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Teacher / Workshops / Summer Programs


Faculty:

Juilliard School, Joffrey Ballet School in NY

Guest

Ailey School, School of the Paris Opera Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Steps On Broadway, Nice Opera Ballet, Teatro Colon, Louisville Ballet, Atlanta Ballet (Ballet Master) Lisbon National Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, Columbia University, Skidmore College, Studio Maestro, Lines Dance Center,  Adelphi University, Maggio Danza, Bordeaux Opera Ballet, English National Ballet School, and others.

Choreography and production


   

    • Sides: Adelphi University, Dance Adelphi, LI, 2009

    • Rhapsody in blue: New Jersey Ballet, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, NJ, 2008

• Rhapsody in Blue: Company C. Walnut Creek, C.A 2007

• The Little Prince: Washington Ballet (Studio Company) Washington DC, 2007

• Pucini Passion: Nilas Martins Company, Di Capo Opera Theater, New York, NY, 2006

• The Blue Notebooks: The Ailey School. The  Ailey Citygroup Theater, New York, NY, 2006

• Cansonieros and Discoveries: New Jersey Ballet, Morristown Playhouse, Morristown, NJ, 2005

• Step Aside (A tribute to Louis Armstrong): New Jersey Ballet, Morristown Playhouse, Morristown, NJ, 2005

• Fall in… (Work in progress) : The Ailey School. The Ailey Citygroup Theater. New York, NY, 2005

• A World to Come: Company C. Walnut Creek CA, Cowell Theatre/Fort Mason. San Francisco, CA, 2004 

• Proia Dance Theatre (PDT) : San Francisco, CA, 2003-2004

• PDT. PRESENTS at SOMARTS. Collaboration with multidisciplinary artists of San Francisco and New York. SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA, November 2003

• It Was the Perfect Day. PDT. A multi-media theater/dance performance including oratory, live music, dance and film projection. Responsible for concept development, fundraising, script, casting, staging, choreography and production design. Clarke Studio Theater Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 2002

• Apples and Oranges,  for now… Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs, NY, 2002

• I Love you… Me Neither. PDT: (Responsibilities listed above.) City Center, New York, NY, 2001

• Desrever: Stars of the Paris Opera Ballet. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 1997

  • Palimpsest: Pacific Northwest Ballet. Seattle, WA, 1992

     •  Refractions: New York City Ballet. New York State Theater, New York, NY, 1991

Performer


•Hans Christian Andersen: Performer and dance captain originator of principal role. Director/choreographer Martha Clarke. Dodger/A.C.T. co-production, New York, NY, 2001

•Vers La Flamme: Originator of principal dancer/actor role in production based on Chekhov’s Short Stories. Director/choreographer Martha Clarke. Lincoln Center production, New York, NY, 2000/1998

•Oedipus Rex: Originator of principal dancer role (the Horse) Director/choreographer Robert Wilson, Theatre Chatelet, Paris France, 1988

•The Martha Graham Dance Company: Principal Guest Artist. Danced repertory roles in addition to originator of principal role in Robert Wilson’s Snow on the Mesa, New York, NY, 1996-1997

•City Center’s Encores!: Originator of principal dancer role in concert production of Sweet Adeline. Director Kathleen Marshall. Choreographer John DeLucas. City Center, New York, NY, 1997

•Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Broadway debut in the featured role of Bayardo San Roman, Lincoln Center Broadway production. Tony and Drama Desk nominated. Director/Choreographer Graciela Daniele. Music by Bob Telson. Plymouth Theatre, New York, NY, 1996

  1. •New York City Ballet:  Dancer and originator of many principal roles during 11-year tenure. Featured in numerous repertory roles including: George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, The Nutcracker, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Agon, La Valse, Liebeslieder; Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of A Faun, In Memory of…, Ives Songs, Glass Pieces, Moves; Peter Martins’ Echo, Ecstatic Orange, Poulenc Sonata, Fearful Symmetries. New York, NY, 1984-1995

  2. •     Boston Ballet: Dancer and originator of many principal roles including Violette Verdy’s Bach and Album, Choo-San Goh’s Romeo and Juliet, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote, Boston, MA 1980-1983

Television and film


The Nutcracker, Great Performances, Eye on Dance, L’Enfant et Les Sortileges, The Cosby Show, Mighty Aphrodite.


Education/Training

School of Paris Opera Ballet: Graduate, 1980, Paris, France.

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