Choreographer Carol Abohatab and Composer Murray Gusseck

Carol Abohatab, BS - UW-Madison, MFA - Mills College, trained extensively in New York City with Murray Louis and the late Alwin Nikolais, and danced in their repertory as well as in works by Joe Goode and Janice Garrett in the Bay Area. Her work has been performed nationwide, as well as in the North and South Bay, including Summerfest/dance 2000. Carol has taught dance in NYC, at UW-Madison, San Jose City College, and has choreographed for hundreds of youths in the Color Guard and Drum & Bugle Corps activity. She choreographed for the Santa Clara Vanguard and currently works on special projects for them, one of which involves a children's program in creative movement. In February 1998, Carol created the Vanguard Dance Company, hoping to meld dancers and drum corps aficionados into appreciative audiences and performers of both genres. She is also an ACE Certified Personal Fitness Trainer.

Murray Gusseck studied music at San Jose State University with Royal Hartigan, Hafez Modirzadeh, and Dan Sabanovich. He has arranged music and instructed for various high schools throughout the country as well as the Santa Clara Vanguard and Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps. He is also the co-founder of Tap Space Publications, a publishing company specializing in percussion music. As a performer he has played drums in various bands throughout the bay area and southern California. Previous compositions for the Vanguard Dance Company include the sequenced piece, Bells & Rattles. Gusseck endorses Vic Firth drumsticks and Sabian cymbals.

Choreographer Megan Black and Composer Ross Kent

Megan Black has studied and performed Kathak, North Indian Classical Dance for 22 years. She has trained in the Bay Area with Chitresh Das from Calcutta and with the eminent Shrimati Kumudini Lakhia in India at the Kadamb Center for Music and Dance. Her performances have impressed audiences in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Spokane, Oakland and other American cities. In 1998 she gave her first solo recital to critical acclaim in India. Her dance style is marked by a lyrical sensuality and an infectious joy. She has originated the telling of stories from many parts of the world in the traditional Kathak style and her storytelling is noted for its intelligence and humor. Megan is an active producer and teacher as well as a dancer and has hosted and produced performances, workshops and lectures with some of India's leading exponents of Kathak. Megan lives and teaches in San Rafael, California where she works and tours with the members of Vandhana Dance Company, performing traditional Kathak ensemble choreography and in Maui, Hawaii where she has established the Maui Kathak Dance Ensemble, a performing group from among her students living in Hawaii.

Ross Kent began his studies with Ali Akbar Khan in 1966 and is one of the western world's most experienced performers on Sarod. Within an elaborate system of rules and guidelines North Indian Classical Music is continually reborn in every performance, for unlike Western Classical Music which relies on fixed notation, the ragas contain a large element of improvisation. Ross is known for his original insight into the ragas and their rendering in many different rhythmic cycles. In addition to being a solo artist Ross has spent many years composing for and accompanying Kathak Dance, the Classical Dance of Northern India, thus completing a set of melodic, rhythmic and visual unities that are the hallmark of his work. In the past four years he has also performed in several concert appearances with poet, Robert Bly, accompanying the recitation of classical poetry from the great spiritual poets; Rumi, Hafez and Mirabai with original compositions based on the classical ragas.

Choreographer Cheryl Chaddick and Composer Daniel Berkman

Cheryl Chaddick is the artistic director of Company Chaddick and a well respected teacher in the Bay Area. She taught at Footwork studio for ten years and is currently on the faculty at the San Francisco Dance Center. She has been invited for the past eight years to be a guest instructor and choreographer at San Francisco's School of the Arts to help educated and prepare the next generation's of young artists. Ms. Chaddick founded Company Chaddick in 1985 out of her popular Limon- and Graham-based modern dance classes. The company has, since its inception, achieved considerable public and critical acclaim for its high quality performances and original works. Ms. Chaddick is committed to a diverse repertoire that consistently challenges dancers and audiences with new movement vocabulary and themes that explore our everyday existences. Company Chaddick has performed at many Bay Area venues, including Yerba Buena Gardens, Cowell Theater, Theater Artaud, ODC Performance Gallery, Dean Lescher Regional Center for the Arts and on Viacom TV.

Daniel Berkman, a Marin based multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and composer has worked as accompanist and collaborator with dance companies such as ODC, Lines, SF Ballet, Company Chaddick, Dandelion (Eric and Kimi Guthrie Koopers), Liz Roman and for a master class with Bill T. Jones as well as others for over four years. Daniel studied composition and percussion at the Hartt School of Music, Hartford Connecticut between 1991 and '94. In '95 Daniel chose the Bay Area for it's world and electronic music to launch a career in music and to innovate the Kora (a 21 stringed harp/lute from West Africa) by playing it through electronics. With a CD (Feverdreams) and a cassette (Heartstrings) to his credit and with a vast arsenal of sounds and compositions he continues to bring his eclectic brand of music to the world of dance.

Guest Choreographers Frit & Frat Fuller and Composer Glen Nyborg

The Fullers are Graduates of California Institute of the Arts, Frit & Frat have collectively earned their BFA and MFA degrees in Dance Choreography and Performance. Upon graduation the Texas natives remained in Los Angeles to explore the many choreographic possibilities and since that time, the twin brothers have been guest artists at hundreds of high schools, colleges, universities and dance festivals. Frit & Frat have choreographed several shows over they years for Universal Studios, including 'Beetlejuice's Graveyard Revue,' which they co-choreographed with Barbara Epstein. Frit & Frat have toured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, and have been in such films as 'Monkey Bone', 'Dying Young' and 'Mom and Dad Saved the World.' There music video performance and choreography credits include Janet Jackson, Ice-T, Guy and RuPaul. The Fullers formed the multi-ethnic KIN Dance Company in 1993, offering a wide range of styles and techniques. As a prominent force within the dance community, this young company crosses borders between commercial and contemporary dance. A memorable moment included a performance at the Black Choreographers Moving showcase in San Diego where both Frit and Frat were awarded with a certificate of appreciation from the county of San Diego for their outstanding efforts towards increasing the awareness of African-American influences on contemporary dance.

Glen Nyborg has been interested in music most of his life, starting in grade school with the trumpet and continuing on through high school and college studying various brass instruments and performing in numerous ensembles. He began composing in college, writing music for student television and film productions. He performed, arranged and wrote songs for the Orange County, California based vocal groups "West Coast" and "Kulayd". He has written for the New York based gymnastics/dance ensemble "Anti-Gravity and has most recently written several scores for Kin Dance Company. Glen is very happy to be associated with Kin and looks forward to many future collaborations with the company.

Choreographer Heidi Landgraf and Composer Julie Adler

Heidi Landgraf grew up dancing outside of Chicago and has been choreographing and writing since she was ten years old. She received her BA in writing and theater from DePauw University, and recently her MFA in dance from California Institute of the Arts. She trained in jazz and classical ballet with Gus Giordano, Lou Conte, and Joyce Lang, and in modern dance with Wynn Fricke, Erin Thompson, Doug Nielsen, Gail Chodera and Tina Yuan. She also studies yoga, West African dance, Brazilian dance and Vipassana meditation. She has previously performed in The Hallelujah Project with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, David Dorfman's The Registrar at the Colorado Dance Festival, and Arianne MacBean's Everyday series at Women's One World in New York. Having recently relocated to San Francisco, Heidi works as Assistant to the Editor in Chief at Dance Magazine. She is also currently training at the Tamalpa Institute, here in Marin County, with Daria Halprin in Expressive Arts Therapy. Heidi seeks to blend the varied traditional forms she has practiced into a fluid movement vocabulary, finding authentic expression for herself and others in the process. She previously collaborated with composer Julie Adler on 'Home,' which has been described as 'surreal dance theater.'

Julie Adler is a composer, singer, and performance/visual artist. She received her master's degree (music/visual arts) from California Institute of the Arts and an undergraduate degree (fine arts) from Cooper Union in New York. A nominee for an LA Weekly theatre award for original music on 'Properties of Silence' by About Productions, she has previously composed for choreographers Heidi Landgraf and Rande Dorn and her music also appeared in 'Surfacing', directed by Leah Mercer in Brisbane, Australia earlier this year as well as in the independent feature film, 'The Art of Waiting', by Cheryl Slean. Julie is co-producer (with sound/performance artist Jacki Apple) of EARJAM, a Los Angeles based new music festival now in its second year as well as the curator for 'VOCAL LOUNGE', a new monthly live music series featuring anything to do with the "voice". She is very happy to be working with Heidi again on a new piece!

Choreographer Joseph Anthony Landini and Composer Peter Lake Bellinger

Mr. Landini is the founder of Landini Dance Company. He received his B.A. in Choreography from the University of California, Irvine, under the tutelage of reknowned choreographer, Donald McKayle. Joe danced for Bill T. Jones' production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at U.C.L.A. and was Mr. Jones' intern in New York. Upon returning to the Bay Area, Joe helped direct the choreography program at the San Francisco Institute of Choreography (now named the SF Dance Centre) and co-founded the Pacific Dance Collective (1992-1996). He formed the Landini Dance Company in 1996. Mr. Landini's work has been presented in Laguna Beach, Marin and Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe and Mexico City. In 2001, he was selected to attend graduate school at the prestigious Laban Center in London, England. "Rites" is the third part of a three-part creative canon presented at the 21st Century Dance Collaboration (1999-2001) and was set for 21st Century Dance by Assistant Director, Lisa Holden.

Mr. Bellinger was a Bay Area composer for over twenty years. His roots were in theory study with Henry Onderdonk and piano with Carlo Bussotti. Mr. Bellinger created numerous scores for theater, opera, dance and independent cinema and video projects. His work has been presented by the New Performance Gallery, the Gay and Lesbian Composers Society and the Golden Gate Mens Chorus. From 1999-2001, Mr. Bellinger was the resident composer for Landini Dance Company and also wrote the scores for LDC's "sleep/walk" and "non sequitur". This years performance is dedicated to the memory of Mr. Bellinger.

Dancer/choreographer Antonia Minnecola is one of few American artists recognized as a serious exponent of Kathak dance, the rhythmic and expressive classical style of North India. In her critically acclaimed choreography, she employs the Kathak style to present contemporary dance works, often collaborating with modern, jazz and ballet dancers, performance artists and musicians. Twice a recipient of the Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for Choreography, Antonia began her study of Kathak dance with Chitresh Das at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael. In 1985, she became the disciple of Sitara Devi, widely considered the greatest female Kathak dancer of our time, with whom she has studied under the auspices of two Smithsonian Fellowships. Antonia has appeared in India, the United States and Canada in major festivals and tours, including the Bay Area's Other Minds Festival, The World Drum Festival, Asian Pacific Performing Arts Festival, Percussion Currents Festival, The SF Jazz Festival and last summer at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, Zakir Hussain's consistently brilliant and exciting performances have not only established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, but gained him worldwide fame. A child prodigy, Zakir was touring by the age of twelve, the gifted son of his great father, tabla legend Ustad Allarakha. Zakir came to the U.S. in 1970, embarking on an international career which includes no fewer than 150 concert dates per year. In 1987, his first solo release, Making Music, was acclaimed as "one of the most inspired east-west fusion albums ever recorded." Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement, Zakir's contribution to world music has included many historic collaborations, including Shakti which he founded with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, the Digi Rhythm Band, Making Music, and Planet Drum with Mickey Hart, and recordings and performances with artists as diverse as George Harrison, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, Billy Cobham, the Hong Kong Symphony and the New Orleans Symphony. He has composed and recorded many albums and soundtracks; most recently, he has composed soundtracks for the films In Custody, Ismail Merchant's directorial debut, Little Buddha by Bernardo Bertolucci, and Vanaprastham, chosen to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May, 1999. Zakir has received numerous awards; most notably in 1992 Planet Drum, an album co-created and produced by Zakir and Mickey Hart, was awarded a Grammy for Best World Music Album, and in 1999 Zakir was the recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship, the United States' most prestigious honor for a master in the traditional arts. Zakir has composed music for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, in 1996, and was commissioned to compose music for Lines, Alonzo King's contemporary ballet company in San Francisco, for which he won an Isadora Duncan Award. Zakir collaborated in 2000 to create music for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater which premiered last December, and is currently working on a composition for Mark Morris which premieres next April. Zakir's own label Moment! Records features original collaborations in the field of contemporary world music, live concert performances by great masters of the classical music of India, as well as Zakir's own world percussion ensemble, The Rhythm Experience, both North and South Indian classical recordings, Best of Shakti and a Masters of Percussion series.

Choreographer Rose Pasquarello and Composer Nicola Berlinsky

Rose Pasquarello graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in dance. While at Emerson she presented choreography in addition to producing and directing dance productions. While in Boston she was involved with Shared Choreographers Concerts and Kelly Donovan and Dancers. Since moving to San Francisco Rose has taught dance and movement to children of all ages as well as modern dance for adults. She has co-founded the Marin Choreographers' Collective and Summerfest Dance in Berkeley (a summer camp for children). She continues to produce her own work and has recently established Vertigo Dance Company.

Nicola Berlinsky graduated from Bennington College in 1991 with a BA in music composition and percussion. While at Bennington she collaborated with dancers and other musicians. She was the assistant drummer for the African dance classes, composed chamber music for many dance performances, and worked with Bennington dancers to create a performance piece that went on tour throughout New England and New York. Nicola was also a member of jazz ensembles, the Bennington Symphony, and a reggae band. After college Nicola moved to New York to complete her MS in education at Bank Street College. In New York she continued her work with dancers, and performed in a band. During the nine years that Nicola has been teaching third and fourth grade children, she has interwoven dance and music into her core curriculum.

Choreographer Cynthia Pepper and Composer Ezekiel Benny

Cynthia Pepper got her early dance training in Salt Lake City, Utah under the training of Virginia Tanner and the Children¹s Dance Theatre. She earned a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and an MA from San Francisco State University in the Inter-Arts Program. She worked professionally with the choreographers William Christensen, Donald Byrd, Bella Lewitzky, and Loretta Livingston. Cynthia served as the outreach director for Marin Ballet in San Rafael where she taught contemporary dance and choreography for16 years. She is presently the modern dance teacher at Marin Dance Theatre. Her award-winning dance films, "SandDance", "Parameta" and "ZYNC" have been screened at numerous dance and film festivals and are distributed internationally. Now in its fifth year, Cynthia has produced FOOTAGE DANCE FILM FESTIVAL presenting old and new innovative dance films throughout California. She created a ballet for The Lawrence Pech Dance Company performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in November 2000 called "The Habitat" which will be made into a short dance film. At the moment she is directing six dance films for Sesame Street. Cynthia is a proud mother of two and wife of one.

Ezekiel Benny. Bio currently unavailable.

Choreographer Stacey Printz and Composer Kirk Smart

Stacey Printz, founder and artistic director for the Printz Dance Project, has been choreographing, dancing and teaching in the Bay Area since 1992. She received her BA in sociology and dance from the University of California at Irvine, studying with Donald McKayle and Dr. Janice Plastino. After teaching modern and jazz dance in private studios, Printz went on to become the Director of Dance at The Branson School where she has taught for the past eight years. Prior to founding her company Ms. Printz danced with other local companies including Annie Rosenthal and Company. Stacey's company has been performing in venues all over the Bay Area including ODC, Dance Mission, and the Cowell Theater. Most recently Printz Dance Project performed in Laguna Beach, CA for the California Choreographer's Dance Festival, in Sedona Arizona at the Sedona Cultural Park, and in Flagstaff Arizona for Dancelebration 2001.

Matthew Kratz has been a composer and engineer in San Francisco for the past five years. He has composed music for several films and dance performances, including Acheron and Letdown. He hopes you enjoy the performance and would like to thank Stacey Printz for this opportunity.

Choreographer Lisa Rie and Composer Gary Scheiding

Lisa Rie is a choreographer and assisant director for Stockton's New Dance Company. Raised and trained in the East Bay area, Lisa attended University of the Pacific where she performed with Pacific Dance Ensemble. In 1989 she joined the newly formed New Dance Company under the co-direction of Kathy Bradley, Kathleen Smith, Elaine Orimo-Dart, Joe Goode and Liz Burritt. She has appeared with the Stockton Symphony, Stockton Chorale, San Francisco's National Aids Conference, in Letsou's inde film "Skeleton Woman," and numerous community events. She works with homeless children, is an instructor for the dance company and teaches creative movement for the after school program ARTSwork YES! Lisa is elated to be a participant in Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration!

Gary M. Scheiding is currently Resident Technical Director at Stockton Civic Theatre. This last year he composed music and designed sets for their productions of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Frankenstein and Arsenic and Old Lace. He also composed the music for New Dance Company's Rainbow Goblins. Gary is primarily a guitarist and plays in his church orchestra, and the occasional country, rock or pit band. In his studio he records live, playing all of the instruments himself, using guitars, guitar synthesizers, keyboards and hand percussion. Gary also builds and designs sets and sound for theatrical productions on a freelance basis. He has worked as an actor as well in numerous productions, primarily with Columbia Actors Repertory in Columbia, CA at the historic Fallon House Theatre.

Choreographer Tachina Rudman and Composer Allegra Bandy

Up and coming choreographer Tachina Rudman, joins rhythm, body, and voice into an experimental fusion that searches for the fine balance between chaos and equilibrium. She joins multi-cultural dance forms with a modern base and a blast of rhythm and color, creating something that is truly unique. Born and raised in San Francisco, she is soon to graduate with two B.A.s in Art and Dance from San Francisco State University. She has also furthered her education by traveling to West Africa, Indonesia, and Spain, where the colors and flavors of world dance made such strong impressions on her, that she is compelled to express them in her dance. Dance to her, is not decorative entertainment, but a beloved art form, a political tool, and her chosen avenue for self-expression. She hopes to shake and rattle the world, and move you in the process. Enjoy the show.

Allegra Bandy was born in the Philippines and raised in San Francisco. She has been exposed to a variety of cultures and music. This aspect of her upbringing is represented, not only in her expansive repertoire, but also in her vocal style and range. Allegra has been studying music almost all of her life, and has been training her voice since she was 13 years old. She has received her bachelor's degree in Music Education from San Francisco State University. Allegra plans to focus her energy and attention on composing, recording and performing her music on a multi genre and multimedia platform. Allegra has performed Jazz, Folk, and Afro-Cuban music throughout the bay area for the past 8 years. She wants you to sit back and open your mind to your soul.

About the Producers

Lorien Fenton, Director, Dance Outre, Associate Director, Zero Gravity Dance Theater

Hilary Kretchmer Fulp , Director, Zero Gravity Dance Theater

Lorien Fenton. Lorien Fenton. Ms. Fenton has choreographed over 30 original dances for Dance Outré productions and many for other Bay Area dance and theater companies. Lorien grew up in Portland, Oregon and studied dance and/or performed with the Oregon Festival Ballet, Portland Ballet, Cirque: a modern dance co. and with Portland State University. After moving to Marin County in 1981 she studied dance at College of Marin and performed with several ballet and modern groups throughout the Bay Area. Finding herself unhappy with the ballet based modern dance movement prevalent in the Bay Area, she found her niche in 1985 when she joined the Earthly Modern Company; which style of movement was based on Louis Falco and Martha Graham's movement but executed from a parallel and/or turned-in position. From 1986 - 1988 she became one of eight full time dancers and the managing director of Gaia Dance Theatre of Marin; formerly the Earthly Modern Company. Deciding it was time to choreograph on a regular basis, she founded Dance Outré in the fall of 1988 -- directing, choreographing and performing for the next 6 years. Dance Outré appeared numerous times in Bay Area productions of choreographer's showcases including: Open Stage, Works in the Works, Theater Artaud Dance Marathon, Centerspace, Footwork and others, as well as the Dance Outré annual Spring Season Concerts. In 1991 she co-produced a Dance Outré mini-tour to Ukiah, California with Berkeley performance artist Jim Beatty and Wendy Blakely at the Ukiah Community Theater, and in 1994 did the same for a mini-tour to Portland, Oregon at the Echo Theater with Berkeley performance artist Andrea Mock. Ms. Fenton has been a recipient of a Marin Arts Council Community Arts Grant that funded the 1994 Dance Outré Outdoors series. This series of three outdoor concerts were presented in conjunction with the Marin County Farmers Market. She also received a Community Arts Grant to produce Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration 2000 with Hilary Kretchmer Fulp of Zero Gravity Dance Theater, Inc. Lorien also received a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Choreography for her dance entitled "I'll Worry About It Tomorrow." As the director of Dance Outré Ms. Fenton choreographed dances for Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration 2000 and both the 1997 and the 1995 Marin County Festival of Dance productions, and the 1996 Outdoor Dance Project, in Emeryville. Between 1989 and 1994 Lorien produced and directed Dance Outré Spring Season Concerts. The 1993 and 1994 productions included a Saturday night performance to raise funds for human service organizations. The '93 benefit was produced for the Hospice of Marin AIDS Program and the 1994 event donations helped establish "New Beginnings," a Marin County homeless task force.

Hilary Kretchmer Fulp. Hilary is the founder and artistic director of Zero Gravity Dance Theater (ZGDT, organized in 1997) and co-producer of Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration. As a fifth generation Marinite whose ancestors arrived with the Anza party seven generations ago (to establish the Presidio), Hilary is proud to have produced six large dance productions supporting Marin artists over the past seven years. She created the first Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration in 1999 with Lorien Fenton of Dance Outre, a project designed to provide showcase opportunities for young choreographers and composers, for which ZGDT received a community arts grant from the Marin Arts Council. In 2000 Hilary and Lorien repeated the project, Dance Outre receiving MAC's CAG. This year ZGDT received Marin Community Foundation funding for Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration 2001, and the project is now officially an annual project of Zero Gravity Dance Theater. Hilary was also the co-founder and co-producer of both the 1995 and 1997 Marin County Festival of Dance productions in partnership with Cynthia Pepper of CPCollaborations, Inc., guiding the grantwriting and fundraising for those projects. In 1994, Hilary received an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Creative Arts from SFSU after four years of night classes and producing a full-length concert of her dances and audio-produced stories, and thanks all of the Marin dancers who contributed to making it a wonderful experience. Hilary has worked at WebLink, Inc./CHAT Communication Services, Inc. as the webmaster for WEBLINK.COM and it's associated domains since January of 1997, and as such she is responsible for client site design, development and programming, as well as system administration. Spanning the past 10 years, she has served as Development Associate at Yosemite National Institutes, as a grantwriter for the Tamalpais Union High School District (garnering them 6 CAC AIR grants), as Administrative Manager of Antenna Theater, and as Production Coordinator at ROMA Design Group. Despite the responsibilities of working full time, Hilary has been an independent producer and choreographer for 20 years, creating multi-disciplinary works/concerts that premiered in NYC, LA, SF and Marin County. Hilary is proud to have collaborated with talented artists and friends such as Jamie Bishton, David Fulp, Buzz Halsing, Christine Murray, Charles Payne, Cynthia Pepper, Andrea Snyder, David Torgerson, Allison Dufty and Deirdre Towers on her works "RAINDANCE," "SPILL," "LIGHT BLOOM," "GEOMETRY," "KNOW NO," "LOST TRACE HILARITAS," and "ON SECOND THOUGHT." Some of Hilary's most memorable moments were studying with celebrated teachers who made dance history, such as Sara Rudner, Lucas Hoving, Gus Solomons, Bella Lewitsky, and Margaret Jenkins; dance classes at California Institute of the Arts (Hilary received a B.F.A. in Dance in 1984) with ground-breaking and inspirational teachers Donald Byrd, Sandra Neels, Tina Yuan, Nicholas Gunn, Loretta Livingston, Larry Attaway, and the late Robecca Bobele; and studying at The Cunningham School in NYC from 1984-86; and in San Francisco through the late '80s with the talented Ellie Klopp and Alonzo King, and for many years with Georgia Ortega. Hilary has performed as a dancer for choreographers Lorien Fenton, Lucas Hoving, Joan Lazarus, Carolyn Lord, Sandra Neels, Georgia Ortega, and Tina Yuan, among others, but always found the most joy and satisfaction creating her own dances. She has had the pleasure of teaching dance technique and composition as a guest artist at UC Berkeley, Marin Ballet, Dance Theater Seven, and The Branson School. She is the co-editor of her online arts magazine at cre8tivez.org, which interviews artists of all disciplines, a program of ZGDT. She has also performed multiple seasons as a choral, solo and ensemble vocalist for The Mayflower Chorus, The Octurnals, The Marin Opera Chorus, and The Katy Hatfield Singers. These days she spends any spare moment adoring her beloved husband David, her daughter Chloe Soleil, and their dogs Poco Loco and Jolliet Jake, the brightest lights in her life. Hilary would like to thank all of her family, friends and fellow artists who have made these dance productions possible, either by contributions, artistic collaboration, moral support or sheer determination.

Sponsors

This production is partially funded by the Marin Community Foundation, and the following local businesses: Great Escapes, Inc., a global destination company; Miracle Mile Veterinary Hospital; Robert C. Placak and Associates, Insurance Services, Employee Benefits Specialists; Nicole Schapiro & Associates.

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