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Jacqulyn Buglisi

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Jacqulyn Buglisi
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Jacqulyn Buglisi is an American choreographer, artistic director, dancer, and educator.[1] In 1993, she co-founded the Buglisi Dance Theatre with Terese Capucilli, Christine Dakin, and Donlin Foreman.[2]

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Choreography

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Buglisi primarily choreographs ballet works and has created a repertoire of over eighty pieces.[3] Her choreography has been performed nationally at leading venues such as:

Internationally, her work has been featured at the Melbourne International Festival (State Theatre); International Dance Week in Prague; Sadler's Wells Theatre in London; Rovereto Festival in Italy; and other venues across the Czech Republic, Japan, France, and Israel.[4]

In a 2001 review for Dance Magazine, dance critic Lynn Garafola wrote, "Buglisi is a rarity in today's world, a woman who delights in the many splendid forms of female being. Probably no woman, other than Graham, has plumbed such emotional depths choreographically."[5] In his review of Buglisi’s Under the Buttonwood Tree, which Buglisi had choreographed for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times remarked, "Cecil B. DeMille would have been proud."[6]

Buglisi has collaborated with Venezuelan painter and filmmaker Jacobo Borges on works including Rain (music by Glen Velez), Sand (music by Philip Glass), and Blue Cathedral (music by Jennifer Higdon). She has also worked with composer Jack Mehler.[7]

Table of Silence Project 9/11

Buglisi is the co-creator, with Italian visual artist Rosella Vasta, of the Table of Silence Project 9/11, a large-scale public tribute and ritual performance presented annually on September 11 at Lincoln Center since 2011.[8][9][10] The free performance was a ritual and call to action for peace. Lincoln Center live-streamed the tribute via YouTube.[11][12]

Site-specific versions of the Table of Silence have also been presented at Syracuse University's Pan Am 103 Remembrance Wall, during the company’s NYSCA residency; in Perugia and Assisi, Italy; and at UC Santa Barbara to commemorate the May 23, 2014, Isla Vista shooting.[13]

Buglisi’s company repertoire is archived at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Dancer

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Jacqulyn Buglisi in performance

Buglisi was associated with the Martha Graham Dance Company for over 30 years, including 12 years as a principal dancer. During that time, she performed leading roles in numerous works by Graham, including:

  • The Three Marys in El Penitente
  • Andromache in Cortege of Eagles
  • The Warrior in Seraphic Dialogue
  • The Lament in Acts of Light
  • The Girl in Yellow in Diversion of Angels
  • Leader of the Chorus and Jocasta in Night Journey
  • Creusa in Cave of the Heart
  • The Spectator in Every Soul is a Circus
  • and a role created for her by Graham in Tangled Night

She performed in tribute to Graham during the CBS-televised Kennedy Center Honors, and was featured in the PBS special An Evening of Dance and Conversation with Martha Graham.[14][15]

Buglisi also worked to preserve early modern dance. Coached by Jane Sherman, she performed solos by Ruth St. Denis at venues including Jacob's Pillow and the Lyon Biennale de la Danse. She appeared in the documentaries Trailblazers of American Modern Dance and The Spirit of Denishawn, each of which highlight early 20th-century pioneers of American modern dance.[16]

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Buglisi has been commissioned by The Juilliard School's Emerging Modern Master's Series, Ailey/Fordham University B.F.A. Program, the University of Richmond, California State University, Long Beach, George Mason University, Purchase Conservatory of Dance, Interlochen Center for the Arts, the State Ballet College of Oslo, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Boston Conservatory of Music, Randolph-Macon College and National Dance Institute, among others.[17]

In 1970, Buglisi founded the first school of contemporary dance for the community of Spoleto, Italy, and was the Master Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.[18] She taught for the Dance Aspen Festival from 1990 to 1995, the Julio Bocca Center in Argentina, the Victoria College in Melbourne in 1999, and the Chautauqua Institution and Festival from 1995 to 2005.[19]

As a resident teacher in New York City, she has been chairperson of the Modern Department at The Ailey School, served on the faculties of The Juilliard School from 1991 to 2005, The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance since 1977, and Ballet Hispanico School of Dance. Buglisi guest teaches at the LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts (alumna) and instructs workshops at Steps on Broadway and Peridance Capezio Center.[citation needed]

She was named honorary chair for the Marymount Manhattan College 2005 Gala and served as a panelist for both the Heinz Family Foundation and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. Buglisi holds creative and educational residencies at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts-Institute, SUNY Purchase, California State University, Long Beach, George Mason University, University of Richmond, The Mahayfee Theater Class Act in FSU at Tallahassee, Petersburg Florida, and Syracuse University.[20]

Buglisi served on the Dance/USA's Board of Trustees as Chair of the Artistic Directors' Council from 2010 to 2013.[21]

Accolades

Buglisi's awards and honors include the American Dance Guild Award for Artistic Excellence, the Italian International Lifetime Achievement Award 2016, the Fiorello LaGuardia Award for Excellence in the field of Dance, the 2014 Kaatsbaan International Playing Field Award, the Gertrude Shurr Award for Dance, and Altria Group's 2007 Women Choreographer Initiative Award. As well as grants for new work from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, and The O'Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation.[22]

Jacqulyn Buglisi received the Juilliard President’s Medal[23] and the 2021 Bessie’s Awards Special Citation for Table of Silence Project 9/11.[24][25]

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