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PTW Presenters-Web Samuel Beckett and the art of Eduard Vuillard; embrace their bravado and share their personal choreographer of Manscapes, a movement piece stories. Lola is also the director of the Courageous Presenters for awkward men; singing with Nexus, a concert Kids Performance Troupe, a group of bereaved association that brings sacred music to life; acting teenagers that performs a show about grief and Judith Albert is a senior managing director at New York City and the Northeast. After receiving the clones of Hitler in the film, The Boys from loss that tours the middle and high schools in the Bear, Stearns & Co., where she is responsible for his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Hal was Artist- Brazil; and touring the Northeast in Slim Eugene area. She teaches a women’s personal professional development and strategic initiatives in-Residence in 1997 at Teatro Milagro, a Goodbody's one man show about the human theater class called “Get down with your sweet in the Investment Banking department. For much Latino/Caribeno dance/theater company in anatomy. self” Lola is a long time member of Eugene of her career Judith focused on Latin America: in Portland OR. He was awarded a Rockefeller Playback Theater. She is the director of Imagine Annica Bray is president of WebBrand AB, a financial services at Bear Stearns, Violy, Byorum & Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and That Summer Adventures, creative arts and consulting firm based in Skelleftea in the north Partners and J.P. Morgan; in corporate law at the Hermandad Prize by the Instituto de Puerto performance camps for kids from ages of 7 to 11. of Sweden. The company creates scripts for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; and in Rico (NYC). He has performed as a dancer, singer She has also run an after-school creative arts program educational e-learning games, books and ordinary the not-for-profit world at the Ford Foundation. and percussionist with the top bomba groups in in elementary schools for the last ten years. games. Annica worked as a journalist for several Judith is on the Board of Directors of the All Stars Puerto Rico and the US (and has appeared in two years before becoming a teacher and developing Nichelle “Browneyes” Brown-Joseph first Project, Inc. Ricky Martin videos). Hal is working on his first experimental learning techniques using drama. became involved with the All Stars in 1990 and book, The Drum-Dance Challenge: Puerto Rican In the last few years she has been a computer took home first prize at the Town Hall finals in Rachel Arriaga is in the 9th grade at Minnie Bomba and Social Color for Temple University Press. High School in Alexandria, VA. She was a lead game producer, writing scripts and designing 1991, becoming the first female rap artist to win. performer in "No More Drama," a play about Ninotchka Devora Bennahum is a choreographer, information for worldwide projects for multina- Browneyes became an active volunteer at many bullying she wrote with other students under the theorist and native of New Mexico. She is assistant tional companies – all the time trying to move shows and recruited many members of her own direction of Denise Wilkins and Awad El Hussien. professor of communication studies, performance drama into the computer. community, helping to bring the All Stars Talent studies and theatre at Long Island University, Show Network to Far Rockaway, Queens. For her Asha Bacote, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn is Bette Braun is director of training at the East Brooklyn Campus and also teaches at the American community work she received the prestigious currently a junior at Acorn High School for Social Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy and Ballet Theater’s Summer Institute. After receiving Points of Light Award in March 2002. Browneyes Justice. Ms. Bacote first performed as a dancer in the East Side Center for Social Therapy. She is her BA in history and art history from Swarthmore has recently relocated to Atlanta, GA and is helping an All Stars Talent Show Network show in 2001 as social therapy founder Fred Newman's principal College, she moved to the former Yugoslavia to to build the All Stars there, for which she created part of the group, Fully Loaded. In addition to clinical collaborator. A practicing psychotherapist teach, choreograph and shoot a film of the “avant- the workshop “Rappin’ Reality.” ASTSN talent shows the group also performs for 25 years, Bette currently sees over 150 people garde in modern dance.” In 1991, she founded the regularly at local talent shows and block parties. each week in social therapy groups, and supervises Erica Burman trained as a developmental Route 66 Dance Company to bring flamenco, modern the training of social therapists. She also leads psychologist in the late 1970s, and then became Adina Bar-On has been an active performer and ballet dancers and musicians together to explore trainings at agencies and hospitals on group therapy a methodologist to justify her critical, feminist since 1973, when a student at the Bezalel intellectual and artistic connections between the supervision, patient-doctor communication and (practical and theoretical) interventions in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem. dancing body and the written text. Ninotchka team building. discipline, exposing the ways it normalizes certain Over the years, she has presented her work in received her doctorate in performance studies developmental trajectories and pathologizes others. Israel’s major art museums and galleries. In from New York University’s Tisch School of the Marcia Braundy is a journey level carpenter Erica is also a qualified group analyst. Her publi- recent years she has been traveling abroad often Arts in 1998 after traveling to Spain to shoot a with 25 years at her trade, a curriculum developer cations include: Deconstructing Developmental as an artist and teacher. Her work holds a dance-documentary of Gypsies dancing flamenco. and educator of children and adults, and a woman Psychology, Psychology Discourse Practice, and discourse about conflicts of identity and conflicting She believes strongly that choreography and per- who found her home in a rural mountain valley in Deconstructing Feminist Psychology. Erica's identifications. In 2001, Adina was awarded a formance studies are educational tools for societal British Columbia, Canada. She has participated in recent research has addressed the intersections major prize for her contribution to Israeli Art by transformation and healing. Her first book, provincial and national apprenticeship boards and between psychological and state practices in the American Israel Cultural Foundation, and a Antonia Merce, “La Argentina”: Flamenco and committees and Employment Equity work. Marcia exploring domestic violence and other support biographical book, Adina Bar-On, Performance the Spanish Avant-Garde, was published by co-founded and lead a national education and service provision to minoritized women. Artist, has been published. Wesleyan University Press in 2000. Ninotchka has advocacy organization for women in trades, written on dance and culture for The Village Voice, technology, operations and blue collar work, Gail Campbell is a professor of theatre at the Hal Barton is assistant professor of anthropology The New York Times, The New York Sun, and has written or co-authored several books University of Windsor, Ontario. She teaches in the at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Dance Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many articles. She is currently a doctoral Drama in Education and Community program. where he specializes in teaching and researching and The Albuquerque Journal. candidate at the University of British Columbia Her recent research has included popular theatre developmental, performance-based approaches to (UBC) and holds a Social Science and Humanities work with immigrants and refugees, ESL/EFL the study of Caribbean music and dance, with an Jeremy Black, faculty advisor to Education in Research Council Doctoral Fellowship. Marcia's learners, and “at-risk” youth. emphasis on Puerto Rican bomba. He is co-founder Dance, has an English degree from Harvard. He play, Men & Women & Their Tools was performed and co-director with Awilda Sterling of Los draws on a variety of experiences to help children at the Brave New Play Rites Festival at UBC. She Jamila Carter moved from Trinidad to the United Bomberos de Brooklyn, an Afro-Latin drum-dance explore their own creativity. He worked at the is looking forward to taking it on the road as an States when she was 16 years old. Residing in ensemble which celebrates the interactive, Neighborhood School and the Empowerment educational tool. Flatbush, Brooklyn, Ms. Carter is a graduate of community-building performance mode called Center in Chinatown teaching drama and athletics. the Spring 2001 class of the Joseph A. Forgione “bombazo” and has for the past five years Jeremy is also an experienced clarinetist and Lola Broomberg grew up in Zimbabwe but has Development School for Youth and volunteers with organized and hosted El Gran Bombazo de member of Castillo Theatre's acting ensemble. lived in Eugene, Oregon since 1987. She is the the All Stars’ Back to School program. She has Brooklyn, in Fort Greene, which regularly attracts Other performing credits include dancing with director of The Boldness Institute, a nonprofit also taken part in All Stars phone-a-thons, served hundreds of enthusiasts and participants throughout Jaime Morrison in pieces based on the writing of organization committed to encouraging people to as an usher at All Stars Talent Show Network shows and was a host at the Phat Friend Awards. Leadership Center, bringing leadership intelligence Dave DeChristopher has appeared at the entitled, “Improvisation: The Practice of A recipient of the 2003 Young Leaders for Change to organizations and society across the public, Castillo Theatre in eleven mainstage productions. Transformative Communication.” Award, Ms.
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