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10 Hairy Legs Company Member Robert Mark Burke Awarded 2020 Choreography Fellowship

originally published: 02/11/2020

10 Hairy Legs Company Member  Robert Mark Burke Awarded 2020 Choreography Fellowship(HIGHLAND PARK, NJ) -- Robert Mark Burke, 10 Hairy Legs company member, has been awarded a 2020 Individual Artist Choreography Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Burke noted, ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ “I am incredibly honored and humbled to be included as a 2020 Choreographic Fellow. As I finish up a month-long tour with 10 Hairy Legs, I am excited to dive into new choreographic processes back home, including my new premiere for the company.”

Burke, deemed the “hottest young talent on the New Jersey dance scene today” finds himself a dancer, choreographer and teaching artist. Performing both nationally and internationally, Robert is a dancer with 10 Hairy Legs, Megan Williams Dance Projects and Lucida Childs Dance.   He also performed regularly with Meagan Woods and Company, has worked with Bryn Cohn and Artists and has apprenticed with Doug Elkins. 

Having a passion for dance education, Burke has been a guest artist at Rutgers University and Rider University.  He has been a guest lecturer at Montclair State University and has been commissioned to create work for high schools throughout the tri-state area. As a choreographer, Burke has shown his work throughout the United States including the wild project, Dixon Place, Paramount Theater (Boston), Hofstra University, Rutgers University, Rider University, Dance New Amsterdam, Jersey City Theater Center and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Dance on the Lawn Emerging Choreographer Grant under the direction of Charmaine Warren, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jersey (New) Moves Fellowship in both 2015 and 2017, The 2016 CoLab Arts Space Grant, and The 2017 Eryc Taylor Emerging Choreography Grant. Recently he was commissioned to create a dance for Eryc Taylor Dance in their production of EARTH.

Artistic Director Randy James noted, “Robert is an exceptionally gifted choreographer. I am thrilled that he has been recognized by our prestigious state agency. This grant will allow him time and space to create – very precious commodities in today’s challenging world for artists.”



 
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Burke has been commissioned by 10 Hairy Legs to create a new work for the company that will have its World Premiere on April 18 at 2:00 and 6:00 pm at Ocean County College as part of its celebration of the life and music of Louis Prima. Information and tickets: HERE. The work will debut in New York City at the company’s 8th consecutive New York season at New York Live Arts June 25-27.

“For my new dance for 10 Hairy Legs, I am exploring the music of Louis Prima to create a tour de force quintet.  Currently in process, the new dance, entitled “A Sunday Kind of Love”, is a suite of shorter dances that explore the unique rhythmical complexities of each score, including “Sing, Sing, Sing” and “Buona Sera”.  Interested in the aesthetics of the era in which Prima created his music, I am creating a world through which the dancers find a sense of refined wildness.”

 The full list of 2020 Individual Artist Fellowships can be found HERE.

About 10 Hairy Legs

10 Hairy Legs, a male repertory company, provides a lens to experience the broad spectrum of dance. Widely acclaimed for its aggressive commissioning of new works and curation of master works, we have served more than 85,000 patrons, students, artists and educators since our founding in 2012, toured nationally to 20 states appearing at notable venues such as The Kravis Center (FL), Dance Place (DC), Tulsa PAC (OK), The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, The Carlsen Center (KS), as Cameo Artists for The Public Theater’s Public Works production of Hercules at The Delacorte Theatre, choreographed by Chase Brock, and internationally in the Cayman Islands and South Africa.

13 World Premiere Commissions from: Adam Barruch, Julie Bour, Al Blackstone, Doug Elkins, Larry Keigwin, Raja Feather Kelly, Tiffany Mills, Nicholas Sciscione, Doug Varone, Manuel Vignoulle, Megan Williams and Yin Yue. Commissioned Works to debut in June 2020 from: Joshua Beamish, Robert Mark Burke and David Parker. Curated works in our repertory are by: Brian Brooks, Sean Curran, David Dorfman and Dan Froot, Heidi Latsky, Cleo Mack, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Claire Porter, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, and Christopher Williams.

Broadcasts have included NJTV’s State of the Arts, The Meredith Vieira Show and Nick Cannon’s Red Nose Dancathon. Dance Education is an important part of our mission and we provide a wide range of programs for all ages exemplifying the many facets of maleness expressed through dance to more than 2,200 students and educators each year.



 
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 “… by far, the best American male modern dancers one could have the good fortune of seeing these days… gotta hand it to them: 10 Hairy Legs shows what modern dance should be…” – Demetrius Klein, Palm Beach Daily News 2018

Original musical commissions: Pauline Kim Harris, Kyle Olson, Robert Maggio, Roarke Menzies, Ofer Pelz, Bryan Strimpel, Michael Wall, Dorian Wallace and Peter Whitehead.

Designers: Abraham Cruz, Oana Botez, Cindy Capraro, Sarah Dixon, Benjamin Heller, Jason Flamos, John Lasiter, Naomi Luppescu, Mary Kokie McNaugher, Dennis O’Leary-Gullo, Lauren Parrish, Amanda Ringger, Eric Mark Rodrigues, Amanda Shafran, Ken Tabatchnik, Olivier Theyskens, Asa Thornton and Tuce Yasak.

Leadership funding for the company provided by: The Geraldine R. Dodge, Frank & Lydia Bergen, Benevity, Blanche and Irving Laurie, The O'Donnell Green Music & Dance, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels, Mertz Gilmore, Magyar Bank and Hyde & Watson & SHS Foundations, The E. J. Grassmann Trust, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Johnson & Johnson, American Dance Abroad’s Rapid Response, Middlesex County Arts & History, New Music USA, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Dept. of State, receiving a Citation of Excellence in 2018 and 2019, the generous contributors to the 10HL Choreographic Initiative and The Constance Poster Trust for New Choreography.


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