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Classical
Ballet ...
Richard
Allan Ploch, Artistic Director
of Acanthus, a chamber-sized Ballet Company, and
Adjunct Instructor of Dance at Hillsborough Community
College in Tampa, Florida, has been teaching ballet
for over twenty years.
Ploch began his career in Tucson Arizona and went
on to Ohio State University to receive the MA in
Dance specializing in Labanotation. He includes
as his mentors and principle teachers: George Zoritch,
Nenette Charisse, Peff Modelski, John Calander,
Rosalind Pierson, Sheldon Ossosky and Robert Yohn.
Ploch was one of the principle teachers at the New
York Academy of Ballet and Dance Arts for almost
ten years and then taught at New York City Broadway
Dance Center. His teaching has also led to Ballet
and Labanotation intensive courses in Santa Fe,
NM, a Visiting Professor stint at Kirkland (now
Hamilton) College and various Master Classes throughout
the country.
After
relocating to Tampa Florida, Ploch became the ballet
instructor for the University of Tampa Community
Dance Program. In 2001 Ploch assumed the position
of Adjunct Instructor in Dance at Hillsborough Community
College. Ploch also maintains an active teaching
schedule in several privately owned studios in Tampa.
Ploch
has performed with various ballet and modern dance
companies in New York including the Light Opera
of Manhattan and Robert Yohn and Dancers. He also
served as Assistant to the Choreographer with the
Santa Fe Opera where he performed and choreographed
for the Apprentice Artists Program.
An active choreographer, his work has been presented
in the Northeast, the South and the Southwest. Currently,
he devotes most of his choreographic energies to
Acanthus.
Richard
Allan Ploch maintains active memberships in several
national and international dance organizations.
These include the Society of Dance History Scholars,
Dance/USA, International Council of Kinetography
Laban and the Florida Dance Association.
He
serves on the Board of Directors of the National
Dance Registry, the Advisory Board for Performing
Arts Resources and has served two terms on the Artists
Advisory Committee of the Tampa/Hillsborough Arts
Council.
Ploch
is a founding member of the Alliance of Dance Notation
Educators, a group of dance professionals from all
forms of dance who espouse and include dance notation
within dance education.
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