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Senior Choreographed Dance Concert 2017
February 14, 2017
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Tim Butler
Senior Choreographed Dance Concert 2017
Tim Butler
February 14, 2017
Dance

Senior Choreographed Dance Concert 2017

Tim Butler
February 14, 2017
Dance

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Please join us in honoring Randy Duncan, one of the most beloved, important, and influential people in the history of The Chicago Academy for the Arts. At Showcase, on February 9 at the Athenaeum Theatre, we will present Randy with The Academy’s Faculty Legacy Award. Randy has been a part of The Academy community since 1994, serving first as a teacher and — for the last 10 years — the Chair of the Dance Department. He oversees the school’s legendary Senior, Faculty, and Guest-Choreographed Dance Concerts, and as a passionate advocate for young men in dance, he was instrumental in the development of The Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men’s Dance Initiative. Through his teaching, mentorship, and leadership, Randy has transformed generations of young dancers. His students have gone on to study at all of the best conservatories in the world — from USC Kaufman to Juilliard — and many continue to make their mark on the world of dance on Broadway stages and in professional companies around the world today. A critically acclaimed and award-winning figure in the local, national, and international dance community, Randy’s choreography has been featured in prominent dance companies, theatres, and films, from the Joffrey Ballet and Goodman Theatre, to Yale University and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and to Ballet Folklórico of Mexico City and Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel. Randy received the 2013 AIDS Foundation Chicago Civic Leadership Award, the Artistic Achievement Award from the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, and is a three-time recipient of both Chicago’s prestigious Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Choreographer of the Year and the Black Theatre Alliance Award for theatre. Randy is a proud member of the Illinois State University’s Hall of Fame. Showcase is The Academy’s premiere community event of the year, presenting world-class work from across the school to a massive audience of families, alums, friends, and arts leaders and lovers from Chicago and beyond. We hope you will join us on February 9 to celebrate Randy Duncan’s legacy at The Chicago Academy for the Arts. Tickets on our website! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance
Please join us in honoring Randy Duncan, one of the most beloved, important, and influential people in the history of The Chicago Academy for the Arts. At Showcase, on February 9 at the Athenaeum Theatre, we will present Randy with The Academy’s Faculty Legacy Award. Randy has been a part of The Academy community since 1994, serving first as a teacher and — for the last 10 years — the Chair of the Dance Department. He oversees the school’s legendary Senior, Faculty, and Guest-Choreographed Dance Concerts, and as a passionate advocate for young men in dance, he was instrumental in the development of The Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men’s Dance Initiative. Through his teaching, mentorship, and leadership, Randy has transformed generations of young dancers. His students have gone on to study at all of the best conservatories in the world — from USC Kaufman to Juilliard — and many continue to make their mark on the world of dance on Broadway stages and in professional companies around the world today. A critically acclaimed and award-winning figure in the local, national, and international dance community, Randy’s choreography has been featured in prominent dance companies, theatres, and films, from the Joffrey Ballet and Goodman Theatre, to Yale University and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and to Ballet Folklórico of Mexico City and Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel. Randy received the 2013 AIDS Foundation Chicago Civic Leadership Award, the Artistic Achievement Award from the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, and is a three-time recipient of both Chicago’s prestigious Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Choreographer of the Year and the Black Theatre Alliance Award for theatre. Randy is a proud member of the Illinois State University’s Hall of Fame. Showcase is The Academy’s premiere community event of the year, presenting world-class work from across the school to a massive audience of families, alums, friends, and arts leaders and lovers from Chicago and beyond. We hope you will join us on February 9 to celebrate Randy Duncan’s legacy at The Chicago Academy for the Arts. Tickets on our website! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance
Check out alums Luke Titus Sangerman (Music '15) and Sophie Dimitroff (Music '11) playing with Noname on @colbertlateshow What an awesome performance. Luke is on drums and Sophie is on vocals (they also perform on Noname's album "Room 25"). Congratulations Luke and Sophie! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #CAAGrads #stephencolbert #noname
Check out alums Luke Titus Sangerman (Music '15) and Sophie Dimitroff (Music '11) playing with Noname on @colbertlateshow What an awesome performance. Luke is on drums and Sophie is on vocals (they also perform on Noname's album "Room 25"). Congratulations Luke and Sophie! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #CAAGrads #stephencolbert #noname
2018 AIDS Benefit Pt. 3 Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit
2018 AIDS Benefit Pt. 3 Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit
2018 AIDS Benefit Pt. 2 #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit
2018 AIDS Benefit Pt. 2 #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit
The 2018 AIDS Benefit in support of @aidsfoundationchicago ! Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit
The 2018 AIDS Benefit in support of @aidsfoundationchicago ! Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit
The Chicago Academy for the Arts is currently recruiting young male actors for its theatre ensemble. Significant tuition assistance consideration is available for those who qualify! Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #theatre #actor
The Chicago Academy for the Arts is currently recruiting young male actors for its theatre ensemble. Significant tuition assistance consideration is available for those who qualify! Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #theatre #actor
Sunday in the Park with George begins tomorrow! Only a few tickets left. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #sundayintheparkwithgeorge
Sunday in the Park with George begins tomorrow! Only a few tickets left. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #sundayintheparkwithgeorge
Tickets are available for the Theatre Department’s Fall Shows: "The Wolves" and "The Aliens". "The Wolves" will feature the women in the Department, while "The Aliens" will feature the men. Both shows run November 8 - 10 at The Academy. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #theatre #thewolves #thealiens
Tickets are available for the Theatre Department’s Fall Shows: "The Wolves" and "The Aliens". "The Wolves" will feature the women in the Department, while "The Aliens" will feature the men. Both shows run November 8 - 10 at The Academy. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #theatre #thewolves #thealiens
The jazz band with the @chicagotribune 's Howard Reich at Arts Educators Day at The Academy! Adam, Declan, and Matthew. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts
The jazz band with the @chicagotribune 's Howard Reich at Arts Educators Day at The Academy! Adam, Declan, and Matthew. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts
Calling all young jazz musicians! The Academy wants you for their high school jazz combo. We are currently recruiting drummers, and bass, guitar, and piano players. Significant tuition assistance consideration is available for those who qualify! Please contact the Admissions Department for more information. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #jazz Photo by @thomasmohrphotography
Calling all young jazz musicians! The Academy wants you for their high school jazz combo. We are currently recruiting drummers, and bass, guitar, and piano players. Significant tuition assistance consideration is available for those who qualify! Please contact the Admissions Department for more information. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #jazz Photo by @thomasmohrphotography
The Visual Arts Department at the @westtownartwalk ! Their exhibit "Can-munication" lined Chicago Avenue. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #westtownartwalk
The Visual Arts Department at the @westtownartwalk ! Their exhibit "Can-munication" lined Chicago Avenue. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #westtownartwalk
Tickets for the Musical Theatre Department Fall Musical are now available! "Sunday in the Park with George" will run October 12-14 and October 19-21. Inspired by George Seurat’s magnificent painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s soaring musical is itself an artistic masterpiece. The musical begins with the story of George and his model and lover Dot. As George struggles to find his artistic voice, he becomes more and more distant from the one woman who truly sees him for who he really is. Meanwhile, the characters that inhabit George’s painting have lives unto themselves, which George captures with his paintbrush. A century later, George and Dot’s great-grandson George, himself a struggling artist, grapples with the same issues of artistic ingenuity and a public who just doesn’t understand. One of a handful of musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Sunday in the Park with George" reveals universal truths about the nature of art, love, and passion, with the breadth and depth of art’s most enduring masterpieces. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #sundayintheparkwithgeorge
Tickets for the Musical Theatre Department Fall Musical are now available! "Sunday in the Park with George" will run October 12-14 and October 19-21. Inspired by George Seurat’s magnificent painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s soaring musical is itself an artistic masterpiece. The musical begins with the story of George and his model and lover Dot. As George struggles to find his artistic voice, he becomes more and more distant from the one woman who truly sees him for who he really is. Meanwhile, the characters that inhabit George’s painting have lives unto themselves, which George captures with his paintbrush. A century later, George and Dot’s great-grandson George, himself a struggling artist, grapples with the same issues of artistic ingenuity and a public who just doesn’t understand. One of a handful of musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Sunday in the Park with George" reveals universal truths about the nature of art, love, and passion, with the breadth and depth of art’s most enduring masterpieces. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #sundayintheparkwithgeorge
The Academy is scheduling auditions for Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarships! Please contact Kitsana Salyphone, Director of Enrollment Management for more information. ICYMI: Each year, The Academy identifies three elite-level freshman male dancers to receive the Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarship. Selected dancers will receive financial aid for up to the entire cost of tuition. In creating this initiative, The Academy aims not only to recruit, support, and train young men with significant dance potential, but to serve the dance community at large. Proper ballet programs need male dancers, and any serious dance program has a ballet component. We are excited and inspired about the Young Men’s Dance Initiative, and that through it The Academy can help guide more young male dancers into higher education and careers in the art form—in Chicago’s celebrated dance community and beyond. Photo by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance
The Academy is scheduling auditions for Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarships! Please contact Kitsana Salyphone, Director of Enrollment Management for more information. ICYMI: Each year, The Academy identifies three elite-level freshman male dancers to receive the Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarship. Selected dancers will receive financial aid for up to the entire cost of tuition. In creating this initiative, The Academy aims not only to recruit, support, and train young men with significant dance potential, but to serve the dance community at large. Proper ballet programs need male dancers, and any serious dance program has a ballet component. We are excited and inspired about the Young Men’s Dance Initiative, and that through it The Academy can help guide more young male dancers into higher education and careers in the art form—in Chicago’s celebrated dance community and beyond. Photo by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance
Academy alum and @hamiltonmusical cast member Jose Ramos (Musical Theatre '11) was recently interviewed at The Academy by Stacey Baca of @abc7chicago "The Ñ Beat"! Check out the pictures below and make sure to watch the feature this Saturday, October 6 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, October 7, at 4:30 p.m. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #CAAGrads #hamilton
Academy alum and @hamiltonmusical cast member Jose Ramos (Musical Theatre '11) was recently interviewed at The Academy by Stacey Baca of @abc7chicago "The Ñ Beat"! Check out the pictures below and make sure to watch the feature this Saturday, October 6 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, October 7, at 4:30 p.m. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #CAAGrads #hamilton
Part 2. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #figuredrawing
Part 2. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #figuredrawing
A few pieces from the 2018 Visual Arts Figure Drawing Exhibition! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #figuredrawing
A few pieces from the 2018 Visual Arts Figure Drawing Exhibition! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #figuredrawing
The Music Department's first Classical Recital of the year is Tuesday, October 16 at 6 p.m. See you there! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts
The Music Department's first Classical Recital of the year is Tuesday, October 16 at 6 p.m. See you there! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts
The ribbon cutting performance for the new Justin Tranter Recording Studio! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts @tranterjustin photos by @thomasmohrphotography
The ribbon cutting performance for the new Justin Tranter Recording Studio! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts @tranterjustin photos by @thomasmohrphotography
Pictures of the new Justin Tranter Recording Studio at The Academy! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts @tranterjustin Photos by @thomasmohrphotography
Pictures of the new Justin Tranter Recording Studio at The Academy! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts @tranterjustin Photos by @thomasmohrphotography
Each year, The Academy identifies three elite-level freshman male dancers to receive the Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarship. Selected dancers will receive financial aid for up to the entire cost of tuition. In creating this initiative, The Academy aims not only to recruit, support, and train young men with significant dance potential, but to serve the dance community at large. Proper ballet programs need male dancers, and any serious dance program has a ballet component. We are excited and inspired about the Young Men’s Dance Initiative, and that through it The Academy can help guide more young male dancers into higher education and careers in the art form—in Chicago’s celebrated dance community and beyond. The Academy is scheduling auditions for the 2019-2020 freshman class now! Please contact Kitsana Salyphone, Director of Enrollment Management for more information. Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance #ballet
Each year, The Academy identifies three elite-level freshman male dancers to receive the Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarship. Selected dancers will receive financial aid for up to the entire cost of tuition. In creating this initiative, The Academy aims not only to recruit, support, and train young men with significant dance potential, but to serve the dance community at large. Proper ballet programs need male dancers, and any serious dance program has a ballet component. We are excited and inspired about the Young Men’s Dance Initiative, and that through it The Academy can help guide more young male dancers into higher education and careers in the art form—in Chicago’s celebrated dance community and beyond. The Academy is scheduling auditions for the 2019-2020 freshman class now! Please contact Kitsana Salyphone, Director of Enrollment Management for more information. Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance #ballet
Please join us in honoring Randy Duncan, one of the most beloved, important, and influential people in the history of The Chicago Academy for the Arts. At Showcase, on February 9 at the Athenaeum Theatre, we will present Randy with The Academy’s Faculty Legacy Award. Randy has been a part of The Academy community since 1994, serving first as a teacher and — for the last 10 years — the Chair of the Dance Department. He oversees the school’s legendary Senior, Faculty, and Guest-Choreographed Dance Concerts, and as a passionate advocate for young men in dance, he was instrumental in the development of The Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men’s Dance Initiative. Through his teaching, mentorship, and leadership, Randy has transformed generations of young dancers. His students have gone on to study at all of the best conservatories in the world — from USC Kaufman to Juilliard — and many continue to make their mark on the world of dance on Broadway stages and in professional companies around the world today. A critically acclaimed and award-winning figure in the local, national, and international dance community, Randy’s choreography has been featured in prominent dance companies, theatres, and films, from the Joffrey Ballet and Goodman Theatre, to Yale University and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and to Ballet Folklórico of Mexico City and Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel. Randy received the 2013 AIDS Foundation Chicago Civic Leadership Award, the Artistic Achievement Award from the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, and is a three-time recipient of both Chicago’s prestigious Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Choreographer of the Year and the Black Theatre Alliance Award for theatre. Randy is a proud member of the Illinois State University’s Hall of Fame. Showcase is The Academy’s premiere community event of the year, presenting world-class work from across the school to a massive audience of families, alums, friends, and arts leaders and lovers from Chicago and beyond. We hope you will join us on February 9 to celebrate Randy Duncan’s legacy at The Chicago Academy for the Arts. Tickets on our website! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance Check out alums Luke Titus Sangerman (Music '15) and Sophie Dimitroff (Music '11) playing with Noname on @colbertlateshow What an awesome performance. Luke is on drums and Sophie is on vocals (they also perform on Noname's album "Room 25"). Congratulations Luke and Sophie! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #CAAGrads #stephencolbert #noname 2018 AIDS Benefit Pt. 3 Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit 2018 AIDS Benefit Pt. 2 #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit The 2018 AIDS Benefit in support of @aidsfoundationchicago ! Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #aidsbenefit The Chicago Academy for the Arts is currently recruiting young male actors for its theatre ensemble. Significant tuition assistance consideration is available for those who qualify! Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #theatre #actor Sunday in the Park with George begins tomorrow! Only a few tickets left. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #sundayintheparkwithgeorge Tickets are available for the Theatre Department’s Fall Shows: "The Wolves" and "The Aliens". "The Wolves" will feature the women in the Department, while "The Aliens" will feature the men. Both shows run November 8 - 10 at The Academy. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #theatre #thewolves #thealiens The jazz band with the @chicagotribune 's Howard Reich at Arts Educators Day at The Academy! Adam, Declan, and Matthew. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts Calling all young jazz musicians! The Academy wants you for their high school jazz combo. We are currently recruiting drummers, and bass, guitar, and piano players. Significant tuition assistance consideration is available for those who qualify! Please contact the Admissions Department for more information. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #jazz Photo by @thomasmohrphotography The Visual Arts Department at the @westtownartwalk ! Their exhibit "Can-munication" lined Chicago Avenue. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #westtownartwalk Tickets for the Musical Theatre Department Fall Musical are now available! "Sunday in the Park with George" will run October 12-14 and October 19-21. Inspired by George Seurat’s magnificent painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s soaring musical is itself an artistic masterpiece. The musical begins with the story of George and his model and lover Dot. As George struggles to find his artistic voice, he becomes more and more distant from the one woman who truly sees him for who he really is. Meanwhile, the characters that inhabit George’s painting have lives unto themselves, which George captures with his paintbrush. A century later, George and Dot’s great-grandson George, himself a struggling artist, grapples with the same issues of artistic ingenuity and a public who just doesn’t understand. One of a handful of musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Sunday in the Park with George" reveals universal truths about the nature of art, love, and passion, with the breadth and depth of art’s most enduring masterpieces. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #sundayintheparkwithgeorge The Academy is scheduling auditions for Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarships! Please contact Kitsana Salyphone, Director of Enrollment Management for more information. ICYMI: Each year, The Academy identifies three elite-level freshman male dancers to receive the Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarship. Selected dancers will receive financial aid for up to the entire cost of tuition. In creating this initiative, The Academy aims not only to recruit, support, and train young men with significant dance potential, but to serve the dance community at large. Proper ballet programs need male dancers, and any serious dance program has a ballet component. We are excited and inspired about the Young Men’s Dance Initiative, and that through it The Academy can help guide more young male dancers into higher education and careers in the art form—in Chicago’s celebrated dance community and beyond. Photo by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance Academy alum and @hamiltonmusical cast member Jose Ramos (Musical Theatre '11) was recently interviewed at The Academy by Stacey Baca of @abc7chicago "The Ñ Beat"! Check out the pictures below and make sure to watch the feature this Saturday, October 6 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, October 7, at 4:30 p.m. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #CAAGrads #hamilton Part 2. #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #figuredrawing A few pieces from the 2018 Visual Arts Figure Drawing Exhibition! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #figuredrawing The Music Department's first Classical Recital of the year is Tuesday, October 16 at 6 p.m. See you there! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts The ribbon cutting performance for the new Justin Tranter Recording Studio! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts @tranterjustin photos by @thomasmohrphotography Pictures of the new Justin Tranter Recording Studio at The Academy! #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts @tranterjustin Photos by @thomasmohrphotography Each year, The Academy identifies three elite-level freshman male dancers to receive the Rusty and Jeffrey Sanfilippo Young Men's Dance Initiative scholarship. Selected dancers will receive financial aid for up to the entire cost of tuition. In creating this initiative, The Academy aims not only to recruit, support, and train young men with significant dance potential, but to serve the dance community at large. Proper ballet programs need male dancers, and any serious dance program has a ballet component. We are excited and inspired about the Young Men’s Dance Initiative, and that through it The Academy can help guide more young male dancers into higher education and careers in the art form—in Chicago’s celebrated dance community and beyond. The Academy is scheduling auditions for the 2019-2020 freshman class now! Please contact Kitsana Salyphone, Director of Enrollment Management for more information. Photos by @thomasmohrphotography #SmartArtistsSmartArt #CAArts #dance #ballet