Jacqulyn Buglisi

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Jacqulyn Buglisi
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BornFebruary 19, 1951
New York City, New York, United States
Occupation(s) Choreographer, artistic director, dancer, educator
Awards2020 Bessie Award
Website Buglisi Dance Theatre Table of Silence

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

Buglisi primarily choreographs ballet works and has created a repertoire of over 80 pieces. [3]

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] The free performance is a ritual and call to action for peace. Lincoln Center live-streamed the tribute via YouTube. [10] [11]

Site-specific performances of Table of Silence have been staged at multiple venues, including Syracuse University's Pan Am 103 Remembrance Wall during the company's NYSCA residency, in Perugia and Assisi (Italy), and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a tribute to the victims of the May 23, 2014, Isla Vista shooting. [12]

Buglisi’s company repertoire is archived at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. [13]

Dancer

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Jacqulyn Buglisi in performance

Buglisi was associated with the Martha Graham Dance Company. [2] 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]

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]

Educator

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 Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. [2] 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. [18]

She was named honorary chair for the Marymount Manhattan College 2005 Gala [19] and served as a panelist for both the Heinz Family Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on 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 was on the Dance/USA's Board of Trustees as Chair of the Artistic Directors' Council from 2010 to 2013. [21]

Recognition

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]

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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dance Teacher Faculty Bio | Jacqulyn Buglisi | Steps on Broadway". www.stepsnyc.com. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Interview with Jacqulyn Buglisi: 30th Anniversary of Buglisi Dance Theatre". L.A. Dance Chronicle. February 19, 2024. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  3. ↑ "ARTISTIC DIRECTOR". Buglisi Dance Theatre. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Jacqulyn Buglisi — Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater". alvinailey.org. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  5. ↑ Garafola, Lynn (May 2001). "Duo Layers The Visual with the Emotional". Dance Magazine. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Grand Leaps on Wall Street, for a Change". The New York Times. May 30, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ "2004 Press". Buglisi Dance Theatre. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  8. ↑ Barone, Joshua (September 11, 2020). "On the Anniversary of 9/11, Lincoln Center Awakens With Hope". The New York Times. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  9. ↑ Feldman, Adam. "Table of Silence Project 9/11". Time Out New York. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Table of Silence Project". tableofsilence.org. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  11. ↑ Fadulu, Lola; McFadden, Alyce (September 11, 2024). "'It's Still Overwhelming': Mourners Across New York City Remember 9/11". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 14, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Watch: A Stunning 9/11 Dance Tribute at Lincoln Center". Newsweek. September 10, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Search results - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org. Retrieved August 30, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Jacqulyn Buglisi". Steps on Broadway. Retrieved June 28, 2025.
  15. ↑ "Interview with Jacqulyn Buglisi: 30th Anniversary of Buglisi Dance Theatre". LA Dance Chronicle. February 19, 2024. Retrieved June 28, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Reviews/Dance; Denishawn Works Are Recreated". The New York Times. March 15, 1994. Retrieved June 28, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Jacqulyn Buglisi, Council Chair-Artistic Directors". Dance/USA. Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
  18. ↑ "Jacqulyn Buglisi". tableofsilence. Retrieved July 30, 2025.
  19. ↑ "Dance Gala Honorees". www.mmm.edu. Retrieved September 5, 2025.
  20. ↑ "Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Teacher Bio". Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. Archived from the original on February 23, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
  21. ↑ "Growing Through Collaboration: Finding Balance in a Shifting Landscape". Dance/USA. 2012. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  22. ↑ "Who's Who in the Company". Buglisi Dance Theatre. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
  23. ↑ Escoyne, Courtney (September 1, 2022). "News of Note: What You Might Have Missed in August 2022". Dance Magazine. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  24. ↑ "2020 Honorees". The Bessies. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  25. ↑ "DANCE NEWS: The Bessies Celebrated Artists and Arts Workers at the 36th Annual New York Dance and Performance Awards in a Virtual Ceremony". www.dance-enthusiast.com. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
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