Shreveport Dance Academy hosts intensive

In a few short days, Louisiana’s Shreveport Dance Academy will welcome notable faculty members Lisa Chalmers-Naumann and Phillip Broomhead to its Summer Intensive to teach on August 1-5.

Lisa Chalmers-Naumann is a former Houston Ballet soloist and New York City Ballet corps de ballet dancer. She performed most of the major balletic roles in her time and boasts an extensive repertoire. She studied and trained with the best, being under the tutelage of greats like Robert Barnett, Lew Christiansen, Anna-Marie Holmes, Robert Joffrey, Suki Schorer, Muriel Stuart, David Howard, Finis Jhung, Valentina Pereslavic and Patricia Wilde across her career.

Since leaving NYCB, Chalmers-Naumann has become a highly-regarded and sought-after master teacher. She has taught for the Shreveport Dance Academy before, as well as Albany Dance Institute, Jackson Hole Arts Center, New York State Summer School of the Arts, Saratoga Summer Dance Intensive, School of the Arts at the Dance Museum in Saratoga Springs, Brandywine Ballet and Vassar College. She’s also the co-artistic director of the New Paltz School of Ballet in New York.

Phillip Broomhead, on the other hand, hails from the U.K. and is a former principal dancer with The Royal Ballet and Houston Ballet. He’s appeared as a guest artist with some of the world’s leading companies, including the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Scottish Ballet and the Yugoslav Ballet. He enjoyed performing most of the major roles of his time and possesses quite a large repertoire, filled with both classical and contemporary works. He personally created roles in David Bintley’s Still Life At The Penguin Café and Enclosure; Sir Frederick Ashton’s Varii Capricci; Richard Alston’s Midsummer; Kenneth MacMillan’s Isadora; Ashley Page’s Pursuit; Slow Talk Fast Walk and Bloodlines; Wayne Eagling’s Frankenstein and Beauty and the Beast; and Michael Corder’s L’Invitation Au Voyage and Number Three. He even performed in Ashton’s A Birthday Offering in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and at many other royal galas.

In 2003, Broomhead was appointed to the position of ballet master for Houston Ballet. The next year he officially retired from the stage. In 2011, he left the Houston Ballet to pursue a career as a freelancer. Now he’s in great demand as a teacher and coach, and in 2014 he was on faculty for the Goh Ballet Academy’s Summer Intensive. He’s served as artistic advisor for Vitacca Productions & Company since 2012.

For more information on Shreveport Dance Academy’s Summer Intensive and its faculty, visit http://shreveportdanceacademy.com.

Photo courtesy of Shreveport Dance Academy.