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MISTER CASEY

the only thing stable in a dancers life is CLASS

About Me

WORK like you don't need money; LOVE like you've never been hurt; DANCE like EVERYONES watching!!!

My Interests

Ballet, Pointe, Pilates, Yoga, Strength and Core/ Endurance Training, Modern, Lyrical Jazz, Contemporary, Art and Architecture, Painting, Drawing, History, Research, Reading, Studying, Food, Music

I'd like to meet:

DANCERS! COMPANIES! FRIENDS! STUDENTS!This is a HOME for all of my dancers and friends to resource and to post comments and concerns about class, corrections, health, apparel, music, repertory, rehearsal and just to generally - be dancers !!! A place for them to connect and maybe meet other ballet dancers from various studios and towns- to go and have coffee and talk about things in the world and the arts, increasing awareness of politics, music, art, theory- about dance and the work being made - to go to concerts and have a deeper understanding of performance art. To know whats going on in the community! A place to talk about the professional world, auditions and coaching- to get references and information about classes and gigs. Please, use it to share knowledge and to pursue a deeper understanding of the art of ballet.- Mister CaseyJUST DO IT!

Music:

Pink Floyd...Depeche Mode, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, The Beatles, Scissor Sisters, Smashing Pumpkins, Carmina Piranha, The Carpenters, Gorillaz, Aerosmith, Poe, Massive Attack, Portishead, Garbage, Eminem, Mary J, Roisin Murphy, Michael and Janet Jackson, DJ Shadow, DJ Silver, QUEEN, Prince, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Copland, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Bond, Grieg, Phillip Glass, Erik Satie, Kronos Quartet, Enigma, Dead Can Dance, Deep Forest, Future Sound of London, Jean-Michel Jarre, Amorphous Androgynous, Lorena McKennitt, Enya, Benny Bennassi, Natalie Merchant, The Corrs, Pink Martini, most any Broadway show, Cirque music (particularly Saltimbanco and Quidam)

Movies:

* Choreography by Balanchine * The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet of Canada) * The Nutcracker (Kirkland/Baryshnikov; Balanchine version) * Anna Karenina (Bolshoi) * Swan Lake (Makarova) * Le Corsaire (American Ballet Theatre) * Matthew Bournes Swan Lake (Adventures in Moving Pictures) * The Children of Theatre Street * Ballets Russes * The Turning Point * Centerstage * The Company * White Nights * A Chorus Line * Fosse * SPIRIT * An American in Paris * West Side Story * Little Shop of Horrors * Annie * Phantom of the Opera * Chicago * Sweet Charity * Cabaret * The Piano * CATS * FAME *

Television:

So You Think You Can Dance, NATURE, OPB/ PBS

Books:

** The Pointe Book, by Janice Barringer ** Balanchine, by Taper ** Classical Ballet Technique, by Gretchen Ward Warren ** Basic Principles of Classical Ballet, by Agrippina Vaganova ** Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet, by Gail Grant ** Guide to Balanchine Technique, by Suki Schorer ** Dancing on my Grave, by Gelsey Kirkland ** All His Jazz, by Martin Gottfried ** Prodigal Son, by Edward Vilella ** Holding on to the Air, by Suzanne Farrell ** Nothing to Hide, by Robert LaFosseThe art of Salvador Dali, Miro, MC Escher, Miro, Giger, Hieronymus Bosch and Degas...HEY! Always read with a notebook or journal, if something strikes you- a word, phrase, feeling, write page number- paragraph and what it was or why or how- come back and try to figure that out!!! POST ITS ARE AMAZING!

Heroes:

My students...Musicians...Artists...Anyone with a voice...Gelsey Kirkland, Nacho Duato, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Suzanne Farrell, Patricia Barker, Alison Roper, Katarina Svetlova, George Balanchine, Robert Joffrey, James Canfield, Sarah Slipper, Tracy Taylor, Vanessa Thiessen, Gerald Arpino, Trey McIntyre, Dancers Responding to AIDS, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Oregon Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Eugene Ballet Company, Tim Burton, Bob Fosse, Joe Lanteri, Luigi, AC Ciulla, Wade Robson, Mia Michaels

My Blog

DRESS CODE update Aug 08 forward

Ballet Program Dress Code REVISED As of: SEPT 2008 Students should have the following items...hair should be pulled back with no fly-away's in a bun with hair net...no skirts or jewelry (includes pl...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:55:00 PST

OWNING THE MATERIAL

LEARN REHEARSE FORGET PERFORM ...give and get more out of your time on stage and in the studio...     Understanding and transcending a work or piece (a few ideas to help in your ...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:36:00 PST

THERABAND EXERCISES

BASIC THER-A-BAND STRETCHING EXERCISES   All exercises should alternate -(ie point then flex, not point point flex flex)   POINT AND FLEX:       &nbs...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:34:00 PST

REQUEST FORMS (current students)

Should you wish to request something, copy, paste to WORD and print this out and put it in my box!-MISTER CASEY SOLO/DUO/TRIO Request Form Casey C. Davenport 20__-20__   Sessions now avail...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:31:00 PST

BALLET FIELD TRIP (JUNE 09)

Copy, paste and print this off from MSWord and turn in with your money if you wanna go!-MISTER CASEYRUSH + ROBBINS presented by Oregon Ballet Theatre Saturday June 6, 7:30pm An evening of ballet K...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:25:00 PST

ALUMNI STUDENTS

Hey!  This blog is for you- students that have moved on or used to dance with me!  Leave a comment, tell me and everyone else what you are up to, where you are, if you're still dancing- what...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:31:00 PST

The Ballet Binder

Recommended for students at an intermediate, or, Level II and above...STUDENTS! When I was studying, and particularly when I started taking with Master Teachers and different choreographers and direc...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:38:00 PST

2009 SHOWCASE

2009 SHOWCASE REPCHILDRENS BALLET PROGRAMS:In the Garden of...TEEN BALLET PROGRAMS:A Mid-Summers Garden of Good and Evil Music by Sergei Prokofiev, Clint Mansell and Erik SatieChoreography and concep...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:59:00 PST

FALL SCHEDULE 08-09

Available ClassesFALL 08-09CALL OFFICES FOR DROP-IN INFORMATION- cost, release forms etc., tell them Mister Casey sent you!!!  If you are debating what class might be a good match for you, e-mai...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:15:00 PST

MISTER CASEYs POV

MISTER CASEY's POV "Fully dedicated to the creation and refining of classical dance artists" Casey Davenport is currently the Director of Ballet and Pointe at Chehalem Valley Dance Academy-Newberg...
Posted by MISTER CASEY on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:01:00 PST