Title: FREE Ballet Master Classes with Summer Lee Rhatigan
Location: Glendale Community College, GCC Dance Studio- Fitness Center 101
Description: Glendale Community College Dance Hosts SUMMER LEE RHATIGAN, Teacher/Artistic Director, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
September 2-3, 2011
FREE Master Classes with Summer Lee Rhatigan
Ballet Technique
10:00-1:00
GCC Dance Studio- Fitness Center 101
Throughout a professional dance career that spanned more than twenty years, Summer Lee Rhatigan took advantage of every opportunity to develop and refine her teaching skills. She has taught virtually every level of student in settings as diverse as dance schools, universities, and professional dance companies.
During her dance career, Summer was a soloist and principal dancer with London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet), Oakland Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, LINES Ballet, and the San Francisco Opera Ballet, as well as a guest artist with other dance companies internationally. She received her early training at the Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey, England, and then the Royal Ballet School in London, and was the youngest winner at the time to receive the prestigious Adeline Genée Gold Medal.
While she was dancing, Summer had the privilege of working with many choreographers of distinction on the creation of new and existing works. Among these were Rudolf Nureyev, Agnes de Mille, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Léonide Massine, Sir Frederick Ashton, Robert North, Nicholas (Papa) Beriosov, Ruthanna Boris, John Butler, Mary Skeaping, Anna Sokolow, Ben Stevenson, Glen Tetley, Anthony Tudor, Tandy Beal, Ronald Hynd, Bronislava Nijinska, Michael Clark, John Hart, Matthew Hawkins, Barry Moreland, Dame Marie Rambert, Beryl Grey, John Field, Eugene Loring, Michael Corder and David Allan, as well as Bay Area choreographers Alonzo King, Michael Smuin, Ronn Guidi, Val Caniparoli, Carlos Carvajal, Betsy Erickson, Julia Adam, Lawrence Pech, Robert Moses, John Pasqualetti, Ron Thiele, Kirk Peterson, Tomi Paasonen, Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, Arturo Fernandez and Stephen Pelton. Her classical repertoire included principal roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, La Sylphide, Les Sylphides, The Sleeping Beauty, The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
*Master classes will be based upon a first come, first served basis. Classes will not exceed a maximum of 40 participants. Arrive early to ensure your place in class!
For more information please contact Andrea Hashim,
GCC Dance Program Director
ude.apociram.liamcgnull@mihsah.a or 623-845-3796.
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Glendale Community College Dance Hosts SUMMER LEE RHATIGAN, ALEX KETLEY and DR. SUZANNE KNOSP
Saturday, September 3, 2011
FREE Discussion Round Table and Q&A
1:30-2:00 PM
GCC Dance Studio- Fitness Center 101
Join GCC Dance in a FREE Discussion Round Table and Q&A with some of America’s foremost experts in the field of dance.
SUMMER LEE RHATIGAN, Director/Founder San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
ALEX KETLEY, Independent Choreographer, Artistic Director, The Foundry Resident Choreographer, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
DR. SUZANNE KNOSP, Professor of Dance/ Music Director for Dance, University of Arizona School of Dance
President, the International Guild of Musicians in Dance
For more information please contact Andrea Hashim,
GCC Dance Program Director
ude.apociram.liamcgnull@mihsah.a or 623-845-3796.
Start Date: 2011-09-02
End Date: 2011-09-03
