DIANNE MCINTYRE
Dianne McIntyre’s 2006 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award Special Citation states, “…for daring to explore new areas of expression by fusing dance, live music, and words; and then to inspire the creative voices of generations of choreographers and dancers.” Her early mentors were Cleveland’s Elaine Gibbs, the faculty of The Ohio State University’s Department of Dance, and, in New York City, Gus Solomons jr and dance presenter Louise Roberts. Her company of dancers and musicians Sounds in Motion (1972–1988) inspired her collaboration with numerous jazz music masters. The company performed in all major dance venues—Joyce Theater, BAM, Dance Theatre Workshop, Aaron Davis Hall, and Lincoln Center—and toured internationally. McIntyre and the Company ran a school in New York City where she cultivated and presented many budding dance artists. Today she continues to create collaborative works, often with blues, jazz, and folk, Bard-man Olu Dara. She has taught at the ADF (1992, 1993, 1995, 2007), Jacob’s Pillow, and the Bates Dance Festival, and has been in residence at countless universities, most recently University of Maryland-College Park, Western Michigan University, Oberlin College, and Howard University. Her choreography has been seen on Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Ensemble, Dallas Black Dance, Philadanco, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and has been seen in 40 plays, including on Broadway and in US regional and London theatre. For film and television she choreographed for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf (PBS), Beloved (Harpo/Disney), and Miss Evers’ Boys (HBO), for which she received an Emmy nomination. McIntyre is also a Helen Tamiris “specialist,” having revived the dance pioneer’s 1937 How Long, Brethren? and performed her Negro Spirituals, reintroducing the arts world and scores of student and professional dancers to the stark power and passion of early modern dance. Awards include three New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Awards (1989, 1997, 2006); two AUDELCO’s (New York Black Theatre); one Helen Hayes award and four nominations (Washington, DC, theater); numerous grants, fellowships, and commissions, including the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Three-Year Choreographers Fellowship. Through a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, McIntyre is currently developing a new choreo-drama and introducing dancers to the improvisational connection between dance and music. (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

RUTH ANDRIEN
Former Paul Taylor Dancer; restages Taylor’s works nationally and internationally; Repertory Etudes Workshop Director for The American Dance Legacy Institute; has taught at the Paul Taylor Studio, University of the Arts, Swarthmore College, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Jacob’s Pillow; guest artist at Brown University, Towson University, University of Arizona, Temple University, University of California-Irvine, Franklin and Marshal College, Ursinus College, Interlochen Arts Academy; Visiting Faculty Harvard University 2007; MFA graduate of HU/ADF Program; ADF faculty since 2006 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

GLENNA BATSON
MA, PT, DSc (Masters in Dance Education and Physical Therapy, Doctorate in Physical Therapy, Neurology); devoted 30 years to evolving creative approaches to movement as catalysts for expression, personal growth, and integral wellbeing; first person to apprentice with Irene Dowd in 1977; internationally recognized teacher in somatic education (Alexander Technique) and dance science; born into a modern dance family (mother with Denishawn and Hanya Holm); founded The Wise Cracks in 2005; ADF faculty since 1986

DOUGLAS BECKER
Former dancer of William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet; restages Forsythe Repertory; choreography has been presented on the stages of Belgium’s Royal Flemish Theatre, Switzerland’s Grand Theatre de Genève, and the Choreographic Centers of Grenoble and Nancy (France); faculty/guest artist at PARTS Brussels, The National Conservatory in Paris, New York University, and University of California-Irvine, among others; returning resident artist in the Hollins University dance department and serving as the Hollins University European Dance Curator for the program’s various international extended study projects; makes his home in Brussels, Belgium; HU/ADF faculty since 2006

RODGER BELMAN
Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at East Carolina University; Artistic Director of Rodger Belman Dance; toured the US and abrod as a member of Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians from 1989–1994; performed in the companies of Twyla Tharp, Mark Taylor, Rachel Lambert, Joy Kellman, Fred Darsow, Freefall, and Kristin Jackson Dance; taught and choreographed for George Mason University, Mary Washington College, University of Georgia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dance Theater of Harlem, Milwaukee Ballet, Kaleidoscope, Ballet Pensacola, and the New York City Board of Education; reconstructor of Laura Dean’s signature work, Sky Light (1982); holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; ADF faculty since 2007 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

DAVID BRICK
Co-Director of Headlong Dance Theater; graduated from Wesleyan University; danced and toured with the Richard Bull Dance Theater; co-directed Madam Douce Amere with Fins for Wings; choreographed Love Unpunished for Pig Iron Theatre Company; dances for Nichole Canuso Dance Company; faculty at Bryn Mawr College; new ADF faculty

JEFFERY BULLOCK
Danced with the North Carolina Dance Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks; trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts; MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa; taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Iowa; joined the Hollins University Dance Program in 2004; Korean Dance Festival 2006; ADF/Korea 2000, 2004; ADF/Russia 2000; ADF/Mongolia 2004, 2005; ADF faculty since 1998 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

 

DONNA FAYE BURCHFIELD
Co-Director of dance program and Professor of Dance at Hollins University; BFA and MFA from Texas Christian University under Jerry Bywaters Cochran; Artistic Director for Hollins Dance Project in Roanoke, VA; awarded numerous grants and fellowships for choreographic work and research projects; has traveled extensively throughout the world, including over 150 colleges, universities, dance programs, and company homes; has received grants and fellowships to extend her research in dance arenas across the globe including Tunisia, Cuba, China, Hong Kong, Italy, France, Germany, and Monaco; ADF Dean since 2000 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

ANANYA CHATTERJEA
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Theater Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota; Artistic Director of Ananya Dance Theatre (www.ananyadancetheatre.org); her book, Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2004; recently performed in Osaka (Dance Box Festival), Jakarta (Indonesian Dance Festival), and Kuala Lampur (Sutra Dance Theater); recognized as one of the “21 leaders for the 21st century,” by Women’s E-News; new ADF faculty

SHANI NWANDO IKERIOHA COLLINS (SNIC)
BA in Dance from Hollins University; MFA in Dance from HU/ADF; performed with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Urban Bush Women, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Nathan Trice/RITUALS, David Dorfman Dance, The National Dance Company of Mozambique, and in Trinidad with Makeda Thomas’s Roots and Wings Movement; 2006 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award; her company, Eternal Works, has presented work at Kumble Theater, Judson Church, Cunningham Studio, Lincoln Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall, Hollins University, St. Marks Church, the ADF, Bates Dance Festival, and at the Performatica Dance Festival in Cholula, Mexico; ADF faculty since 2006 (photo by: Daniel Clifton)

ELIZABETH CORBETT
Former dancer with William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet; teaches ballet, improvisation, and Forsythe repertory for The Forsythe Foundation and independently, nationally and internationally; Dance Development Coordinator for The Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (PARTS Brussels) 1999–2006; former dancer with The Joffrey Ballet and The Milwaukee Ballet; has assisted William Forsythe (The Forsythe Company) and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas); taught for The Cullberg Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet, Impulstanz Vienna, Rosas, Circuit-Est Montreal, New Ballet Ensemble Memphis, Pretty Ugly Dance Company, and Dance Ireland, among others; ADF faculty since 2006

JEFFERSON DALBY
Rock-and-roll piano player; accompanies class using percussion, flute, electric percussion, and many piano styles; bandleader of the Jazzphibians; performed with Fort Worth’s Hip Pocket Theatre, Jubilee Theatre, and Sojourner Truth Players; former accompanist at Fort Worth Ballet, Boston Ballet, and White Mountain Summer Dance Festival; currently accompanies classes at North Carolina School of the Arts; ADF faculty since 1987 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

 

WENDELL COOPER
Dance artist and energy-bodywork practitioner originally from Pittsburgh, currently based in Brooklyn, NY; co-director of Kinesthesia, a research/performance company, with Mathew Heggem; shows choreographed and improvised work in nightclubs, apartments, theaters, and galleries; urban dance style draws from African and Native American traditional dance, break dance, house, and contemporary dance; studied dance and religion at the George Washington University; now dances with nicholasleichterdance and the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company; his website is www.dancingbeam.com; new ADF faculty

BRENDA DANIELS
Currently Assistant Dean for Contemporary Dance at North Carolina School of the Arts; taught at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Hollins University, State University of New York-Purchase, Texas Christian University, Arizona State University, Vassar College, Duke University, University of Noth Carolina-Greensboro, Wake Forest University, California State University-Long Beach, Connecticut College, Stephens College, Sam Houston State University, Cornish College; choreography has been presented by Lincoln Center, the Joyce Theater, and St. Marks Church; received choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; BFA from the SUNY-Purchase; MFA from HU/ADF Program; ADF faculty since 2002 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

THOMAS F. DEFRANTZ
Professor of Theater Arts & Dance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; artistic director of SLIPPAGE Performance|Culture|Technology; organizes the theory and history curriculum of the HU/ADF MFA program; publications include Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance (2002) and Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture (2004); recent works include Monk’s Mood: A Performance Meditation on the Life and Music of Thelonious Monk (2005, National Performance Network Tour 2005); The House Music Project (workshop 2006), a technology-driven exploration of queer black dance; Queer Theory! An Academic Travesty (2006), commissioned by Theater Offensive, Flynn Center, and the National Performance Network; ADF faculty since 2005 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

MARK DENDY
Graduated from The North Carolina School of the Arts in 1983; danced with Martha Graham, Ruby Shang, Pearl Lang, Pooh Kaye, and Jane Comfort; Artistic Director, Mark Dendy Dance, performing at The Joyce, Lincoln Center, PS 122, and the ADF; recipient of the Alpert Award; grants from the NEA, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation; New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award; Broadway credits include Taboo and The Pirate Queen; Off-Broadway credits include Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Drama League Awards for Lippa’s The Wild Party, Miracle Brothers, and Radio City Rockettes; choreography for the Metropolitan Opera’s The Magic Flute (directed by Julie Taymor); guest artist at Oklahoma University; will create a new work for the Washington Ballet in February 2008; working on a musical based on the music of Meatloaf to premiere on London’s West End; ADF faculty 1995–1996

DAVID DORFMAN
Recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship; four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; three fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts; an American Choreographer’s Award; the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard; a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award; the Mid-Career Award from The Martha Hill Fund for Dance; David Dorfman Dance has been produced in New York City, toured extensively worldwide, and enjoyed several seasons at the ADF; work has been commissioned widely in the US and in Europe; as a performer, he toured internationally with Kei Takei’s Moving Earth and Susan Marshall & Co.; ADF faculty since 1995 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

KATHERINE DUKE
Professional debut with the Hawkins Company in 1986; achievements as a principal dancer, teacher of Hawkins technique, and the Company’s rehearsal director led her to becoming the Artistic Director of the Hawkins Company in 2001; asked to set Early Floating on Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project in 2002; produced a concert honoring Ralph Dorazio’s contribution to the Hawkins Company in 2003; presented a series of concerts at Lincoln Center’s Rose Auditorium in 2004–2005; found unexplored works left by Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski through archival research and has begun to enrich the Hawkins repertory with these and her own new works; new ADF faculty

VLADIMIR ESPINOSA
Originally from Havana, Cuba; accompanist and musician-in-residence at Hollins University; graduated from the Escuela National del Arte (ENA) in Cuba in 1985; studied with National Folklorico de Cuba; taught at both ENA and the Casa de Cultura in Havana; performed, taught, and choreographed for Caribeo (Cuba), Koral y Esmeralda (Ecuador), Compania National de Danza en Ecuador (Ecuador), Oril (Cuba), and Rojo Oscuro (Ecuador); has played and toured with Pueblo Nuevo (Ecuador) and Havana Express (Cuba); has toured the East Coast with Solazo, conducting workshops for a variety of high schools and universities; ADF faculty since 2005

ADRIANE FANG
Graduated with honors in Dance and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; member of Doug Varone and Dancers from 1996–2006; worked with choreographers including Bill Young, Colleen Thomas, Wally Cardona, and Clare Byrne; guest teacher at Hollins University; on faculty at the Doug Varone and Dancers Summer Workshops from 2000–2007; has also taught at the ADF Winter Intensive, the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in New York City at Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam, and the 92nd Street Y; presented her first evening of work at Danspace Project in 2005; on faculty at George Mason University; 2007 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for her performance with Doug Varone and Dancers; new ADF faculty (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

DAVID FERRI
Resident lighting designer/technical director at Performance Space 122, 1985–1991; designed for artists including Eric Bogosian, Viveca Vasquez, and Ethyl Eichelberger; New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award winner for lighting of Doug Varone’s Straits, 1987–1988; “Bessie” Award winner for sustained achievement in lighting design, 2000–2001; toured US and abroad with Jane Comfort, David Rousseve, and Doug Varone; production manager for Pina Bausch’s US tour of NurDu in 1996 and Nelken in 1999; ADF Production Manager and faculty since 1996

NATALIE GILBERT
Director of ADF musicians and licensed massage therapist; lives in Durham, where she teaches piano privately and at the Carolina Friends School; previously music coordinator for The Ohio State University Department of Dance; music degrees from Oberlin and The Ohio State University; has composed for choreographers Liz Lerman, Dan Wagoner, Linda Tarnay, Ze’eva Cohen, Sally Hess, and Jessica Fogel; has been on faculty at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and New World School of the Arts; ADF/Korea 1990–1992; ADF faculty since 1981 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

MIGUEL GUTIERREZ
Dance and music artist whose work has been presented in venues such as Dance Theater Workshop, Diverseworks (Houston, TX), Walker Art Center, ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Springdance (Utrecht), and Kampnagel (Hamburg); support from Lambent Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, and Rockefeller MAP Fund; residencies at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Lexington Center for the Arts, and Hollins University; twice a recipient of a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, in 2006 for choreography and in 2002 for dancing with John Jasperse Company (1997–2001); performer with Alain Buffard, Deborah Hay, Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Lacey, Juliette Mapp, Ann Liv Young, and Joe Goode Performance Group; his website is www.miguelgutierrez.org; ADF faculty since 2001 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

MARK HAIM
Artistic Director of Mark Haim and Dancers, 1984–1987, and the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa (Portugal), 1987–1990; BFA, The Juilliard School; MFA, HU/ADF; full-evening dance solo with pianist Andre Gribou, The Goldberg Variations, performed at the ADF, Danspace Project, the John F. Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center Institute, and other venues; Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington; recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer’s Fellowships, and grants from National Performance Network and ArtsLink, Inc; ADF linkage to Chile in 1996 and 2001, and to Argentina in 1998; ADF/Russia 1997; recipient of the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography in 2000; ADF faculty 1993–2000, 2002, 2003, and since 2005 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

JOHN HANKS
Graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, full-time staff musician for the Duke University Dance Program and percussion faculty for the Duke University Music Department; has released three CDs of music for dance; free-lance percussionist performing with many jazz, classical, theater, and contemporary music groups throughout North Carolina, including the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra; performed with many notable artists including Mose Allison, Wu Man, the Glen Miller Band, Tom Harrell, and Mary Lou Williams; music director for Jason Samuels Smith’s performances at ADF’s Festival of the Feet, 2004–2006; more information on his website at www.drumjazz.com; ADF faculty since 1984
(photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

CURT HAWORTH
An expatriate Californian who has lived in New York City since 1988; holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of California-Santa Cruz and an MFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; performed with Lisa Race’s Race Dance from 1993–2000; toured internationally with David Dorfman Dance from 1990–2002 while creating over 15 original roles; his work is shown regularly in New York City; has taught at Movement Research and is on faculty at Dance New Amsterdam (formerly Dance Space Center); currently an Assistant Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia; ADF faculty since 2007 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

ELLEN HEMPHILL
Artistic Director, Managing Director, and co-founder of Archipelago Theatre Company in Chapel Hill, NC; on the faculty of the Duke University Theatre Studies Department since 1993; directed The Trojan Women for Duke in 2005; directed When the Bulbul Stopped Singing for the North Carolina Playmakers (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) in 2007; member of the Roy Hart Theatre of France for 13 years; taught and toured throughout Europe, Japan, Mexico, and the US; emphasizes the consciousness and awareness of voice and movement in the individual artist, student, layperson; currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC; ADF faculty since 1992 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

GERRI HOULIHAN
Associate Professor at Florida State University; faculty member, New World School of the Arts, 1988–1999; Artistic Director of Houlihan and Dancers (HAD), 1991–1999; former principal dancer with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, and Paul Sanasardo Dance Co.; founder/director of Boston Dance Project school and company, 1984–1987; former faculty/guest artist Connecticut College, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Virginia Commonwealth University, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of South Florida, and Boston Ballet; has taught in Brazil, Chile, China, Estonia, Paraguay, Poland, and the Philippines for ADF linkage programs since 1993; ADF/ Korea 1990, 1991, 2002, 2004; ADF/Russia 1997; ADF/Mongolia 2004, 2005; ADF Four Week School Director 2001–2005; recipient of the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching in 2005; MFA from HU/ADF program in 2007; ADF faculty 1981–1983 and since 1989 (photo copyrighted: 2001, Walt Unks)

ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES
Dance and text-work has been performed in New York City and across the US, as well as in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Latin America; work has a foundation in improvisation, contact improvisation, authentic movement, releasing techniques, and vocal work; has collaborated with filmmaker Julie Dash on the video Relatives, which aired nationally on the PBS series Alive From Off-Center (Alive TV); shared a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award with Fred Holland for Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders; ADF faculty 1990–1991, 1993, and since 2005 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

 

JOHN JASPERSE
Lives and works in New York City; has created several short works and twelve evening-length works including Prone (2005), Becky, Jodi, John (2007), and Misuse liable to prosecution (2007); John Jasperse Company has been presented by festivals and presenting organizations in the US, Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan, and Europe; created commissioned works for Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Batsheva Dance Company, and the Lyon Opera Ballet; New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award in 2001; his work has been supported by fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (2003), the Lambent Fellowship in the Arts (2004–2007), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1998), National Endowment for the Arts (1992, 1994, 1995–1996), and New York Foundation for the Arts (1988, 1994, 2000); ADF faculty 2000–2002, 2004–2005 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

ROBERT KAPLAN
Multi-instrumentalist/composer; has worked as a musician in dance since 1976; over seventy of his scores for choreography have been performed throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico by such artists as Mel Wong (30 for Mel), Zeíeva Cohen, Sarah Stackhouse, Senta Driver, Ann Ludwig, Elina Mooney, Susan Marshall, and Douglas Nielsen; currently Professor and Music Director in the Department of Dance at Arizona State University; his book, Rhythmic Training for Dancers, and CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers, are published by Human Kinetics, Inc.; ADF faculty 1995–1998 and since 2003 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

SHARON KINNEY
Performed with Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp; choreographed the movies Popeye and Leap of Faith; was assistant choreographer on I’ll do Anything; produced and directed the documentary From the Horse’s Mouth shown at festivals across the country; teaching credentials include The Ohio State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and University of California-Los Angeles, among others; teaches composition, modern, repertory, and dance for the camera at California State University-Long Beach; ADF faculty 1979–1980, 1984–1987, 1992–1994 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

RAFAEL LOPEZ-BARRANTES
Co-founder of Archipelago Theatre Company (France and US); actor, director, and teacher with the Roy Hart Theatre in France since 1974; his research in Japan and on Spanish Flamenco singing have extensively shaped his approach to voice and movement interdisciplinary training; worked for ten years at the National School of the Art of Puppetry in France; full time faculty member for the Theatre Studies Department of Duke University; in 2002 the Government of Spain appointed him as Honorary Consul of Spain in North Carolina; ADF faculty since 1992

CORBETT LUNSFORD
Improviser, composer, recording artist; BM 2000, Berklee College of Music; Artistic Director of Mysteriam, a Chicago-based collaborative arts project synthesizing video, music, sculpture, and performance; commissioned by dance companies across North America; specialist in technology arts;
new ADF faculty

YVONNE MEIER
Born in Zurich, Switzerland; since arriving in New York City in 1979, has shown her work at The Kitchen, Danspace Project, P.S. 122, and P.S. 1, among others; funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Franklin Furnace; won a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for her piece The Shining; also teaches Authentic Movement and Scores; ADF faculty since 2007 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

 

CELESTE MILLER
Solo performer, choreographer, and writer touring nationally since 1983; her work is a combination of word and movement that plumbs narrative for physical imagery in juxtaposed connections with text; deeply influenced by the aesthetic issues and politics of community involvement in artistic projects; received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, and state arts councils, among others; has been on the faculty of the School at Jacob’s Pillow since 1995; ADF faculty since 2007 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

JENNIFER NUGENT
Co-artistic director along with Paul Matteson of Nugent+Matteson Dance in New York City; danced with David Dorfman Dance from 1998–2007; received a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award; has danced with and for Shen Wei, Lisa Race, Nina Winthrope, Yin Mei, Daniel Lepkoff, and most recently with Martha Clarke; originally from Miami, FL; danced with Houlihan and Dancers and Mary Street Dance Theatre; has taught and performed her own work at universities and venues throughout the US, Korea, Russia, and Vietnam; ADF faculty 1998, 2000–2006

URSULA PAYNE
Choreography has been presented at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, ArtSpace, Movement Research at Judson Church, This Woman’s Work, Downtown Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks series, Jacob’s Pillow Inside Out series, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Joyce SoHo, and The Dance Place in Washington, DC; research interests include Dance Forms of the African Diaspora and womanist theory/performance; staged several works from the Labanotation score, including Donald McKayle’s Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder and Anna Sokolow’s Scenes From The Music of Charles Ives; Associate Professor of Dance at Slippery Rock University; ADF faculty since 2002 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

JILLIAN PEÑA
MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BA from Hollins University; performed in New York City at The Kitchen, Dixon Place, Chez Bushwick, The Chocolate Factory, and Aunts; performed in Chicago at Reeling, Version 06, Around the Coyote, and Gene Siskel; loves performing in works by Ann Liv Young, Eleanor Bauer, Beth Gill, John Jasperse, Miguel Gutierrez, Tere O’Connor, Josh Mannis, and Jack Kent Cooke; American Dance Festival Scholarship Student 2001–2004; member of the band Slow Dance; current interests include trance, devotion, witches, sunsets, fantasy, the unconscious, and you; ADF faculty since 2006 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

PAMELA PIETRO
Assistant Arts Professor at New York University Tisch School for the Arts; BFA from Florida State University; MFA from the University of Washington; performed with Anthony Morgan Dance Company, Michael Foley Dance, RaceDance, and bopi’s black sheep/dances; dancer and rehearsal director for Houlihan and Dancers, 1991–1999; Mark Haim’s assistant for the Saint Joseph Ballet projects; faculty at Florida International University, New World School of the Arts, New York University Tisch School for the Arts, and Dance New Amsterdam; choreography has been presented by Dancespace, Booker School for the Arts, Momentum Danza Company, and Meredith College; certified personal trainer, Pilates instructor; assistant to Irene Dowd; presented research at the Hawaiian Arts and Humanities Conference in Waikiki in 2007; ADF faculty since 1997 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

SHERONE PRICE
Currently an instructor of dance at Agnes Scott College/Moving in the Spirit, in Atlanta, GA, and Georgia Youth Ballet Company; guest teacher for National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami, FL, 2005 and 2007; member of John Gamble/Jan Van Dyke Dance Company, 1991–1995; lecturer at University of North Caraolina-Greensboro, 1988–2001; dancer and choreographer with Greensboro-based Otesha Performing Arts Ensemble, 1989–2000, and Kombankofu Dance and Drum Ensemble 1996–2001; member and choreographer with the Delou Africa Dance Ensemble in Miami, FL; principal with Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble, 1983–present; received his dance training at North Carolina Central University, Duke University, and the ADF; BFA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; MFA from HU/ADF; selected by Talley Beatty to perform his classic Mourner’s Bench at the 1993 Scripps/ADF Award Ceremony; received 1999 Regional Artist Grant to study West African Dance and Drumming in Guinea, West Africa; ADF faculty since 1995 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

NETA PULVERMACHER
Born in Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan, Israel; Juilliard graduate; holds an MFA from HU/ADF; founded The Neta Dance Company in 1987 and tours with the company both nationally and internationally; choreographed over 60 works for her company and for ballet and modern companies in the US and abroad in addition to creating works for numerous universities and schools; on faculty at the University of Florida-Gainesville; invited to the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Free To Rep Project to collaborate with the Limon Dance Company in February 2008; ADF faculty 2001, 2003, and since 2005 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

CLAUDIA HOWARD QUEEN
Has played for 160 dance teachers in New York City and Chicago at the Merce Cunningham, Gus Giordano, and Ruth Page Studios, Tisch Summer Dance Festival, and others; former composer for Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble, Music Theatre Workshop Chicago, and the Dublin City Ballet, among others; former faculty at Denison University and Western Michigan University; current Dance Music Director for Kent State University; guest artist at universities throughout the US; Fulbright Scholar at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan; Grand Prize from American Musical Theatre Festival and three National Endowment for the Arts awards; MFA from New York University; ADF faculty since 2006 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

LISA RACE
Work has been featured at many venues in New York City and beyond; has taught at festivals around the world, as well as engaged in numerous university teaching positions and choreographic residencies; member of David Dorfman Dance from 1989–2000; honored in 1995 with a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for her dancing;  received her MFA from HU/ADF in 2007; on faculty at Connecticut College; ADF faculty 1997–2002, 2004, and since 2006 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

 

KHALID SALEEM
Percussionist, musician; former musical director for the African American Dance Ensemble; lived, worked, and studied in the Ivory Coast; worked and studied with Rose Marie Guiraud, Babatunde Olatunji of Nigeria, Ladji Camara of Guinea (West Africa), Titos Sampa of Zaire, and Les Ballet Africanes; on faculty at State University of New York-Brockport Dance Department; ADF faculty since 1985 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

 

SHODEKEH
Professional beatboxer in Baltimore, MD; taking his art wherever the passion for music takes him; rhythmic travels include collaborating with the worlds of jazz, avante garde, classical, and country; with his vocals alone, can embody the sounds of not only drums, but everything from turntables to sleighbells for a variety of forms including breaking, ballet, and fire dancing; fuses his vocals with the simulataneous instrumentation of flutes and harmonicas; has also presented his talents as an interpreter of curated, visual art at Creative Alliance and as an accompanist for dance at Towson University; ADF faculty since 2007 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

SARAH SKAGGS
Her company, Sarah Skaggs Dance, has toured nationally and internationally with support from six National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, in addition to numerous other grants; trained in Limón and Hawkins techniques as well as several somatic techniques such as Ideokinesis, Alexander, and Body Mind Centering; as a choreographer, her focus has been on the intersection between social and concert dance and the underlying structures common to traditional and postmodern vocabularies; created site specific works that have been performed in gymnasiums, parking lots, and dance clubs; ADF faculty since 2006 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

LINDA TARNAY
Chair of the Department of Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; former Co-Director the ADF Young Choreographers and Composers Program; taught at Bennington College, Connecticut College, and Princeton University; directed Transitions Dance Company; founding member of Dance Theater Workshop; continues as a trustee of that organization as well as of The Yard, where she serves as Artistic Advisor; recipient of the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching in 2007; ADF faculty since 1992 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

KEITH THOMPSON
Danced with the Trisha Brown Company from 1992–2001 and served as rehearsal assistant from 1998–2001; dancer for Creach/Company and tours with the Bebe Miller Company; creating his own work with his company danceTactics; choreography has been featured at the DUMBO Dance Festival, Cool NY Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop Guest Artist Series, the Dance Boom Festival at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, and the Barnard Project at Dance Theater Workshop; MFA Research Fellowship in Dance from Bennington College in 2003; has served on faculties of Shenandoah University, George Mason University, and Temple University; ADF faculty since 2005 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

MICHAEL WALL
Worked with the José Limón Company, Mark Haim, Lisa Race, John Evans, Lucky Kele, David Dorfman, David Grenke, Rudy Perez, Pam Pietro, Pat Mayer, K.J. Holmes, Paulette Sears, Julia Ritter, Randy James, Martha Tornay/East Village Dance Project, Jen Nugent, Wally Wolfgruber, Heather Mcardle, everything smaller, Incidents Physical Theater, Merge Dance, and many others; formed the company ASIMPLESOUND, LLC, with designer Jamie Karczewski, which produces music and resources for dance, film, and other mediums; all of his music and new recordings can be found at www.asimplesound.com; also accompanies for the Bates Dance Festival and works in the Ohio State University Department of Dance; ADF faculty 1999–2004, 2006 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

KEN RAY WILEMON
Percussionist, composer, painter; based in Durham, NC; has accompanied dance at Texas Christian University, University of Texas-Austin, Connecticut College, Hollins University, various ACDFAs, and White Mountain Summer Dance Festival (ongoing); appeared with Stage West, Hip Pocket, and Jubilee Theaters in Ft. Worth, TX;  periodically records with songwriter Val Davis in Vermont; recently created scores for seven dances at North Carolina State University; has produced four CDs of music for dance; currently staff accompanist at Meredith College, Duke University, St. Mary’s School, and  Durham School of the Arts; ADF/Korea 1991–1992; ADF faculty since 1988 (photo: ADF 2007/Gregory Georges)

ABBY YAGER
Member of the Trisha Brown Company, 1995–2002; assisted with the reconstruction of Ms. Brown’s choreography with the Lyon Opera Ballet (France), La Monnaie (Belgium), and Le Festival International d’Art Lyrique (France); directed Set and Reset/Reset projects at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Five College Dance Department, and The Ohio State University; served as guest teacher at PARTS, Korean National University of the Arts, and Le Centre Choréographique National de Rennes et de Bretagne, among others; currently Visiting Associate Professor at The Ohio State University; influenced by studies of yoga, qi gong, and the Klein and Alexander techniques; ADF faculty since 2003 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)

Ming-Lung YANG
Associate professor at The Ohio State University; former Artistic Director of Dance Forum Taipei; choreography has been presented throughout Asia in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore; also in Australia and at the HetMuziektheater (Amsterdam), in Bern (Switzerland), and in the US by Dance Theater Workshop, Taipei Theater, Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Mount Holyoke College, New York University Washington Square Repertory Dance Company, PACE Downtown Theater, and the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation; member of the Trisha Brown Company from 1994–1999; ADF faculty since 2000 (photo by: Noah Hilsendrad)