Christopher Flory
Balletmaster, Choreographer, and Director
Celebrating 50 years working internationally in dance/arts!
“Life is dance, dance is life.” — C. M. Flory
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FLORYDANCE™: “Dance Is For Everyone”℠
• CLASSES: Ballet (Cecchetti method, Bournonville, Vaganova, SAB), Humphrey-Weidman-Limon, Dunham, Luigi jazz, intensives, master classes.
• CREATIONS: Neo-classical, modern - contemporary, opera, musical theatre.
• STAGINGS: Classical works, children's ballets, costume/lighting/stage design.
• COACHING/CONSULTING: Audition and role prep. For int/advanced and experienced.
• CONFERENCES: Lecturer on dance history.
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CLASSES IN CLASSICAL BALLET+
Pre-professional/professional; offering an array of styles for int/advanced dancers. Mentoring for beginners, guardians, and ‘late starters’. Approach: Syllabus based, holistic, solid/correct kinesiologic methods.
• Alumni: Former students achieved highest ranks internationally; principal dancers with: NYCB, Joffrey, Nat'l Ballet of Canada, modern/contemporary companies, and more.
“Ars pro Realisatio”℠
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ONLINE
Coaching - Classes - Consulting & PT
Via secure videoconferencing. Available in: English, French, Spanish, and Japanese.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION – CONTACT US
Email: [email protected]
VM/Txt: 1.646.722.0215
Telegram & Jami: @fleurydanse
Email us!
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.” — Jean-Georges Noverre (1727 – 1810)
“The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.” — Carlos Blasis (1797 – 1878)
“The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.” — August Bournonville (1805 – 1879)
“… true art is that which conceals the labor that produced it.” — Enrico Cecchetti (1850 – 1928)
“Life is Movement.” — Eugen Sandow (1867 – 1925)
“Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.” — Isadora Duncan (1877 – 1927)
“Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward.” — Agrippina Vaganova (1879 – 1951)
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.” — Martha Graham (1894 – 1991)
“Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.” — Doris Humphrey (1895 - 1958)
“… dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. … The important thing in ballet is the movement itself.” — George Balanchine (1904 – 1983)
“I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.” — Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009)
“Keep moving. Never stop moving,…. never stop moving.” — Eugene Louis Faccuito - ‘Luigi’ (1925 – 2015)
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[AP Photo (pre-AI): ‘Subway Danseur’]