BALLET with Erica Jeffrey
July 12-18

BALLET with Robert Dekkers
July 19-25

CONTEMPORARY with Andre Cagnetti and Valentina Buffone
July 26-July 31

Our visiting guest artists will teach daily classes and perform at the Emerging Choreographers Showcase

Ballet with Erica Jeffrey
July 12-18 at 11am Classes followed by rehearsal
July 31 & August 1 Performance
Workshop $250/Single Class $20

Erica Jeffrey is from Missoula, Montana. She studied dance at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, graduating as valedictorian before joining Ballet Internationale. After dancing professionally for several years, she attended Indiana University on full academic and artistic scholarships, graduating with degrees in Ballet and Mediation & Conflict Resolution. Erica studied dance and performed in India and West Africa and also created the conflict resolution through dance education program, Moving Toward Peace. She is currently teaching, choreographing and performing in the Bay area. She has performed at the Marin Theatre Company, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, and Robert Moses Drafts. She has choreographed new works for the Retail Dance Festival, Women on the Way Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Collaborate! Dance and Music, Counterpoint’s annual Works in Motion at the ODC Theatre, the Sausalito Art Festival, the Monterey Choreographer’s Festival, San Jose Danceworks, the Marin Choreographers’ Collective, Marin Dance Theatre, Belvedere Recreation Center, and Roco Dance and Fitness.

Ballet with Robert Dekkers
July 19-25 at 11am Classes followed by rehearsal
July 31 & August 1 Performance
Workshop $250/Single Class $20

Robert Dekkers
grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, training with the Atlanta Ballet and Gwinnett Ballet Theater on full scholarship. Summers, he trained with Pacific Northwest Ballet and Boston Ballet, also on full scholarship. Dekkers began dancing professionally with Ballet Arizona, where he also served on the faculty. He next danced with ODC/Dance San Francisco, performing in works by Brenda Way and KT Nelson. Currently, Robert is dancing with Company C Contemporary Ballet, performing works by Lar Lubovich, Charles Moulton, Twyla Tharp, Val Caniparoli, Amy Seiwert and Charlie Anderson. He began choreographing at 16, and after his first work premiered, he was invited to RDA’s Craft of Choreography Conference on full scholarship. Since then, Dekkers has created over twenty works, presenting at the Tanzsommer Festival in Vienna, the New Choreographers on Point Showcase in New York, the World Ballet Competition in Orlando, and RDA’s annual gala performances, among other venues. From 2008 to 2009, Dekkers was resident choreographer of Novaballet, Arizona’s contemporary dance company, where he created several critically acclaimed works. In 2009, he founded San Francisco-based dance company Post:Ballet, offering audiences the chance to experience highly professional dance that expands the notion of what is possible through the use of classical dance as a means, not an end, to artistic expression.

Contemporary with Andrea Cagnetti
July 26-31 at 1-2:30pm Classes followed by rehearsal
July 31 & August 1 Performance
Workshop $250/Single Class $20

Andrea Cagnetti
is a choreographer and creative director who graduated from the artistic Lyceum of Rome. He trained in Cannes at the Superior Institute of Rosella Hightower and at the Movement Theatre school of Jacques Le Coq. In Rome he trained at the I.E.D. (European Design Institute). In 2010, he created and directed L’Attrattiva del tempo moderno at the Theatre Palladium of Rome, presented by Città Nuova. Since 2009, he has collaborated with Marthe Keller, in a choreographic interpretation of her paintings. Performances have taken place in Rome, and will soon be performed in New York.

Valentina Buffone is from Rome, Italy, where she received diplomas from the scientific Lyceum Archimede of Rome in 2000, and University of Rome La Sapienza in 2007. Her professional dance training is from Roma Dance Studio of Claudia Venditti in Rome, the Amsterdam Dance Centre in the Netherlands, and Steps on Broadway in NYC. Currently, she is performing with Andrea Cagnetti in collaboration with Marthe Keller, a New York painter. Their work is a choreographic interpretation of the paintings. In February 2010 she and Cagnetti founded the Peptidi contemporary dance company

www.arsmovendi.it/andreacagnetti