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Carmen de Lavallade video -- dances for an iphone home Carmen de Lavallade made her professional debut at the age of seventeen in the title role of Salome with the Lester Horton Dance Theatre, Los Angeles, California. She made her New York City debut in the Broadway show House of Flowers written by Truman Capote with music by Harold Arlen. After she debuted as principal dance artist with the Metropolitan Opera’s productions of Aida and Samson and Delilah, she returned in 1992 to choreograph Porgy and Bess, Die Meistersinger, Rusalka and Lucia de Lammermoor. During this period she worked with some of the most exciting choreographers in the dance world, her husband Geoffrey Holder, John Butler, Glen Tetley and Alvin Ailey, to name a few. Her guest artist engagements include dancing the lead in Agnes de Mille’s ballet The Four Marys for American Ballet Theatre, appearing as principle soloist in the New York City Center production of John Butler’s Carmina Burana and also with Mr. Butler’s company in the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto Italy. Under the auspices of the State Department, she toured the Far East with the de Lavallade-Ailey American Dance Company. More recently, she choreographed the ballet Sweet Bitter Love for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Carmen is presently a member of the dance company Paradigm with founder Gus Solomons Jr. Molissa Fenley video -- dances for an iphone home Molissa Fenley has choreographed over 70 works for her dance company, Molissa Fenley and Dancers, founded in 1977. Her work has been commissioned by The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, the American Dance Festival, the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New National Theater in Tokyo, the Krannert Art Center, the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center and many others. The company began to tour nationally and internationally in 1980. She received two Bessie awards, for Cenotaph in 1986 and for State of Darkness in 1988. Molissa has choreographed dances for the Australian Dance Theatre, The Ohio Ballet, the Deutsche Oper Ballet, Peter Boal of the New York City Ballet, Repertory Dance Theatre, Utah, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Korea/Japan Performing Arts Exchange, the Pacific Northwest Ballet and, most recently, the Seattle Dance Project. She is presently an associate professor in the dance department at Mills College and mentors the masters candidates for their thesis performance work. Molissa received the Cynthia Hazen Polsky Rome Prize for a six- month residency at the American Academy in Rome, February-August 2008, a Guggenheim Fellowship for Choreography, 2008 and is a fellow of the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Recent awards include support from the NEA American Masterpieces Initiative to reconstruct Regions from 1995. Regions, along with a new series of choreographic investigations titled Prop Dances, wherein Fenley has asked five visual artists to create a prop(s) that can be either carried or worn, will be featured at the Joyce Soho, November 4-7, 2010. Margie Gillis video -- dances for an iphone home As choreographer and performer of more than one hundred solo dance works, Margie Gillis has earned rave reviews in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and in South and North America. A passionate and steadfast artist, she has worked with the greatest dancers and artists of her time either including them in her own personal projects or by participating in the productions of her peers. Concerned with the durability of her unique approach to art, Margie Gillis teaches often in different institutions such as the Juilliard School of New York. Margie Gillis has been a Member of the Order of Canada since 1988 and she was appointed Knight of the Ordre National du Québec in 2009. Also, the Canadian and Quebec governments have each given her the honorary title of Cultural Ambassador. In 2001, in recognition of her exceptional contribution to national culture, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec awarded her their Career Grant. During the 2008-2009 season, which spotlighted the 35th anniversary of Margie Gillis’ career, the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, and the famous Stella Adler Studio of New York gave her their first MAD Spirit Award for Exceptional Humanitarian Actions by an Artist. Margie Gillis’ masterful interpretation of the different facets of the human soul has won her loyal audiences over the years. Unwaveringly, her work continues to develop through performances, experimentations, teaching and creating. deborah jowitt video -- dances for an iphone home Deborah Jowitt began to perform professionally in 1953, to choreograph in 1961, and to write about dance for The Village Voice in 1967. Most recently, she has performed her own solo Body (in) Print and appeared in productions of From the Horse’s Mouth. She has published two collections of her writings, Dance Beat (1977) and The Dance in Mind (1985), in addition to Time and the Dancing Image (1988) and Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance (2004). She edited and contributed to Meredith Monk (1997). Her essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She lectures and conducts workshops worldwide, as well as teaching in the Dance Department of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. regina larkin video -- dances for an iphone home Regina Larkin, artistic director of the Joyce Trisler Danscompany, is internationally recognized for her dance performances and teaching in Iraq, Europe, South and Central America as a representative of the United States Information Agency's cultural missions. She was professor of dance at Adelphi University for 27 years during which she was the first American teacher to bring the Lester Horton style of modern dance to Taiwan. She served as executive director with Igal Perry and faculty member at Peridance, Elliot Feld Ballet Tech, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. As a recipient of New York State Cultural Arts grants for more than two decades, she developed urban and rural creative youth programs. She continues to choreograph, dance and restage the dances of Joyce Trisler for companies and American colleges and universities. Her musical theater collaborations began with Jonathan Larson in the 80s and into the 90’s and continue now with the Thalia Follies directed by Isaiah Sheffer. Regina is the education associate at Symphony Space coordinating cultural arts education to New York City public, private, home schools and other community institutions. She has danced for and performed with Richard Daniels since 2003. Miki Orihara video -- dances for an iphone home Miki Orihara joined the Martha Graham Dance Company as a principal dancer in 1987. She has performed with various prominent companies and choreographers including Yuriko, the Broadway production of The King and I with choreography by Jerome Robbins, Elisa Monte and Dancers, Jun Kono Dance Troup(Japan), Buglisi/Foreman Dance, SITI Company, Martha Clarke, Stephen Pier, Twyla Tharp and Robert Wilson. She was a special guest artist for Japan’s the New National Theater production of Dance Teatron in 2001. As an individual artist, she has premiered her works in New York and Japan. For M-Deux company, she choreographed an eight-woman piece and a solo, which premiered 2001 and 2008 in Japan. Ms. Orihara’s teaching credentials include numerous workshops in Japan, the New National Theater Ballet School in Tokyo, Arts International in Moscow with Takako Asakawa, Peridance, the Ailey School, UCLA World Arts and Culture Department, New York University, Florida State University, Atlanta Ballet and the Martha Graham School. She also assists master teacher, Yuriko. Stephen Pier’s credits as a performing artist began with the Jose Limon Dance Company where the New York press hailed him as “…one of the most gifted dancers on the modern dance scene today.” He went on to become a leading soloist with the Hamburg Ballet in Germany and the Royal Danish Ballet. Mr. Pier has had the privilege of dancing leading roles in works of Balanchine, Bejart, Bournonville, Limon, MacMillan, Neumeier, Robbins, Sokolow and others collaborating with many of Europe’s finest contemporary choreographers. As a Master Teacher, Mr. Pier is much in demand working with notable companies in Europe, America and Asia including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Atlanta Ballet, Cedar Lake Dance Ensemble, Random Dance, Introdans, Scapino Ballet, and the New National Theater, Tokyo. He has taught on the faculty of the Juilliard school (14 years), Alvin Ailey School, Martha Graham Center and is currently the Director of Dance at The Hartt School. In 2004 Mr. Pier began PierGroupDance to explore and collaborate with dancers and artists in various art forms. He has created over 30 works for the concert stage, opera, theater, and film. His work has been presented by The Hamburg Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Danish Theater, Royal Danish Opera, Bat Dor, The New National Theater (Japan), the Juilliard Dance Ensemble, The Di Capo Opera Company, and the Dance on Film Festival at Lincoln Center. christine redpath video -- dances for an iphone home Christine Redpath is a Ballet Master with New York City Ballet. Ms. Redpath joined NYCB as a corps member and was soon promoted to soloist performing principal roles in much of the Balanchine and Robbins repertoire as well as in ballets by other choreographers such as Ashton and Tudor. Her partners have included Peter Martins, Jacques D’Amboise and Helgi Tomasson and during her three years at the Zurich Ballet under the directorship of Patricia Neary, Rudolf Nureyev. As a Ballet Master at NYCB she has worked with noted choreographers such as Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Eliot Feld, Angelin Preljocaj, Mauro Bigonzetti, Helgi Tomasson and Susan Stroman. In addition to staging works for the Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine Trusts, she has re-staged works on many other companies such as The Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet of Flanders, The Australian Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, The National Ballet of Canada and The San Francisco Ballet. She presently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Jerome Robbins Trust and is one of four Ballet Masters designated by Mr. Robbins to maintain and stage his ballets. megan williams video -- dances for an iphone home Megan Williams hails from Los Angeles, CA and Toronto, Canada where she began her dance training as a high school student. After graduating with a BFA from the Juilliard School in 1984, she worked in the companies of Laura Glenn, Ohad Naharin, and Mark Haim, among others. In 1988 she joined the Mark Morris Dance Group with whom she danced for ten years, toured worldwide, taught and appeared in several films, including Falling Down Stairs (with Yo Yo Ma) and The Hard Nut (PBS’ Dance in America). She has recently been performing with MMDG as Lady Capulet in Morris' Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare. She has staged Morris’s works on students at George Mason University, Vassar College, the Fieldston School, the Juilliard School and on the Boston Ballet as well as on the renowned Purchase Dance Corps. Megan has been on the modern faculty of the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College since 1999. She owes much of her teaching inspiration to her ongoing study of the neuromuscular work of Irene Dowd and Peggy Baker. In April 2008, at the request of Paul Simon, she directed Songs from the Capeman, the concert version of Simon's Broadway musical The Capeman at BAM's Harvey Theater. Dancenow/NYC has presented her choreographic work at Joes’ Pub and Dance Theater Workshop, and she is currently working on a short dance play for the Naked Angel's Issue Project, to be seen in Spring 2010. For Richard Daniels, Megan danced Terpsichore in his Apollo & the Muses at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church (2005). |
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