Dance



Ballet Registration for Fall 2008

Friday August 1, 2:00 - 6:00 pm
Saturday August 2, 10:00 - 1:00

Registration Form

If you have questions for Sean France
Just email him or talk to him at:
sean.france@yahoo.com


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Sean France & Mrs. France
Sean France the Ballet Master and Associate Artistic Director for
Missouri Contemporary Ballet,
joins Presser Performing Arts Center as Director of Dance.
Sean France, a third generation performer and teacher, was raised in a well-known theatrical family, whose history includes grandparents and vaudevillians, Jerome & France. Sean’s father Richard France, a renowned Broadway performer and dancer, and Sean’s mother, choreographer and performer Ellen Ray, whose credits include working the Jack Cole, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Fred Astaire and Sean’s late godfather, the incomparable Gene Kelly. Sean’s dance training began with his parents at the France Academy of Dance. At the age of eleven he began to study ballet, tap and jazz. In 1978 and 1979, Sean was awarded full summer scholarship to the San Francisco Ballet School. In 1981 he was awarded a full scholarship and monetary stipend to study at the Houston Ballet Academy. He finished his studies at the Centre International de Danse with Rosella Hightower, in Cannes, France and graduated from the CID where he performed the lead roles in Hightower’s Coppelia and Bejart’s Firebird.
Sean has danced professionally in the following dance companies: the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Norwegian National Opera Ballet, Ballet Nuevo Mundo of Caracas, the National Ballet of Venezuela, the Athens Ballet of Greece, Cleveland Ballet, and Oakland Ballet. In addition, Sean has been principal guest performer with numerous regional, civic and international companies and ensembles.
Prior to moving to Columbia in 2004 to work as Ballet Master and Rehearsal Director for Cedar Lake II, Sean served as Visiting Professor of Dance at Grand Valley State University, choreographer for Grand Valley Opera Theater, and Ballet Master of G.V.S.U. Dance Ensemble. Sean teaches all levels of ballet, Pointe technique, men’s ballet technique, variations and pas de deux and is also well versed in the classical ballet repertory.
sean.france@yahoo.com

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