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Sarah Gamblin (2016)
Sarah Gamblin is an Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University and a former member of Bebe Miller’s Company. Her teaching and scholarship reside in the intersection of improvisation, performance and choreography. She has been invited to present her work at the New Genre Festival in Tulsa, through Flatlands Dance Theater, the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation and she has served as a guest artist at Barnard College, University of South Florida, Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas. She is a co-coordinator for the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and recently served as a facilitator for the Form In Question Symposium at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. |
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Sandra Lacy (2009 – 2017)
Sandra Lacy is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dancing in London. She has performed with the Maryland Ballet, Impetus Dance Company, Path Dance Company, Phoenix Repertory Dance, James Hansen’s Assemblage Dance Company, ClancyWorks Dance Company, Lorraine Chapman The Company and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company. Currently Ms. Lacy is Co-Artistic Director of Lacy & Shade Solo Duet Dance Works. Ms. Lacy is a recipient of 8 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in Solo Dance Performance. She is a member of the Dance Faculty at UMBC and the Baltimore School for the Arts. In 2008, Ms. Lacy completed the Gyrokinesis teacher training program. Presently Ms. Lacy is working on her teacher training in Gyrotonics and studies in New York with neuromuscular therapist, Irene Dowd. |
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Barbara Mahler (2015)
Barbara Mahler is a 30-year active member of the New York City dance community as a choreographer, performer, body-worker and movement educator; a major contributor in the development and outreach of Klein Technique– a Master Teacher, and the Assistant Director of the Klein School of Dance from 1983-2004- the “motor” of the school, to quote Dianne Madden, current rehearsal director of the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Since 2004, Barbara has been an ongoing faculty member with Movement Research and the State School for Dance and Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark (since 1994), as well as teaching at various studios, colleges and festivals in the greater NY area, across the US, and abroad. She is the recipient of a BAX Award in Arts and Arts Education 2013. |
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Susan Shields (2013 – 2014)
Susan Shields, recipient of the 2006 Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, has created dances on several professional companies and universities. Her work appears in the repertories of Ballet West, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet, Richmond Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, Boston Ballet II, and City Dance Ensemble. She has also created work for Harvard University, George Mason University, University of Richmond and Shenandoah University. She performed nationally and internationally, most recently as a member of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. In addition to performing the works of numerous contemporary choreographers, she was partnered by Mr. Baryshnikov in Mark Morris’ acclaimed dance,”The Argument.” She was also a member of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company for eight years, performing a substantial part of his repertory worldwide. In addition to performing, she assisted Mr. Lubovitch in setting his work on American Ballet Theatre and had numerous roles created on her. She performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group in “The Hard Nut,” and has performed with Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Eliot Feld Ballet New York and the Washington Ballet, where she received her training. Ms. Shields has taught extensively at major universities throughout the world, most recently in China, Korea, and Poland. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from SUNY Empire State and is a Professor and the Director of the Dance Department at George Mason University. |
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Adriane Fang (2016 – 2017)
Adriane Fang is a dancer, teacher and choreographer with a keen interest in multi-disciplinary collaboration. She was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers from 1996-2006 and has worked with several other choreographers including Colleen Thomas, Bill Young, Wally Cardona and Alvin Mayes. She was awarded a 2014 Local Dance Commissioning Project Award from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to present her full-length work, “Grains,” and a 2014 Creative and Performing Arts Award (CAPAA) to perform dances by Wally Cardona and Nancy Bannon in a shared program with Gesel Mason, presented by Dance Place, DC. Recent teaching highlights include being on faculty at the Doug Varone and Dancers Summer Intensive 2015; workshops at the Damansara Performing Arts Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and master classes at the Dance Educators Training Institute (DETI), James Madison University, Shenandoah University and SUNY Purchase. Currently on faculty at the University of Maryland, Adriane is the recipient of a 2007 New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for her performance with Doug Varone and Dancers. |
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Nora Reynolds Daniel (2009 – 2010)
Nora Reynolds Daniel, Pilates Specialist, is originally from Los Angeles where she grew up dancing under the guidance of her mother and mentor, Bella Lewitzky. Nora danced professionally for eleven years, first with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company, then with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Mark Morris Dance Group in New York. Nora lived for 19 years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she raised two sons, taught dance technique, improvisation, and body conditioning at the University of New Mexico, and was Artistic Director of Nora Reynolds Dance. While living in New Mexico, Nora developed a private practice in Pilates, training primarily with Michele Larsson and Celia Hulton, who were both closely connected with Eve Gentry in Santa Fe. In 1998, she became a teacher of GYROKINESIS®exercise. Nora is also certified in Somatic Experiencing®, a therapeutic modality developed by Peter Levine that assists clients in recovery from trauma. Nora has traveled throughout the US, Canada, & Europe, as a guest teacher and choreographer. She moved back to California in 2002 where she has taught at Idyllwild Arts, and California Institute of the Arts. |