2020

Nunes / Flock

Creation program

Cancelled

Jul 5, 2020 – Jul 12, 2020

NUNES

One-week workshop concentrating on the creative process, diving into pushing the boundaries of fusing classical ballet and contemporary dance. A new creation will emerge, serving as a path for dancers to discover their capabilities, focusing on rhythm, partnering and group work. An opportunity to be part of a new creation with Juliano Nunes culminating in a performance by the end of the workshop.


FLOCK

A week long program focusing on the unique movement philosophy and partnering of FLOCK. Alice Klock and Florian Lochner will lead the students in a new creation with an emphasis on collaboration, immersion into FLOCK technique, and expression of personal artistry.

ARTISTS

  • Juliano Nunes

    Program Director

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    Trained at the Brazilian Dance Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro, Juliano Nunes (b.1990) furthered his studies at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts in Germany with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts.

    Joining Companies such as Royal Ballet of Flanders, Leipzig Opera Ballet, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Stuttgart Gauthier Dance. He has worked with choreographers such as William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon, Hans van Manen, Jirí Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Yuri Grigorovich, Akram Kahn and others.

    He has gone on to receive critical acclaim for his own choreography and has created pieces for the Royal Ballet in London, Nederlands Dans Theatre 2, Acosta Danza, Pennsylvania Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre and a new Netflix series “Tiny Pretty Things”, and he worked with FKA Twigs for a special performance at the Jimmy Fallon Late night show.

  • Flock

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    Alice Klock trained at numerous ballet company schools, Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Alonzo King's Lines BFA program. She joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2009 where she danced until 2018. She has choreographed for Hubbard Street, Whim W’Him, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, The Alonzo King LINES BFA, The Juilliard School, The Cambrians, LA Contemporary Dance, Neos Dance Theater, Visceral Dance Chicago, and NW Dance Project's LAUNCH. She has been a winner of numerous choreographic competitions including Hubbard Street's International Commissioning Project, NW Dance Project's Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition, and Whim W’him’s Choreographic Shindig. In 2017 she was named Hubbard Street's Choreographic Fellow and in 2018 was named one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch.

    Florian Lochner trained at Ballettschule Malsam in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, where he was the recipient of the Birgit Keil Dance Foundation scholarship. Lochner earned his master’s degree in the performing arts and joined Gauthier Dance Company in Stuttgart in 2011. He received a “Best of the Season” nomination in Germany’s “Dance for You!” Magazine in September 2013. He joined Hubbard Street in August 2015, and in the Fall of 2017 was named a Hubbard Street Choreographic Fellow. He has served as guest faculty for Hubbard Street’s Professional Program, Breaking Bounds Dance Toronto and the Cornell University. He has choreographed work for Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts, Gauthier Dance Company// Theaterhaus Stuttgart (OUT OF THE BOX), Loyola University, Visceral Dance Chicago and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

    In 2017 Klock and Lochner founded FLOCK a co-choreography dance company. As FLOCK, Florian and Alice co-create and perform their own work, teach as a team, and produce shows in the US and Germany in which FLOCK expands to include an international group of artists and collaborators. They have choreographed for numerous institutions including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA and Training Program, Goethe Institut, Adaptations Dance Theater on Maui, USC Glorya Kaufman/Hubbard Street Summer Intensive, Urbanity Dance, and Ballet Arkansas. They have performed in their own original FLOCK creations at venues in Italy, the US, and Germany. Their philosophy is to create work that is inclusive, dynamic, vibrant, and based on joy.

  • Ginny Hendricksen

    Ballet Teacher/Répétiteur

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    Ginny Hendricksen’s dancing career began with William Forsythe in Frankfurt Ballett. For two seasons under his direction, she danced a range of contemporary and modern works, and was introduced to his improvisation technologies. She went on to join the Royal Ballet of Flanders where she danced classical, contemporary, and modern masterpieces for 12 years. She enjoyed performing works by Forsythe, Kylian, Haydee, Godani, Dawson, Cherkaoui, Spuck, Balanchine, Wheeldon, Amarante, McGreggor, and others.

    Ginny is a freelance ballet, improvisation, and repertoire teacher for professional companies, schools, and various workshops internationally. She has worked as an assistant stager with Alan Barnes to set Forsythe’s New Sleep on Zurich Ballet and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and with Tony Rizzi to set Approximate Sonata on The Royal Ballet of Flanders. She was also Annabelle Lopez’s choreographic assistant for her world premiere of Ecdysis for the Royal Ballet of Flanders, and with Craig Davidon for his world premiere of Remembrance/Hereafter for Atlanta Ballet.

07:30-08:45 BREAKFAST
08:45-09:45 GRAVITY FOR DANCERS
10:00-11:30 BALLET/CONTEMPORARY CLASS
11:45-01:30 WORKSHOP
01:30-03:00 LUNCH
03:00-06:00 REPERTORY
06:30-07:30 GRAVITY FOR DANCERS
07:45-09:30 DINNER