Robin Dunn's F.A.C.E. Workshop Winter 2009

The AILEY Extension
& E.D. Entertainment
Present

Robin Dunn's F.A.C.E. Workshop Winter 2009
For the performer in YOU!
January 25 - March 8, 2008
Sundays
4:30-7:30pm

Robin Dunn's F.A.C.E. (Focus, Attitude, Confidence, Energy
and Eye Contact) is a formal technique designed to aid
artists and business professionals with attaining their
ultimate power on stage, on camera and in the workplace.

Over seven weeks, Robin will offer tools and techniques to
help artists and business professionals project who they
really are with confidence and self-assurance. Participants

will also have the unique opportunity to perform in front
of industry panelists who will provide invaluable feedback
on their progress at Robin Dunn's F.A.C.E. showcase on
March 1st, 2009.

Workshop Cost:

$210.00 - Full seven week workshop
Save $15 when you purchase before Monday, January 19, 2009!


$225.00 - Full seven week workshop
(After January 19, 2009)
$35.00 - Single class
$17.50 - Observation Rate

$15.00 - F.A.C.E. Showcase
Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Ailey Studios
The Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 West 55th St. (at 9th Avenue)
New York, NY 10019
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PRESS RELEASE:

Robin Dunn's FACE Workshop at The Ailey Extension

Press Contact: Jenna Petok
212.405.9079
jpetok@alvinailey.org

Start Your New Year off with Robin Dunn's F.A.C.E. Workshop
- the Premiere Artist, Career & Personal Empowerment
Workshop Series For the Performer in You!
(New York) January 8, 2009— E.D Entertainment returns to
The Ailey Extension after its first successful run to
present the first Robin Dunn's F.A.C.E. (an acronym for
Focus, Attitude, Confidence, Energy and Eye Contact)
workshop series for 2009. On Sundays from January 25th –
March 8th 4:30pm-7:30pm, participants will have the
opportunity to learn, practice, and master useful
techniques to apply in performance and everyday life.
Participants will also have the chance to perform in Robin
Dunn's F.A.C.E. showcase, which is open to the public, on
March 1, 2009. Audience members will have the opportunity
to experience firsthand the specialized process, and also
listen as special guest industry panelists provide
invaluable feedback to each performer. Past panelists have
included celebrity singer and vocal coach, Carole Sylvan,
casting director, John Doyle of Godlove & Company, Claudine
Joseph, the Vice President of Violator Management and
director choreographer, Ann Marie D'Angelo, in addition to
Robin Dunn.
Robin Dunn's F.A.C.E. technique is a patented method
created to aid performing artists, career professionals and
individuals with being more confident on stage, on camera
and in the work place. Learn to better project who you
really are with confidence and self-assurance. Limited
Enrollment is now open for Winter 2009! Register at
www.alvinailey.org/faceworkshop or Call 212 405-9500.

"[The workshop] was great. Robin really knows how to touch
people in a whole new way." - Minako, 2008 Workshop
Participant

Robin Dunn has worked with some of the top artists in the
business including Saturday Night Live, Pepsi, Nickelodeon,
Apollo Amateur Night, Missy Elliot, The Braxtons featuring
Jay Z (Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards), Teen Vogue
featuring Jive recording artist Chris Brown, Sean Kingston
and more...She is currently on faculty at The Ailey School
and The Ailey Extension, Hunter College, Steps On Broadway
and Harlem School of the Arts. Robin continues to tour the
world as a F.A.C.E. coach/ motivational speaker and hip hop
instructor.

Open to the general public, The Ailey Extension features
dance and fitness classes in a wide variety of techniques
for all levels, including Horton, West African, Ballet, Hip
Hop and Jazz, underscoring Mr. Ailey’s life-long commitment
of bringing dance to everyone. The Ailey Extension was
launched in April 2005 in conjunction with the opening of
the Joan Weill Center for Dance, the new home of Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theater. Whether you haven't taken a
dance class in 20 years, take class regularly, or have
never danced a step, The Ailey Extension has dance and
fitness classes designed especially for you. In the words
of our inspirational Artistic Director, Judith Jamison, "If
you can get yourself in the door, you can take a class!"
Since its inception, over 22,000 people have taken classes
through this program. The Ailey Studios are located at The
Joan Weill Center for Dance, home of Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater and the nation’s largest building dedicated
to dance, at 405 West 55th Street (at 9th Avenue). Visit
www.alvinailey.org for more information.

Founded in 1958 by Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater (AAADT) is known as America’s cultural ambassador
to the world. Under the artistic direction of Judith
Jamison since 1989, AAADT has performed for more than 21
million people in 71 countries and on 6 continents. Alvin
Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. is the umbrella organization
which includes AAADT; Ailey II, founded in 1974 as a junior
performing company of emerging young dancers and innovative
choreographers; The Ailey School, founded in 1969, and
currently offers some of the most extensive dance training
programs in the world; Ailey Arts In Education & Community
Programs which is committed to bringing dance into the
classrooms, communities and lives of people throughout the
world; and The Ailey Extension, a program that offers dance
and fitness classes to the general public.