Saturdays at 12:00pm EST: 13, 20, 27 February | Additional Dates TBA
$20 / class | 90-min. sessions | All Dance Levels
Live-streamed on Zoom: class includes classic barre, technique with Individual corrections and Q & A. Note: this is an introduction to David Prottas’s upcoming series Acting for Dancers.
BIO: David Prottas is a former dancer with the New York City Ballet. His notable theater credits include the 1st National Tour of An American in Paris, the Broadway revival of Carousel and the North Carolina Theatre production’s of West Side Story. He stars in the short film “Tell Me A Story” directed by Liam Amstrong. As a teacher and coach he leads masterclasses throughout the United States in both dance and theater.
$107 for five (5) classes + one (1) reward** class extra, $214 for ten (10) classes + two (2) classes extra or $333 for Subscription Package valid for twenty (20) classes + five (5) classes extra; $140 for five (5) Workshops + one (1) reward class from AWB Virtual program.
Note: Interested individuals can book any subscription package mentioned above and combine any class / teaching artist.
*Students registered to attend 5+ virtual classes are able to apply to AWB Mentorship Program. Book a subscription package (5, 10 or 20 classes) and email: Education@ArtWithoutBordersNYC.org with your selection.
**valid for any 60-min Virtual class, but excluding specialized Workshops.
Sundays at 10:30am EST: 31 January | 7, 14, 21 and 28 February
$20 / class | 60-min. sessions | All Dance Levels
Live-streamed on Zoom: class includes classic barre, technique with Individual corrections and Q & A.
BIO: Polish, Marcin Kupiñski is a Principal Dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet. He joined the corps de ballet in 2002 after his graduation from the National Ballet School in Gdansk. In 2010 he was promoted to Soloist and to a Principal Dancer in 2011.
Highlights from Kupiñski’s repertoire with the Royal Danish Ballet: Junker Ove in A Folk Tale and James in Sylfiden (August Bournonville), Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake (Nikolaj Hübbe and Silja Schandorff), Albrecht in Giselle (Nikolaj Hübbe and Sorella Englund), Prince Desiré in Tornerose (Christopher Wheeldon), Solor in La Bayadère (Nikolaj Hübbe), Prince in The Nutcracker and Apollo(George Balanchine), soloist in Etudes (Harald Lander), Lenskij in Onegin (John Cranko), Gaston in The Lady of the Camellias, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Benvolio and Prince Paris in Romeo and Juliet (John Neumeier), Tony in the West Side Story Suite ( Jerome Robbins), Chanos in Come Fly Away (Twyla Tharp) and Death in The Death That Best Preserves (Natalia Horecna.)
Subscription Rewards*
$107 for five (5) classes + one (1) reward** class extra, $214 for ten (10) classes + two (2) classes extra or $333 for Subscription Package valid for twenty (20) classes + five (5) classes extra; $140 for five (5) Workshops + one (1) reward class from AWB Virtual program.
Note: Interested individuals can book any subscription package mentioned above and combine any class / teaching artist.
*Students registered to attend 5+ virtual classes are able to apply to AWB Mentorship Program. Book a subscription package (5, 10 or 20 classes) and email: Education@ArtWithoutBordersNYC.org with your selection.
**valid for any 60-min Virtual class, but excluding specialized Workshops.
Live-streamed on Zoom: Workshop includes classic barre, choreography with individual corrections and ‘Meet the Artist’ Q & A session. Students will learn an excerpt from Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Subscription Rewards*
$140 for five (5) Specialized Workshops + one (1) reward** class.
BIO: American, Holly Jean Dorger, is a Principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet. She joined the corps de ballet after graduation from the School of American Ballet, at 18 years old. In 2013 she was promoted to Soloist after performing roles such as Princess Florine (Blue Bird), Gamzatti and Dew Drop. In 2016 Holly was promoted to Principal Dancer on George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. Holly Dorger has been given the honor of Knighthood from the Queen of Denmark.
*Subscription package of five (5) Workshops expires in two (2) months after the first workshop taken – we encourage all students to take at least two (2) workshops monthly. Reward class with a Subscription package of five (5) workshops is valid up to one (1) month after the first workshop taken.
**Regular class with any teaching artist.
Students registered to attend 5+ virtual classes are able to apply to AWB Mentorship Program. Book any subscription package (5, 10 or 20 classes) and combine any class / teaching artist. Please email: Education@ArtWithoutBordersNYC.org with your selected classes.
Art Without Borders New York is offering an exclusive Mentorship Program for students pursuing a career in the performing arts. The program provides a unique experience connecting students with world renowned industry professionals in the United States, including current and former company members from the New York City Ballet / Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Broadway.
Students registered to attend five (5) or more virtual classes will have the opportunity to apply for the AWB Mentorship Program. As part of this rare opportunity, each teaching artist will select one student as a Mentee* based on their work during the virtual program. The mentees will be offered: private coaching, guidance on academic and career goals, tickets to selected performances with a personalized backstage tour, and access to all AWB classes and events in 2021.
To be considered as a Mentee, you must attend a minimum of five (5) Virtual classes with Art Without Borders Inc. and submit a short video (5-min maximum) while taking a class from our Virtual Program.
Note: Applicants with less than five (5) Virtual classes, please register online and attend the minimum of classes required and then complete this application. If you have questions, please email: Education@ArtWithoutBordersNYC.org
AWB Virtual Program is currently open for registrations and offered at $20 for a single class, $107 package of five classes, $214 package of ten classes, and $333 subscription package of twenty classes. Note: Subscribers receive additional classes complimentary – one (1) class extra with your subscription of five (5) classes, two (2) classes extra with your subscription of ten (10) and five (5) classes extra with your subscription of twenty (20) classes.
Book any subscription package (5, 10 or 20 classes) and combine any class / teaching artist. Please email: Education@ArtWithoutBordersNYC.org with your selected classes.
AWB Teaching Artists – Mentors** Antonio Carmena, Former Soloist with the New York City Ballet Ask la Cour, Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet Holly Dorger, Principal Dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet Megan Fairchild, Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet Alec Knight, Dancer with the New York City Ballet Rebecca Krohn, former Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet Megan LaCrone, Soloist with the New York City Ballet Ashley Laracey, Soloist with the New York City Ballet Olivia MacKinnon, Ballerina with the New York City Ballet Unity Phelan, Soloist with the New York City Ballet Indiana Woodward, Soloist with the New York City Ballet
Art Without Borders, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to inspire and expand students’ and educators’ imaginations through the arts and through cultural experiences. AWB aims to provide opportunities for engagement with the arts on multiple platforms to diverse audiences, both domestically and internationally.
*Selected Mentees to be announced in May 2021.
**Teaching Artists / Mentors are subject to change – please select up to three (3) Mentors and include with your application.
Live-streamed on Zoom: includes classic barre, three (3) combinations with Individual corrections and Q & A.
$25 per student / workshop
Wendy Whelan, widely considered one of the world’s leading dancers of her generation, began dance lessons at the age of three in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Whelan began intense professional training at the Louisville Ballet Academy. She was accepted to the summer program of the School of American Ballet at age 14; a year later, she moved to New York to continue her studies there full-time. In 1984, she was named an apprentice with New York City Ballet and joined the corps de ballet a year later.
Wendy Whelan went on to spend 30 years at New York City Ballet, dancing virtually all the major roles. She was promoted to Soloist in 1989 and to Principal dancer in 1991.
Ms. Whelan has been a guest artist all over the world. She received the Dance Magazine Award in 2007, and in 2009 was given a Doctorate of Arts, honoris causa, from Bellarmine University. In 2011, she received both The Jerome Robbins Award and a Bessie Award for her Sustained Achievement in Performance.Since 2013, she has been developing and touring her own independent projects. Her inaugural project, Restless Creature broke down boundaries between interdisciplinary dance forms. She remains committed in her work to opening up creative conversations and developing unexpected collaborations through dance.
In February 2019, Ms. Whelan marked a return to New York City Ballet when she was appointed Associate Artistic Director of the Company.
*All ages and dance levels welcome, please contact AWB via email at: education@artwithoutbordersnyc.org
$107 for five (5) classes + one (1) class extra, $214 for ten (10) classes + two (2) classes extra or $333 for Subscription Package valid for twenty (20) classes + five (5) classes extra.
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. Unity Phelan was born in Princeton, New Jersey and began her dance training at the age of five at the Princeton Ballet School, where her teachers included Douglas Martin, Maria Youskevitch, and Mary Barton.
During the summers of 2008 and 2009, Ms. Phelan attended the summer sessions at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled as a full-time student in fall of 2009.
She became an apprentice with NYCB in December 2012 and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in November 2013.
In February 2017, Ms. Phelan was promoted to soloist.
FEAURED BALANCHINE ROLES SINCE JOINING NYCB Agon Chaconne Coppélia (War & Discord) Cortège Hongrois Divertimento No. 15 “Emeralds” from Jewels Episodes Haieff Divertimento Kammermusik No. 2 Liebeslieder Walzer The Four Temperaments A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena) George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Sugarplum Fairy, Dewdrop, Flowers, Hot Chocolate) Opus 19/The Dreamer Orpheus (Bacchantes) Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3(Scherzo) Union Jack Western Symphony Who Cares? . .
*Book any subscription package (5, 10 or 20 classes) and combine any class / teaching artist. Please email: Education@ArtWithoutBordersNYC.org with your selected classes – change dates, switch classes / teaching artists even at the last minute with only one condition: email AWB to inform no later than 24 hours** prior to the class start time. A missed class without 24-hrs notice is considered a No Show.
Note: Program and teaching artists are subject to change. Subscription tickets are non-exchangeable and non-refundable. Reward classes for subscribers can not be applied for AWB specialized Workshops.
$25 single class | $112.50 subscription package of five (5) classes | $225 package of ten (10) classes | $350 package of twenty (20) classes | 60-min. session via Zoom**
Note: Book any subscription package (5, 10 or 20 classes) and combine any class / teaching artist until the end of 2020. Please inform AWB with your specific preferences. Take daily classes (part of your subscription) and join us even last minute with only one condition: email AWB no later than 24 hours prior to the class start time. Students registered to attend 5+ virtual classes are able to apply to AWB Mentorship program.
Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began her dance training at the age of four, at Dance Concepts in Sandy, Utah, and at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City. She moved to New York City to train at the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City Ballet, in 2000, and was hired as an apprentice with NYCB the following year. Ms. Fairchild was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2004, and to principal in 2005.
Ms. Fairchild’s expansive repertoire with New York City Ballet includes principal roles in classical full-length ballets such as Swan Lake, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty and La Sylphide, as well as principal roles in ballets choreographed by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, and Alexei Ratmansky. She was featured as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the 2011 telecast of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker streamed in movie theaters worldwide.
In 2014 she made her Broadway debut as Miss Turnstiles in the revival of On the Town, for which she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award and received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway debut.
In addition to performing full time with the New York City Ballet, Ms. Fairchild is currently a teaching fellow with the School of American Ballet.
*All ages and dance levels welcome, please contact AWB via email at: education@artwithoutbordersnyc.org
**Zoom link and password provided upon registration
Ashley Laracey was born in Sarasota, Florida. She began her dance training at the age of five with Cheryl Carty and Christine White at the Carty Academy of Theater Dance in Bradenton, Florida. At age 12, she began training with Pavel Fomin, Diane Partington, and Isabel and Javier Dubrocq at Sarasota Ballet of Florida. She continued her studies at age 15 with Victoria Schneider, Olivier Pardina, and Svetlana Osiyeva at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida.
Ms. Laracey entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 2001. In October 2002, Ms. Laracey became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and in February 2003 she joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet and was promoted to soloist in February 2013.
Ms. Laracey has danced many featured roles in George Balanchine, Peter Martins, Jeorme Robbins, Troy Schumacher, Justin Peck and Christopher Wheeldon.
Ms. Laracey is on the board of Balletcollective, an arts collective, and also teaches movement therapy to children and young adults with disabilities, specifically Cerebral Palsy.
FEATURED ROLES SINCE JOINING NYCB
GEORGE BALANCHINE
Agon
Ballo della Regina
Coppélia (Spinner)
Cortège Hongrois
Concerto Barocco
Divertimento No. 15
“Emeralds” from Jewels
Firebird
The Four Temperaments
Ivesiana (Central Park in the Dark)
La Sonnambula (The Coquette)
Liebeslieder Walzer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia)
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Sugarplum Fairy, Dewdrop, Marzipan, Coffee, Flowers)
Raymonda Variations
Robert Schumann’s “Davidsbündlertänze”
Scotch Symphony
The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Swan Lake
Symphony in C (Fourth Movement)
Symphony in Three Movements
Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 (Valse Mélancolique)
Union Jack
La Valse
PETER MARTINS
Ash
Bal de Couture
The Infernal Machine
Mirage
Sinfonia
Songs of the Auvergne
The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy, Tenderness, Generosity, Ruby)
Swan Lake (Pas de Trois, Pas de Quatre, Princess)
JEROME ROBBINS
2 & 3 Part Inventions
Antique Epigraphs
The Concert
Fanfare (Harp)
The Four Seasons (Summer)
Glass Pieces
The Goldberg Variations
Interplay
Moves
N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz
LYNNE TAYLOR-CORBETT
Chiaroscuro
CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON
Klavier
We are excited to welcome Ashley Laracey to our Mentorship Program. Pre-registration is now open. Please submit your request here.
SCHEDULE: Wednesday, July 1st at 2:00pm EST Instagram Live (free-event) Fridays at 11:30am EST: 10, 17, 24, 31 July | more dates to be announced soon | Intermediate-Advanced level students*
$15 single class | $68 package of five (5) classes | $140 package of ten (10) classes | 60-min. session | virtual class via Zoom Live**includes classic barre and technique with individual corrections.
Note: students registered to attend 5+ virtual classes are able to apply to AWB Mentorship program. Package of ten (10) classes allows combination of two (2) different teachers with five (5) classes each, part of AWB Virtual Program Summer – Fall 2020.
Born in Paris France, Indiana Woodward’s earliest memories are of watching ballet class and being backstage in the theater. After moving to Los Angeles, Indiana began training with Yuri Grigoriev and it was from that moment that she knew that this was going to be her lifelong passion and career.
Indiana began studying at the School of American Ballet in the summer of 2010 and joined the school as a full time student in the fall of 2010. In August 2012 Ms. Woodward became an apprentice with New York City Ballet and a full member of the company in December of the same year. Indiana was promoted to soloist in February 2017.
Ms. Woodward is a recipient of the 2016 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award and 2016 Clive Barnes Foundation Award. In 2010, she won first place in the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive in New York City and was invited to perform at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy gala in Moscow.
FEATURED BALANCHINE ROLES SINCE JOINING NYCB
Apollo (Calliope)
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (Second Movement)
Chaconne
Coppélia (Waltz of the Golden Hours)
Divertimento No. 15
“Emeralds” from Jewels
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Butterfly)
Scotch Symphony
Symphony in C (Third Movement)
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Sugarplum Fairy, Dewdrop, Marzipan, Dolls)
Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
Western Symphony
*All ages and dance levels welcome, please contact AWB via email at: education@artwithoutbordersnyc.org
**Zoom link and password provided upon registration
Olivia MacKinnon was born in Mobile Alabama and is a ballerina with the New York City Ballet (NYCB). At the age of 17, she joined NYCB and has toured around the world including Denmark, France, Japan, China, Greece, West Indies, and various cities in the United States. As a professional ballerina and choreographer, she has created works for New York City Fashion Week and the House of Doyenne. Olivia is the founder of Ballet Inspired Fitness, she teaches both ballet and fitness classes for students all over the world. Olivia was featured in John Wick Parabellum film, and has had appearances in several documentaries. She has worked with numerous well known companies and artists such as Elle Decor, Museum of Modern Art, Puma, Rebecca Minkoff, Sarah Jessica Parker and Tiffany and Co.
FEATURED ROLES SINCE JOINING NYCB GEORGE BALANCHINE Divertimento from ‘Le Baiser de la Fée’ Emeralds from Jewels George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Coffee, Marzipan, Flowers, Dolls, Dewdrop) Raymonda Variations Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
PETER MARTINS Eight Easy Pieces The Sleeping Beauty (Vivacity) Swan Lake (Pas de Trois, Pas de Quatre, Princess) JEROME ROBBINS Fanfare (Cellos)
ORIGINATED CORPS ROLES IN Warren Carlyle: SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT Jerome Robbins, Broadway to Ballet JR: Les Bosquets Lauren Lovette: For Clara Justin Peck: The Most Incredible Thing, Principia Gianna Reisen: Composer’s Holiday
Note: Virtual Ballet Class Schedule to be announced soon – please subscribe for news. To request specific day and time for groups of 5+ students, please email Education@ArtWithoutBordersNYC.org
