THE AILEY SCHOOL

VIRTUAL

Saturday, 10/3
3:00-5:00pm
Adrienne Hurd
Horton

The Ailey School
New York, New York

The Ailey/Fordham BFA in Dance is a four-year joint program offering professional dance training at The Ailey School and an exceptional liberal arts education rooted in the Jesuit tradition of intellectual development and personal attention at Fordham University. Students complete a diverse curriculum while attending both institutions full time.

The program offers a comprehensive study of several dance techniques, preparing graduates for a variety of jobs in today’s diverse dance profession. Our focus on dance technique and performance offers students the opportunity to hone their professional skills and prepare for life as a professional dancer.

Ailey/Fordham BFA students complete a curriculum that includes a carefully designed sequence of dance and liberal arts courses, encouraging students to achieve their artistic and academic potential. At The Ailey School, students take a rigorous schedule of daily classes in ballet, Ailey Horton, and Graham techniques. In addition, students also take a variety of other dance classes and creative courses specific to the BFA in Dance program, including jazz, West African, partnering, and improvisation, among others.

Adrienne Hurd

Adrienne Hurd is a native New Yorker. She began her training studying at the Joffery Ballet School, School of American Ballet, and The Ailey School, all on Scholarship. Hurd has danced with The Neubert Ballet, Dance Brazil, Ailey II, The Jamison Project, and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. She was an assistant and rehearsal director for Judith Jamison for The Jamison Project. Hurd has worked with Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Michael Peters, Paula Abdul, Twyla Tharp, Garth Fagan, Donald McKayle, Graciela Daniele, Jeff Calhoun, Vince Patterson, and Earl Mosley. She has appeared on Broadway in Down To Earth, Dangerous Games, and Annie Get Your Gun, as well as in over 20 Off-Broadway productions including Looking For The PONY with Michelle Hurd. She has appeared on television in, As the World Turns, The Young and The Restless, New York Undercover, Law and Order, The Affair, and most recently Westworld.  Hurd is a Master Horton teacher and has taught at NYU Tish School, University of Texas at Austin, University of Minnesota, Marymount Manhattan College, Open Look Dance Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia), JKO School at American Ballet Theater, American Ballet Theater Summer Intensive NYC, Joffery Ballet School, The Eglevsky Ballet, The Metropolitan Opera, Professional Performing Arts School, Ailey Extension, The Ailey School, Steps on Broadway, and Rasta Thomas’ “Rock the Ballet”. She was the resident Choreographer for the Nomad Contemporary Ballet Company. Hurd has choreographed for the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, University of Texas at Austin, University of Minnesota, The Ailey School Junior Division, ABT Summer Intensive NYC, Lynch Ballet Company, Professional Performing Arts School, Contemporary West Dance Theatre, and most recently she has been commissioned to create a new ballet for Marymount Manhattan College. Hurd has choreographed original Musicals; CRACKED, The Lost Boys, Open Rehearsal at the Theatre for the New City, and SPEAK the Show for SummerStage NYC, Middle Collegiate Church Christmas special for CBS, and the Dance film Labor is a Movement.