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RDA/Southeast is a 501(c)(3) serving pre-professional dance companies. Elevating the future of dance- providing new experiences & perspectives.
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🚨 Registration closes September 4! There’s still time to register for the RDA/Southeast Fall Workshop, but don’t wait—registration closes September 4. 📍 September 12 | Kennesaw State University
🩰 Intermediate & Advanced dancers (ages 11+)
🤍 RDA membership is NOT required. Spend the day training with an outstanding faculty:
✨ Autumn Eckman
✨ McCree O’Kelley
✨ Laura Morton La Russa
✨ Lance Washington Whether you’re looking to challenge yourself, meet dancers from across the Southeast, or experience RDA for the first time, this workshop is for you. 🔗 Register through the link in our bio before September 4! 📸 @abigailphotos_ #RDA #RDAworkshop #SoutheastDance #DanceWorkshop #BalletTraining ContemporaryDance DanceEducation YoungDancers DanceCommunity DanceLife TrainLikeADancer KennesawStateUniversity DanceOpportunity FallWorkshop by @rda_southeast
🍂 Fall training just dropped. One day. Incredible faculty. New connections. Lots of dancing. Whether you’re already part of the RDA family or you’ve been curious about what we’re all about, this is the perfect place to start. Membership is NOT required—just bring your love of dance. ✨ Train with guest faculty 🩰 Intermediate & Advanced levels • Ages 11 and up 🤝 Meet dancers from across the Southeast 🎓 Hosted at Kennesaw State University 📍 September 12 Directors: Bring your dancers and experience RDA/Southeast firsthand. We’d love to welcome you. 🚨 Registration opens TODAY! 🔗 Link in bio. We can’t wait to dance with you this fall. 🍁 #RDASoutheast #DanceTraining #DanceCommunity #RegionalDanceAmerica #DanceWorkshop KennesawState TrainTogether NextStep by @rda_southeast
🌟 Award Scholarship & Recruitment Opportunites to the RDA Community Connect with dancers, families, and dance directors through our RDA’s signature Scholarship & Recruitment Program. Together, we’re creating meaningful connections and expanding opportunities for the next generation of artists. ↓ Swipe to explore the many ways to get involved. Link in bio 🔗 📲 PC: Scott Robbins | Geek with a Lens 💻 Join Our Signature Scholarship & Recruitment Program Regional Dance America’s Online Scholarship & Recruitment Program connects dancers with educational and training opportunities from summer intensives, to year-round training programs, and college & university dance programs. It’s an opportunity to introduce dancers to your organization while supporting their continued growth and artistic journey. PC: Abigail Photos ☀️ Offer Summer Scholarships Provide scholarships to your summer intensive and help dancers discover new training experiences, inspiring faculty, and artistic communities. Every scholarship opens a door to continued learning, exploration, and future connections. 🎓 Support the Next Step Whether you’re a year-round training program or a college/university dance program, recruitment opportunities help dancers explore the many directions available to continue their dance journey. Together, we can help dancers make informed decisions about their future. PC: Linda Yun Photography 🤝 Build Meaningful Connections Attend one or more of RDA’s Regional Festivals to connect with directors, engage with dancers, answer questions, and share what makes your program unique. The Festival experience builds relationships and connects dancers with endless opportunities. PC: Linda Yun Photography 📖 Showcase Your Organization Reserve a Sponsored Artwork Placement in one or more of RDA’s Regional Festival souvenir programs. Share your summer intensive, year-round program, or college/university dance program opportunities with dancers, families, and directors & enhance the RDA Festival experience. Choose the print placements that best fit your organization. ✨ Support. Connect. Inspire. There are many ways to engage with the RDA community—from scholarships by @rda_southeast
Moving into fall 🍂✨ Studios are buzzing, rehearsals are underway, and a new season of dance is in full swing! There’s something special about this time of year — new goals, new work, new opportunities, and so much ahead. At Regional Dance America, we’re excited for all this season will bring and especially excited to share more with you in the weeks ahead. 🤍 Here’s to a fall filled with dancing, creating, learning, and connecting. ✨ 📸 Abigail Photos 🩰 Dancers at RDA/Southeast’s Fall Workshop • September 2026 at Kennesaw State University #RegionalDanceAmerica #RDA #PreProfessionalDance #DanceEducation #DanceCommunity by @rda_southeast
🍂 FALL WORKSHOP FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENT! 🍂 We’re excited to welcome Laura Morton La Russa to the faculty for the 2026 RDA/Southeast Fall Workshop at Kennesaw State University! Originally from Maryville, TN, Laura is an alumna of Appalachian Ballet Company and Van Metre School of Dance and also trained with Houston Ballet’s Academy. Her professional career includes performing with Atlanta Ballet, staibdance, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, and Chicago-based PARA.MAR Dance Theatre. Throughout her career, Laura has performed works by renowned choreographers including Jiří Kylián, Liam Scarlett, George Balanchine, Ana Maria Lucaciu, George Staib, Heath Gill, and Tara Lee. ✨ Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2021 🏆 Three-time RDA National Choreography Award recipient, most recently recognized in 2026 for The Wheel, performed by Appalachian Ballet Company Laura is a dancer, educator, and choreographer who currently teaches ballet and contemporary at Van Metre School of Dance while continuing to perform and create professionally. We can’t wait to have her sharing her artistry with our dancers this fall! ✨ 📍 Kennesaw State University 📅 September 12, 2026 ✨ Intermediate & Advanced Levels 🔗 Registration is open — link in bio! Come dance with us this fall! 🍁 📸 Michell Carr Photography #RDASoutheast #RDAFallWorkshop #RegionalDanceAmerica #DanceWorkshop #KennesawStateUniversity by @rda_southeast
🍂 FALL WORKSHOP FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENT! 🍂 We’re thrilled to welcome Autumn Eckman to the faculty for the 2026 RDA/Southeast Fall Workshop at Kennesaw State University! Classically trained at the Houston Ballet Academy, Autumn went on to an extensive professional career, performing with Giordano Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Luna Negra Dance Theatre, State Street Ballet and more. At Giordano, she also served as Assistant Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer, and Director of Giordano II. Her choreography has been commissioned by companies across the country, including State Street Ballet, DanceWorks Chicago, Visceral Dance Chicago, Chattanooga Ballet, Vitacca Ballet and The Big Muddy Dance Co. Autumn currently serves as Artistic Director of KSU Dance and Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University, and is master faculty for both the American Dance Festival and Regional Dance America. We can’t wait to have her in the studio with our dancers this fall! ✨ 📍 Kennesaw State University 📅 September 12, 2026 ✨ Intermediate & Advanced Levels 🔗 Registration is open — link in bio! Come dance with us this fall! 🍁 📸 Tyler Ogburn Photography #RDASoutheast #RDAFallWorkshop #RegionalDanceAmerica #DanceWorkshop #KennesawStateUniversity by @rda_southeast
🍂 FALL WORKSHOP FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENT! 🍂 We’re excited to welcome McCree O’Kelley to the faculty for the 2026 RDA/Southeast Fall Workshop at Kennesaw State University! McCree is an Associate Professor of Dance at KSU with a professional career that has taken him from Atlanta Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet to the Broadway National Tour of CATS, where he performed as Mr. Mistoffelees. 🐾✨ His choreography has been performed by companies and organizations across the country, including Cincinnati Ballet Trainees, Ballet Spartanburg, Carolina Ballet, Pacific Symphony, Alliance Theatre, and the KSU Dance Company. With pre-professional training from the School of American Ballet and the North Carolina School of the Arts, McCree brings an incredible range of experience to the studio — and we can’t wait for our dancers to learn from him! 📍 Kennesaw State University 📅 September 12, 2026 ✨ Intermediate & Advanced Levels 🔗 Registration is open — link in bio! Come dance with us this fall! 🍁 📸 Michael Hull Photo #RDASoutheast #RDAFallWorkshop #RegionalDanceAmerica #DanceWorkshop #KennesawStateUniversity by @rda_southeast
Festival season is calling… ✨ The countdown to RDA Festival 2027 starts now! Over the next few slides, we’re announcing the dates and locations for all five Regional Dance America Festivals happening across the country. Whether you’re a returning member company or discovering RDA for the first time, each Festival offers an unforgettable week of classes, performances, collaboration, and community! Interested in experiencing Festival before becoming a member? Guest company opportunities are available in every region! Reach out to the regional organization that best fits your company to learn more about attending Festival 2027. Swipe through to see where Festival will take the RDA community in 2027. ➡️ 📸 ARC Youth Dance Company | Linda Yun Photography #RegionalDanceAmerica #RDAFestival #Festival2027 #DanceCommunity ConcertDance DanceEducation 📅 SAVE THE DATE: RDA/PACIFIC FESTIVAL 2027 Festival season will be here before we know it—and we’re already counting down. ✨ Join RDA/Pacific in 2027 for days filled with inspiring classes, incredible performances, meaningful connections, and everything that makes the RDA experience so special. 📍 San Diego, California
🗓 April 22-25, 2027 Thinking about RDA for your company? Guest companies are invited to experience Festival, too! Come see what RDA is all about, connect with our community, and discover what membership can offer your dancers and organization. Interested in attending as a guest company? Send us a DM or contact RDA/Pacific to start the conversation. See you at Festival 2027! 💫 📸 Yuba City Youth Ballet | Linda Yun Photography 📅 SAVE THE DATE: RDA/SOUTHEAST FESTIVAL 2027 We know it’s early... but is it ever too early to start counting down to Festival? ✨ RDA/Southeast Festival 2027 is coming to Montgomery, Alabama! 🗓 April 29-May 1, 2027
📍 Montgomery, Alabama Another year of dancing together, learning from incredible faculty, taking the stage, cheering each other on, and making the kind of connections that make Festival feel like so much more than a few days on the calendar. If your company has been wondering what RDA is all about, come experience it with us! We welcome prospective member c by @rda_southeast
✨ Please join us in welcoming Ballet Pensacola of Pensacola, Florida, to RDA/Southeast! Founded in 1978, Ballet Pensacola is home to both a professional company and a thriving academy serving more than 300 students each season. Through exceptional training, inspiring performances, and meaningful community engagement, Ballet Pensacola is dedicated to enriching the cultural life of its community through the art of dance. Led by Academy Director Debi Janea in collaboration with the Ballet Pensacola artistic leadership team, the organization joined RDA after experiencing firsthand the impact of Festival and recognizing the incredible opportunities it provides for students, families, and dance educators alike. As the only large ballet training organization in their area, Ballet Pensacola is excited to connect its dancers with a broader community of dedicated young artists while giving families the opportunity to build lasting relationships with others who share the same journey. Debi also looks forward to collaborating with fellow directors, educators, and choreographers who are passionate about advancing the art form together. We’re thrilled to officially welcome Ballet Pensacola to the RDA/Southeast community and can’t wait to see all they will bring to our organization. Welcome! 💙 #WelcomeToRDA #RDASoutheast #RegionalDanceAmerica #JoinRDA #DanceCommunity MemberSpotlight ConcertDance by @rda_southeast
🚨 Registration is OPEN for the RDA/Southeast Fall Workshop! 📍 September 12 | Kennesaw State University 🩰 Intermediate & Advanced dancers (ages 11+) 🤍 RDA membership is NOT required. Your next breakthrough could start with one class. ✨ Maybe it’s the correction that finally clicks. Maybe it’s the teacher who inspires you. Maybe it’s the dancer you meet who becomes a lifelong friend. Maybe it’s simply realizing you’re capable of more than you thought. Sometimes growth starts with showing up. Whether you’re part of the RDA family or you’re experiencing RDA for the first time, we’d love to dance with you. 🔗 Register now through the link in our bio. #RDA #RDAworkshop #SoutheastDance #DanceWorkshop #BalletTraining ContemporaryDance DanceEducation YoungDancers DanceCommunity DanceLife TrainLikeADancer KennesawStateUniversity DanceOpportunity FallWorkshop by @rda_southeast
Good things happen when passionate people come together. 💙 Thank you to Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet for hosting the RDA National Board as we spent time continuing our strategic planning work and beginning conversations for our next National Festival! We were also excited to officially welcome our newest National Board members. Fresh perspectives, new ideas, and a shared commitment to our mission make this an exciting time for Regional Dance America! Thank you to every board member—both new and returning—for investing your time, expertise, and leadership into serving our regions and strengthening the future of RDA. We can’t wait to see what’s ahead. ✨ #RegionalDanceAmerica #NationalBoard #StrategicPlanning #LeadershipInDance by @rda_southeast
✨ Welcome to the RDA National Board, Shelley Grames! ✨ Please join us in welcoming Shelley Grames to the Regional Dance America National Board! As the Artistic Director of Atlanta Dance Theatre, Shelley has dedicated her career to inspiring dancers through exceptional training, innovative choreography, and passionate leadership. An award-winning choreographer, Shelley is also an alumna of RDA’s National Choreography Intensive (now the Dance & Choreography Intensive), with works presented at both Regional and National RDA Festivals. A longtime leader within RDA, Shelley continues to serve as National Membership Liaison while also beginning her new role as President of RDA/Southeast. Her dedication to strengthening our membership and fostering meaningful connections across the organization reflects the collaborative spirit of RDA. We are thrilled to welcome Shelley to the National Board and look forward to the vision, experience, and dedication she brings to the future of Regional Dance America. Welcome, Shelley! 💙 #RegionalDanceAmerica #RDANational #WelcomeToTheBoard #DanceLeadership by @rda_southeast

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