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Jacqulyn Buglisi, Artistic Director,
Buglisi Dance Theatre
Photo © Jack Mitchell
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Jacqulyn co-founded Buglisi Foreman Dance in 1994 with Founding Co-Artistic Director Donlin Foreman
and Associate Founders Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin. Having created more than 25 ballets,
she has had her works presented and commissioned by theaters, companies and universities throughout
the world. She began her dance training at the early age of four with the Russian Swaboda sisters
and studied contemporary dance in the Mary Wigman Technique with founder/director Jan Veen of the
Boston Conservatory of Music before meeting Martha Graham in 1964.
During her 20-year association with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Jacqulyn performed as a principal
dancer for 13 years, had her work Sospiri premiered at City Center, is featured in Conversations with
Martha Graham and in Trailblazers of American Modern Dance for her Denishawn interpretations. Jacqulyn
developed and taught her unique Techniques of Performance class at the Interlochen Academy, Alvin
Ailey School, and abroad during her commissions at the Shankar Performing Arts Center in India, and
the Shanghai Ensemble in China, and participated in numerous educational residencies and collaborations
with Purchase College Conservatory of Dance.
Jacqulyn is involved in bringing awareness to the human condition and world issues through such creative
projects such as Rain and The Conversation. She is Chair of the Modern Department at the Alvin Ailey
School, and serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Martha Graham School. Jacqulyn
has received numerous awards including the American Dance Guild Award for Artistic Excellence, Fiorello
LaGuardia Award for Excellence, Harkness Ballet Foundation Grants, The Gertrude Shurr Award for Dance,
and a National Endowment Grant for Choreography. Recently, Jacqulyn created Cage Machine for Jacob's
Pillow Contemporary Traditions Program and is currently working on a new work, Sounds of Innocence, in
collaboration with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain
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