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John Magnus received
his dance training at the University of Cape
Town Ballet School. He soon joined the
Cape Town Ballet Company, performing a wide
range of classical ballet roles. In 1980, Mr.
Magnus moved to the United States and began
working as Ballet Master for the Nevada Ballet
Theater. He then moved to New York and served as
Ballet Master for the New Jersey Ballet Company
and its school. Concurrently, he taught classes
for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
In 1986 he joined
the faculty of the Joffrey Ballet School where
he has been teaching for the past 20 years. As
Ballet Master, he has set some of the world's
favorite ballets, including Don Quixote, La
Bayadere and Swan Lake. Mr. Margnus has been
working with students and professional dancers
at the Joffrey Ballet School beginning at age 7
to the most seasoned performer. Mr. Magnus
teaches ballet, pas de deux, and men's classes
and conducts the national auditions for the
Joffrey's New York and Flint, Michigan Summer
Programs each year. He is also the artistic
director of the highly successful Joffrey
Midwest Summer Workshop in Flint, Michigan and
in 2005 he was appointed artistic director of
the Joffrey Ballet School New York and
choreographed the schools first full length
production of Nutcracker which will be performed
yearly.
In addition to his
active teaching schedule in New York City, Mr.
Magnus regularly conducts master classes
throughout the country. He has also served as
adjudicator for the International Dance
Association in Paris and has been a faculty
member for the Regional Dance America/SW
Festivals from 1995-2006 and on Louisiana Dance
Foundation's Summer Dance Festival faculty from
2001-2005
DANIEL DE CORDOBA
returns for his seventh year to the Summer Intensive with his classical
Flamenco instruction.
Having trained in both the
U.S. and Spain, he is the
director of the Daniel de
Cordoba Bailes Espanoles in
Dallas, and has performed
extensively in Europe,
Mexico, and on Broadway.
Darrell
Cleveland
recently retired from Dallas Black
Dance Theatre, where he was
a leading dancer for 8
years. He has been teaching
Jazz at the Ballet Academy’s
Summer Intensive for the
past 9 years. He has become
a regular staff member of
the Ballet Academy of
Texas since his
retirement, teaching Jazz
and Modern to all levels.
He has performed with Toni
Braxton and En Vogue, and
choreographed several
musicals and commercials. He
received a full scholarship from the Regional Dance America/Southwest
organization to attend the 2008 Craft of Choreography Workshop for his
choreography of "Grace Under Fire" for the Ballet Ensemble of Texas.
Donn Edwards
is an associate
professor at the Dance Department of the University of Oklahoma. He was
formerly a Principal Dancer with the Joffrey Ballet in New York, the
Frankfurt Ballet in Germany, and the Boston Ballet. He is a frequent
guest teacher nationally and also choreographs for professional opera.
Leslie
Peck is an Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows
School of the Arts. She was trained by the legendary dancer Andre Eglevsky and
the School of American Ballet. At the age of seventeen, Ms. Peck joined the New
York City Ballet under the direction of George Balanchine. Later she danced
soloist roles with Pennsylvania Ballet and later became a principal dancer with
Houston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Richmond Ballet and Ballet
International in London. She is a recognized authority on Balanchine ballets,
and one of the few dancers authorized to stage Balanchine ballets by the
Balanchine Trust.
Carol
Smitherman Anglin
is the
owner/director of Carol Anglin Dancenter, Inc. in Shreveport, LA. She is also
the founder and Artistic Director of the Louisiana Dance Foundation (LDF) and
its resident dance company, Louisiana Dance Theatre (LDT), an Honor Company of
Regional Dance America/SW (RDA/SW), which has performed throughout America, in
Russia and in Europe. Carol trained and performed in Chicago and New York
at the Zaki
Labovsky School of Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Alvin Ailey American
Dance Center, and other prominent schools. A multi-disciplinary artist, Carol
received degrees from the University of Alabama (Dance/ Choreography) and
Louisiana Tech University (Art/Education), and was one of 18 international
teachers accepted to New York University where she studied with Mme. Claude
Bessey and Serge Golovine, former Directors of the Paris Opera Ballet School.
Carol
has taught in public and private schools, colleges and universities, and
professional dance schools throughout America including New York’s Broadway
Dance Center and Steps. She was the first American to teach modern dance at the
School of Marina Semyonova in Moscow in 1990. Carol has choreographed more than
25 ballets and operas for the Shreveport’s Symphony and Opera. She received
SRAC’s Artist Fellowships in 1995 and 2001 and has received numerous awards for
her choreography including the
Jazz Dance
World Congress – Choreography Competitive Event (1992-96, 2002, & 2006) where
she was awarded Honorable Mention at the Kennedy Center for First Circle –
Full Circle and at the Harris Theatre in Chicago for El Encierro. Her
choreography has also been selected for several Regional Dance America/SW Gala
Performances and to the Tanzsommer Innsbruck Festival in Austria (1999, 2004, &
2008).
Her students are regularly
accepted to major dance programs and professional dance companies such as Dance
Theatre of Harlem, Battleworks Dance Company, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, Jacob’s
Pillow and more.
She is
the proud mother of John Anthony (21), Alexander (19), and Bailey Frances Anglin
(15).
Cameron
Basden has had a career in dance spanning more than thirty years. With her
extensive experience working in the professional and non-professional dance
world, she brings passion and spirit to her art, as well as a keen sense of
organization and integrity to the projects she undertakes.
Ms. Basden served as Ballet
Master and Co-Associate Director for The Joffrey Ballet from 1993–2008. Her
responsibilities included building the company as a cultural institution in
Chicago, artistic planning, maintaining and growing the technical and artistic
excellence of the dancers, and coordinating with the community, the
administration, and the board in promoting the company. She strategized in
building The Arpino Apprentice Program and The Joffrey’s two- year 50th
Anniversary Celebration including the acquisition of Sir Frederick Ashton’s
Cinderella. As part of an alumni team, she organized the first ever Joffrey
Reunion. She conceived and brought to fruition the first Joffrey Summer
Intensive leading to the development of a Joffrey Academy in Chicago.
As a repetiteur, Ms. Basden
stages ballets by Ashton, Cranko, Massine, Nijinsky and Nijinska as well as more
contemporary works. She was a muse for Gerald Arpino when many of his ballets
were created and she now stages his works. She worked on the PBS filming for
their Dance in America series of The Joffrey’s production of Billboards,
and oversaw the filming and staging of the ballets in Save the Last Dance.
She is a noted lecturer and speaker on dance and dance related subjects.
Ms. Basden is a master
instructor for professional and non-professional organizations. She maintains
relationships with Dance Academies, Universities and professional dance
companies where she is a permanent guest teacher, choreographer and consultant.
As a performer, Ms. Basden
danced in a variety of styles by such choreographers as Sir Frederick Ashton,
George Balanchine, John Cranko. William Forsythe, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp.
Roles were created on her by Mark Morris, James Kudelka, Laura Dean and Choo San
Goh to name a few. Ms. Basden’s television credits include the Dance in America
series “Homage to Diaghilev” and “The Search for the Rite of Spring”. In 2003,
she portrayed herself in Robert Altman’s movie, The Company.
She serves on the board of The
Gerald Arpino Foundation where she is also the main repetiteur. She is Director
of Artistic Operations for “Anne”, an educational project bringing tolerance and
humanity to audiences through the medium of dance.
Debra
Bale is a native Texan. Her
professional career started
in New York with American
Ballet Theatre. She danced
principal and soloist roles
in classical, neo-classical
and contemporary repertoire
with Hartford Ballet,
Milwaukee Ballet, Dallas
Ballet, Atlanta Ballet,
Nevada Dance Theater, North
Carolina Dance Theater,
International Ballet Rotaru,
Ballethnic, as well as
touring with Columbia Artist
nationally and
internationally. Miss Bale’s
faculty affiliations have
included Milwaukee Ballet
School, Dallas Ballet
School, School of the
Atlanta Ballet,
International Ballet Rotaru
Academy and The Atlanta
Ballet Centre for Dance
Education. Debra has also
had the honor of being
Artist in Residence at Emory
University, Georgia State
University and Guest Teacher
for Dallas Black Dance
Theatre.
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