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Choreographer application for NCI Discovery 2025 Submit your choreography material via email of your resume/bio, list of works and any press materials, along with video links of your work. Email application to Molly Lynch. Deadline for submission is January 10, 2025 |
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2024 Choreographers |
 Charles
Askegard has had a long and distinguished career as a dancer,
director and choreographer. He joined the American Ballet Theatre under
the tutelage of Mikhail Baryshnikov, where he performed leading roles in
major full-length ballets and worked with legendary choreographers Twyla
Tharp, Glen Tetley, Natalia Makarova, and Agnes de Mille to name a few.
After ten years with ABT, he joined the New York City Ballet to further
his artistic goals. He performed there as a Principal Dancer for
fourteen years where he had the opportunity to work under Jerome Robbins
and Peter Martins and dance a large number of the classic Balanchine
ballets in the repertory. Upon leaving the New York City Ballet, he
formed a company, Ballet Next, whose mission focused on producing new
work. While there, his work was seen at The Joyce Theatre, BAM Fishman,
Vassar College and the British Virgin Islands. He is now currently
employed with the Philadelphia Ballet as Rehearsal Director where he has
choreographed for both the Philadelphia Ballet, and the Philadelphia
Ballet II. Most recently, he has been named the Dance Artist in
Residence of the Performance Garage in Philadelphia for the 2025 season,
which is a choreographic position. His work has been presented by
companies, Universities, summer festivals, schools and ballet galas,
across the nation and also in the movie John Wick III. |
 Cherice
Barton, an accomplished choreographer, director, and educator,
currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Following a decade-long
tenure as a contemporary ballet dancer, Cherice rose to prominence as
the resident choreographer for Franco Dragone's Le Rêve Cirque spectacle
in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the years following, Cherice followed her
curiosity which led her to develop a choreographic portfolio spanning a
diverse array of projects, boasting collaborations with Aspen Santa Fe
Ballet, The Grammy Awards, America's Got Talent, Lucasfilm Animation,
Dancebreak Broadway Showcase, Rosin Box Project, and Spotlight Grand
Finale at the Music Center LA, among others. As an educator, Cherice has
been sought after to speak and conduct masterclasses at various
institutions such as the Juilliard School, USC Glorya Kaufman School of
Dance and Marymount Manhattan College, to name a few. Her dedication to
education is exemplified by the establishment of Axis Connect, a
non-profit, bi-coastal educational platform she co-founded with her
sister Charissa. This initiative serves as a crucial link between
aspiring dancers and the professional dance industry, fostering a
supportive community where artists can explore diverse career options.
Currently, Cherice is the recipient of the Dancers Transition Center's
retraining grant, with a focused effort on advancing her expertise in
live and televised entertainment as a Creative Director. A multifaceted
force in the creative arts, Cherice Barton continues to inspire and
uplift, leaving an enduring legacy in the realms of entertainment, dance
and education. |
 DaYoung
Jung, a former Principal Dancer and current Rehearsal Director at
Oklahoma City Ballet, is from South Korea. Jung trained at Moscow’s
Bolshoi Ballet Academy and graduated with honors from a master's degree in
Ballet Pedagogy. Throughout her career, Jung performed the title roles of
many of the great classics, such as Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake,
and The Sleeping Beauty, as well as works by George Balanchine, Jirí
Kylián, Septime Webre, Twyla Tharp, Michael Pink, Robert Mills, and many
others.Transitioning away from the stage, Jung became a Rehearsal Director at Oklahoma City Ballet. She is also a dance educator who has been invited as a panelist by Ballet Des Moines to speak on moving arts and dances in April 2022 and called upon for her expertise as a judge at ADC/IBC final in 2023. She has quickly established herself as an award-winning choreographer. She was invited to present her work “Dissipation” at The Five Moons Dance Festival in August 2021. The following year, she was invited again to present – this time with her work, “Composition”. In 2022, “Vignettes” was chosen as the audience’s favorite of the Milwaukee Ballet’s competition Genesis: International Choreographic Competition. Her most recent work, “There, Never There.” was performed by Oklahoma City Ballet in 2023 at the Ballet Under The Stars, a free performance for the entire Oklahoma City metropolitan area at Scissortail Park. |
 Donna
Salgado is a dancer and choreographer working in New York City,
and is the founder and directing artist of Continuum
Contemporary/Ballet. Donna’s formal ballet training began under Tatiana
Akinfieva-Smith and continued as a member of the Eastern Shore Ballet
Theatre. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Towson University and
an MFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase, and spent summers training at ABT,
CPYB, NYSSSA Ballet, and Lines Ballet. As a performing artist, she’s
worked with the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, Eglevsky Ballet, Connecticut
Ballet, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Sierra Nevada Ballet, Thomas/Ortiz Dance,
David Fernandez’s Some Dance Company, Deborah Lohse’s ad Hoc Ballet, and
Marika Brussel, among others, and has danced in works by George
Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Geoffrey Holder, Edwaard Liang, Gabrielle Lamb,
and Juanjo Arques. Continuum Contemporary/Ballet aims to expand the role
of creativity in ballet by engaging in processes that encompass
experimentation, collaboration, new vocabularies, and design. Donna’s
choreography has been presented and/or commissioned by the Jacob’s
Pillow Dance Festival (3 seasons), Bryant Park, Columbia Ballet
Collaborative, Counterpointe Festival for Women Choreographers, Latin
Choreographers Festival, 92nd Street Y, Newport Dance Festival, Brooklyn
Ballet, Nacre Dance Group, Princeton University Ballet, Harvard Ballet
Company, and the Ballet on the Beach Festival. She’s participated in
creative residencies at Sky Hill Farm Studio, Windhover, and, in 2024,
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. |
| Lighting Designer | ||
 Monique L’Heureux is an award winning lighting designer who has been
working in the field of dance for over two decades. This year, she is celebrating her
sixteenth collaboration with artistic director, Molly Lynch.Past designs include: Ma Cong’s French Twist for Smuin Ballet; Molly Lynch’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Anjani Ambegaokar’s Made in Mumbaii at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center; The Motion Picture and Television Fund event featuring Chita Rivera, Dick van Dyke, Shirley MacLaine, Hugh Jackman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Hudson, and others; Charles Moulton’s Ball Passing piece in Fall for Dance at the Orange County Performing Arts Center; Robert Sund’s Alice in Wonderland; the National and Pacific Festivals of Regional Dance America; the summer season at the Hollywood Bowl; and associate design work on the Universal Studios’ Magical Starlight Parade in Osaka, Japan. She attended Pepperdine University and received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, after which she apprenticed at the Los Angeles Music Center’s Mark Taper Forum. She has taught for the dance departments at Loyola Marymount University and Moorpark College and the theatre department at El Camino College.She is the recipient of four Lester Horton Dance Awards. She is an accomplished artist and photographer whose work has been shown in galleries including the Long Beach Public Library’s Art on Display, the Carl Broderick Gallery, VIVA Gallery, Long Beach Arts Center, City of Brea Gallery, and The Stage Gallery, as well as a permanent installation in the Glendale Adventist Medical Center. She is a member of United Scenic Artists. www.artanddesigns.net |
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 Hannah
Andersen is a costume coordinator, theatre technician, and
recent college graduate, receiving her BA in Theatre Technology from
Chapman University in 2021. Some recent projects she has had the joy
of working on are Freaky Friday the Musical, Zanna Don’t!,
Native Gardens, Our Town, and Tartuffe as the costume
shop liaison and wardrobe supervisor at Chapman University,
Million Dollar Quartet and American Mariachi as a hair
and makeup technician at South Coast Repertory Theatre, The
Nether as the costume designer at The Wayward Artist, The
Feast as a hair and makeup technician with Long Beach Opera,
and Newsies as a dresser and stitcher at 3D Theatricals.
She loves working with all things costume, hair, and makeup within
the performing arts and entertainment industry and is delighted to
be on board this project as a costume coordinator for NCI |
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2024 NCI Dancers |
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Women: Iori Araya – Ballet Memphis Anwen David – Ballet Memphis Celeste Gaiera – Richmond Ballet Brooke Gilliam – Atlanta Ballet Amelia Grubb - Ballet Des Moines Elizabeth “Lizzie” Kanning – Ballet Idaho Ahna Lipchik - Indianapolis Ballet Emily Speed – Ballet Idaho
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 2023 NCI dancers |
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2023
Choreographers Kristopher Estes-Brown Ye Li Ian Schwaner Carrie Ruth Trumbo |
2022
Choreographers Emily Adams Leiland Charles Jennifer Hart Gina Patterson |
2021
Choreographers Sean Aaron Carmon Mari Meade Katarzyna Skarpetowska Eva Stone |
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2019
Choreographers Julia Feldman Alan Hineline Alex Ketley Tom Mattingly |
2018
Choreographers Kevin Jenkins David Justine Ilya Kozadayev Mariana Oliveira |
2017
Choreographers Suzanne Haag Robert Mills Penny Saunders Christopher Stuart |
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2016
Choreographers Tom Gold Nicole Haskins Stepanie Martinez Ben Needham-Wood |
2015
Choreographers Nicolas Blanc Norberto De La Cruz Jimmy Orrante Sarah Tallman |
2014
Choreographers Barry Kerollis Gabrielle Lamb Philip Neal Garrett Smith |
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2013
Choreographers David Fernandez Susan McCullough Kitty McNamee Petr Zahradnicek |
2012
Choreographers Melissa Barak Thang Dao Darrell Grand Moultrie Wendy Seyb |
2011
Choreographers Brian Enos Heather Maloy Peter Pucci Paula Weber |
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2010
Choreographers Anne Marie DeAngelo Helen Heineman Viktor Kabaniaev Peter Quanz |
2009
Choreographers Sidra Bell Deanna Carter Rick McCullough Olivier Wevers |
2008
Choreographers Amy Seiwert Edmund Stripe Emery LeCrone Ma Cong |
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2007
Choreographers Melissa Barak Frank Chaves Edwaard Liang Jerry Opdenaker |
2006
Choreographers Ron De Jesus Graham Lustig Charles Moulton Gina Patterson |
2005
Choreographers Val Caniparoli Christopher d'Amboise William Soleau Luca Veggetti |
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2004
Choreographers Ann Marie DeAngelo Peter Pucci James Sewell Lynne Taylor-Corbett |
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