What makes a muse? [UPDATED]

THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL EVENING DIVISION
presents

WHAT MAKES A MUSE?

Ballet choreographers discuss who and what inspires them

Host: Henning Rübsam
with Robert Garland, Matthew Neenan and Luca Veggetti


UPDATE: Due to a death in her family, Jessica Lang will not be able to join the panel. Mr. Garland is a resident choreographer at Dance Theater of Harlem and a Juilliard alumnus.

Thursday, December 2
6pm-7:30pm
free admission

Event Room - First Floor
The Juilliard School
60 Lincoln Center Plaza (entrance 65th Street), Manhattan

Juilliard faculty member Henning Rübsam opens up his evening division class "TERPSICHORE: The Muse of Dance" to the public on Thursday, December 2 by inviting fellow choreographers to discuss the role of the muse in their creative lives.

Rübsam asks his fellow choreographers Robert Garland, Matthew Neenan and Luca Veggetti: "What makes a Muse?" 

Choreographer/dancer Henning Rübsam directs SENSEDANCE, a New York City-based dance company, presenting annual NYC seasons since 1992. Since he began to choreograph in 1984, Rübsam created over seventy works, staging and performing them in Australasia, Central and South America, Europe and the U.S. Most recently he and the company performed at the festival Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes at Teatro Tapia in San Juan, Puerto Rico, represented the U.S.A. at the Danza Nueva Festival in Lima and toured through Peru. A documentary film about the SENSEDANCE Peru tour by director Greg Vander Veer is forthcoming.

An advocate for his art form, Rübsam introduced dance and dance history to the evening division at Juilliard in 2006, gave a lecture on modern dance for the Young Patrons Program at Lincoln Center in 2009, was the first dance artist to speak at the annual international GEL conference in 2007 and is invited back to lecture in 2011. (www.gelconference.com)