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Founded in 1993, Randy James Dance Works has toured nationally throughout California, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey giving thousands of performances. Internationally RJDW has toured to the Cayman Islands, Germany, Estonia, Latvia and taught and performed at the VII Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom, Poland and Krakow 2000. The company is recognized for its community-based residencies and has given hundreds of master classes, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops benefiting thousands of people of every age. RJDW has received formal recognition and financial support has been granted from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission of New Jersey, The Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Newsweek, Meet The Composer, Eli Lilly & Co. Foundation, AT&T Foundation, GG Monks Foundation, Prince William Network, Alliance for Arts Education/New Jersey and the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. For rehearsals and the development of new work, RJDW has received the prestigious 92nd St. Y Harkness space grant for seven consecutive years.
Randy James is building an international reputation as an exceptionally gifted master teacher and an emotionally evocative choreographer, receiving commissions from dance companies, colleges and universities. The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State honored him with a Choreographic Fellowship Award in 2004 and 1994 for recognition of his artistic excellence. Mr. James received the New Jersey Governor's Award in Arts Education and was named Distinguished Teaching Artist in 2002. He has been a guest artist at various institutions including the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, London Contemporary Dance theater and School, VII Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Poland, Tage des Tanzas in Germany and Austria, Fine Five School in Estonia, Via Danse in Latvia, among others. Randy was born and raised in New Jersey and currently lives in Highland Park. He began his training at Rutgers University as a dance and theater major. His performance background includes summer stock, dinner theater, regional ballet companies and nightclub revues. He has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet at Lincoln Center in Aida and was principal dancer with Dan Wagoner & Dancers for eight years. James received his Bachelor of Arts from Empire State College and currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
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