 Charles Flachs is an associate professor of ballet at Mount Holyoke College where
he teaches all levels of ballet technique, pointe, pas de deux, repertory
and dance history. Charles is the recipient of a choreographic fellowship
from the Ohio Arts Council, and has choreographed for the Cincinnati Ballet
Company, the Five-College Dance Department, Columbia College, University of
Georgia Athens, Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and for the bronze medal winner
of the 1992Varna lnternational Ballet Competition. He has guest taught for
the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, the Southeast Regional Ballet Association,
the American College Dance Festival and Zurich Ballet, Switzerland. As a principal
dancer he performed with Nashville Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Ballet West
and Cincinnati Ballet. His repertoire included principal roles in Swan Lake,
Giselle, Cinderella and Coppelia as well as ballets by Peter Anastos, John
Butler, James Canfield, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin. Charles and his
wife and colleague Rose Marie Wurzer, are founding members of the CORPS
de Ballet International Inc., an organization devoted to the development
of ballet in higher education. |