Ann
Etgen was a
member of the New York Metropolitan Ballet Company. She has also danced with
the Alicia Alonso Ballet Company and in the Broadway productions of "Brigadoon"
and "Carousel". Also she has made television appearances in Canada
and on the Omnibus "History of Dance" program for Agnes DeMille.
Miss Etgen has studied in New York from such masters as Pereyaslevec, Dokoudovsky,
Tudor, Caton and on the west coast from Eugene Loring.
Bill
Atkinson has performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Canada and with
the Ballet AAA in South America. He appeared on Broadway in "My Fair
Lady", "Oh Captain" and "Happiest Girl in the World".
Also he has danced in the Texas State Fair Musicals and at the Jacobs Pillow
Dance Festival in Massachusetts. Mr. Atkinson has studied from such prominent
teachers as Dokoudovsky, Pereyaslevec, Caton, Vilzak and Lazowski in New York.
Ann Etgen and
Bill Atkinson:
Since starting
the Etgen-Atkinson Ballet School, they have distinguished themselves in their
ability to train dancers, choreograph ballets and direct The Dallas Metropolitan
Ballet Company. Three of their ballets have been selected for the Choreography
Plan of The National Association for Regional Ballet, also, they have received
a choreography fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.
Their dancers
have joined the ranks of many professional ballet companies including: New
York city Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet,
Berlin Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Ballet Wallonie of Belgium, Hamburg Ballet,
Stuttgart Ballet and others.
They were two
of the few Directors in the United States invited to the George Balanchine
Teaching Seminars in New York City under the auspices of the Ford Foundation.
In addition
to maintaining their well established ballet school and directing the Dallas
Metropolitan Ballet, Ms. Etgen has served on the Dance Panel of Texas Commission
on the Arts and Humanities and both have held offices in Regional Dance America/Southwest
(RDA/SW)
They applied
their years of teaching and training dancers to its development
and the result is this comprehensive, interactive Ballet
is Fun for CD-ROM and DVD.
