academy of movement and music summer intensives 2015

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708.848.2329 • 605 Lake St. Oak Park IL www.academyofmovementandmusic.com [email protected]

New! Summer Intensives

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Summer Intensives at the Academy

enrollment is limited. register by april 11 and receive $25 off per intensive!

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june 8-11 contemporary styles in 21st century ballet & improvisation

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taught by sarah cullen fuller

monday-thursday 1:00-5:00 pm

$225.00 ballet levels 10 & 11

june 15-18

martha graham technique and repertory

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taught by sandra kaufmann

monday-thursday, 1:00-5:00 pm

$225.00 ballet levels 9, 10 & 11

june 22-25

humphrey-weidman technique 5

taught by gail corbin

monday-thursday, 1:00-5:00 pm

$225.00 ballet levels 8, 9, 10 & 11

june 29-july 2

ballet intensive: romantic ballet of the 19th century-bournonville style

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taught by jp tenuta and randy newsom


$225.00 ballet levels 8, 9, 10 & 11

july 6-9 musical theatre on tour- west side story

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taught by natalie williams


$225.00 ballet levels 8, 9, 10 & 11

july 13-16 3 jazz masters 9-10

taught by randy duncan, ariane dolan, and autumn eckman


$150.00 ballet levels 10 and 11

july 20 and 22

contemporary styles-titoyaya 11

taught by veronica guadalupe

monday and wednesday 1:00-5:00 pm

$150.00 ballet levels 10 and 11

july 27-30

triple threat finale-musical theatre-dance, voice, and acting

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taught by ron de jesÚs, catherine adams, and linda goodrich


$350.00 ballet levels 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11

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june 8 through 11, 2015

monday through thursday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm daily

for levels 10/11 academy dancers, or advanced dancers 15 and up with 6 years of ballet and modern, and who are currently taking 5 or more technique classes per week.

taught by sarah cullen fuller

$225 / $200 if by april 11 maximum enrollment: 30 minimum: 15

Technique, Repertory and Improvisation. Each day will begin with a contemporary ballet class; the remainder of the time each day will work on improvisation as a means of choreographic composition. There will be an informal showing on Thursday, June 11 at 4:00 PM.

sarah cullen fuller: Formerly with Hubbard Street Dance Company under Jim Vincent, Sarah has performed works by Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Lar Lubovich, Marguerite Donlon, Jim Vincent, Harrison McEldowney and Alex Ketley. She is currently on the faculty of the Academy of Movement and Music, Lou Conte Dance Studio and Loyola University’s Dance Department.

Contemporary Styles in 21st Century Ballet and Improvisation

week one

Sarah Cullen Fuller. Photo: Cheryl Mann.

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june 15 through 18


for academy level 9 and up dancers, or advanced dancers in high school or older. experience in graham technique is highly recommended. this is advanced level work.

taught by sandra kaufmann


Each day will begin with a full technique class in Graham-style modern dance. Dancers will then spend the balance of each afternoon exploring movement phrases from the Graham repertory, including phrases from Helios. Informal showing on Thursday, June 18 at 4:00 PM.

sandra kaufmann danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company and served as the Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Ensemble; also in New York she performed extensively with the Pearl Lang Dance Theatre and with Richard Move. She works as an independent choreographer and as a regisseur restaging works by Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey and has served on the faculty of Barnard College, New York University, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, the University of Chicago and the Academy of Movement and Music. Sandra is the founding Director of Dance at Loyola University Chicago.

Martha Graham Technique and Repertory with Sandra Kaufmann

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Sandra Kaufmann

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june 22 through 25


taught by gail corbin

for academy level 8 and up dancers, and younger dancers with previous humphrey-weidman experience and with the recommendation of a humphrey-weidman trained teacher. this is a demanding and challenging technique.


Each day will begin with a technique class and will continue with a repertory class focused on Doris Humphrey’s 1928 masterpiece, Water Study. Informal showing on Thursday, June 25 at 4:00 pm.

gail corbin is a leading exponent in the technique and repertory of Doris Humphrey. Her longtime association with Ernestine Stodelle, an original member of the company of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, began with Ernestine’s reconstructions on Gail of Two Ecstatic Themes and Air for the G String for the José Limón Company in 1977. Ms. Corbin has taught and directed Humphrey works all over the U.S. as well as Europe and Australia. She has conducted over 10 workshops in Oak Park, Illinois at the Academy of Movement and Music, which is also the home of the Doris Humphrey Society. Gail has also taught this technique at Barnard College, Columbia University, The Juilliard School and St. Olaf College. Gail has been a frequent guest teacher at the José Limón School and is a featured dancer in two films: The Technique of Doris Humphrey and Its Creative Potential and Charles Weidman–on His Own. MOMENTA will be performing Water Study in its 2015 fall concerts.

Humphrey-Weidman Technique with Gail Corbin

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Gail Corbin in Doris Humphrey’s Two Estatic Themes

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june 29 through july 2


for level 10/11 academy dancers, or advanced level dancers ages 15 and up who take 4 or more ballet technique classes per week, taught by randy newsom

for levels 8/9 academy dancers, or ages 13 and up who take ballet technique 3 or more times per week, taught by jp tenuta.

taught by randall newsom and jp tenuta

$225 / $200 if by april 11 maximum enrollment: 25 per level minimum: 15

An intensive focusing on the Romantic Ballet Era – with special emphasis on Bournonville style. The ballet technique classes will include the Bournonville Barre exercises taught for over a century at the Royal Danish Ballet School. This style produces strong dancers with wonderful jumps and beats, and produced the great ballerinas who were known for their lightness of movement. Pointe class and variations from Romantic repertory will be followed by Randall Newsom showing selected rare videos from his extraordinary video collection. There will be observation in classes on Thursday, July 2.

randall newsom was a soloist and principal character dancer with the Irish National Ballet, and performed in America with the Louisville Ballet and the Repertory Dance Company of the Southwest. Mr. Newsom trained at the Rotterdam Conservatorium in Holland and at the London School of Contemporary Dance. He has staged standard Classical and Romantic repertoire for regional ballet companies throughout America. He was head of the Dance Program at Northern Illinois University for 30 years, and currently teaches

at Loyola University and the Ruth Page Center for the Arts.

Ballet Intensive: Romantic Ballet of the 19th Century – Bournonville Style

week four

Mirror Dance from La Ventana.

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week four

jp tenuta has a BFA from Northern Illinois University; he has performed with Nashville Ballet, with Luna Negra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, Chicago Festival Ballet and with Salt Creek Ballet. He teaches regularly at the Academy of Movement and Music as well as at a number of Chicago area schools, and he performs and choreographs for MOMENTA. He has also performed with the Wuhan Ballet in China.

JP Tenuta and Teanna Zarro in La Ventana. Photo: Lisa Green.

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july 6 through 9


for academy level 8 and up or equivalent

taught by natalie williams


The Monday class will be focused on preparing for a professional audition—with a warm-up ballet class, then discussion of resumes/head shots/audition attire, as well as getting a good night’s sleep and having a healthy breakfast before the audition. “Homework” will include having the dancers prepare a resume to bring to the “audition” on Tuesday. The Tuesday class will be conducted as if it were a professional audition for a touring production. The dancers will then be given feedback on their audition “skills” and helped to improve their strategies for success. Each day’s warm-up class will further hone audition skills and prepare for repertory and choreography, with phrases from West Side Story. She will also speak with the students about work ethic and touring etiquette. Natalie will have time with the students for Questions and Answers about career advice, the different dance scenes in NYC, LA, Chicago and abroad, unions, agents and hopes to give real progress reviews.

natalie williams grew up dancing at the Academy of Movement and Music and with MOMENTA; she has a BFA in Dance Performance from Northern Illinois University where she studied with Randall Newsom, Judith Chitwood and Paula Frasz. She performed in Chicago with Inaside Dance Company and has spent two years doing an international tour of Jerome Robbin’s/Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.

Musical Theatre on Tour–West Side Story with Natalie Williams

week five

Natalie Williams. Photo: Eddo.

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july 13 through 16

monday through thursday, 1:00 to 3:00 pm

for academy levels 10 and 11 or equivalent

taught by autumn eckman on monday, randy duncan on tuesday and thursday, and ariane dolan on wednesday.


Jazz Masters features three of the most well-known Jazz teachers in Chicago; they each bring their life experience and unique style to their master classes—with tastes of Giordano, African-based Jazz, and Classic Jazz forms.

randy duncan is a Chicago native; he began dancing with Mrs. Geraldine Johnson, and credits much of his artistic development to Harriet Ross and Joseph Holmes. He is a three-time recipient of Chicago’s prestigious Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Choreographer of the Year, and he received the Artistic Achievement Award from the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, three Black Theatre Alliance Awards and the Gay Chicago Magazine After Dark Award. He earned an American Choreography Award nomination for his choreography for the movie Save the Last Dance. His work can be seen in the repertories of the Joffrey Ballet, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, River North Chicago Dance Company, Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, and Ballet Met of Columbus, Ohio. He has worked at Yale University where he choreographed Liz diamond’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale with Lupita N’yongo. He is the Dance Department Chair at the Chicago Academy of the Arts, where he has taught for 20 years. Randy has choreographed the finale for the annual Dance for Life fundraising gala since 1995, and received the 2013 AIDS Foundation Chicago Civic Leadership Award for his work with Dance for Life.

3 Jazz Masters

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week six

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Randy Duncan’s Journey, as performed by Momenta. Photo: Lisa Green.

Randy Duncan

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ariane dolan is an Academy alumna, getting much of her early training here. While still in high school, she joined The Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre, where she performed for eleven years. She also worked as a guest artist with The Chicago Repertory Dance Theatre and

Momenta. Upon leaving JHCDT, she began performing in musicals, and since then she has appeared in more than fifty shows, in Chicago and around the country. She was Julia Stiles’ ballet double in the film Save the Last Dance. Ariane is on the faculty at the Lou Conte Studios and at Porchlight Music Theatre School.

autumn eckman Autumn Eckman is a Chicago-based dancer, choreographer and teacher and is a full time Instructor at Northern Illinois University’s School of Theatre and Dance. Autumn is the director of Giordano II and is the Assistant Artistic Director/Resident Choreographer of Giordano Dance Chicago. She has performed with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Luna Negra, Giordano Dance Chicago, Lucky Plush Productions, RPM Productions and Ron De Jesus Dance. She recently joined the Cambrians, a new Chicago company directed by Benjamin Wardell.

week six

3 Jazz Masters (cont)

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Ariane Dolan

Autumn Eckman

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Contemporary Styles–Titoyaya

july 20 and 22

monday and wednesday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm daily 1:00 to 2:30 pm titoyaya class 2:30 to 3:00 pm water break and video 3:00 to 5:00 pm repertoire

for academy levels 10 and 11 or equivalent. this is a demanding and challenging technique for advanced dancers.

taught by veronica guadalupe


Veronica Guadalupe will teach two Master Classes on Titoyaya—an exciting contemporary style by international choreographer and artistic director Gustavo Ramirez Sansaro.

veronica guadalupe is a Chicago native. She received her dance training at the Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchburg under the direction of Petrus Bosman. She has apprenticed with River North Chicago Dance Company and performed with Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago II, Lyric Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. She has worked with choreographers such as Eddy Ocampo, Randy Duncan, Fernando Melo, Ron DeJesus and Harrison McEldowney. She has performed in France, Italy, Turkey, Spain and Mexico. She appeared in the film Public Enemies alongside Johnny Depp. Guadalupe danced for Luna Negra Dance Theatre from 2002-2012 and also served as their rehearsal director and later as Associate Artistic Director. She is also a licensed Pilates instructor.

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Veronica Guadalupe

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Triple Threat Finale—Musical Theatre with Ron De Jesús, Linda Goodrich and Catherine Adams

week eight

july 27 through 30

monday through thursday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm

for academy levels 6 through 11 or equivalent

taught by ron de jesÚs, catherine adams, and linda goodrich


The Academy’s Summer Finale is a Triple Threat Intensive with three outstanding faculty from the Department of Musical Theater at the University of Michigan—recently ranked as one of the top five university programs in the United States. Chicago native Ron De Jesús comes “home” to the Academy and brings vocal and acting coaches Catherine Adams and Linda Goodrich. During the four day intensive, students will work in three different age groups learning to access their abilities to express themselves with an integrated approach that helps them to communicate through dance, movement, acting and voice. This faculty brings a wealth of experience to the students incorporating challenging dance skills, physical character study, theatre games (Viola Spolin techniques), mask work, voice, and Estill Voice Model, Feldenkrais Somatic Education and Alexander Technique. Students have sessions for ensemble singing, acting and dancing daily. There will be an informal showing late in the afternoon on Thursday.

ron de jesÚs, who is the founder and director of Ron De Jesús Dance, the artistic ambassador of Northeastern Illinois University and artistic associate for StagePlays Theater Company in New York. He has received many awards including the New York Musical Theater Festival Award for Excellence for Best

Choreography and the Chicago Music & Dance Alliance Award for Best Choreographer. A Chicago native, he has danced with Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, Joseph Holmes Dance Theater, Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago where he was a leading dancer for 17 seasons. He was in the original cast of the Twyla Tharp/Billy Joel musical Movin’Out, was part of the creative team of Tharp’s Come Fly Away and is a repetiteur for Twyla Tharp Productions. De Jesús has created works for film, theatre, television commercials, festivals, special events and dance companies including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, HS2, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Luna Negra Dance Theatre,

Ron De Jesús

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Sacramento Ballet, Momenta, and Thodos Dance Chicago. De Jesús has served as a guest teacher and choreographer at numerous major universities including Harvard, the State University of New York at Purchase, Point Park, Wayne State University, Western Michigan University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Pepperdine University.

linda goodrich’s Directorial/Choreographic credits include Bat Boy and Smokey Joe’s Cafe at THEATREWORKS (awards for Excellence in direction and choreography); Seussical! —Music Theatre of Wichita; Jesus Christ Superstar, Side Show, Oklahoma, and Cabaret —Univ. of Mich. Choreographic credits include world premieres of Henry Krieger’s and Bill Russell’s Everything’s Ducky, and the revised Good News! Tours: Cabaret — Europe, Singin’ in the Rain — U.S. and Japan, Blue’s Clues Live, and Dora the Explorer — U.S., including Radio City Music Hall. Regional Theatre: Company with Carol Burnett — Long Beach Strike up the Band — Goodspeed Opera House.

catherine walker adams has a bachelor of music education from Capital University Conservatory of Music, and a master of music in choral conducting from Western Michigan University School of Music. Adams has worked extensively as a musical director, most recently on productions

of Next To Normal, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Parade, Blood Brothers, Urinetown and The Light in the Piazza. Adams teaches the Estill Voice Training System. She has served as a clinician and judge for The Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook High School Vocal Competition. Adams’s work as a choral conductor has been recognized by the Michigan School Vocal Music Association (MSVMA) and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). Conducting honors include: MSVMA State Honors Choir, MSVMA Midwest Conference, ACDA Michigan Convention and Michigan Youth Arts Festival. In addition, her choirs have performed at Carnegie Hall and in Washington DC, as well as tours in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Italy.

Linda Goodrich

Catherine Walker Adams

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Ongoing advanced classes June 8 - July 31

ballet 9 ballet 9 pointe 3

monday 6:00 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

tuesday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

wednesday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

friday 3:30 - 5:00 pm 5:00 - 6:00 pm


monday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

tuesday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

wednesday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

thursday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

friday 3:30 - 5:00 pm 5:00 - 6:00 pm


monday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

tuesday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

wednesday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

thursday 5:45 - 7:15 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

friday 3:30 - 5:00 pm 7:15 - 8:15 pm

modern graham humphrey

tuesday 8:15 - 9:30 pm

wednesday 8:15 - 9:30 pm

thursday 8:15 - 9:30 pm

stretch & tone

monday 12:00 - 12:45 pm

tuesday 12:00 - 12:45 pm

wednesday 12:00 - 12:45 pm

thursday 12:00 - 12:45 pm

friday 12:00 - 1:00 pm

jazz jazz 5 jazz 6/7

monday 8 weeks 8:15 - 9:30 pm 8:15 - 9:30 pm

saturday 6 weeks 10:00 - 11:30 am for ballet 10 & 11

consent of instructor is required

These are all Mini-Intensives offered as a supplement to daily technique classes—dancers who go away for Summer Intensives spend six or seven days a week dancing as many as eight to nine hours a day. For the full Summer Intensive experience, Academy students are expected to take their regular classes at the appropriate level as well as their desired Intensives. Dancers from other studios are welcome to enroll in some of our evening, Friday and Saturday classes as well.

ballet 9: three technique classes; three pointe classes

ballet 10: four technique classes; four pointe classes

ballet 11: five technique classes; five pointe classes

requirements for any ballet 9, 10, 11 level classes: consent of instructor. dancers who do not take pointe and who wish a modern or jazz emphasis must have their schedules approved by stephanie clemens prior to completing registration.

no class on friday, july 3rd & saturday, july 4th

Please call the Academy at 708-848-2329 for further information.

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Registration

ways to register:

1. by mail. please fill out form below and mail with payment to the academy of movement and music 605 lake street oak park, il 60302

2. in person. complete form and bring it in to the academy at 605 lake street oak park, il.

3. by phone or facsimile with debit or credit card: phone-708.848.2329 facsimile-708.848.2391

4. by email to [email protected] include student information, class selection and debit or credit card information

for more information or questions about our programs, please contact us, by phone at 708.848.2329, or by email at [email protected]

enrollment is limited, so don’t delay! we look forward to seeing you this summer!

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june 8–11

contemporary styles in 21st century ballet & improvisation

$225 $200

june 15–18

martha graham technique and repertory

$225 $200

june 22–25

humphrey-weidman technique

$225 $200

june 29 –july 2

ballet intensive: romantic ballet of the 19th century -bournonville style

$225 $200

july 6–9

musical theatre on tour west side story

$225 $200

july 13–16

3 jazz masters $150 $125

july 20 & 22

contemporary styles–titoyaya

$150 $125

july 27–30

triple threat finale–musical theatre–dance, voice, and acting

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