 as young as 11, others seniors in high school. Then in sock-clad feet she hitched up her warm-up pants and precisely demonstrated the speed and ballon she was seeking. Breathless, the black-and-pink--–clad ballet students tried it again. Then again.
Russell, director of Hubbard Street 2, the second company of the acclaimed troupe Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, spent a brief three-day residency at the suburban Washington, DC, studio, where she and HS2 dancers taught both master classes and repertory and, most unusually, shared the stage with the high-school–aged dancers in a program featuring three works from the semi-professional company and eight showcasing the students of CityDance’s Conservatory/Select program.
Among the numerous pre-professional studios in the Washington, DC, region, CityDance has in just a few short years built a reputation as an alternative to dance studios that focus solely on ballet training or on a regimen of competitions. While it’s still too soon to track alumni from the program, students are being accepted into some of the nation’s most prestigious college dance programs, from Ailey/Fordham to SUNY Purchase.
Founded in 1996, CityDance rose to acclaim as a repertory company that performed works by an impressive range of choreographers, including Doug Varone, Kate Weare, Sophie Maslow, and even Paul Taylor. The school came about after the company, and in 2005 became a partner in the Music Center at Strathmore’s education wing. Last year, though, the school eclipsed the company, which after years of touring internationally under the direction of Paul Gordon Emerson, folded up shop.
CityDance has more than 500 children enrolled this year, 120 of whom are in the competitive Conservatory/Select program, which offers performing opportunities and weekly master classes every Saturday for the studio’s pre-professional dancers ages 11 to 19. Recent or upcoming guest artists include members of Evidence, Complexions, and La La La Human Steps. That experience of a new teacher each week acclimates students to pick up unfamiliar material quickly and without fear, readying them for the world of auditions early in their careers.
The HS2 residency scheduled for the fall was unusual. Together, Russell and Spiegler agreed to share a bill, presenting three HS2 works and a selection of solo and group works from the CityDance student repertoire. Both organizations, Spiegler explained, are committed to seeking out and supporting new choreographic voices. Spiegler often hires young talent to create works on her students, and HS2 runs an annual choreography competition to expand the field.
In this case, she saw success. The CityDance students got to take master classes and learn repertory from the HS2 dancers. The HS2 dancers got a chance to try out their own recently learned rep onstage, but, more important, Russell noted, they got the opportunity to lead classes and teach.
HS2 dancer Alicia Delgadillo taught a solo to a room full of attentive teens. While she now performs it regularly, Delgadillo first learned it as a high schooler when she was attending a HS2 summer intensive. She says that if she could go back and talk to her high school self, “I would say, ‘Get out of your head and just dance.’ ” That’s exactly what she hopes these students, who have the technical chops—legs that brush past ears, triple turns, and split leaps—can glean from her. The CityDance students dance at a high level technically; they are learning to rein in their energy and harness their emotions onstage.
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Joelle Schaal, M.M.
Aural Skills | Music Theory. Zisa has authored more than a dozen books and articles on topics ranging from music history and music theory to guitar pedagogy and education. His lecture-performances include programs on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Santiago De Murcia, Fernando Sor, Nicolò Paganini, Francesco Tárrega, Alexandre Tansman, Manuel Ponce and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In 2007, Zisa formed the world-music ensemble Thousand Waves, featuring Yukiko Yamaguchi on koto and LeeAnn McKenna on flute, with its program theme “West Meets East,” and also instituted the Season of Lights Concert, an annual winter holiday tradition in the city of Portland, Oregon that brings together local musicians at The Old Church for a special, one-night-only musical event benefiting local charities. Zisa -
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Pollyanna Hancock Moody is the Director of Choral Studies at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. For the past 12 years, Mrs. Hancock Moody has also been on the music faculty at Marylhurst University, where she has taught voice, vocal pedagogy, body mapping, conducting and was interim conductor for four years. She has been directing at the post-secondary level for seven years, and has worked extensively with church choirs in Alberta, Canada and Oregon.
Mrs. Hancock-Moody received her M.M in Vocal Performance from Portland State University where she studied choral directing under Dr. Bruce Browne. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In addition to being a choral director and voice instructor, she is a certified Andover Educator (), an organization of music educators committed to saving, securing, and enhancing musical careers by providing accurate information about the body in movement.
Mrs. Hancock Moody has been a featured soloist in many choral works, such as Schubert’s Mass in G, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Mozart’s Requiem. She performed Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” with members of the Oregon Symphony. Oregon Arts Watch reviewed the ensemble’s performance as meeting “all the challenges of the score, and then some. Massive virtuosity was on display...”
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