Complexions Detroit Summer Intensive at Wayne State University
June 18-July 1, 2016.
Complexions company members perform with students for a final performance at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts Friday July 1st, 2016 at 3:00pm.
Wayne State University and the Maggie Allesee Department of Dance are thrilled to announce their collaboration with the New York City based dance company, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, for their sixth Detroit summer intensive, June 18th-July 1st, 2016. Complexions Detroit Summer Intensive is developed with the intention of making the complete dancer by guiding the dancers to achieve their full potential in the exclusive style of Complexions Contemporary Ballet.
Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden, earning distinction from The New York Times as “one of the most sought out choreographers of the day,” and Desmond Richardson, hailed by the New York Times as “one of the great modern dancers of his time” will lead the intensive, along with Complexions company members. Through their expert guidance, students learn the Complexions technique, samples of company repertoire, and build versatile skills through improvisation, modern, hip hop, and audition classes.
Complexions company members perform with students for a final performance at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts Friday July 1st, 2016 at 3:00pm.
For more information, visit www.dance.wayne.edu or www.complexionsdance.org.
ABOUT COMPLEXIONS
It is artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson’s lifelong appreciation for the artistic & aesthetic appeal of the multicultural that forms the cornerstone of Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s singular approach to reinventing dance. Founded in 1994, Complexions’ groundbreaking mix of methods, styles, cultures has created an entirely new and exciting vision of human movement over the past decade-and-a-half.
The company’s foremost innovation is that dance should be about removing boundaries, not reinforcing them. Whether it be the limiting traditions of a single style, period, venue, or culture, Complexions transcends them all, creating an open, continually evolving form of dance that reflects the movement of our world—and all its constituent cultures—as an interrelated whole.
It is Rhoden and Richardson’s unique career paths that have paved the way for them to re-define dance—as their multifaceted resumes will show, neither has ever been comfortable with his art being placed in a box. Instead, from E! to PBS to VH1, from Cirque de Soleil to the Joffrey Ballet to So You Think You Can Dance, the two have allowed the transformative power of their art to flow freely throughout the entertainment world—their creative vision restricted by nothing but the limits of the human body itself.
Together, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson have created in Complexions an institution that embodies its historical moment, a sanctuary where those passionate about dance can celebrate its past while simultaneously building its future. In the 17 years since its inception, the company has born witness to a world that is becoming more fluid, more changeable, and more culturally interconnected than ever before—in other words, a world that is becoming more and more like Complexions itself.