Advanced Ballet Class With The Joffrey Ballet

Join The Joffrey Ballet Rehearsal Director Adam Blyde for a 90-minute class that will focus on advanced concepts and exercises to further develop coordination, technicality, musicality and agility. This class, intended for advanced dancers who are secure with the terminology of a ballet class, is available to participants thanks to a partnership between Northrop and Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT). 

Following class, participants are invited to a 15-minute Q&A with The Joffrey Ballet Artistic Director Ashley Wheater and MDT Artistic Associate Joanna Mednick, who shared the stage with Wheater during her time at San Francisco Ballet before continuing her career with Dutch National Ballet.

Cost: $20. This class is free for University of Minnesota students, faculty and staff. This class has a capacity of 40 students, and registration is required. Participants will receive a 50% off discount code to attend The Joffrey Ballet: American Icons performance at Northrop on Thursday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m.
 

Teaching Artist Bio

Adam Blyde trained at The Royal Ballet School, graduating in 2001. He has appeared with The Royal Ballet and joined the Scottish Ballet in 2003, where he was promoted to principal in 2008. While there, he danced in Ashley Page’s “Cheating, Lying, Stealing,” “32 Cryptograms,” “Soft Underbelly,” “Nightswimming Into Day,” “The Nutcracker,” “Walking In the Heat,” “The Pump Room,” “Fearful Symmetries,” “Cinderella,” “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Pennies From Heaven” and “Alice.” He also performed in Siobhan Davies’ “White Man Sleeps”; Stephen Petronio’s “MiddleSexGorge” and “Ride the Beast”; Richard Alston’s “Dangerous Liaisons” and “Carmen”; Krzysztof Pastor’s “In Light and Shadow” and “Romeo and Juliet”; Hans van Manen’s “Five Tangos”; George Balanchine’s “The Four Temperaments,” “Episodes,” “Agon” and “Rubies”; Diana Loosmore’s “Chasing Ghosts”; Peter Darrell’s “Five Rückert Songs” and “Othello”; William Forsythe’s “Artifact Suite” and “Workwithinwork”; Frederick Ashton’s “Façade” and “Scenes de Ballet”; Paul Liburd’s “From Where”; Val Caniparoli’s “Still Life”; Jorma Elos’ “Kings 2 Ends”; Kenneth MacMillan’s “Song of the Earth”; Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”; and Martin Lawrance’s “Run For It.”

Blyde joined Rambert Dance Company in 2013, dancing Mark Baldwin’s “The Comedy of Change,” “What Wild Ecstasy” and “The Strange Charm of Mother Nature”; Christopher Bruce’s “Rooster”; Merce Cunningham’s “Sounddance”; Richard Alston’s “Dutiful Ducks”; Ashley Page’s “Subterrain”; Lucinda Childs’ “Four Elements”; Barak Marshall’s “The Castaways”; Shobana Jeyasingh’s “Terra Incognita”; and Itzik Galili’s “A Linha Curva.” He joined The Joffrey Ballet as rehearsal director in June 2016.

Image courtesy of the artist.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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