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Master Class with Mr. Wayne 9/26/09


 EXCLUSIVE to Inner Star at Ballet Nevada Studios!

 An opportunity to dance with one of the most world renowned and prolific

dancer/choreographer/instructors of our time!

 

- One of the top 5 male dancers of one of the most exciting times in dance history

- Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Co-founded Dennis Wayne Dancers Company

- Contemporary & Colleague of Mikhail Baryshnikov & Rudolf Nureyev

- Partnered with Gelsey Kirkland & Natalia Makarova

 

Mr. Dennis Wayne was a principal dancer with the original Harkness Ballet and American Ballet Theater and the Matinee Idol of the Joffrey Ballet. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward co-founded DENNIS WAYNE DANCERS (1975-1989). That company performed in 167 cities, in 64 countries on 4 continents. Dancers had a 100% on return engagements! Dennis choreographed the spectacular production of Aida in Luxor, Egypt starring Placido Domingo. For the Barcelona Olympics, Dennis created a tribute to the one and only Fred Astaire, and his Romeo & Juliet premiered September 15, 1990 in a 90,000 seat Roman coliseum in Verona, Italy. Dennis has choreographed 62 ballets, 8 operas, 4 rock videos and 6 films.  He also choreographed and directed 9 musicals and 32 television shows for RAI, the national television station in Rome, Italy. At the ripe age of one Dennis won Life Magazine Diaper Derby Crawling Contest two separate times....  In 1995, Dennis Wayne was the founding director of the Childrens Cultural Center (not-for-profit), in West Palm Beach, Florida. A life without Art and Culture is no life at all is the underlining theme of the Childrens Culture Center and its proven innovative childrens program: CULTURESHOP.

DennisWayne.org


An American Gem

New York Times, Clive Barnes

Dennis Wayne performed in the White House for Presidents, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Princess Margaret commissioned his full length production of Swan Lake and Princess Grace de Monaco commissioned a sculpture entitled: The Dennis Wayne.

 

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward co-founded Dennis Waynes DANCERS (1975-1988). That company performed in 168 cities, in 64 countries on 4 continents. DANCERS had a 100% record for return engagements.

 

He graduated with honors as the first dancer from the Famed High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.  He was a principal dancer with the original Harkness Ballet and American Ballet Theater and the Matinee Idol with the Joffrey Ballet. His list of partners is a Whos Who in the dance world. 

 

Dennis choreographed the spectacular production of Aida in Luxor, Egypt starring Placido Domingo. For the Barcelona Olympics, he created a tribute to the one and only Fred Astaire.  His Romeo and Juliet was premiered in a 90,000 seat Roman coliseum in Verona, Italy.  And, his full evening Swan Lake broke all box office records forChristopher Gables company NBT with 127 sold out performances in 35 cities in the UK.

 

Dennis has choreographed 27 ballets, 4 films, 3 operas, 3 rock videos and 1 play. He also choreographed and directed 3 musicals and 17 television shows for RAI, the national television station in Rome, Italy.

 

In 1995 Dennis Wayne was the founding director of the Childrens Cultural Center (Not-for-profit), in West Palm Beach, Florida.  A life without art and culture is no life at all is the underlining theme of the 3Cs and its proven innovative childrens program: CULTURESHOP.

 

And at the ripe age of one, Dennis won Life Magazines Diaper Derby crawling contest two separate times!

 

 

Wayne, of course, is the star.  He is equally at home and brilliant in the classical and modern idioms and his intensity electrifies everything he does.  - NEWSWEEK

 

SUPERB!  PASSIONATE!  IMPOSSIBLE FEATS! - NEW YORK TIMES

 

An evening to make you love dance, to make you understand it better.  - LE MONDE

 

After the Russians, the American arrived. The incredible Dennis Wayne. - IL. MESSAGGERO

 

Wayne remains a magnetic and powerful dancer full of animal energy. - CHICAGO TRIBUNE

 

Mr. Wayne has not only collected excellent works for his dancers, he has collected excellent dancers for his works. A spectacular evening of dance virtuosity. - HONG KONG POST

 

Mr. Wayne and his Dancers kick down audience barriers. - TOKYO NEWS

 

 Dennis Wayne, with his smoldering good looks, producers fireworks.  His is the presence that transforms the art of dance into spellbinding drama. - TIME MAGAZINE

 




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