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Biographies
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DONLIN FOREMAN |
| ...a role model for male dancers throughout
the world. I am filled with admiration for this extraordinary man
and could recommend no one more highly... |
Jacques d'Amboise Artistic
Dir., National Dance Institute |
| ...an unreachable titan...incomprehensible...the
epitome of the contemporary dancer... |
Eduardo Villanueva, Listin
Diario, Dominican Republic |
| ...Donlin Foreman's well tuned and confident
Agamemnon, was notably the best portrayal of the evening...experienced
power... Agathon: ...breaking
through in the space like Leonardo's geometric figure of a Man ...theatrical
tension and choreographic shape. |
Clive Barnes, New York
Post |
| ...powerhouse performances ... Stunning
monolithic insights ...conquered the Graham technique to where their
bodies become vessels for the expression of higher and deeper qualities. |
Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner |
| Magnificent...splendidly passionate...exceptionally striking...Foreman's
characterization is superb... |
Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times |
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Donlin Foreman, Co-Director/Choreographer, has
presented seven New York City Seasons with his Company, Buglisi/Foreman
Dance, most recently at the Joyce Theater, February 2002. His evening-length
work Runes of the Heart, narration, text, and choreography
by Mr. Foreman with Jacqulyn Buglisi, premiered in December 1994 to
critical acclaim at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. In
'96 Buglisi/Foreman Dance was invited to perform in the Altogether
Different series at the Joyce Theatre in NYC and to open the 69th
Season of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Buglisi/Foreman
Dance has appeared in the America Dancing series at the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, the Melbourne International
Festival in Australia, as well as the New Victory Theater, the John
Jay Theater, and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center. The Performing
Arts Library Dance Collection at Lincoln Center has invited Mr. Foreman
to record five of his works for their archives.
Dancing
with The Martha Graham Dance Company for 20 years, Mr. Foreman was
coached and directed by Martha Graham in nearly every major male role
in the repertory and is acclaimed internationally for his interpretation
of these heroic archetypes. He was invited to perform at the White
House for President and Mrs. Reagan, and received the President's
Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts from the
University of Montevallo. Mr. Foreman received the '93 National Arts
Club's Helen Weiselberg Award and is featured in the WNET/Dance
in America films, Conversations with Martha Graham, Clytemnestra,
and Trailblazers of American Modern Dance.
His Company is featured in the documentary, Courage, a film
that explores the creative process of dance.
Performing
internationally as a guest artist, Mr. Foreman has danced with the
La Scala Ballet Milan, Italy where he originated the role of Christopher
Columbus in the production of Cristoforo Colombo, and the
Eliot Feld Ballet NY, where the ballet Adieu was choreographed
on Mr. Foreman. He was invited to teach and perform his own and Jacqulyn
Buglisi's choreography at the International Dance Week in Prague,
Czech Republic. For a decade, he performed once a year with the 1000
children of Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institute. A growing
international reputation as a choreographer returned Mr. Foreman to
the La Scala Ballet to choreograph and perform an original ballet
Nights' River with Luciana Savignano. His works Agathon
and ...ING were performed on New York City Seasons of the
Martha Graham Dance Company. He has been commissioned by: Pennsylvania
Ballet Theater to choreograph a full evening production of Carl Orff's
Carmina Burana, Ballet National de Mexico for a premiere
at Bellas Artes Theater, Mexico City, The Dance Project in Copenhagen,
Denmark, Ice Theater of New York which had its premiere at Madison
Square Garden, and has recently restaged his word Mean Ole World
for New Jersey Ballet. Ice Theatre of NY received a 1998 New York
State Council for the Arts Grant for Mr. Foreman to choreograph a
new Ballet for them in residence at Lake Placid.
Mr.
Foreman is a Professor of Professional Practice in the Dance Department
at Barnard College, Columbia University and was Master Artist in Residence
at the Atlantic Center for the Arts during Spring 1999. His first
volume of poetic writings, Out of Martha’s House, was
published in 1992. He has been featured in Dance Magazine, Dance Australia,
Dance Spirit, Dance Internatinal Spring 1999, and was recently published
in Dance Teacher magazine and in Choreography and Dance, an international
journal. Mr. Foreman has chaired the New York State Council on the
Arts Panel 2000-2002.
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JACQULYN BUGLISI |
| … a sure grip of two contrasting styles... sophisticated...dramatic,
angular... intense... Buglisi has a wondrously extravagant streak
in her choreography, which is sharp and clear in its penetrating images |
Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times |
[Buglisi] works in images that seduce the eye as much as the
imagination, with shapes, luminous
textures, and stilled moments in time that offer an adventure in perception.
Buglisi is a rarity in today’s world, a woman who delights in
the many splendid forms of female being. Probably no woman, other
than Graham, has plumbed such emotional depths choreographically |
Lynn Garafola, Dance Magazine |
| ...genuinely gifted artist....Buglisi presented two duets Sospiri
and Threshold one more bewilderingly beautiful than the other....it
was the stunning movement, the absolute and novel configurations of
the body that blew the mind away. Her choreography swelled with invention
and a distinctiveness... |
Phyllis Goldman, Backstage |
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Jacqulyn Buglisi, Co-Director/Choreographer
of Buglisi/Foreman Dance, has more than 25 ballets to her credit,
performed by such companies as the Martha Graham Dance Company, Trisler
Danscompany of which she was a charter member, the Contemporary Dance
Company of Rome which she co-founded, Ballet Theater Pennsylvania,
American Repertory Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and the Alvin
Ailey II Company. Internationally, her work has been presented at
the Melbourne International Festival, Spoleto Dance Festival, the
1992 Taipei Festival of Dance Academics at the National Theater, the
Ananda Shankar Performing Arts Company in India, the Prague International
Dance Festival, and most recently with Huang Dou Dou of the Shanghai
Song and Dance Ensemble in China. Her acclaimed ballet Threshold
had its Italian premiere in Milan with Carla Fracci's Italian Ballet
Company at the Teatro Nuovo and was featured on the Gala Benefit for
Flowers from the Volcano at the BAM Opera House and NYC’s
Joyce Theater. Ms. Buglisi with Mr. Foreman premiered their full-length
ballet Runes of the Heart at Lincoln Center in 1994, were
invited to perform in the Altogether Different series '96 at the Joyce
Theater, where they premiered her works, Bare to the Wall and
Molting, and opened the 69th Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
with her ballet Suspended Women, which is being restaging
for the SUNY Purchase Dance Corps for performances in the PepsiCo
Theater, November 15th—17th, 2002. In 1997 Runes of the
Heart was performed at the America Dancing Festival and the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her company’s sixth
New York City Season at the New Victory Theater featured her ballet
Sand, and the Company held its seventh in February of 2002
at the Joyce Theater, where she premiered her acclaimed work Requiem.
Her ballet The Dreame was commissioned by the Ice Theatre
of New York and premiered at Rockefeller Center, March 2002.
Jacqulyn Buglisi was invited to perform with the
Martha Graham Dance Company in 1977 where she danced as principal
artist for 12 years, performing such classic roles as The Three Mary's
in El Penitente, The Lament in Acts of Light, The
Warrior in Seraphic Dialogue, Jocasta in Night Journey,
and the principal role created for her by Miss Graham in Tangled
Night. Ms. Buglisi danced in honor of Miss Graham on the nationally
televised CBS Presentation of the Kennedy Center Honors and is featured
in the PBS film An Evening of Dance and Conversation with Martha
Graham. Coached by Jane Sherman, she has performed Ruth St. Denis’
solos internationally including Lyon Biennale De La Danse and is in
the film Trailblazers of American Modern Dance.
An
international teacher/choreographer with a commitment to art in education,
Ms. Buglisi has been commissioned by the Interlochen Arts Academy,
the State Ballet College of Oslo, Ananda Shankar Center for Performing
Arts, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Ice Theatre of New York, the Juilliard
School, Boston Conservatory of Music, and North Carolina Dance Theatre,
among others. In 1970, she founded the first school of contemporary
dance for the community of Spoleto, Italy, and was the Master Artist-in-Residence
at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has taught for the Dance
Aspen festival from 1990-95, the Julio Bocca Center in Argentina,
the 97-98 American College Dance Festivals, and the Chautauqua Institution
and Festival. As a resident teacher in NYC, she is Chairperson of
the Modern Dept. at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, licensed
by the Board of Education, teaches at the famed Performing Arts HS,
and is on the faculties of The Martha Graham School and The Juilliard
School.
Her awards include the Fiorello LaGuardia
Award for Excellence, Harkness Ballet Foundation Grants, The Gertrude
Shurr Award for Dance, New York State Council on the Arts and a National
Endowment for the Arts Grant for Choreography. She was featured with
her Company in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section.
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