Rutgers University
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Tuition includes room and meals Rutgers inspiring instructors will guide intermediate to advanced level dance conservatory students through daily intensive classes designed to increase each student's skill level.Dance Conservatory Camp/Workshop DetailsProgram Director: John EvansThe Rutgers two week conservatory program is geared towards students who want a career in dance. It will help prepare the intermediate & advanced dancer to enter a college dance program that can help them realize their goals in the dance world. Students will take advanced classes in Ballet and Modern Dance each day of the program. There will be additional classes in ballet and modern partnering, as well as classes in modern & ballet repertory, jazz, hip hop, and improvisation. In between the two weeks will be a day of master classes by renown artists in the new york area and a field trip to the jersey shore for a day of relaxation. At the end of the two weeks will be a showing of material learned and created during the conservatory. Evening activities will include research into prominent college dance programs, information on what colleges are looking for and how to take an audition class. There will be a video night to look at some of the prominent contemporary choreographers working in the field so students can see what is out there and what they like. There will also be time for trips to the pool and recreation center. Students will have one on one counseling from faculty in the program as to where they are currently in their training and what they need to work on to reach their goals, as well as guidance as to potential schools that might fit their needs. Dancers will take a field trip to see an exciting dance concert at Lincoln center in New York City. Rutgers has strict rules to protect the dance studio floors and we must respect them. Please bring soft-soled dance shoes or new, indoor, aerobic-type sneakers that have never been worn outside. * Additional Camp/Workshop InformationStudents will be housed at The Henderson Apartments on the Douglass campus of Rutgers University. Students check-in between 3 - 4pm on the first day of camp. Flights should arrive into Newark Airport (EWR) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 12pm. Flights should depart from Newark Airport (EWR) on the last day of camp after 7:30pm. Transportation is available to and from Newark Airport(EWR) for $30 each way.
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Directors and Faculty
John Evans
Workshop Director
John Evans has been dancing and lighting dance, theater and music since 1980. After receiving a Masters Degree in Dance from Ohio State University in 1987, he moved to New York City where he danced with the Victoria Marks Performance Company for five years. He has also danced in the companies of Colin Conner, Monica Levy, Robin Becker, John Jasperse, and The Pittsburgh Dance Alloy. His choreography has been performed in New York City, regionally and internationally. He has twice been a choreographer and teacher at The Yard. He has had work commissioned by Steele Dance, Thompson & Trammel, James Madison University, University of Maryland at College Park, and Hofstra University. For The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, John choreographed productions of A Winters Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Three Penny Opera. He has received grants from the Pittsburgh Dance Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his design and choreography work with Squonk Opera. John directs his own company, John Evans & Dancers, and is co-artistic director of Bob & Bob Dance a male duet dance company. As a lighting designer and/or technical director/stage manager, he has worked with many notable companies and festivals. John has been a full time faculty member in the Department of Dance since 1995, where he teaches, performs, designs and creates new work.
Faculty (Faculty subject to availability)
Julia Ritter
Julia Ritter is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines many years of movement training with continued exploration of vocal and theater techniques. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, and was invited to teach and choreograph at the Akademie des Tanzes in Mannheim, Germany for 2002-2003. Julia graduated with her M.F.A. in Dance from Temple University in 1997 and is an alumnus of the Department of Dance at Mason Gross, having graduated with a B.F.A. degree in Dance with Academic Honors in 1992. A committed dance educator, Julia is currently on faculty as an Assistant Professor and teaches master classes in movement and vocal techniques both nationally and internationally. She has shown her work in venues throughout New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and in Canada. Since 1996, Julia has performed both nationally and internationally, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. From 1997-1999, Julia performed in works by Melanie Stewart Dance Theater, including Perfect, Underlife and Still. With her own interdisciplinary performance company, Julia creates evening length works including Love After Death, created in collaboration with writer Michael Duke and dramaturge Melanie Stewart in 2000, which has been presented at numerous festivals and universities. Julia is a teaching artist with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Young Audiences and NJ School for the Arts, working with young people and educators throughout the region.
Robert Benford
Robert "Tigger" Benford is a percussionist, composer and improvisor, specializing in hand drumming and music for modern dance. Benford's score for ballet choreographer Septime Webre's dance, Fluctuating Hemlines, was presented most recently at the Kennedy Center in April 2000 by the Washington Ballet, and in February of 2001 by Ballet Austin. In 1997, he released Noise of Choice, a solo CD of music for marimba and percussion. In 2000 Benford completed and released a collaborative CD with pianist Peter Jones, The Metal Garden. Two of Benford's works are featured in a coffee table book/CD set, Rhythm and Beauty, by Rocky Maffit, released in 1999. In July, 2000, Benford created and premiered a commissioned percussion score for Sean Curran and Dancers, Abstract Concrete at Central Park Summerstage. Benford played an integral role in Curran's Joyce Theater season in June, 2001, performing Abstract Concrete, premiering Metal Garden with keyboardist Peter Jones, and premiering the body rhythm quartet Quadrabox Redux with Curran and two other performers. Another commissioned score is pending for choreographer Jane Comfort. Benford teaches music to dancers as an Associate Professor of Dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Sherry Alban
Sherry Alban is a distinguished director and choreographer. She is affiliated with the Princeton Ballet and is a first-act rehearsal director for American Repertory Ballet Company's Nutcracker. Sherry is a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship. Her work has been performed by Princeton Ballet II, Roanoke Ballet Theater, and the New England Lyric Opera Company.