Clinton's Credits

Ballet Huntsville / Academy of Classic Arts

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Clinton Rothwell's list of Credits

National Ballet of Canada's productions of Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet

Professional experience:

1975 – 1981 National Ballet of Canada: Principal 1977 –1981, Soloist 1975 – 1977

1971 – 1975 retired from dance to instruct ballet

1967 – 1971 National ballet of Canada: Principal 1969 – 1971, Soloist 1967 – 1969

1965 – 1967 National Ballet of Holland: Soloist, then offered Principal in the same year

1962 – 1965 San Francisco Ballet: Principal 1964 – 1965, Soloist 1963 – 1964,

Corps 1962 – 1963

1961 – 1962 Royal Opera Ballet Company, Covent Garden

1960 – 1961 Royal Ballet School. While with the school I danced with the first

and second Royal Ballet Companies

Guest Artist:

Royal Winnipeg Ballet: Pas de deux from the ballet “Le Loup” by Roland Petit in the
                                        Gala performance “Farewell to Richard Rutherford”
Scorpio Ballet London U.K.: Prince in Cinderella
Riverside Ballet Theatre: Prince in Nutcracker, Blue Bird pas de deux,
                                         Corsaire pas de deux, Le Loup pas de deux
                                         Black Swan pas de deux,
                                         Plus One pas de deux
Nureyev and Friends: Toured with Rudolph Nureyev to Paris and performed
                                      Hans van Manen’s “Four Schumann Pieces”

Repertoire included:

Les Sylphides – Fokine                      The Nutcracker – Franca/Petipa
Cinderella – Franca/Petipa                 Monument for a Dead Boy – van Dantzig
Offenbach – Tudor                             Dark Elegies – Tudor
Mad Shadows – Ditchburn                 Midsummer Night’s Dream – Ashton
Les Rendezvous - Ashton                   Les Patineurs – Ashton
The Two Pigeons – Ashton                La Fille Mal Gardee – Ashton
One in Five – Powell                          Apollo – Balanchine
Serenade – Balanchine                       Scottish Symphony – Balanchine
Four Temperaments – Balanchine     Symphony in C – Balanchine
Rite of Spring – Patsalas                    Romeo and Juliet – Cranko
Lucifer – Christensen                         Original Sin – Christensen
Solitaire – MacMillan (Worth)          Speakeasy – Marcuse
Bayaderka – Valukin/Petipa              Don Quixote p.d.d. – Valukin/Petipa
Collective Symphony – van Manen/Dantzig
Swan Lake – Bruhn                            Coppelia – Bruhn
La Sylphide – Bruhn/Petipa               Elite Syncopations – MacMillan
La Prima Ballerina – Heiden             Studies in White – Strate
Cyclus – Strate                                   Electra – Strate
Kraanerg – Petit                                 Le Loup – Petit
The Newcomers – MacDonald           Don Juan – Neumeier
Sleeping Beauty – Nureyev                The Mirror Walkers – Wright
Giselle – White/Coralli                      The Lesson – Flindt
Operas - Opera Ballets while in the U.K. and lesser-known ballets

Choreography:

Alberta Ballet Company – Tricentennial Festival honoring Bach’s three hundredth birthday. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, Plus One, In View
The Banff Centre – In View, Forty-Three Years, Comedians, Plus One, Concerto
Calgary Opera Company – Daughter of the Regiment
California Riverside Ballet - Concerto in G, Pathos
Edmonton Festival Ballet – Adagio for Eight, Vivaldi, Balazern, Things ‘n’ Things
   Salve Regina, Hallmark Moment
Huntsville Ballet Company – Peter and the Wolf, Pathos, Liaison, The Party, Plus One,
                                                 Concerto in G, Comedians, Salve Regina, Yes … No,
                                                 Arabian – Red Rose – Due Drop Fairy – Dawn Fairy –
                                                 Harlequin and Columbine – Trained Animals – Maids of
                                                the Mist from Nutcracker
Lethbridge AIDS benefit performance – Balazern

Metropolitan Ballet Theatre - Concerto, Pathos, Arabian from Nutcracker
Mount Royal College – Spindledorff, Star Seeds, Yes … No, Afternoon of the Faun,
   Little Mermaid, Mourning Pan, Carmen solo, Court Dance, Pas de Cinq, Searching, Christmas Rush, Night, We Come-Stay-Leave,
   Study in White, Star Seeds II, The Wizard of Oz
National Ballet of Canada Gala – Plus One
National Ballet of Canada workshop - Comedians, Elegy
Newport Ballet – Plus One, Searching
Pure Class Dance – Stones, Salve Regina
Riverside Ballet Theatre – Concerto in G, Snow Queen, Comedians, Plus One, In View
San Francisco Ballet workshop – Defeat
University of Calgary - Star Seeds II
University of Lethbridge – Antigone, Adagio
Young Canadians – Salve Regina, Carmen, Etudes

Teaching Experience:

Alberta Ballet Company – Guest instructor/Choreographer
Ballet Conservatory of South Texas – Guest instructor
Banff Centre of Fine Arts – Instructor/Choreographer
Calgary City Ballet – Guest instructor
California Riverside Ballet – Guest instructor
City Dance fx – Instructor/Choreographer, Artistic Advisor
Community Ballet School - Instructor
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks – Guest instructor
Dept. of Physical Ed. University of Lethbridge - Sessional instructor
Edmonton Festival Ballet – Artistic Director/Choreographer
Edmonton School of Ballet – Director of the Professional Program
Huntsville Ballet Company – Artistic Director
Les Ballet Jazz (Toronto) – Guest instructor
Lindsay Walsh School of Dance – Instructor/Choreographer
Metropolitan Ballet Theatre - Guest instructor/Choreographer
Mount Royal College Continuing Education – Principal of the Dance Dept.
Mount Royal College Conservatory Dance – Artistic Director/Co-ordinator,
                                                                          Choreographer
National Ballet of Canada – Instructor, Coach on staff
Newport Ballet – Instructor/Choreographer
Noerr Dance Academy - Guest insturctor
Orange Coast College – Master Class
Pacific Artists Ballet Theatre – Guest instructor

Phantom of the Opera (Calgary) – Guest instructor
Premiere Dance Academy – Guest instructor
Quinte Dance Centre – Lecturer/Choreographer
Riverside Ballet Arts Theatre – Associate director/instructor/choreographer
University of California Irvine – Lecturer in Dance/Master class
University of Lethbridge – Founder of the Conservatory program in dance
The Young Canadians – Instructor/Choreographer

Trained/Worked with:

Lew Christensen                     Harold Christensen
Dame Nanette deValoise        Michael Solmes
Maria Faya                             Errol Addison
Peter Claig                              Desmond Doyle
Rosella Hightower                  Anton Dolan
Madame Nijinska                   Jacque D’Amboise
George Balanchine                 Celia Franca
Arnold Spohr                          Rudolph Nureyev
Eric Bruhn                              Brian MacDonald
Grant Strate                            Una Kai
Rudy van Dantzig                   Paul Maure
Daniel Seillier     Anthony Tudor
Roland Petit                            David Scott
Joanne Nisbet

Studied the Benesh dance notation at “Institute of Choreology” London U.K.

Awards:

First place for choreography at Panoply in Ballet Division
Wings Award for choreography
Ford Foundation scholarship to the San Francisco Ballet School

E.M.I. scholarship to the Royal Ballet School

The only male dancer to represent Canada in the “International Ballet Competitions” held in Varna, Bulgaria – 1970, awarded two prizes. Sixth place overall and first place winner in the Pas de Deux division.

Bulgarian television broadcast dancing “Roland Petit’s” Le Loup Pas de Deux

Listed in Marques Editions of “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in Entertainment”

Guest speaker at The 39^th Annual Virginia Hammill Simms Memorial Awards 2006.