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BOB BOROSS
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| The performance career of Bob
Boross has spanned dancing in both musical theatre, including the
Broadway revival of "Can-Can" choreographed by Roland Petit, and important dance companies throughout the country. He has
choreographed revivals of "Annie Get your Gun," "Victor/Victoria," "Blood Brothers," “The Pirates of Penzance” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum". Most recently, Bob’s evening length jazz/theatre piece EMPTY SKY…THE RISING, set to twelve songs from THE RISING by Bruce Springsteen, garnered rave reviews in its debut performances at the Two River Theater
in Red Bank, NJ. Other recent choreography include Sweet Release and
Send Your Love for the Just Jazz Dance Company of Tampere, Finland; Love
Come Quick for the Kannon Dance Company of St. Petersburg, Russia; The
Music and the Mirror for the 34rd International Jazz Dance Forum in
Paris, France; and Mercy Street for Jazz Dance LA. | Bob Boross si è espresso nella sua
carriera di danzatore sia nel musical (includendo la rivisitazione di Broadway del "Can Can" coreografato da Roland Petit) sia lavorando come
interprete in importanti compagnie di danza attraverso tutto il paese.
Ha creato nuove coreografie per "Annie Get your Gun",
"Victor/Victoria", "Blood Brothers," “The Pirates of Penzance” e “A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". Più recentemente lo
spettacolo EMPTY SKY…THE RISING, ispirato dalle dodici canzoni di The
Rising di Bruce Springsteen, ha ricevuto plauso dalla critica alla prima
al Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Altre recenti coreografie sono
Sweet Release e Send Your Love per la Just Jazz Dance Company di Tampere,
Finland; Love Come Quick per la Kannon Dance Company of St. Petersburg,
Russia; The Music and the Mirror per il 34° International Jazz Dance
Forum di Paris, France e Mercy Street per Jazz Dance LA. Bob è attualmente Professore Associato di Danza e capo del Dipartimento di Danza dello Stephens College in Columbia,MO. Ha insegnato in Finlandia, Francia, Russia, Gran Bretagna e Messico e naturalmente "coast to coast" negli USA. Per il New York University, ha sviluppato un programma di storia dello studio della danza jazz e dello spettacolo. Come autore è stato pubblicato in tutte le più grandi riviste di danza degli USA. E' stato pubblicato il suo libro "Image of Perfection - The Freestyle Jazz of Matt Mattox", una ricerca sulla carriera di Mattox. Bob e' considerato uno dei pochi insegnanti di danza jazz a livello mondiale esperti per la tecnica Mattox. |

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DAVID CAPPS | |
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David
Capps recently returned to New York City to join the faculty of the
Hunter College Dance Department, after 13 years with the University of
Colorado at Boulder. Before going to Boulder, he danced, taught and
choreographed in New York City for 15 years, performing with a variety of
choreographers, including David Gordon, Gus Solomons, Jr., Bertram Ross,
Clarice Marshall and Elise Long/Spoke the Hub Dancing.
| David
Capps recentemente e' tornato a New York per unirsi alla facolta'
dello Hunter College Dance Department, dopo 13 anni trascorsi presso la
University of Colorado a Boulder. Prima di trasferirsi a Boulder,
e' stato danzatore, insegante e coreografo a New York per 15 anni,
lavorando con vari coreografi tra cui David Gordon, Gus Solomons, Jr., Bertram Ross,
Clarice Marshall e Elise Long/Spoke the Hub Dancing. Il suo modern training e' stato molto diversificato, includendo le tecniche Graham, Cunningham e Limon, tanto quanto balletic partnering, ideokinesis e contact improvisation. Ha insegnanto presso la New York University School of the Arts, the 92nd Street Y, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Arizona, American College Dance Festivals e in tutto il Colorado. |

| His choreography has appeared in New York at St. Mark's Danspace Project, the 92nd Street Y, the Gowanus Arts Exchange, the Living Room, the Cunningham Studio and in Prospect Park. In Colorado, he has received an Artist Fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts, the Colorado Federation of the Arts Innovation Award, and his work has been produced at the University of Colorado, the Space for Dance, the Montrose Pavilion and in showcases in the Denver metropolitan region. | La sua coreografia e' apparsa a New York presso il St. Mark's Danspace Project, 92nd Street Y, the Gowanus Arts Exchange, the Living Room, the Cunningham Studio e in Prospect Park. In Colorado, ha ricevuto un Artist Fellowship dal Colorado Council on the Arts, il Colorado Federation of the Arts Innovation Award e le sue composizioni sono state eseguite presso la University of Colorado, lo Space for Dance, il Montrose Pavilion e durante esposizioni nella region metropolitana di Denver. |
| AMY CHAVASSE | |||
| AMY
CHAVASSE, choreographer, performer and teacher, founded "Chavasse Dance
& Performance" in 1998 to collaborate with her sister Caroline, who was
then a New York based writer, performer and actor. Since then, the
Company has functioned as a vehicle for solo and group projects and
collaborations with a diverse range of artists, including
Peter Schmitz, Lisa Gonzales, everything smaller, Pat Graney,
Paul Matteson, and many other talented colleagues. During her career, she has worked with numerous independent choreographers and performed with the companies of Bill Young and Dancers, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Maida Withers and others. Her own choreography has been presented in Cuba, Lithuania and Austria. | AMY
CHAVASSE, coreografa, danzatrice ed insegnante, ha fondato la compagnia "Chavasse Dance
& Performance" nel 1998 per collaborare con sua sorella Caroline,
che era all'epoca una scrittrice e attrice newyorchese. Da allora la
compagnia ha rappresentato un veicolo per progetti solisti e di gruppo e
per collaborazioni con un variegato insieme di artisti, tra i quali
Peter Schmitz, Lisa Gonzales, everything smaller, Pat Graney,
Paul Matteson e molti altri talentuosi colleghi. Durante la sua cariera, ha lavorato con numerosi coreografi indipendenti e danzato nelle compagnie di Bill Young and Dancers, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Maida Withers. Le sue coreografie sono state rappresentate a Cuba, in Lituania ed in Austria. | ||
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The noted dancer and choreographer, David Dorfman, has said of Amy - "...she
possesses all of the qualities of an important teacher and an important
artist....Amy is clearly one of the most exquisite dancers of our generation."
Jack Anderson in THE NEW YORK TIMES has written - "Ms Chavasse
commands the stage with the authority of a high priestess."
PUNWANI-SUNAWALA
Il termine ballerino mi fa pensare piu' ad un
artista nato e cresciuto in accademia, invece la mia passione
andava e va al di la' del semplice ballo: e' tutta la cultura
hip hop che mi ha sempre affascinato e ha influenzato il mio
modo di pensare e di vivere.
Io ne interpreto il significato attraverso le
onde della break dance, con gli impulsi del popping e gli scatti
dell'electro boogie.... e' il mio modo di comunicare l'energia
che la musica mi trasmette."
Moreno Mostarda nasce artisticamente attraverso
l'hip hop e la break dance. Il suo stile particolarissimo e' il
risultato di una contaminazione tra la street dance e il funk /
hip hop, in cui improvvise sequenze a terra e frammenti di
electric boogie s'intrufolano tra piroette e passi da videoclip. Il suo personale modo di sentire ed
interpretare le vibrazioni suscitate dalla musica, cosi' come
l'attenzione nella scelta delle sonorita' Jazz HipHop, Soul Funk
e R'n'B costituiscono il principale motore delle sue creazioni
coreografiche che sviluppa negli spettacoli dei gruppi da lui
creati - i 2BNAKED ed i FUNK ELEMENT - nelle esibizioni dei "THE
FABULOUS", durante le sue lezioni, ma anche semplicemente quando
balla con gli amici.
ARATI
PUNWANI-SUNAWALA is a freelance choreographer who shot to
national fame in India as one of four finalists on the reality
dance show DANCE DANCE. Arati took her degree in dance
at the Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography and is trained
in Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Belly Dancing, Bollywood and Indian
Contemporary dance. She is founder artistic director of her own
dance troupe, Tarantismo Creative Dance Company.
In reviewing her original show “SEVEN” – conceived
and directed by Arati - Utkal Mohanty in “THE HINDU”, an
important newspaper in Bangalore, had this to say: “….SEVEN
….offered the pleasure of pure dance, but also ….thought and
humour….it established the possibility of dance being used as a
mode of contemporary creative expression, not having to limit
itself to telling ancient tales or blindly imitating Western
movements removed from their culture context….a perfect evening
of intelligent entertainment....a delightful showcase of the
possibilities of a new language that is being created and
moulded by young artists committed to experimentation".
ARATI PUNWANI-
SUNAWALA e’ una coreografa
freelance molto famosa
in India – una dei 4 finalisti nel reality dance show DANCE DANCE.
Arati si e’ laureata in danza presso l'Instituto Natya nel Kathak Dance
e Coreografia ed e' diplomata in diversi stili inclusi Kathak,
Bharatnatyam, Belly Dancing, Bollywood and Indian Contemporary Dance.
E' fondatrice e direttore artistico della sua dance troupe, Tarantismo
Creative Dance Company.
Nel suo commento sul pezzo originale di Arati intitolato “SEVEN”,
Utkal Mohanty in THE HINDU, un giornale importante di Bangalore, disse:
“....SEVEN....offre il piacere di vedere danza
pura, ma anche....riflessione and umorismo....ha definito la
possibilita’ dell'utilizzo della danza come modalita' di espressione
contemporanea non limitata al racconto di antiche storie o cieca
imitazione di movimenti di derivazione occidentale rimossi dal loro
contesto culturale....una serata perfetta di spettacolo
intelligente....un gioioso showcase delle possibilita’ di una lingua
nuova creata e modellata da artisti giovani e dedicati alla
sperimentazione".
MORENO MOSTARDA
"I don't consider myself a ballerino. I'm a
dancer. A dancer who was born in the streets. At 13 years old I carried my boombox to Piazza Colonna and began my dancing
career, there, on the streets of Rome. The term ballerino makes
me think of an artist who was born and raised in academies,
instead, my passion comes and goes beyond that of dance: HipHop
is a total culture that has always fascinated me and influenced
my way of thinking and of living. I interpret meanings while
swimming the waves of a break dance, with the impulses of "popping"
and the clicks and sudden movements of electric boogie. It is my
way of communicating the energy that the music gives me."
Moreno Mostarda's style is a fusion of street dancing and funk/HipHop
in which improvised sequences on the ground and fragments of
electric boogie mix up between pirouettes and videoclip steps.
While developing his HipHop technique, at a very young age,
Moreno began studying and practicing Judo, and in 1984 he
finished second place in the Italian National Championships.
After exploring the martial arts, he decided to devote himself
completely to his great passion - dance and especially break
dance. He studied with the Crazy Gang and appeared with them in
TV transmissions of DISCO RING in Italy.
In 1991 he refined his New Style technique studying with two of
the most noted teachers in the USA, Gus Bembery and Dante Harper.
In 1999 Moreno organized his own group - 2BNAKED - and with
his choreography, the group began appearances in theatres,
festivals and competitions throughout Italy and Europe. WITH 2B
NAKED Moreno has appeared with the noted dance critic Vittoria
Ottolenghi and TV personalities Lorella Cuccarini and Fabrizio
Frizzi.
"Non mi piace considerarmi un
ballerino, ma piuttosto un danzatore, perche' sono nato "in
strada" quando a 13 anni partivo con lo stereo per andare a
ballare a Piazza Colonna, e per questo non posso rinnegare le
mie origini.
DANAH BELLA
Danah received her MFA in Performance from the Ohio State
University and her BA in Dance from the University of
California, Santa Barbara which she studied under Bebe Miller,
Tere O'Connor, Christopher Pilafian and Jerry Pearson. She has
performed with Santa Barbara Dance Theatre, Umoja Dance, Pearl
Ubungen Dancers and Musicians, Alleluia Panis Dance Theatre and
Dancing Earth and has performed the works of Doug Elkins, Karen
Love, Donald McKayle, Bebe Miller, Doug Varone and Edisa Weeks.
In 2004 founded d a n a h b e l l a Dance Works with
longtime collaborator Salvador Barajas. Her choreography has
been presented in festivals throughout the US and Mexico and her
teaching credits include the Bates Dance Festival, Monterey
Dance Fest and the American College Dance Festival. She is
currently on the Dance Faculty at Radford University in
Virginia.
Ha conseguito il suo MFA
in Performance dalla Ohio State University ed il suo BA in Danza dalla
Universita’ di California, Santa Barbara, dove ha studiato con I noti
coreografi Bebe Miller, Tere O’Connor, Christopher Pilafian and Jerry
Pearson. Si e’ esibita con il Santa Barbara Dance Theatre, Umoja Dance,
Pearl Ubungen Dancers e Musicians, Alleluia Panis Dance Theatre e
Dancing Earth e ha presentato coreografie di Doug Elkins, Karen Love,
Donald McKayle, Bebe Miller, Doug Varone e Edisa Weeks.
Dal 2004 lavora con la sua compagnia d a n a h b e l l a Dance Works con
Salvador Barajas, il suo collaboratore. La sua coreografia e’ stata
presentata in tutti gli Stati Uniti ed in Messico. Ha insegnato danza
al Bates Dance Festival, Monterey Dance Fest e presso l'American College
Dance Festival. Attualmente fa parte del Dipartimento di Danza presso
la Radford University in Virginia.
Additional faculty TBA.