For two (2) days only, WESLYN STEPHENS BA, MA Dancer, Educator and Choreographer/ anatomical conversationalist, residing in the USA, will be visiting Saint Lucia to conduct a dance workshop and you’re invited to participate.
She will focus on Contemporary/Jazz Dance for dancers as young as 10 years on WEDNESDAY, 12th July and THURSDAY 13th July, 2017. The days’ sessions will be as follows:
Mornings 10:00 am – 12.30 p.m. – Juniors
Evenings 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – (Advanced) adults.
No previous experience or background needed!
Download your registration by clicking the link below or complete and return your form no later than Tuesday 11th July 2017.
Location: Cultural Development Foundation
Registration Form: WESLYN STEPHEN two day workshop reg. form
About Weslyn Stephen
Weslyn Stephens, is a Dancer, Educator and Choreographer/ anatomical conversationalist, who has spent 24 years exploring the art of dance and the last twelve years creating whimsical recital routines for the enjoyment of her students’ parents. However, she has recently come into her own as a critically engaged, cultural dance artist-activist. As a choreographer, Weslyn is inspired by her many years of classical ballet, jazz and modern dance experience, as well as her St. Lucian/Guyanese cultural heritage. 
Born in St. Lucia to a St. Lucian mother and a Guyanese father, she incorporates Afro- Caribbean rhythms to her movement through her choice of music, extensive use of hip isolations and crouched movements. Ms Stephens holds a Masters of Arts in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the arts, a Bachelors of Arts in Dance and Anthropology from Rutgers State University and a dance teacher certification from the State of New Jersey.
Ms Stephens, who is currently living in East Orange New Jersey and working in Newark New Jersey public schools as a dance teacher, began her dance training at the tender age of eight, at the St. Lucia School of Ballet and Modern Dance, where she spent eight years learning Classical Ballet to Vocational level, and performing in locally produced dance theatricals. 
Upon leaving St. Lucia at age sixteen, she studied at Orange High School in New Jersey where she was first introduced to jazz, tap and hip hop genres of dance and had her first experience as a choreographer. She later continued her ballet studies at Marie Wildey’s School of Dance where she received a full scholarship to study with African American ballet pioneers, the late Elizabeth Hubbard for two years. She then studied at the Dance Theater of Harlem School in NYC and received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Anthropology from Rutgers University in 2015.
It is at Rutgers she honed her craft and found her purpose of mixing her love of dance and choreography with her anthropological studies to create dance works that are not only artistically pleasing, but critically engaging and thought provoking. Using her dance background and her newly found passion for inciting change, Weslyn enrolled in NYU’s Tisch’s School of the Arts, department of Art and Public where she gained her MA in Arts Politics and polished her choreographic skills to create socio-politically engaged art. 
These works include the ongoing choreographic projects Mirror on the Wall—About the Melanin Factor and Paint Me ,both of which cover topics of race, communication, immigration and heritage that affect her black, West Indian body.
Ms Stephens is excited about the future and hopes to continue creating work that is both critically engaging and aesthetically pleasing. She looks forward to finally returning to St. Lucia to work with dancers from her place of birth. She hopes inspire children of St. Lucia to pursue their passion in dance and allow it to create opportunities to travel abroad.