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Dance Department News: October, 2009
About the students:
- Repertory Dance Company 1 had guest artists Nicole Wolcott, associate artistic director of Keigwin & Company from New York and Robert Battle, artistic director of Battleworks Dance Company from New York in during the month of September to set works that will be premiered in the November concert, “Evening of Dance”
- Repertory Dance Company 2 had guest artists Kanji Segawa of Battleworks Dance Company and Mark Morris Dance Company and graduate, Jonathan Campbell, fourth year student at The Juilliard School in to set works for the November Concert, “Evening of Dance”
- All four ensembles performed in Spotlight Sunday, celebrating the opening of the ATT Performing Arts Center. LunaSol, Repertory Dance Company 1, and Repertory Dance Company 2, and Austin Goodwin & Ida Saki performed in the beautiful Winspear Opera House and African Dance Ensemble performed at the Sammons Center Stage.
- The Dance Department had a full presence in “Always Imagine” with members of the department in the ensemble cast as well as Repertory Dance Company 1, the Composition Class, and the African Dance Ensemble. Members of Repertory Dance Company 2 choreographed “Where is the Love?” and Chantel Adams choreographed “Love Revolution.” Guest artist, Bruce Wood, choreographed “What’s Going On?” and “Mercy, Mercy.”
- Amber Pickens, 11th grade student, and member of Repertory Dance Company 1 will be performing in the Dallas Theater Center’s premiere performance at the Wylie Theater in Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Ida Saki, 12th grade student, is featured on the cover of the international publication, Dance Spirit
- The Dance Department WON the membership contest sponsored by the PTSA. CONGRATULATIONS!
- The dance seniors just completed a week of filming for Senior Showcase, Texas Young Masters, and Young Arts. The Dance Department has 39 seniors who filmed for Senior Showcase, 11 seniors who will be entering YoungArts, and 9 students who filmed for Texas Young Masters. Congratulations, students and faculty!
- Seniors will be featured in the annual Portraits Dance Concert. Each senior will present their audition solos for family and friends on Wednesday, November 4th in the Montgomery Arts Theater at 7:00 p.m. General Admission is $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for students.
- College representatives are quickly responding to teach classes and attend the 2009-10 Senior Showcase: New York University, Ohio State University, Adelphi University, Point Park University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, Ball State University, Temple University, West Texas A & M University, University of Oklahoma are just a sample of who will be attending this year’s Showcase!
- Boston Conservatory will be holding their regional auditions for the college and summer dance intensives on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 from 4:00-9:00 p.m. at BTWHSPVA
- Fordham University and the Ailey Summer Dance Intensive regional auditions will be held at BTWHSPVA on January 9-10, 2010
- Don’t miss the annual “Evening of Dance” featuring the work of all four dance ensembles: African Dance Ensemble, LunaSol Ballet Folklorico, and Repertory Dance Companies 1 & 2 on November 12-13 and November 18-19. Reserved seating ranges from $10.00, $15.00, and $20.00 with student tickets at $5.00.
- A special matinee performance for students in the Dallas ISD will be from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 11.
- Morphoses Dance Company spent 2 ½ weeks rehearsing at BTWHSPVA for their premiere performance at the opening of the Winspear Opera House. They taught master classes and allowed students to watch an open rehearsal where Christopher Wheeldon, artistic director, held a question & answer session. (See the company bio below)
Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company is a new, dynamic, ballet company founded in 2007 by Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez. The company, which is based in New York and London, has as its mission to broaden the scope of classical ballet by emphasizing innovation and fostering creativity through collaboration.The company's inaugural season included performances at the Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado, at Sadler's Wells in London, and at New York City Center. Morphoses will perform at these three venues again in 2008 and 2009, and will also gradually increase its touring schedule and number of appearances over the next few years.In 2007, Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company was named Guest Resident Company of both New York City Center and Sadler's Wells in London. For its September 2007 performances in London, Morphoses was awarded a South Bank Show Award, presented by the arts documentary television show of the same name. Dancer Wendy Whelan was honored with a nomination for an Olivier Award by the Society of West End Theaters for her performances at Sadler's Wells with Morphoses. As part of its commitment to collaboration, the company commissioned award-winning fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez to create the costumes for Christopher Wheeldon's two new ballets Fools' Paradise and Prokofiev Pas de Deux.The Company plans to work with many designers, composers, and artists in the future. Morphoses presented an exciting repertory in its first season, including world premiere ballets by Christopher Wheeldon and Edwaard Liang. The Company also performed works by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Michael Clarke, and Liv Lorent. The dancers for the first Morphoses season came from companies such as the New York City Ballet, the Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, George Piper Dances, the Hamburg Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and National Ballet of Canada, and included such prominent dancers as Alexandra Ansanelli, Hélène Bouchet, Ashley Bouder, Darcey Bussell, Alina Cojacaru, Carla Körbes, Maria Kowroski, Miranda Weese, Wendy Whelan, Batkhurel Bold, Thiago Bordin, Jonathan Cope, Angel Corella, Gonzalo Garcia, Nehemiah Kish, Michael Nunn, and William Trevitt. Christopher Wheeldon, the Company's Artistic Director and Co-Founder, is one of the ballet world's most exciting talents. He has created ballets for companies all over the world, including the Royal Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Boston Ballet, to name a few. He is most closely associated with the New York City Ballet, where he held the position of Resident Choreographer from 2001 to 2008, where he created 17 ballets. Christopher's works are in the repertories of many of the world's major ballet companies. Born in Yeovil, Somerset, England, Christopher danced with both the Royal Ballet and the New York City Ballet before retiring from the stage in 2000 to concentrate on choreography.
- Special thanks to Charles Santos, Executive Director of TITAS, for having the Parsons Dance Company teach a master class at BTWHSPVA on October 10, 2010. David Parsons watched the class and took a tour of our beautiful facility.
- Complexions Contemporary Ballet (from New York) will be rehearsing in our spaces on October 27 & 28 and will teach a master class on October 30th at 1:30 p.m. (See company BIO below)
It is artistic directors Demsond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden’s lifelong appreciation for the artistic & aesthetic appeal of the multicultural that forms the cornerstone of Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s singular approach to reinventing dance. Founded by the two former Alvin Ailey members in 1994, Complexions’ groundbreaking mix of methods, styles, cultures has created an entirely new and exciting vision of human movement over the past decade-and-a-half.
The company’s foremost innovation is that dance should be about removing boundaries, not reinforcing them. Whether it be the limiting traditions of a single style, period, venue, or culture, Complexions transcends them all, creating an open, continually evolving form of dance that reflects the movement of our world—and all its constituent cultures—as an interrelated whole.
It is Rhoden and Richardson’s unique career paths that have paved the way for them to re-define dance—as their multifaceted resumes will show, neither has ever been comfortable with his art being placed in a box. Instead, from E! to PBS to VH1, from Cirque de Soleil to the Joffrey Ballet, the two have allowed the transformative power of their art to flow freely throughout the entertainment world—their creative vision restricted by nothing but the limits of the human body itself.
Together, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson have created in Complexions an institution that embodies its historical moment, a sanctuary where those passionate about dance can celebrate its past while simultaneously building its future. In the 15 years since its inception, the company has born witness to a world that is becoming more fluid, more changeable, and more culturally interconnected than ever before—in other words, a world that is becoming more and more like Complexions itself.
About the faculty:
- Lily Cabatu Weiss and Keisha Johnson just returned from a seminar at New York University Tisch School of the Arts on the new Talent Identification Program (TIP), providing scholarships for talented students in the Arts.
- Lily Cabatu Weiss will be attending the Performing Arts Network Conference with Karon Cogdill, Sharon Cornell, and Jane Farris in Washington, D.C. in hopes that BTWHSPVA will be the site for the Network Conference in the Fall, 2011.
- Garfield Lemonius will be teaching guest classes on October 22 & 23 at the University of Texas at Austin
About the graduates:
- New York choreographer, Lar Lubovitch, will be making a new duet on two of our graduates: Christopher Vo (2004) and Jay Franke (1993) to premiere at the Joyce Theater in spring, 2010
- LaQuet Sharnel (2001) is in the previews for the Broadway show, Memphis
- Jonathan Campbell (2006) and Jehbreal Jackson (2007) toured with the Juilliard School this past summer to France and Germany
Eligibility: Texas 8th to 12th grade students (or homeschooled students who have achieved a comparable status towards high school graduation) who are legal US and Texas residents.
Intent: To advance the creative economy of Texas by investing in the future of the arts.
This program awards grants to talented young artists to further their studies in their chosen field. This grant is not a college scholarship.
The most talented young artists will receive the title of Young Master and will be awarded grants of up to $2,500 per year to further their studies in their chosen arts disciplines. Students are eligible to receive the grant for up to three years, but not beyond their senior year, and they must reapply annually. Students must be participating ina school-based arts program, summer institute, a specialized course of study, or receiving private lessons from a qualified instructor.
Students must maintain passing grades in all academic areas.
Applications will be from the student, his or her parent/guardian, and his or her arts instructor. This program is available every other year.
Deadline: November 15, 2009 postmark deadline
Application and Instructions: www.arts.state.tx.us/ym
If you would like additional information or have questions, please contact:
(email preferred)
Brenda Tharp
brenda.tharp@arts.state.tx.us
512/936-6564
Cassandra Scholte Jensen
cassandra.scholte@arts.state.tx.us
512/936-6563
Dance Cluster Ensemble performers have been selected for the 2009 - 2010 school year. Click here for Ensemble groups.
Dance Clusters students have received a record number of scholarships to conservatories and university programs. Click here for a list of those who have submitted information to date.
This spring, the Dance Students experienced the following:
*A two-day visit from internationally known contemporary choreographer and panelist on So You Think You Can Dance, Mia Michaels – through TITAS.
*Master Class from Alonzo Kings Lines Ballet (through TITAS).
*A mini-salon with Twyla Tharp (through The Nasher Sculpture Center).
*Master classes and a new work from choreographer, Bruce Wood, former dancer with Lar Lubovitch and Artistic Director of the Bruce Wood Dance Company.
*Entertainers Workshops: cast members from Rent, Mary Anna Dennard, Wendy Welch & Richland Theater Faculty, former BTW students: Hanna Guillory, Michael Stimson, Robbie Tann.
*The Dance Department was featured in April’s Dance Teacher Magazine with a full pictured spread: Click here for full article.
*Dance and this year’s Entertainers’ students will be attending such summer dance workshops as Interlochen Dance Academy, Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Skidmore Dance Summer Intensive, Alvin Ailey Summer Dance Intensive, School of American Ballet, Dallas Black Dance Theater, Texas Ballet Theater, Ballet Ensemble of Texas, Point Park University, Perry Mansfield Summer Intensive, David Parsons Summer Dance, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Broadway Theater Project, San Francisco Conservatory
*Kyle Richards and Garfield Lemonius will be guest teachers at the Point Park Summer Dance Intensive.
*Kyle Richards will be teaching children’s workshops at the Dallas Museum of Arts.
*Linda James will be attending Dance USA conference in Houston and will be delivering the Keynote Speaker at the International Conference of the Corps de Ballet, Fort Worth, Tx.
*Garfield Lemonius will go with theater faculty, Charlton Gavitt, to the National Stage Combat Workshop, North Carolina.
*Lily Cabatu Weiss will be going to the New York area to meet with possible guest artists for the 2009-10 season and to attend the Teacher Summer Seminars at The Juilliard School.
A very special thanks to all of our senior parents who have worked so diligently on behalf of the Dance Department students and faculty. Thank you, Friends of BTWHSPVA Dance, for awarding an unprecedented $6,000.00 in scholarships to our dance students this year! Best wishes to the Dance Senior Class of 2009!
During November and early December, 2008, Kyle Richards (Dance instructor), Linda James (Dance instructor), and Charlotte Chambliss (AP Visual Arts instructor) collaborated with Nicole Stutzman and Jenny Marvel of the DMA (with 4 other area teachers all different disciplines academic and artistic) on creating either lessons or preparatory activities for students and teachers for the Olafur Eliasson Exhibition.
It was a great opportunity and unique in format. They had an initial meeting where they were introduced to the artist and his work and assigned pieces. They were then asked to script initial responses to the specific pieces, prior to actually seeing the work other than in reproduction or on internet video. They were then to view the exhibition and either prepare lessons or create activities to prepare and guide the students through the exhibition. They were then asked to come in and have their personal responses and thoughts to the exhibition taped. All of this was put together via the Pachyderm web format and loaded on the DMA website.
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DANCE EVENTS
September
23 - 25
"Always Imagine"
7:00 pm
MAT
November 12 & 13, 2009
Evening of Dance
(Arts Pass Evening)
MAT
7:00 p.m.
Featuring the works of national and international guest artists Reserved Seating:
Adults: $10-$15-$20
Students: $5.00
ARTS PASS for November 12th only
TICKET INFORMATION
November 19, 2009
Portraits Dance Concert
MAT
7:00 p.m.
Featuring all of the Dance Seniors in their Audition Solos
General Admission:
Adults-$10.00
Students: $5.00
TICKET INFORMATION
November 18 & 20, 2009
Evening of Dance
MAT
7:00 pm
Featuring the works of national and international guest artists Reserved Seating:
Adults: $10-$15-$20
Students: $5.00
TICKET INFORMATION
December 9-10, 2009
Dance & Music Collaborative Concert
Excerpts from The Nutcracker
MAT
7:00 pm
Reserved Seating:
Adults: $10, $15
Students: $5.00
April 6, 2010
Dance Ensembles
On Stage at the MAT
(ARTS Pass)
MAT
7:00 pm
Featuring the works of national and international guest artists Reserved Seating:
Adults: $10-$15-$20
Students: $5.00
ARTS PASS for April 6th only
April 7-9, 2010
Dance Ensembles
On Stage at the MAT
(ARTS Pass)
MAT
7:00 pm
Featuring the works of national and international guest artists Reserved Seating:
Adults: $10-$15-$20
Students: $5.00
May 18, 2010
Repertory Workshop Showcase
(ARTS Pass)
MAT
7:00 pm
Featuring all dance classes in short class works
General Admission:
Adults: $10.00
Students: $5.00
May 19, 2010
Dance Senior Awards and Reception
Commons
5:00-7:00 pm
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