This Week @ the Yard
Bridgman/Packer Dance
Friday, July 16, 8:00
Sunday, July 18, 6:00
Lois Greenfield Lecture w/Slides
Saturday, July 17, 5:30

2011 Dance Company Residency
June, 2011
Application Deadline: October 11, 2010
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Gregory Dolbashian

Born and raised in New York City, Gregory made his professional stage debut at the age of eight with the Glimmerglass Opera Company. Soon after, he was cast in the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson world tour of Einstein on the Beach. Other stage credits include the first national tour of Scrooge the Musical and the title role in the world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Alvin Allegretto in the Metropolitan Opera's Growing Up with Opera Series. Gregory received his dance training at the Alvin Ailey School on a fellowship scholarship and then graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase dance conservatory were he studied composition with Kazuko Hirabayashi. Since then he has gone on to dance and choreograph with a variety of artists, performing with Patrick Corbin, Nelly van Bommel, Sylvain Emard, and The Chicago Ballet. He was resident choreographer for both Chicago Ballet’s spring season in 2008 and CorbinDances in 2007. He was selected as one of four emerging choreographers in the Springboard Montreal intensive run by Juilliard’s Alexandra Wells, where he created and premiered his first international work. Gregory’s works have been performed at Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Dance Festival (MA), Joyce SoHo, Alvin Ailey Studio Theatre (NY), Dance Place (DC), Athenaeum Theatre (Chicago), and in upcoming shows in New York as part of the Reverb Festival, in the Spring of 2009 as part of the Dance Sampler at Symphony Space, a self-produced collaboration with Sidra Bell at the Gershwin Hotel, and in the Summer of 2009 with the DanceNow Festival at Dance Theater Workshop.