- The Dance Center of Oklahoma City Ballet's 30th Annual performance Workshop
- The Oklahoman review of "The Wizard of Oz"
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After an extensive nationwide search that brought in nearly 35 candidates from around the United States, The Dance Center of Oklahoma City Ballet and Oklahoma City Ballet are pleased to announce their new school director Ms. Jane Vorburger. Ms. Vorburger will replace the dance center’s much beloved school director Viktoria Page who will be leaving her position after the school’s year end performance in May.
Jane Vorburger has a lifetime of experience in dance having trained, performed and taught with some of the most prominent companies in America. Ms. Vorburger studied classical ballet at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet and on scholarship at the Houston Ballet Academy and School of American Ballet. At age 16 she was invited to join American Ballet Theater with whom she toured internationally performing principal, soloist and corps de ballets roles. In addition to dancing the role of Amour in Don Quixote and a principal role in Anthony Tudor’s Echoing of Trumpets she was selected by John Selya to create the role of Jill in his ballet Jack and Jill performed during ABT’s 1992 Metropolitan Opera House season. She also had the pleasure of working with Agnes de Mille when Ms. De Mille selected her to create the role of The Child in Ms. De Mille’s last ballet for ABT, The Other.
After retiring from American Ballet Theater, Ms. Vorburger continued her dance explorations at Oberlin College where she studied Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, and Composition. She completed a BA in Biology at Oberlin and returned to NYC to attend Tisch School for the Arts NYU where she finished her MFA in Dance. She has been on faculty at The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of American Ballet Theater, Marymount Manhattan College, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Tisch NYU and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She also taught open classes at Steps on Broadway, Ballet Arts, and Broadway Dance Center. Her choreography has been performed in Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, New York, and Virginia and she has guest taught ballet and modern classes at pre-professional schools and colleges across the country including Nutmeg School for the Arts, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Goucher College, and Rutgers University.
Ms. Vorburger has a wealth of experience teaching students of all ages and levels and considers dance to be a transformative experience for all participants. Her enjoyment of dance education led her to study at the 92nd Street Y’s Dance Education Laboratory where she completed their yearlong certificate training in dance education for grades k-12. She is also an ABT Affiliate Teacher with full certification in levels Primary-7 of ABT’s National Training Curriculum ©. -
OKC Youth Ballet to perform
The beautiful young dancers of Oklahoma City Youth Ballet will be performing at the Festival of the Arts Saturday, April 28 on the Great Lawn Stage at 4 pm. Be sure to get out and support these young artists and the Arts Festival!
- Ballet Master Jacob Sparso and company dancer Stephanie Foraker Pitts on Oklahoma Live with Lyn Hester.
