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src="sumrtop.jpg" alt="Purchase College" width="560" height="120"> <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right"> <font face="Arial"> <img border="0" src="images/summer.jpg" width="400" height="120"> </font> <p align="center"><font face="Arial">| <a href="#classes"> Classes</a> | <a href="#company"> The Company</a> | <a href="#registration"> Registration Information</a> |</font></p> <h3 align="left"> </h3> </td> <td valign="top" align="right"> <font face="Arial"> <img border="0" src="images/summer2.jpg" align="left" width="120" height="220"> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3><img border="0" src="images/varone3.jpg" align="right" width="138" height="156"></h3> <h3><a name="classes">Classes</a></h3> <h4><a name="technique">Contemporary Dance Technique  </a> </h4> <p><i><font face="Arial">All classes will be taught on a rotating basis by Dong Varone and company members, ensuring a rich overview of styles and perspectives for each student.</font></i> </p> <p><font face="Arial">Investigating the line of human movement and how it can affect the broader strokes of our dancing is at the center of this highly technical, movement based class. Through the expansive use of the back and limbs, Varone's style will be explored through an emphasis of breath, strength, dynamic lyricism and musicality.</font> </p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">Levels and classes by placement only.</font> </p> <h4><a name="Phrase">Phrase Work </a> </h4> <p><font face="Arial"><i>Taught by Doug Varone & company members on a rotating basis. </i>The investigation of individual phrases created on the spot will be the cornerstone of this specialized class. This class will delve into the detailed texture of newly created material. Students learn how to assimilate movement quickly and explore immediately the movement in terms of quality and musicality. Phrases from the company repertory will also be offered. </font> </p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"> These will be mixed-level classes.</font> </p> <h4><a name="Yoga">Yoga for Dancers</a></h4> <p><font face="Arial">Designed to support a beginning or developing yoga practice, the class will focus on balancing the body through gently dynamic postures and a mindfulness of breath. Patient practice in standing alignment, forward bending, back bending, twisting and inverting, sustains the body throughout the day.</font> </p> <h4><a name="Ballet">Ballet </a> </h4> <p><font face="Arial">Ballet technique will be taught with an emphasis on the freedom and support inherent in the skeletal structure and the integration of technical ability from a neutral stance. This starting point will allow movement to flow from a centered core and radiate into space through long, connected limbs. The awareness of specific individual movement is addressed as is the dancer's impact on space both physically and mentally. Musicality and phrasing are prime ingredients.</font> </p> <h4><a name="Pilates">Pilates/Fundamentals </a> </h4> <p><font face="Arial">The 1st half of this class explores the principles of the Pilates System of exercise and how it applies to dancers and their training. The class will focus on the Pilates mat series, learning the form and how to work inside the structure. The 2nd half looks at Bartenieff Fundamentals as a tool for body awareness, efficiency of movement and range of motion. You will learn a series of exercises on the floor and transfer them to simple movement explorations.</font> </p> <h4><a name="Choreograph">Choreographic Devices </a></h4> <p><font face="Arial">Doug will teach a composition class with an initial emphasis on compositional structure. Using these ideas as a springboard, new devices for expanding and inventing material will be explored. This class will push toward the development of a new work utilizing material built in class. A large body of material will be created, varied and manipulated during the three weeks both in and out of the studio. For students seriously interested in choreography. <font size="2"> Class size is limited.</font></font></p> <h4><a name="Repertory">Repertory Class </a></h4> <p><font face="Arial">A work within the company's repertory will be staged by company members for performance at the end of the workshop. This will be a class that focuses on movement dynamics and spatial awareness within group choreography. One of Varone's larger works will be explored here as duets and solos gather seamlessly into group explosions of choreographed chaos. <font size="2"> Two mixed-level classes</font></font></p> <h4><a name="Partnering">Partnering/Composition </a></h4> <p><font face="Arial">Non-traditional techniques of partnering that deal with weight shift and balance supports will be explored. Both duet and group work will be created to investigate the details of shape, space and energy as it relates to compositional forms.</font></p> <h4><a name="New">New Work </a></h4> <p><font face="Arial">This class offers the student an opportunity to be involved in the creation of a new work. The experience of being part of a choreographic process will be the main focus, with an informal showing at the end of the workshop. <font size="2"> Class size is limited.</font></font></p> <h4><a name="Acting">Acting for Dancers </a></h4> <p><font face="Arial">Through a series of games, physical exercises, vocal and text exercises, the class will explore a range of physical choices and their connection to dramatic character.</font> </p> <h4><a name="Evening">Evening Activities</a> </h4> <p> <font face="Arial"> Evening events include the company's performance at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College on June 23, lec/dems, improvisations, specialty classes & workshops, composition forums, massage classes, video night, and more. Evening activities are available 4 to 5 nights a week. all event are free to workshop students!</font> </p> <p align="right"> <a href="#top" target="_self"><font face="Arial" color="#9999FF">Back to the Top</font></a> </p> <p align="right">   </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3><img border="0" src="images/varone1.jpg" align="right" width="166" height="140"><a name="company">The Company</a></h3> <h4>DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS</h4> <p><font face="Arial">Founded in 1986, the company performs a body of work heralded by critics as "among the most compelling in the contemporary repertory." Honored with 6 New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies), the company has been singled out for its extraordinary physical daring, vivid musicality, and genius for capturing through movement the nuances of true human interaction. The company dancers, dubbed "profoundly human, superhumans" by The New York Times, deliver the visceral charge of Varone's sweeping vocabulary while also conveying his intimate, telling gestures.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">The company performs regularly at major venues such as: The Kennedy Center; The Joyce Theater; Queen Elizabeth Hall in London; the American and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festivals; and prominent international festivals in Europe and Asia. Touring extensively throughout the US, the company has performed in over 30 of the 50 states.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">Internationally renowned for its superb teaching abilities, the company serves regularly on the faculties of the major U.S. dance festivals: Jacob's Pillow, ADF, NYU's Tisch Summer Dance Residency, SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara, and the Bates and Colorado Dance Festivals. Since its inception the company has been in residence teaching and setting work at more than fifty universities and colleges throughout the U.S.</font></p> <h4>DOUG VARONE</h4> <p><font face="Arial">was born in Syosset, NY, and attended Purchase College where he received his Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts. As a choreographer of contemporary dance for the concert stage, opera, Broadway, regional theater, film, television, and couture, Doug Varone's creative interests are as wide ranging as the media in which he works. Varone is best known for the 40 plus dances he has created for his own company which was founded in 1986. He is the recipient of numerous honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained Achievement in Choreography, and annual Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1988 to 1997). His extensive work in theater, opera, and film includes America Dreaming (Vineyard Theater), Triumph of Love (Broadway), The Planets (A&E Television Network), Transatlantic (Minnesota Opera), II Viaggio a Reims (NY City Opera), Orfeé et Eurydice (Opera Colorado) and the upcoming dance film Without a Word.</font> <p align="right"> <a href="#top" target="_self"><font face="Arial" color="#9999FF">Back to the Top</font></a> </p> <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3><a name="registration">Registration Information</a><img border="0" src="images/varone2.jpg" align="right" width="166" height="160"></h3> <blockquote> <h4>Contact Information</h4> <p><font face="Arial"><b>DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS</b><br> 37 West 32nd Street #4A New York, NY 10001</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><b>Phone/fax: </b>(212) 279-3344</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><b>E-Mail:</b> <a href="mailto:Dova@Mindspring.com">Dova@Mindspring.com</a> </font></p> <h4>Registration forms will be available for download later.</h4> </blockquote> <p align="right"> <a href="#top" target="_self"><font face="Arial" color="#9999FF">Back to the Top</font></a> </p> <blockquote> <p> </p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>