KIRT HATHAWAY Brookhaven College 3939 Valley View Lane Farmers Branch Dallas, TX Ph

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1 KIRT HATHAWAY Brookhaven College 3939 Valley View Lane Farmers Branch Dallas, TX Ph GOALS To teach the art and beauty of classical ballet and share my professional experiences with dancers of all ages. Express myself by creating new choreography and the staging of traditional classical ballets. Direct and develop a ballet program with a standard of producing quality performances. TRAINING Teachers Margo Marshall George Skibine Ben Stevenson Robert Joffery Fleming Flindt Leon Danelion Alun Jones Gustavo Mollajoli Marjorie Tallchief Maria Tallchief Natasha Krassovska Vivi Flindt Patricia Wilde Marilyn Burr Scholarships and Workshops Margo Marshall School of Ballet, Houston, TX Joffery Summer Workshop, Galveston, TX American Ballet Theatre Summer School, New York City, NY School of American Ballet Summer School, New York City, NY San Francisco Ballet School Summer Program, San Francisco, CA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DIRECTORSHIPS Ballet Arkansas, Artistic Director Little Rock, Arkansas Responsibilities: Artistic planning, performance programming, repertoire, artist s contracts, production scheduling, arts in education programs and touring engagements. Choreograph original works, re-create traditional classical ballets, teach in the related academy and oversee the academy development. Assist the board of directors, production budgets, annual budgets, fundraising, volunteer support organizations, general artistic administration and public speaking. During my the eight years as artistic director of Ballet Arkansas, which I danced for the first five as a principal male dancer, I had the privilege and opportunity to stage all the major productions, create new works and invite guest choreographers. Within a three year period a professional company of nine dancers was developed. The season performance series was four to five major productions a year, including the annual outdoor free concert, which expanded the audience base and increased the annual ticket sales. The organizations related academy was expanded from forty seven to two hundred thirty students.

2 Under my guidance we organized a cultural association residency with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Theatre Arts Department. The company classes, academy classes, company rehearsals and repertoire concerts were held at the University facility. Thus giving the company an arts in education outreach and a broader professional profile in the community. With the development of the company s program we were able to expand on the touring engagements throughout the state and southwest. As a member of Regional Dance America/SW Ballet Arkansas achieved and maintained the status of Honor Company and the 1992 recipient of the Stream Award for artistic excellence. In 1998, with the assistance of a strong committee, was realized the most profitable annual Regional Dance America/SW festival held in Little Rock. Lexington Ballet, Ballet Master and Associate Artistic Director, Lexington, Kentucky I was hired as ballet master for the performing company and principal teacher in the Lexington Ballet Academy. A major responsibility was to assist the Artistic Director, Karl Kaufman in artistic planning and company development. During the season performances I was able to stage and choreograph many of company s productions as well as perform the male lead roles in the performances. During my tenure with Lexington Ballet we expanded the professional dancer roster from three to six dancers with purpose of creating a state wide touring ensemble. With the touring ensemble we were able to develop an arts in education out reach program in the public schools around the state of Kentucky. My primary teaching responsibilities were with company and intermediate and advanced levels. After two seasons I was made associate artistic director. Collin County Ballet Theatre, 2001 Current, Plano, Texas Congruent with opening of the Hathaway Academy of Ballet Collin County Ballet Theatre was established as a non-profit ballet company serving the Collin County area. Wit wife Linda Hathaway we have been presenting professional performances in county area cities. Collin County Ballet Theatre has vocational pre-professional youth ensemble division providing performance opportunities for serious youth dancers that have aspirations of a career in the arts. PERFORMING Ballet Arkansas (Artistic Director) Nutcracker, Drosslemeyer, Sugar Plum Cavalier Cinderella, Wicked Step Sister Gaite Parisienne, Baron Swan Lake, Prince Siegfried Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture, Romeo Mid Summer Nights Dream, Oberon Graduation Ball, Head Mistress Coppelia, Dr. Coppelius Lexington Ballet (Associate Director) Nutcracker, Nutcracker Prince, Sugar Plum Cavalier Cinderella, Prince Charming Don Quixote, Basilio Coppelia, Franz La Fille Mal Gardee, Colias Les Sylphides, Poet Dracula, Dracula Flickers, Valentino Pulcinella, The Devil

3 Dallas Ballet (Corp de Ballet, Soloist, Principal Dancer) , , Directors; George Skibine, Gustavo Mollajoli, Fleming Flindt Nutcracker, Snow King, Flowers Cavalier, Sugar Plum Fairy Cavalier Swan Lake, Prince Siegfried, Von Rothbart Coppelia, Franz The Merry Widow, Count Jolidan Cinderella, Step-Mother Raymonda Variations, Male Lead La Sonambula, The Poet The Miraculous Mandarin, The Mandarin The Three Musketeers, Rochefort Salome, John the Baptist Phadera, Thesis Carmina Burana, The Man Forgotten Memories, The Gardner The River, Lake Pas de Deux Minkus Pas de Trios, Male Lead Ballet de Santiago, Chile (Principal Dancer) Director; Ivan Nagy Sleeping Beauty, Prince Desire Nutcracker, Drosslemeyer, Nutcracker Prince, Sugar Plum Cavalier Rosalinda, Eichenstien Taming of the Shrew, Lucentio Cinderella, Prince Charming, Step-Sister Serenade, Dark Angel, Waltz Three Preludes, Male Lead Four Last Songs, Pas de Deux Cincinnati Ballet, Soloist Director; David MaClain Nutcracker, Snow King, Sugar Plum Cavalier Merry Widow, Count Jolidan Serenade, Dark Angel Swan Lake, Beno Con Amore, The Sailor Pacific Northwest Ballet, Soloist Director; Kent Stowell Nutcracker, Trepak, Snow Cavalier Daphnis and Chloe, Daphnis Serenade, Dark Angel Allegro Brilliant, Soloist Houston Ballet (Corp de Ballet) Director; Ben Stevenson Nutcracker, Nutcracker Prince, Snow King, Waltz of the Flowers Cinderella, Corp de Ballet Swan Lake, Waltz, Czardas Bartok Concerto, Male Lead Elegy, Pas de Deux Eaters of Darkness, The Violent One

4 Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet (Soloist) Summers 1975,1976, 1979 Director; Maria Tallchief Raymonda Pas de Dees, Male Lead Le Combat, Tancredi Donizetti Variations, Male Lead Faust Walpurgis Nacht, Male Lead (Silver Anniversary Filming) Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet continued Four Temperaments, Sanquinic, Third Theme Concerto Barocco, Male Lead Minkus Pas de Trios, Male Lead Stars and Stripes, Pas de Deux CHOREOGRAPHERS Choreographers from my performance repertoire George Skibine Alun Jones George Balanchine Fleming Flindt Peter Anastos Ruth Page James Clouser Karl Kaufman Kent Stowell PARTNERS My partners during my performance career Vivi Flindt Linda Hathaway Colleen Neary Janie Parker Tauna Hunter Evelyn Deusetter Yoko Ichino Choo San Gogh Ben Stevenson Ronald Hynd Fernand Nault John Cranko Gustavo Mollajoli Vincente Nebrada Jyri Kylian Jacques de Ambois Andrea Vodenhal Christine Zembower (Dunham) Ann Burton Sara Nieto Jennifer Holmes Ludmilla Lupakova Maria Julia Landa MAJOR TOURS As a dancer Houston Ballet, North America, 1978 Pacific Northwest Ballet, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1979 Dallas Ballet, Central and South America, 1980 Dallas Ballet at the Colon Theatre, Buenos Aires, 1980 Cincinnati Ballet, New Orleans & New York City, 1982 & 1983 Ballet De Santiago Chile, Buenos Aires Festival of Dance 1985 GUEST ARTIST ENGAGEMENTS Chicago Ballet, Nutcracker Unicef Gala Dallas, Le Corsaire Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Nutcracker Ballet Arkansas, Coppelia Berkshire Ballet, Mid Summer Nights Dream Louisville Ballet, Scherezade Denver Civic Ballet, Peter and the Wolf Ballet Jeunesse Dallas, Giselle North Houston Dance Theatre, Cinderella Evansville Dance Theatre, Swan Lake Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre, Cinderella Owensboro Dance Theatre, Raymonda Lake Civic Ballet, Sleeping Beauty Victoria Ballet Theatre, Swan Lake

5 Guest artist engagements continued: Buenos Aires Argentina Teatro Cervantes, Three Preludes City Ballet of Houston, Black Swan Pas de deux, Les Sylphides, Gaite Parisienne Delta Festival Ballet of New Orleans, Snow White, Tommy, Raymonda Variations Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet, Cinderella, Romeo & Juliet Pas de Deux State Arts Gala, Charleston WV, Don Quixote Pas de Deux FILM, TV, MUSICALS Chicago Lyric Opera, Faust Walpuris Nacht with Turning Points Starr Danias Santiago Chile, Filmed 15 National Commercials Television National de Chile, Variety Shows Lexington Musical Theatre, Zach, Chorus Line CHOREOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE These works are Full Length Story Ballets, One Act Story Ballets and Classical Repertoire that I have staged as an artistic director and a guest choreographer Nutcracker, Original Coppelia, Traditional Cinderella, Original Les Sylphides, Traditional La Fille Mal Gardee, Original Giselle, Traditional Mid Summer Nights Dream, Original Raymonda Variations, Traditional Beauty and the Beast, Original Sleeping Beauty, Traditional Romeo & Juliet Overture, Original Graduation Ball, Traditional Firebird, After Skibine Act II Swan Lake, Traditional Peter and the Wolf, Original Pas de Quatre, Traditional Gaite Parisienne, after Original Original New Works Simple Symphony, Britten Capriccio Italien, Tchaikovsky Pavane, Faure Classical Vibrilliance, Dvorak Calle de Tango, Tango Selections Night Serenade, Dvorak Airs and Dances, Resphighi Track Girls, Mendelssohn Classical Symphony, Prokofiev Glazanouv Pas de Trios, Glazanouv Tarantella, Goutschalk Air Vivaldi, Vivaldi Symphonic Dance, Franc Frivolity, Mozart Mendelssohn Suite, Mendelssohn Voices of Spring, Strauss River of Tears, Clapton Mother Earth, Mythos of Our Seasons, Fanning This Way, That Way Anywhere Is, Enya TEACHING EXPERIENCE OTHER THAN HATHAWAY ACADEMY OF BALLET Academy of Teatro Municicpal, Santiago Chile, Ballet Faculty Lexington Academy of Ballet, Principal Teacher Academy of Ballet Arkansas, Artistic Director Stephens College, Dance Department Faculty Brookhaven College School of the Arts Dance, Adjunct Faculty Brookhaven College School of the Arts, Artist-in-Residence Southern Methodist University, Adjunct Faculty

6 Guest Teaching Engagements: These are a few of the workshops that I have been engaged Margo Marshall School of Ballet North Houston Dance Theatre Greenville Ballet Tulsa Ballet Texas Christian University Booker T. Washington High School Dallas Black Dance Theatre Lorraine Cranford Summer Workshop Lake Charles Civic Ballet Conservatory of Classical Ballet Kentucky Festival Ballet Eastern States College Dance Festival AWARDS, HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS National Society of Arts and Letters, Member Outstanding Young Man of America 1992, Honor Kentucky Colonel, Member Little Rock Music Coterie, Member Southwest Regional Ballet Association Stream Award, Award 1993 State of Arkansas, Governors Citizens Award, Award, 1998 Dance Council Board of Directors, Member Regional Dance America Nation Board of Directors, Director at Large CURRENTLY: Since 2001to Present Owner/Director of Hathaway Academy of Ballet Artistic Director of Collin County Ballet Theatre