Snow Pond Symphony 2016 Season

Balletmaster
Alphonse Poulin
Christine Durgin
The Snow Pond Arts
Academy is proud to
welcome famed Maine resident
Alphonse Poulin, who will be
acting as The Academy’s Dance
Advisor. This international
dance legend and Augusta,
Maine native has been teaching
at the Juilliard School since
2000 and has held positions
throughout the United
States and Europe during his
remarkable career. Poulin was
Alphonse Poulin
Photo by Esther Perne,
Summertime in the Belgrades
Balletmaster at Le Grand Theater in Geneva for 14 years,
Dean of the dance department of the Conservatoire de
Musique de Geneve for 4 years.
“ When I was a young dancer, like all of my friends, I
loved to socialize on a Friday night but I always went home
at a reasonable time. I went to bed early as I had to get up
to go to work at an ice cream joint and I wanted to take
care of my body so that I could be my best in the dance
studio. When I was a child we lived in a three bedroon
home at 15 Arsenal Street in Augusta. We didn’t have
much that was extra. My father worked night and day,
often at several jobs simultaneously including his role as
custodian of Old Fort Western so that we always had what
Alphonse Poulin and Keltie Collins pose at the Kennebec Dance Center in Augusta
Photo by Joe Phelan, Kennebec Journal
we needed. My nickname was Alphy and I was number
eleven of fourteen children. My mother was always in the
kitchen, doing laundry or tending to cuts, scrapes and
heartaches. We listened to Opera on the radio and Red
Sox games on the little black and white TV. There was
always laughter and an extra place at the table for whoever
stopped by for supper. “
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