Stephens Summer Dance Intensive
Summer Dance 2012
May 14–June 27
For students 18 and older
College credit available.
Stephens Summer Dance Intensive (SSD) is an exciting opportunity for
aspiring young dancers to study with international guest faculty in
the Stephens College studios. Students will receive professional, individually
focused training that prepares them for success in today’s diverse
dance world. In addition, they will have the opportunity to perform in the Summer Dance Concert.
The
Program
SSD prepares aspiring young dancers to
meet the challenges of today’s diverse dance world. Students will
study with international guest faculty, taking daily technique classes
in ballet, modern, jazz, and musical theatre in an intensive conservatory
environment. The training students receive will stretch their talents
and broaden their understanding of what it means to be a dancer. Each three-week session will emphasize technical growth and artistic performance. Entrance is by audition only. Guest and Resident Faculty will share their professional expertise through technique classes, individualized attention and rehearsals — providing students with an opportunity to experience the real world of dance in an educational setting. The culmination of the experience is the Summer Dance Concert in June, with performances in the College’s Macklanburg Playhouse and at the Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji, Iowa.
Auditions
Entrance into SSD is by audition
only, either in person or electronically.
A Dance Audition will be held
on Friday, March 9 on the Stephens College campus in Columbia,
Mo. Students also may audition
by attending a class with our majors; or electronically by submitting an
audition DVD or video (consisting of ballet barre-work, modern or jazz
center-work and/or a short video of a performance. No more than seven
minutes total). If the performance video is a group piece, clearly indicate
where you appear on the tape. Please make arrangements by April 1 to take a dance class at Stephens
by contacting Kathy Vogt at (573) 876-7194. Send your video by April 1 to Stephens Summer Dance, Campus Box 2077, 1200 E. Broadway,
Columbia, MO 65215.
Accommodations
Classes and rehearsals are held on the Stephens College campus in Historic Senior Hall, which houses the Harriette Ann Gray Dance Studio, and the East Studios. Performances are held in the College’s 314-seat Macklanburg Playhouse. While on campus, Stephens Summer Dance students will live in an air-conditioned residence hall with laundry facilities and recreation lounges with cable. Local students may request to live off campus by contacting Carol Estey at (573) 876-7211 or cestey@stephens.edu.
Meals
Stephens Summer Dance students eat in
the Stamper Commons dining hall, which is located in the center of campus.
Included in the program are three meals per day (Monday–Friday)
and two meals per day on weekend.
Enrollment Fee
Fee includes tuition, room, board, and college credit, if applicable.
- 10 Credits undergraduate, includes room and board: $5,000
- 10 Credits, no room and board: $3,200
- No Credit, includes room and board: $4,300
- No Credit, no room and board: $2,500
- Fee includes tuition, room, board, and college
credit if applicable.
2012 Summer Dance Faculty
Carol Estey – SSDI Director: Chair of Stephens College Department of Dance. Carol has performed in eight Broadway shows, directs and choreographs, and was a founder and co-artistic director of Opera House Arts at the Stonington Opera House.
Kathryn Alter – Limon (Session One)
Kathryn Alter hails from Juneau, Alaska. After attending Interlochen Arts Academy, she graduated from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance with highest honors in 2001. Alter has been a member of the Limon Dance Company since 2003. She is also a founding member of Riedel Dance Theater and has worked with Alan Danielson and Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater. Her choreography has been presented in a variety of venues in New York City and across the United States and Mexico. Her most recent work was created for students at la Escuela Nacional de Danza Nellie y Gloria Campobello in Mexico City.
Nancy Stoy – Ballet (Session One)
Nancy Stoy is a graduate of the Canadian College of Dance in Toronto. She is a member of Royal Academy of Dance and member of Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance. Her area of emphasis is in Cecchetti Method and Pedagogy. She has performed in Omaha-Dancescape and has taught in the U.S., London and Canada. Stoy teaches in the Halcyone Perlman School of Dance in Columbia, Mo.
Tony Parise – Musical Theater/Tap (Session One)
Tony Parise began his theatrical career as a performer. He appeared in the national tour of A Chorus Line, and was on Broadway in 42nd Street, Me and My Girl and City of Angels. Now on the other side of the footlights, Parise has directed and/or choreographed Hello Dolly! starring Madeline Kahn, Where’s Charley? starring Jo Sullivan and Emily Loesser, Mame, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oliver starring Ellen Greene, Cinderella, La Cage Aux Folles, The Music Man, Crazy for You, Funny Girl, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, On the 20th Century, You Can’t Take it With You, Dames at Sea, and national companies of Grease! starring Cindy Williams and Eddie Mecca, Anything Goes, 42nd Street and Me and My Girl starring Tim Curry. Parise has had the honor of choreographing Bernadette Peters in both her Carnegie Hall and Radio City debuts. He was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his choreography of Pirates of Penzance. Other off-Broadway credits include co-choreography for Pageant, movement for Raft of the Medusa, and co-direction and staging for Balancing Act. Internationally, Parise has mounted companies of 42nd Street in London, Australia, New Zealand and Korea, Me and My Girl in Mexico City and Anything Goes at the Theater Des Westens in Berlin. He has choreographed for Italian TV in Milan. From 1996, he has directed the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University. Teaching credits include master classes throughout the U.S. and abroad with such organizations as AMDA, Boston Ballet, New Zealand School of Dance, and the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts. Parise is the artistic director of Camp Broadway.
Robyn Lee – Acting
Robyn Lee is the director of In The Moment Repertory in NYC and the author of “In the Moment: The Art of Being” and “The Book of TABs: Meditations on Acting Life.” She has taught In The Moment for the last 15 years at the European Film College and Ophelia Professional Actors School (Denmark, Norway, Amsterdam), The Actors Centre (Australia), Spiral-E Vienna, Stella Adler (New York and Los Angeles), the Michael Howard Studio (New York), Stephens College (Missouri) and Burr and Burton Academy (Vermont).
Born in Australia, Lee began her life in ballet, accepted by the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and Balanchine's Youth Company. Major ballets include The Music of Gould, Holst, and Stravinsky. On Broadway: Merlin, Dir/Prod. Ivan Reitman, 5,6,7,8, Dance, Dir/Choreo. Ron Field; Credits include being cast in A Chorus Line, Canadian Silent Players (Mime), Rocky Horror Picture Show, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. She has directed, choreographed and/or written 10 off/off-Broadway shows including: In Flight, You Can’t kill The Light, From Here To Here, HELP!!DESK, The Bear Went Over the Mountain, The Ruffian on the Stair, Night Must Fall, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, and Gorged and Flying. She is also co-founder of Third Eye Media, a multimedia production company.
Michael Uthoff – Ballet (Session Two)
Michael Uthoff is an internationally renowned artistic director, choreographer, teacher and dancer. He is the artistic and executive director of Dance St. Louis. He was born in Santiago, Chile, to former dancers, Ernst Uthoff and Lola Botka, both of the Jooss Ballet and founders of the Chilean National Ballet. He started dancing after high school and attended the Juilliard School of Music, School of American Ballet and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. He danced with the José Limón Company and was a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet. In 1972, Uthoff established the Hartford Ballet in Hartford, Conn., and for 20 years, as artistic director, he developed the company into a national institution that toured in 49 states. He commissioned works by both new and established choreographers, and created more than 100 ballets for the company. He served as the artistic director of Ballet Arizona from 1992-1999. From the time that Uthoff created his first dance for the Joffrey Ballet in 1967, his ballets have entered the repertory of companies all over the world. In 2010, Uthoff received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He holds an honorary laureate degree from Saint Joseph College in Hartford. In October 2007, he received the Chilean North American Institute's Distincción Ernst Uthoff Award for his distinguished 40-year career and outstanding contributions to dance.
His large-scale works include The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Hansel and Gretel, Alice in Wonderland, Awakening, Dias de Muertos and Romeo and Juliet. He has directed opera and choreographed for opera companies internationally, and has served on the Board of Dance/USA and panels of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Uthoff’s recent career as guest teacher, choreographer and artistic advisor includes entities such as the government of Chile, the Shanghai Ballet of China, the California Ballet of San Diego, Portland Opera Performing Institute, Andanza Dance Company of Puerto Rico, the Ballet Estable of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he held the post of artistic director, and his own Michael Uthoff Dance Theatre, which premiered in 2003.
Uthoff’s teaching continues at the university level. He has been on staff in the dance department at University of Missouri-St. Louis for two years. In Fall 2010, he joined the staff of the dance department at Webster University as well. Uthoff recently completed a recreation for MADCO in St. Louis and has been commissioned to create a new work by Dancing Wheels in Cleveland. He is also choreographing for New World School of the Arts in Miami, Fla., for the final performance under retiring Dean Daniel Lewis in Spring 2011. Among other recent dance works are Galleria, premiered in February 2007 by Boston Conservatory, and Honorable Sky, which he created in August 2007 for 30 X 30, the 30th anniversary celebration of BalletMet Columbus.
Christopher K. Morgan (Modern: Session Two)
Christopher K. Morgan is the artistic director of Washington, D.C.-based Christopher K. Morgan & Artists. Profiled as one of six breakout choreographers in the United States by Dance Magazine in April 2011, Morgan’s work stems from a belief in the urgency of live performance art in an increasingly isolating, commercial and digital world. His choreography has been said to be "charming and poignant" by The New York Times and has been presented in 18 countries on five continents, in venues including The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), La Mama (New York City), Theater Artaud (San Francisco), The Maly Theatre (Moscow, Russia) the Hong Kong Cultural Center (China) and the South Lawn of the White House. His 2010 piece +1/-1, was hailed as “exquisitely athletic…the kind of crooked choreography where the simple quiver of fingertips is enough to spark goose bumps” (artspost.net) and subsequently won the 2010 Dance Metro DC award for Outstanding New Work. Morgan served as choreographer in residence and rehearsal director for repertory company CityDance Ensemble from 2007-11. A skilled facilitator, Morgan has also directed the Dance Omi International Dance Collective since 2005, an annual three-week residency for professional, international dancer/choreographers that takes place in New York. From 2005-08, he also founded and directed his New York City-based pick-up group, Muse.
In addition to currently serving as artist in residence at American University in D.C., Morgan has taught at schools including the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Shawbrook (Ireland), Iwanson Schule (Munich), Choreography College of Belarus, Radford University (Virginia), Towson University (Maryland), Stephens College (Missouri), Western Kentucky University and University of Idaho. He has lectured for New York City Ballet’s Education Department, Dance Theater Workshop, served as a panelist to the National Endowment for the Arts, and adjudicated the 2010 National ACDFA Gala at the Kennedy Center. Performing credits include Fabulous Beast Dance Theater (Ireland/UK), David Gordon, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Kevin Wynn and the Collection, Shapiro & Smith, Malashock Dance, Selfish Shellfish (Germany), and as a soloist with the Washington National, Houston Grand, and New York City Operas. He was in the original Olivier nominated cast of Fabulous Beast Dance Theater’s Giselle. TV and film credits include a PBS Great Performance with Placido Domingo, and on film dancing with Kate Winslet and Christopher Walken.
Faculty are subject to change.
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