FIVE FREE PERFORMANCES ONLY
http://www.juilliard.edu/newdances12
Wednesday -- Saturday, December 12 -- 15, at 8 pm
Sunday, December 16, at 2 pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
155 W. 65th Street, NYC
Tickets available at the box office, Monday -- Friday, 11 am -- 6 pm.
Each year Juilliard Dance, led by Artistic Director Lawrence Rhodes, presents world-premiere choreography created for the four classes that comprise the division.
This year, Queens, N.Y.-native Camille A. Brown worked with Juilliard's first-year dancers. The artistic director of her own company, Brown also choreographed the students in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's training program last season.
http://www.camilleabrown.org
Emery LeCrone, who choreographed on the second-year dancers, was recently honored with an inaugural New York City Center fellowship for choreographic research.
http://emerylecrone.com
Choreographer Susan Shields, who worked with the third-year dancers, is a principal dancer from the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and a professor at George Mason University.
http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/August-2009/Susan-Shields
Czech choreographer Jarek Cemerek, who worked with the fourth-year dancers, was awarded Dance Piece of the Year and Dancer of the Year by Czech Dance Platform in 2011. That same year, he premiered Void, a choreography for the male dance company Balletboyz, at London's Sadler's Wells Theater.
http://www.jarekcemerek.com
More on New Dances
http://www.juilliard.edu/newsroom/releases/current/2012-December_NewDances.php
http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/2012-2013/1212/articles/dance.php