Sara Rudner

Director, Program in Dance
B.A., Barnard College. M.F.A., Bennington College. Dancer and choreographer; founder and director, Sara Rudner Performance Ensemble; recipient of Bessie Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts; works for theatre and opera include the production of Caryl Churchill’s “The Striker” at the Public Theater in New York City, “The Greeks” at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Peter Sellar’s production of Messiaen’s opera St. Francois D’Assise (co-produced by the Salzburg Festival and the Paris Opera Bastille), the Santa Fe Opera’s recent production of Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict, Strauss’ The Egyptian Helena, and Berg’s Wozzeck. Recent choreographic projects include Heartbeat/mb (Mikhail Baryshnikov), Dancing-on-View, and Once Again. SLC, 1999-

Emily Devine

Dance
B.A., Connecticut College. Trained with Jose Limon, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Viola Farber; performed with Dan Wagoner and Dancers, Nancy Lewis, Mirjam Berns, Cork (Ireland) National Ballet; choreographer, Dance Alliance of New Haven, Roxanne Dance Foundation, Swamp Gravy, and independent productions; recipient of choreography grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts; teaches dance and movement workshops throughout the U.S. and in Canada, France, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. SLC, 1988-

Dan Hurlin

Dance/Theatre
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Performances in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, La MaMa, E.T.C. Danspace, The Kitchen, and at alternative venues throughout the U.S. and the U.K.; recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Award in 1990 for solo adaptation of Nathanael West’s “A Cool Million” and the 2000 New York Dance and Performance (a.k.a. “Bessie“) Award for Everyday Uses for Sight, Nos. 3 & 7; recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and of grants from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Cary Flagler Charitable Trust, and the New England Foundation for the Arts; 2002 to 2003 Guggenheim fellowship. Former teacher at Bowdoin, Bennington, Barnard, and Princeton. SLC, 1997-

Rose Anne Thom

Dance
B.A., McGill University. Writer and critic of live performance for Dance Magazine since l968. Freelance writing credits include Collier’s Encyclopedia, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, International Dictionary of Ballet and The Forwardas well as articles and reviews in other periodicals. Auditor for the Dance Program of the New York State Council for the Arts and Oral Historian for the Dance Research Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the School of American Ballet Oral Preservation Project. Has also taught at Princeton University, SUNY Purchase, Southern Methodist University, and the American Ballet Theater School. In l998-99, served as associate dean of Studies at the College. SLC, 1975-

John A. Yannelli

Music
B.Ph., Thomas Jefferson College, University of Michigan. M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Composer; innovator in the fields of electronic music and music for theatre and dance; composer of traditional and experimental works for all media; specialist in improvisational techniques; director of the Sarah Lawrence Improvisational Ensemble; toured nationally with the United Stage theatre company and conceived of and introduced the use of electronic music for the productions; freelance record producer and engineer; music published by Soundspell Productions. SLC, 1984-

Charles Atlas

Dance
Filmmaker and video artist since the 1970’s; made pioneering media/dance works, multi-channel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video artworks for television, and live electronic performances. Collaborators and subjects have included Merce Cunningham, Michael Clark, Bill Irwin, Yvonne Rainer, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Diamanda Galas, Leigh Bowery, John Kelly, Marina Abramovic, and Antony and the Johnsons, among others. Exhibited and created work at the following venues and galleries: XL/Xavier LaBoulbenne, NY; Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NY; Team Gallery, NY; The Kitchen, NY; Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, CT; Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany; Magazin 4, Austria; La Criee, France; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; 2006 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s biennial John Cage Award. Recipient of three Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards, the most recent in 1998 in recognition of video collages made for “Martha @ Mother.” SLC, 2006-

Patty Bradshaw

Dance
B.M., University of Massachusetts. Dancer/performer; choreographer; Hatha Yoga and kinetic awareness instructor; performances throughout the U.S. and abroad; collaborating member of the Butoh Rockettes. SLC, 2000-

Roxane Butterfly

Dance
Freestyle tap dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Creator of the multicultural all women production “BeauteeZ’n the Beat.” Dance credits include performances at the Joyce Theater with Jazz Tap Ensemble, New Victory Theater with Urban Tap, Le Theatre de Surenes, Las Vegas NY-NY Hotel with MADhattan, with choreography presented at Symphony Space, Jacob’s Pillow, Taegu International Dance Festival (Korea), Dance Salad (Houston Wortham Center), Montreal Jazz Festival, 9th Improvisation Festival at Saint Mark’s Church, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and others. Music credits include the Nice Jazz Festival, the Duke Ellington Sacred Concert, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Toulon Jazz Festival. Teaching credits include Maxim’s, Stephens College, and the University of Virginia. NYFA Fellow Choreographer. Recipient of an Outstanding Creative Achievement Award (Bessie). SLC, 2002-

William Catanzaro

Music
Composer and multi-instrumentalist; recognition and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, Harkness Foundation, NYU Humanities Council, NYU Service/Learning Fund; commissions include choreographers Anna Sokolow, Steve Paxton, Viola Farber, Milton Myers; work presented nationally and internationally with the New Danish Dance Theater, TanzFabrik Berlin, Amsterdam Theater School, Cyprus Festival, Teatro San Martin, the Alvin Ailey School, Philadanco, Player’s Project, Dallas Black Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, DTW, and others. Former accompanist and teacher of music for dancers at the Juilliard School, Marymount Manhattan College, Limon School, Martha Graham School, New York University; current faculty at the Alvin Ailey School, Steps on Broadway; Music director for the Young Dancemakers Company. SLC, 2003-

Aaron Copp

Lighting Designer
M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. Worked as lighting designer, production manager, or technical director for such companies and choreographers as Merce Cunningham, Sankai Juku, Twyla Tharp, New York City Ballet, Bill T. Jones, Kronos Quartet, ISO Dance Theater, Sara Rudner, Paradigm, Rebecca Lazier, Jamie Bishton, Second Hand Dance Company, and Molissa Fenley. His lighting designs also appear at many American theatres, such as the Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, and the Kennedy Center; lit the long-running Off Broadway musical “Naked Boys Singing!”, and has been a lighting consultant for Lincoln Center and the Joyce Theater. Member of United Scenic Artists. SLC, 2001-

Jane Cox

Lighting Designer
M.F.A., New York University. Based in New York City, with long term collaborations with choreographers Doug Varone, David Dorfman, and Monica Bill Barnes. Other dance and music designs include several for Eliot Feld, Bang on a Can, and Minnesota Opera. Recent theatre includes Broadway; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Playwrights Horizons; NYSF/Public Theatre; Guthrie Theatre; CenterStage; Arena Stage; McCarter; National Theatre London; and Project Theatre Dublin. Recipient of an NEA/TCG grant 2001-2003. SLC, 2006-

Rujeko Dumbutshena

Dance
Originally from Zimbabwe, she has been teaching and performing throughout the U.S., Canada, and Australia since 1994. She has performed at venues including the Getty Museum, Lincoln Center, and the Sydney Opera House. She is co-founder and artistic director of the Panjea Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing African and Western cultures together through cultural exchange tours, music and dance conferences, and workshops. SLC, 2005 -

Josh Epstein

Josh has been lighting dance and theatre professionally in New York for over a decade. He has worked with choreographers including: Doug Varone, David Dorfman, Allyson Green, Wil Swanson, Amanda Loulaki, Edisa Weeks, and Kara Tatelbaum at venues such as: The Joyce, Danspace at St. Marks, The 92nd St. Y’s Harkness Dance Project, Symphony Space, and The Joyce Soho. His work has also been seen internationally as far away as Bucharest, Romania, and Lisbon, Portugal. Josh received his M.F.A. from NYU and is a recipient of the 2004-2006 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers.

Barbara Forbes

Dance
Royal Academy of Dancing, London. Institute of Choreology, London. Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, Cecchetti Method. Previously faculty of National Ballet School of Canada, Alvin Ailey School, New York University, and Finis Jhung Studio. Ballet mistress and teacher, Joffrey Ballet, New Orleans Ballet, and Chamber Ballet U.S.A. Currently Feldenkrais practitioner at Feldenkrais Learning Center, New York City. SLC, 2000-

Maia Claire Garrison, also known as MaiaClaire

Dance
She began her performance career as a child acrobat with The Big Apple Circus. Upon graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean with the dance theatre group Urban Bush Women. In 1995, she founded M’Zawa Danz, presenting her work at venues such as Aaron Davis Hall, Central Park Summer Stage, Dance Space Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob’s Pillow, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, SOTA (Garth Fagan Dance/Rochester), and Symphony Space. Awarded three consecutive production grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and highlighted on the WB11 News and WABC’s New York Viewshosted by Roz Abrams, she is currently working as both a project coordinator and teaching artist for The Joyce Theater’s Education Program directed by Joanne Robinson Hill. SLC, 2007-

Peggy Gould

Dance
B.F.A., M.F.A., New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Teacher of Alexander Technique; teaching assistant to Irene Dowd; has taught privately in New York City since 1989 and has taught Irene Dowd’s “Spirals” at Purchase College Summer Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Summer Dance Festival, and the Grant Street Dance Company; performances with Bryan Fox, Sara Rudner, Patricia Hoffbauer, and George Emilio Sanchez, David Gordon, Ann Carlson, Charles Moulton, Neo Labos, T.W.E.E.D., Michael Mayer, Tony Kushner, and Paula Josa-Jones; choreography presented by The Field, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, and BACA Downtown. SLC, 1999-

Anabella Lenzu

Dance
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher with over 15 years experience working in Argentina, Chile, Italy, England, and the U.S.A. Artistic Director of Anabella Lenzu / DanceDrama. She studied choreography at the Juilliard School, with Mary Anthony, Jim May, and many others. In 1994, she founded and directed Atelier Centro Creativo de Danza, her own dance school in Argentina (directed by her sister Pamela since 2001). Lenzu is also a published author for various dance and arts magazines. She teaches Tango in Argentina, Italy, and the U.S.A. with Todd Carroll, her husband and partner. SLC, 2008-

Merceditas Manago-Alexander

Dance
B.A. in Dance and Anthropology SUNY/Empire State College. Dancer, Ballet Philippines for six years; recipient of the Outstanding Student Artist Award in 1986 from the University of the Philippines’ President’s Committee on Culture and the Arts. Dancer, Doug Varone and Dancers, Elisa Monte Dance Company (Monte/Brown), Ballet Hispanico of NY, Pepatian, the Feld Ballets/NY (Ballet Tech), and Dennis Wayne’s Dancers; current faculty member, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet; guest faculty member, Marymount Manhattan College (NY); participant/teacher, 2004 Bates Festival — Young Dancers Workshop (YDW) and City Center (NY) two-day intensive youth workshop; ballet faculty member for seven years, the Ailey School (NY); guest lecturer, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ); teacher of contemporary/movement, Sandra Cameron Dance Center (Soho, NY); presenter of solo works, Free Range Arts, Dixon Place, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange and group works at Rutgers and John Jay College in conjunction with the Ailey School performances. SLC, 2001-

Margaret Matsumoto

Dance
Teacher of meditative and movement art since 1975; faculty dean in a Manhattan-based school with branches in several European countries and over 20 U.S. cities; numerous magazine and television interviews and public presentations for universities, fitness fairs, hospitals, and other special-interest groups. SLC, 2000-

Tyler Micoleau

Dance
B.A., Bowdoin College. A professional lighting designer who has lit over 120 productions including plays, dance, movement-theatre, multi-media performance, and puppetry. Recipient of an Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Award and a Village Voice OBIE. SLC, 2001-

Liz Rodgers

B.F.A. in Performance/Choreography, University of California, Santa Barbara; N.Y.S. licensed massage therapist. Trained in a variety of touch techniques including Craniosacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation. Pilates trainer/movement educator in private practice in New York City and on staff at Bodywork, Westport, CT. Apprentice of Irene Dowd assisting in anatomy, visual assessment, and dancer’s clinic classes. Adjunct professor of anatomy and kinesiology at Manhattanville College, NY. Taught movement classes at Mary Anthony Dance Studio, NYC and Irene Dowd’s “Spirals” at Movement Research. Performed with Beverly Blossom, Mimi Garrard, Mary Anthony, Bertram Ross, and Sophie Maslow. SLC, 2007-

Tony Schultz

Dance
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.A., City College of New York. A scientist, writer, educator, and performer, currently finishing his Ph.D. in physics at the CUNY Graduate Center and conducting research in computer vision for applications in human movement analysis. As a physical scientist, he provides a valuable resource to culture makers interested in developing experimental and computationally based methodologies. Collaborated with musicians Derrick Carlomagno and Damian Quinones, worked with dancers Christopher Williams and Kristin Sloan of New York City Ballet, and consulted for architects Maggie Peng and Dana Karwas. He has studied dance both in and outside of the academy, most notably with Luis Demalsy, a.k.a. B-Boy Mach3, and Angele M’Paria, a.k.a. B-Girl Angel. This year he participated in the We-B-Girlz 25th Anniversary Breakin’ Event at Lincoln Center as the manager of London’s Flowzaic Crew, guest taught dance with Laurel Dugan at the Dalton School and performed with Mare Hieronimus in TUNDRA at the CoolNY dance festival. Dance blogger, writer, and performer on thewinger.com. SLC, 2006-

Vicky Shick

Vicky is a performer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Company for six years, during which time she received a “Bessie” for performance. She has worked and collaborated with many other choreographers, artists, and musicians. Shick regularly presents her own work in New York City, andhas received a “Bessie” for choreography. Her most recent piece was shown at Dance Theater Workshop in February 2007. In New York, she teaches at the Trisha Brown studio, Movement Research, and at Hunter College. SLC, 2007-

Kathy Westwater

Dance
B.A., College of William and Mary. M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Choreographer and dancer. Choreography presented at Dance Theater Workshop, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Performance Space 122, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, among others. Choreography archived in the Franklin Furnace Archive and the Walker Arts Center Mediatheque Archive. Awarded 2002 Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commission from Dance Theater Workshop and 1997 Movement Research Artist Residency. Published writings include an interview with Merce Cunningham in the Movement Research Journal Millennial Issue, “Technology and the Body,” which she guest-edited. SLC, 2001