Tiffany
Abban
Tiffany Abban is a young soprano noted for her beauty of tone and communicative powers. She began her training at the Interlochen Arts Academy and continued at the Juilliard School before concluding at the Curtis Institute of Music. She was one of the youngest singers ever to be accepted into the prestigious Adler Fellowship program of the San Francisco Opera. While there, she sang the role of Mimì around the country as part of the final Western Opera Theater tour. Recent performances for Ms. Abban include the title role in Tosca at both Palm Beach Opera and Savonlinna OperaFestival; Margherita and Elena in Boito's Mefistofele for Erfurt, Germany; and the title role in Aida for Den Norske Opera & Ballet, which received glowing reviews. She then covered Tosca at Los Angeles Opera, performed the role of Basiliola in La Nave with Teatro Grattacielo at Lincoln Center, and performed Leonora in Il Trovatore with Sacramento Opera, as well as the Verdi Requiem with the Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club. Ms. Abban made her Carnegie Hall debut when she was presented in concert at Weill Recital Hall in New York City, and she made her Italian debut singing the title role in Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. She was then engaged by Teatro Grattacielo for their production of Wolf-Ferrari's I Gioelli della Madonna. Among other roles, Ms. Abban has also sung Micaëla in Carmen, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Sister Rose in the Canadian premiere of Dead Man Walking, as well as the soprano soloist in Verdi's Requiem. Ms. Abban has also won the following awards and competitions: first place in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition; first place the George London-Leonie Rysanek Award; and first place in the Mario Lanza Competition (Junior Division). Originally from the Midwest, Ms. Abban currently makes her home in New York City.
Episode: 33
Becky
Abrams
Becky Abrams is a comedian, actress, and voiceover artist originally from Atlanta, GA. She currently performs with UCBTNY's house sketch team NIPSEY twice a month. Come see her perform in Nipsey's newest and most exciting sketch show yet: THE APOCABLITZ$! Becky has performed improv with Fruit Paunch, the Venkmans, and King Regis, and sketch with UCBT's Moriarty and Roanoke on Maude Night. She can be seen in MTV's Social Media Special-Ops, the Adventures of Time Traveling B-Boy Jamel, and indie feature film A Sibling Mystery. Her voice will be featured in Nick Jr.'s upcoming cartoon Butterbean's Cafe. She frequents UCB Comedy videos, most notably as Mandee, the teen financial expert for LASH. Check out beckyabrams.com for her reel, photos, show dates, and arts & crafts if you're into that sort of thing!
The Dance and Stuff Show: Episode 7
Kyle
Abraham
2016 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient and 2015 City Center Choreographer in residence, Kyle Abraham (Pittsburgh, PA) is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. Previous awards include being named a 2012 USA Ford Fellow, a Creative Capital grantee, and receiving a 2012 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award. In 2010, Abraham received a prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for his work in The Radio Show and a Princess Grace Award for Choreography in 2010. The previous year, he was selected as one of Dance Magazine's 25 To Watch for 2009.
In 2011, OUT Magazine labeled Abraham as the "best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama".
Episode: 46
Jonathan
Allen
Jonathan Allen is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work focuses on painting, collage, video and performance. His newest body of work, 'Knowing that Your House is On Fire', is on view now through April 14 at the New York Live Arts lobby gallery, and was made in response to the process and performing of Joanna Kotze's 'What will we be like when we get there', an evening-length dance premiering at NYLA March 28-31. This is Allen's second collaboration with Kotze. In New York he has exhibited at Lu Magnus, PS122, Exit Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artists Space, and FiveMyles, among others. He has participated in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)’s Workspace, Process Space, and Swing Space residency programs, the Bronx Museum of Art’s Artist in the Marketplace program, and has been awarded residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, Cill Rialaig in Ireland, MARC in Sweden, and Blue Mountain Center. He is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner, Chenven, Puffin, George Sugarman Foundations and Brooklyn Arts Council. Allen ofen collaborates with poets (htp://www.jonathanallen. org/about-a-minute) and performers and is currently working on a series of subway ad interventions Interruptions that you can see on Instagram (@ jonathanallenstudio). He is on the Programming Committee of VoCA, regularly curates at Repair The World NYC, and is the On-Site Assistant (since 2013) at LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island. He earned his BA from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1997.
Episode: 39
Jonathan
(Jojo)
Alsberry
Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry (Artistic Lisason) from Normal, IL is a dance educator, creator and coach focused on inspiring excellence and joy in the study of Ballet, Jazz, and Modern techniques with a constant dedication to the exploration of artistry and the creative process. Currently a rehearsal director with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Jonathan began dancing with his mother Lyndetta and went on to graduate from The Chicago Academy for the Arts where he has since been a guest faculty member. In 2006 he received his BFA from The Juilliard School where he met Aszure Barton. Jonathan a.k.a “Jojo” is now dancer, rehearsal director, and creative collaborator with Aszure Barton & Artists and has assisted Mrs. Barton in over a dozen creations including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bayerische Staatsballett and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2007 Jonathan also joined the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and is currently a performer, rehearsal director and teaching artist with the company. He has shared two tours with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s “Hell’s Kitchen Dance” as well as “Evolution” with Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo. Other credits include The Chase Brock Experience, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Nilas Martins Dance Company, and Eisenhower Dance Ensemble. Since 2007 Jonathan has been teaching, coaching and creating work at various educational institutions including Arts Umbrella, Harvard University, University of California at Irvine, Springboard Danse Montreal, Ballet Hispánico and University of Southern California.
Episode: 127
Courtney
Anderson
Courtney Anderson began her training in San Diego, CA under the direction of Kathleen Gillie and Elizabeth Griffiths at the North Coast Ballet School. She went on to study at Belliston Academy of Ballet under Jeannine Belliston, along with Mark Carlson and Patty Hoffman in Colorado. At age 16, she was a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne dance competition in Switzerland. Courtney then studied on scholarship in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s professional division where she was nominated for the Princess Grace award. In 2000, Courtney joined San Francisco Ballet where she performed and created featured roles by many notable choreographers.
After eight years in the company, Courtney and her husband (Artistic Director Garrett Anderson) left in 2008 to join the Royal Ballet of Flanders as a soloist under the direction of Kathryn Bennetts in Antwerp, Belgium. There she performed works created by European choreographers and toured extensively throughout Europe and the world.
In 2011, Courtney returned to the United States to join The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, where she performed leading roles in many Balanchine ballets, touring across America. In 2012, Courtney performed as a guest artist with Chicago based companies including Ron de Jesus, Ruth Page Civic Ballet and Ballet Chicago.
Courtney retired in 2013 to raise a family and teach ballet. She completed the National Dance Institute teacher training in NYC under Jaques D’Amboise and began teaching regularly (children through adult ballet) at Ballet Chicago and Lou Conte (Hubbard Street Dance) studios. In 2016 Courtney became Co-Chair of the Dance Dept. at New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe. She has been on faculty with Francisco Gella’s Aria at DancerPalooza in both San Diego and Long Beach, CA.
In 2018, Courtney joined the artistic staff at Ballet Idaho, teaching company class and assisting with company rehearsals. Courtney holds a B.A. from St. Mary’s college of California.
Episode: 143
Garrett
Anderson
Garrett Anderson began his training in Walnut Creek, California, under the direction of Richard Cammack and Zola Dishong at the Contra Costa Ballet Centre. He continued to study on scholarship at San Francisco Ballet School, and then in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s professional division.
In 2001, Garrett joined San Francisco Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet and in 2005 was promoted to soloist. During his time there he danced works by George Balanchine, Helgi Tomasson, Yuri Possokov, Christopher Wheldon, Jerome Robbins and Mark Morris. After seven years in the company, he left to join the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Antwerp, Belgium, as a first soloist, under the direction of Kathryn Bennets. There he toured extensively throughout Europe and the world, dancing works by renowned choreographers including William Forsythe and Marcia Haydée. In January of 2011, he returned to the United States to dance with Trey McIntyre Project for their touring season, before joining Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. During his five seasons with Hubbard Street he danced the work of Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Alejandro Cerrudo, Nacho Duato, among others.
In 2016, Garrett became Chair of the Dance Department at New Mexico School for the Arts, where he created curriculum, taught, choreographed, and staged existing works including pieces by Alejandro Cerrudo and Penny Saunders. He has since performed three seasons with SFDanceworks, for which he was named one of the year’s outstanding male performers by Dance Europe. Garrett has also been a guest artist with Ballet Chicago, Civic Ballet of Chicago, Chicago Repertory Ballet and Boise’s LED. Garrett was the recipient of an American Ballet Theatre national dance scholarship and holds a B.A. from St. Mary’s College of California.
Episode: 143
Daniel
Applebaum
Daniel Applebaum was born in Olney, Maryland. At age seven, he began studying ballet with Maryland Youth Ballet. He attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, in 2000 and 2001, becoming a full time student that fall. In October 2004, he became an apprentice with New York City Ballet and joined the corps de ballet in July 2005. Mr. Applebaum was promoted to soloist in October 2018.
Episode: 154
Louise
Bennett
Louise Bennett trained at The Royal Ballet School and danced with English National Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet. She is now a freelance ballet teacher and choreographer based in London. Louise teaches ballet classes at companies including Rambert, Company Wayne McGregor and Ballett Zurich, and has choreographed for schools and companies including The Royal Ballet School, National Youth Ballet, Ballet Central and Outside Edge Theatre Company.
Episode: 144
Temple of Zen
Renee
Benson
Renee Benson is a New Orleans based singer, songwriter, poet and composer who has toured and performed in over 15 countries during her career. On the stage, her dynamic and rhythmically challenging phrasing calls her listeners to break away from the world of the overstimulated to the world of the living. As a singer and emcee (jazz, hip hop, soul, funk, gospel, reggae and more), she has been featured on TV, radio and film. She has performed at the Glastonbury Music Festival, as part of the Austrian entry for Eurovision, and at Vienna’s LifeBall. Renee is the lead voice for the experimental jazz and hip hop collective, "No Home For Johnny," labeled Vienna’s 2015 Popfest “highlight.” She is also one half of the FM4-featured Freudian Cabaret, “Cheating on New York.” This Fall, she will be in residence at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans in collaboration with Vagabond Inventions on “Requiem for a Stranger, “ an expansive work of music, movement-theater, and community rituals that explores how grief - that is denied in American culture - exists in the vast heartspace of humans.
Off stage, her work lives in the communities she represents: the underserved and over-measured. Renee is a nationally credentialed teaching artist and Arts Integrated Coordinator at Young Audiences of Louisiana, working directly with multiple nationally funded programs by the Department of Education for youth in Pre-K through 5th Grade. She has worked teaching music/songwriting for arts advocacy programs in the Northwest Territories of Canada, working primarily with First Nation youth. In the South Bronx of New York, she co-created and led In My Words, an intensive program for young women’s empowerment and activism through the arts (IN MY WORDS). Renee has worked as a facilitator of GirlsRock Austria and has taught many youth programs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her work bringing mindfulness into educational institutions has led her to create programs for schools and community groups. She now teaches workshops and webinars for the Kennedy Center’s Special Education program on Mindfulness to support Trauma Informed practices.
Renee had the opportunity to serve Banff Centre of the Arts as Faculty for the Indigenous Arts: Wîchoîe Ahiya Indigenous Singer/Songwriter Intensive and freelances as the Hip Hop educational consultant for the Hamilton Education Program with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. With Austria’s Vogelberg Jazz Orchestra, Renee is the performing vocalist for a commissioned original experimental opera she co-wrote with acclaimed composer Vincent Pongracz. Renee toured with this project to the Jazzwerkstatt Festival in Switzerland in March 2020.
Episode: 161
Robert
Binet
Canadian choreographer Robert Binet was Choreographic Apprentice of The Royal Ballet 2012–13. Works at the Royal Opera House have included Void and Fire (Royal Ballet), Life’s Witness (Studio Wayne McGregor), EGAL (Ballet Black) and At the River Styx and Aerial View (Royal Ballet Draft Works). He also created the film White Rush with dancers from the National Ballet of Canada, commissioned by The Royal Ballet as part of Deloitte Ignite 2014.
Binet was born in Toronto. He trained at Canada’s National Ballet School, where he won the Peter Dwyer Award (Canada Council for the Arts). After graduating he shadowed John Neumeier at the Hamburg Ballet, and created Die schöne Müllerin for the company’s Bundesjugendballett. While Royal Ballet Choreographic Apprentice he created Stretchy Movement for Studio Wayne McGregor, in addition to works including Voces intimae (Estonian National Ballet) and Polar Night and Incident and Repose (National Ballet of Canada). In 2013 he was appointed Choreographic Associate of the National Ballet of Canada, with his subsequent works for the company including Unearth, These Worlds in Us, The Wild Space Between Two Hearts and Orpheus Becomes Eurydice.
Binet’s further works include The Blue of Distance (New York City Ballet), Surfacing (Dutch National Ballet Junior Company), numerous works for Canada’s National Ballet School, contemporary variations for the 2013 Genée International Ballet Competition (later included in the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus) and choreography for the music video for Belle and Sebastian’s The Party Line.
Episode: 48
Isabella
Boylston
Born in Sun Valley, Idaho, Isabella Boylston began dancing at the age of three. While training at the Academy of Colorado Ballet, she won the gold medal in 2001 at the Youth America Grand Prix Finals in New York City. In 2002, she began training at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, on a full scholarship.
Boylston joined the ABT Studio Company in 2005, the main Company as an apprentice in May 2006 and the corps de ballet in March 2007. She was promoted to Soloist in June 2011 and to Principal Dancer in August 2014.
Boylston won the 2009 Princess Grace Award and was nominated for the 2010 Prix Benois de la Danse. In 2011 she received the Clive Barnes Award. She was the recipient of the 2014 Annenberg Fellowship.
India
Bradley
India Bradley is a member of New York City Ballet’s Corps de Ballet. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and began her dance training at the age of four at The Link School of the Arts in Troy, Michigan. At the age of eleven, she attended the Academy of Russian Classical Ballet in Novi, Michigan, under the direction of Sergey Rayevitskey. Ms. Bradley attended the summer program at Dance Theatre of Harlem in 2012, and entered DTH’s Professional Training Program under the direction of Andrea Long that fall. Ms. Bradley attended the 2014 summer session at the School of American Ballet, NYCB’s official school, and enrolled as a full-time student later that year. She was named an apprentice in August 2017 and joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet in August 2018. As an apprentice, Ms. Bradley performed a featured role in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.
Episode: 146
Bobby
Briscoe
Bobby Briscoe is a member of the Sacramento Ballet. He has danced with Alberta Ballet, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Theater Regensburg, Company C and Theater Hagen. He has danced principal and soloist roles in works such as the title role in Othello by Kirk Peterson, Valse Fantasies by G. Balanchine, Mozart’s Requiem by Jean Grand-Maitré, the Prince in The Firebird and Swan Lake by Olaf Schmidt, the Moor in Petrouchka by Ricardo Fernando, and Who Cares? by G. Balanchine, as well as works from Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Daniel Duell, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Marco Goecke, Cayetano Soto Ramirez, Young Soon Hue-Simon, Alejandro Cerrudo, Luiz Fernando Bonjiovanni, Tindaro Silvano, and Francesco Nappa.
Episode: 144
Chase
Brock
Born in Flat Rock, NC, he made his Broadway debut at 16 in original cast of Susan Stroman’s revival of The Music Man, with appearances on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” (ABC) and “The Tony Awards” (CBS). At 18, Brock produced a showcase of his own choreography in Michael Bennett’s legendary building at 890 Broadway, and at 23, he launched his own dance company. As Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based dance company The Chase Brock Experience, he has commissioned 6 original scores and created 30 original works over the past decade including American Sadness to the songs of Gabriel Kahane, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with text by David Zellnik, Mirror Mirror with an original score by Michael John LaChiusa, Mission: Implausible with an original score by Joshua Rosenblum, The Song That I Sing; Or, Meow So Pretty to recordings by The New Christy Minstrels and Whoa, Nellie! to Nellie McKay’s album Obligatory Villagers.
Broadway choreography includes Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (dir. Julie Taymor) and Sam Gold’s revival of Inge’s Picnic (Roundabout Theatre Company). International: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame in San Diego, Millburn, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama and Nagoya. Other highlights include Bartlett Sher’s production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette for The Metropolitan Opera (returning this season), many works of political satire for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on HBO, the bestselling video game Dance on Broadway for Nintendo Wii and PlayStation Move, and several ballets for New York Theatre Ballet. Brock is the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary Chasing Dance.
Episode: 23
Michael
Sean
Breeden
Michael Sean Breeden was born in Lexington, KY, where he began training at the Lexington Ballet at the age of 7. He began attending the School of American Ballet on scholarship in 2002, with additional training completed at San Francisco Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Vostrikov's Academy of Dance.
Mr. Breeden joined Miami City Ballet as an apprentice in 2006 and was promoted to the corps de ballet in 2008. Since joining the company, he has performed in the works of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Alexei Ratmansky and Liam Scarlett. Mr. Breeden has joined Miami City Ballet on acclaimed tours to New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Paris.
Since retiring from the stage in 2017, Michael has most recently been working as Ballet Master for Troy Schmacher’s, Ballet Collective.
Jibz
Cameron
Jibz Cameron is a performance/video artist and actor living in Los Angeles. Her multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag has spanned 15 years and been presented at such institutions as MOCALA, PS1, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, REDCAT, The Broad Museum, Hammer Museum, New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, among others. She has been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative” by The New Yorker. She has written and produced 6 evening length performance pieces and countless short works that have been performed in clubs and venues internationally. She also produced multiple video works and 2 albums of original music. In addition to her work as Dynasty Handbag she has also been seen acting in films, theater and television (internet web series no one has seen). She works as a professor of performance and comedy related subjects in addition to lecturing and teaching workshops. Jibz also produces and hosts Weirdo Night!, a monthly comedy and performance event in Los Angeles. Jibz recently moved from New York to Los Angeles and is in development with Electric Dynamite on a television series about a performance artist that moves from New York to Los Angeles. It's gonna be HUGE.
Episode: 22
Yanira
Castro
Yanira Castro is a Puerto Rican born interdisciplinary artist making work in New York for over 20 years. In 2009, she formed the collaborative group, a canary torsi, an anagram of her name. Castro’s work borrows from dance, performance, theater, and visual art often utilizing interactive technology to form hybrid projects. The work takes different forms — performances, installations, online and site-based projects — negotiating complexities of sources, authorship and practice with a team of collaborators (including the audience) to build the work as a communal act.
Castro received her B.A. in Theater & Dance and Literature from Amherst College. In 2017, she received an honorary doctorate in the arts from her alma mater.
Episode: 156
Phil
Chan
Phil Chan currently serves as the Art and Culture Director for IVY, connecting young professionals with leading American museums and performing arts institutions. As a writer, he served as the Executive Editor for FLATT Magazine and contributed to Dance Europe Magazine and the Huffington Post. He was the founding General Manager of the Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, and was the General Manager for Armitage Gone! Dance and Youth America Grand Prix. He is a graduate of Carleton College and an alumnus of the Ailey School. He served on the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel and the Jadin Wong Award panel presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance, and is on the advisory committee for the Parsons Dance Company. He also serves on Americans for the Arts' private sector council.
Episode: 77
Lindsay
Clark
Lindsay Clark has been performing and teaching in NYC and internationally since 2005. She has had the pleasure of working with Shen Wei Dance Arts, Faye Driscoll, Jennie Mary Tai Liu, Yve Laris Cohen, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Vanessa Anspaugh, Jack Ferver, John Jasperse, Yasuko Yokoshi, Michelle Boulé, Pontus Lidberg, Xavier Le Roy, and Juliana May. Lindsay has taught professional and open ballet classes in NYC and modern dance, composition, and improvisation at the University of the Arts, Hollins University, and the American Dance Festival. She has performed her choreography in NYC and Europe. Lindsay attended High School at the North Carolina School of the Arts as a ballet major, holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase and an MFA in dance from Hollins University. Lindsay is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher and a faculty member of the Bard College Dance Program since 2017.
Episode: 153
Michael
Cole
Michael Cole was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1989-1998. As Cunningham was augmenting his choreographic practice through the use of computer animation technology in the 90’s, Michael began making his own digital dances. Cole went on to earn an MFA in Dance & Technology from Arizona State University and a second MFA in Computer Arts at The Academy of Arts College in San Francisco. Michael is now a motion graphics designer and computer animator for NBC News.
Episode: 159
Anthony
Roth
Costanzo
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo won first place and the Audience Choice Award in HGO’s 2010 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias and is now making his house and role debut as Handel’s Julius Caesar. Other engagements this season include his debut at the Florida Grand Opera as the title role in Orfeo ed Euridice and a return to Opera Philadelphia as The Boy in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin. He also appears in Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival in staged performances of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater. This past summer, he became an exclusive recording artist for Decca Gold, and his first album, a collection of arias by Handel and Phillip Glass with Les Violons du Roy, will be released in fall 2018. Costanzo has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as both Ferdinand and Prospero in the world premiere of The Enchanted Island and Prince Orlofsky in a new production of Die Fledermaus after making his debut as Unulfo in Rodelinda. He also gave critically acclaimed performances of the title role in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten at the English National Opera and the Los Angeles Opera. He made his European debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in Rinaldo and has since appeared at the English National Opera in Indian Queen, the Teatro Real Madrid in Death in Venice, and the Finnish National Opera in Kaija Sariaaho’s Only the Sound Remains. He recently created roles in the world premieres of Jimmy Lopez’s Bel Canto at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Jake Heggie’s Great Scott at the Dallas Opera.
Barton
Cowperthwaite
Barton Cowperthwaite was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He attended Denver School of the Arts and The Academy of Colorado Ballet. After graduating from high school he transitioned to the dance department at The University of Arizona. He graduated a year early, cum laude, with a BFA in Dance. He then joined the Bad Boys of Ballet to tour Europe as Romeo in their new contemporary dance production of “Romeo and Juliet”. He currently resides in New York City as a freelance dancer, actor, and model. He recently starred in the third installment of the Center Stage movie series “Center Stage: Dance Camp.”
Episode: 28
Dylan Crossman
Dylan Crossman grew up in the south of France, received his Bachelor’s degree from the Trinity/Laban College of Music and Dance in London and studied at Burklyn Ballet Theatre (VT). He moved to New York in 2006 and has since danced for various choreographers including Brian Brooks, Christopher Williams, Ellen Cornfield, Wally Cardona and Sean Cúrran. He is a founding member of Peter Kyle Dance. Dylan became an understudy for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2007, joined the main company in 2009 and was a part of the company’s final tour through 2012. Now living the freelance life, he works with Kimberly Bartosik/ Daela, Sally Silvers, Ryan McNamara, Megan Williams and Pam Tanowitz Dance. He is on faculty at the Cunningham Trust, SUNY Purchase and Burklyn Ballet Theatre and a is stager for the Cunningham Trust. Dylan is a twotime Bessie recipient, one of them for his work in Tanowitz’ Be in the Gray With me (2009), whom he has been dancing for since 2008.
Dylan's own company, Crossman Dans(c)e, looks at identity issues within the frame of formalism and the beauty in vulnerability. His work had been seen at Roulette, La Mama, the 92nd Street Y, the Museum of Arts and Design, Gibney Dance, Abrons Arts Center and The Yard. Dylan also works with children as well as adults, introducing them to Merce Cunningham's creative ideas and philosophy. Kid Birds, an outreach project he was the teacher/ choreographer for won the 2014 French Cultural and Artistic Audacity Award.
Episode: 56
Marc
Crousillat
Marc Crousillat is a dancer in New York City.
He currently performs in West Side Story on Broadway. He has performed in the works of Trisha Brown, Netta Yerushalmy, Tere O’Connor, John Jasperse, Gerard & Kelly, and Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey. He recently participated in the Developmental Lab for West Side Story, choreographed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and Night of 100 Solos as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
He has shown his own work at Roulette, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research’s Open Performance, HyLo Boutiques, WeisAcres and FringeArts Philly. He has been an artist-in-residence at Chez Bushwick, and an artist at The Watermill Center International Summer Program.
Marc is a first-generation Cuban-Peruvian American from Northern New Jersey.
Episode: 107
Adrian
Danchig-Waring
Adrian Danchig-Waring was born in San Francisco, California. He began his dance training at the age of 11 at Dance Theatre Seven with David Roxander. Mr. Danchig-Waring entered the School of American Ballet (SAB) in the fall of 2001. In October 2002 he became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and in June 2003 he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. In February of 2009 Mr. Danchig-Waring was promoted to soloist and became a principal in February 2013.
Epsiode: 40
Patricia
Delgado
Born and raised in Miami, Delgado began her dance training in Miami when she was 5 years old with Cuban teachers Vivian Tobio, Liana Navarro and Maria Victoria Gutierrez. When she was 11, she began studying at Miami City Ballet School and spent her summers training in New York City at the School of American Ballet and at American Ballet Theatre. In 2000, Miami City Ballet’s Founding Artistic Director Edward Villella invited her to officially join Miami City Ballet as an apprentice, and he nominated her for the Princess Grace Award. Delgado was promoted to corps de ballet in 2001, soloist in 2005, principal soloist in 2006 and finally to principal dancer in 2007. Delgado moved to NYC in 2017 and will premiere in Pam Tanowitz's Solo for Patti at The Kennedy Center in March of 2018.
Episode: 35, (Also hear her adoring friends on Episode 82)
Dan
Donigan
(aka Milk)
MILK is the creation of Sandra Sassypants aka Daniel Donigan. This is the story of his her life: Dan grew up in Syracuse, NY. Holla, 315! He has a mommy and a daddy... and two really hot brothers. They like pussy. Sorry, gays. Dan went to Catholic school and was an altar boy. He was never touched by an angel, thankfully. He was a competitive figure skater, for like, ever. Dan joined the Marc Jacobs International family in 2009. He loves clothes, like any teenage girl. Duh. He was the Merchandising Manager at Marc Jacobs in NYC. MILK can be seen tackling models at every "Marc" runway show. Dan breast-formed a drag group called "The Dairy Queens" which is cream-based on the East Coast. The members are: MILK, Skim Burley (MILK's Drag Daughter), Yoohoo, Linda Lakes, & Juggz. MILK owes much of her success to New York Nightlife Mogul Susanne Bartsch. Susanne discovered MILK & The Dairy Queens at her party at ON TOP: LeBain. She loved these bitches and has been promoting them ever since. Dan lives in NYC's 'Curry Hill' with his manfriend James Whiteside (Episode 3), who is a Principal Dancer in American Ballet Theatre. He is also JBDUBS (a pop musician). He is also Yoohoo (a member of The Dairy Queens). That bitch busy. And with their cat #MsBit.
Episode: 32
Cole
Escola
Cole Escolais an American comedian, actor, and singer, best known for his cabaret work and his appearances on the television series At Home with Amy Sedaris, Jeffery & Cole Casserole, and Difficult People.
The Dance And Stuff Show: Episode 11
Moriah
Evans
Moriah Evans is a choreographer based in New York. Her choreographic work has been presented by the Kitchen, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, SculptureCenter, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Danspace Project, Issue Project Room, Movement Research at Judson Church, American Realness, New York Live Arts, FD-13, CallT2, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Theatre de l’Usine (Geneva), CDC Atelier de Paris (Paris), and Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai). Evans received a Bessie Award nomination for Emerging Choreographer (2015) and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists (2017). She is Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal, and in 2011 she initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography – a collective apparatus involved in research processes and practices to investigate participatory images of performance and systems of choreography.
Episode: 145
Rebecca
King
Ferraro
Rebecca King Ferraro was born and raised in Northern California. She received her ballet training from former San Francisco Ballet School Director and ABT dancer Richard Cammack, former ABT and SFB dancer Zola Dishong, former NYCB dancer Charles Anderson and former Royal Swedish Ballet dancer Katarina Wester at Contra Costa Ballet Centre in Walnut Creek, Calif. King spent two summers studying at San Francisco Ballet School under the direction of Gloria Govrin. Her senior year in high school, she attended The Rock School in Philadelphia. After graduating in 2006, she moved to Miami to train at Miami City Ballet School.
King joined Miami City Ballet in 2007 as a company apprentice and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2008. In 2010, she founded a dance blog, TendusUnderAPalmTree.com, which has enabled her to reach out to dancers and audience members from around the globe. In 2012, Ms. King started her own social media management company where she helps her clients reach their marketing potential through online platforms. King is currently a member of the guest faculty of The Dance Academy of Stuart in Stuart, FL.
Ms. King has been with Miami City Ballet for ten years, and is currently on a leave of absence due to injury for the 2017-2018 season.
Ariel
Freedman
Ariel Freedman earned her BFA at The Juilliard School, where she was a recipient of the Martha Hill Prize. After graduating, she performed with Aszure Barton's AszURe & Artists, Mikhail Baryshnikov's Hell's Kitchen Dance, and David Parker and the The Bang Group. She danced with the Batsheva Ensemble for two seasons and with the Batsheva Dance Company for three. She taught Gaga, the movement language of Ohad Naharin, and Naharin's repertory from 2007-2015. She has performed with Crystal Pite's Kidd Pivot, Motley Dance, Keigwin + Company, Zack Winokur and Michelle Mola/ The Troupe, Liz Magic Laser, Noa Zuk, Idan Sharabi and Dancers, Talia Beck, Helen Simoneau Danse, zoe | juniper, The Cambrians, and Charlotte Griffin. She has been dancing with and assisting Roy Assaf since 2013.
Episode: 67
Yonatan
Gebeyehu
Yonatan Gebeyehu is a Brooklyn based Actor/Singer from Silver Spring, MD. He got his Bachelors in English Literature from Columbia University, and his MFA in acting from the University of California San Diego.
As a teacher, he has taught acting and public speaking at the University of California San Diego and NYU Tisch / Playwrights Horizons Studio.
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Jordan
Geiger
JJ Geiger is a Brooklyn based photographer focusing in fashion and portraiture. His work can be seen in Out, Fuuucking Young, King Kong, Schon, Them, Gayletter, Rain, Vanity Teen and Risk magazine. Before beginning his photo career, he studied acting at Juilliard, appearing off-broadway and in film/television.
Episode: 79
Beth
Gill
Beth Gill is a choreographer who has been making contemporary dance and performance in New York City since 2005. Gill has been commissioned by New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Kitchen and Dance Theater Workshop. Her performances have toured nationally and internationally including: Fusebox (TX), The Nazareth College Dance Festival (NY) and Dance Umbrella (UK). Gill is the recipient of a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2015-2016 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and a 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. She is an inaugural member of The Hatchery Project, a 2015-2016 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Extended Life Artist in Residence and a 2013-2015 New York City Center Choreography Fellow. In 2011 Gill was awarded two New York State Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer and the Juried Award “ for the choreographer exhibiting some of the most interesting and exciting ideas happening in dance in New York City today.” In 2012 Dance Magazine named her one of the top 25 artists to watch.Gill is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has been a guest artist and teacher at Bard College, Barnard College, Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts, Arizona State University, NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, the New York State Summer School of the Arts and the American Dance Festival.
Episode: 16
Jennifer
Goggans
Jennifer Goggans began dancing in her hometown of Owensboro, KY, and continued her studies at the Nutmeg Ballet in Connecticut. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Purchase in 2000 and joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company that same year. Goggans danced with MCDC until the company's planned closure in 2011 and was named Assistant to the Director of Choreography during the company's Legacy Tour. Goggans has been teaching Cunningham Technique since 2005 and has taught master classes and workshops throughout the United States and across the globe. In addition, she has staged various Cunningham works including BIPED for the Bayerisches Staatsballet of Munich as well as the Juilliard School, Cross Currents for the New York Theater Ballet, Verb Ballet and the Augusta Ballet, Un Jour ou Deux and Walkaround Time for the Paris Opera Ballet, and Winterbranch for the Lyon Opera Ballet and Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project. Goggans has also staged Cunningham work for students at Yale Dance Theater, the Centre National de Dance Contemporaine (CNDC)-Angers, the Frank Sinatra Performing Arts High School and the Beijing Dance Academy. Goggans has performed with the Louisville Ballet, MOMIX, Chantal Yzermans, Christopher Williams, and has appeared as a guest artist with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She also studied fashion design at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and has created costumes for Tere O'Connor and RoseAnne Spradlin. She is currently working as the Program Coordinator and faculty member for the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Episode: 132
Jenn
Harris
Jenn Harris is an actress, writer, producer and star best known her co-starring role in the film Gayby, playing Jodi Foster in the hit Off-Broadway musical Silence! The Musical, and her darkly hilarious web series, New York Is Dead, about two broke NYC artists who become hitmen to make ends meet. Jenn also hosts a brilliant podcast, Touché, with Jeff Hiller about the pleasures and struggles of the life of an actress and hosts Offer Only, a best-of audition showcase at The Duplex.
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Jordan
Isadore
Jordan Isadore is a dancer/choreographer originally from Northern California. He received his B.F.A. in Dance from California State University Long Beach in 2009. Upon relocating to New York, Isadore has worked with choreographers Christopher Williams, Andrea Miller, Sydney Skybetter, and Jennifer Edwards. Most recently he’s worked with Shen Wei Dance Arts and has performed at the David H. Koch Theater, Mariinsky Theater, though out China, South America and Europe. His own work has been presented at The Museum of Arts & Design, 92nd Street Y, Joe’s Pub, and The American Dance Festival.
Episode: 11
Russell
Janzen
Mr. Janzen was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and began his dance training at the age of six at The Rock School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Janzen attended summer sessions in 2004 and 2005 at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled as a full-time student in the winter of 2005. In October 2007, Mr. Janzen became an apprentice with NYCB, and in June 2008, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to soloist in October 2014 and to principal in February 2017.
Mr. Janzen is a recipient of the 2015 Clive Barnes Foundation Award and the 2007 Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise.
Episode: 6, 36, 56
Drew
Jacoby
Drew Jacoby is an independent contemporary ballet artist in New York City. In August 2012, Drew was to be join Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague. She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin. Drew joined Lines Ballet in San Francisco at age 17, where she was made principal dancer and had works created on her by Alonzo King. During her time with Lines Ballet she performed in works such as Handel and Following the Subtle Current Upstream, both of which were choreographed by Alonzo King. In 2007 she moved to New York CIty to begin her freelance career, and market herself independently from a ballet company. During her time in New York City she had works made on her by Lar Lubovitch and Dwight Rhoden, whose Complexions Contemporary Ballet she danced with that year, performing William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman with Desmond Richardson. In 2007 she formed independent dance duo Jacoby & Pronk with fellow Complexions Contemporary Ballet dancer Rubinald Pronk. The duo was featured on the cover of the August 2009 Dance Magazine. She and Pronk also made a collection of films which appeared at the American Dance Festival in 2009. She has worked with many choreographers such as Mia Michaels, Edwaard Liang, and Emily Molnar. She has also performed as a principal guest artist with the Dutch National Ballet.
Episode: 108
Burr
Johnson
Burr Johnson holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked with Shen Wei since 2009 and John Jasperse since 2010. With Jasperse, he originated a new role in Canyon (2011) and expanded a role in Fort Blossom: Revisited (2000/2012). On occasion, he works with Walter Dundervill, Ryan McNamara, Helen Simoneau, Christopher Williams, and Yozmit. At the American Dance Festival, he participated in two reconstructions of Laura Dean’s work: Tympani (1980/2008) and Infinity (1990/2009). His choreographic work has been shown at One Arm Red, art6 Gallery, Judson Church, Dixon Place, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and Danspace Project. He has taught technique classes at Henrico Center for the Arts, the American Dance Festival through WFSS, the Pre-College Summer Institute at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and at the University of Utah as a guest. Burr has also taught creative movement to children at the Museum of Arts and Design with Jack Ferver. In his spare moments away from dance, Burr is in his garden or cuddling with his cat.
Episode: 103
Emily
Johnson
Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in New York City. Originally from Alaska, Emily is of Yup’ik descent, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as portals and installations, engaging audiences within and through space, time, and environment—interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, history and role in community. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.
Her choreography and gatherings have been presented across the United States and Australia. Recently she choreographed the Santa Fe Opera production of Doctor Atomic, directed by Peter Sellars. Her large-scale project, Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars is an all-night outdoor performance gathering taking place amongst 84 community-hand-made quilts. It premiered in Lenapehoking (NYC) in 2017, and was presented in Chicagou (Chicago) in 2019. Her new work in development, Being Future Being, considers future creation stories and present joy.
Emily's writing has been published and commissioned by Dance Research Journal (University of Cambridge Press); SFMOMA; Transmotion Journal, University of Kent; Movement Research Journal; Pew Center for Arts and Heritage; and the recent compilation Imagined Theaters (Routledge), edited by Daniel Sack. She is an advisory committee member for Creative Time's 10th Anniversary Summit and the Advancing Indigenous Performance Initiative of Western Arts Alliance. She also serves on the Native American Arts Program Expansion Committee for Idyllwild Arts, is the Pueblo Arts Collaborative Diplomat at Santa Fe Opera, and a lead organiser of First Nations Dialogues.
Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on the Lower East Side of Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center. She is part of a US based advisory group—including Reuben Roqueni, Ed Bourgeois, Lori Pourier and Vallejo Gantner—who are developing a Global First Nations Performance Network.
Episode: 156
Bill T.
Jones
Bill T. Jones is an American choreographer, director, author and dancer. He is the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, the company's home in Manhattan, whose activities encompass an annual presenting season together with allied education programming and services for artists. Independently of New York Live Arts and his dance company, Jones has choreographed for major performing arts ensembles, contributed to Broadway and other theatrical productions, and collaborated on projects with a range of fellow artists. Jones has been called "one of the most notable, recognized modern-dance choreographers and directors of our time."
Episode: 155
Harriet
Jung
Harriet Jung is a New York based designer and illustrator with experience in costume design, womenswear, and illustration.
She studied visual arts at a young age and attended Orange County School of the Arts in Southern California. She then went on to earn her degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, before studying Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Upon graduating, she joined the womenswear design team at Jill Stuart.
With friend and former classmate, Reid Bartelme, Harriet founded Reid & Harriet Design in 2011. Collaboratively, they have worked with choreographers Justin Peck, Doug Varone, Pam Tanowitz, and Matthew Neenan to name a few. They have designed productions for New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Miami City Ballet.
Benjamin
Akio
Kimitch
Benjamin Kimitch is an artist and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2019 Movement Research Artist in Residence. His choreography has been supported by The Noguchi Museum, The Kitchen ‘Dance and Process,’ Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and two commissions from Danspace Project where his work received a New York Dance and Performance ‘Bessie’ Award nomination. In addition to his artistic work, Benjamin is Senior Producer at Performance Space New York, having previously worked on the programming teams at the Park Avenue Armory, New York Live Arts, and Dance Theater Workshop.
Episode: 109
Lloyd
Knight
Lloyd Knight joined the Martha Graham Company in 2005 and performs leading roles in Appalachian Spring, Embattled Garden, Errand into the Maze and others. Born in England and raised in Miami, he trained at Miami Conservatory of Ballet and graduated from New World School of the Arts, under the direction of Daniel Lewis. There he worked with choreographers Donald McKayle, Robert Battle, and Michael Uthoff. He received scholarships to The Ailey School and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Dance Magazine named him one of the “Top 25 Dancers to Watch” in 2010. Recently, he partnered Ballerina Wendy Whelan in Graham’s Moon and Misty Copeland in Graham’s At Summer’s Full.
Joanna
Kotze
Joanna Kotze is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer and teacher who has been part of the New York dance community since 1998. She is a 2016-2018 New York Live Arts Live Feed residency program artist. New York Live Arts has commissioned her next evening-length work, What will we be like when we get there, which will premiere March 28-31, 2018. She has upcoming tours of her Bessie award winning piece, It Happened It Had Happened It Is Happening It Will Happen, to Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, WA (November, 2017) and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH (February, 2018). She has upcoming residencies at New York Live Arts (2017-2018), the 92nd Street Y (2017-2018), The Bogliasco Foundation (April 2018), and The Yard (June 2018).
Joanna danced with Wally Cardona from 2000-2010, performing throughout New York City (including twice at BAM's Next Wave Festival) the United States, Canada, Europe and Mexico. She is currently dancing for Kimberly Bartosik/daela, and Kota Yamazaki and has worked with Stacy Spence, Netta Yerushalmy, Sam Kim, Sarah Skaggs, Christopher Williams, the Metropolitan Opera ballet, Daniel Charon, Nina Winthrop and others.
Joanna is on teaching faculty at Movement Research and Gibney Dance. She has taught at Barnard College, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Eugene Lang College - The New School for Liberal Arts, Long Island University, Southern Utah University, Ohio University, Miami University Ohio, Salt Dance Fest and the American Dance Festival. She has studied Klein technique with Barbara Mahler since 2003, is originally from South Africa and has a BA in Architecture from Miami University (’98).
Episode: 39
Robert
La Fosse
Robert La Fosse received his early dance training at the Marsha Woody Academy of Dance in Beaumont, Texas. He continued his studies with David Howard at Harkness House and Stanley Williams at the School of American Ballet in New York City. He performed as a Principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet as well as many guest appearances in the United States, Europe and Japan. Dancing leading roles in many of the classical master works as well as roles created for him by some of the great American choreographers. He also starred in two Broadway shows, Dancin’ and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway for which he was nominated for a Tony award for best actor in a musical. In addition to his performing career, he is also an accomplished choreographer who has created over 75 works for ballet, opera, musical theater, film and television. He currently teaches ballet at Barnard Collage, Purchase College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Princeton University. In the past he has taught at the New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet, ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and summer intensives, The Julliard School, Muhlenberg College, Northwestern University, Jacob’s Pillow and Step’s on Broadway.
Episode: 138
Heather
Lang
Heather Lang is a multifaceted artist who has lived and worked in New York City for over 15 years. Her career ranges from Broadway, downtown experimental theatre and dance, commercials and film. You name it, she's done it.
Heather grew up in Chicago and studied at Ruth Page School of Dance and Hubbard Street. She holds a B.F.A from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She also studied acting and improv at Sally Johnson Studios under Jen Krater and Brad Calcaterra.
As an actor, dancer, and performance-maker some of her favorite projects include: Traveling Europe and NYC with Trash is Fierce (original sketch comedy in collaboration with Eleanor Bauer), playing Gladys in Gregorian a play by Matthew Greene, dancing in New Work for the Desert and Catacomb choreographed by Beth Gill, creating #blessed (film), playing lead and featured roles in Happy We'll Be and Freddie Falls in Love directed by Al Blackstone, dancing in Remains choreographed by John Jasperse at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing on Broadway with An American In Paris, working closely with Julie Taymor on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Grendel, and Across the Universe, dancing as a Radio City Rockette at Radio City Music Hall, dancing at the Met Opera and playing an infected mutant in I Am Legend.
Lang is currently in Jagged Little Pill on Broadway.
Episode: 5
Kristina
Larson
Megan
LeCrone
Megan LeCrone was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She began her dance training at the age of four at Greensboro Ballet with Maryhelen Mayfield, John Dennis, and Elissa Fuchs. At age 14, she began studying with Melissa Hayden and Duncan Noble at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winton-Salem. Ms. LeCrone entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, full-time in the fall of 2001, and in November 2001 she became an apprentice with New York City Ballet. Ms. LeCrone joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in October 2002 and was promoted to soloist in February 2013.
Episode: 152
Douglas
Letheren
Douglas Letheren is from New Hampshire, USA and studied at St. Paul’s School and the Juilliard School, where he received his BFA. He worked with Aszure Barton and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance before joining the Batsheva Ensemble in 2007. Doug continued to the Batsheva Dance Company from 2008 to 2012, where he worked with Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal, and became a student and teacher of Gaga. He is a founding member of Sharon’s new project, L-E-V, and has assisted her in creations for companies such as the Gothenburg Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater 2, and the Royal Swedish Opera. Doug also teaches Ohad and Sharon’s repertory in schools and universities around the US. He is a recipient of the 2007 MOVADO Future Legends Award, nominated by Mikhail Baryshnikov. In 2017, Douglas joined Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Paige
Lipari
Paige Lipari is a Sicilian-American poet, music maker, cartoonist, bookshop owner, and cook. Lipari’s collection of poems and illustrations, Family of Many Enzos, was published by Augury Books in 2012, and she was previously an editor at A Public Space. Lipari currently lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat Olafi Lorenzo and is the owner of Archestratus Books + Foods, a food bookshop, Sicilian cafe, and community space to engage empathy (160 Huron Street). Odes have been written to her cookies which were named "Best Cookies of 2016" by New York Magazine.
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Victor
Lozano
Victor Lozano is a dancer with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Brian Brooks Dance, and Madboots Dance. Victor has guested with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company for it’s production of “Artemis In Athens”, the Kate Weare Company for it’s 10th anniversary at BAM, and in showings with the Merce Cunningham Trust. He has studied and performed works by Twyla Tharp, Jose Limón, Fernando Melo, Camille A. Brown, and Kyle Abraham. Victor is a graduate of The Juilliard School (B.F.A.) and a fellow of the Juilliard Career Advancement Award (2016-18). He is also a choreographer and has presented his work in Miami, Houston, New Haven and throughout NYC. Victor is originally from Houston, TX.
Lar
Lubovitch
Lar Lubovitch is one of America’s most versatile, popular and widely seen choreographers. Based in New York City, Lubovitch’s company has performed throughout the world, and his dances have also been performed by many other major companies, including American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and many others. His dances are renowned for their musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures. His radiant, highly technical choreography and deeply humanistic voice have been acclaimed worldwide.
Episode: 21
Justin
Lynch
Justin Lynch is a dancer and lawyer from Kingston, Jamaica. He has performed with Christopher Williams Dances, The Metropolitan Opera, Nicole Wolcott, The Bang Group, Elisa Monte Dance, and in several productions by Third Rail Projects, including Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise. Justin studied the piano at the Royal College of Music and Boston University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Music, and holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In his double life as a lawyer, he works with international dancers and other artists on immigration matters. He was a danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz (Vienna) in 2017.
Episode: 116