Guest Artist Dance Intensive with Blakeley White-McGuire

Name: Guest Artist Dance Intensive with Blakeley White-McGuire
Start: 2024-07-01T09:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-06T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 329 W Mifflin Street, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703

Schedule

Mon Jul 01 2024 at 09:30 am to Sat Jul 06 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

329 W Mifflin Street, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703 | Madison, WI

Martha Graham Technique with Blakeley White-McGuire, former Principal Dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York City.
Advanced & intermediate dancers (age 13-adult) will have an accelerated in-depth study in Graham Technique and Repertory. Informal time taken for Q&A about the artist, being a dancer, careers in dance, and more. There will be an informal showing July 6 with Kanopy Dance Company and Workshop students. Workshop students with permission from Kanopy Directors may observe rehearsal process with Kanopy Dance Company and guest artist.
REGISTER: https://kanopydance.org/kanopy-dance-academy/programs/summer-programs/
Space is Limited.

Blakeley White-McGuire, born and raised in South Louisiana, U.S.A., is a New York-based dancer/choreographer/writer/educator and interdisciplinary artist critically acclaimed as a former Principal dancer and present official Regisseur of repertory with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Her current creative process creates contemporary dance theater and site-specific performative works through movement research including with Movement Migration and C.A.V.E.S. Project Entre El Cuerpo y La Naturaleza, an international collaborative interrogating the relationship between art, nature, and the human body. Her productions have been commissioned by several presenters including the Dancing Human Rights Festival, Oxford, UK; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Jacob’s Pillow’s INSIDE/ OUT, USA; American Dance Festival, USA; Movement Migration (International) and Ballet Metropolitano, Colombia, SA. Blakeley is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Contemporary Dance at Hunter College and The Ailey/Fordham Professional Division and is the author of several published works including her first book, “The Martha Graham Dance Company: House of the Pelvic Truth”.