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Jason Akira Somma (BFA 2003) has been named a Protégé in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative  for 2008-2009. The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative is an international philanthropic programme created to assist extraordinary, rising artists to achieve their full potential. It seeks out these artists from around the world and brings them together with great masters, for a year of creative collaboration in a one-to-one mentoring relationship. Jason is the first American to be honored as a Protégé in this program.

Jason will be mentored for the next year by Jiří Kylián of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), during which the two will collaborate on a work commemorating NDT’s 50th anniversary.

Click here for Jason’s biography and work samples on the Rolex site.

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