Wendy is the recipient of two American Dance Festival scholarships. She has choreographed several modern works and teaches several classic modern dances, one choreographed by Charles Weidman, a modern dance pioneer from Lincoln, Nebraska. As a dancer and dance teacher, she uses student performances to encourage self esteem and creativity through movement. The technique class emphasizes discipline and acquisition of skills involving space, time and power. Students experience resilience in their body's movement, and in their own lives.
Negative behaviors diminish as social skills for living are encouraged.
Wendy has a Masters Degree from Southern Connecticut State University. Mary Halverstadt 8014 Tea Garden Rd. Sondra Clifton McSwain, a graduate of San Francisco State University, offers instructions in jazz, African, Caribbean, modern, creative and liturgical dance. Her classes cover elements, history, technique, body awareness and general appreciation of the art of dance. She teaches beginning to advanced students of all ages.