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REMEMBER/REVISIT/RESTART STACEY CARLSON has been showing solos in New York and New Mexico since 1999. Her most recent work, At the Candy Store was performed at One Arm Red and Bindelstiff Family Circus on 42nd Street. At One Arm Red she was chosen to participate in RedFest to collaborate with other artists from different disciplines. Because of this process she was then asked to choreograph for Proto-Type Theatre’s Three Ring, which is showing during the month of April at Walkerspace. About that piece the Taos News (New Mexico) wrote “capping it all off will be Stacey Carlson…The Tom Waits tune serves as a springboard for Carlson’s awe-inspiring physicality.” Stacey graduated from Webster University with a BFA in dance. She has competed nationally in rhythmic gymnastics and took second place in the National Society of Arts and Letters Modern Dance division. She has performed in Notre Dame de Paris in Las Vegas, NV; toured the US with a circus (theatrical type) and crash tested products at the New Victory here in NY. Aside from these productions Stacey has been a member of the Gail Gilbert Dance Ensemble since 1997 and Li Chiao Ping Dance since 1999. JUMPING AND JIVING WITH SWING YVONNE CURRY, bornin Richmond, Virginia, received her B.A. on Dance from Brooklyn College. She worked internationally for fifteen years training dancers, singers, and actors for television, stage, and theater. She was the Tap Instructor/Choreographer for the Ballet of venevision (Channel 4 TV) in Caracas, Venezuela. Ms. Curry was also Jazz Instructor/Choreographer for the Leona Laviscount School of Dance and Antenna 3 television in Milan, Italy. She is a Board member and former Co-President of the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and media and a member and former Board member of the American Dance Guild. Other memberships include the International Tap Association and Theatre Resources Unlimited. As a choreographer for television and theatre, Ms. Curry is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and has served on the FACC Committee of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. She is also a Teaching Artist with the New York City Department of Education and a faculty member of the Third Street Music School Settlement and the Harlem School of the Arts. TONES AFTERTONES KIM DOOLEY graduated from Vassar College in 1991, and received an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1999. She has been on the faculty at the Third Street Music School Settlement for 12 years, and is the founder and director of its Third Street Dance Company. She also helped found the Classical Ballet program at elementary school P.S. 188 in Lower Manhattan. She has presented her choreography at various NYC venues, most recently at Dixon Place's Underexposed Festival in March. She was a guest choreographer for the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre, which premiered BOUND in March '03 at the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie, NY. She is delighted to have had this opportunity to work with the students from LIU CW POST again. Her latest creation is her son Micah, who is 18 months old. GOING, GOING … HOME CHERYL HALLIBURTON’s career spans both coasts. She began her professional career performing in the works of several Bay Area choreographers before joining the modern dance company Full Circle and later collaborated with four other dancer/choreographers to form the jazz dance company known simply as The Group. Cheryl choreographed and co-produced various dance concerts under the auspices of H & H Productions, a company formed with fellow dancer Debra Hunt. She began her teaching career at various Bay Area dance studios, as well as at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. After moving to east to Philadelphia, Cheryl continued to teach and choreograph. She joined Craig (Spider) Moore’s afro-centric New World African Dance Theater where she became the principal dancer and eventually the dance captain and assistant to the choreographer. After moving to New York, Ms. Halliburton turned her focus and attention toward academia. She has been an Adjunct faculty member at Nassau Community College and is currently an Associate Professor at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus where she is also the Director of the Dance Program. She has been the Director and Coordinator of the Saturday Dance Adventures for Kids Program (sponsored by Long Island University), a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Institute and for the Institute of Arts and Culture of the Tilles Center, and the co-Artistic Director of the Post Concert Dance Company, the resident dance company of the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance at C.W. Post. She is a member of both SORAC (Society of Research on African Culture) and CORD (Congress of Research in Dance) for which she has written scholarly papers on her research interests. Her research explorations delve into the African influence on and in American culture, in general, and dance, in particular. Her most recent paper was presented in Lisbon, Portugal on post-modern choreographer Rennie Harris and his use of hip hop culture as both community and concert dance. Despite her academic interests, Cheryl has continued to perform and choreograph. She has performed with the Halliburton Dancers and with Cara Gargano and Dancers. She has choreographed for her LIU students, for the students of Jericho High School and the Third Street Music School Settlement in Manhattan. For the musical Into the Woods, she was the choreographer and assistant director for the Post Theatre Company production. Professor Halliburton believes that the arts are essential in understanding where and how we “fit” into our society. As a proponent of African aesthetic practices and philosophies, she believes there is no difference among the arts, or between art and education. An admirer of contemporary philosopher John Maeda, Halliburton often references Maeda as explanation of how and why the different facets of her life fit together: “Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered ‘useless,’ will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.” (NY Times, Science Times Section, 11/03). DARK NIGHTS KANJI SEGAWA began his training with his mother Ericka Akah in Japan and studied with Kan Horiuchi’s unique Ballet Theatre in Tokyo. Kanji was granted a Japanese Government Fellowship to study in the Untied States where he went on to train at the Alvin Ailey School. While attending the school, he was awarded the Coca Cola Scholarship. He has been a member of Alvin Ailey II, JenniferMuller/The Works, Peridance Ensemble, and Earl Mosley’s Diversity in Dance. Kanji was also a guest artist at the Cumberland County Playhouse, playing the role of Mr. Mistoffolees in the musical Cats. He is currently a member of Robert Battle’s Battleworks Dance Company in New York City. Dark Nights is being shown at Joyce SoHo on April 24-25, in DAYS OF DIVERSITY, a showcase featuring 13 of new York City’s most interesting emerging choreographers. THAT PERCH UPON A JOHN-MARIO SEVILLA is the Director of Education for New York City Ballet. The department is responsible for educational and outreach presentations for current and new audience members as well as for curricular partnerships and residencies with schools throughout the New York metropolitan area. Mr. Sevilla has an MA in Arts and Arts Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in English from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has been a master teacher both in the United States and abroad to dancers of all ages and levels. In addition to his facilitation of dance education programs, his primary focus as a dance teacher is the cultivation of composition, improvisation and ensemble performing skills. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Sevilla was a performer, choreographic collaborator, rehearsal director and teacher for Pilobolus, for which he toured internationally and appeared on several national telecasts. He has also worked with choreographers Lisa Giobbi, Nikolais and Louis, Shapiro and Smith, Janis Brenner, Anna Sokolow and Bill Cratty; juggler Michael Moschen, film animator Laura Margulies, poet John Unterecker, and Navajo sandpainter and healer Walking Thunder. Mr. Sevilla’s choreography has appeared in New York City at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bouwerie, Columbia University, ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and The Asia Society. SORRY, WRONG NUMBER DAVYD H. SUBER JR. has just finished directing and choreographing Smokey Joe’s Café at Cockpit in Court in Essex Maryland where he was also at the helm of Ain’t Misbehavin’. He has directed and choreographed a variety of theme park shows across the United States, including Texas, New Mexico, Florida, Ohio and New York. His choreography credits include Cycles for the National Theatre in Washington, DC and Sophisticated Ladies and Damn Yankees for the Towsontown Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently the resident director/choreographer for Dancegod ONE Productions and dance director at Supreme Dance and Gymnastics in New York City. His choreography has been featured on Entertainment Tonight. |
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