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State High School Dance Festival 2015 Utah Dance Education Organization State High School Dance Festival 2015 Adjudicator and Master Class Teacher Bios Ashley Anderson is a choreographer based in Salt Lake City. This summer she was awarded the Mayor’s Artist Award for Service to the Performing Arts at the Utah Arts Festival. Her recent dances have been presented locally at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, the Rio Gallery, the BYU Museum of Art, Finch Lane Gallery, the City Library, the Utah Heritage Foundation’s Ladies’ Literary Club, the Masonic Temple and Urban Lounge as well as national venues including DraftWork at Danspace Project, Body- Blend at Dixon Place, Performance Mix at Joyce SOHO (NY); Mascher Space Cooperative, Crane Arts Gallery, the Arts Bank (PA); and the Taub- man Museum of Art (VA), among others. Her work was also presented by the HU/ADF MFA program at the American Dance Festival (NC) and the Kitchen (NY). She has recently performed in dances by Ishmael Houston- Jones, Regina Rocke & Dawn Springer. Teaching includes: the American Dance Festival Six & Four Week Schools, Hollins University, the University of Utah, Dickinson College Dance Theater Group, University of the Arts Con- tinuing Studies, Packing House Center for the Arts, the HMS School, the Virginia Tanner Dance Program, Salt Lake Community College and many high schools and community centers. Ashley currently di- rects “loveDANCEmore” community dance events using the resources of ashley anderson dances (a registered 501c3). Her projects with loveDANCEmore are also shared in Utah’s visual art magazine, 15 BYTES, where she serves as the dance editor. She holds B.A.s with honors in Dance and English from Hollins University as well as an M.F.A. in Dance from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival program under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. ashleyandersondances.com — lovedancemore.org Megan Brunsvold is a dance and theater artist formerly based in New York City who has been performing, choreo- graphing, and teaching throughout the country for the past 15 years. Originally from North Dakota, she received a Master’s Degree from the University of Washington and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah. Throughout her career she has had the pleasure of collaborating with exceptional artists in concert dance, theater, and opera. One of the highlights of her career was performing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Some of her educational work includes serving on faculty for 6 years at Trollwood Performing Arts School in Minnesota, and as re- hearsal director and instructor in the Young Dancer’s Pro- gram at Summerstages Dance Festival in Massachusetts. Utah Dance Education Organization State High School Dance Festival 2015 Adjudicator and Master Class Teacher Bios ALEXANDRA JANE BRADSHAW originally hails from the Ca- nadian Rockies, but has spent her more recent years danc- ing in Israel, San Francisco, London, New York City, and Houston. She holds a BFA in Dance and a BA in Literature from the University of California, Irvine and additionally stud- ied at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, The Ailey School NYC, and YogaWorks NYC. Before joining Ririe- Woodbury Dance Company in 2011, Alexandra performed internationally with Rami Be’er, Todd Courage, Robert Mo- ses, Janice Garrett, Catherine Galasso, David Dorfman, and Loretta Livingston. An active certified yoga teacher since 2006, she also teaches dance and choreographs for diverse populations ranging from disabled children to col- lege students to senior citizens throughout Utah, the United States, and abroad. Alexandra has collaborated with fellow Salt Lake City artists Liberty Valentine, Ashley Anderson, Ma- son Aeschbacher, and Brad Beakes for both live perfor- mance and dance film. Mary Lyn Graves is a dancer, teacher, and choreog- rapher originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Now in her third season with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company (Salt Lake City, UT), she has performed throughout the United States in works by Doug Varone, Jonah Bokaer, Johannes Wieland, Alwin Nikolais, Martha Graham, Daniel Charon, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and Ka- role Armitage. Mary Lyn has taught dance and move- ment across the country to diverse groups ranging from elementary-aged children to college students to senior citizens and has led master classes at Colorado State University, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Wichita State University, and Brenau Universi- ty in Georgia. Mary Lyn trained at the University of Ok- lahoma, from which she received a BFA in Dance in 2012, and at the Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Educa- tion. Utah Dance Education Organization State High School Dance Festival 2015 Adjudicator and Master Class Teacher Bios Juan Carlos Claudio University of Utah Assistant Professor; B. S. Utah State University; M. F. A. University of Utah Juan Carlos obtained his M. F. A. de- gree from the University of Utah, Department of Modern where he current- ly holds the position of Assistant Professor. Currently, he teaches all levels of Contemporary Dance Technique, Dance in Culture, Dance and Commu- nity, Dance Composition and choreographs for the Performing Dance Company. Juan Carlos is currently working towards his Dance for Parkin- son’s Disease teaching certification from the Mark Morris Dance Center and Arts and Aging professional teaching training from the National Cen- ter for Creative Aging. He is 2014- University of Utah’s Professor Off Cam- pus developing a Community Engagement Project in Cross-Cultural Awareness, Identity and Empowerment through Dance. He is a member of the National Dance Educators Organization (NDEO), Utah National Dance Educators (UDEO) and the American Dance Therapy Association (ADAT). Juan Carlos is the creator and director of the Panamá Dance and Cultural Exchange: a study abroad program dedicated to pedagogy, service and volunteerism at orphanages and in-need communities in and around Pan- amá. Juan Carlos was awarded the Lowell Bennion Center Community Engaged Scholar of the Year (2014), nominated the Chi Omega Favorite Professor of the Year (2013), the Dee Winterton Award for mentoring and the University of Utah Student Teaching Choice Award for excellence in teaching (2009). Juan Carlos has been nominated for Salt Lake City Week- ly’s ARTYS Best Individual Dancer in 2014, 2013 and 2000. Locally, Juan Car- los has danced with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Stephen Koester’s Dance Koester Dance and Stephen Brown’s SB Dance. In New York City he danced with Séan Curran Company, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Dancers, Keith Johnson/Dancers, and John Allen/Project. He has been a guest artist at the Berlin State Ballet School in Berlin (2014), the 2nd Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition and the 1st Beijing Dance Academy Summer Workshop (2013), Utah State University in Logan, Utah (2010), Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (2009), OPEN LOOK- International Dance Festival (2009) in St. Petersburg, Russia and the Harare International Arts Festival in Harare, Zimbabwe (2008). Professor A’Keitha Carey is an artist/scholar who hails from the Bahamas. She received her B.A. in Dance from Florida International University, an M.F.A. in Dance from Florida State University, a Certificate in Woman's Stud- ies from Texas Woman’s University and is currently working to complete her PhD in Dance at Texas Woman’s University. She has published the article “CaribFunk™ Technique: Afro Caribbean Dance, Caribbean Feminism and Popular Culture” in the Journal of Pan-African Studies and has several forth coming publications in multiple interdisciplinary journals illustrating the breadth and width of her work. A'Keitha created CaribFunk™ technique, a genre fusing Afro-Caribbean, ballet, modern, and fitness principles. The technique addresses the politics of “identity” and “becoming” through the exploration of the hip wine (circular rotation of the hip). Focusing on Black feminist writer, Audre Lorde’s use of the term erotic, in the sense that wom- en achieve empowerment and knowledge through an energy—a creative energy that provides an awareness of self, history, and our bodies, A’Keitha argues that the hip wine is a practice of erotic power. The technique is root- ed in an Africanist aesthetic and Euro-American expression coalescing the vertical and horizontal. It embodies Caribbean performance and politics, Caribbean popular culture as a methodological and pedagogical prac- tice and explores Jamaican Dancehall and Trinidadian Carnival as a reser- voir of knowledge that investigates the sensual and spiritual. Her research attempts to redefine Black femininity, establishing the relationship between the technique and Caribbean popular culture, addressing why it is im- portant to student of color in academia, and reinforcing the marriage be- tween Caribbean dance, sensuality, strength, and the erotic as power. This futuristic philosophy and technique attempts to rupture “tradition and histo- ry—breaking the aesthetic of the institution—exhibiting a hybridized peda- gogy and technology of (re) imagination through a Diasporic conscious- ness. Critical Race Theory, Black Feminism/Womanism, Popular Culture, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies and Curriculum Studies are her areas of interest. www.caribfunk.com Utah Dance Education Organization State High School Dance Festival 2015 Adjudicator and Master Class Teacher Bios Anna Corvera is originally from St. Louis, MO where she started dancing at age three. Currently she teaches Modern, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Composition, and Improvisation at Casper College in Wyo- ming where she choreographed Urinetown: The Musical this fall, and looks forward to collaborating on a Hip Hop version of Lysistra- ta with the Q Brothers of Chicago this spring. She holds an MFA from The College at Brockport: State University of New York and a BFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as well as trained at The Ailey School. She started her teaching career at New York University Department of Recreation which led to chore- ographing commercials for Coca Cola and a music video for At- lantic Records. Her choreography has also been commissioned by the Brockport Symphony Orchestra and Wyoming Symphony Or- chestra.
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