Private Coaching Session with Mary Pat Robertson
Item Number: 188
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
One private one-hour coaching session for one student, with Mary Pat Robertson, Director of the Princeton Ballet School. Date and time to be mutually agreed upon by winner and Mrs. Robertson.
A private coaching session with Mrs. Robertson is restricted to young dancers in Student Ballet 1 level and above.
Live music is not included in private coaching sessions.
Special Instructions
A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she received her early training with June Runyon and danced with Tulsa Ballet Theatre. After graduation from Stanford University, Ms. Robertson performed and taught in New York, where she studied with Merce Cunningham, Douglas Wassell, and David Howard. She has taught ballet at Princeton University, New York University, and Mason Gross School of the Art.
Ms. Robertson has been teaching at Princeton Ballet School since 1980, and became Director of the School in 1986. During these years she developed the syllabus with faculty input, inaugurated the Professional Training Program and PLUS programs, and oversaw the moves into the new Princeton and Cranbury studios. In March, 2007, the United States Congress cited Ms. Robertson for her twenty plus years of leadership of Princeton Ballet School, and for its evolution into “one of the most acclaimed (dance schools) in the country.”