Contemporary Ballet Program | Artist Faculty
Virginia (Ginny) Hendricksen’s dancing career began with William Forsythe in Ballett Frankfurt. For two seasons under his direction, she danced a range of contemporary and modern works, and was introduced to his improvisation technologies. She went on to join the Royal Ballet of Flanders where she danced classical, contemporary, and modern masterpieces for 12 years. She enjoyed performing works by Forsythe, Kylián, Haydee, Godani, Dawson, Cherkaoui, Spuck, Balanchine, Wheeldon, Amarante, McGreggor, and others. Ginny is a freelance ballet, improvisation, and repertoire teacher with professional companies, schools, and in various workshops internationally. She has worked as an assistant stager with Alan Barnes to set Forsythe’s New Sleep on Zurich Ballet and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and with Tony Rizzi to set Approximate Sonata on The Royal Ballet of Flanders. She was also Annabelle Lopez’s choreographic assistant for her world premiere of Ecdysis for the Royal Ballet of Flanders, and with Craig Davidson for his world premiere of Remembrance/Hereafter for Atlanta Ballet.