Classes, Workshops and Residency Activities

Buglisi Dance Theatre Dance Intensive
Repertory Workshop and Technique
June 1 – 12, 2010

Buglisi Dance Theatre announces its three-week creative residency in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts of the state-of-art Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in beautiful upstate New York, May 24-June 12.
www.buglisidance.org / www.mwpai.org

Dance Intensive: June 1-12
New Repertory Work Rehearsals, Company Class and Performance
FEE: $325

Housing: June 1-12
PrattMWP apartment style residence halls (located on the PrattMWP campus, one block from the dance studio)
FEE: $390

Dance Intensive plus Housing
FEE: $715

Application
FEE: $25

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1!
Please email our office at buglisi@buglisidance.org for an application

Tentative Dance Intensive Schedule:
June 1-12 Buglisi Dance Theatre Dance Intensive (Sunday, June 6, no classes)
10:00-11:00            Somatic Practices (optional): Yoga, Pilates, Alexander Technique, Feldenkreis Method
11:00-12:00            Company Class taught by Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi and company members
12:00-12:30            Lunch
12:30-4:30              Repertory and New Work Rehearsals with Buglisi Dance Theatre
Buglisi Dance Theatre Community Classes (FREE for Dance Intensive Participants; or, $200 for all community classes)
4:30-6:30                Community Class with BDT: Technique and Repertory (Sunday, June 6, no classes)

For information, visit http://www.mwpai.com/school-of-art/buglisi-dance-theatre

Contacts:  
MWPAI: Nancy Long at nlong@mwpai.edu #315-797-0000 x.2208
Or, Buglisi Dance Theatre buglisi@buglisidance.org #212-719-3301

BDT Technique & Repertory Workshops in NYC:

July 19-23, 2010, 11am -1pm
Summer Intensive
The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
316 East 63rd Street
Registration: or call 212 838 5886

July 26 - 30, 2010, 2:30-4:30pm
Steps with Contemporary Masters
Steps on Broadway
2121 Broadway at 74th Street, NYC
Registration: or call 212-874-2410

August 16-20, 2:30-4pm
Technique & Repertory Workshop
Peridance Capezio Center
Info/Registration: or call 212-505-0886

These workshop is the third in a series of four culminating in Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi's new work "Letters of Love on Ripped Paper" to premiere at The Joyce Theater in February 2011. The emotionally-charged choreography explores the rapture, human complexity, and passionate longing that have been recorded throughout history in the love letters of historical, political and literary archetypes. The workshop emphasizes the individual and the sensuous partnering techniques inherent in the viscerally dramatic Buglisi style. Students should bring a love letter.

Buglisi Dance Theatre workshops, taught by Buglisi and company dancers, are aimed at giving dancers a broader physical breadth and dramatic vocabulary while exploring the depths of the human condition.

Dancers interested in auditioning for Buglisi Dance Theatre must sign up for the full week workshop, and email the company to inform of interest at buglisi@buglisidance.org. The company is seeking two men and one woman. Rehearsals begin in October 2010.


The Ailey School
Ongoing classes in Graham technique
Jacqulyn Buglisi, Chair of Modern Department

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Buglisi Dance Theatre continues to develop annual educational residencies and workshops across the country with various institutions, among them the Chautauqua Institute, STEPS on Broadway, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Interlochen Arts Festival, Florida State University, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Ballet Divertimento, Montreal; Atlantic Center for the Arts, Yale University, Boston Conservatory of Music, Marymount Manhattan College, SUNY Purchase, the Collegiate School, Frank Sinatra High School of the Arts, LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, Hospital Audiences, and the Juilliard School.
 
Ongoing Classes
We continue to work with young dancers through our dedication to teaching in the City’s most prestigious universities and schools.
Please call the Company office at (212) 719-3301 for more information.
Or Contact us via Email: info@buglisi-foreman.org
 
Master Classes
In contemporary Graham-based technique conceived to teach young students that dance is a language – a vocabulary to communicate to an audience by physical means the issues and emotions of our time. One and one-half hour classes available for all levels. Live musical accompaniment.
 
Repertory Workshop
A warm up followed by a one and one-half hour of repertory to be chosen by the Company.
Advanced students only.
 
Open Rehearsal
Offering insight into the creative process and the onstage experience.
Question and answer session with the artists.
 
Lecture/Demonstration
Including all elements of the residency:
Advanced students demonstrating elements of technique classes.
Student performance of the repertory workshop's choreography.
Excerpts from the repertoire of the Threshold Dance Projects to be performed.
Techniques of Performance
Exclusive master class series designed by Buglisi and Foreman for advanced dance students preparing for the stage. Live musical accompaniment.
 
Lecture Series
Available to the public to serve as community outreach and to develop cultural awareness. The lecture series would consist of lectures on the following subjects by Buglisi and Foreman with a panel discussion with principal Company artists:
  Dances of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis.©
Exploring the roots of American Modern Dance.
  The Solo Voice.©
The process of reconstruction and revival of great solo works of contemporary dance. Dancer as interpretive artist. Discussion based on Solo Repertory class developed by Foreman for Barnard College/Columbia University.
  Dance as the Language of Culture.©
Literary, psychological and artistic sources at the foundation of great contemporary dance works. Includes discussion of Company repertory inspired by great visual artists (Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe) and other heroic figures throughout the ages.
  The Apprentice and the Master.©
The process of discovering our own images to bring a unique expression to the dance. Based on Foreman's book Out of Martha's House, a collection of writings about his 20 years as principal dancer in Martha Graham's works.
 
Educational Outreach
Designed to offer the kinetic experience as an approach to learning. Movement explorations designed for all ages using dance as a means of expression. Topics range from painting and literature, to cultural studies, to mathmatics and science. Taught by members of the Company.
 
PROFESSIONAL CHOREOGRAPHIC COMMISSIONS
Dance and other related arts (Ice Theater of New York); Colleges and Universities
 
RESTAGING OF BALLETS ON OTHER COMPANIES
Most recently for North Carolina Dance Theater, American Repertory Ballet and New Jersey Ballet
 

Technical requirements for the listed activities:
Clean well lit studio suitable for bare feet and floor work.
A musician for the accompaniment of all technique classes during the residency.
Lectures require a space convenient and comfortable for their presentation.
An overhead projector and playback video equipment with a large viewing screen are necessary for presentation of visual materials.
Translator services necessary where required, for all classes and lectures.

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