10 & 11.02.24
CN D Pantin
This training program proposes to mobilize and federate energies around the work and career of Millard Hurley. It is through the prism of the great American musicals that this emblematic Broadway dancer envisages this weekend’s workshop. Combining the challenges of transmitting a repertoire with the evolutions of a constantly renewed jazz dancing body, Millard Hurley will begin each day with a two-hour technical class, a complete and structuring warm-up, faithful to the technique and aesthetics of jazz dance. In the afternoons, he will take trainees on a journey into a world as rich as it is varied, revisiting excerpts from the repertoires of the great musicals. It will be a true journey into the singular world of New York musical theater, where perfect unison triumphs, even if each performer traces their own path and finds their own echo.
Millard Hurley
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Millard Hurley began studying dance at the Boston Conservatory of Music. He continued his training at the National Center for Afro-American Artists, the New York School of Ballet, and the Dance Theater of Harlem. He danced with several companies, including the Dance Theatre of Boston, and was hired as a dancer/vocalist on Broadway in renowned musicals such as Raisin, On Toby Time, Bubbling Brown Sugar and A Chorus Line, where he played the role of Richie. In France, he teaches jazz dance and pedagogy at several training centers: Studio Harmonic, I.F.P.R.O, CAFEDEM in Bordeaux and IFEDEM in Paris. He is also often asked to give workshops in Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Italy and Germany. In 1997, he acted and sang in the musical Time is Money. The same year, he was assistant choreographer for Robert Hossein's La Vie en Bleu.