Laurence is a native of Virginia and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. During his senior year, he toured nationally with the Agnes DeMille Heritage Dance Theater and upon graduation was asked to join the North Carolina Dance Theater. After two seasons with...
Colin Connor is a choreographer whose over forty commissions span the worlds of contemporary, ballet and flamenco companies. Mr. Connor has had his work presented at numerous venues across the Americas and Europe, includingthe Momment’Homme Festival in Montreal, The Holland Festival in Den Hague...
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Iain has worked as a designer and productionmanager/stage manager as well as performer and director across all genres ofperformance and in theatres throughout Australia and touring Europe and North America.His principal interest is in Lighting Design and he has...
Cox is a composer, violinist, and collaborator known for performances of his own works and those of other contemporary composers. As director of The Robin...
Glen is a native of California, he studied at Calarts in the early '70s with Mia Slavenska, Donald McKale, and Bella Lewitsky, He toured nationally with Margalite Oved dance company, based in Los Angeles, and with Kathryn Posin dance company, New York City. He joined Netherlands Dance Theater...
Grant Gorrell earned his B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He has worked professionally with the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in New York, the Glendale Centre Theatre, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Alex Theatre and has served as the Resident Scenic...
Prior to joining the faculty at CalArts, Ed Groff was Assistant Director of the Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts, a theater and producing organization in San Francisco. Groff served as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Modern Dance at the University of Utah from 1997...
Lydia Harmon graduated from California Institute of The Arts in 1986 with herBFA in Dance and The University of AZ in 2010 with an MFA in Theatre Arts,Costume Design. She began her professional costuming career in 1989 designingcostumes for The Magic of David Copperfield's television specials...
Stephan Koplowitz is an award winning director/choreographer/media artist known for his work on stage, film and site. His site work aims to alter people’s perspectives of place, site, and scale, all infused with a sense of the human condition and is concerned with the...
Donna Krasnow is a full professor in Dance at York University, Toronto, and a lecturer at California State University, Northridge. She has choreographed, taught, and performed professionally across the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. She founded the professional dance...
Sharon Lam was born in Hong Kong and began studying piano at the age of seven. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Music Education from The Texas State University. Sharon is also a certified Yamaha Music Education System instructor and a member of the Music Teacher...
Mark attended the State College of Arts in Krasnoyarsk, Russia and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano. In 1984, he attended the State Conservatory in Tashkent, Russia and received a Masters Degree in Piano and Music Subjects. As a student of the Conservatory, he began...
Joanna Malfatti is a drummer/percussionist and educator residing in Southern California. She earned her BFA and MFA in music from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where she studied with esteemed drummers Joe LaBarbera, Randy Gloss, John Bergamo, Aaron Serfaty, and...
Natalie Metzger is an award-winning choreographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She uses the body and technology to create abstract narratives in highly aestheticized environments. Her work has been recognized across the US and internationally with such honors as the HARC Foundation’s 2011...
Teresina Mosco was born in Pasadena, California and received dance training locally from an early age. She studied with Bella Lewitzky, Donald McKayle, and Mia Slavenska in the first year of California Institute of the Arts. She then went on to Monte Carlo where she...
Stephanie Nugent is a choreographer, performer, and educator with special interest in dance/theater and improvisational dance forms. Artistic Director of Nugent Dance, a vehicle for her creative work in solo performance and group choreography, she has also enjoyed a performing career since 1991...
Yelena Osinova was born in Yerevan, Armenia. While living in Baky, Azerbaijan, she studied at the Music School for Talented and Advanced students as a piano major. She continued her education at the Conservatory of Baky from 1975-1980 where she received her Master’s Degree in Music Theory and...
Francesca N. Penzani started her studies in theatre at Teatro Viaggio and Comuna Baires in Italy. She moved to London in 1983 where she studied mime with Ronald Wilson and graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 1991. She performed with independent contemporary choreographers in U.K....
Roberta Shaw is an L.A.-based dance and media artist. Roberta has collaborated as filmmaker and video artist for numerous choreographers including: Victoria Marks, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Lynn Dally, Maria Gillespie, David Rousseve, Sara Wookey, and Bebe Miller. Her own works have shown at Dance Camera...
Andre Tyson, a native of Greenville, North Carolina, began his training at the School of the Garden State Ballet and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater/Joan Weill Center for Dance. He is a former Principal Dancer and Company Teacher with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and also a...
Zari Wigfall is a performance and visual artist who works in and around live theater and dance. Zari is best known for her work throughout the LA area, in the South of France and in the Nahata Dzill area of the Navajo Nation.
After completing her BFA degree in...
Cynthia Young received her training with the San Francisco Ballet and at the University of Utah. Joining Ballet West at the age of 15 she became the youngest principal...