Harrison McEldowney

Harrison McEldowney returns for Ballet Nebraska’s second season, bringing along his brilliant DanceSport, a wonderful and witty satire about what happens when professional sports meets professional dance – complete with hilarious play-by-play color commentary.

DanceSport is featured in Ballet Nebraska’s Momentum at Joslyn Art Museum in March 2012.

McEldowney is a Ballet Nebraska favorite. The company made its debut in 2010 with McEldowney’s own Swing, Swing, Swing!

McEldowney has choreographed for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street 2, River North Dance Company, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Cerqua/Rivera Art Experience, Ballet Met, American Repertory Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Chicago Shakespeare Repertory, and he was resident choreographer for Configurations Dance Company.

The inaugural recipient of the Prince Prize award, McEldowney has also received choreography awards from Ruth Page Center for the Arts, After Dark, and Choo-San Goh.  Other choreographic achievements include the opening work of the 10th Anniversary of Dance for Life, the finale of Dance Chicago’s 10th Anniversary, the 35th anniversary tour of American Bandstand, directing the Australian tour of More Dirty Dancing, the ’92 Barcelona Olympics’ Closing Ceremonies, and Carnegie Hall’s Celebration of 125 Years of Musical Theater. McEldowney also directs shows for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines including Freedom of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship.

In addition to stage, McEldowney also choreographs for film and television. In 2008, the documentary Billy Sunday which featured McEldowney was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Jeff Satinoff

Jeff Satinoff’s solo piece, Perpetuum Mobile will be featured in Ballet Nebraska’s Momentum March 30 – 31,  2012.  “I loved the music and wanted the movement that I made for it to reflect its sensibility on stage,” said Satinoff. “The story is the movement language that I made for it.”

Satinoff made his auspicious professional debut at age 13 as the Young Prince in San Francisco Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker, later using  his salary of $5 per performance to purchase a new bike. Satinoff went on to train with Pennsylvania Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and North Carolina School of the Arts.  He danced principal roles with the then-newly formed North Carolina Dance Theatre in numerous classical ballets as well as works by renowned choreographers Agnes De Mille and Alvin Ailey. In 1974, Satinoff joined the newly formed Eliot Feld Ballet, where he danced for ten years as a principal dancer in Harbinger and Intermezzo, among others, and created roles in many of Feld’s ballets. Satinoff taught company class and took part in the beginnings of Feld’s own New Ballet School.

Satinoff served as Artistic Director at both Dancesouth in Charleston,  South Carolina, and Lake Erie Ballet in Erie, Pennsylvania.

A prolific choreographer, Satinoff has created more than 40 ballets for dance companies and schools across the U.S. including School of American Ballet, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Hartford Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Dayton Ballet, Ballet Memphis and Los Angeles Dance Alliance among others.

Satinoff was named Dean of Dance at the A.W.Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where he has remained on staff since 1994. Recent works include a new version of Carmina Burana, a restaging of  his own L’Histoire Du Soldat at Florida Atlantic University, and the restaging of Feld’s Harbinger on Dreyfoos.

Satinoff is the 2011 recipient of the leadership award for Arts Education Professional from the Florida Alliance for Arts Education.

DRACULA

Winthrop Corey

Ballet Nebraska opens its 2011-2012 season at the Orpheum Theater on Friday, October 28, with a production of Dracula choreographed by Winthrop Corey.

Corey is artistic director of Mobile Ballet Company, and a summer faculty member for Joffrey Ballet School in New York and American Ballet Theatre. Corey holds the distinction of having been a principal dancer with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet and The National Ballet of Canada. He is especially well known for his classical roles in The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Cinderella. He is also noted for dancing opposite Rudolph Nureyev in Jose Limon’s classic work The Moor’s Pavane.

He was recently awarded a Dance Fellowship from the State Council on the Arts for his service to the State of Alabama during his more than twenty years at Mobile Ballet.

Corey also has been a five-time coach for the New York International Ballet Competition, coaching dancers from all over the world in The Sleeping Beauty pas de deux and the Black Swan pas de deux.

Corey has been a guest teacher at Brown University, the University of Connecticut, Dance Masters of America, Boston Dance Teachers Club, Professional Dance Teachers Association New York and has taught master classes throughout the United States, Canada, and Portugal.

He has staged and choreographed full-length productions of The Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, and Swan Lake as well as two original ballets, Dracula and A Streetcar Named Desire.

As a costume designer, Corey is noted for his designs for Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Romeo & Juliet. His original design and construction of the classical tutu has gained him national attention.