The School tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2008-12-17:/education/school//3 2012-01-03T18:31:31Z Movable Type Pro 4.34-en Brenda Bufalino tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2012:/education/school//3.1165 2012-06-25T04:00:03Z 2012-01-03T18:38:01Z marketing Brenda Bufalino is a master tap teacher and has lectured and taught privately   and at festivals internationally for over forty years. Bufalino performs her one person shows internationally and has appeared as a guest soloist at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center among other major venues world-wide. As Artistic Director/Choreographer of The American Tap Dance Orchestra she toured America and Europe with her company, and appeared on PBS Great Performances: Tap Dance in America with Gregory Hines. Two of her choreographies for the ATDO, Buff Loves Basie Blues, and Haitian Fight Song were awarded American Masterpiece Grants for reconstruction from the National Endowment of The Arts. For many years Bufalino collaborated and toured extensively with her mentor Charles "Honi" Coles. Her critically acclaimed book Tapping the Source.... tap dance stories, theory and practice, as well as her 2010 book of poems Circular Migration are both published by Cod Hill Press.

]]> Tap Program Faculty • July 1-8 Derick K. Grant tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2010:/education/school//3.738 2012-06-25T04:00:04Z 2012-01-19T19:36:00Z Katherine Derick K. Grant has worked as performer, choreographer, and director for over   three decades. Under the direction of two time Tony Award-winning director George C. Wolfe, he was an original company member and Dance Captain for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk as well as the show's lead on its national tour. One of his first honors, the Princess Grace Award for Upcoming Young Artist, was followed by The Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Featured Actor, two Los Angeles Ovation Awards for choreography and ensemble performance, and a best choreography award for his critically acclaimed Imagine Tap! Most recently, he was appointed Co-Artistic Director of Chicago Human Rhythm Project's Rhythm World Summer Festival. In an effort to celebrate, nurture, and cultivate the future of the art form, Grant continues to teach worldwide, including at Steps on Broadway in New York.]]> Tap Program Faculty • June 25-July 1 Lisa La Touche tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2012:/education/school//3.1166 2012-06-25T04:00:05Z 2012-01-03T18:37:23Z marketing Originally from Calgary, Lisa La Touche is an international tap dancer, teacher,   choreographer, director, and cast member in the hit off-Broadway show STOMP. Her roots in the American community were first established in Chicago where she worked extensively with renowned organizations M.A.D.D. Rhythms and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. Her talents then extended to New York City in 2008, where her performing credits include such shows as Blood on the Dance Floor, a tribute to Michael Jackson by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, A.C.G.I. and Charlie's Angels with Emmy Award-winning dancer/choreographer Jason Samuels Smith, and Sophisticated Ladies honoring the music of Duke Ellington. She also works with Max Pollak and his company Rumba Tap, Barbara Duffy and Co., and The Cab Calloway Foundation, Inc. La Touche has been featured in numerous dance festivals as a teacher and solo artist in such countries as Brazil, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, and across the U.S. Currently she performs at Harlem's legendary Cotton Club and teaches at Steps on Broadway and the American Tap Dance Foundation in New York City. La Touche directs her own performing group Tap Phonics and works with the collaborative group The Tap Messengers of New York. ]]> Tap Program Faculty • July 1-8 Milton Myers tag:www.jacobspillow.info,2009:/school//3.342 2012-07-09T04:01:00Z 2012-01-03T18:37:03Z Gerry Kavanaugh Recognized world-wide as a master teacher, Milton Myers is resident  
choreographer and instructor for Philadanco and on the faculties of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Fordham University's Ailey Program, and The Juilliard School. Myers received his BFA from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He was a founding member and later Artistic Director, of the Joyce Trisler Danscompany and performed with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He has taught for Ballet Hispanico, New Danish Dance Theatre, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Batsheva, Matthew Bourne's male Swan Lake company on Broadway and Ballet Stagium in Brazil. Myers has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Juilliard School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Howard University and many other schools. He has choreographed for the Joyce Trisler Danscompany, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Carmen de Lavallade, Judith Jamison and New Danish Dance Theater. Myers was commissioned to choreograph Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert for Philadanco and the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Philadelphia's Academy of Music and for Ailey II and Jessye Norman at Carnegie Hall. His choreography has been recognized and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation CAPS Choreography Award, Phillip Morris New Works Fund, Dance USA/Philadelphia Dance Alliance and Jacob's Pillow. The International Association of Blacks in Dance honored him for his artistry and contribution. This will be his 26th year mentoring students of The School at Jacob's Pillow.
]]> Contemporary Program Director • July 9-29 Judith Jamison tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2012:/education/school//3.1167 2012-07-09T04:01:01Z 2012-01-03T18:37:31Z marketing Judith Jamison joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965 and quickly   became an international star.  Over the next 15 years, Mr. Ailey created some of his most enduring roles for her, most notably the tour-de-force solo Cry. During the 1970s and '80s, she appeared as a guest artist with ballet companies all over the world, starred in the hit Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies, and formed her own company, The Jamison Project. She returned to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1989, when Mr. Ailey asked her to succeed him as Artistic Director.  In the 21 years that followed, she brought the company to unprecedented heights, including two historic engagements in South Africa and a 50-city global tour to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary. Jamison is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them a primetime Emmy Award, an American Choreography Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, a National Medal of Arts, a Bessie Award, the Phoenix Award, and the Handel Medallion. She was also listed in TIME 100: The World's Most Influential People and honored by First Lady Michelle Obama at the first White House Dance Series event. As a highly regarded choreographer, Jamison has created many celebrated works, including Divining (1984), Forgotten Time (1989), Hymn (1993), HERE . . .NOW. (commissioned for the 2002 Cultural Olympiad), Love Stories (with additional choreography by Robert Battle and Rennie Harris, 2004), and Among Us (Private Spaces: Public Places) (2009). Her autobiography, Dancing Spirit, was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and published in 1993. Jamison continues to dedicate herself to asserting the prominence of the arts in our culture, and she remains committed to promoting the significance of the Ailey legacy, using dance as a medium for honoring the past, celebrating the present, and fearlessly reaching into the future.]]> • July 9-15]]> Tony Fabre tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2010:/education/school//3.914 2012-07-09T04:03:00Z 2012-01-03T18:36:48Z marketing Born in Nantes, France, Tony Fabre began his professional career with the   Karlsruhe Ballet before becoming a soloist with Maurice Bejart's Ballet du XXeme Siécle and then a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet and the Basler Ballet. Fabre joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza in 1991 as Principal Invited Dancer and danced in works by Nacho Duato, Jirí Kylián, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe, and Hans van Manen. He began choreographing for the company's workshops during this period. In 1997, Fabre began setting Nacho Duato's ballets on many of the top ballet companies in the world. In 1999, he became Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 (CND2) and choreographed six dances for them: Holberg Suite (2000), Rooms (2001), White man sleeps (2003), Violon d'ingres (2005), Insected (2008), and Carmen Replay (2010). Insected was honored with the Premio de Coreografía de Danza Villa de Madrid 2009. In 2011, Fabre created a work celebrating the Inside/Out stage for The School at Jacob's Pillow and Blur for the Tulsa Ballet. ]]> Contemporary Program Guest Artist Choreographer • July 22-29 Ariel Freedman for Ohad Naharin tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2012:/education/school//3.1168 2012-07-09T04:04:00Z 2012-01-03T18:36:33Z marketing Ariel Freedman began dancing and choreographing at the age of three in her   living room. She earned her B.F.A. at The Juilliard School, where she was a recipient of the Martha Hill Prize. After graduating, she performed with ASzURe & Artists, Baryshnikov's Hell's Kitchen Dance, and David Parker and The Bang Group. She danced in the Batsheva Ensemble for two seasons and with the Batsheva Dance Company for three.

About Ohad Naharin: Ohad Naharin, hailed as one of the world's preeminent contemporary choreographers, is choreographer and artistic director of Batsheva Dance Company. As Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company since 1990, he has guided the company with an adventurous artistic vision and reinvigorated its repertory with his captivating choreography. Naharin is also the originator of an innovative movement language, Gaga, which has enriched his extraordinary movement invention, revolutionized the company's training, and emerged as a growing force in the larger field of movement practices for both dancers and non-dancers.

]]> Contemporary Program Guest Artist Choreographer for Ohad Naharin • July 15-20 Maurya Kerr tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2012:/education/school//3.1169 2012-07-09T04:05:00Z 2012-01-03T18:34:55Z marketing Maurya Kerr danced with Alonzo King LINES Ballet from 1994-2006, dancing   previously for Pacific Northwest Ballet and Fort Worth Ballet. She is currently a freelance artist, a senior faculty member for the LINES Ballet Training Program and Summer Program, and adjunct faculty with the LINES/Dominican B.F.A. program, teaching ballet, choreographing, and setting King's works. She also teaches workshops nationally and is a visiting guest artist at Hollins University. In 2010, Maurya founded tinypistol, a San Francisco based dance company. She is a winner of the 2011 Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition, and will be creating a work on HS2 in early 2012. In 2011 Ballet Nouveau Colorado commissioned the creation of two works, Quarry Hymn, and Groundling, in collaboration with visual artist Sarah Wallace Scott. In June of 2011 the Aspen Fringe Festival presented a full evening of her work, including the commissioned premiere of BUCK, which was also performed in July 2011 as part of San Francisco WestWave Dance Festival's 20th Anniversary Gala.  ]]> Ballet Technique for Contemporary Program • July 22-27 Igal Perry tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2009:/education/school//3.674 2012-07-09T04:06:00Z 2012-01-03T18:36:19Z Katryn Igal Perry, Founder and Artistic Director of Peridance Capezio Center and   Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (established 1983/1984), is a renowned choreographer, ballet master, and dance educator. Perry's ballet class introduces a fresh and open approach to the study of traditional ballet vocabulary and eloquently fuses the different elements of ballet. He has taught in Holland, Prague, Tokyo, Sweden, China, and Korea, and serves as Guest Master Teacher at The Juilliard School. Perry's choreography, often in collaboration with contemporary composers has been described as having "shrewdly theatrical timing" (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice), and being "blessedly inventive" (Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times). His works have been set on prestigious companies, including Batsheva and Bat-Dor Dance Companies (Israel), Complexions Dance Company (New York City), Companhia de Dança de Lisboa (Portugal), Alberta Ballet (Canada), Florence Dance Festival, (Italy), and Teatro Alla Scala (Milan). ]]> Ballet Technique for Contemporary Program • July 15-20 Pamela Pribisco tag:www.jacobspillow.info,2009:/school//3.349 2012-07-09T04:07:00Z 2012-01-03T18:35:09Z Gerry Kavanaugh Pamela Pribisco was a principal dancer with the Cleveland Ballet for ten years.   She served as Ballet Mistress for the Cleveland Ballet, American Ballroom Theater, and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, for which she choreographed and staged numerous pieces in their repertoire. Pribisco has been Company Teacher for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Company Teacher and Ballet Mistress for Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company. She has choreographed original productions of Peter Pan and Peter and the Wolf for young audiences and has written several articles for Pointe Magazine advising young dancers on their careers. She teaches annually at The School at Jacob's Pillow and guest teaches nationally. ]]> Ballet Technique and Alignment for Contemporary Program • July 9-13 John Levis tag:www.jacobspillow.info,2009:/school//3.351 2012-07-09T04:09:00Z 2012-01-03T18:36:04Z John Levis is a composer, pianist and synthesist who has been involved with the Philadelphia dance community since 1971. A graduate of University of the Arts, he has worked with Philadelphia schools and companies, including University of the Arts, where... Gerry Kavanaugh John Levis is a composer, pianist and synthesist who has been involved with the Philadelphia dance community since 1971. A graduate of University of the Arts, he has worked with Philadelphia schools and companies, including University of the Arts, where he is Music Coordinator for the School of Dance. In 1995, he was commissioned by Dance Spotlight to compose and perform the musical score for two videos/DVDs on Lester Horton technique, created with staff and dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He has composed ballet scores, including a score for Milton Myers as part of Philadanco's 35th anniversary in 2004 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Levis continues to compose for dance, work with independent film projects, and compose instrumental compositions of all kinds. This is Levis' 16th year on faculty at The School at Jacob's Pillow.]]> Contemporary Program Music Director • July 9-29 Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2012:/education/school//3.1170 2012-07-25T04:08:00Z 2012-01-03T18:35:23Z marketing Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish was born in Manila and became the youngest member   of Ballet Philippines. After receiving scholarships to Joffrey, Graham, and The Ailey School, she danced with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Joyce Trisler Danscompany before joining Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater where she was a principal dancer from 1984-1997. She performed in the Emmy Award-winning PBS specials Two by Dove and Judith Jamison's A Hymn for Alvin Ailey among others, and was featured in a 1997 Dance Magazine cover article and named by Avenue Magazine as one of the 500 most influential Asian-Americans. After leaving Ailey as a dancer, she performed on Broadway in The King and I and afterward made guest appearances. She has set ballets for Jacob's Pillow, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, and the Ailey School where she also teaches the Actors Studio Class. She has taught at the Hartt School, Tisch School of the Arts(Cap21), and at Harvard University. She was Anna Deavere Smith's movement coordinator in her most recent production Let Me Down Easy and has taught with Ms. Smith for NYU graduate students. Roxas-Dobrish is currently on the faculty of the Ailey School.]]> Assistant to Judith Jamison • July 9-15 Chet Walker tag:www.jacobspillow.info,2009:/school//3.352 2012-07-30T04:01:00Z 2012-01-03T17:05:06Z Gerry Kavanaugh Chet Walker has performed on Broadway since the age of sixteen. 
He appeared most prominently in the Bob Fosse musicals The Pajama Game, Pippin, Dancin' and Sweet Charity. As a director and choreographer, he has staged Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Singin' in the Rain and A Chorus Line, to name a few. Walker is the original conceiver of Fosse, the Tony Award-winning musical. He has staged The Producers in Argentina, Brazil and Israel, for which he won the Israel Theatre Award for Best Choreography. This past year, Walker created La Cage aux Folles in Brazil, Jazz On Jazz in Norway and Triumph at the Las Vegas Hilton. He also served on the jury for YoungArts in Miami and Expression '11 in Florence, Italy and led residencies at the University of Tulsa and in Houston. Walker has served as a Cultural Envoy for the US State Department Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs in Serbia and Italy. He is the founder and Artistic Director of WALKERDANCE, a jazz dance company based in New York City. This spring, the company participated in a Creative Development Residency at Jacob's Pillow to work on The Jack Cole Project. This is Walker's 13th season as the director of the Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program.


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]]> Emanuel Abruzzo tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2010:/education/school//3.934 2012-07-30T04:02:00Z 2012-01-03T18:33:41Z marketing Born and raised in Argentina, Emanuel Abruzzo started dancing at the age of  four. Thanks to numerous awards and scholarships, he was able to learn from some of Argentina's best teachers. Abruzzo has worked with Julio Bocca's Ballet Sub-16, Les Ballets Grandiva, Baardar Danseteater, Cuba Ballet Rosario, Compañía Internacional de Teatro Musica, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and WALKERDANCE, among others. Abruzzo has traveled throughout Argentina, Norway, Japan, and the U.S. teaching, choreographing, and setting classical and contemporary works for dance studios and dance companies. A four time alumnus of The School at Jacob's Pillow, he is proud and honored to return as a faculty member. ]]> Assistant to Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Director • July 30-August 20 Rick Hip-Flores tag:www.jacobspillow.org,2011:/education/school//3.1102 2012-07-30T04:03:00Z 2012-01-03T18:31:31Z Katryn Rick Hip-Flores has been the pianist in such Broadway orchestras as Billy   Elliot, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. As musical director and conductor he has worked on 'S Wonderful at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Singin' in the Rain at North Shore Music Theatre, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at Zipper Theatre, Breaking Up is Hard to Do at Actors' Playhouse, 8 by Tenn at Hartford Stage, and Henry and Mudge and A Christmas Carol at TheatreworksUSA. As composer and lyricist, Hip-Flores has written songs for Neon Mirage at Humana Festival, A Tooth Fairy Tale and My New York at Vital Theater, Dido and Aeneas at Prospect Theater, Tartuffe and As You Like It at Worth Street Players, and the Varsity Show at Columbia University. Recently, he was Musical Director of DanceBreak in New York. ]]> Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Music Director • July 30-August 20