Her passion to share the beauty
of the technique and unique
approach to choreography is realized
through intensives, workshops, and
commissions of new work for students
and companies around the world.
She held two Intensives in 2002, one
at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas and one in New York City, and
three intensives in New York in 2003
and 2004. A 2005 intensive was held
at Texas State University. In 2006,
the Company was invited to create
Mountain with Shadow, a new work
and original musical score performed
by students of the University of Las
Vegas. The fall of 2006 brought the
Company to Amsterdam to teach and
set a new work on the modern dance
students of deTheaterschool in
Holland. The 2007 intensive was held
in Santa Barbara, California where
Ms. Duke created an original music
score, set excerpts of Hawkins’ Greek
Dreams, with Flute culminating in
a performance at the Center Stage
Theater in Santa Barbara. Two
students from de Theaterschool
in Holland apprenticed with the
Company in the fall of 2007 for a
New York performance featuring the
sculpture of Dorazio. The Company
held it’s third Intensive at the College
of Marin, California in 2008 and
Duke taught classes at Texas State
University, Northwest Vista College,
and Texas A&M University.
reconstruct and perform Here and
Now, with Watchers (1957) with
performances at the University
of Las Vegas, Jacob’s Pillow
Dance Festival, and the American
Dance Guild Festival. In 2010 the
Company was asked to be part of
the 75th Anniversary for the 92nd
Street Y and its Erick Hawkins
Celebration and presented at the
APAP Showcase, New York, and
premiered a new work for a return
engagement to the Center for the
Performing Arts in Rhinebeck,
New York. Intensives were held at
the Millbrook School where Ms.
Duke was director of dance and
she taught master classes at the
Hotchkiss School and Georgetown
Day School, a Hawkins’ work on
the Georgetown Day School’s dance
company. In 2010 Ms. Duke also set
Hawkins’ New Moon on the students
of Marymount College in New York
City.
Ms. Duke was especially honored
to set Hawkins’ New Moon for the
75th Anniversary of the American
Dance Festival in Durham, North
Carolina in the summer of 2008.
She also taught at the Charlotte
Dance Festival in North Carolina
and presented the Company in the
Friday’s at Noon program at the
92nd St Y in New York.
Erick Hawkins Centennial,
2009, started out with sold out
performances at the Center for
Performing Arts in Rhinebeck,
New York. The Company celebrated
Erick’s Centennial throughout
2009 with a grant from the NEA
and the University of Las Vegas to
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