Jean Erdman Dance | Stagings/Teaching

stagings/teaching
residencies

Jean Erdman Dance offers a wide range of activities from multi-week residencies to single classes, workshops or lecture demonstrations. We are happy to work with any company or producing organization to create the activities that will best suit your community and your budget. Please read on to see a few examples of what we have done and feel free to contact us at info@jeanerdmandance.com to discuss your ideas.

Stagings
Erdman’s beautiful repertory offers unique aesthetic opportunities for professional and student dancers and audiences. Stagings of single dances or groups of dances are available through our staging packages.

A staging package includes:
• Performance rights
• Authorized teaching and/or coaching of the dance or dances
• Specially edited rare archival footage of Erdman dancing and discussing her aesthetic concerns designed to be part of the live-dance performance
• Source information for music, costumes and lighting
• PR materials including inter-active web site activities designed to heighten community participation and involvement

“It was a pleasure for me to witness your vibrant, detailed, caring work with the students in Jean Erdman’s Daughters of the Lonesome Isle. I was impressed by the powerful simplicity of the dance, its use of movements and feelings, its recognition of the human condition. There was a real classical, pure atmosphere.”

Violette Verdy
Former Director
Paris Opera Ballet

"We are committed to offering our students the opportunity to perform works in a wide range of styles and carefully selected Daughters of the Lonesome Isle for this reason. We could not have made a more excellent choice. This seminal work by Jean Erdman is full of intricate movement patterns, challenging dynamics, and subtle references to three aspects of the feminine psyche. Our students were expertly led through this exciting and defining experience by Nancy Allison, a sensitive and demanding dance professional and master of Erdman’s work.”

Mary Margaret Holt
Director
University of Oklahoma School of Dance

"Ms. Erdman’s works sophisticated, intriguing and sensitive by nature are no easy learn-one-day-and-perform-the-next experience. These works gave the student dancers a chance to live through a meaningful journey on stage that tested their concentration as performers and demanded that they put the image across with real grace, not mere gracefulness. Furthermore, it gave our audiences the opportunity to witness dance works that not only entertain but also inform the viewer about the human experience. Good work is good work. And these truly are good works.”

Lance Westergard
Director of Dance
Hofstra University

Residencies can be arranged to suit the budget of any host organization. Often residencies include:
A staging of one or more dances
Technique classes
A variety of workshop, lecture-demonstration, or outreach activities

“Nancy Allison brought the choreography to life through her work with our talented young dancers eliciting performances beyond their expectations and enriching their lives and our audiences experiences. It was a pleasure we would be delighted to repeat.”

Mary Margaret Holt
Director
University of Oklahoma School of Dance

“Allison has a genuine respect for each individual. In her teaching she is able to adapt to many situations and to build trust among her students in a short period of time. Her teaching is marked by a wonderful ability to motivate students, children as well as adults, good pacing, great clarity and high professionalism.”

Cathryn Williams
Associate Director
Lincoln Center Institute

“Thank you for your wonderful classes.”
Leon S. Fried
Associate Director
Programs in the Arts
State University of New York/Albany

“What a pleasure to have you on our campus. Your classes are clear and challenging.”
Judy Allen
Director of Dance
University of Hawaii at Manoa

The class was a rich example of Jean’s approach to movement and how you are able to embody its essence. The proof of this was to hear the young dancer exclaim at the end of the class that she felt so “whole” as a result of participating. Others in the class agreed and as a scholar of dance experience, I too could observe the importance of the connections (physical, mental and spiritual) that were being made.”

Deborah Welsh
Asisstant to the Director
Syracuse University School of Education