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Dance
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 Chautauqua Ballet Company, formed
by artistic director Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux in 1989, is
composed of professional dancers from major companies nationwide.
Chautauqua Ballet
is distinguished by its strong Balanchine influence. In addition
to masterpieces in classical ballet, it stages modern dance and
contemporary ballet. The company presents four performances in
Chautauqua’s Amphitheater during its eight-week season,
with an average of ten world premieres by guest and resident
choreographers. Preview performances in the Carnahan-Jackson
Studios, where the company and school study and rehearse daily,
have also become anticipated events for Chautauqua fans.
Chautauqua Ballet’s School of Dance provides a select group
of students from across the nation the opportunity of studying
with world-renowned teachers. Students work regularly with choreographers
Mark Diamond, Bonnefoux, Maris Battaglia and Michael
Vernon. Under the tutelage of Patricia McBride, they
also present ballets by Balanchine and Petipa. The most advanced
students receive the experience of performing with live orchestras
in the 5,000-seat Amphitheater.
The School of Dance also provides instruction for Chautauqua
vacationers of all ages. Classes include ballet, modern dance
and creative movement.
Please see the Special
Studies catalog or contact:
Chautauqua Dance, Carnahan-Jackson Studios, Hedding Avenue (716-357-6298).
Artistic
Director
Jean-Pierre
Bonnefoux
- Former principal dancer with New York City Ballet and Paris
Opera Ballet; currently artistic director of North
Carolina Dance Theatre.
Associate
Artistic Director
Mark Diamond - Former soloist with
Hamburg Ballet and principal dancer with Milwaukee Ballet; currently
teacher and choreographer of North Carolina Dance Theatre.
Resident
Faculty
Maris Battaglia - Ballet Received training
at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet; currently director
of and choreographer for the American Academy in Buffalo.
Connie Dinapoli - Modern Former soloist with Paul Taylor
Dance Company; currently teaches at the University of Cincinnati
College Conservatory of Music and the School for Creative Performing
Arts, and is co-director of Taylor 2.
Glenda Lucena - In Venezuela she began
a long and varied professional performance career as principal
dancer, touring nationally and internationally, ballet mistress,
artistic director, and academic director of the Ballet Metropolitano
de Caracas, the Ballet Nacional de Venezuela and Ballet Farten
and the Choreographic Center for the Arts in Barquisimeto, respectively.She
joined the Miami City Ballet under the direction of Edward Villella
in 1994 as a professional ballet teacher and in 1997 was promoted
to ballet mistress. Lucena is currently a faculty member at Gulfshore
Ballet, Fla., and is a guest teacher for dance programs across
the United States.
Patricia McBride - Ballet Former distinguished prima ballerina
with the New York City Ballet; currently artistic director of
North Carolina Dance Theatre.
Kathryn Moriarty - Ballet Former principal with Milwaukee
Ballet and soloist with Norwegian National Ballet, Hamburg Ballet,
and Cincinnati/New Orleans Ballet; former artistic associate
of Dayton Ballet and co-director of Dayton Ballet II; currently
on the faculty of the School of North Carolina Dance Theatre.
Michael Vernon - Trained at the Royal
Ballet School. Danced with London Festival Ballet. A recipient
of the Winston Churchill Fellowship. Artistic director of Eglevsky
Ballet 1988-96. He has choreographed and taught classes for many
companies worldwide and on four continents. Currently a company
teacher for American Ballet Theatre, he also teaches at STEPS,
where he trains and coaches dancers from major dance companies
all over the world.
Fred Walton - Jazz Studied at Luigi Studio in Indianapolis
and at the Joe Tremaine Dance Theatre in Los Angeles; currently
teaches jazz at Indiana University and tap, jazz and ballet in
private studios.
Guest Faculty
& Choreographers
Mark Godden - Former soloist with
and resident choreographer for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet; his
choreography has won awards from the Banff Center of the Arts,
the International Ballet competition in Varna, Bulgaria, and
the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki, Finland; he
has created ballets for major companies worldwide, and received
the Choo San Goh Choreography Award in 1997; currently, he is
permanent guest choreographer for the Harid Conservatory.
Julie Kent - Julie began her dance
training with Hortensia Fonseca at the Academy of the Maryland
Youth Ballet. She attended the School of American Ballet before
joining American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 1985. In
that same year, Kent won first place in the regional finals of
the National Society of Arts and Letters at the Kennedy Center.
In 1986, she was the only American to win a medal at the Prix
de Lausanne International Ballet Competition, and she became
a member of ABT’s corps de ballet. She was appointed a soloist
with ABT in 1990 and a principal dancer in 1993, the year in
which she won the Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto. In April 2000,
Kent won the “Prix Benois de la Danse” which was held
in Stuttgart. She is the only American ever to have won this
prize.
Chautauqua
Dance Circle
The Chautauqua
Dance Circle (CDC) is a supportive, enthusiastic link between
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Artistic Director of the Dance Program,
and the Chautauqua Community, dedicated to assuring that Chautauqua
Dance remains competitive with other summer dance programs and
continues its tradition of excellence.
 2008 Chautauqua Dance Circle brochure (93 KB)
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