Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company's Move-It 2010 Summer Workshop Series
July 26 - August 14, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Instructors:
Kay Andersen received his BA from Southern Utah University and his MA from New York University in dance profession with an emphasis in performance and choreography. For 11 years he was a soloist, participated in the creation of important roles, and taught company and master classes with the Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company. He has performed in well-known venues throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. He performed extensively with the American Folk Ballet and was a member of the company for 24 years. Mr. Andersen has been an Associate Professor of Dance at Southern Utah University for nine years.
Georganne Ballif Arrington (Gigi) gave her first dance concert at the age of 3 in her grandparents' home and waited impatiently for 1 year to begin formal training with Virginia Tanner. She was a full-time dancer with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company from 1979-1981 and the experience continues to inspire and sustain her. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University and taught 3 years as a member of the dance faculty. Gigi taught at the University of Nevada/Reno, the University of Nevada/Las Vegas and Arizona State University. She helped establish the Children's Creative Dance Lab in Las Vegas and the Sierra Repertory Dance Theatre in Reno, and performed with a.ludwigco. in Phoenix. After returning to Utah, Gigi performed with Contemporary DanceWORKS, and in 1996 rejoined the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company as Director of Education.
Rosie Banchero finished her B.F.A. degree as a Modern Dance Major at the University of Utah. Rosie has received numerous scholarships including Tremaine, United States International University, and Repertory Dance Theater Summer Scholarship. She also performed with the original Jazz Girls NBA Jazz Basketball dance team, appeared in TCI Cable, and ESPN commercials. Rosie is a popular choreographer for Utah high school dance companies and she has served as guest faculty for American College Dance Festival, University of Utah Modern Dance Department and Utah Valley University. She recently returned from Africa where she studied African song, dance and drum. Currently she is serving as an adjunct faculty member at Salt Lake Community College and as guest faculty at the University of Utah. Her full time residency is at the Janet Gray Dance Studios and the Repertory Dance Theatre Community School. Rosie has created a new style she calls “afro-jazz-mod-hop”. Her classes are described as high energy, exhilarating and over the top!
Charlotte Boye-Christensen, a native of Denmark, has fulfilled the extremely demanding career of freelance choreographer, teacher and dancer for the past 11 years. She joined Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 2002 to assist in the artistic direction of the company. She received her formal training in London and completed her MFA Degree at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
She has been commissioned to create new works for many companies, including Singapore Dance Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts' Second Avenue Dance Company, the National School for Contemporary Dance in Denmark, and the Royal Danish Ballet School. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and was recently awarded the Choo-San Goh award for choreographic excellence.
Leah Cox has been a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company since 2001. During that time she became keenly interested in Jones' and Zane's early work, performing Mr. Jones' signature solo Floating the Tongue as well as the seminal duet Blauvelt Mountain. She currently acts as the company's Education Coordinator, working to record Mr. Jones' aesthetic and the company's collaborative working method for development as an organized curriculum. She also coordinates and co-creates the company's educational projects and materials. Ms. Cox spent her youth training in ballet, graduating from North Carolina School of the Arts high school dance division. Her dance studies continued at Texas Christian University, where she received a B.A. as a Philosophy major and Religion minor. Her interest in both physical and mental processes has proven a good match for the work of Mr. Jones and his collaborators. Ms. Cox creates her own dance-and-film work under the pseudonym Stella Rabbit.
Jamaika is from Northeastern Brazil, the birthplace of Capoeira. In 1996, 1997, and 1998 Jamaika won the Brazilian Capoeira Confederation Champion-ship - the biggest Capoeira compet-ition in Brazil. In 1997 he received the title of "Professor" in Capoeira, certifying him to teach. In 1999, Jamaika was invited to teach in Israel where he lived for six months. That same year, he was invited to teach in the United States and has been here since. He gives workshops all over the United States, Brazil, and Israel. Jamaika currently lives in Salt Lake City where he teaches and performs. He has extensive experience as a teacher, performer, and musician and would like to continue to reach people through this multi-faceted martial art.
Tom Welsh is on the dance faculty at Florida State University where he teaches dance conditioning, kinesiology, and teaching methods. He also teaches dancers to use the Pilates Reformer to supplement their studio training and advises dancers on injury prevention and rehabilitation strategies. Dr. Welsh conducts empirical research on healthy approaches to training dancers and publishes his work in international journals. Tom is an alumnus of the University of Utah graduate program in Modern Dance.
Accompanists: Mason Aeschdacher, Steven Valdean, Kevin Andersen