Alumni
 Ruth Barnes  Toby Bruno  Jill Chadroff  Kuang-Yu Cheng  Miki Dun  Jeff Friedman  Kristi Hamelin  Laurie Kaden  Kelli King  Carol Lane  Lizbeth Langston  Eric Lorico  Sondra Loring  Juliet McMains  John Medina  Paula Naggi  Cory Nakasue  Cynthia Quinn  Kristen Revier  Maria Paola Reyes  Jennifer Robbins  Anthony Shay  Gay Wayland  Paige Whitley-Bauguess |
RUTH BARNES B.A., English and General Literature, SUNY Binghamton, 1968. Since graduating from UCR, Ruth has been Visiting Guest Artist at the North Carolina School of the Arts (2004-2005) and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Missouri State University Department of Theatre and Dance (2005-2006). She also continue to work in Europe, teaching and choreographing in Great Britain and Switzerland. Latest choreographic work includes "Remember the Ladies" - a dance-and-video collaboration with visual artist Vonda Yarberry, based on writings of four First Ladies. She received her M.F.A. in Dance from the UC Riverside in 2004, and her B.A. in English and General Literature from SUNY Binghamton in 1968. Ruth Barnes was recently appointed Assistant Professor at Missouri State University in the Department of Theatre and Dance.
TOBY BRUNO Toby Bruno is a training consultant based in Jersey City, NJ, who has 10 years of professional service and business process training experience working within different industries. A highly skilled problem-solver, who is familiar in workforce training and believes in the value of distinctive capacity for learning. With proven creativity and motivational ability to influence change and deliver training results, he has an extensive background working for organizations involving business process growth and change transformation. His ability to focus on understanding complex work environments and learn new concepts for creating quality training and job performance tools enables him to have a range of training skills, from instructional design, to training management and training delivery. Recent clients include Cosmetic Essence Inc., Tiffany & Co., City University New York Honors College, Packer Collegiate Institute, New Jersey Department of Education and Morgan Stanley. As a training professional, Toby has helped several companies implement highly effective training projects to improve workforce performance. Before working independently, he was Training Manager on Schering-Plough Helpdesk at C3i, Inc. There he launched a technical certification program to ensure training was adequately measured against job performance. Collaborating with other training managers he was able to promote base level of service quality company-wide through development of employee training programs. He has also coordinated the implementation of management and leadership training programs at MetLife. Toby has prior hands-on administrative and support experience working in public and private companies where he began his career in service and business process work environments. He was raised in the Southwest United States where he worked in the hospitality industry at various regional hotels alongside his father who was an executive chef. His creativity and motivational ability to influence people was improved by earning a B.A in Dance from the University of California, Riverside. There he produced sixteen stage works and earned a fellowship to produce a dance video. In addition, he has an M.A. in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix and a certificate in Training and Organizational Development from New York University. He is a member of American Society for Training and Development and International Society for Performance Improvement.
JILL CHADROFF Jill E. Chadroff is a choreographer, performer, dance historian and educator. Several years of intensive training at UC Riverside was the base, and all that followed has been the shaping and building of a career influenced by many extraordinary people including Linda Tomko, Susan Rose, Susan Foster, Stephanie Gilliland, Stanley Holden, Serge Bennathan, and Ohad Naharin. She received her B.A. in Dance in 1997, where she was among the first of those granted the Maxwell H. Gluck Dance Fellowship. In 2001, she received her M.A. in Dance History from York University in Toronto, Canada, focusing her research on the reconstruction of early eighteenth-century French court and theatre dances. Her contemporary dance work is based on the techniques of improvisation, with an emphasis on making connections between disparate elements. She maintains a strong interest in site-specific choreography, utilizing movement to explore the relationship between public life and artistic expression. Jill has performed professionally with Susan Rose and Dancers, the SideRiver Baroque Dance Troupe since it’s founding by Linda Tomko in 1998, and is currently a performer with the Conejo Civic Ballet Company. She is also a member of Linda Tomko’s Baroque dance troupe, Les Menus Plaisirs, and has appeared as a guest artist with contemporary choreographer, Moonea Choi. In 2004 and 2005, she was a guest teacher at the Southwest Regional American College Dance Festivals. Jill is an instructor at Moorpark College, where she teaches dance history and appreciation, ballet, choreography and dance production. She is also currently enrolled in a teacher credential program, and is pursuing a M.Ed. with an emphasis on English. Photo: Jill Chadroff in Five Minute Piece (photo credit: Robert Salas, 2005)
KUANG-YU CHENG Dr. Cheng returned to Taiwan in 2005 and has been working at Taipei Shi-Chien University. In addition to writing about dance, he has published three books about relationships and communications, and all of them have occupied the best-seller list for several months.
MIKI DUN Miki Dun graduated with Honors while majoring in Dance at the University of California, Riverside with a Chancellor’s Performance Scholarship in Dance. Miki currently completed a two-year tour, traveling around the United States, with the live stage shows “Sesame Street Live” and “Dragon Tales Live” under VEE Corporation. She is also a member of Satori Daiko, a Japanese drumming ensemble. With Satori, Miki united tap and taiko in performances at the Ford Theatre and the Japan American Theatre. Some of Miki’s film and television credits include: “187” starring Samuel L. Jackson, “Gilmore Girls,” “Seventh Heaven,” and the “O.C.” In addition, Miki is pursuing the art of teaching dance at the University of Redlands, Riverside Community College, Village Dance Arts, and Borgata Music House among others.
JEFF FRIEDMAN Jeff Friedman completed his Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory in 2003 and was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Jeff teaches modern dance technique, choreography, Introduction to Dance Studies, and the year-long history sequence for undergraduate B.F.A. and B.A. majors and has been involved in the development of an M.F.A. degree program for the Department. He has been presenting scholarly papers at CORD conferences in Taipei, Taiwan and Montreal, Canada; at oral history conferences in Bournemouth, England and Rome; and most recently in Amsterdam at the European Social Science History conference. Jeff has recently published in the United Kingdom's Oral History Journal, a book chapter in the Oral History Research Handbook, and forthcoming media and book reviews for Oral History Review. Jeff is also continues as senior advisor to LEGACY, his oral history project for Bay Area dance community members, where he helped complete a four-interview video series funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Photo: Jeff Friedman in his solo work, Muscle Memory, based on LEGACY's collection (Savage Photography)
KRISTI HAMELIN With a goal in dance education, Kristi Hamelin (Kooyenga) earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California, Riverside. In addition, Kristi has studied with the Village Center for the Arts in Palm Springs, The College of the Desert, Barat College in Chicago, and Ballet Pacifica in Irvine. Kristi has enjoyed performing in numerous musical theater productions including Will Rogers Follies, Mame, Cabaret and in 2005, Sweet Charity. She is dedicated to sharing dance and the performing arts with the community and has been teaching and choreographing throughout the Palm Springs and Orange County areas for over 15 years. Kristi is married and has a 2-year old daughter.
JILL NUNES JENSEN Jill Nunes Jensen received a Ph.D. in Dance History & Theory from UC Riverside in August 2005. She has a Masters in Dance from UCLA as well as Bachelor of Arts degrees in Dance and Political Science from UC Irvine. At present, she teaches Dance History at Loyola Marymount University and for the LEAP program sponsored by St. Mary's College. She is currently researching Alonzo King's LINES Ballet of San Francisco.
LAURIE KADEN Laurie Kaden has pursued a finely integrated career as a teacher, choreographer, and performer. She began her career in her native Sacramento, and continued her training at the San Francisco Ballet School, the Milwaukee Ballet School, and at the International Ballet Competition School in Jackson, Mississippi. She received her B.F.A. in dance from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1985 and earned a Master of Arts from the University of California, Riverside in 1988. In a seventeen-year career as a dance education specialist, Ms. Kaden has developed strengths in teaching ballet, jazz, and dance history, and has worked with pre-professional dancers of all levels. She has taught around the world at colleges and universities in California, England, Missouri, Taiwan, Virginia, and Washington DC, and at schools in both Germany and Austria. She has taught at Arlington Center for Dance, the Washington School of Ballet, the Universal Ballet Academy, and for the Washington National Opera. A certified exercise instructor, she has also worked in the fitness industry. Ms. Kaden has choreographed major musicals as well as annual concerts of her own work at Episcopal High School -- one of the East Coast’s most elite private, boarding high schools – and at the Catholic University of America. As a performer, Ms. Kaden has appeared on the 2002 Kennedy Center Honors broadcast tribute to dancer Chita Rivera, as well as with the Oakland Ballet, Riverside Ballet Theatre, and the Center Dance Company. Ms. Kaden is an active member of the Society of Dance History Scholars and is an arts education panelist for the City of Alexandria Commission for the Arts. She is currently Academy Director at Ballet Idaho in Boise.
KELLI KING Kelli holds a B.A. in Dance from UC Riverside and an M.F.A. in Dance from UC Irvine. She has been on faculty at Riverside Community College, Mt. San Jacinto College, Idyllwild Arts Academy and San Bernardino Valley College. Kelli has performed with California Ballet Company before investigating other movement disciplines. While living in Boston Kelli was a member of the Boston Dance Collective and Danceworks, performing, touring and teaching on both coastlines extensively. She also studied with butoh master Ushio Amagatsu, performing with Japanese dance/theater company Sankai Juku in a project at Jacob’s Pillow. She has since returned to The Pillow twice with Susan Rose and Dancers. Kelli has been a member of Rose’s company since 1987. She is currently working on her teaching certificate at the Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Program.
CAROL LANE Carol Lane (Tokuhara) graduated from UC Riverside in 1998. While at UC Riverside, she worked for the City of Fontana as a dance instructor in hip hop and jazz. She lived in Fontana after graduation and worked at various dance studios teaching ballet. She plans to open a dance studio and work as a dance teacher. LIZBETH LANGSTON M.A., 1988 Ph.D., 1998 Lizbeth received her M.A. through the Intercampus Program in Dance History based at UCR. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Dance), also from UC Riverside. Her favorite research & dancing interests are in 16th and early 17th century dance & theatre as well as contemporary social dance communities. From 2000 to 2006 she was Corresponding Secretary for the Society for Dance History Scholars. Lizbeth is active in the Southern California contradance, gay-lesbian square dance, and vintage dance communities. She is currently the Head of Information Services and Science Serials Bibliographer at the UCR Science Library.
ERIC LORICO Eric Lorico began his dance training at UC Riverside under the mentorship of Susan Rose and Wendy Rogers, where he received his degrees in Dance and Business Administration. He was a member of Susan Rose and Dancers for six years, and has actively worked with Wendy Rogers on several projects. In 2005, he performed with Wendy Rogers in the Trolley Dances Project in conjunction with San Diego Dance Theatre. Since then, he established DanceParadigm along with John Medina. Together, they have created Spring Back/Fall Forward, which debuted in San Diego in January 2006. Spring Back/Fall Forward is also currently being produced into a dance-for-the-camera film. Eric and John are also re-constructing their 1998 tango duet TangQled Roots…silent Q to be shown at Joyce SoHo, the Berkshire Fringe, and Celebrate Dance Festival in San Diego in summer 2006. Currently, Eric is working for the USC Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles as a Financial Analyst. Photo: Eric Lorico in Spring Back/Fall Forward (photo credit: Elazar Harel, 2006).
SONDRA LORING Sondra Loring attended the University of California in Riverside, receiving a B.A. in Dance with Honors, in 1982. Loring has been dancing in New York since 1982, and received a 1996 Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) as an improviser, writer, teacher and performer, specifically with David Rousseve and Neil Greenberg. Her own work has been produced in NYC, the United States, Mexico and Venezuela. Loring received the prestigious Meet the Composer commission, along with a grant from the US/Mexico fund for Culture for her piece ElPuente/The Bridge. She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, NEA, the Manhattan Cultural Commission, and the James E. Robison Foundation for her choreography. She co-founded the annual Improvisation Festival/ New York, a two-week program of workshops, classes, jams, and performances by improvisors from New York, the United States, Europe, and Canada. She also founded and edited JUICE, an underground dance journal, from 1991 to 1997. She has been a company member of David Rousseve/REALITY, the Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, CoDanceCo, Neil Greenberg, and has performed in the work of David Dorfman, Irene Hultman, Momix, Phyllis Lamhut, Donald Byrd, Donna Uchizono, Vicky Shick, Ann Carlson, and Johanna Boyce. She teaches yoga regularly in New York City and her own centers, Satya Yoga in Rhinebeck and Sadhana Center in Hudson. Her new project with the New York State DanceForce and Danspace Project involves organizing performance and educational experiences for NYC and Hudson Valley dancers and community members. She recently performed her solo, Duck, Duck at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC. Sondra lives with her beloved, Isa and their two rascally sons, Zane and Mateo, on their four-acre farm.
JULIET McMAINS After teaching at Florida State University and the University of Central Florida, Juliet will begin a new position as Assistant Professor in the Dance Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her first book, Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry, will be released in November 2006 by Wesleyan University Press.
JOHN MEDINA John Medina received his B.A. in Dance, with a minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies from UC Riverside in 1999. In 1997, he received a scholarship to study dance at Jacob’s Pillow in Massachusetts, where he was immersed in the repertory of Ted Shawn and Alvin Ailey. He was a member of Susan Rose and Dancers for six years, and was a part of Wendy Rogers’ MAKESHIFT dancing for five years. He has performed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Riverside, New York, Massachusetts, and Mexico. In 2003, John received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, and has worked with the Legal Action Center and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City, and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. In 2005, he returned to California, and is currently the Program Coordinator for the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. Since his return to the west coast, John has performed with Wendy Rogers in the San Diego Trolley Dances, re-inspiring him to create dances with Eric Lorico and creating DanceParadigm as the vehicle to present their work. DanceParadigm has since performed at Sushi’s New Wave in San Diego, and upcoming performances include Joyce SoHo Presents in New York in May 2006, the Berkshire Fringe in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in July 2006, and Celebrate Dance Festival in San Diego in August 2006. Photo: John Medina in Task Force (photo credit: Steve Walag)
PAULA NAGGI Paula Naggi (Paula Naggi-Liniger) graduated from UC Riverside with highest honors in 1977 with a B.A. in Dance. She was the recipient of a Chancellor's Undergraduate Fellowship Award and had the distinction of working with the late Dr. Christena Schlundt as a research assistant. Paula later earned her Masters Degree in Theater with concentrations in Dance History and Choreography from Cal State Fullerton ('87). Paula has taught at several area colleges and universities, including the University of Redlands, where for five years she was the Dance Coordinator, Riverside Community College, and UC Riverside as a guest lecturer in Jazz Dance. Since 1993, she has been on the faculty at Mt. San Jacinto College. Outside of the educational arena, Paula was a contributing choreographer and performer with Dance Theatre West, a collective of dance artists based in Huntington Beach, and was a guest artist performing with several other area companies including Eyes Wide Open Dance Theatre and the Urban Sprawl Dance Artists (now both dark). She has directed and produced invitational concerts, and choreographed many musical productions including Into the Woods, Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Fantastics, to name a few. Paula has also served as a member of the Peer Review Panel for the Riverside Arts Council, reading grant applications and allocating funds.
CORY NAKASUE Cory Nakasue is an interdisciplinary artist and co-artistic director of SPINE, which has produced live theatre and film in North America and Europe since 1999. Nakasue also serves as the company’s acting Executive Director and is a management consultant for arts organizations nationwide including, Murray Spalding Movement Arts, Synthesis Dance Project, and Innerlandscapes Dance Theatre. Nakasue got her start in dance, working with Los Angeles based artists Stephanie Gilliland and Rebecca Bobele, and quickly started producing her own independent choreography which received much attention for it’s unique use of physical narrative. The Los Angeles Times has called her choreography “surgically skillful work that packs an emotional wallop.” Trained formally as an actor and director, Nakasue was inspired to incorporate original text with original choreography, which lead to the creation of SPINE UK in 1998, and the creation of The Ring (1999) and What I’m Taking from John (2000). Both pieces received London arts grants, toured internationally, and are scheduled for US revivals. She continues work as a performer, collaborator and teaching artist with SPINE. Cory is very excited about the new incarnation of SPINE, which will include work with technological media, and has embarked on two multi-media works for the company. She has completed two experimental films, which have been screened most recently at the Millennium Film Workshop and the Independent Filmmakers and Musicians Festival in New York City.
CYNTHIA QUINN Cynthia Quinn, Associate Director of MOMIX, grew up in Southern California. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Riverside and continued there as an Associate in Dance for five years. In 1988 she received the University’s Alumni Association’s “Outstanding Young Graduate Award.” As a member of Pilobolus, she performed on Broadway and throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Israel and Japan. She collaborated on the choreography of Day Two, Elegy for the Moment, Mirage, What Grows in Huygens Window and Stabat Mater. Ms. Quinn began performing with MOMIX in 1983 and has since toured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, South America and Japan. She has appeared in numerous television programs and music videos; and has assisted Moses Pendleton in the choreography of Pulcinella for the Ballet Nancy in France, Tutuguri for the Berlin Opera Ballet, Platee for the Spoleto Festival USA, Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel in New York, AccorDION for the Zurich-Vorbuhne Theatre and Carmen for the Munich State Opera. She has also appeared as a guest artist with the Ballet Theatre Francaise de Nancy, the Berlin Opera Ballet and the Munich State Opera, as well as international galas in Italy, France and Japan. Ms. Quinn made her film debut as “Bluey” (a role she shared with Karl Baumann) in FX2. She was a featured performer in the Emmy Award winning “Pictures at an Exhibition” with the Montreal Symphony and has also appeared in a 3D IMAX film. Ms. Quinn is a board member of the Nutmeg Conservatory in Torrington, Connecticut and is on the advisory board of the Susan B. Anthony Project, also in Torrington, CT. Ms. Quinn was featured with RuPaul and k.d. lang for M.A.C. Cosmetics’ “Fashion Cares” benefits in Toronto and Vancouver. Ms. Quinn is co-choreographer of “White Widow” which is featured prominently in the new Robert Altman film, The Company. Ms. Quinn will also appear in the upcoming film, “First Born,” with Elisabeth Shue to be released this year. However, her most rewarding and challenging role is as a mother to her daughter, Quinn Elisabeth.
KRISTEN REVIER Kristen Revier received her Bachelor’s Degree in Dance from UCR in 1996. She continued her dance studies at California Institute of the Arts (96-97). In 1998, she performed with Jill Chadroff (UCR, Dance 1997) at Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown Los Angeles in the Sense and Sensuality Exhibition. In 2003, Kristen received her Master’s Degree in Choreography with Performing Arts from Middlesex University, London. In London, she co-founded SPINE, a performance collective, along with fellow UCR alumni Cory Nakasue and Gerardo Romero, and with Cal Arts alumnus Brent Felker. They collaborated on projects including The Ring, performed in Resolution! ( London, 2001) and Marató Festival ( Barcelona, 2001). She founded Sweet Nobody, a dance theatre company, in London, and in 2003, she relocated the company from London to the San Diego area. The first project for the company “Pseudo Insanity Challenge,” was presented at Hoxton Hall in London (2002). In San Diego, Sweet Nobody produces primarily solo work that has been presented at Mix Up Project (2004, 2005), and at the Celebrate Dance Festival (2005). She has performed with San Diego dance companies Dunn Razo Dance, Kimberly Gregg, and most recently with Lower Left at Bravo San Diego 2005.
MARIA PAOLA REYES Paola received a B.A in Dance and a B.A. in Latin American Studies at UC Riverside in 2005. Paola was born in Irapuato, Guanajuato (México) and moved to Ventura County in 1989. In 2003, she graduated from Moorpark College with an Associates of Arts degree in dance and liberal arts. She has choreographed and performed in many dance styles including jazz, modern, ballroom, salsa, ballet, tap, hip-hop, and performed in musicals such as West Side Story and Wild On Broadway at Moorpark College. As a student at UC Riverside, she was an active member of Ballet Folklórico of UCR, Salsa Club of UCR, and Musicos Unidos de Latino America. Her most recent choreography was “Embodied Rhythms” performed in spring 2005 for “UCR is Dancing.” In addition, she taught jazz dance classes at UC Riverside. She recently married, moved to San Diego and joined the Ballet Folklorico en Aztlan Dance Company where she is also the Academy Assistant Instructor. In 2005, she performed in the musical The Night Sky for the first time as a lead character. Paola is also working for the San Diego Unified School District at the Harold J. Ballard Parent Center as the Activity Leader for the School Readiness program. In summer 2006. she will be pursuing her M.A. from the University of San Diego graduate program in Counseling with College Specialization.
JENNIFER ROBBINS Jennifer Robbins received her M.A. in Dance History in December 1991. After teaching dance history at Cal State L.A., she moved to Seattle in 1992, where she was dance editor for the theater publication Northwest on Stage. In 1996, she received a Master of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington, and she has worked at Microsoft for the past nine years in various capacities, including media archivist and market researcher.
MELINDA SHANER Melinda received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance, minor in Physical Education from UCR in 1976, and has since owned and operated a dance studio business, Conservatory of Dance and a dancewear store, Studio II Dancewear in Yucaipa, California. She also holds a lifetime Community College teaching credential in Dance and has taught for the San Bernardino Community College system. In July 2006 she sold her businesses and has moved to New Mexico where she plans on re-opening a dance studio/performing group and dancewear store in January 2007. Dance has always been such an important part of her life and the education that she received at UCR was very valuable in so many ways. She was privileged to have had such wonderful instructors that helped her to become the successful teacher she is today for this she is truly grateful to the UC system and the people that she worked with during her years at UCR.
ANTHONY SHAY Dr. Anthony Shay, choreographer and founding Artistic Director received the “Outstanding Dance Publication” award from the Congress on Research in Dance for the year 2002 for his second book Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press), which was also singled out by the Kurt Weil Foundation for Honorable Mention. He received a coveted 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his new book to be published in the fall of 2006 on immigrant dance in America, and the prestigious California Arts Council Lifetime Achievement Award for his “Immeasurable Contributions to Dance” in 2001. He received a James Irvine Foundation Choreographic Fellow award during the first round in 1998 and a phase II Irvine Fellowship in 2001. In 1977, he founded the AVAZ International Dance Theatre, now celebrating its 29 th anniversary. Shay holds a Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory from the University of California, Riverside and he also earned M.A. degrees in anthropology and folklore and mythology from California State University, Los Angeles and UCLA. He is the author of the books Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World (Mazda Publishers 1999), Choreographic Politics (2002), and co-editor and contributor (with Barbara Sellers-Young) of Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy (Mazda Publishers, 2005). His most recent book, Choreographing Identities: Dance, Ethnicity, and Festival in North America (MacFarland & Company) was published in 2006. He has published numerous articles in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Dance, the Journal of Iranian Studies,Dance Research Journal, the Journal of Visual Anthropology, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Mahour Musical Quarterly (in Persian), and the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. For 50 years he has produced over 200 choreographies of traditional and world dance. In 1998, Dr. Shay received the highest award for choreography in California, the James Irvine Foundation Fellowship Award. In 1999, he received the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles Lester Horton award for Outstanding Achievement for the Staging of Traditional Dance. In 2000, the California Arts Council awarded him a choreographic fellowship. He is a five-time recipient of choreographic fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2001, Shay received the second-phase James Irvine Foundation Fellowship in Dance to create a new choreography “Nights in the Alhambra,” based on the research he conducted with funding from the James Irvine Choreographic fellowship. He has recently been awarded the prestigious Social Science Research Council Fellowship to conduct research in the Middle East. In 2002, the California Arts Council awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award for “His Incomparable Service to the Art of Dance.”
GAY WAYLAND After graduating with a B.A. in Dance, Gay Wayland went on to receive an R.N. and an M.B.A. She currently lives in Encinitas, California. She is a member of a halau (hula school), and occasionally take tap and ballet at the local community college.
PAIGE WHITLEY-BAUGUESS Baroque dance soloist Paige Whitley-Bauguess interprets, recreates, and performs Baroque theatre dance in venues all over the world both as a soloist and with her dance partner Thomas Baird. Highlights include repeat concerts with the Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, the reconstruction of the courtly entertainment Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos in Tokyo and Shizuoka, Japan, and Bailles e Danzas, a program created especially for performances with Chatham Baroque. A recent review in The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC) described a performance by the duo as "...a window on the past...like being caught in a musical and theatrical time warp that reached my eyes and ears as a soft-focus vision of a quite spectacular moment in the history of western performance art." Paige is a frequent guest director and choreographer for the Opera Theatre Department at East Carolina University where she directed Mozart’s Il re pastore in 2006 and Handel’s Acis et Galatea in 2004. In February 2006 she served as Guest Director and Choreographer at the Peabody Conservatory of Pastorale & Masque - Miniature Masterpieces from the Dawn of Opera. In New Bern, NC, Paige teaches historical dance and ballet, and directs the Baroque Arts Project, Atlantic Dance Theatre, and two historical social dance troupes (youth and adult). She has produced two Baroque Dance DVDs, Introduction to Baroque Dance–Dance Types, funded in part by an NC Choreographer’s Fellowship, and Dance of the French Baroque Theatre, released in July 2005. She also publishes Dance Music of the French Baroque, performing editions of music to accompany notated dances. Whitley-Bauguess holds an MA in Dance History from the University of California, Riverside and a BFA in Ballet from the NC School of the Arts where she also attended high school. You can visit Paige online at www.BaroqueDance.com.
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