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2013 Choreographers and Dancers |
 David Fernandez was born in Mexico City where he began his training at the
Centro de arts y Ballet. After receiving a scholarship to Giordano Jazz
Dance in Chicago, he immigrated to the United States. While performing
with the company, he began creating contemporary works for performance
in art galleries and alternative spaces. During his dancing career he
performed with Chicago’s Boitsov Classical Ballet, Lyric Opera of
Chicago. Ballet Theatre of Chicago, and he performed alongside Mikhail
Baryshnikov in the play “The Doctor and The Patient” at the 2004 Lincoln
Center Festival. In 2008 he was commissioned to create a solo for
Joaquin de Luz (NYCB) for the original “Kings of Dance”, which premiered
at the National Opera House, Kiev. He has created works for many
principal dancers from American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet.
His other commissions include the Kings of the Dance Tour, Dance Theatre
of Harlem Ensemble, Youth America Grand Prix, Opera North, Staten Island
Ballet, and the Vassar Repertoire Dance Theatre, Joffrey Ballet School –
NY and Some Dance Company. In 2011, David directed and choreographed the
short film “White Shirt, Black Tie, Black Pants XXS", which premiered at
the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2012. His
previous films include “Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear”
(2009) and “Icarus APR” (2009). He also teaches in several ballet and
contemporary summer programs in the United States and Mexico.
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 Susan McCullough is a native of Columbus, Ohio. She graduated
from the high school program of the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1969
and shortly became a founding member of the North Carolina Dance Theatre. She
joined the Harkness Ballet in 1972 and in 1974, as Jiri Kylian became the director,
she joined Nederlands Dance Theatre (NDT). Over the next nine years with NDT Ms. McCullough
was an original cast member in Kylian’s “Sinfonietta”, “Symphony in D”, “Symphony of Psalms”
and of other choreographers such as Hans Van Manen, Glenn Tetley and William Forsythe.
She became a company teacher and Ballet Mistress for NDT in 1980. Returning to the
United States in 1984 Ms. McCullough was a guest teacher and staged Kylian’s repertory
for The Joffrey and The Royal Winnipeg. In 1986 she was appointed the Director of the Pittsburgh
Ballet School. In 1988 she was appointed the Dean of The School of Dance of the North Carolina
School of the Arts, a position she held until 2008. She “retreated” to the faculty of the School
of Dance at (U)NCSA in 2008. Susan has choreographed and restaged over thirty works since
returning to the USA in 1984 for the North Carolina Dance Theatre, The Pittsburgh Ballet
Theatre, the Tallahassee Ballet, SUNY Purchase and the North Carolina School of the Arts to
name a few. She was the recipient of the Pennsylvania Arts Council Choreographer Grant in 1987.
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 Kitty McNamee - is from Houston, Texas and has her BFA from the
University of Texas, Austin. She is the artistic director of Hysterica
Dance Company, a consistently prolific and invigorating force in the LA
dance community. She was recently commissioned to create a work for the
LA Ballet’s NextWave LA and by the LA Philharmonic to create
choreography for its “Firebird” Symphony for Youth concerts. Recent
highlights with Hysterica include 12th Annual Dance Camera West Dance Media Festival at the Getty, Minimalist Jukebox with The LA
Philharmonic at Disney Hall, hysterica
x (celebrating the company's 10th anniversary) at the
Ford Amphitheatre and performances at REDCAT, LACMA, Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion and Highways. Kitty's work includes original productions for LA
Ballet, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and LA
Philharmonic. She also brings her passion and unique voice to
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| 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
tenth 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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Men: Allen Abrams – Festival Ballet Theatre Grigori Arakelyan – Nevada Ballet Theatre David Barocio – Oklahoma City Ballet Orlando Canova – Ballet Austin Roberto Cisneros – BalletMet Christopher Nachtrab – Sacramento Ballet Preston Swovelin – San Diego Opera Rex Wheeler – Sacramento Ballet Women: Alexandra Cunningham – Sacramento Ballet Alissa Dale – Nevada Ballet Theatre Amanda Diehl – Louisville Ballet / Momix Jennifer Drake – Dance Theatre of Tennessee Shira Lanyi – Richmond Ballet Isha Lloyd – Sacramento Ballet Alessa Rogers – Atlanta Ballet Elizabeth “Liz” Walker – Los Angeles Ballet |
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All photos by Robert Salas and David Friedman |
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