• Jazz dance oriented warm ups
• Jazz dance styles through the 20^th Century
• Building Jazz dance skills and techniques from age 9-10 to high school
• Transitioning from ballet and modern technique to jazz dance techniques
• Choreography sequences – using concert jazz and Broadway music
• Injury prevention

Marilyn has had unusual opportunities in her dance career to learn from jazz dance artists:  Luigi, Frank Hatchet, Gus Giordano, and others.  They noticed her very natural jazz dance technique early on.  She weaves this exposure and appreciation for jazz dance through the decades of the 20^th century into all of her programs.

Her primary interest in these workshops is to help others continue this indigenous American dance heritage.  Marilyn has been teaching ballet, modern and jazz dance for more than 30 years in the Washington DC metropolitan area.  She describes how dance students tend to build jazz dance techniques year by year and provides guidance on making dance developmentally appropriate, challenging and fun.  She emphasizes a strong classical dance (ballet and modern) foundation for jazz dance.