Rutgers - DanceExtraordinary dance teachers will inspire the young dancer as they study a variety of dance disciplines and perform.
Program DirectorsJohn Evans, Program Director Faculty (Faculty subject to availability)Julia Ritter Robert Benford Sherry Alban Location Information
Rutgers is one of the nation's major state universities. Chartered in 1766, it has a unique history as a colonial college. As the arts conservatory of Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts is a professional school offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in music, theater, and the visual arts, as well as undergraduate degrees in dance. The dance program is located on the beautiful Douglas Residential College campus just 10 minutes from the heart of New Brunswick.
The dance program at Mason Gross School of the Arts fosters excellence in modern dance technique, performance, and creative achievement. An accomplished dance faculty of artist-educators ensures expert instruction in technique, performance, choreography, and theoretical studies. In addition to a strong grounding in dance technique, the program assumes that to succeed as professional artists, students must be articulate about aesthetic values and knowledgeable about the practical demands of a career in dance. Theoretical work begins with a study of contemporary issues in dance and continues with music for movement, dance production, notation, kinesiology for dancers, and dance history. Dance electives and opportunities for independent study allow each student to achieve her or his own particular artistic aspirations.
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John Evans has been dancing and lighting dance, theater and music since 1980. After receiving a Masters Degree in Dance from Ohio State University in 1987, he moved to New York City where he danced with the Victoria Marks Performance Company for five years. He has also danced in the companies of Colin Conner, Monica Levy, Robin Becker, John Jasperse, and The Pittsburgh Dance Alloy. His choreography has been performed in New York City, regionally and internationally. He has twice been a choreographer and teacher at The Yard. He has had work commissioned by Steele Dance, Thompson & Trammel, James Madison University, University of Maryland at College Park, and Hofstra University. For The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, John choreographed productions of A Winters Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Three Penny Opera. He has received grants from the Pittsburgh Dance Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his design and choreography work with Squonk Opera. John directs his own company, John Evans & Dancers, and is co-artistic director of Bob & Bob Dance a male duet dance company. As a lighting designer and/or technical director/stage manager, he has worked with many notable companies and festivals. John has been a full time faculty member in the Department of Dance since 1995, where he teaches, performs, designs and creates new work.
Julia Ritter is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines many years of movement training with continued exploration of vocal and theater techniques. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award, and was invited to teach and choreograph at the Akademie des Tanzes in Mannheim, Germany for 2002-2003. Julia graduated with her M.F.A. in Dance from Temple University in 1997 and is an alumnus of the Department of Dance at Mason Gross, having graduated with a B.F.A. degree in Dance with Academic Honors in 1992. A committed dance educator, Julia is currently on faculty as an Assistant Professor and teaches master classes in movement and vocal techniques both nationally and internationally. She has shown her work in venues throughout New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and in Canada. Since 1996, Julia has performed both nationally and internationally, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. From 1997-1999, Julia performed in works by Melanie Stewart Dance Theater, including Perfect, Underlife and Still. With her own interdisciplinary performance company, Julia creates evening length works including Love After Death, created in collaboration with writer Michael Duke and dramaturge Melanie Stewart in 2000, which has been presented at numerous festivals and universities. Julia is a teaching artist with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Young Audiences and NJ School for the Arts, working with young people and educators throughout the region.
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