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2018 Choreographers and Dancers |
 Kevin
Jenkins has choreographed for State Street Ballet, St. Louis Ballet,
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Island
Moving Company, Big Muddy Dance, Western Ballet, Dimensions Dance
Theatre of Miami, Bellingham Repertory Dance, and the School of Ballet
Arizona among others. His choreography has been performed on the
Inside/Out Series at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and at West Wave
Dance Festival in San Francisco. From 2006-2012 he was artistic director
of Garage Contemporary Ballet alongside Ryan Orion Beck in San Diego.
Dance Magazine has praised his work as "riveting" and he is currently on
faculty at Boston Ballet School. He has also served as an instructor for
Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Master Ballet Academy, Endicott
College, and the University of San Diego.
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 David
Justin was formerly a principal dancer with Birmingham Royal
Ballet, a soloist with San Francisco Ballet and beginning his career
with Boston Ballet, David Justin is a choreographer, ballet master, and
a Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of
Missouri – Kansas City, BFA in Performance and Choreography. He has
toured the globe extensively and has a broad repertoire that includes
principle roles in the classical repertoire and choreographers including
Ashton, Balanchine, Bintley, Caniparoli, de Mille, Forsythe, Kylian,
MacMillan, Morris, Taylor, Tharp, Tudor, Robbins, and Welsh. David’s
dancing was described as “alluring and mercurial,” “polished,”
“brilliant,” and “fearless.” David’s own critically acclaimed
choreography has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts,
National Choreographic Institute (NYCB), Dance Gallery NYC, Ballet
Builders, American College Dance Association, International
Choreographer’s Showcase, and several universities and performing arts
schools. Presented with international acclaim, reviews of his
choreography describe it as “surprising,” “poetic,” “athletic,”
“inventive,” and “intelligent.” David is also on faculty at the Kansas
City Ballet School and travels regularly as a guest choreographer and
teacher.
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 Ilya
Kozadayev, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, received his
early dance training from Vaganova Ballet Academy, The School of American
Ballet, Academy of Colorado Ballet, and John Cranko Ballet Academy in
Stuttgart, Germany. Ilya danced professionally as a soloist with Colorado
Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet and the Houston Ballet in
2013. In 2000, Kozadayev was a winner of the New York International Ballet
Competition. Ilya began choreographing for Houston Ballet’s choreography
showcase in 2011, and went on to create original work for Houston Ballet
II, Kansas City Ballet, Festival Ballet of Providence, Milwaukee Ballet II
and Tulsa Ballet II. In the Fall of 2015 Mr. Kozadayev won the Ballet
Arkansas Visions Choreography Competition. In 2017 Ilya created his
original version of Romeo and Juliet for Festival Ballet Providence. Most
recently, Houston Ballet II performed Ilya’s choreography in a gala
celebration of John Neumeier’s Yondering’s 20th anniversary, on the stage
of the Hamburg Opera House, and in Cannes, France for the 2017
International Meeting of the Junior Ballets. From 2013 Kozadayev served as
Assistant Professor of Ballet at the University of Oklahoma School of
Dance, and in 2017 joined the ballet faculty of University of North
Carolina School of the Arts. Mr. Kozadayev holds an MFA degree in
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 Mariana
Oliveira is originally from Brazil. She studied at the Royal
Academy of Dance in London, and was a trainee dancer at the National
Dance Company of Wales. At the age of 19 she was invited to perform with
the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami. In 2009 she founded The Union
Project Dance Company. She has been commissioned to create new works for
the Richmond Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Joffrey
Ballet Academy, Ballet Arkansas, and A&A Ballet. Mariana is a recipient
of the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship, as well the Kansas
City University Choreographic Fellowship. Her works have also been
presented at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and for 2 consecutive
years she has been a finalist of the McCallum Theatre Choreography
Festival. Mariana taught at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Brazil (the
only Bolshoi School outside Russia) for the dancers of the Youth
Company.
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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
fifteenth 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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| 2018 Dancers | ||
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Women: Jocelyn “Josie” Green – Dayton Ballet Ashley Hathaway – Carolina Ballet Tessia “Tess” Lane – California Ballet Elise Pekarek – Ballet Austin Lauren Pschirrer – Smuin Ballet Maggie Rupp – Sacramento Ballet Sarah Joan Smith – Kansas City Ballet Jordan Nicole Tilton – Diablo Ballet Men: |
 2018 NCI dancers |
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All photos by Robert Salas and David Friedman |
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