[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] Koresh Guest Artist Series

[Cheryl Carson]

Robert Swinston, Merce Cunningham Dance Company 

MASTER CLASS 

WED, FEB 27TH

  6-7:30PM

 
Robert Swinston, Assistant to the Choreographer, was born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and attended Middlebury College and The Juilliard School,
where he received a BFA in dance. He has danced with the Martha Graham
Apprentice Company, the José Limón Dance Company, and with Kazuko
Hirabayashi Dance Theatre. He joined MCDC in August 1980. He has taught
dance at Montclair State College, SUNY Purchase, The Juilliard School and
the Merce Cunningham Studio. In July 1992 he became Assistant to the
Choreographer. Swinston directs the activities of the CDF Repertory
Understudy Group and its work with the Cunningham Educational Outreach
Program. Since 1998, Swinston has instigated, helped, and/or overseen
various Cunningham archival reconstructions including Suite for Five
(1956–58), Summerspace (1958), Antic Meet (1958), Crises (1960), How to
Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (1965), RainForest (1968), and CRWDSPCR (1993). He
has assisted in the staging of Cunningham works on other companies,
including Boston Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, White Oak Dance
Project, Rambert Dance Company, and New York City Ballet. In 2003, Swinston
received a “Bessie” Award for his performance in the revival of Cunningham’s
How to Pass, Kick, Fall, and Run.



“One does not have to have studied in order to dance. It is given to all of
us. But for the professional dancer, an awareness of the physical mechanism
is useful to maintain that amplification of energy that gives to the dance
the quality that makes it, at its best, a moving image of life.”   
                                                        Merce Cunningham


 

***This master class is designed to maintain dancers at a professional
level. It is designed for professionals from dance companies, including
Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and for students who demonstrate the
required strength and ability. This class is designed for the
intermediate/advanced dancer. 

 

 

 

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ALBERTO DEL SAZ, Artistic Director of the Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance
Company

 

MASTER CLASS 

WED, MARCH 5TH

  6-7:30PM

 

Born in Bilbao, Spain in 1960, Mr. Del Saz studied ice skating and in 1980,
Mr. Del Saz became the Spanish National Champion in figure skating. His
early dance training was at the Nikolais-Louis Dance Lab from Hanya Holm,
Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, Claudia Gitelman, Tandy Beal, Beverly Blossom
and others. 

 

In 1985, Mr. Del Saz made his debut as a soloist with the Nikolais Dance
Theater, later renamed the Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance Company. He has
toured to virtually every continent on the globe. Mr. Del Saz has appeared
for President Reagan at the Kennedy Center Honors, as well as on PBS
American Masters series in “Nik and Murray”, an award winning documentary
film by Christian Blackwood. He has also represented the US State Department
on a tour of India, appeared at the Paris Opera Garnier, and at the Next
Wave Festival with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. In 1990 he
appeared as a guest artist in “V”, a project by Mr. Ushio Amagatsu, Artistic
Director of Sankai Juku in Japan. He has also performed at “Men Brazil”. Mr.
Del Saz has appeared as a guest solo artist in works by Hanya Holm, Claudia
Gitelman, Maureen Fleming, Sara Pearson, Cleo Parker Robinson and others.

Mr. Del Saz is the Reconstruction Director of the Nikolais/Louis repertory
and has staged the Nikolais/Louis repertory on university and professional
dance companies around the world. Among them are North Carolina School of
the Arts, The Juilliard School, Conservatoire de la Danse de Paris,
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co., The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Ballet Met,
University of Washington, University of Illinois, Rutgers State University,
Brigham Young University, among others. Mr. Del Saz has been with the
Nikolais/Louis Foundation for 23 years, at the moment his focus is in
preserving the Nikolais/Louis technique, repertory and legacy through his
teaching and directing.

 

***This master class, which will feature live accompaniment, will be
distinguished within the modern dance idiom by its clearly defined semantics
of abstraction. It will emphasize free-form motion, rather than patterns,
while stressing each dancer’s unique gestures. Particular attention is paid
to the development of each individual as an artist. This class is designed
for the intermediate/advanced dancer.

 

For both of these classes, you must reserve a spot. 
Please email info at koreshdance.org or call 215-751-0959. 

 

Each class is $15.

 

 

Cheryl Carson, Company Manager

Koresh Dance Company

2020 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA  19103

T: 215-751-0959/F: 215-665-0805

www.koreshdance.org

 

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