Phone: 860-486-1623
Fax: 860-486-3110
Email: jean.sabatine@uconn.edu

JEAN SABATINE (Head of the Movement/Dance Area and Professor of Dramatic Arts in Movement and Dance): MA, University of Utah. Ms. Sabatine is a leader in the fields of jazz dance and movement for actors. She has extensive training and experience in both academic and professional areas. She trained extensively in New York City in Modern Dance, Ballet, and Jazz Dance and studied acting at Herbert Berghof Studio. Ms. Sabatine is the founder of JAZZ DANCE TEHATRE (Wayne State, 1970, Penn State University, 1974, and UConn, 1980), the first jazz company in a university. JAZZ DANCE THEATRE and Ms. Sabatine's choreography have been hailed as powerful and innovative in both national and local media. Films and video tapes of Ms. Sabatine's concert level jazz dance choreography, as well as a documentary on her work in movement for actor's training are now a part of the New York Public Library's permanent Jerome Robbins archive at Lincoln Center. Professor Sabatine has published a number of articles in both fields and her books, TECHNIQUE AND STYLES OF JAZZ DANCING, THE ACTOR IMAGE and MOVEMENT TRAINING FOR THE STAGE AND SCREEN, THE ORGANIC CONNECTION serve as primary reference and text books in their respective fields. She has conducted numerous workshops, seminars, lecture-demonstrations and panels in Movement for Actors, Jazz Dance, and Musical Theatre Dance for ATA, ACTF, ADC and other organizations, universities across the country and in Europe. In 1988 Professor Sabatine represented the United States at the INTERNATIONAL DANCE AND MOVEMENT FESTIVAL in Budapest, Hungary. Her work with energy and the chakra system has culminated in a CD entitled COLORS: JOURNEY THROUGH THE CHAKRAS (2001). She is currently working on a book and a DVD on her methodology of jazz dance technique, choreography, and teaching entitled JAZZ DANCE: THE ROAD TRAVELLED THE ROAD AHEAD: JEAN SABATINE'S THEATRE JAZZ DANCE TECHNIQUE. She has a concise motivation for all her work: "I'm working for the concept of the actor/dancer, the person who has control of his/her mind, spirit, and body, and is in touch with his/her emotions.