Lesandre Lesandre
Lesandre Ayrey was born in Australia and started dance lessons in Paris at the age of five. A graduate of the Royal Ballet School, London, she has studied, taught, and performed the world's great dance traditions from the Far & Mid East and Indonesia. Her Indonesian dance teachers include I. Nyoman & Nanik Wenten, as well as Balasundari & Balasaraswati in S. Indian dance. She has been performing and teaching Eastern dance since 1973. Lesandre presently teaches advanced ballet for the California Arts Academy and the Performing Arts Center as well as leads her own troupe in S. Indian Classical Dance, Javanese Court Dance and Balinese Ritual Dance.
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Bharatanatyam
Javanese Court Dance
Balinese Ritual Dance
Curriculum Vitae:
Accreditation:
Graduate, Royal Ballet School of London
- Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Syllabus
Certificates from the R. A. D.
(A.R.A.D. - Royal Academy of Dancing)
Activities in Fresno area from 1985 - 2007:
Guest
performer/teacher/lecturer at cultural institutions
Director of the 'The Way of Dance' - South Indian, Javanese and
Balinese Dance School
Participant
in Fresno's Artists-in-the-Schools program 1986-present
PACES Program: school programs in Madera and Fresno counties
Instructor
in:
Classical
Ballet
Ethnic dance: Bharata Natyam, Javanese Court Dance
Balinese Ritual Dance
Chinese, Japanese and Korean Dance
Ballet
instructor for:
Treasure
Island Naval Facility: 1970 – 1978
Alameda
Naval Facility: 1974 - 1978
Redwood
Empire Ballet (Ballet en Ronde), Santa Rosa: 1983 - 1984
Fresno
Conservatory
for the Arts, Helena Gramis: 1985-1986
Cynthia
Merrill Performing Arts, Fresno: 1986 - present
The
Dance Shop, Visalia: 1986 - 1987
Ramona's
Dance Studio, Clovis, 1986-1988
Severance
Ballet School, Fresno, 1991
Fig
Garden Dance Studio, Kaye Migaki: 1988
Centerstage
Dance Studio, Oakhurst: 1997 – 2003
Fresno
City College: Beginners & Intermediate ballet program, 1998-2004
Performing
Arts Center 2004 – present
California
Arts Academy 1997 - present
Coaching
/ Choreography:
"Exultante"
(Vivaldi Concerto): Piece for annual Fresno Ballet Fall Gala, 1990
'Coppelia',
Fresno Ballet, 1991
Mme. Maria Kedrina (Santa Barbara)
Doris Gunsett Academy (Santa Barbara)
Mme. Marie Balon (Paris)
Mme. Yvonne Redgis
(Montecito)
Margot
Doerner School of Ballet (Santa Barbara)
David Lichine and Tatiana Riabouchinska
(Hollywood)
De Cotta School of Ballet (Santa Barbara)
Russell Kerr, Bettina Edwards, Rowena Jackson,
Philip Chatfield,
Alexander Grant, Kenneth Tillson (New
Zealand)
Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Nina Stroganova,
Valentina Pereyeslavec (New York)
Michael Panaieff (Los Angeles)
Jean
Hart Academy (San Francisco: full scholarship pupil)
Marc
Wilde (San Francisco)
San Francisco Ballet School (full
scholarship pupil)
Anatole Vilzak, Ludmilla Schollar, Harold Christensen,
Petrus Van Muyden, Carlos Carvajal
Royal Ballet School, London: Ninette de Valois, Eileen Ward,
Barbara Fewster, Julia Farron,
Joy
Newton,Valerie Adams
Maria
Fay (London)
Errol
Addison (London)
Ruth
French (London)
Mme.
Svetlanova (San Francisco)
Kenneth
Melville (San Francisco)
Alla
Sizova (Workshop, Santa Barbara)
Finis
Jhung (Workshop, Montclair)
Training
in Classical Ethnic Dance
South
India: Bharata Natyam
- Balasundari, Balasaraswati, Luise Scripps, K. Ramaiah,
Katherine & K. P. Kunhiraman
Indonesia:
Court Dances from Surakarta and Jogyakarta
-
I Nyoman & Nanik Wenten, Martati Harnanto, Maridi, Suharto
Indonesia:
Temple Dances from Bali
- I Made & Svasti Bandem,
Suweca
Indonesia:
Sundanese Style (West Java)
- Irawati Ardjo
Japan:
Buyo-no-mai
- Mme.
Rokushige Fujima, San Francisco
China:
Ancient Dances of the T'ang Dynasty
- Nancy Kuo, Chinese Arts Institute of London
Korea: Court Dance
- Hi-ah Park, U. C. Berkeley
Medieval
and Ancient Greek Dance
-
I.
S. T. D., London
Flamenco:
-
Lita Andalucia (San Francisco)
- Renee Garcia, Anne Young
(Fresno)
- Eva Amador-Gosselin (Madera)
Middle
Eastern Dance:
- Ellie Katsoulis (Fresno)
-
Katarina (Berkeley)
-
Annette
Federico (Fresno)
-
Artemis
Mourat (Fresno)
-
Lydia Fortner (Fresno)
Performing experience
Classical
Ballet
California
Imperial Ballet Company, San Francisco
-
Les
Sylphides (Pas de Deux, Waltz, Mazurka)
-
Coppelia
(Friend of Swanhilda)
-
La
Ronde (Rose Girl)
San
Francisco Ballet Company
- Beauty
& the Beast (Rose Waltz)
San Francisco Opera Ballet, Soloist, under direction of
Zachary
Solov
-
Die
Fledermaus (Grand Waltz)
-
Die
Meistersinger
-
Andrea
Chenier (Soloist)
-
Un
Ballo in Maschera (Soloist)
-
Rigoletto
-
Pelleas
and Melisande
Ethnic
Dance
Asian
Art Museum, San Francisco
MIT, Museum of Fine Arts, Fogg & Isabelle Gardner
Museums,
Boston
Los Angeles City Museum of Natural History (Heritage of India
exhibit)
Crocker
Art Gallery, Sacramento
Fresno
Metropolitan Museum (Passage to India exhibit)
Fresno
Art Museum (Lecture Series)
Festival of the Chariots, San Francisco and Los Angeles
Rouge Festival - Fresno
Universities,
concert series
Davis
San Francisco
Berkeley
Fresno
San Diego
Stanford
San Jose
Hayward
Sacramento
Santa Cruz
Colleges
Mills College, Oakland
Dominican, San Rafael
Lone Mountain, San Francisco
West Hills, Coalinga
Redwoods College, Eureka
Santa Rosa Jr. College
College of the Sequoias, Visalia
City College, Fresno
Schools
San Francisco, Marin, Fresno, Tulare & Madera County
School Districts
Various:
Covent
garden, London
Queen
Elizabeth Hall / Royal Albert Hall, London
Bank
of America concert series, San Francisco
Mauna
Kea Resort Hotel, Hawaii
Macy's,
San Francisco (Chinese New Year)
J.
C. Penney's Fresno (Festival of India)
Central
California Cultural Society of India
Hospitals, senior / developmentally disabled centers
Fundraisers
Subject of film made for Lincoln Centre Dance Archives,
New York
WGBH,
Boston: Documentary video 1979
KSEE,
Fresno: Dance profile 1987
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