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Event
Choreographer's Showcase
CHOREOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE JULY 2016
SATURDAY JULY 30 AT 8:00 PM
SUNDAY JULY 31 AT 2:00 PM
AT SPECTORDANCE
3343 PAUL DAVIS DRIVE, MARINA, CA
FEATURED CHOREOGRAPHERS
JEE EUN AHN AND TRACI KLEIN LAREDO, TX
TERRONIQUE BROWN SAN JOSE
MARIKA BRUSSEL SAN FRANCISCO
CLAIRE CALALO - BELMONT
JADE CLAYTON PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
YAO DANG SAN MATEO
ANGELA DICE NGUYEN SAN FRANCISCO
ELTON DOMINGUE AND ANTHONY ELLIS MARINA
RACHEL GOREN CARMEL
RACHEL LOPEZ SANTA MONICA
ROBERT LOWMAN EL GRANADA
DEBORAH SLATER SAN FRANCISCO
TICKETS
Adult $20
Children 12 & under & Seniors 65+ $15
Family Package 5 tickets purchased together/$75
Bring-a-friend Package 10 tickets purchased together/$120
www.brownpapertickets.com or call 831.384.1050
SpectorDance is proud to present the semi-annual Choreographer's Showcase. Come and see world-class dance right here on the Monterey Peninsula. This event brings an eclectic mix of choreographers together to share their original works and provides a unique opportunity for diverse artists and audiences to come together to share the beauty and power of contemporary dance. In this way, local audiences are introduced to cutting edge choreography and dance that they might not have the chance to see otherwise. This event offers something for everyone and is always an audience favorite.
Choreographer Bios
Jee Eun Ahn is a choreographer, performer, and educator from Seoul, Korea. She holds a MFA degree in Dance Performance and Chorography from Florida State University. She formally trained at Yewon School, Seoul Arts High School, and Korea National Ballet School, and majored in Dance Education at Seoul National University. When Jee was in Korea, as the co-artistic director of the Ainos Dance Company, she choreographed and danced at prestigious festivals both at home and abroad. Her works have been invited to and performed at various dance festivals and conferences including the Wave Rising Series, Sans Limites Dance, Dumbo Dance Festival, KoDaFe, NewGrounds, Of Bones/Mouthfull REVERB Dance Festival, and more. Her recent work was selected in the top 9 out of 230 pieces and presented at the 2015 Women in Dance Leadership Conference. She currently teaches at Texas A&M International University.
Terronique Brown is the Artistic Director and Choreographer for Live Dance Collective. She began her dance training at the age of 9 in Atlanta, Georgia at Dance Moves Dance Academy under the direction of Sahar Coleman. Where she competed in various styles of dance and won many national titles. She continued to dance throughout her childhood. At 14, she was invited to participate in the prestigious Alvin Ailey summer intensive. As a student at Georgia Southern University, she was a member of of the nationally ranked Southern Explosion Dance Team from 2006-2008. She also cheered on the championship winning competition squad from 2008-2010. She also served as the Director of Dance at Spirit & Truth Worship Center, and she also had to opportunity to choreograph several musicals under the direction of Mical Whitaker. She is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor in the Bay Area.
Marika Brussel is a San Francisco based teacher and choreographer. She trained on scholarship at Joffrey Balley and performed with their concert group. She also performed with Ballet Theater of New Mexico, Mapoles Ballet and other companies. Her work has been performed by Ballet Theater of New Mexico, Berkeley Ballet, Emote Dance Theater, and at festivals around California.
Jade Clayton started her dance training in Doncaster, England, at a local dance school. By the age of 11 she was accepted into The Royal Ballet School with a full scholarship where she successfully completed the full eight year program. Highlights include performing Paquita pas de trois at Buckingham Palace and touring Mexico and the U.S.A with The Royal Ballet Company in her graduate year. Upon graduating she was offered a contract with The National Theatre Ballet of Prague (now known as Czech National Ballet). There she danced for seven seasons, working her way up the ranks to become a soloist. Her repertoire includes the corps of many big ballets, soloist roles such as pas de trois and the Hungarian princess in Swan Lake, Napoli pas de six, Tchaikovsky pas de deux, Waltz of the flowers, Arabian dance and Sugar plum fairy in The Nutcracker along with others. She also had the opportunity to dance the title roles in Goldilocks and Cinderella and played Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. Following an injury and a change of heart, in 2013 Jade decided to change professions and become a teacher. She has been teaching at The First International Ballet School of Prague for the past two years. She also takes on private students and has been a guest teacher at Guest Teacher for Royal Scuola di Danza, Italy.
Yao Dang is originally from Beijing and looks forward to a lifetime in dance as a performer, creator and educator. Yao began her professional dance training at age 11 at the Secondary School at Beijing Dance Academy. She received her BFA in Dance degree with an Honors Award for Excellence in Performance from Beijing Normal University. Recently, Yao earned her M.F.A. in dance at Mills College, California, and in 2015, she received the Mills Dance Department Outstanding Performance Award. Yao has performed works by Wanjiru Kamuyu, Kara Davis, Lenora Lee and Merce Cunningham (staged by Holley Farmer) and has studied under Molissa Fenley, Donald Byrd, Stefanie
Batten Bland, Jaqulyn Buglisi, Zvi Gotheiner, and Elisa Monte.
Rachel Goren has been dancing and performing with SpectorDance since she was five. She found a love for choreography after choreographing for Carmel Highs Dance Company in 2014. Since then she has used multimedia to help express her artistic visions and has won the choreography award two years in a row. She graduated from Carmel High School in the class of 2016 and will be going to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, this fall to study environmental science with a minor in dance.
Traci Klein is originally from Sarasota, Florida and holds a BFA in dance performance from Southern Methodist University where she performed works by Paul Taylor, Mary Cochran, Agnes de Mille, and Larry White. During her MFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she had the pleasure of working with Jill Johnson, who restaged a work by William Forsythe, and with Ronald K. Brown. While in NYC, Ms. Klein was a soloist with the Martha Graham Ensemble and performed with CorbinDances, James Martin Music/Dance, OpenProject, Loteria Performing Arts, and Sublime Dance Company. She has taught master classes internationally, and has presented choreography in New York, Spain, Mexico, and France. She is a certified Mind Body Dancer yoga instructor with the Perri Institute for Mind and Body and is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas A&M International University.
Robert Burns Lowman trained in classical ballet at Susan Hayward School of Dancing, earning Distinction for his Advanced II RAD Vocational Examination. He then studied modern technique, choreography, and costume design while earning B.A.s in Dance and Theater at U.C. Berkeley. Robert has performed in works by Katie Faulkner, Scott Wells, Marit Brook-Kothlow, Becky Robinson-Leviton, Sophie Needelman, Erin Reynolds, Jen Schaefer, and Rosalia Lerner. He has also danced the roles of Nutcracker Prince and Russian Ribbons in Carlos Carvajals The Nutcracker for Peninsula Ballet Theatre. Robert's own choreography has been presented at SHSD, The Garage SF, LEVYsalon, and PBT, and his costume designs have appeared in Amara Tabor-Smith's work in Berkeley Dance Project and in Rosalia Lerner's Unfinished People. Robert is a recipient of the Mask and Dagger Memorial Prize and the Rosalyn Schneider Eisner Prize.
Angela Dice Nguyen, raised in Somerset, PA, earned a BFA in dance from Point Park University under the direction on Susan S. Stowe. Angela spent three seasons with Danceworks Chicago, let by Artistic Director Julie Nakagawa, before relocating to San Francisco in 2014. She has had the pleasure of working with choreographers such as Kyle Abraham, James Gregg, Joshua Manculich, Robert Moses, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Ahmad Simmons, and Demis Volpi, among others, and she currently performs with San Francisco Opera and Tanya Bellos Project.b. Angela founded The MoveMessenger(s) in 2015 as a vehicle to create alongside other artists from the Bay Area and beyond.
Deborah Slater (Director/Choreographer) has worked in dance and theater for over 30 years. She is the Artistic Director of Deborah Slater Dance Theater, celebrating 27 years in 2016 and Studio 210, celebrating 36 years in 2016! DSDT does visually gorgeous, acrobatic, talking dance, and is dedicated to exploring social issues through collaborations in dance, text and music. Selected awards include two 2016 IZZIEs - a Special Achievement Award and a Visual Design Award, selection for the 2016 Co-Lab by the SF Dance Film Festival, the 2015 Della Davidson Prize for Innovations in Dance/Theater, 9 NEA Fellowships, two previous IZZIES (and several nominations). Slater was on the Executive Committee of the Djerassi Board for 6 years. Her films have been included in the 2015 SF Dance Film Festival and the 2015 Tiny Dance Film Festival. This year DSDTs Studio 210 Residency Program celebrates its 5th cycle, offering free space, mentorship and performances to up and coming and mid-career artists. She would like to thank all the extraordinary dancers, collaborators, supporters, studio partners & audiences, without whom, none of this would be possible. Your willingness to jump off cliffs as I back up talking continues to give us all inspiration and faithwww.deborahslater.org
MAJOR DONORS AND MAJOR SPONSORS: Community Foundation for Monterey, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, California ArtsCouncil, Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, Echenique Foundation, Monterey County Weekly Fund, Harden Foundation,Richard William Greenberg Foundation, Tanimura Family Foundation, S.T.A.R Foundation, Arts Council for Monterey County, Dunspauch-Dalton, Barnet J. Segal, Carmel Rotary, Puffin Foundation, Yellow Brick Road, Jim & Karen Fanoe, Margaret Duflock, Judy Williamson, Kevin & Mary Murphy (Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund), Hal Eastman, Nick & Catherine Fanoe, Ron Chen & Diana Huang, Susan Rosen, Susan Franklin, Harriet Mittledorf, Karen & Jay Cook, Christina Pike, Solar City, & many other businesses & individuals.
Photo Credits: Sledge TV and ProjectLight
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3343 Paul Davis Drive
Marina, CA 93933
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