Jeffrey Graham Hughes

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Artistic Director JEFFERY GRAHAM HUGHES

Mr. Hughes is now into his sixth season as artistic director of Ohio Ballet. During this time, Ohio Ballet has performed 68 ballets by 35 choreographers. The company toured 13 states, visiting 20 cities. In 2001-2002, the company collaborated with Dayton Ballet for productions of Peter Pan and Hamlet.

Mr. Hughes most recently served as the rehearsal director with the Hong Kong Ballet after initially serving as interim artistic director. While in Hong Kong, he also was on the faculty and choreographed for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He was associate director at Ballet de Monterrey, Mexico; ballet master for Alonzo King’s Lines Contemporary Ballet in San Francisco; and artistic associate for Ballet Arts/Ballet Tuscon in Tucson, Arizona.

Mr. Hughes has choreographed nearly 40 ballets over the past 12 years ranging from classical; such as Coppelia and Nutcracker, full-length ballets, large company, small chamber works and solos—all to a vast array of music. His ballets have been performed by companies in America, Hong Kong and Mexico. He has been on the faculties of New York Academy of Ballet, San Francisco Institute of Choreography and Cleveland Ballet School. He has guest taught throughout the world for many schools and companies, including National Ballet of China and Hubbard Street Chicago.

In June 2001, he created two ballets for the Chautauqua Ballet Company’s Salon Evening. He was a contributing choreographer for the initial three seasons ofFestival of Life, a benefit for children and adults with AIDS in Atlanta. His choreographic awards include “Emerging Choreographer,” Southeastern Ballet Festival and “Best Choreography Ballet Division,” Tao Li Bei dance competition held in mainland China. He was the first Westerner and non-Chinese to win this award. His extensive experience with community outreach includes his tenure as the artistic director of outreach for Atlanta Ballet; and his work as founder/director of Ballet Atlantis, a special outreach project company that produces programming for young people and debuted in New York City in 1995.

Born in Alameda, California, Mr. Hughes started dancing at the age of six. His first teachers were Vern Nerden and Madame Alexandria Baldina. As a youngster, he performed with Oakland Metropolitan Ballet, and was a guest with several Northern California regional ballet companies. He performed with the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets in their San Francisco seasons. From the ages of twelve to sixteen, he was a Ford Foundation Scholarship recipient.

Mr. Hughes' career as a professional dancer extended 23 years. He danced as a soloist/principal with the Joffrey II, Joffrey Ballet, London Festival Ballet, and Cleveland San Jose Ballet, as well as short seasons with Atlanta, Oakland, and Sacramento Ballets. As a dancer, his repertory included the classics, 20th century masterpieces, and many new creations. Ailey, Arpino, Ashton, Balanchine, Bournonville, Cranko, Flindt, Fokine, Horvath, Jooss, Hynde, Lander, Limon, Massine, Nahat, Nureyev, Robbins, Sporeli, Schaufuss, Tharp and Watts, are among the many choreographers in whose ballets he has danced. Among the many teachers with whom he studied, he considers Maggie Black, Gerald Arpino, Alonzo King, Robert Joffrey, Jonathan Watts, David Howard, Lawrence Rhodes, Elizabeth Anderton, Melissa Hayden, Wilhem Burmann and Mr. Wang as his biggest influences.

In 1974, Mr. Hughes performed in the Soviet Union with the Joffrey Ballet; and in 1979, performed in Communist China with London Festival Ballet. He was in the movie Nijinsky, and on television in Dance in America and AnEvening with Agnes DeMillewith the Joffrey, as well as in a pas de deux for Granada Television in London.

Mr. Hughes is married to Pamela Reyman, Ohio Ballet’s ballet mistress, and have a daughter, Maya Esperanza.

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