Alan Good will lead a class featuring part of Merce Cunningham’s Torse (1976). Good grew up in Ann Arbor and Munich, Germany and danced with the Cunningham company from 1978 to 1994. The Wall Street Journal wrote of a New York season, “most memorable of all is Alan Good, who dances like an unpredictable force of nature.”

Each Modern Lab session features a different guest artist teaching a master class and sections from their repertory. This panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the students’ awareness of potential career possibilities. Each guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class.
In the final 15 minutes, faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q & A with each artist, discussing their career; their recommendations for transitioning from student to professional, and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects.