Fusion Intensives

Beginning in 1999, the Foundation began offering innovative multidisciplinary training opportunities to enable the world's most gifted emerging artists to achieve their fullest potential on the world stage.

In 2006, Apogee began consolidating these methodologies into its trademark Fusion Program: a trailblazing project designed to enable world class performing artists from both Eastern and Western cultures and training backgrounds to expand their artistic awareness and expressive skills through and beyond each others' traditional modes of thought and performance, and thereby to empower them to achieve new forms and levels of human potential on the world stage.

In implementing its Fusion Program, Apogee unifies world best practices from both Eastern and Western, artistic and scientific sources in all relevant fields that can enable performing artists to attain and to exceed existing world best standards. In integrating these components and bringing them to bear at critical points in performing artists' careers, the Fusion Program achieves results greater than can be produced by any sum of its parts.

The Artistic Development division of Apogee's Fusion Programs builds on Apogee's long history of collaboration with leading dance, drama and music training institutions to provide the Foundation's beneficiaries with access to the fullest and most integrated possible spectrum of educational and experiential methodologies.

Apogee administers the Peak Performance division of its Fusion Programs in collaboration with global networks of leaders in the medical, therapeutic and other professional communities to provide its beneficiaries with the fullest possible complement of technologies empowering them to flourish both as artists and as human beings.

Window on the Apogee World Apogee began intensive development and implementation of both the Artistic Development and Peak Performance components of its Fusion Programs in collaboration with leading educational and scientific experts from throughout the Greater Boston area during the first quarter of 2006. Shown here are scenes from the first phases of Fusion's intensive rollout taking place during the first weeks of 2006. Shown, left, is a moment from the first Modern Dance training modules and shown, right, is an episode from the first Bodywork (Alexander Technique) performance enhancement module. For more information, see the Foundation's 7 March 2006 press release. Click images to enlarge © Apogee Foundation ®