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Master Teacher Series 2010City Ballet offers a special opportunity to take ballet class from world-famous ballet instructors. Instructors and Class DatesDavid HowardWednesday, July 28, 2010 at 6:30pm
Gelsey KirklandWednesday, August 4, 2010 at 6:30pm
Evelyn CisnerosWednesday, August 11, 2010 at 6:30pm
LocationCity Ballet of San Diego Studio Tuition
Registration1. Download the registration form. 2. Submit the following to City Ballet:
3. Send the completed package to:
Space is filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Each class is limited to 40 students. Participants must be at least 11 years old and at the intermediate level. Questions?If you have questions or would like additional information, please e-mail the City Ballet School office. |
David Howard's distinguished career includes performing as a soloist with the Royal Ballet for seven years before joining the National Ballet of Canada. He was the director and teacher of the Harkness Ballet School in New York City before opening his own school in 1977. Mr. Howard was president of the National Association for Regional Ballet from 1976 to 1979. He has coached the world's foremost dancers (including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Cynthia Harvey, Rudolph Nureyev and Natalia Markarova), and has been guest teacher for the Royal Ballet, ABT, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and National Ballet of Canada.
One of America's leading ballerinas, Gelsey Kirkland joined New York City Ballet at the invitation of George Balanchine in 1968 at age fifteen and was promoted to Soloist in 1969 and principal in 1972. She went on to create leading roles in many of the great 20th-century ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Antony Tudor. These include Balanchine's version of Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird, Robbins' Goldberg Variations and Tudor's Leaves are Fading. She joined American Ballet Theatre after meeting Mikhail Baryhsnikov, who would become her perennial partner. She performed with ABT until her retirement in 1984. Kirkland now coaches young dancers and is currently a member of the guest faculty at the Broadway Dance Center in New York City.
Former Principal Dancer for the San Francisco Ballet. Since 2000, Cisneros has taught at summer intensive courses for the Kansas City Ballet, the Boston Ballet School, as well as at the New York City Ballet Workout at the Bay Club in San Francisco. She has staged ballets for Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin for companies in America and abroad. Cisneros has been featured on the covers of Dance Magazine, Ballet News and Hispanic Magazine, and received numerous awards for her community activism and artistic achievements. In May of 1999, Cisneros retired from the San Francisco Ballet with a Gala performance in her honor, and in celebration KQED produced a 1/2 hour documentary of her life, entitled Evelyn Cisneros, Moving On.