Open Level Adult Ballet Master Class with BalletCollective

Name: Open Level Adult Ballet Master Class with BalletCollective
Start: 2024-07-21T10:00:00-04:00
Location: Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 12 Vassar St, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States, New York 12601

Schedule

Sun Jul 21 2024 at 10:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 12 Vassar St, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States, New York 12601 | Poughkeepsie, NY

Join us for an open level Adult Ballet Master Class with Kristen Segin and Michael Sean Breeden of BalletCollective!
Class is FREE ~ with donations appreciated
Registration Required - CONTACT: Kathy McDonald
845-831-2420 • [email protected]
Kristen Segin is the Artistic and Administrative Manager for BalletCollective since 2021 and a senior member of New York City Ballet's corps de ballet.
Segin graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in organizational leadership and a minor in communications and media studies. In addition, she has helped found, organize and serve as researcher and co-moderator for the N.Y.
Performing Arts Library's Dance Division program, "Corps Rep," a virtual coaching platform.
As a professional dancer, Segin became a member of the corps de ballet in August, 2009.
She has performed featured roles in ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, August Bournonville, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Peter Martins and Justin Peck. She was New York City Ballet's 2018-2019 Janice Levin Award honoree. Born in Voorhees, New Jersey, Segin studied ballet at the prestigious Rock School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She enrolled full time at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 2005, where in 2007 she was awarded the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise, and made an apprentice with the company in August, 2008.
Michael Sean Breeden was born in Lexington, KY and moved to New York City to train at the School of American Ballet at age 15. He was a member of the Miami City Ballet from 2006-2017, where he performed featured roles in the works of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and many others.
He has been a part of the BalletCollective team since 2017, where he has assisted the company's founder Troy Schumacher and other choreographers on the creations and rehearsal processes of over a dozen works. He collaborated with BalletCollective on the premiere of the full evening music theater production The Night Falls.
He has staged Peck's works for over a dozen companies and universities, including Royal Danish Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet and Semperoper Ballet and recently staged Ratmansky's The Fairy's Kiss at the Dutch National Ballet. He hosts the highest rated dance podcast on streaming platforms, Conversations On Dance.