Marie-Christine Giordano will teach a 5 day workshop starting

Monday, August 22 every day from 4 to 6PM.

Location: Mark Morris Dance Center

10 full scholarships will be awarded at the end of the workshop to selected dancers to join the company, further study MCGD technique and join its new creation's rehearsals in September. The new creation will be premiered in NYC at BAM Fisher and later in Switzerland.

PAY REHEARSALS AND PERFORMANCES

To register for the intensive, send your resume and a video clip at dancers@mcgdance.org and state why you are interested in working with MCGD.

Marie-Christine Giordano, founder and director of Marie-Christine Giordano Dance studied ballet with Beatrix Consuelo in Geneva and Marika Besobrasowa in Monte Carlo. She was awarded a Swiss Scholarship to the Alvin Ailey School and a Merit Scholarship from the Martha Graham Center. She earned her Professional Trainee Certificate in the Martha Graham technique and performed with the Martha Graham Company in New York and on tour internationally. She has choreographed and danced commissioned works for performance in New York and Switzerland and is the recipient of grants from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. She has created a unique modern dance training technique and Giordano Alignment, which she has taught as a faculty member at Broadway Dance Center, the Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Intensives and internationally. She founded and taught an outreach program in New York public school system for ten years and is the Salon Series Curator for MCGD.