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Pearlann Porter

Pearlann Porter is an improvisational performing artist, visual-conductor, physical-poet and experimental filmmaker. She is a passionate instigator of new ideas in dance and an investigator of physical expression. 

Pearlann is the Founding Artistic Director of the improvisationally-based dance company The

Nicole Hennington

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Nicole Hennington spent her first two decades in Arizona where she graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Finance. During this time, she also studied with Nederlands Dans Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, chuthis.,

Rena Butler

Rena Butler hails from Chicago, IL. She began her studies at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, studied overseas at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Rena danced with companies including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Peter Chu

Peter Chu was born in the Bronx, NY, & raised in Cocoa Beach, Florida. He began his training as a competitive gymnast, later nurturing his artistry at Dussich Dance Studio. Upon graduation from The Juilliard School, he performed with BJM Danse, EZdanza, Aszure Barton & Artists, Kidd Pivot,

Antonio Brown

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Antonio Brown is the artistic force behind AntonioBrownDance, a native Cleveland, Ohio, where he began his dance training at the Cleveland School of the Arts and received his BFA from The Juilliard School. While there, he had the opportunity to perform works by Jose Limon, Ohad Naharin, Jiri

James Gregg

Colorado born, Oklahoma raised. James Gregg is now an international choreographer.

He has created choreographic works on Whim W’Him, Danceworks Chicago, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Ballet X, Northwest Dance Project, Nashville Ballet’s Emergence, Springboard Danse Project Montreal, River North Dance Company, Elements Contemporary Ballet, and L’Ecole Superieure de Danse de Quebec.

Most recently, James was the

Dianne McIntyre

Dianne McIntyre is a Cleveland native and has choreographed works for film, television, Broadway stage and London the-ater, as well as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Cleo Parker Rob-inson Dance Ensemble. Her work appears in the feature film, Beloved and award-winning movie Miss Evers’ Boys for which she received an Emmy nomination. McIntyre

Banning Bouldin

About

Banning is a Nashville native, who received her BFA in dance from The Juilliard School in 2002. She spent the first eight years of her career working internationally with some of her field’s most renowned companies, dancers, and choreographers including The Cullberg Ballet, Mats Ek, Johan Inger, Hubbard Street 2, Lar Lubovitch Dance

Monica Bill Barnes

About

Monica Bill Barnes (Artistic Director/Choreographer) founded MBB&CO in 1997 with the mission to celebrate individuality, humor and the innate theatricality of everyday life. Her work has been performed in venues ranging from Upright Citizen’s Brigade to Carnegie Hall and has been presented in more than 75 cities throughout the US.  Current projects include a

Adam Barruch

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Adam Barruch

Adam Barruch began his career as a young actor, performing professionally on Broadway and in film and television, working with prominent figures such as Tony Bennett, Jerry Herman and Susan Stroman. He later received dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts. After

Loni Landon

About Loni Landon is a Dancer, Choreographer, and Movement Consultant based in New York City. In addition to creating dances for her own collective Loni Landon Dance Projects, her work is commissioned by dance companies and film makers across the country.

Born and raised in New York City, Landon received her BFA in Dance from The

Kate Weare

About Kate Weare is recognized as a preeminent American choreographer whose dances are lucid, layered and visually sophisticated yet speak with emotional clarity to a broad swath of viewership. Raised by a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, California, Weare draws on visual art sources, language, poetry, contemporary music, psychology and nature

Eric Handman

Eric Handman is an American choreographer and an Associate Professor at the University of Utah’s Department of Modern Dance. Prior to receiving his MFA from the University of Utah in 2003, he earned a BA in English from Skidmore College in 1991. He was a member of New York Theatre Ballet and

Ronen Koresh

About Ronen (Roni) Koresh is a choreographer, teacher and collaborator whose unique blend of ballet, modern and jazz leaves audiences dazzled by the raw passion that is infused into his movement. He formed Koresh Dance Company in 1991 and quickly established an international reputation for highly technical and emotionally charged work. Koresh has choreographed for

Gina Gibney

Highly sought-after by a wide range of performing arts institutions, Gina Gibney’s work has been featured in recent years by such venues as Danspace Project (New York), White Bird (Oregon) the Yale Repertory Theater (Connecticut), L’Agora de la Danse (Montreal, Canada), and Internationale Tanzmesse (Dusseldorf, Germany). Ms. Gibney has been honored with the Northern

Aeolus Quartet

Praised by the Baltimore Sun for combining “smoothly meshed technique with a sense of spontaneity and discovery,” the Aeolus Quartet is committed to presenting time-seasoned masterworks and new cutting-edge works to widely diverse audiences with equal freshness, dedication, and fervor. Violinists Nicholas Tavani and Rachel Shapiro, violist Gregory Luce, and cellist Alan Richardson formed the

Steven Snowden

Steven Snowden creates music for a diverse array of settings including theater, dance, film, multimedia installations, and the concert stage. He has focused much of his recent work on interdisciplinary collaboration and remains active as a performer in both acoustic and electronic music. Raised in rural Southwest Missouri, Snowden began composition studies in 2002, received

Robert Moses

About Choreographer And Founder/Artistic Director, Robert Moses’ Kin

Since founding Robert Moses’ Kin in 1995 in San Francisco, choreographer Robert Moses has created numerous works of varying styles and genres for his highly praised dance company. His work explores topics ranging from oral traditions in African American culture (Word of Mouth, 2002), the life, times, and

Johannes Wieland

A native German and former principal dancer with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and Berlin’s State Opera, he established his company, Johannes Wieland, in New York in 2002. Since then, he has been developing a singular body of work that has garnered critical acclaim from The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice,

Rosie Herrera

 

Rosie Herrera is a Cuban-American choreographer based in Miami whose beautifully surreal work is captivating audiences and critics nationally and creating a place not only for herself in the national dance scene, but also for Miami.

Rosie is a graduate from New World School with a BFA in Dance Performance. She has been commissioned by The

Amy Miller

About The creative concept of the Miller work entitled, “Way Leads to Way” was inspired by the main springs of a clock that  when wound manually, tighten. A tightly wound clock stores and releases a kinetic energy which paralells the disparate path of our our everyday lives.

The new work’s creative concepts also include a  lighting design

Noa Zuk & Ohad Fish

Performance: Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof in “Double Vision” Sunday, July 7 at 2:00 p.m.

CSU Arts Campus, Middough Building Box Studio, 1901 E. 13th Street

Free, reservations required by calling 216-751-0088

Work-in-progress Special Showing of new work being created
for GroundWorks DanceTheater Friday, July 12 at 5:00 p.m.

CSU Arts Campus, Middough Building