Jane Marie Vorburger

NYC, NY
(646) 638-4378
Jane@DanceJV.com

Jane Vorburger completed her dance training at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet. She joined American Ballet Theater at age 16 and spent 5 years with this company performing principal, soloist and corps de ballet roles in the U.S.A. and abroad. She then studied Contact Improvisation and choreography at Oberlin College and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in dance from New York University.s Tisch School for the Arts. She teaches and choreographs at colleges, private studios and festivals around the USA including Marymount Manhattan College, American Ballet Theater, Alvin Ailey Dance Center, New York University.s Tisch School for the Arts and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Alaska.

Companies:

• American Ballet Theatre
• Richmond Ballet
• Second Avenue Dance Company

Colleges:

• Adjunct Faculty, Beginner Ballet, Marymount Manhattan College
• Instructor, Advanced Ballet and Pointe, Tisch School for the Arts, NYU, summer dance festival
• Guest Instructor, Advanced Ballet, Adelphi University
• Guest Instructor, Advanced Ballet, William and Hobart Smith College
• Non-majors Division Ballet Instructor, Indiana University: Advanced Ballet Technique, Beginner Pointe and Beginner/Intermediate Ballet Technique
• Advanced Beginning Ballet and Intermediate Ballet Instructor, Oberlin College

Pre-professional Training Institutions and Private Studios:

• Teaching Artist, American Ballet Theater's Ballet for the Young Dancer Program
• Teaching Artist, Alvin Ailey Dance Center, Junior Division Adult Advanced Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group
• Adult Beginner-Advanced Ballet Technique, Ballet Arts
• Adult Beginner- Advanced Ballet Technique, Pointe, Steps on Broadway
• Beginner-Advanced Ballet, Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance, CT: current

Diplomas and Certifications:

• M.F.A. in Dance: Tisch School for the Arts at New York University, May 2006
• B.A.: Oberlin College, December 2003
• Pilates Mat Teacher Certification: Powerhouse Pilates, May 2003

Roles danced:

• Principal:
  • Principal female (Anthony Tudor’s “Echoing of Trumpets”)
  • Amour (“Don Quixote” Act II staged by Kevin McKenzie)
  • The Faune (John Clifford’s “Afternoon of a Faun”)
  • Princess Florine (“The Sleeping Beauty” Act III staged by Jean Pierre Bonnefoux)
  • Female in The Dying Poet pas de deux (Lynn Taylor Corbett’s “Great Galloping Gottshalk”)
• Roles Created:
  • Hope (Agnes de Mille’s “The Other”)
  • Jill (John Selya’s “Jack and Jill”)
  • The Female (Jean Pierre Bonnefoux’s “Chopin Nocturne Pas de Deux”)
• Soloist:
  • The Transvestite Whore (“Manon” by Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Cygnets (“Swan Lake” Act II, staged by Kevin McKenzie)
  • Unicorn Doll (“The Nutcracker” Act I, choreographed by Kevin McKenzie)
  • Juliet’s Friends (Romeo and Juliet by Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Aurora’s Friends (The Sleeping Beauty Act I)
  • 4 Small Ladies (Bayadère Act I)
  • Little Red Riding Hood (The Sleeping Beauty Act III)
  • Black Swans (Swan Lake Act lV staged by Kevin McKenzie)
  • Chinese (Kevin McKenzie’s “The Nutcracker” Act II)

Teachers during professional career:

Nancy Bielski, Maggie Black, Marc de Boueays, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Wilhelm Burmann, Diana Cartier, Jacques Cesbron, John Clifford, Alexander Filipov, Alaine Haubert, Rosella Hightower, David Howard, Linda Kintz, Gelsey Kirkland, Irina Kolpakova, Elena Kunikova, Mark Mejia, Patricia McBride, Susan McGuire, Ross Stretton, Kevin McKenzie, Violette Verdy, Michael Vernon.

Training:

• Tisch School for he Arts at New York University: 2004-current. Course work includes classical dance, modern dance, dance composition, acting, pilates, Music theory, and Kinesiology taught by: Liz Franklin, Kathy Grant, Joy Kellman, Phyllis Lamhut, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Jolinda Menendez, Jim Martin, Pamela Pietro, Gus Solomons, Jim Sutton, Andrea Woods.
• Oberlin College: 2000-2003. Course work included modern dance, contact improvisation, choreography and dance history taught by Roger Copeland, Carter McAdams, Nusha
• Martynuk, Elesa Rosasco, and Ann Cooper Albright.
• Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet: 1988-1991
• Houston Ballet Academy: summers 1989, 1990, scholarship recipient
• School of American Ballet: summer 1988, scholarship recipient

Post mail inquiries can be sent to Jane Vorburger, c/o Your Neighborhood Office, 322 Bleecker Street, New York City, NewYork 10014.