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Master Class 3: Vernon Gooden

Fri, Jun 28

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Ypsilanti

Graham Based Modern

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Master Class 3: Vernon Gooden
Master Class 3: Vernon Gooden

Time & Location

Jun 28, 2024, 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM

Ypsilanti, 76 N Huron St, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA

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About the event

Winifred Haun is the founder, choreographer and artistic director of her own professional contemporary dance company, Winifred Haun & Dancers.  Since the 1990’s, Wini has created over 60 new dance works, including one full length ballet.  She has received numerous awards and accolades for her choreography, including a 2022 3Arts Award, a 2016 MacArthur Foundation Award, and a 2019 “Best in Class Award” from the Oak Park Area Arts Council.  In 2014, she was selected by the Martha Graham Dance Company to participate in their Lamentation Variation project.  Wini won three Ruth Page (Chicago Dance) Award nominations for Choreography and Performance and in 2000, she won the Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Dance Community for creating and directing Chicago’s NEXT Dance Festival.  From 2020 to 2023, her work “Light in Winter” was presented three times at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple’s Performing Arts Series to great audience and critical acclaim.    Wini performed, toured, and conducted dance residencies with the Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre, under the direction of Randy Duncan from 1985 to 1992. Currently, she teaches modern dance and ballet at Maywood Fine Arts in Maywood, IL, and Legere Dance Center in River Forest, IL. Wini has conducted numerous dance residencies and workshops, locally, nationally and internationally. She was a modern dance instructor at Hubbard St. Dance Center for over 14 years.

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