Valuing the importance of community and education, the ADF continues to dedicate time and resources to providing youth the opportunity to explore their full potential through dance. ADF's Community Education Outreach initiatives/classes have encouraged numerous youth to take advantage of the many benefits a dance education has to offer.
in Gaspard Louis' Creative Movement Dance Class in August 2010.ADF Creative Movement Classes for Kids–Free!
The ADF is offering a series of creative movement classes for 9-16 year olds taught by Gaspard Louis and Diego Carrasco Schoch to be held in Bay 7 at the American Tobacco Campus.
The dates and times are as follows:
Sundays
February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 4
3–4 pm (9 -12 year old)
4–5 pm (13 – 16 year old)Advanced registration is required as space will be limited. Please call Sarah Tondu at 919-684-6402 to reserve your space!
Directions to the American Tobacco Campus
About the Artists
Gaspard Louis
Director of the Creative Movement Community Program, was a member of Pilobolus Dance Theater from 1996 to 2001. He taught and performed worldwide with the company and collaborated on the choreography of nine major dance works. He most recently appeared in a Hundai commercial with Pilobolus and has appeared in National Geographic, Marie Claire, and O Magazine and on Regis & Kathy, and Good Day New York with the company.
Gaspard received his BFA in dance from Montclair State University. He was a scholarship recipient with Gus Giordano in Chicago and Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab in New York. Gaspard has danced with Shirley Mordine & Company in Chicago and AllNations dance company in New York. He has also appeared in the New York Renaissance Dance Festival and choreographed and danced in a Caribbean music video as well being a guest artist choreographer for the Kentucky University Dance Ensemble.Diego Carrasco Schoch
Diego Carrasco Schoch is a free-lance dance artist based in Durham, and was a Principal Dancer with the Milwaukee Ballet (1991-2003) and a Soloist with the North Carolina Dance Theater (1987-1991). He served as a member of the Contemporary Dance Faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC and was an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has worked as a guest instructor and/or choreographer at Elon University, Wake Forest University, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet 2, Milwaukee Ballet School, and the American College Dance Festival (South Cantral Region, 2008). Diego attended the North Carolina School of the Arts (1984-1986), holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Currently he is a Touring Artist for the 2011/12 North Carolina Dance Festival performing his solo Ode, dances with Gaspard and Dancers, teaches ballet and modern at Durham’s Ninth Street Dance, and serves as an Assistant Repititeur for the Salvatore Aiello Trust, helping stage Aiello’s Clowns and Others for Milwaukee Ballet in 2010. Visit www.diegocarrascoschoch.com for more information.
Students from Gaspard Louis' Creative Movement Dance Class performing
at the ADF's Season Announcement Event on March 19, 2010.
photos by JAM Photography
