{"id":40802227393,"date":"2018-10-29T10:35:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T14:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/?p=40802227393"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T14:37:45","slug":"monmouth-university-students-learn-from-internationally-renowned-dance-troupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/monmouth-university-students-learn-from-internationally-renowned-dance-troupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth University Students Learn from Internationally Renowned Dance Troupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Catapult Shadow Dance Company hosted a masterclass with Monmouth University dance students in Pollak Theatre while in residency developing their new work <em>Angel Heart<\/em>. The dance troupe was founded in 2009, gained widespread renown when it wowed a national television audience with its performance on Season Eight of NBC\u2019s hit competition \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent.\u201d During the masterclass, the students learned about angles, proximity to the lens and foreshortening. They first learned solo shadows and then transformed themselves into frogs, ducks, dogs and bears.\u00a0Professor Ekaterina Bronshteyn was appreciative that her students were able to participate in this unique experiential educational opportunity, \u201cIt was a\u00a0remarkable experience to learn about Catapult\u2019s technical process, collaborate with the staff and create our own show behind the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Catapult Shadow Dance Company hosted a masterclass with Monmouth University dance students in Pollak Theatre while in residency developing their new work Angel Heart. The dance troupe was founded in 2009, gained widespread renown when it wowed a national television audience with its performance on Season Eight of NBC\u2019s hit competition \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":40802227423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802227393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-in-the-community"],"subheadline":"","youtube":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/ThIMG_4640.jpg","gallery":[{"_photo_id":40802227413,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4628.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227411,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4670.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227409,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4662.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227407,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4654.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227405,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227403,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4640.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227401,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4684.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227399,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4682.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227397,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4679.jpg","_youtube":""},{"_photo_id":40802227395,"_photo":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4671.jpg"}],"featured_img":"<img width=\"1400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-1024x439.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-1120x480.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-560x240.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-280x120.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-320x137.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2018\/10\/IMG_4642-1-640x274.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802227393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802227393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802227393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802227421,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802227393\/revisions\/40802227421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802227423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802227393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802227393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802227393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}