Second year MFA students Anthony Alterio, Amy Cadwallader, Charles Gushue, and Michael Parmelee will be teaching excerpts/movement sketches from their choreographic works that are in development for their MFA thesis concerts to be held in March and April 2016.

Each session features a different guest artist who teaches a masterclass and sections from their repertory—this panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the student’s awareness of what career possibilities are out there. The guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class.

In the final 15-20 minutes faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q and A interviewing each guest artist about their career and what recommendations they have about the transition from student to professional and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects