Bez Arts Mentorship Courses

Join us for a course or two—most classes will be offered in the daytimes. Keep any eye on our constantly evolving schedule to get in on whatever we are serving up each semester. Students are required to have an intermediate level of training in their chosen area of the arts.

Mentorship Courses September-April

Are you wanting to pursue music or dance as your main thing, but don’t have the tools you need to get you there? Bez Mentorship is offering key courses to fill the gaps in your arts professional training. Take one or several as it fits your needs—we’ll help you customize a schedule that works for you. If you are interested in the program, get in touch with us HERE!

MONDAY
12:30-2:00PM - DANCE: Contemporary with Sarah Cortes
2:00-3:30PM - DANCE: Ballet with Amy Hamilton

TUESDAY
12:30-2:00 - DANCE: Guest Instructor (Check with us for this schedule)
2:00-3:30PM - DANCE: Jazz Tech with Amy Hamilton

WEDNESDAY
12:00-2:00PM - DANCE: Contemporary with Joanna Anderson
2:00-3:00PM - DANCE: Stretch & Strength with Joanna Anderson

THURSDAY
10:30AM-12:30PM - DANCE: Choreography & Dance Creation with Sandy Rosen

Course Descriptions

*Please note that all mentorship classes are geared towards those who are interested in training in the arts as an important part of their life and future. An intermediate level of previous training is recommended for students embarking on mentorship classes.

Choreography

Learn essential tools and exercises for generating, developing and crafting choreographic work. This class will give you the starting points and walk you through the process towards a single year end piece, with lots of opportunities to create heaps of new material along the way.

Intensives (Guest Instructors)

During this time we're going to have instructors representing different aspects of the arts presenting everything from editing music, to filming your art, to embodied movement, and more. Come join us and learn from our talented instructors!

Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary

Establish your strong foundations in these essential dance forms. Classes will focus on technique, execution, performance and choreography, encouraging dancers to reach for their next levels and strengthen skills already developed. Students require at least 3 years of dance experience in a minimum of 2 forms in order to join this class.

Live and Recorded Audio

Develop your audio skills working with the Bez Midas soundboard and learn all of the essential elements to setup and tech a live performance. You’ll be given practical opportunities to refine your abilities and become a proficient audio technician. You’ll also have the chance to work on your recording skills, understanding what makes a good track and how to craft a great album.

Music Theory & Orchestration

Gain a better understanding of music theory as it relates to your expanding abilities as a musician—for better songwriting, better soloing, better improvisation, better music creation. And as you work with other musicians, learning to find your voice in the mix of other instruments is a crucial skill—the orchestration part of this course give you the tools to understand differing styles of music and what is needed to bring a song alive.

Song Creation & Performance

Songwriting is a pivotal component to define your course as your own artist. Learn the foundations of a good song, experiment with different prompts that will facilitate your creative juices and find out what it takes to craft a song that holds together well and captures the imagination of the listener. The performance portion of this course will give practical tools to reflect on your interaction with an audience and give you the best means to present your music. This will all culminate in a weekly opportunity to perform your own work for an audience each week at Bez’s Open Mic Night.

Learning fro the Pros Prep

Most Friday evenings you will have the opportunity to listen to the live performance of professional musicians as they perform in the Bez space, so this class will be a bit of a primer before those performances, to give you the insights into various performers and what makes their performance and their music “work”. You will be given questions and observations of what makes this particular artist tick and you’ll reflect on how they engage with the audience, craft killer songs, orchestrate the presentation of those songs.

Audio Apprenticeship

Get some “on the job” training as our head technician sets up for a live professional concert. Learn how to manage instruments and vocals and sound system dynamics to ensure the best sound for a performance. From the simplest skills (like rolling cords and setting up speakers) to the finer details of dealing with sound balance and problem-solving challenging mixes.

Student Pieces

A couple of years ago, since our students weren’t able to perform their final show (due to COVID-19), we sent them out on a mission to create their own videos of their dance or music projects. Here are some of the samples of those projects: