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Advanced Ballet Syllabus, Expectations, Grading, Objectives
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The Advanced Ballet Classes are taught by practicing professional artists from the Dallas area. Their professional artist biographies are as follows: ABOUT RUBEN GERDING AND CEYHUN OZSOY: Rubén Gerding is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and received his early training from the Louisville Ballet and the Youth Performing Arts School. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma under the direction of Mary Margaret Holt. While at OU he performed with the Oklahoma Festival Ballet and toured with the company to France on four occasions. He performed such roles as “Prince Desiré” in Sleeping Beauty and “The Waltz Boy” in Serenade. He continues to guest with the company in the summers performing such roles as “El Capitan” in Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes. Upon graduation, Rubén danced for three seasons with the Eugene Ballet under director Toni Pimble. There he performed such roles as “Aramis” in The Three Musketeers and was featured in the “Winter” section of Paul Vasterling’s The Seasons. In 2003, Rubén joined Texas Ballet Theater where he danced for four years. Rubén has enjoyed dancing the role of “Roman Senator” in Cleopatra, “The Ugly Stepsister” in Cinderella, as well as dancing in Ben Stevenson’s Five Poems and Mozart: Requiem, a new piece created for the male dancers of Texas Ballet Theater. Rubén danced with Metropolitan Classical Ballet in Arlington, TX, under the direction of Paul Mejia and Alexander Vetrov from 2007 - 2010. He continues to dance with the company as his schedule allows. There he has performed such works as Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations, Mejia’s Violin Concerto and Carmen by Alberto Alonso. Rubén is currently as freelance dancer working with such companies as Ballet Concerto in Fort Worth and Ballet Conservatory in Lewisville. As a teacher he has taught for five years at the Dance Workshop in Arlington. He has taught at other studios in DFW Metroplex including the North Central School of Ballet and Margo Dean’s School of Ballet. He has taught character dance for four years at the University of Oklahoma SummerWind Youth Ballet Program. He has taught master classes at the University of North Texas and guest taught at the Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas. In 2009, Rubén was a ballet faculty member of the Fall Seminar for the Southwest Committee of the Cecchitti Council of America. At the age of ten, Ceyhun Ozsoy was accepted as a boarding student at the Government Conservatory in Ankara, Turkey. He studied nine years under the co-direction of Molly Lake and Travis Kemp. Upon graduation, he joined the Ankara National Ballet Company. While dancing as a soloist, he earned his college degree as a professional ballet teacher from Hacettepe University. By invitation of Dame Ninette de Valois, he studied with the Royal Ballet Company in London, then danced with the Bayarische Staats Oper Company in Munich, Germany. Subsequently, he continued his professional career with Ankara National Ballet Company as a principal dancer and later as Ballet Master. Mr. Ozsoy has danced major roles in such ballets as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee, Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous, Les Sylphides, Pineapple Pole, Orpheous, Judith, La Valse, Tommy, Paquita, Romeo & Juliet, Konservatoriet, Don Quixote, Coppelia, Pas de Quatre (for four men), Glazunov Suite, and many more operas and musicals. Mr. Ozsoy came to the United States in 1982 and taught master classes and choreographed ballets around the country. He served as Ballet Master for eight years with Delta Festival Ballet in New Orleans. He is currently teaching at Texas Christian University and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts as part time faculty. He is also on the full time faculty at Joffrey Ballet School's summer program in New York City. In the spring of 2001, Mr. Ozsoy was named Distinguished Teacher of the Year by the Presidential Scholars Program. He and his family moved to Duncanville and founded Ozsoy School of Ballet in 1990. His son Firat Kazbek Ozsoy, was a member of the Houston Ballet Company.
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Booker T. Washington HSPVA
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