Shreveport Dance Academy Names Faculty for Summer Intensive

LISA CHALMERS-NAUMANN and PHILLIP BROOMHEAD will be members of the faculty for the Shreveport Dance Academy's Summer Intensive from August 1-5, 2016 in Shreveport, Louisiana.

LISA CHALMERS-NAUMANN began her ballet studies in Houston, Texas where she studied under the guidance of Maxine Asbury, Robert Barnett, Lew Christiansen, James Clauser, Eugene Collins, James DeBolt, William Dollar, Frederic Franklin, Anna-Marie Holmes, Emmamae Horn, Rudy Jenkins, Robert Joffrey, Nathalie Krassovska, Michael Lland, Roni Mahler, Margo Marshall, Mary Margaret Niland, Nina Popova, Nicholas Polachencko, Ronald Sequoio, and Eugene Tanner.

Ms. Chalmers-Naumann continued her ballet studies at the School of American Ballet where she received further ballet training under the tutelage of Alexandra Danilova, Felia Doubrovska, Helene Dudin, Richard Rapp, Suki Schorer, Muriel Stuart, Antonina Tumkovsky, and Stanley Williams. Ms. Chalmers-Naumann also studied with the leading teachers based in New York including Diane Cartier, Leon Danielian, Robert Denvers, David Howard, Finis Jhung, Valentina Pereslavic, and Patricia Wilde.

Upon joining the Houston Ballet and being promoted to the rank of soloist, Ms. Chalmers-Naumann danced roles in Bournonville Divertissements, George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, Pas de Dix, and Raymonda Variations, William Dollar's Constanzia, John Taras' Design With Strings and Water Music, Nina Popova's staging of Paquita, and in the roles of Dawn in Frederic Franklin's production of Coppelia, Clara, Dewdrop, and the Snow Queen in Franklin's production of The Nutcracker, and Taglioni and Cerrito in Franklin's Pas de Quatre.

From 1979-1987, Ms. Chalmers-Naumann was a member of the New York City Ballet. While a member of the New York City Ballet, she danced an extensive repertoire which included George Balanchine's Agon, Ballet Imperial, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Coppelia, Jewels, The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Don Quixote, Swan Lake Act II, Episodes, Firebird, The Four Temperaments, Harlequinade, Le Tombeau de Couperin, La Valse, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, Orpheus, Scherzo à la Russe, Scotch Symphony, Serenade, Stars and Stripes, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Theme and Variations, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, Union Jack, Vienna Waltzes, Walpurgisnacht Ballet, and Western Symphony, Jerome Robbins' Glass Pieces, The Goldberg Variations, Mother Goose Suite, and The Four Seasons, Peter Martins' Reliquary, Jacques d'Amboise'sTschaikovsky Suite No. 2, Perséphone, choreographed by George Balanchine, Vera Zorina, and John Taras, and Tricolore, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux .

Since leaving the New York City Ballet Ms. Chalmers-Naumann has pursued a successful career as a master teacher. She has taught for the Albany Dance Institute, Jackson Hole Arts Center, New York State Summer School of the Arts, Saratoga Summer Dance Intensive, School of the Arts at the Dance Museum in Saratoga Springs, Brandywine Ballet, Shreveport Dance Academy, and Vassar College.

Ms. Chalmers-Naumann is also the co-artistic director of the New Paltz School of Ballet in New Paltz, New York.

PHLLIP BROOMHEAD was born in London, England and received his ballet training at the Royal Ballet School. In 1981 he joined the Royal Ballet. He was promoted to soloist in 1983 and to principal dancer in 1986.

While dancing with the Royal Ballet Mr. Broomhead's classical repertoire included the roles of Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, the Prince and the Bluebird inThe Sleeping Beauty, Albrecht in Giselle, Solor in Natalia Makarova's production of La Bayadere, Benvolio in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, the Prince in Peter Wright's production of The Nutcracker, the King of the East in MacMillan's Prince of the Pagodas, and Colas in Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee.

Mr. Broomhead's contemporary repertoire included principal roles such as the Rubies Pas de Deux in George Balanchine's Jewels, Richard P. Arnold in Ashton's Enigma Variations, the White Couple in Ashton's Les Patineurs, Oberon in Ashton's The Dream, and Ashton's Rhapsody, Scenes de Ballet, andSymphonic Variations; The Dark Angel in MacMillan's Orpheus, the First Movement in MacMillan's Concerto, and the MacMillan ballets, Elite Syncopations, Le Baiser de la Fee, The Song of the Earth, Manon, Mayerling, Solitaire, and Gloria; David Bintley's Consort Lessons, Galantries, Sons of Horus, The Young Apollo, and The Planets; Jiri Kylian's Return To The Strange Land; Glen Tetley's Voluntaries and Dances of Albion; Hans van Manen's Four Schumann Pieces; and Balanchine's Serenade, Concerto Barocco, Stravinsky Violin Concerto and Ballet Imperial.

Mr. Broomhead created roles in Bintley's Still Life At The Penguin Café (the Southern Cape Zebra) and Enclosure, Ashton's Varii Capricci, Richard Alston'sMidsummer, MacMillan's Isadora, Ashley Page's Pursuit, Slow Talk Fast Walk, and Bloodlines; Wayne Eagling's Frankenstein and Beauty and the Beast; and Michael Corder's L'Invitation Au Voyage and Number Three. He has performed in Ashton's A Birthday Offering, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen; Sir Frederick Ashton's Daphnis and Chloe to celebrate the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday; and many other royal galas. He also appeared with the Royal Ballet on its international tours.

Mr. Broomhead joined the Houston Ballet as a principal dancer in January 1991. He made his Houston Ballet debut in the role of the Prince in Ben Stevenson'sCinderella. He has also danced the roles of Prince Siegfried in Stevenson's Swan Lake, the Prince in Stevenson's The Sleeping Beauty, the Prince and Dr. Drosselmeyer in Stevenson's The Nutcracker, Romeo in Stevenson's Romeo and Juliet, the title role and Gamache in Stevenson's Don Quixote, Des Grieux in MacMillan's Manon, Danilo in Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow, the title role in Stevenson's Dracula, Misgir in Stevenson's The Snow Maiden, Julius Caesar in Stevenson's Cleopatra, Dr. Coppelius in Stevenson's Coppelia, Daphnis in Tetley's Daphnis and Chloe, the Shah in Ronald Hynd's Papillon, the Artist in Ashton'sThe Two Pigeons, Widow Simone in Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee, and principal roles in Stevenson's La Peri, Stevenson's Alice in Wonderland, MacMillan'sSolitaire, Gloria, and Elite Syncopations, William Forsythe's In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Paul Taylor's Company B, Sean Kelly's Sinuosity, Stanton Welch's Indigo, The Core, and The Tales of Texas, Balanchine's Symphony in C (Second Movement) and Serenade, and Harald Lander's Etudes.

In 2003 Mr. Broomhead was also appointed to the position of balletmaster for the Houston Ballet in addition to his performance responsibilities as a principal dancer.

In 2004 Mr. Broomhead retired from the stage and assumed his position of balletmaster for the Houston Ballet on a full-time basis. In 2011 Mr. Broomhead left the Houston Ballet to pursue a career as a freelance teacher and coach.

In March 1991, while on vacation in Washington D.C., Mr. Broomhead attended a Royal Ballet performance of Anthony Dowell's Swan Lake. The Royal Ballet's principal dancer sustained an injury during Act I and Mr. Broomhead finished the performance partnering Darcey Bussell as his Swan Queen. This performance won him worldwide critical acclaim.

In 1998 Mr. Broomhead staged Coppelia for the Chamberlain Ballet in Dallas, Texas and created Vespri for the Houston Ballet Academy's annual performance.

Mr. Broomhead has appeared as a guest artist with some of the world's leading companies including the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Scottish Ballet, and the Yugoslav Ballet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with many regional ballet companies in the United States.

Mr. Broomhead is in great demand as a teacher and coach, and in 2014 he was on the faculty for the Goh Ballet Academy's Summer Intensive.

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