Judith Reyn
Pre-Professional Trainee Students Only
Master Class Series
November 5 - 9 , 2007
Professional Dance Career Judith Reyn trained at the Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet Company, Covent Garden. She remained four years in the Company, working with many leading personalities of the period, including Sir Frederick Ashton, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev. Judith also danced solo roles in ballets by Ashton and MacMillan. Judith was personally selected by John Cranko to join his Company, The Stuttgart Ballet, and was promoted shortly afterwards to Soloist, and a year later to Principal. She danced all the leading roles in John Cranko’s full-length ballets including: Tatiana in Eugene Onegin; Katharina and Bianca in Taming of the Shrew; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet; Giselle in Giselle; and Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty. Judith also danced leading roles in ballets by Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine and Peter Wright. Judith made Guest Appearances with the Royal Ballet Company and the Stuttgart Ballet in all major opera houses of the world as well as Guest solo appearances with leading European companies in Giselle, Sleeping Beauty and numerous Balanchine ballets. Teaching Experience Under the sponsorship of Professor Michael Birkmeyer, Director of the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, Judith studied Ballet Pedagogy with the leading teachers in Europe. In 1986, she joined the staff of the Vienna State Opera Ballet School as teacher of classical ballet, variations and repertoire. Judith taught the eight-year Vaganova programme many times, and was largely responsible for the repertoire and the performances of the Upper Level. She taught graduate classes with prize-winning students, a majority of whom received contracts with leading European dance companies. She taught Liz King´s modern dance company Tanztheater Wien for ten years and created a system adapting the classical ballet education and training programme to the needs of modern dance training.. Guest Teacher Over the last five years Judith has worked as an international guest teacher with invitations to teach leading classical ballet companies and contemporary and modern dance companies. She has also conducted master classes and workshops in universities, conservatories, academies, dance foundations and dance festivals.
William G. Hamilton, M.D
Pre-Professional Trainee Students Only
Wellness Program
1 - 2 PM November 9 , 2007
Lecture in Anatomy and Kinesiology. Dr. Hamilton is an orthopedic surgeon and consultant to the New York City Ballet , School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theater , and the Jacqualine Kennedy Onassis School of American Ballet Theater.
Gelsey Kirkland
Pre-Professional Trainee Students Only
Master Class Series
10 - 12 AM November 12 through the 15th, 2007
It is our pleasure to announce that Gelsey Kirkland will be teaching a four day master class series for our Trainee students this November!
Gelsey Kirkland received her early training at the School of American Ballet, gaining early stage experience dancing children’s roles in Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Harlequinade. She graduated to the New York City Ballet in 1968, was promoted to soloist in 1970 and principal dancer in 1972. While in the New York City Ballet she performed a variety of leading roles in their repertory, including Concerto Barocco, The Cage, Irish Fantasy, Symphony in C, La Source, Theme and Variations, Tarantella, Harlequinade, The Nutcracker and Dances at a Gathering. Her desire to master roles in full-length works coincided with Baryshnikov’s defection and invitation to dance with him at American Ballet Theatre which she joined in 1974 as principal dancer. Teachers most influential in her development as a classical artist include Stanley Williams, Maggie Black, David Howard, actress and mime Pilar Garcia and dramaturge Greg Lawrence. Miss Kirkland received worldwide acclaim for her performances in the classical repertory: the title role in Giselle, Kitri in Don Quixote, Clara in The Nutcracker, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the sylph in La Sylphide, Lise in La Fille Mal Gardee, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Nikiya in The Kingdom of the Shades, the Mazurka and pas de deux in Les Sylphide, and the sleepwalker in La Somnambula. Major choreographers have been inspired to create new works for her; namely, a production of Firebird by George Balanchine when she was seventeen, several ballets by Jerome Robbins, and Antony Tudor’s The Leaves are Fading and The Tiller in the Fields. Miss Kirkland’s guest appearances with leading companies are notably the critically acclaimed performances of The Sleeping Beauty and MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet with The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, and in Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet with The Stuttgart Ballet. On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s 60th Birthday Gala at Covent Garden she performed the balcony pas de deux with Anthony Dowell. Her appearances on American and British television include Live from Lincoln Centre and the film version of Baryshnikov’s The Nutcracker. Published works by Miss Kirkland include three books co-written with Greg Lawrence: “Dancing on My Grave”( 1987), a best selling autobiography published in 5 languages, “ The Shape of Love”(1990), contracted and published as a book on dance education, and a children’s book titled “The Little Ballerina and her Dancing Horse ” (1993). Miss Kirkland has been honored at the White House by First Lady Nancy Reagan, and has been the recipient of awards that include the Victory of the Spirit Award at the Kennedy Centre and the Gerald Manley Hopkins Theatre Award. She was appointed to the Board of Directors for Sight Savers International, named National Chairwoman for USA International Ballet Competition, Jackson, Mississippi, and was an honored alumnus at the 50th Anniversary Gala for American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House. Retirement from the stage in 1986 marked Miss Kirkland’s transition into teaching and coaching in institutions such as American Ballet Theatre, The Royal Ballet School, English National Ballet, and The Australian Ballet. In the 1990’s she was Professor of Dance at Adelphi University in New York . Also in 2002-5 she taught at the Victorian College of the Arts and was director of the ballet program at Danceworld 301. In 2006-7 she collaborated with Kevin McKenzie and Michael Chernov in the staging and additional choregraphy for The Sleeping Beauty for American Ballet Theatre, as well as appearing as the Fairy Carabosse in that production. Apart from ongoing work with American Ballet Theatre over the next year, she teaches master classes in New York.
Alexandre Proia 
Professionals and Advanced Students
11 AM, Saturdays in July (7,14,21,28)
$18.00 Per Class
We are excited to host Alexandra Proia this July for a series of classes on Saturdays. In addition to his years as a New York City Ballet principle, Alexandre has danced and choreographed around the world to great acclaim. He will be teaching a class for professionals and advanced students only.
Born in France, Alexandre graduated from the School of Paris Opera Ballet in 1980, where he studied ballet, jazz, modern, mime, character dance, acting and history of dance. His teachers include: Claude Bessy, Max Bozzoni, Solange Golovine, Rene Bon, Gilbert Meyer, Molly Molloy, Joseph Roussillo and Michel Renauld.
In 1980 he was awarded a grant to study at the American Dance Festival at Durham University (NC). Upon his return to France he auditions for E . Virginia Williams, Pierre Lacotte and Violette Verdy who invite him to join the Boston Ballet. In 1983, after participating in the first New York International Dance Competition, he is invited to join the New York City Ballet, under Peter Martins and Jerome Robins where he was a principle for 12 years. In 1995 he is featured in the Tony nominated, new Broadway production of Chronicle of a Death Foretold directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele. In 1997 he is a guest artist with the Martha Graham Dance Company for a year. In 1999 he joins director/choreographer Martha Clarke with whom he works for three years on various new productions including Vers La Flamme and Hans Christian Andersen. As a NewYork City resident he has performed, taught and choreographed with numerous companies and schools across the globe including; New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Stars of Paris Opera, the Paris Opera, Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Maggio Danza (Florence), the Juilliard School, the Ailey School, Steps on Broadway and the Lines Ballet School (San Francisco).
For more information on Alexandre visit his website: www.alexandreproia.com
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