New Mexico Dance Company
pre-professional dance company nm
 

 


Summer Intensive Dance Workshop 2011
June 6th- June 24th

Mission

The mission of the Performers Summer Intensive Dance Workshop is to present to young dancers an intensive training experience with a foundation in classical ballet, administered by professionals selected for their excellence in teaching. The Performers Ballet & Jazz Company is determined to offer an excellent program of high quality instruction at all levels. We provide curriculum with a coherent structure and enough excitement to energize student dancers for the entire year. A rigorous schedule of classes offers the opportunity for serious young dancers to achieve as much as a year’s worth of progress in a short period of time. This summer dance experience results in many unique benefits:

  • Meeting and working with young dancers from other studios, cities and states;

  • Experiencing the unique knowledge, method, inspiration and insight of each master teacher;

  • Establishing the discipline required to achieve their life goals; and

  • Tasting the intensity and pace of the very challenging profession to which many of them aspire.

 

Facilities

The Performers Summer Intensive Dance Workshop 2011 will be held at:

Alwin School of the Dance
10410 Comanche NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111

The school has four studios and is the official home of the Performers Ballet & Jazz Company.

 

Admission

Auditions are not required for admission. However, dancers attending the workshop for the first time must take a placement class at Alwin School of the Dance. For dancers 7 -12 years of age, the class rate is $15. For dancers 13 years of age and up, the class rate is $20. A date and time can be arranged with the Artistic Director. Please call to schedule an evaluation. Evaluation needs to be completed by May 20, 2011.

 

Registration

REGISTRATION FORM

Please download, print and complete the following forms. These forms are due before your first class:

Minors - 2 forms

AUTHORIZATION FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT AND LIABILITY RELEASE

MINOR CHILD LIABILITY RELEASE AND INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT & Media Release for Minor Child

18 years and older - 1 form

LIABILITY RELEASE & MEDIA RELEASE AGREEMENT

 

Curriculum

The Artistic Director of The Performers Ballet & Jazz Company has designed the curriculum to provide the richest experience possible in a short period of time.

Level 5: 5 days a week; 4 hours per day Monday-Friday
Level 4: 5 days a week; 4 hours per day Monday-Friday
Level 3: 5 days a week; 4 hours per day Monday-Friday
Level 2: 4 days a week; 4 hours per day Tuesday-Friday
Level 1: 3 days a week; 3 hours per day Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Schedules  
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5

 

Levels & Fees


Information


For more information, please call Karen Alwin at (505) 298-5551, send an email to basilenm@comcast.net


Artistic Director
of the Summer Intensive Workshop

Karen Alwin has taught dance for more than 40 years. She is the owner of Alwin School of the Dance and the founder of The Performers Ballet & Jazz Company. She takes great pride in the quality of this workshop and the training and experience it offers both her students and guests. She welcomes this year’s resident teachers, guest teachers, and guest pianists and is grateful for the expertise they will share with the dancers.


Faculty

Mary Elizabeth Arrington began her training with Oleg Tupine and Tania Rousseau at the Virginia Ballet School. Ms. Arrington joined the Tulsa Ballet Theatre in 1989 as a corps de ballet member and, later, as a demi-soloist. During her tenure with Tulsa Ballet, she performed roles such as Myrtha in Giselle, the Amazon Captain in Lew Christenson's Con Amore, the pas de six from Arthur Mitchell's Rythemetron, and the Ruby Fairy from Frederick Franklin's Sleeping Beauty. Ms. Arrington moved to Houston to serve as Ballet Mistress and Artist-in Residence with City Ballet of Houston in 1992. While with City Ballet, Ms. Arrington has worked with such choreographers as Luis Fuente, Margo Sappington, John Magnus, Micheal Uthoff, Alan Hineline, Sandra Organ, and Bruce Wells. In addition to working with City Ballet of Houston, Ms. Arrington has been a guest artist with Texas Ballet Theatre, Bartlesville Civic Ballet, Reno Ballet Theatre, and Sandra Organ Dance Company, and has been a guest instructor with Twin City Ballet, Kincaid, Chrysalis Dance Company, Power and Grace, and the Woodlands Dance Academy. Ms. Arrington worked abroad with the Duchy Ballet in England performing the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake and also with Ballet Ascoli-Piceno in Italy as a guest artist and teacher at the invitation of Anne-Marie Holmes. In addition to dancing and teaching, Ms. Arrington has served as a dance panelist for the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and recently graduated from the University of Houston, Summa Cum Laude, with a BA in History and English. Currently, Ms. Arrington serves as Artistic Director of City Ballet of Houston.
Andrea Basile has performed with such companies as The San Francisco Ballet, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, The Foundry, Kate Weare Company, and was a company member with ODC Dance for four years. She is currently a freelance dancer, photographer, and dance teacher for Bay Area companies and schools. Andrea is also co-owner of two businesses in San Francisco - Tao Barber Salon & Slate Skin Detail Studio. Andrea is an alumni of Alwin School of the Dance and The Performers Ballet & Jazz Co. She has taught ballet, jazz, hip hop, and contemporary ballet at our past workshops.
Catherine Batcheller was appointed Dean of the Cincinnati Ballet's Otto M. Budig Academy in June of 2010 and began work with the organization September 1st, 2010. She oversees roughly 1,000 students as well as works with Cincinnati Ballet Company. She was recruited to Cincinnati Ballet while working as the Artistic Director of the Ballet Conservatory of South Texas in San Antonio, a pre-professional ballet academy and company. At BCSTX, she served as principal teacher, designing curriculum, evaluating students, arranging performances and creating and staging choreography. She co-founded, co-directed and danced for Configuration Dance, now known as Configuration Dance Theatre (CDT) in New York. She was the director of Configuration Dance Studio, the school associated with CDT. She has taught ballet all over the country and in Germany, including Stuttgart Ballet, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Boston Ballet and San Francisco Ballet.

She was principal dancer at one of the world's leading ballet companies, Germany's Stuttgart Ballet, where she danced for nine years. She was also a principal dancer at Birmingham Royal Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. During her distinguished dance career, she worked with many of the 20th century's most significant choreographers, including Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Maurice Bejart, Hans van Manen, James Kudelka, Wayne McGregor, David Bintley and Stanton Welch. She danced works by John Cranko, Sir Kenneth Macmillan, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Frederick Ashton.

She has choreographed and staged choreography for the Ballet Conservatory of South Texas, Portland Ballet, Alberta Ballet School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, American Academy of Ballet, Greenwich Ballet Academy and many others, including solos for competitions and auditions. Catherine holds a Master of Art in Dance in Education and Community from Birmingham University in England.

She has appeared as a guest dancer in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, USA and England and in 1983, placed 6th at the international ballet competition at Varna. Her ballet training includes Cleveland Ballet School, Washington School of Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School. She spent summers training at School of American Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, where she studied on scholarship.
Lee Wei Chao a native of Taipei, Taiwan, LeeWei Chao was a member of the Milwaukee Ballet Company from 1998 to 2005 after dancing wit the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, the Festival Ballet of Rhode island, Singapore Dance Theater, Taipei City Ballet, and Henry Yu Dance Company. He has performed in works by Balanchine, Choo San Goh, Robert North, Kathryn Posin, David Parsons, Jean-Paul Comelin, and Simon Dow. He received his early ballet training from Xiao Lee who brought the Vaganova ballet method from Russia to Taiwan. He completed his education at the National Institute for the Arts in Taipei, which hosts guest teachers from all over the world. His training there included Chinese folk dance, ballet, modern dance, Spanish, India, and Bali dance. After his two years of mandatory army training, he was hired by Singapore Dance Theater. In 1996, he came to NYC to join the Joffrey Ballet Concert Dancers. He was awarded the outstanding Dance Award by the Taiwanese Department of the Arts, and was voted Best Male Dancer in Taiwan by Taiwan Dance Magazine. Since 2001, Mr. Chao has been a regular guest choreographer and theater for the Milwaukee Ballet School Summer program and for the Milwaukee Ballet II. He also choreographed for the Space Between program at the Milwaukee Art Museum. In 2002 and 2003, Mr. Chao was commissioned for new works by the Milwaukee Ballet Company.
Carlos dos Santos, Jr. is a recognized dancer, choreographer and teacher. He has performed as a principal dancer with major Brazilian and U.S. dance companies, including the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Complexions, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (US); Grupo Salto, Bale Folclorico da Bahia, Bale Teatro Castro Alves, and DanceBrazil (Brazil), where he also served as a rehearsal director.

Mr. Dos Santos' choreographic credits include works for Colorado Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, American Dance Festival, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and DanceBrazil, as well as his own solo performances around the world.

Mr. Dos Santos has been featured in numerous TV programs as an actor, dancer and model. His TV credits include appearances on PBS (US) and SBT TV (major Brazilian TV network), as well as coverage as a performer and choreographer in news programs around the world. His acting career included Medea Materialis for the New York Fringe Festival, Dream on Monkey Mountain with the Denter Center Theater Company, Chaplin with the Edison Souto Theatre Group, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands with the Fernando Guerreiro Theatre Group, and Yalorixa, a popular Brazilian soap-opera.

Mr. Dos Santos has taught at dance festivals, schools and universities around the world, including the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, The Ailey School, Steps on Broadway, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance School and International Summer Institute, DanceBrazil, Academy of Colorado Ballet, Youth America Grand Prix Ballet and Contemporary Dance Competition for Students, as well as master classes in the U.S., Italy, Switzerland, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Czech Republic, Argentina, and Brazil.
Donn Edwards was a student at OU under Yvonne Chouteau and Miguel Terekhov. Subsequently, as a member of the Joffrey Ballet, Edwards worked with choreographers Arpino, Ashton, Cranko, Joffrey, Jooss, Massine and Robbins; Twyla Tharp created two roles for him. Kent Stowell and Francia Russell invited Edwards to join the Frankfurt Ballet of Germany as a principal dancer, beginning his long association with the classical and Balanchine repertoires.

On his return to the United States, E. Virginia Williams invited Edwards to join Boston Ballet, where he danced leading roles in Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle and Sleeping Beauty. Later, Rudolf Nureyev cast Edwards in the title role of Don Quixote in New York and in tours of North America, Mexico and Europe.

Edwards returned to the University of Oklahoma in 1993, this time as a professor in the school of dance. Since that time he has created for Oklahoma Festival Ballet such works as “On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!,” “Summer Songs” and “Oklahoma Blues” (set to the music of Oklahoma Country/Western artists), which premiered in Clermont-Ferrand, France. For OU’s Opera Company, Edwards has also created original choreography for Dido and Aeneas, Lucia Di Lamamoor and The Bartered Bride. In addition, he has taught master classes in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle.
Luis Fuente received his early training in Madrid, Spain. In 1969 he was selected as Best Male Dancer at the Dance Festival of Vienna. He joined Joffrey Ballet as a leading dancer at age eighteen. He was a Principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Washington, National Ballet of Holland, and London Festival Ballet dancing leading roles in their classical, neoclassical and contemporary repertories. Mr. Fuente has been co-director, choreographer, and ballet master for the Spanish National Ballet and has choreographed for ballet companies throughout Europe and the United States. He was ballet master for the Joffrey Ballet for many years. Mr. Fuente has relocated to Houston and is currently teaching at the Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theatre.
Christina Woodard -unique style and challenging classes have put her in demand as a master teacher and choreographer throughout the world. Her extensive knowledge of anatomy, allows her to provide exciting and educational classes with a deep focus on stretch, strength and placement; while her incredible energy and compassion has made her popular with dancers of all ages. She is a faculty member of EDGE Performing Arts Center(Hollywood, CA), Dance Masters of America, Groove Street Dance Conventions and Harbour Dance Center in Canada. Christina's TV and FILM credits include: episodes of "vicTORIous" and "iCARLY" on Nickelodeon, GARY UNMARRIED w/ Rob Riggle (CBS), The STEVE HARVEY SHOW (WB), SUDDENLY SUSAN w/Brooke Shields (WB), FAME (Sony), and THE NIKKI COX SHOW (WB). She has also done Industrials for GUESS, DISNEY, NESTLE AND NIKE. Currently Christina is teaching and choreographing all over the world!