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Olivia Bourne
Founder & Creative Director | Teacher
As a former professional dancer, Olivia has always dreamed of ways to create more opportunities for dancers living in Michigan and for them to have a community space. It was from her travels to LA and NYC where she fell in love with the energy at the dance industry’s leading drop-in studios that she decided it was time to create her own drop-in dance studio in her home state. Olivia grew up dancing and competing at the regional and national levels in both her dance studio’s company and high school Varsity Dance Team. Attending many dance conventions she won multiple scholarships including a summer intensive to train at Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles, junior/teen titles for her solos and assisted choreographers at Tremaine Dance Conventions. After graduating high school, she went on to become a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, was featured on CMT’s reality television series, Making the Team and was also a member of the team’s selective“Show Group”, where she performed with artists such as Keith Urban and Tim McGraw. She has consulted and worked closely with the Cleveland Cavaliers Dance Team, and is in her sixth season working as a judge for regional dance competitions in Mic
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Troupe treats classics like the Dane of its existence
Like a lady with a big, gorgeous nose, there’s no point resenting what makes you special. The Royal Danish Ballet, in New York for the first time in more than 20 years, has that hang-up.
Its best feature is the 150-year-old choreography of its homegrown genius, August Bournonville. But the way the company danced it on Tuesday’s opening night, it looked as if it were tired of it. Maybe after a century and a half, you’d be tired, too.
A big treat in “Bournonville Variations” is watching Thomas Lund dance. Lund, one of the troupe’s senior dancers, is a master of the style, with quicksilver speed, a cushiony jump and the ability to move as seamlessly as if he were embroidering the stage. He and company director Nikolaj Hubbe assembled sections of Bournonville’s intricate classroom exercises into a showpiece ballet, modernized with updated mottled gray costumes but shadowy lighting that makes it hard to see the steps — and they’re the real stars.
The older work shared the bill with more contemporary fare that showed the company’s range, but oddly. Flemming Flindt’s “The Lesson,” which opened the show, is a well-made, disturbing piece abo