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Doubletake dance studio9/19/2023 In the US so many dancers train across many disciplines. In Spain students show up with unparalleled enthusiasm. In Belgium they are extremely attentive and nobody ever talks over the teacher in class. Is there something jazz dancers in Europe do that you think Americans would benefit in learning from, or vice-versa? US: Professional with more dance etiquette.ĭance is accessible almost anywhere in the US.How are the classes or students different? Because this is a newer dance form in Europe, it’s less pervasive but has not yet hit a long decline. In the US jazz dance has a rich and long standing tradition which has recently began to lose its popularity which means that the older generation of dancers are finding themselves with the responsibility of keeping this art form alive. Barcelona is very fortunate to have a master jazz teacher, Víctor Rodrigo, who is not only a well known choreographer, but also the former director of the pre-professional jazz dance program at Luthier. The owner of PAO dance, Paola Rojas, studied with Giordano in Chicago and her studio shapes dancers into incredible artists who have an appreciation for many dance genres but especially jazz and ballet. In Belgium we had the pleasure to be invited to the first studio ever to bring international guest teachers in Bruges. Jazz dance arrived in both Spain and Belgium much later and it’s not the most popular genre. How is jazz dance culture in Spain and Belgium different from in the US? Both organizations have similar priorities in that we value quality of work, artistic integrity, the fair treatment of artists and, of course, the preservation of jazz dance/technique. How do your work and JCE’s mission intersect?īoth JCE and DoubleTake Dance have flourished in the New York City dance scene for the past decade. It’s an incredible festival that every dancer should check out! You were the JCE Ambassadors to Jazz Dance Festival Barcelona. We were thrilled and are really honored to have met all the people involved in this event. She was very excited with the kind of work we were doing and invited us to come the following year as featured teachers for the festival. We were invited to teach a workshop at Luthier and one of the main organizers of the Barcelona Jazz Dance Festival happened to take our classes. Vanessa has worked for the legendary Guillém Alonso, the owner of Luthier, an incredible dance and music school in Barcelona, which is well known for its revolutionary tap program. How did you learn about Jazz Dance Festival Barcelona? Both of us have been in numerous countries and met many different cultures, so our work is influenced by our own crazy lives! Social awareness and storytelling whether literal or abstract. What are some of the major influences on DoubleTake’s choreography? After one of our pieces was selected to be professionally presented in a show in Madrid with sold out tickets we decided to officially create DoubleTake Dance. We started presenting short pieces here and there as the two of us have complementary artistic visions. What led to the creation of DoubleTake Dance Company?
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