- Study Diavolo Technique and company esthetics.
- Learn to “fly.”
- Learn cutting edge partnering skills, repertoire, and obstacles.
- Study composition with this award-winning company!
- Special workshops offered on strength, conditioning, and injury prevention, among other topics.
- This workshop will culminate in a public presentation of student work.
Undergraduate: DANCE 428, 3 units
Graduate: DANCE 628, 3 units
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This course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students and other dancers interested in studying an interdisciplinary approach to dance and choreography with this award-winning dance company. The integration of dance, gymnastics, and acting will be explored in choreography, repertory, and technique classes.
Non-dancers who are athletic or move well are welcome! Expect to be pushed physically. (Everyone should have tennis shoes and knee pads at all classes!)
Those with an interest in dynamic dance and theatre are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity with Diavolo, “to examine the funny and frightening ways individuals act with their environments.”
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Submit a brief resume and bio. and attach a 200-word personal statement describing your interest in this workshop.
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Send the materials listed in Step One with your completed Registration Form to the
Summer Arts Registration Office by
May 17, 2010.
The deadline to apply for this course has passed.
Professor Lorelei Bayne
baynel@saclink.csus.edu
916-278-7721
Diavolo
Diavolo is a professional modern dance company founded in 1992 in Los Angeles by Jacques Heim to create large-scale interdisciplinary performances which examine the funny and frightening ways individuals act with their environment. An internationally acclaimed company, Diavolo is a multiple recipient of many awards, including various Lester Horton awards, and has performed at all major American venues, as well as touring internationally.
Diavolo company members are dancers, gymnasts, actors, athletes…and always teammates. Under the guidance of artistic director Jacques Heim, they collaboratively develop work on oversized surrealistic sets and structures. Everyday items…doors, chairs, stairways, provide the backdrop for dramatic movement – leaping, flying, twirling – to create metaphors for the challenge of relationships, the absurdities of life, and the struggle to maintain our humanity in the shadow of a technological world.
In line with its mission, Diavolo has also become an exemplary teaching institution, with experienced artist/teachers who have graduated from some of the country’s finest dance institutions, including Ohio State, University of Utah, and California Institute for the Arts.
In 1993, the company was nominated for two Lester Horton awards in Los Angeles, and in 1995, Diavolo made its European debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where they were named “Best of the Fest” by the London Independent, and Critic’s Choice by The Guardian. Also in 1995, the company received three Lester Horton awards for the work Tete en L’Air. Since then, the company has been nominated several times for numerous awards, including four 2001 Lester Horton Awards, and two 2003 Lester Horton Awards and they were honored to perform live at the 10th annual American Choreography Awards in 2004.
In 1998, the company opened the performance series at the new Getty Center Museum in Los Angeles. 1999 saw the creation of Diavolo’s first full-evening length work: Catapult which also coincided with Diavolo’s first full North American tour. During the summer of 2001, Diavolo invited Jelon Viera, artistic director of DanceBrazil and the Capoeria Foundation, to Los Angeles to conduct an intensive Capoeria workshop with the company. In spring 2002, Diavolo created a second smaller company to perform in a cabaret-style show, which ran for eight weeks at the New Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
The commercial arm of the company, Diavolo Creative Productions, has also created unique performance events for such corporate clients as Wells Fargo Bank, Honda, Sebastian Inc. and General Motors. Due to the unusual and innovative way that Diavolo works with architectural structures, the creative team at Cirque du Soleil was inspired to hire Jacques Heim to choreograph their newest permanent show in Las Vegas, entitled Ka, which opened in February of 2005. In 2007, The Los Angeles Philharmonic asked Diavolo to create a performance to music director Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Foreign Bodies. The Los Angeles Times declared its premiere at The Hollywood Bowl “one of those rare events that define the art of this city when the levels of vision and support are equally exceptional.” In addition, Diavolo has performed internationally in Scotland, Japan, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Italy and South Korea.
Check out their website at www.diavolo.org.
Diavolo is a professional modern dance company founded in 1992 in Los Angeles by Jacques Heim to create large-scale interdisciplinary performances which examine the funny and frightening ways individuals act with their environment. An internationally acclaimed company, Diavolo is a multiple recipient of many awards, including various Lester Horton awards, and has performed at all major American venues, as well as touring internationally.
Diavolo company members are dancers, gymnasts, actors, athletes…and always teammates. Under the guidance of artistic director Jacques Heim, they collaboratively develop work on oversized surrealistic sets and structures. Everyday items…doors, chairs, stairways, provide the backdrop for dramatic movement – leaping, flying, twirling – to create metaphors for the challenge of relationships, the absurdities of life, and the struggle to maintain our humanity in the shadow of a technological world.
In line with its mission, Diavolo has also become an exemplary teaching institution, with experienced artist/teachers who have graduated from some of the country’s finest dance institutions, including Ohio State, University of Utah, and California Institute for the Arts.
In 1993, the company was nominated for two Lester Horton awards in Los Angeles, and in 1995, Diavolo made its European debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where they were named “Best of the Fest” by the London Independent, and Critic’s Choice by The Guardian. Also in 1995, the company received three Lester Horton awards for the work Tete en L’Air. Since then, the company has been nominated several times for numerous awards, including four 2001 Lester Horton Awards, and two 2003 Lester Horton Awards and they were honored to perform live at the 10th annual American Choreography Awards in 2004.
In 1998, the company opened the performance series at the new Getty Center Museum in Los Angeles. 1999 saw the creation of Diavolo’s first full-evening length work: Catapult which also coincided with Diavolo’s first full North American tour. During the summer of 2001, Diavolo invited Jelon Viera, artistic director of DanceBrazil and the Capoeria Foundation, to Los Angeles to conduct an intensive Capoeria workshop with the company. In spring 2002, Diavolo created a second smaller company to perform in a cabaret-style show, which ran for eight weeks at the New Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
The commercial arm of the company, Diavolo Creative Productions, has also created unique performance events for such corporate clients as Wells Fargo Bank, Honda, Sebastian Inc. and General Motors. Due to the unusual and innovative way that Diavolo works with architectural structures, the creative team at Cirque du Soleil was inspired to hire Jacques Heim to choreograph their newest permanent show in Las Vegas, entitled Ka, which opened in February of 2005. In 2007, The Los Angeles Philharmonic asked Diavolo to create a performance to music director Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Foreign Bodies. The Los Angeles Times declared its premiere at The Hollywood Bowl “one of those rare events that define the art of this city when the levels of vision and support are equally exceptional.” In addition, Diavolo has performed internationally in Scotland, Japan, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Italy and South Korea.
Check out their website at www.diavolo.org.
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