Juilliard Dance Will Take Part in Canada's National Ballet School's Assemblée Internationale 2013

The Juilliard School has announced that from April 28th to May 4th, 2013 its Dance Division will be taking part in the second Assemblée Internationale (AI13), to be held in Toronto, Canada. Hosted by Canada's National Ballet School (NBS), the AI13 will bring together students and artistic staff from eighteen international professional ballet schools for seven days of intensive classes, performances, forums, and professional development.

Students from participating schools will perform both a piece of existing repertoire, representative of their school's culture, as well as a student-created choreography, which will be performed by a blended cast of students from each of the partner schools. Juilliard alumna Julia Eichten has choreographed Phases of Strobe for the six Juilliard dancers attending AI13. The AI13 will also include an innovative live-streaming project that will explore the use of new technologies in dance. Shaun Amyot, NBS artistic faculty member and choreographer, has collaborated with Michael Schumacher, an Amsterdam-based choreographer, to create a work that will be performed by a blended cast of AI13 students present in Toronto and joined virtually through live streaming by dancers from the National Ballet Academy in Amsterdam. The live-streaming project, as well as several other AI13 performances and student classes, will be shown live on NBS' Web site so that everyone worldwide can see and feel a part of the festival.

Juilliard 2nd-year dancers Jeffery Duffy (Atlanta, Georgia), Austin Goodwin (Dallas, Texas), Devon Lodge (Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts), Michael Marquez (Verona, Italy), Corey John Snide (Albany, New York), and Anthony Tiedeman (Red Bank. New Jersey) will join Artistic Director Lawrence Rhodes in Toronto for the weeklong, collaborative festival. "We are delighted to be taking part in this year's Assemblée Internationale and to be joining colleagues and students from Canada's National Ballet School as well as the other participating schools to share our creativity and passion for ballet," said Mr. Rhodes. "Knowing how successful the initial Assemblée Internationale was in 2009, especially in terms of enhancing student development and promoting professional development for artistic staff, we anticipate that the inspirations gained at this year's AI13 will be of lasting benefit to our school, long after the AI has ended."

The full list of schools participating in the AI13 is as follows:

The Australian Ballet School (Melbourne) Dutch National Ballet Academy (Amsterdam)

Canada's National Ballet School (Toronto) National Ballet School (Havana)

Codarts Dance Department (Rotterdam) New Zealand School of Dance (Wellington)

L'École supérieure de Ballet du Québec (Montréal) Palucca Schule (Dresden)

EESA/CPD de l'Institut del Teatre (Barcelona) Paris Opera Ballet School

The School of The Hamburg Ballet The Royal Ballet School (London)

Houston Ballet Academy The Royal Danish Ballet School (Copenhagen)

John Cranko Schule (Stuttgart) Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet School

The Juilliard School (New York) San Francisco Ballet School

For more information about the Assemblée Internationale or Canada's National Ballet School, please visit: http://www.nbs-enb.ca/ai13/.

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