About MyDanceology
The Agency
MyDanceology
My aspiration and mandate to students
is to aid you in re-imagining yourself through my training.
I have extensive experience, a varied professional portfolio and vast history of successfully training students around the globe.
My individualized positive approach
will assist you in actuating your passions.
As a Master Instructor of several Contemporary techniques, Fusion Jazz and various Somatic applications, my mission as a teacher is to elicit the highest possible development
through rigorous, mechanically sound
technically progressive training for my students.
Each dancer has an individual optimal level
that is different and uniquely specific.
My praxis is sensitive to this fact. Training encompasses a practicum of mentally, physically and emotionally accessible information. It sources, challenges and engages dancers
in multiple areas of creativity and performance.
Through comprehensive, holistic study, they can achieve exceptional results. A high degree of professionalism and a refined sense of artistry are attainable.
Students develop and participate as a
vital citizen of our global dance community.
Narative
Proficiency Abstract
André W. Tyson is a former Principal Dancer and Company Teacher with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and was a charter member of Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden's Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He has devoted over thirty years to teaching and mentorship in dance. Teaching posts include: Assistant Dean at California Institute of the Arts Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance,
and Associate Professor of Dance
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Peck School of the Arts. Tyson is also a
Certified Pilates and MELT Method Instructor.
Tyson represents a powerful lineage of dance tradition and innovation. Notable teachers and mentors include Alvin Ailey, Delores Brown, Fred Benjamin, Donald Byrd, Katherine Dunham, Judith Jamison, Denise Jefferson, Jerome Robbins, Zena Rommet and Gabriella Taub-Darvash, among many others. Tyson sustains an ongoing relationship with Ailey as a Guest Instructor at the Ailey school,
and as a Guest Artist and Guest Company Teacher
with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Tyson has choreographed more than 75 works, including ballets for an eclectic range of companies such as Ailey 2, Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Company, Premiere Dance Theatre, Milwaukee Dance Connection, City Ballet Theatre, Milwaukee Ballet, Dance Point/Osaka, Japan, and Theaterschool Jazz Dance Company/Amsterdam.
Television credits include work as a performer and choreographer for NBC's Parenthood -Team Braverman (Season 1/ Episode 12). International teaching credits include Amsterdamse Hogeschool vor de Kunsten, Ballet Forder Zentrum in Nuremberg, Barcelona Summer Dance, InternaKonal Tanz Wochen in Vienna, and Sommerakademie Des Tanzes in Cologne. National teaching credits include Ballet Tennessee, Milwaukee Ballet School, North Carolina School of the Arts, Smith College, and Wake Forest University.
Intensive Workshop teaching credits include
Bates Dance Festival,
California State Summer School of the Arts,
Hubbard Street Dance Company Los Angeles, and
Oklahoma Summer Arts Intensive.
André Tyson was a Howard Gilman Fellow at Jacksonville University and holds an MFA in Dance & Choreography.
He studied Journalism and Mass Communications at Rutgers University. Tyson is committed to making dance accessible to everyone and has given numerous Master Classes and Residencies in New Jersey, Boston, Milwaukee,
and Los Angeles Public Schools.
According to Tyson, the synergy and synchronicity of the art of dance are made manifest daily in the dance between teacher and student, choreographer and dancer, colleague and colleague, and college and community. These relationships, like art, are organic and evolving. Tyson remains committed to sharing his talents and giving back to the art form he loves, an art form that has been such a force for positivity in his life
and the lives of so many others.
As a professionally trained, experienced, seasoned
Artist Educator, Mr. Tyson has the skills, tools and understanding to help you to build
the career you imagine for yourself.
Portfolio Amenities
Praxis
Master Classes & Workshops
*Contemporary Classes
Horton based
*Jazz Classes
Fusion Jazz
*Somatic Work
Pilates
MELT Method
*Wellness Seminars
*Media Consulting
*Career Development
*Choreography
Committing to a proactive, healthier way of training and development as an artist is just that – a commitment, and it’s the imperative that will take you to next level dancing supplimented by a lot hard work and dedication. My fidelity lies in providing you with actionable tools and skills for success. Students will acquire agency, purpose, ownership and
accountability of their talents.
Determinative, dance positive,
progressive training is attainable with
MyDanceology.