Worship Dance Conference
"A Call for the Nations"
Friday March 9
Early Check-In - 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Workshop Sessions -10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. & 12:45-3:30 p.m.
Friday Lunch - 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Participants' Friday Worship Dance Concert- 6:45-8:45 p.m.
Saturday March 10
Check-In - 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
Devotions/General Session - 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Workshop Sessions - 9:40 a.m.-12:00 p.m. & 1:00-4:50 p.m.
Saturday Lunch - 12:00-1:00 p.m.
5:15-6:45 p.m. MULTI-CULTURAL/INTERNATIONAL
WORSHIP SERVICE! (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
*Schedule subject to change based on number of pre-registered participants.
