Janet Panetta

Janet Panetta studied ballet with Margaret Craske, Antony Tudor and Alfredo Corvino at Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. She joined American Ballet Theater in 1968, and later began her foray into modern dance as a member of Paul Sanasardo’s company. She went on to work with Robert Kovich, Neil Greenberg, Susan Salinger, Peter Healey. She has been creating her own work since 1985. She has trained dancers in many of the major ballet and modern American companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Trisha Brown… She currently works with Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wupperthal. Her extensive experience in classical and contemporary dance enables her to teach classi- cal technique in a way adapted to dancers with different backgrounds.

Deconstructing Ballet
This technical workshop will focus on the deconstruction of movement : remove all artificial affectations, leaving just the core technique, the pure physical architecture of the body; analyse movement with the tools of weight, shape, space, rhythm and time; It is the investigation of working from the inside out, from placing the bones where the muscles are allowed to function effortlessly and efficiently, thus discouraging muscular overuse.