Category: Master Classes

April 26, 2015 As a member of the New York City Ballet, Mr. Fleming danced principal roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins. He headed a group of soloists and principals from New York City Ballet, which toured Europe with his choreography as well as that of George Balanchine. With Mr. Balanchine’s encouragement he embarked on a career as a choreographer and received a fellowship from the National Choreographic Institute under the Direction of Barbara Weisberger. Mr. Fleming served as the Artistic Director of the Compañia Colombiana de Ballet at the Teatro Colon in Bogota, Colombia from 1985 to…

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September 10, 2014 Gerard Ebitz danced professionally with the New York City Ballet and was a founding member of Miami City Ballet. He was a principle dancer with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Zurich Ballet. Mr. Ebitz has received world-recognition for his choreography and teaching and has been on the faculty of NWSA since 1988.

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December 15, 2015 Mr. Phillips is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BFA, Dance) where he was also a member of the Peter Sparling Dance Company. He attended the Merce Cunningham School on scholarship and performed in the Cunningham Repertory Group. Other performance credits: New York City Opera, Battleworks Dance Company, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Risa Jaraslow and Dancers, and an apprenticeship with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Mr. Phillips is a teaching artist with RIOULT’s DanceREACH program and has had the privilege to restage Mr. Rioult’s work. He joined RIOULT Dance NY as a dancer in…

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January 17, 2014 Doreen Cafarella has been a dance educator for twenty-five years. In 1986, Ms. Cafarella founded Northern Ballet Theatre Dance Center in New Hampshire that has gained a reputation for excellence in dance training. Students of Ms. Cafarella have gone on to dance with companies such as Boston Ballet, Ballet West and Joffrey Ballet to name a few. Ms. Cafarella has danced with notable companies such as Boston Ballet, New England Ballet, Boston Repertory Ballet, Atlantic Ballet and Ballet Arts Ensemble. Her teaching credits include: Northern Ballet Theatre Dance Center, The Boston Conservatory of Music and Dance,…

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November 15, 2013 Barre and “Bluebird Variation” from Sleeping Beauty Maria Teresa del Real was born in Miami, Florida. As a young dancer she won a bronze medal at the Varna International Ballet competition in Bulgaria, considered the Ballet Olympics at the time. She became the first American to win a medal at an international ballet competition in almost ten years. During her illustrious career she had the privilege of partnering dancers such as Rudolf Nureyev, Fernando Bujones, Jose Manuel Carreno and Carlos Acosta, among others, and has performed leading roles in many major ballets, including Swan Lake, Giselle,…

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February 28, 2014 Paul Thrussell, who trained at the Royal Ballet School, has danced Northern Ballet Theatre, and was a principal dancer for London City Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet. He has had the privilege of performing for Queen Elizabeth, and Diana, the Princess of Wales, during his time with London City Ballet. As a principal dancer he performed numerous leading roles with choreography by Balanchine, McMillan, Cranko, Nacho Duato, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and Rudi Van Dantzig. Paul has had works created on him by Twyla Tharp, Mark Godden, Christopher Wheeldon and Daniel Pelzig. In 1996 he…

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April 20-21, 2013 Melanie Hamrick was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she began her ballet training at Eastern Virginia School of the Performing Arts continuing on to the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C. After attending the summer program of American Ballet Theater she was asked to join ABT’s Studio Company in 2003. She then became a member of the company in April 2004. Hamrick has danced many roles in ballets including Apollo, La Bayadere, Don Quixote, Moyna in Giselle to name a few. Mr. Carreño was born in Cuba to a family with an established tradition of…

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