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Born and raised in New York City, Gregory Dolbashian, received his dance training at the Alvin Ailey School, then graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory. He debuted The DASH Ensemble in December 2010. DASH performance credits include The JOYCE Theater, BAC, New York Live Arts, and Guggenheim Works and Process Series, as well as national touring....Read more
Born and raised in New York City, Gregory Dolbashian, received his dance training at the Alvin Ailey School, then graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory. He debuted The DASH Ensemble in December 2010. DASH performance credits include The JOYCE Theater, BAC, New York Live Arts, and Guggenheim Works and Process Series, as well as national touring. Gregory, with dance education specialist Lindsey Morgan, is the co-founder of The DASH Academy, a daytime dance arts and education pre-professional training program.
Ballet commissions include Atlanta Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, Hamptons Dance Project, Cirio Collective, and Ballet Austin. Festivals include American Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and DanceNOW. Commissions also by Daniil Simkin’s Intensio and ABT principal Hee Seo. Choreography Awards include Hubbard Street 2 International Competition, and NWDP’s Pretty Creatives. Contemporary/Rep companies include Dallas Black Dance Theater, LA Contemporary Dance Co., Owen/Cox, Dark Circles CD, TU Dance and Northwest Dance Project. College and Training Program commissions include Juilliard, Princeton, Point Park, UNCSA Summer Study, LINES Ballet, MOVENYC YP & S.W.E.A.T programs, NYU, SUNY Purchase, Earl Mosely’s Diversity of Dance, and Fordham/Ailey. Educationally, Gregory has served in many roles, including as choreographic mentor for American Ballet Theater’s Incubator and MOVENYC’s SWEAT LAB. Faculty positions include Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Center, Gibney Dance, STEPS on Broadway, The Martha Graham School, Ballet Hispanico, and Peridance Capezio Center. Adjunct faculty at SUNY Purchase, NYU Tisch and The Hartt School. Gregory, alongside Loni Landon, is the co-founder of The PlaygroundNYC, which was voted 25 to Watch by Dance Magazine.
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Class Descriptions
An atmosphere that allows for the act of “pure play” to help dance artists use more capacity, intellect, sense, courage, and imagination in their movement styles. Conducted by director of The DASH Ensemble, Gregory Dolbashian, the class is a highly developed series of improvisational tools and games that warms and pushes both the mind and the body to break habits and fulfill more presence. These exercises are all methods that Gregory has developed and utilized to create movement with The DASH.
The artists learn confidence not just in themselves but also in the environment they are a part of. Our games and tasks work both on the individual and in tandem, so that Flow Space creates a community for progress, inspiration, and most of all discovery