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Company Staff
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Allegro Regional Dance Theater is proud to include the AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE® National Training Curriculum, a breakthrough 8 level program that combines high quality artistic training with the basics of dancer health and child development. The ABT® National Training Curriculum consists of a comprehensive set of age-appropriate, outcome-based guidelines to provide the highest quality ballet training to dance students of all ages and skill levels. Primary through Level 3 will be taught by ABT® Certified Teacher, Janne Jackson-Dean, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
Janne Jackson-Dean, founder and Artistic Director of Allegro Regional Dance Theater, danced professionally for ten years with American Ballet Theater (ABT), the premier New York ballet company, as well as with the San Francisco Ballet, National Ballet of Holland and Ballet Oregon. While at ABT, Dean danced with some of the greats of twentieth-century dance, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova and Rudolph Nureyev and worked with choreographers such as Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor and Jerome Robbins. She performed in 25 different ballets including all the major classical ballets, annually toured the United States and has toured to Russia, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Romania and England. She performed for President Carter, the Shah of Iran, Princess Margaret and personalities such as Jackie Onassis, Ringo Starr and Paul Newman. During this time,
she performed in the movie "The Turning Point," the nationally televised production of Baryshnikov’s "The Nutcracker" and several "Live from Lincoln Center" performances. In 1979 she began teaching in California and Oregon. Since 1986, Dean has been teaching, and choreographing in the Wausau, Wisconsin. In addition to her position as Artistic Director of Allegro, she owns and teaches at the Medford Academy of Ballet as well as teaching at the Judy Peterson Dance Studio in Wausau. As Artistic Director of Allegro, she has choreographed and successfully staged the Bedtime Story Productions of "Peter and the Wolf," "Coppelia," "The Ugly Duckling," "Cinderella," "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Pinocchio."
Dean’s students Lily Riveron (16) is now attending the Royal Ballet School in London, Jessica Jacobs dances professionally with the Rhythm and Shoes and the Mumand , Emily Spadafora has a Dance Major Scholarship to UW-Milwaukee and Lori Engelmeier and Olivia Crevier are Dance Majors at UWSP. In the spring of 2007 Dean and her son attended the first ever American Ballet Theatre dancer alumni reunion in New York City and starting this summer Dean will learn the new ABT National Curriculum and become certified as an ABT National Curriculum Teacher.
Janne Jackson-Dean is an AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE ® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
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Karl von Rabenau Raised in Duluth, Minnesota, Karl von Rabenau received his early dance training at the Duluth Ballet. He continued his training at Minnesota Dance Theatre, the Boston Ballet School, and the San Francisco Ballet School. Mr. von Rabenau began his career as a member of Boston Ballet II and apprentice to Boston Ballet. He has also performed with the Omaha Ballet and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet where he had the privilege to dance such roles as Harlequin pas de deux, Tarantella pas de deux and the lead in Divertimento No.13. Mr. von Rabenau danced for five seasons with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. While dancing with PBT, he toured to Taipei, Taiwan, and fulfilled the dream to dance Balanchine's Tarantella Pas De Deux. He also performed the role of Lucentio in John Cranko's "The Taming of the Shrew". Other highlights of his time spent with PBT include dancing many works by George Balanchine.
including the 3rd Movement from "Western Symphony", Benvolio in Bruce Wells' "Romeo and Juliet", as well as Agnes De Milles, "Fall River Legend", and Falls in Alvin Ailey's "The River". Mr. von Rabenau danced for ten seasons as a soloist for the Milwaukee Ballet. During his tenure with MBC he danced such roles as Iago in Jose Limon's "The Moor's Pavane", and The Blue Bird Pas de Deux from Sleeping Beauty. Mr. von Rabenau has also performed the lead roles in Choo San Goh's "In The Glow of the Night" and "Unknown Territory" as well as Balanchine's "Rubies", "The Four Temperaments", "Tchaikovsky Pas Deux", "Serenade", and "Allegro Brilliante". While with Milwaukee Ballet, Mr. von Rabenau also had the opportunity to dance in works by Eugene Loring, David Parsons, Jean-Paul Comelin, and Lisa de Ribere. Mr. von Rabenau's second passion in life is teaching ballet. He has had the true pleasure to do this for the past 12 years throughout the Midwest and Eastern United States. He is currently on staff at the Milwaukee Ballet School, Danceworks of Milwaukee, and Milwaukee High School for the Arts and is the ballet master for City Ballet Theatre. During the summer months Mr. von Rabenau returns to Pennsylvania where he has been invited to teach at Point Park University for the past 8 years and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in Carlisle, PA for the past 12 years. As a choreographer, Mr. von Rabenau has had the pleasure to create works for CBT for the past two seasons. He has also created works for Point Park University's International Summer Dance program for the past 8 years and has had works performed in the Regional Dance of America Festivals in both the Northeast Region by CPYB and Lake Erie Ballet School, and Southeast Region by Classical Ballet of Memphis. In 2002, Mr. von Rabenau was invited to choreograph a pas de deux, "Speranza" for a Milwaukee Ballet presentation at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Milwaukee Ballet School, Danceworks of Milwaukee, and Milwaukee High School for the Arts and is the ballet master for City Ballet Theatre. During the summer months Mr. von Rabenau returns to Pennsylvania where he has been invited to teach at Point Park University for the past 8 years and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in Carlisle, PA for the past 12 years. As a choreographer, Mr. von Rabenau has had the pleasure to create works for CBT for the past two seasons. He has also created works for Point Park University's International Summer Dance program for the past 8 years and has had works performed in the Regional Dance of America Festivals in both the Northeast Region by CPYB and Lake Erie Ballet School, and Southeast Region by Classical Ballet of Memphis. In 2002, Mr. von Rabenau was invited to choreograph a pas de deux, "Speranza" for a Milwaukee Ballet presentation at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Jennifer Miller Milwaukee Ballet Instructor, Jennifer Miller received her training from the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School and San Francisco Ballet School. With the Milwaukee Ballet she has had the privilege of dancing soloist and principal roles in Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Scherazade, Giselle as well as in works by Trey McIntyre, Choo San Goh, David Parsons, George Balanchine, Gerald Arpino, Peter Anastos, Anthony Tudor, Lila York, and Michael Pink. Ms. Miller is currently on staff at the Milwaukee Ballet School and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. In the summer of 2005 Ms. Miller was invited to dance for the Trey McIntyre Project, performing in the Vail international Dance Festival and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
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Amy Fote, originally from Manitowoc,
Wisconsin, began her dance training at the Jean Wolfmeyer School of Dance in Manitowoc
and furthered her studies at the National Academy of the Arts, the Interlochen Arts Academy
and the Harid Conservatory. In her six years as principal at the Milwaukee Ballet,
Ms. Fote has had starring roles in Romeo and Juliet,
Anna Karenina, The Sleeping Beauty,
Swan Lake and Giselle,
Carmen, La Fille Mal Gardee,
Coppellia and Madame Butterfly.
Ms. Fote teaches class and confers on the choreography for Allegro during the summer
intensive.
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Matthew Bruno grew up in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. After beginning early training at the
Milwaukee Ballet School, he continued with the School of American Ballet in New York
and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Mr. Bruno is a soloist with
the Milwaukee Ballet and has danced professionally with the Miami City Ballet. Mr.
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Daniel Larson, hails from a musical family and received his B. A. in Music Education
at the University of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point in 1984. At UWSP, he became interested
in composing and participated in the "Composers' Forum," where he wrote fugues,
variations, and a set of art songs. He began working for the Wausau School District in
1989, and he presently works at Horace Mann Middle School. He has written many musical
scores including, The Ugly Duckling, Pinocchio,
Cinderella,
The Little Mermaid and
The Beauty and the Beast.
Mr. Larson is also an active church musician playing for
First English Lutheran Church. |
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