HOWL!: the intensive is a 10-days-long BOOM-POW creative workshop for dancers ages 14-18, offering up-close-and-personal deep-dive training with LOBOS art collective founder and artistic director, erica sobol, and her friends and colleagues from around the world.
spend 10 gorgeous days in sunny los angeles in an intimate and supportive environment with like-minded and talented folks
under the guidance of this exceptional, world-renowned faculty.

the goal of the intensive is to help emerging young artists to develop their voices. we will focus on exploration. we will do this with love.
the focus is NOT on commercial success here. the focus is NOT on learning how to be like anybody else. the focus is NOT on creating a “product.”
the focus, rather, is on acknowledging the power of our unique and radical bodies, cultivating curiosity and making space for joy.
we will allow for the hours to unravel as they do, with plans to improvise, to learn existing phrase work, to create new phrase work,
to engage in discourse, to wonder out loud. (with plans, also, to burn the plan if necessary.).
participants are invited to expand their minds, challenge their bodies, and invest in some time to discover who they are and what they desire.
as well as to connect with others who are on a similar journey.
low stakes AND very important. challenging AND fun. everything all at once.

our very first HOWL! instructors will include (but may not be limited to!)…
tilman o’donnell
(the forsythe company, the goteborg ballet, cullberg ballet)
adi salant
(basheva dance company)
jermaine spivey
(kidd pivot, the forsythe company, cullberg ballet, hofesh company)
and
erica sobol
(founder & director: lobos art collective & howl!: the intensive)

in addition, all participants will have a mentor and a guide in a long-time LOBOS art collective member.

the program will take place july 21 - 30, 2023.

location: Liv’Art Dance Studio.
11044 Weddington Street. North Hollywood, CA 91601

program cost: $2000.

HOWL! is an intimate experience - very limited space available.
apply to participate!

APPLICATIONS OPEN FROM JANUARY 1 - MARCH 31, 2023.
all applicants will be notified no later than MAY 1, 2023.