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Guest Artists in Dance, 2012-13
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A native of Denver, Colo.,John Beasant III is an MFA graduate of the University of Utah. Some company credits include: ARENA Dances by Mathew Janczewski, Keith Johnson and Dancers, Shapiro and Smith Dance, the Metropolitan Opera, the Colorado Opera, and the Music Theatre of Wichita. John currently teaches for DanceSpace, the Harkness Center for Dance, and Dancewave Inc. in New York City. In addition, he has taught classes and has presented his own work at various universities, festivals, and studios throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Guest Lecturer: Modern Dance |
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A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Ms. Boye-Christensen has fulfilled the demanding career of freelance choreographer, teacher and dancer for the past 15 years. She joined Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 2002 to assist in the artistic direction of the company and has created 21 new works on the company. She received her formal training at London Contemporary Dance School and at the Laban Centre in London (where she won the 1992 choreography award). Ms. Boye-Christensen has been commissioned to create new works for Ballet West, The Milwaukee Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, The Arts Fissions Dance Company, Ballet de Camaguey in Cuba, New Danish Dance Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts' Second Avenue Dance Company in NYC, London Contemporary Dance School's Edge Dance Company, and Verb Ballets in Cleveland. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and grants from the Theatre and Arts Councils in Denmark, Germany, Mexico and Singapore amongst others, as well as a recipient of the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreographic Excellence. Guest Residency |
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Ms. Brown is a native of Kinston, North Carolina and received her BFA in dance and minor in Business from the University of NC at Greensboro . Upon graduation, Brown went on to tour nationally with Chuck Davis' African-American Dance Ensemble and internationally with Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks. Immediately following those experiences Brown performed with and managed Gesel Mason Performance Projects while apprenticing with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Takoma Park , MD. Upon relocating to New York Brown apprenticed with the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company before finding a home with Urban Bush Women; where she spent three seasons as a principal performer, community specialist and apprentice program coordinator. Aside from performing Brown is the Founding and Executive Director of INSPIRIT. Founded in 2000, INSPIRIT has been honored to show work at Aaron Davis Hall, St. Marks Church, Joyce Soho, The Lincoln Theater of Washington, DC, and various other venues across the country. Through the growth of INSPIRIT, Brown has also been able to launch a nationwide youth initiative for teen girls called Project: BECOMING and develop a codified technique called "Liquid Strength." Brown has been a resident artist of Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research, and Tribeca Performing Arts Center and is currently, a visiting lecturer in Dance at Middlebury College . Master Class: March 22, 2013 |
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Ms. Cerveris is a former dancer with The New York City Ballet, Compania Nacionale de Danza, and Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse, and currently is the owner of ByMarisa: Handmade, couture quality, designer dancewear, pilateswear and yogawear, the only elastic free bodywear on the market. ByMarisa apparel has been featured in Sony Pictures "The Company" starring Neve Campbell and on the hit ABC series "Dancing with The Stars" season 10. ByMarisa is manufactured completely in the USA. Purchase online at www.bymarisa.com |
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Deborah Lohse, Artistic Director of ad hoc Ballet, is a classically trained choreographer and dancer from Sacramento, Calif. As a performer, she has worked with the Sacramento Ballet, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, and Doug Elkins and Friends. Her work has been described as "emotionally driven" (Backstage), "searing and articulate," and “elastic and fascinating" (The Village Voice). In New York, her ballets have appeared in venues ranging from the theatre at Florence Gould Hall and the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center to the stage of Joe's Pub. With a desire to seek out new music and support living composers, her repertory includes works from David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Stefan Weisman. She has received support from the Puffin Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Foundation, and artist residencies at Dancenow/NYC Silo, Dance New Amsterdam, and Acadia Summer Arts Program. For New Chamber Ballet, she has created Just Holding On, Night Is Falling and Two. Master Class: April 12, 2013 |
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Mr. Martin is creator/director of the jazz and contemporary program at the Joffrey Ballet School and artistic director of Dorrell Martin LEON Contemporary Dance Group/NY formerly known as Dorrell Martin Dance Fusion. Martin has performed with companies such as Arch Dance, Locke Contemporary Dance, Metropolitan Opera and Richard Rivera’s PHYSUAL. He has performed in performance venues such as Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joyce SoHo, Blaktino at BAAD in the Bronx, Riverside Theatre and American Dance Festival. He has performed with recording artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Pink, Emma Bunton, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna and Debra Cox. A native Houston, he is former artistic director of Houston Metropolitan Dance Company. He received Honorable Mention for choreography at the World Jazz Congress in Washington D.C. In 2003, he founded Dorrell Martin Dance Fusion in Houston, Texas. His dance training includes the Paul Taylor School, Feld Ballet, Houston Ballet, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, EDGE Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, New York State Summer Intensive with the New York City Ballet and throughout Europe. Teacher, choreographer and director, Martin teaches jazz dance and contemporary dance throughout the country and has set works on many dance companies and schools. Guest Artist: Master Choreographers |
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Claire Porter was born in New Britain, Conn., where, as a child, she was a star athlete and danced in a local studio. After she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the College of New Rochelle in New York, she became a computer programmer for G.E. Analytical Engineering in Schenectady, N.Y. Porter returned to her dancing roots after witnessing a performance by Maria Tallchief. She then attended Sonoma State University in California from 1969-1973. At Sonoma State, she studied dance, taught family dance, exercise, and children’s dance, and directed a dance company of 12 members. Porter eventually moved from California to Ohio to study dance at Ohio State University. It was there that Porter discovered Laban Movement Analysis and began exploring gestures, acting, writing, and voice. She later received her certification for Laban Movement Analysis at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, New York City. She earned her Master of Arts degree in dance from Ohio State and has continued the exploration of gestural movement as a teacher, choreographer, and performer. Guest Artist: Fall 2012 |
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Trinette Singleton began her professional career with New York's Joffrey Ballet in 1965. In 1968, Singleton appeared on the cover of Time and had the distinction of being the first dancer to appear on the cover of a national news magazine. Singleton has toured throughout the United States., Canada, Mexico, and Europe, performing in ballets by notable choreographers such as Joffrey, Arpino, Ashton, Balanchine, Cranko, DeMille, Jooss, Tharp, and Tudor. She also performed at the White House for two U.S. presidents. Following her performing years, she was administrative assistant to Robert Joffrey and ballet mistress for the company. In 1994, she won the National Choreography Plan Award. In 2002, she re-staged Astarte for The Joffrey Ballet Company in Chicago. Currently, Singleton is co-artistic director of Repertory Dance Theatre in Allentown, and also serves as a faculty member in the DeSales University. Singleton holds her licentiate from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance in London, England. Guest Artist: Master Choreographers |
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Mr. Skybetter is a choreographer, curator, and consultant for performing arts organizations. After studying at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Columbia, and New York University, Mr. Skybetter performed with Christopher Williams and the Anna Sokolow Foundation. His choreography has been presented in New York at the Dance Theater Workshop, La MaMa, and the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, among many others. Mr. Skybetter has written about performance history and technology for the Ballet Review and The Huffington Post. He is a producer with the Dance[NOW] NYC Festival, a teacher for the NYU Tisch Dance Department, a lecturer on Dance History for the LEAP Program at St. Mary's College, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Gotham Arts Exchange / Zia Artists, the New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Awards Committee, and the board of trustees of Dance/USA. He received his masters in dance performance and choreography from New York University, where he was a graduate assistant in dance history. Master Class: April 5, 2013 |
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The work of Xan Burley + Alex Springer [alex|xan: the Median Movement] has been shown work throughout New York City at WAXworks, Solar One, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange/BAX, Studio A.I.R., 100 Grand, DanceNOW, Joe’s Pub, Rooftop Dance, Movement Research at Judson Church, and The TANK, as well as in Chicago, Detroit, and other cities around the country. In April of 2009 they produced an evening of new and old work for their Michigan contingency in a Detroit industrial space, and in March 2010 they premiered work in A Veritable Smorgasbord at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn. Notably, they received a 2011 BAX Space Grant and won a residency at the Silo for their performance of All of this is true at the DanceNOW Joe’s Pub Festival encore show 2011. Their first evening-length duet, X, premiered at The Tank in March 2012.They also experiment in dance for the camera. Their film work has been shown at various screenings including Moviehouse, WESTfest, the Flea, and Motion Captured. Also, their film daylighting received the silver award in DFA’s 2009 48-Hour Challenge. Guest Artist: Fall 2012 |
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Merián Soto is one of the founding artistic directors of Pepatián, the Bronx-based, multi-disciplinary Latino arts organization. In that capacity, she developed, curated and produced numerous projects featuring new works by emerging Latino dance and performance artists. Bessie Award winner Merián Soto's work has been presented across the United States and internationally since the mid 1980s. She is associate professor and MFA coordinator of the Department of Dance at the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. Her fusion of choreographed and improvised movement transforms everyday life experiences, memory and history into innovative work that bypasses preconceived notions of the form. For more than 30 years, she has been creating and presenting solo, group and collaborative pieces across the United States and internationally. Her approach to choreography is a metamorphosis of the purely physical and mundane through intense somatic awareness and practice. Soto's choreography is grounded in post-modern structures she calls "energy modes," improvisational structures for accessing emotionality, expression, and expanded consciousness through physical directives. Her precisely sequenced energetic transitions elicit powerful performances |
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TAKE Dance is a New York City-based contemporary dance company that explores the integration of expressive and physical movement. Artistic Director Takehiro Ueyama, a native of Japan, graduated from the Juilliard School before joining the Paul Taylor Dance Company. After eight years touring with the Taylor Company, Take founded TAKE Dance. Take Ueyama blends eastern and western sensibilities to communicate the universal human condition — exciting athletic movement and an unusual sensitivity are combined to create distinctive work that is uniquely TAKE. Collaborations with contemporary artists in other creative genres are one of the motivating factors in his creative process. Through its diverse movement, musical choices, subject matter and artistic partnerships, TAKE Dance brings a unique depth and fulfilling experience to audiences. TAKE Dance has performed in New York at Central Park SummerStage, Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Judson Memorial Church, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, Cunningham Studio, Joe’s Pub, and The Thalia Theater at Symphony Space; and at PS/21 in Chatham, N.Y., for four consecutive seasons. Guest Artist: Fall 2012 |
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Ellis Wood graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in dramatic art and dance, where she was awarded the two highest dance awards, The Eisner Prize and The Florence Schwimley Award. She currently choreographs, teaches and does residencies at schools, universities and festivals both nationally and abroad. She received a 2002 NYFA Fellowship in choreography, and was one of ten choreographers in NYC nominated for the "Emerging Choreographer Award" given by the Downtown Arts Festival in collaboration with The Colbert Foundation. Prior to founding Ellis Wood Dance, Wood danced in the companies of Stephen Petronio, Dan Wagoner, Bay Area Repertory Dance, and in the works of various New York City choreographers. Wood’s community outreach projects and workshops held in conjunction with her own company performances, have crossed cultural, racial, religious, socio-economic, generational, and gender boundaries to bring dance to communities that might not otherwise have this opportunity. The Ellis Wood Dance Company has been in residence at various colleges and universities, as well as many other prestigious venues. Guest Artist: Fall 2012 |
Guest Artists in Theatre, 2012-13
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Baker Artist-in-Residence After her studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (A.Bijlsma) Ms. Boersma moved to Italy, where she worked at St. Cecilia Symphonic Orchestra (Rome). Subsequently she collaborated with various baroque and classical chamber orchestras (Italy, Austria), touring throughout Europe and Japan. In 1988 she founded Tripla Concordia with Sergio Ciomei and Lorenzo Cavasanti. With this ensemble she appeared on radio and television in several countries of the European Union and performed at major music festivals both in Italy and abroad, such as Musica e Poesia a S. Maurizio in Milan, the Schlosskonzerte in Salzburg (Austria), the Festival Internacional de Musica Antigua de Daroca (Spain), the Music Weeks at the Cité de la Musique de Paris (France), Haendel Festival in Halle (Germany). With Tripla Concordia she made a number of recordings, which have earned international recognition (Stradivarius, Dynamic, Nuova Era, Philharmonia, Cantus, Brilliant). From 1990 till 1999 she participated regularly in music-theatre productions as a cellist and collaborated with musicians like Fabio Biondi, Alfredo Bernardini, Kees Boeke, G. Letzbor (Ars Antiqua Austria) in both concerts and recordings. Since 2002 she has focused on chamber music (Piano Trio, Piano Trio and Voice), drawing on the relatively lesser-known repertoire of woman composers. During this period she also collaborated in a multi-media production with an original score by Ernst Widmer. In 2011 she founded String Trio Mizar, together with Renata Lacko (violin) and Carmelo Giallombardo (viola). Currently she is studying at the Choir Conducting School (Arezzo). Since 2006 she has been a coordinator and teacher for the Music Program at the Accademia dell’Arte in collaboration with Furman University (South Carolina, US), and has taught regularly as a guest teacher at various baroque music seminars (Italy). |
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Baker Artist-in-Residence Kevin Crawford is a founding member of the Roy Hart Theatre Company, whose ground-breaking influence on contemporary voice-work for theater is internationally recognized. He toured extensively with the company for more than 20 years, during which time the company received several prestigious prizes including an Obie Award in New York and the Prix Jean Vilar at The Printemps des Comédiens. Kevin was a director of the troupe for a four-year period before moving to Ireland in 1993, where he was a full-time member of faculty at the School of Drama, Trinity College, on the professional actor training program. In 2001 he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in voice studies from Central School of Speech and Drama (London). On his return to France in 2002 Kevin was appointed Visiting Lecturer at the Université d'Artois at Arras in the north of France, before joining Accademia dell'Arte in Italy as a founding member of the faculty, where he currently directs the Master of Fine Arts program in physical theatre. Directorial credits include “Racines dans l’Air” (Paris), “Seethings” (Roy Hart Theatre with Linda Wise), “Merlin” (Compagnie Amadee, France), “Wolf's Bride” for Kuopio City Theatre (Finland), “The Bacchae” and “Oedipus” at the Beckett Centre (Dublin) and “Savage/Love,” “Tongues” and “War in Heaven” for Hendrix College (AR). He has been a Guest Facilitator for VASTA, The International Workshop Festival (London), The Abbey Theatre (Dublin), Myths of the Voice Festival and the Master of Arts in Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Mr. Reidel has dedicated the last 25 years of his professional life to both the preservation of classical theatre and the development of young audiences. He holds a bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College and a Masters of Fine Arts from Temple University. He served as a member of the MFA faculty at Temple University and was a founding member of the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Delaware. His directorial credits include The Walnut Street Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Madison Civic Rep, the Pennsylvania, Utah, Colorado, and Fort Worth Shakespeare Festivals and 12 years as the resident director of the Great American Children's Theatre. His most recent creations with Enchantment Theatre Company are Scheherazade, which premiered with The Cleveland Orchestra in October 2008, and The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon, which premiered in Philadelphia in December of 2009 and has toured nationally twice. Mr. Reidell is Professor of Theatre at the University of Delaware where his recent projects have included Shakespeare's As You Like It, Shaw's You Never Can Tell, Ibsen's A Doll's House, and Pinter's The Homecoming. In 2009, he received his fourth grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to take a group of teachers from all over America to Stratford, England to study Shakespeare in performance. He is a member of The International Shakespeare Conference. |
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Arthur Strimling is a performer, writer and director, who has directed and performed in New York City at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, the 92nd Street Y, The Public Theatre, Symphony Space and the Jewish Museum, and at venues across the country. He can be heard on NPR and his performing and teaching were recently featured on the PBS series, "In the Prime." Arthur has been Artistic Director of Roots and Branches Intergenerational Theater, for eight years, earning a reputation for artistic excellence and community service. Arthur's stories have appeared in many periodicals and collections. |
