Jane Marie Vorburger

NYC, NY

marievorburger at yahoo.com

Jane Vorburger completed her dance training with Hortensia Fonseca and Michelle Lees at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet. She joined American Ballet Theater at age 16 and spent 5 years with this company performing principal, soloist and corps de ballet roles in the U.S.A. and abroad. She went on to study Contact Improvisation and Choreography at Oberlin College and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree from New York Universityâs Tisch School for the Arts in spring 2006. She teaches ballet, modern and composition and is on faculty at Marymount Manhattan College, Tisch School for the Arts at NYU, American Ballet Theater, the Joffrey Ballet Schoool and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.

Companies:

• American Ballet Theatre 1991-1996
• Chautauqua Professional Company 1993-1994
• Richmond Ballet 1998
• Oberlin Dance Company 2002-2003
• Second Avenue Dance Company

Diplomas and Certifications:

• M.F.A. in Dance: Tisch School for the Arts at New York University, May 2006
• B.A.: Oberlin College, December 2003
• Certifed American Ballet Theater syllabus teacher: February 2008
• Pilates Mat Teacher Certification: Powerhouse Pilates, May 2003

Teaching

Ballet:

• Master class instructor/Audition teacher and evaluator , Joffrey Ballet School National Audition Tour for Summer Intensive 2009
• Rehearsal Assistant, Mainstage Spring Dance production Marymount Manhattan College, Christopher D.Amboise
• Adjunct Faculty, Marymount Manhattan College: 2007-current
  • Faculty, Joffrey Ballet School: current
• Summer Dance Festival Faculty, School for the Arts, New York University: 2007-2008
  • Beginner-Intermediate Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center: 2006-current
• Beginner Ballet, American Ballet Theater.s Young Dancer Program: 2006-current
  • Make a Ballet program, American Ballet Theater.s Public School programs: 2006-current
• Guest Instructor- Advanced Ballet, Adelphi University: 2006
• Guest Instructor, Advanced Ballet, William and Hobart Smith College: 2006
• Non-majors Division Ballet Instructor, Indiana University: 1997, Advanced Ballet Technique, Beginner Pointe and Beginner/Intermediate Ballet Technique
• Beginner-Advanced Ballet Technique, Mark Morris Dance Group: current
• Beginner, Advanced Ballet Technique, Pointe, Steps on Broadway: current

Modern:

• Modern Technique substitute instructor, Tisch School for the Arts NYU, 2009
• Advanced Modern Teaching Assistant, Oberlin College: spring 2002
• Modern, School of the Stamford Ballet, CT: summer 2008
• Modern and Composition, Lynchburg Dance Theater, Virginia: summer 2008
• Composition, Improvisation, Modern, Dance Connection, Sommerville NJ, summers 2006-2008
• Advanced Modern substitute, Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance, CT: 2006-2008
• Intermediate and Beginner Modern, Breaking Ground Dance Center, Pleasantville NY: 2006-2007

Choreography:

• Beneath the Tango.s Veil: Marymount Manhattan College, BA Projects Class, Dance Concert, modern and ballet to Saturo Wono.s Tango no. 5, November 2008
• Adagio for 3: Oberlin College, Sprung Dance Concert, Spring 2001 Modern choreography for 3 women to Barber.s Adagio for Strings
• Last Gigue: Oberlin College, Dance Department Spring Performance, Spring 2002 Modern piece to The Chieftan.s No.6 The Coombe
• Black: w York University, Tisch Dance Showing, November 2004 Modern piece to Gabriel Faure.s Requiem, Pie Jesus
• For Stan: New York University, Tisch Second Avenue Dance Company, November 2005 Contemporary/Swing to Gene Krupa, I hope Gabriel Likes my Music
• Yesterday.s Café: New York University.s, MFA Graduating Performance, May 2006 Ballet/Swing to collection of songs, Benny Goodman, Fred Astaire, Billie Holiday
• The Prism Within: Ridgefield Dance Company, spring 2007, contemporary ballet to Philip Glass, Etude No. 5
• Waltz for May: The Ailey School Junior Division, spring 2007, classical ballet to Josef Byer.s The Fairy Doll
• Bartok.s Pizzicato: Ridgefield Conservatory of Ballet, spring 2007, classical ballet to Bela Bartok.s string quartet no. 4 Allegretto Pizzicato
• Figaro!: Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, classical ballet to Mozart.s Marriage of Figaro excerpt
• Thunder: Ridgefield Conservatory of Ballet, spring 2008, contemporary ballet, to Nuttin but String.s Thunder
• Allegro in Blue: Ridgefield Dance Company, spring 2008, contemporary ballet Antonio Vivaldi.s Concerto no. 10
• The Tango Gal: Brant Lake Summer Dance Camp, summer 2008, ballet to Saturo Wono.s Tango no. 5

Roles danced:

• Principal:
  • Principal female (Anthony Tudor’s “Echoing of Trumpets”)
  • Amour (“Don Quixote” Act II staged by Kevin McKenzie)
  • The Faune (John Clifford’s “Afternoon of a Faun”)
  • Princess Florine (“The Sleeping Beauty” Act III staged by Jean Pierre Bonnefoux)
  • Female in The Dying Poet pas de deux (Lynn Taylor Corbett’s “Great Galloping Gottshalk”)
• Roles Created:
  • Hope (Agnes de Mille’s “The Other”)
  • Jill (John Selya’s “Jack and Jill”)
  • The Female (Jean Pierre Bonnefoux’s “Chopin Nocturne Pas de Deux”)
• Soloist:
  • The Transvestite Whore (“Manon” by Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Cygnets (“Swan Lake” Act II, staged by Kevin McKenzie)
  • Unicorn Doll (“The Nutcracker” Act I, choreographed by Kevin McKenzie)
  • Juliet’s Friends (Romeo and Juliet by Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Aurora’s Friends (The Sleeping Beauty Act I)
  • 4 Small Ladies (Bayadère Act I)
  • Little Red Riding Hood (The Sleeping Beauty Act III)
  • Black Swans (Swan Lake Act lV staged by Kevin McKenzie)
  • Chinese (Kevin McKenzie’s “The Nutcracker” Act II)

Teachers during professional career:

Nancy Bielski, Maggie Black, Marc de Boueays, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Wilhelm Burmann, Diana Cartier, Jacques Cesbron, John Clifford, Alexander Filipov, Alaine Haubert, Rosella Hightower, David Howard, Linda Kintz, Gelsey Kirkland, Irina Kolpakova, Elena Kunikova, Mark Mejia, Patricia McBride, Susan McGuire, Ross Stretton, Kevin McKenzie, Violette Verdy, Michael Vernon.

Training:

• Tisch School for he Arts at New York University: 2004-current. Course work includes classical dance, modern dance, dance composition, acting, pilates, Music theory, and Kinesiology taught by: Liz Franklin, Kathy Grant, Joy Kellman, Phyllis Lamhut, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Jolinda Menendez, Jim Martin, Pamela Pietro, Gus Solomons, Jim Sutton, Andrea Woods.
• Oberlin College: 2000-2003. Course work included modern dance, contact improvisation, choreography and dance history taught by Roger Copeland, Carter McAdams, Nusha
• Martynuk, Elesa Rosasco, and Ann Cooper Albright.
• Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet: 1988-1991
• Houston Ballet Academy: summers 1989, 1990, scholarship recipient
• School of American Ballet: summer 1988, scholarship recipient