Join us for wine, light hors d'oeuvres, and an up close and personal experience with EDD dancers and Ms. Voelker hosted by EDD Board Chair, Gerald Salerno. Get a sneak peek of our choreographer-in-residence's new work, observe the rehearsal process, and ask questions about Voelker's creative vision. Your support for the Halsted Fund will allow EDD to continue commissioning new work by outstanding choreographers!
This event is free to the public.
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ABOUT TESS VOELKER
Tess Voelker is both a dancer and choreographer, born in 1997 in San Francisco. She grew up between Chicago and the east coast of the USA. She began with commercial jazz dance, then trained in ballet from the age of 11 with the Rock School for Dance Education and Barbara Sandonato School of Ballet in Philadelphia. After graduating high school in 2015 from Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Boston, she trained at Joffrey Ballet Chicago while spending her weekends studying improvisation methods with a contemporary dance company founded by Ronn Stewart. While training, she has gone on to win awards from both the YoungArts Foundation and Youth American Grand Prix. Her professional career started in 2016 when she moved to Germany to join Ballett Dortmund for a year before joining Nederlands Dans Theater II in 2017, and then the main company NDT I in 2020. That same year, Aurélie Dupont recognized Tess for her own improvisation style and commissioned her, thus becoming the youngest choreographer to create for the Paris Opera Ballet at 23 years old. Since then, Tess has focused on more collaborative and creative pursuits which has led her to become a solo artist starting July 2023.