From the Artistic Director: Welcome to the seventh annual National Choreographers Initiative! I am very pleased to be celebrating my 20th year of producing dance with the Irvine Barclay Theatre. And we are honored to be a part of The Barclay’s 20x20x20 celebration season. This project originated with my working with a group of community leaders, the Advisory Committee. We then partnered
Molly Lynch NCI Artistic Director
with Irvine Barclay Theatre, who presents the showing and serves as our fiscal agent, and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts – Dance Department, who provides the studios for rehearsals.
NCI Advisory Committee
Each year four established and emerging choreographers are selected to explore and develop their creative process.
Anne B. Nutt, Chair Bobbi Cox Sophie Cripe Diane Diefenderfer Joanne Keith Molly Lynch Lois Osborne Barbara Roberts Sally Anne Sheridan Barbara Tingley
Sixteen professional dancers, from companies throughout the country, join them to collaborate on these works presented this evening. This year we have added two apprentices, they are UC Irvine students who are experiencing the professional environment and advancing their work as artists. It is exciting to see how far we have reached with the works developed in this creative laboratory. Since 2004, NCI has invited 24 choreographers to each create a new work. Sixteen of those works have been developed further and were performed in the U.S. and abroad. We have involved 65 dancers representing 25 different professional companies
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throughout the U.S. This is a unique opportunity to engage these outstanding artists in the creative process and promote the development of professional dance. I hope that you will join the process through our discussion with the choreographers at the end of the evening.
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“Pieces for Eight” Choreography by
Helen Heineman
Lighting Design
Monique L’Heureux
Music
Dancers
Eric Ewazen, “Sinfonia for Strings”
Adrienne Benz Susan Roemer Emily Tedesco Andrea Vierra
Andrew Brader Pedro Gamino Ben Needham-Wood Thomas Ragland
Irene Liu, understudy
Helen Heineman was a soloist with Nederlands Dans Theatre and the National Ballet of Washington and a principal with the Harkness Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She trained at the School of American Ballet and with Maria Swoboda and Sybil Shearer. After retirement as a dancer, she pursued degrees from Fordham University at Lincoln Center and Yale Law School. Ms. Heineman practiced Corporate Law in New York City for a number of years and recently resumed her work as a choreographer. She has choreographed for the Harkness Ballet, the Boston Ballet’s Choreographers Series, and Richmond Ballet. Her works have been performed at the Joyce and the Miller Theatres by Fugate/ Bahiri Ballet NY. In 2007, three of her ballets were presented at the Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out series and her work will be presented again this coming summer as part of the 2010 Series. In 2008 her work was presented for a week at Joyce SoHo. She has presented work as part of the New Choreographers On Point’s Previews and Ballet Builders programs and for Thang Dao’s Contemporary Dance Festival. She is the artistic director of Viewpointe, a chamber dance group made up of dancers trained in the classical idiom, who also excel at contemporary movement. Over the past few years, Viewpointe has presented performances, showcases and workshops in the New York City area. www.helenheineman.com
“Luminous” Choreography by Lighting Design Music Dancers
Peter Quanz Monique L’Heureux Marjan Mozetich, “Affairs of the Heart” Alexandra Christian Emily Ramirez Maggie Small Kirby Wallis
Christian Broomhall Gregory DeArmond Ted Keener Christopher Stuart
Andrea Yorita, understudy Music available at Amazon.com
*** Intermission ***
Peter Quanz knew he wanted to be a choreographer at age nine. In his first year at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School he was given the opportunity to choreograph for dancers from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company. By clearly defining his need to choreograph at a young age, Peter chose to pursue his creative development and education rather than follow a dancer’s traditional career. He performed with the Stuttgart Ballet, but decided in 2002 to become a free-lance choreographer. Peter has choreographed ballets for some of the world’s leading ballet companies including the Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, the Royal Ballet (Linbury Theatre), National Ballet of Cuba, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada. He has also choreographed for dancers from the Martha Graham Dance Company. Peter is a recipient of the Clifford E. Lee Award, Canada’s national award for young choreographers. He has also been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Chalmers Foundation and the Judy and Henny Jurriens Choreographic Fellowship. www.peterquanz.com
“Series of Unrelated Events” Choreography by Lighting Design Music Dancers
Viktor Kabaniaev Monique L’Heureux Jon Hopkins, excerpts “Insides” Alexandra Christian Emily Ramirez Maggie Small Andrea Vierra Kirby Wallis Andrea Yorita Andrew Brader Christian Broomhall
Viktor Kabaniaev was trained at the famed Vaganova School in St. Petersburg, Russia. During the years following he worked as a principal and soloist dancer in various ballet companies in the former Soviet Union, Germany and United States including the Leningrad State Ballet Theater, Rusian Ballet, Komische Oper Berlin, Dortmund Ballet, Hannover Ballet and Diablo Ballet. Viktor choreographed his first ballet “Transfigured Night” in 1997 for Hannover Ballet Workshop. In July 1997 he was awarded a Special Prize for his second piece “Adagietto” at the 29th Annual Ballet Festival of Japan, held in Tokyo. In 2004 he won the First Laureate for Choreography with his “White Light” at the 3rd International Serge Diaghilev Competition for Choreographers in Gdynia, Poland. In 2005 he received the Grand Prize for his work “Duet” at the 8th Annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival in Palm Desert, CA. And in 2008 he was planed 1st in the 2nd New American Talent/Dance in Austin, Texas. He has created over forty works for ballet companies such as Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Austin, Diablo Ballet, Moving Dance Arts, Smuin Ballet, and others. Since 2005 Viktor has served as the Director of Diablo Ballet Apprentice Program. www.kabaniaev.com
“The Process: Discovery and Integration” Choreography by Lighting Design Music
Ann Marie deAngelo Monique L’Heureux Part 2: Homaii Singers Part 3: Marvin Hamlisch, arranged by David Caldwel Part 1
Ann Marie DeAngelo and Adrienne Benz, Gregory DeArmond, Pedro Gamino, Ted Keener, Irene Liu, Ben Needham-Wood, Thomas Ragland, Susan Roemer, Christopher Stuart, Emily Tedesco Part 2
Adrienne Benz and Thomas Ragland Part 3
Full cast ******* Followed by a discussion with Molly Lynch, Ann Marie deAngelo, Helen Heineman, Viktor Kabaniaev, Peter Quanz Ann Marie DeAngelo, former principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, was featured in Backstage as a “multiple-career artist”. She founded her own experimental dance troupe called Ballet D’Angelo, was the founding Artistic Director of Ballet de Monterrey, and Associate Director of the Joffrey Ballet. She has also been the producer, director and contributing choreographer of six Gala benefits, raising over $1 Million for Career Transition for Dancers. She is director of the new show Thank You, Gregory - A Tribute to Tap Legends - this fall, 2009. She has created over 40 works. Choreography for ballet companies include the Joffrey Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba; Ohio Ballet; Pittsburgh Ballet Theater; Oregon Ballet Theater; Ballet Pacifica; Nevada Ballet Theater; BalletNY, and ABT Studio Company. She has created works for various universities including Goucher College and Marymount Manhattan College. In 2003, Ms. DeAngelo created a one-act ghost story based on The Bell Witch that was nominated for a “Benois de la Danse” Award and in 2004, a segment was performed at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. She has recently choreographed a musical for the Shanghai Expo 2010. Ms. DeAngelo has taught, for numerous dance companies, universities and summer courses; and continues to teach workshops to non-dancers “Bringing Performance to Life’. Ms. DeAngelo also has a certificate in Arts Administration from New York University. www.annmariedeangelo.com
Artist Biographies Adrienne Benz [Vernon, NJ] studied at ABT’s summer program for four years in NYC. Adrienne just completed her seventh season with BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio under the direction of Gerard Charles. She has danced at the International Contemporary Dance Festival in Poland and most recently danced in the Contemporary Dance Festival in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. She is a 2006 recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Dance as well as one of Dance Magazines “25 to watch” in 2010. This is Adrienne’s fourth summer dancing at NCI. Andrew Brader [New Orleans, LA] started his career at Houston Ballet performing in ballets by Stanton Welch, Ben Stevenson, John Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan, and George Balanchine. Four the past four seasons, Andrew has been dancing with the Los Angeles Ballet, dancing principal roles in Balanchine’s Agon, The Four Tempermants, Serenade; Bourninville’s Napoli Pas de Six, and Lar Lubovich’s The Evangelist. Andrew was a 2009 Lester Horton Award nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male. This is Andrew’s second summer dancing for NCI. He will be joining BalletMet this fall in Columbus, Ohio. Christian Broomhall [Columbus, OH] received classical training from BalletMet in Columbus under the direction of David Nixon and Yoko Ichino. He begain his professional career with BalletMet (1999-2001) and went on to perform with the Northern Ballet Theatre in the U.K. (2001- 2005). Christian returned to dance with BalletMet, and in August of 2008 he joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. This is Christian’s second appearance at NCI. Alexandra Christian [Columbia, SC] attended North Carolina School of the Arts for two years before completing high school at English National Ballet School. Following a year in London, she joined Houston Ballet II for a year and joined Houston Ballet in 2006. She has spent the past three seasons in Las Vegas with Nevada Ballet Theatre under the direction of Bruce Stievel and James Canfield. She has performed a diverse repertoire and roles ranging from character to principal. Alexandra participated in the 2009 National Choreographers Initiative and is honored to return again for this year’s project. She will join Tulsa Ballet this upcoming season.
Gregory DeArmond [Lake Forest, CA] studied dance at Golden State Ballet, Saddleback Dance Center, Ballet Pacifica and The University of California, Irvine. While attending UC Irvine Gregory had the honor of being a William J. Gillespie Scholar in ballet studies and a Gregory Osborne Memorial Scholar. Gregory recently graduated UC Irvine cum laude with a B.A. in Dance and a B.S. in Civil Engineering. Gregory will be joining North Carolina Dance Theatre to begin his first season as a professional dancer. Pedro Gamino [San Francisco, CA] went to NYC after graduation to study with the School of American Ballet. He began his professional career with Smuin Ballet performing ballets by Michael Smuin, Shannon Hurlburt & Amy Seiwert. He then joined Dayton Ballet performing works by Dermot Burke, Steven Mills, and Septime Webre. Pedro just finished his fourth season with American Repertory Ballet performing ballets by Graham Lustig, Susan Shields, Twyla Tharp, Lisa de Ribre, and Val Caniparoli. Mr. Gamino is excited to be making a move onto Atlanta Ballet this season. This is Pedro’s first experience with NCI. Ted Keener [Philadelphia, PA] is thrilled to be making his third appearance as a dancer at NCI! He received his high school diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Dance, and went on to graduate from Indiana University with high distinction in Ballet and Business. He has danced professionally with Richmond Ballet and Sacramento Ballet, and just finished his second season with Smuin Ballet of San Francisco. Ben Needham-Wood [Worcester, MA] is entering his third season with the Louisville Ballet. Since joining the company he has performed principal and featured roles in contemporary works by Adam Hougland, Amy Seiwert, and Helen Pickett, and has also performed works by Bruce Marks, Lila York, Twyla Tharp, and Val Caniparoli, to name a few. In June of 2009, Ben competed in the 10th New York International Ballet Competition where he was invited to perform Paul Taylor’s “Aureole” pas de deux in the Gala performance, receiving a favorable review from the New York Times. Ben has also recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College-Conservatory of Music, earning his BFA in Ballet.
Thomas Ragland [Richmond, VA] began his dance training with Annette Holt and the Parks and Recreation City Dance Program. He then continued his training with the School of Richmond Ballet, eventually attending both the trainee and apprentice programs. Thomas attended the Julliard Summer Intensive and danced with the City Dance Troupe. He enjoys teaching, choreography, and time with his family. Thomas is celebrating his fourth season in the professional company.
Christopher Stuart [Sandy Hook, CT] joined Nashville Ballet in 2002 and became a Principal dancer in 2009. Chris also guests with Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance, Configuration Dance Theatre, and Quixotic Fusion. Mr. Stuart has also choreographed pieces for Nashville Ballet 2, Nashville Ballet, and Quixotic Fusion based out of Kansas City. Most recently, Chris Stuart won the 2010 TN Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, one of the highest honors that a Tennessee artist can receive.
Emily Ramirez [Pasadena, TX] is thrilled to be in her sixth season with BalletMet after dancing with Houston Ballet II and the Sandra Organ Dance Company. Ms. Ramirez studied at Houston’s High School for the Performing Arts. She also received a full scholarship both to Adamson Ballet School and to Houston Ballet, where she choreographed a work on fellow students. Ms. Ramirez was a winner of the 2008 Columbus Choreography project. She participated in the Blue Lake Fine Arts Project this summer and toured through Europe performing the Don Quixote pas de deux. Her favorite roles include the lead woman in Bolero, Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker and a Bride in Dracula.
Emily Tedesco [Vestal, NY] is currently going into her third season with Nevada Ballet Theatre. She has been featured in works collaborating with Cirque du Soleil and by James Canfield, Thaddeus Davis, and George Balanchine. Previously she danced with Oregon Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet II. After training with Suzanne Farrell for several summers Emily was accepted at the School of American Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School. She is excited to be apart of NCI and is looking forward to dancing with Las Vegas’ Phantom of the Opera in a benefit for Family Promise.
Susan Roemer [Milwaukee, WI] began her ballet training at the Academy of Dance Arts. She furthered her studies with the Milwaukee Ballet School, and summer workshops with Boston Ballet School and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center. After joining Milwaukee Ballet II, she went on to dance with Ballet Quad Cities, Augusta Ballet, Northern Plains Ballet and summers with Ballet Montana. Susan will be returning for her fourth season as a member of San Francisco’s Smuin Ballet. Maggie Small [Richmond, VA] began dancing at the School of Richmond Ballet where she rose through the ranks of the school to become a trainee and an apprentice. In her training, Maggie also participated in the Minds in Motion educational program while she was in middle school and attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University from 2004 to 2005. In the summer of 2009, Maggie participated in the National Choreographer’s Initiative for the first time. She has also performed throughout the past year with choreographer Gina Patterson’s company, VOICE Dance, in Austin, Texas. She is now in her fifth season in the Richmond Ballet.
Andrea Kehaulani Vierra [Redding, CT] started her career as a trainee and apprentice with Atlanta Ballet. She is now in her second year as a company member with Nashville Ballet performing in various ballets including leading roles in Paul Vasterling’s Adjustable Wrench and Awaiting Redemption as well as the role of Aurora in Sleeping Beauty’s Rose Adagio. She is a co-creator of “Works In Progress” Choreography Project and also had the opportunity to choreograph for Nashville Ballet’s in studio Emergence performance in fall 2009. This is Andrea’s second appearance at NCI. Kirby Wallis [Huntington Beach, CA] trained with Salwa Rizkalla for ten years, later graduating cum laude with a BFA in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU, she danced principal roles in Balanchine’s Serenade, Valse Fantaisie, and Raymonda Variations. Ms. Wallis then joined Ballet Austin II in the fall of 2006, and became a company member in the fall of 2008. Recently, she has enjoyed dancing in Stephen Mills’ Songs of Innuendo & Bach Project, Nicolo Fonte’s Left Unsaid, and Dominic Walsh’s The Whistling. Ms. Wallis is thrilled to be a part of the NCI process, and looks forward to the performance.
Andie Yorita [apprentice, Irvine, CA] received her classical ballet training at Academy of Dance in Santa Ana, CA from Merle Sepel and Rebecca Tsivkin. In 2008 Andie competed as a finalist in the Genée International Ballet Competition in Toronto, Canada. She has attended the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, in both Orange County and New York, along with the American Academy of Ballet in New York under the direction of Mignon Furman. Andie is currently a student at the University of California, Irvine where she is a member of Donald McKayle’s Etude Ensemble.
Irene Liu [apprentice, Antioch, CA] trained with Viktor Kabaniaev and Tina Kay Bohnstedt at the Diablo Ballet Apprentice Program in Walnut Creek, California. During her training she has performed various works by Mr. Kabaniaev including critically acclaimed “White Light” at Jaime Nichols’ Celebrate Dance Festival in Glendale, CA as well as “Episodes of...” at the West Wave Dance Festival in San Francisco. Liu is currently a student at the University of California Irvine and will be entering as a sophomore this coming fall. She is very happy to be a part of NCI this summer.
Molly Lynch (Artistic Director) is an award-winning choreographer and artistic director, with over 30 years of experience creating, producing, and presenting dance. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine. Ms. Lynch is the Founder and Artistic Director of the National Choreographers Initiative, an internationally-known project that nurtures the development of new choreography. She was the Artistic Director for Ballet Pacifica from 1988-2003. During her tenure, Ms. Lynch established Ballet Pacifica as Orange County’s leading professional dance company and one of the area’s top performing arts organizations. Among her innovative trademark programs was the Pacifica Choreographic Project. Under Ms. Lynch’s direction, the company worked with forty choreographers, premiered more than forty new ballets and restaged some of America’s most beloved classics by George Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Choo San Goh. Ms. Lynch has also choreographed over 30 concert and story ballets, 6 children’s ballets and a full-length production of “The Nutcracker”. Ms. Lynch has recently created new ballets for Sacramento Ballet, Nashville Ballet, BalletMet (Columbus, Ohio), and Dance Collage (Hermosillo, Mexico). She began her dance training with Lila Zali, received a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet School and performed as a soloist and principal dancer with the Louisville Ballet and Ballet Pacifica for over 10 years. As a fine arts major at the University of California, Irvine, she studied with such distinguished figures in dance as Eugene Loring, Antony Tudor and Olga Maynard. Upon receiving her MFA in dance from UCI, she was named Outstanding Graduate Student—the first student from Fine Arts so honored. In 1992, Ms Lynch was given the esteemed Outstanding Alumnus award from UCI and was named one of Orange County Metro Magazine’s “Ten Women Who Make A Difference”. She was also the recipient of the Red Cross Clara Barton Cultural Arts Award and the Boy Scouts of America Women of Excellence award in 1996. She was the recipient of the 2001 Choo San Goh Award for Choreography. In 2007 she received the Outstanding Arts Organization Award for her National Choreographers
Initiative from Arts Orange County. And in April 2008 she was honored with the Irvine Barclay Theatre’s prestigious Jade Award for her extraordinary leadership and creativity.
Monique L’Heureux is an award winning lighting designer who has been working in the field of dance for over two decades. This year, she is celebrating her twelfth collaboration with artistic director, Molly Lynch. Recent projects include: Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet; Ma Cong’s French Twist for Smuin Ballet; Universal Studios Magical Starlight Parade in Osaka, Japan; The Motion Picture and Television Fund event featuring Chita Rivera, Dick van Dyke, Shirley MacLaine, Hugh Jackman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Hudson, and others; Fall for Dance at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (Charles Moulton’s Ball Passing piece and Backhausdance’s eXit ); Molly Lynch’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Robert Sund’s Alice in Wonderland, and blue13’s Khel at the John Anson Ford. Past design projects include Jamie Nichols’ Celebrate Dance, Regional Dance America’s National Festival at the Benedum in Pittsburgh, the summer season at the Hollywood Bowl, and designs for choreographers including Anjani Ambegaokar, Melissa Barak, Gema Sandoval, Edwaard Liang, Hae Kyung Lee, Linda Sohl-Ellison, and Amy Seiwert. She attended Pepperdine University and received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, after which she apprenticed for one year at the Los Angeles Music Center’s Mark Taper Forum. She has taught for the dance departments at Loyola Marymount University and Moorpark College and the theatre department at El Camino College. She is an accomplished artist and photographer whose work has been shown in galleries including the VIVA Gallery, Long Beach Arts Center, City of Brea Gallery, and The Stage Gallery in New York. She is a member of United Scenic Artists. www.artanddesigns.net.
The National Choreographers Initiative Molly Lynch, artistic director would like to thank the following individuals for their support of the 2010 Initiative:
Producer Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts Director Bobbi Cox Frank W. Lynch Choreographer William J. Gillespie Mrs. Richard Steele The Robinson Foundation Michelle RohĂŠ Dancer Sophie and Larry Cripe Janet and Henry Eggers Joanne and Dennis Keith Anne B. Nutt Designer Mrs. Alan V. Andrews Molly Lynch and Alan Andrews Fran Bass Paula Tomei and David Emmes Diane Diefenderfer and David Hanlon The Hoff Foundation Marshall Parker Andrew Rose Sally Anne and Don Sheridan Elizabeth and John Stahr Barbara and Jack Tingley
Dance Contributor Dr. Michael Bear Beverly and David Carmichael Bronwyn Daniels Dr. Burton Karson Kathryn Lynch and Robert McDonnell Janek Schergen and Ed Moen Pat and Carl Neisser Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Osborne
Partner Victoria Barrett Laurie and Bart Brown Gale Edelberg and Robert Butnik Roger du Plessis Mrs. Paul Faranda Roberta Fox Mary and Andrew Franklin Judi Gorski Mike and Valarie Harris James and Carol Hollas Karen and Lorenzo Knapp James Konrad Gillian Finley and Robert Labaree Grace Songolo and Don Laffoon Victoria Leonard Nancy Locke Jack Lyons Debra Maxwell Dale Merrill Mrs. Michael McNalley Betsy Andrews and Alex Moad Margi and John Murray Suzy and Jack Peltason James Penrod Robert Petel Jody and Jack Pike Dr. Janice Gudde Plastino Dolly Platt Nancy Posch Louise Ringwalt Rachel Gamby and Hugh Roberts Cyndi and Dave Runstrom Timothy Saunders Jan and Bruce Scherer Katy and Jack Schoellerman Jackie Smiley Liz Stillwell Chris Thayer Karen and Gary Thorne Max Weismair Mary Vensel White Cliff Faulkner and Shigeru Yaji
Updated as of 7/27/10
Past NCI choreographers 2009
2006
Sidra Bell Deanna Carter Rick McCullough Olivier Wevers
Ron De Jesus Graham Lustig Charles Moulton Gina Patterson
2008
2005
Ma Cong Emery LeCrone Amy Seiwert Edmund Stripe
Val Caniparoli Christopher d’Amboise William Soleau Luca Veggetti
2007
2004
Melissa Barak Frank Chaves Edwaard Liang Jerry Opdenaker
Ann Marie DeAngelo Peter Pucci James Sewell Lynne Taylor-Corbett
2004-2010 dancers from:
Irvine Barclay Theatre Board of Directors Patricia J. Murphy, Chairman Francisco Ayala Arlene Cheng (1930-2010)
Michael Clark Bobbi Cox Rosemary Cumming Ginny Davies Tony Ellis Morgan Evans Robert Farnsworth Mary Ann Gaido Sam Goldstein Skip Johnson Michael A. Kerr Joseph S. Lewis Rick Paikoff Gina Park Leason Pomeroy Ryan Rieches Mickie L. Shapiro Gary Singer Lynda Thomas Cheryl Trosky Ex Officio Suhkee Kang Mayor, City of Irvine
American Repertory Ballet Atlanta Ballet Ballet Austin BalletMet Ballet Pacifica
Los Angeles Ballet Louisville Ballet
National Ballet of Canada Nevada Ballet Theatre
Ballet West Carolina Ballet
Richmond Ballet
Company C Contemporary Ballet
Sacramento Ballet
Eugene Ballet
Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet
Festival Ballet Theatre
Smuin Ballet
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
State Street Ballet
Kansas City Ballet
Chancellor, UCI
Nashville Ballet
North Carolina Dance Theatre
James Sewell Ballet
Michael V. Drake, M.D.
Tulsa Ballet Zurich Ballet
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Ballet Preljocaj: Empty Moves I & II
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: mixed rep
Aix-en-Provence, France
Chicago
Thur., November 4, 2010 at 8pm
Sat., February 12, 2011 at 8pm
Ballet Preljocaj, under the direction of celebrated French choreographer, Angelin Preljocaj, merges virtuosity and imagination with an intensely physical style of dance. ..Ingenious, complex, almost contemplative dancing... The New York Times
HSDC is among the most original forces in contemporary dance. Critically acclaimed for its exuberant, athletic and innovative repertoire, the company features dancers who display unparalleled virtuosity and continues to expand its diverse repertoire with works by leading national and international choreographers,
Momix: Botanica New York
Sat., January 26, 2011 at 8pm
Aszure Barton & Artists: Busk
Known internationally for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty, MOMIX, a company of dancer-illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton, uses athletic dance, riveting music, outrageous costumes, inventive props and pure talent, to create an entertaining multimedia experience.
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Thur., March 24, 2011 at 8pm New York-based, Aszure Barton, has earned the distinguished reputation of producing striking choreography for stage and film. A protégé of dance legend Mikhail Baryshnikov, her ensemble of dancers conjures up humor, suspense and pathos – revealing a rich, dynamic landscape.
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