BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:America/Denver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18-18018@dance.colostate.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20231010T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20231010T121500 DTSTAMP:20241015T172708Z URL:https://dance.colostate.edu/events/masterclass-mr-gaspard-louis-founde r-and-artistic-director-of-gasparddancers/ SUMMARY:Masterclass: Mr. Gaspard Louis\, Founder and Artistic Director of G aspard&Dancers DESCRIPTION:The CSU Dance Program will host a masterclass taught by Mr. Ga spard Louis\, the Founder and Artistic Director of Gaspard&\;Dancers\n\ nThis masterclass is generously supported by the Fort Collins Lincoln Cent er's Outreach Program\, and it is accessible to all CSU Dance Majors. For CSU students there is no requirement for signed liability waivers. The mas terclass is also accessible to FTC Dance Community with registration and s igned liability waivers for those attendees.\n\nFor questions about regist ration please contact Chung-Fu Chang: Chung-Fu.Chang@colostate.edu\n\n\n\n Gaspard Louis is the Founder and Artistic Director of Gaspard&\;Dancer s (G&\;D). He received a BFA in Dance from Montclair State University a nd continued his dance studies on scholarship at Gus Giordano’s in Chica go and Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab in New York. Following his studies\, he jo ined the New York based company called AllNations where he performed tradi tional dances from many parts of the world for US troupes across the globe . Subsequently\, he performed and traveled worldwide with Pilobolus Dance Theater. He collaborated on the choreography of nine major dance works wit h the company and taught master dance classes both nationally and internat ionally. Gaspard received an MFA in Dance from the Hollins University/Amer ican Dance Festival Program and became the Director of ADF’s year-round creative movement outreach program which provides free dance classes to yo uth in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill community of North Carolina. His pas sion for dance has continued to lead him to work with local dancers and mu sicians. Additionally\, Gaspard has been a guest teacher at Duke\, Elon\, and North Carolina Central Universities.\n\nAbout Gaspard&\;Dancers Com pany:\n\nMission: Gaspard&\;Dancers is an inclusive and diverse dance c ompany founded upon a shared passion for versatile movement that is physic ally inventive\, emotionally dynamic\, and inspiring to people of all ages and backgrounds. Through the creation of repertoire\, performances\, lect ure demonstrations\, workshops\, short and long-term residencies within th e North Carolina community and around the globe\, our main purpose is to e xpand the perspectives and creative potential of all who see and share in our world.\n\nHistory: Gaspard&\;Dancers was founded in 2009 by former Pilobolus dancer Gaspard Louis. The company produces an annual performance season at Duke University in Durham\, NC and has recently been presented at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in New York City\, Cape Fear S tage in Wilmington\, NC\, Museum of Art in Raleigh\, NC\, Bermuda\, and ac ross North Carolina as part of the NC Dance Festival.gasparddancers.org\n\ nThe Gaspard&\;Dancers performance at the Lincoln Center is Tuesday\, O ctober 10 at 7:30 p.m.\nStudent tickets are $16: https://www.lctix.com/sho ws-tickets/gasparddancers/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/dance/wp-conte nt/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/2023.10.10_GuestArtist_Masterclass_Gespard-Lou is.jpeg CATEGORIES:College of Liberal Arts Featured Events LOCATION:Dance Studio 101\, University Center for the Arts\, 1400 Remington St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States GEO:40.5692704;-105.07477849999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1400 Remington St.\, Fort C ollins\, CO\, 80524\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dance Studi o 101\, University Center for the Arts:geo:40.5692704,-105.07477849999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR