Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching Ana Marie Forsythe Ana Marie Forsythe received her formal dance training at the Newark Ballet Academy under Fred Danieli and her Horton training under Joyce Trisler. She began her professional career with the Garden State Ballet company at age 13 and with the Joyce Trisler Dance Company at age 14. She also performed with the Sophie Maslow Dance Company as well as her own company. Ms. Forsythe began teaching the Horton technique in the 1960s and has devoted more than twenty years to documenting the Lester Horton technique. She is an internationally-recognized master teacher of the technique and has been invited to teach in more than a dozen countries. In preservation of the Horton technique, she co-authored The Dance Technique of Lester Horton, and was artistic director of three Horton videos documenting this important modern dance technique. Ms. Forsythe has taught at the Ailey School since 1973 and has been the Chair of the Horton department since 1979. She helped initiate the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program at The Ailey School with the late Denise Jefferson in 1997 and served as Co-Director and Director from 2004–2011. She conducts an annual Horton Pedagogy Workshop at The Ailey School each summer.

Anjali Austin GYROKINESIS® Certified Master Trainer GYROKINESIS® exercises allow one to work on the entire body through seven natural elements of spinal movement: forward, backward, left side, right side, left twist, right twist and circular, as well as all other joint articulation. This approach systematically and gently works the joints and muscles through rhythmic and undulating movements. These movements stimulate the body's internal organs while different corresponding breathing patterns are integrated along with the movements. Fluidity is the key. Postures are not held for long periods of time. Instead, postures are smoothly and harmoniously connected through the use of breath, making exercises appear and feel more like a dance and swimming than like traditional yoga.

Monica Bill Barnes is a New York based choreographer and performer. Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Barnes received her BA in philosophy from the University of California at San Diego then moved to New York City in 1995. She created her company, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, a contemporary American dance company with the mission to celebrate individuality, humor and the innate theatricality of everyday life and in 2002 Danspace Project presented the company's first New York season, an evening length work titled, "When we were pretty." MBB & CO. has performed in over twenty venues in New York City ranging from the DancemOpolitan Series at Joe's Pub to Fall for Dance at New York City Center and has been presented in 30 cities throughout the United States and abroad. The company has received support from The National Endowment for The Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. During summer 2010, the company performed at Bates Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Recent work includes a new work "Love, oh love" created for Parsons Dance and the company's second season at The Joyce Theater as a part of Gotham Dance Festival in summer 2011. Upcoming New York performances include FOCUS DANCE at The Joyce Theater, January 5 & 7, 2012, Dancemopolitan at Joe's Pub, February 10 & 11, 2012 and The Harkness Dance Festival at the 92nd Street Y, March 9-11, 2012.

Glenna Batson PT, ScD, MA, Director/Course Coordinator, Contemporary Body Practices, Hollins/ADF M.F.A. program. Glenna has drawn from multiple forms of movement expression for over three decades as catalysts for artistic expression and scholarly development. Devoted to a synthesis of the art and science of movement, Glenna has been integrating dance, human movement science, and somatics as educator, practitioner, movement coach, and performer. Glenna was an East-West Center grantee in ethnic dance at the University of Hawaii (1970-72), and studied Bharata Natyam with Krishna Rao and Chandrabhaga Devi in Bangalore, India, and extensive studies in Javanese classical dance at Mills College. She obtained her M.A. in Dance Education from Columbia University Teachers College (1978). In 1977, she was the first person to apprentice with Irene Dowd in Ideokinesis, a mentorship that spanned 4 years. Glenna is also an internationally recognized teacher of the Alexander Technique (certified, 1989), and has taught in training schools in England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Estonia, Japan, and Australia. She has served in many capacities as somatics educator and performing arts coach, including at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1986, Glenna participated in the ADF Linkage project in Venezuela (1996;1998) and Ecuador (1994;1995). A graduate of Hahnemann Medical University in Physical Therapy, Glenna received her doctorate in clinical neuroscience in 2006 and is Professor Emeritus (physical therapy) at Winston-Salem State University. She is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Dance Science and Somatics with residencies at Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Dance and University of Tartu, Estonia. She has worked in and been inspired by many forms of dance from belly dance to ballroom. She still performs in various ensembles with like-bodyminded 'wise' cracks.

Monica Bill Barnes

Rodger Belman Educator, choreographer, performer. Since 2007 he has been on faculty at the American Dance Festival (ADF) Six Weeks School in Durham, NC, the ADF Winter Intensive in New York City and ADF Henan 2011 in Xinxiang, China. He has been a guest artist/faculty member at numerous institutions including the University of Michigan, Sejong University in Seoul South Korea, the Korean Dance Festival in Seoul, South Korea, Hollins University, Barnard College, Connecticut College, Long Island University, East Carolina University, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, George Mason University, the Milwaukee Ballet, the Dance Theater of Harlem, University of Georgia and Mary Washington College. He also spent six years as a dance educator for the New York City Board of Education. He began his dance training and professional performing career in the Washington D.C. area and performed and toured with several D.C. companies including the Claudia Murphey Dance Company, Daniel West Dancers and Sharon Wyrrick/Full Circle.In 1989, he moved to New York City to join Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians. He toured nationally and internationally, performing and teaching with the company until 1995. He also had the pleasure of dancing in the companies of Twyla Tharp, Rachel Lampert, Mark Taylor, Joy Kellman, and Kristin Jackson, among others. His choreography has been presented at various venues across the U.S. in New York, Wisconsin, Virginia, Georgia, Washington D.C., and across the state of North Carolina as part of the North Carolina Dance Festival Tour, and on the Acts to Follow program at the American Dance Festival. In 2009, the American Dance Festival presented his "Life. Love. Pursuit." - a site-specific work for 28 dancers, created and performed in Duke University's Sarah P. Duke Memorial Gardens. He has created works for several university dance companies, and recently staged a version of his "Fate" (2006) on the Philadelphia-based duet company Da-Da-Dance Project. From 2004-2010, he reconstructed and staged Laura Dean's masterwork Sky Light (1982) for several universities throughout the U.S. In 2007, he re-staged Sky Light for the American Dance Festival's 2007 Past/Forward Program, and returned to re-stage Dean's signature work Tympani (1980) and Infinity (1990) for the 2008 and 2009 Past Forward Programs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French from George Mason University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Lila Pierce Brown One of Lila's great joys is to guide students into a space of true transformation, encouraging them to continually discover, honor, and gracefully reveal the deep potential that lies within through the brilliant practice of Yoga. Lila has practiced yoga and meditation for over thirteen years and had the great blessing of meeting John Friend, her primary yoga teacher, in 2002. She has been a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher since 2005 and delights in offering yoga classes, workshops, immersion programs, teacher trainings, and retreats presently. Lila feels grateful to continue her studies with John Friend, along with other fantastic yoga teachers, scholars of Hindu Tantrism, and evolutionary astrologers Steven Forrest and Nancy Fantozzi. She also has a passion for practicing evolutionary astrology, weaving the magical and meaningful stories of Yoga into her readings. From 2006 to 2011, Lila directed Gateway Yoga in Raleigh, NC, a yoga studio dedicated to the life-affirming principles of Anusara Yoga. She has been part of the faculty at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC, since 2008.

Jeffery Bullock Performed with the North Carolina Dance Theater following graduation from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He continued his performing career with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Sharir + Bustamante DanceWorks, touring nationally and internationally. Bullock's repertoire included soloist and principal roles in an eclectic array of works by George Balanchine, Agnes De Mille, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Daniel Esralow, Nacho Duato, Lucinda Childs, Salvatore Aiello, Yacov Sharir, Glen Tetley and others. He was also a featured performer in the 1986 Paramount Motion Picture The Nutcracker with PNB, and was a featured performer in the 1983 PBS Special Where Dreams Debut: The North Carolina School of the Arts. Bullock's work At Midnight earned him a Dance Magazine's Best Choreography Nomination at the 1996 American College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jeffery has been a faculty member at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC since 1998, teaching in the ADF Six Week School and Young Dancers School; in ADF/Russia (2000), ADF/Korea (2000 & 2004) and ADF/Mongolia (2004 & 2005). From 2006 - 2010, he served as Director of the ADF Four Week School for Young Dancers. Most recent teaching engagement was at the international 2006 & 2008 Korean Dance Festival, Seoul, Korea. Also, Jeffery serves as a site visit consultant/panel member for Dance Advance of the Pew Charitable Trust located in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his MFA in choreography from the University of Iowa; taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Iowa and joined the Hollins University Dance Department in 2004; becoming Chair in Fall 2009 and Director of the HU/ ADF MFA Program in Fall 2011.

Shani Collins-Achille BA in dance from Hollins University; MFA from HU/ADF, New York "Bessie" Dance and Performance Award Winner; choreographer/ performer in Eve Ensler' NYC Off Broadway Production of The Vagina Monologues; her company, The Eternal Works Project, investigates healing em(power)ment for girls & women; currently commissioned/ presented by CODEPINK/ The Culture Project in Women's Center Stage at The Living Theater, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, 651 Arts: Black Dance and Transformation, Performatica' Dance Festival (Cholula, Mexico) Choreographic Sketches/ Philly Live Arts Fringe Festival, Kaay Fecc Dance Festival (Dakar, Senegal); Assistant Professor of Dance at Connecticut College; ADF Faculty since 2006.

Robbie Cook is a Dancer, Pilates and Yoga instructor based in Los Angeles, teaching in the Dance Department at Loyola Marymount University. He completed a 200-hour Yoga certification at Yoga High in NYC and has since taught Yoga in NYC, Summer Dance Institute/University of Wisconsin, Dallas, Los Angeles and Bates Dance Festival in Maine. As a dancer, Robbie has danced with Douglas Dunn, Other Shore (dancing in works by Edwaard Liang and Stacy Matthew Spence), Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Margaret Jenkins, Jan Erkert, Keith Thompson and Liz Gerring among others. He has commissioned two solos from Deborah Hay, participating in her Solo Performance Commissioning Project: Music 2001 & The Runner 2007. He earned an MFA in Dance from Bennington College in Vermont and has taught dance at CSSSA @ Cal Arts, Texas Christian University, Long Island University, and Master Classes at Pepperdine University, Harvard-Westlake School, University of Houston, HSPVA Houston, UCLA and will be returning to teach at Bates Dance Festival this Summer for his second year. Robbie's classes draw from his past study of Functional Anatomy with Irene Dowd and his continual investigation of the eight limbs of Yoga.

Elizabeth Corbett A former Joffrey Ballet dancer, Elizabeth Corbett joined the Frankfurt Ballet in the eighties, played a major role in many of Forsythe's most well known works and performed internationally with the company for over ten years in works such as; Gange, Artifact, In The Middle Somewhat Elevated/Impressing the Czar, Enemy in the Figure/Limb's Theorem, Behind the China Dogs, Vile Parody of Address, Die Befragung des Robert Scott, Steptext, Same Old Story, Skinny, Love Songs, Loss of Small Detail and many others. Since then she has been teaching Ballet, Forsythe Repertory and Improvisation Technologies workshops internationally for The American Dance Festival, Impulstanz Vienna, PARTS/Rosas, Dance Ireland, Paris Opera Ballet, Cullberg Ballet, Dance Platform Istanbul, Ekoda de Dance Tokyo, and Bucknell Dance Company, among others. Elizabeth was the dance coordinator for the program at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels, Belgium from 1999-2005. De Keersmaeker created a duo for herself and Ms. Corbett called "For" in 1999 which premiered at the SpringDance Festival in Holland and was performed internationally. She assisted William Forsythe in the making of Pas/Parts for the Paris Opera Ballet and Ms, De Keersmaeker in the making of Bitches Brew/Tacoma Narrows for Rosas. Most recently Ms. Corbett taught a workshop for Movement Research/International Dance Dialogues. She will be in residence at the Beijing Dance Academy this Fall. ADF faculty since 2006.

Douglas Corbin Currently on the faculty of Florida State University; Doug worked for many years in New York CIty, where he was particularly pleased to work with Merce Cunningham, American Ballet Theatre, David Howard, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Nancy Bielski, Diana Cartier. Doug has also enjoyed working with Arena Dance in Zürich, Jurriens Stiftung, Amsterdam, Noriko Hara in Hiroshima, Peter Goss in Paris, Ballet Contemporáneo de Caracas, Szedgedi Kotars Ballet in Hungary; ADF faculty since 2006.

Teena Custer is a b-girl and hip hop dance theatre artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Teena Marie battles and performs internationally with her all female street dance group, Venus Fly Trap Crew, as well as her local Pittsburgh crew, Get Down Gang. Her solo "The Be-Girl Diaries" was selected to be performed at the Breakin' Convention in London, England, and in addition to theatrical works, she has won underground freestyle dance battles such as Underground Movement 5, Enter the Cypha I, and was also seen on an episode of MTV's MADE. Teena was recently invited to compete at the Queen Sweet 16, where she was one of the top 16 b-girls in the country invited to compete against one another in Seattle. She was also a featured dancer and assistant choreographer for the feature film "Leading Ladies" directed by Erika Randall Beahm and starring Melanie LaPatin and Benji Schwimmer from "So You Think You Can Dance." In addition to being a part of hip hop culture, Teena has an extensive background in contemporary dance. She earned a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University and an MFA in Dance Performance from The Ohio State University. She has been on faculty at both schools where she taught hip hop styles and contemporary dance. She has choreographed hip hop dance theatre pieces for various university dance programs and companies, and has performed with Dance Alloy, Attack Theatre, and Ursula Payne. She also represented CM² (Columbus Movement Movement) in Dance Magazine's "Top 25 to Watch" in 2007.

Jefferson Dalby Rock-and-roll piano player; accompanies classes using percussion, flute, electric percussion, and many piano styles; bandleader of the Jazzphibians; keyboard player for Soul Central; performed with Fort
Worth's Hip Pocket Theatre, Jubilee Theatre, and Sojourner Truth Players; former accompanist at Fort Worth Ballet, Boston Ballet, and White Mountain Summer Dance Festival; currently accompanies classes at University of North Carolina School of the Arts; recently updated website BalletClassMusicforFree.com; ADF faculty since 1987.

Elisa Clark, from the Washington, DC area, received her early training from the Maryland Youth Ballet and went on to earn her BFA from the Juilliard School, under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy.  She danced with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 2001, and rejoined in 2011.  Ms. Clark was previously a member of Mark Morris Dance Group (2005-2011) where she still Guest performs; and a founding member of Battleworks Dance Company (2001-2006), where she also acted as Company Manager and Rehearsal Assistant to Robert Battle. She has set Mr. Battle’s work on numerous companies and schools, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She has also assisted choreographers Adam Hougland and Igal Perry.  Additionally, Ms. Clark has performed with the Nederland Dans Theater and at the Metropolitan Opera, in productions choreographed by Mr. Morris, and Ben Wright.  She works closely with Carolyn Adams and ADLI, and is on faculty at NYSSSA School of Dance, the American Dance Festival, Perry-Mansfield, and the New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble. She is a 2008 Princess Grace Winner. www.elisaclark.com

Mark Dendy's work deftly weaves autobiographical narrative that deeply mines his southern Appalachian heritage, dance history and his experience as a post-modern dance theater artist in New York City. He has had a rich and varied career in experimental dance theater, grand scale site specific work bringing together diverse dance communities, performance, opera, improvisation, cabaret, night clubs, Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theater. His work is known for its wit, searing social commentary, intense physicality and tour de force acting. His company founded in 1983, has performed at PS 122, The American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater, Jacobs Pillow, Lincoln Center, Summerstage, La MaMa, DTW, Dixon Place, as well as numerous national international venues. He has been commissioned for new work by many modern and ballet companies worldwide, most notably Pacific Northwest Ballet. Mr. Dendy has performed in the companies of Jane Comfort, Martha Graham Ensemble, Pooh Kaye, Ruby Shang, and Pearl Lang. Other important influences include Simone Forti, Denishawn, Laura Dean, and Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane. He has collaborated with such diverse artists as jazz composer Don Byron, directors Julie Taymor, Tina Landau, and Ellen Hemphill, Boy George and psychiatrist Ronald L. Vereen with whom he collaborated on his seminal work Dream Analysis. His commitment to teaching and sharing his gifts with young artists, particularly in his home state of North Carolina has led him to teach at the ADF, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Garner Magnet High School, Durham High School for the Arts, The Dance Center of Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Asheville, Duke University, Juilliard, NYU, Cal Arts, ADF, Bates Dance Festival, University of Washington, George Washington University, VCU, Oklahoma University, and Texas Women's University. He is a master teacher of composition, improvisation, gender illusion and technique. Dendy has also devoted considerable attention to the Diaglev/Nijinsky repertoire as well as channeling the spirit of Martha Graham for special events. His awards, honors, and grants include five NEA Fellowships (1986, 1987, 1988, 1995 and 1996), Massachusetts Arts Council (1987), The Jerome Foundation (1988), The National Society of Arts and Letters Sustained Achievement Award (1990), the Harkness Foundation (1992), North Carolina Arts Commission (1992 and 2010), The American Dance Festival Scripps/Humphrey/Weideman/Limon Fellowship for Choreography (1995), the Choo San Goh Foundation, The Tennessee Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement (1997), the New York Dance and Performance Award (The Bessie) sfor Sustained Achievement (1997), Phillip Morris(1984, 1998, 1999), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with funds from NYSCA (1998), a NYSCA touring grant (1999), commissions from The Threshold Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund (1999), The Herb Alpert Award and the Joe A. Calloway Award (2000). He received an OBIE Award for his choreography for The Wild Party at Manhattan Theater Club (2000). In 2000 Dendy dissolved his company to spend the next eight years working in the commercial theater. In 2008-9-10 he created five site specific works and taught extensively throughout the US, returning to the concert stage with a newly formed company in 2010. At age 50, Dendy is inspired to create a solo dance theater work using his experience as an accomplished actor, dancer, writer and choreographer with a development initiative and a new executive director. He is also committed to continue his grand scale site specific works placing a special emphasis on his artistic relationship with the state of North Carolina while maintaining a New York and national presence.

Stacie Dombrowski, PMA® Certified Pilates Teacher
Stacie is a Power Pilates Teacher Trainer, PMA CERTIFIED and has over 25 years of experience as a Fitness Professional. She earned her Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology from Florida Atlantic University and is an ACE Certified group exercise instructor and personal trainer. Stacie received her initial Pilates certification from The PhysicalMind Institute in NYC in both mat and equipment and is she is registered with The Pilates Method Alliance. She is also a certified Extend Barre instructor, and a Yoga Alliance Registered Instructor having completed the 500-hour training with The North Carolina School of Yoga. This will be Stacie's third year supporting the ADF WFFS program teaching Pilates.

Vladimir Espinosa is a musician, actor, and choreographer born in Havana, Cuba, in 1964. He is currently an instructor of Latin Percussion, Afro-Cuban Dance, and Musician-accompanist in residence at Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia. His specialties include Latin and Afro-Cuban music, contemporary Latin and Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance, and traditional African Diaspora rhythms. Vladimir graduated from the ENA (School National of Arts, Cuba) in 1985. He also studied with the National Folkloric de Cuba with Regino Jimenes and Pelladito; both having taught at the ENA. After graduating, Vladimir began teaching at the Arts School in Jiguani, Granma, Cuba and at the Casa De Cultural in Havana, Cuba. Vladimir performed, taught, and choreographed for many companies, including: Caribeno (Cuba), Companies National de Danza (Ecuador), Orile (Cuba), and Rojo Oscuro (Ecuador). Vladimir has also performed Afro-Cuban traditional rhythms and dance with Las Manos Del Sol (US) and the Roanoke Ballet Theatre (US). In 1996, Vladimir was the Artistic Director and Choreographer for the election ceremonies for the Queen of Ecuador. As a performer, he has traveled extensively though out the US, Europe, and Central and South America. In 1994, he moved to Ecuador and played with many groups, such as Pueblo Nuevo (Ecuador), Havana Express (Cuba), Savuka Son (Ecuador), and Koral y Esmeralda (Ecuador). While doing so he had the opportunity to play with many excellent musicians, including Carmen Gonzalez, Omar Sosa, and Javier Tito Junco. From 1996-1999 he toured with Havana Express (Arturo Bassnuevas, Conrado Garcia, Pablo Moya, Chanito, and Michel Ferre) and played in many venues across Washington, Virginia, New York, and Miami. At that time, he also toured the East Coast with Havana Express, played with Solazo (for 4 years), and conducted workshops in a variety of high schools and universities. Currently, he is the Musical Director of the traditional Afro-Cuban group Las Manos del Sol and produces workshops in elementary and high schools as well as universities and performs in festivals, theaters, and museums. He also plays with Los Gatos and is currently touring in the US. Vladimir's most recent work includes a musical collaboration with Michel Ferre (pianist from Cuba and ex-member of Havana Express), where he recorded an acoustic Latin Jazz CD. Vladimir has also been a musician and instructor for the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC) since 2005.

Eric Franklin is an American and Swiss citizen and Director/Founder of the Franklin Institute in Uster, Switzerland. Eric holds degrees from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Zurich. He has danced professionally with the Rebecca Kelly Company, Solaris Dance and Contact Improvisers in New York City, as well as the Swiss Zurich Dance Theatre. He has taught extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, including at the Julliard School, the Royal Ballet School in London, the Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, the Dance Academy of Rome, the Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich, and as a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna. Eric has provided training to Olympic and world-champion athletes and professional dance troupes such as the Cirque du Soleil and the Forum de Dance in Monte Carlo. He has also authored a series of outstanding books that are sold around the world in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, French and Korean.

James Frazier (Co-Dean) (artist, educator, administrator) is the Co-Dean of the American Dance Festival and Chair of the Department of Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where he is a tenured Associate Professor. Frazier is the President of the Council of Dance Administrators. He is on the national board of the American College Dance Festival and serves as a Visiting Evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Dance, the US accrediting body for professional schools and degree granting programs in dance. As a professional performer, Frazier was a member of Kokuma Dance Theatre Company (England), Dallas Black Dance Theatre (Texas), and was a founding member of Edgeworks Dance Theater (Washington, DC). In addition, he has worked as a guest or creative collaborator with many others. Frazier also appeared in the stage production St. Louis Woman, choreographed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. His own choreography has been presented in numerous venues, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Concert Hall and Millennium Stage). He is a past recipient of the Virginia Commission for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship, and in 2009 he was commissioned to create a new ballet on the Richmond Ballet Company. He has taught master classes in dance technique at many festivals, in summer intensive programs and private schools around the country. Past appointments include: Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance History, Florida State University; Associate Artistic Director, Dance Institute of Washington (District of Columbia); and Publicity Coordinator for the Urban Bush Women Summer Dance Institute (1998 and 1999); and several adjunct appointments at colleges and universities, in Pennsylvania, Florida and Maryland. Frazier's academic credentials include a Doctorate of Education in Dance from Temple University and both a Master of Fine Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Florida State University. In 2008, he was a member of the graduating class of VCU's Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, and he was a selected participant in the mentoring program of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, for which served as Co-Chair of the Diversity Task Force. For the Virginia Commission for the Arts he has frequently served as a panelist, reviewing grant applications.

Michael Wall and Andy Hasenpflug

Michelle Gibson Choreographer, instructor, and performing artist, received her BFA in Dance from Tulane University and her MFA in Dance and Performance Studies from Hollins University/American Dance Festival. Michelle is from New Orleans, LA, and has studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, and the Urban Bush Women's, "Walking with Pearl Primus" intensive. Her motion picture credits include having been cast as a featured dancer in the Academy Award nominated film, Interview With a Vampire, the Academy Award winning film, Ray, and the movie Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan. Michelle, faculty member with the American Dance Festival held at Duke University, is also the founder and Artistic Director of Exhibit Dance Collective. Michelle is currently teaching at Brookhaven College in Dallas TX, artist in residence with the Ashe' Cultural Arts Center, resident dance company at the South Dallas Cultural Center, choreographer for Six Flags/WOW Entertainment Dallas TX, member of Drum Café, and educator and instructor with the Dallas Independent School District teaching grades 9-12. Her choreographic works include New Orleans Second Line: Takin It To The Roots performed at the American Dance Festival in 2011, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters with the Dallas Children's Theatre, currently on tour; "Krump" choreographed and accompanied by the LoneStar Wind Orchestra at the Meyerson Center; Texas Educators Music Conference in San Antonio accompanying the Texas University Orchestra; 2008 South Dallas Dance Festival premiering excerpts from " I Made It, But Some Didn't, a tribute to souls survivors of Hurricane Katrina; and the Dallas premiere of "Evolution", honoring, recognizing, and uplifting women of color. In addition to Michelle's many accomplishments, her greatest achievement is being the mother of two beautiful angels, Ailey, age 11 and Nigel, age 6.

Mark Haim Artistic Director of Mark Haim and Dancers, 1984–87, and the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa (Portugal), 1987–90; BFA, The Juilliard School; MFA, HU/ADF; commissions for the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballett Frankfurt, Joffrey Ballet, Limon Dance Company, Zenon Dance Company, Bat-Dor Dance Company, Rotterdamse Dansgroep, Saint Joseph Ballet, among others; full-evening dance solo, "The Goldberg Variations," performed at the ADF, Danspace Project, the John F. Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center Institute, Yekaterinburg, Seoul and other theaters around the US; Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington 2002-08; Visiting Associate Professor, Reed College, 2009; Artist in Residence, Hollins University, 1995; Faculty at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, 1995-6; Dance New Amsterdam, 1996-2002; Velocity Dance Center 2008-2012. Guest residencies at University of Florida, University of Illionois, Simon Fraser University, Ohio University, Pomona College, North Carolina School of the Arts, New World School of the Arts, UC Santa Barbara, VCU, SMU, and others. recipient of a 1987 NYFA Choreographers Fellowship, a 1988 and 1996 NEA Choreographers Fellowship, and grants from National Performance Network, ArtsLink, Inc, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs; ADF linkage to Chile in 1996 and 2001, Argentina in 1998; ADF/Russia 1997; recipient of the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon Fellowship for Choreography in 2000; ADF faculty 1993–2000, 2002, 2003, and since 2005.

John Hanks Percussionist/pianist/composer using acoustic and electronic instruments, John loves the spirit of dance and dancers and strives to incorporate that energy in his music; serves as Music Director for the Duke University Dance Program and percussion faculty for the Duke University Music Department; busy freelance percussionist performing with many jazz, classical, theater, rock/blues, and contemporary music groups throughout North Carolina; has released three CDs of music for dance; ADF faculty since 1984.

Neil Harris studied acting and political theater at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London before moving to Israel at the age of 22 in 1979. In 1981 he was enlisted into the IDF and spent two years as a medic in the first Lebanese War. Today he works in the field of Experiential Education for Social Change, and facilitates programs on Jewish/Palestinian Dialogue, HIV and AIDS prevention, Gay and Lesbian Youth, and Democratic Dilemmas in Israeli Society. In November 2001, Neil completed a walk of over 550 miles from Metulla to Eilat, interviewing Jewish and Palestinian-Arab Israeli citizens on "The State of the Nation" one year into the al-Aqsa Intifada. In 2008, Neil collaborated with Jesse Zaritt and Tirtzah Bassel on the dance performance project Genesis 22, and is currently creating new work with Tymberly Canale. Neil incorporates dance improv and Theater of the Oppressed techniques into groups that he facilitates on a regular basis, as well as integrating performance into his activism for social change in Israel. He is a senior educator for the Dorot Fellowship in Israel. Neil splits his time between living on Kibbutz Tuval and in south Tel Aviv.

Andy Hasenpflug (Director of Musicians) Composer/Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Hasenpflug is very glad to be in his first year as music director of the American Dance Festival. He has accumulated an extensive list of credits in theater, dance, jazz, rock, classical, patriotic, and commercial venues. These include the US Air Force Band, Denver Contemporary Dance Co., Rosanna Gamson/Worldwide, Equity Library Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and jingles for Kroger food stores and Hoolihan's restaurants. He has worked as adance accompanist at the American Dance Festival, the Doug Varone summer intensive, the American Colleges of Dance Festival, Slippery Rock University, Columbia College Chicago, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, the University of Cincinnati, Helander and Co., Kim Robards Dance, the University of Colorado, SUNY Purchase, Marymount College, and the Lou Conte Studios. He has composed for such artists as the Seldoms, Dance Alloy, LabCo, Ursula Payne, Tom Truss, Jennifer Keller, Zephyr Dance Company, The Overture Academy Cincinnati, Chasala Dance Company, Helander and Co., and the University of Cincinnati. His teaching credits include The University of Cincinnati, Columbia College Chicago, and Slippery Rock University. He has recorded with the United States Air Force Band, Rick Lisak Band, Sylvain Acher and Fabien, Divide by Pi, and Hasenproject, as well as creating an ongoing group of solo recordings. Mr. Hasenpflug currently resides in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania where he freelances and works as the music director for the dance department of Slippery Rock University. He also holds the title of visiting professor at Henan Normal University in Henan, China.

Curt Haworth, an expatriate Californian, lived in New York City for twenty years before moving to Philadelphia in 2009. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz and a MFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has an eclectic movement background ranging from athletics to modern dance and post-modern techniques, to yoga, contact improvisation and ballet. His work has been shown in Philadelphia at: the Annenberg Center, The Performance Garage, The Painted Bride, The CEC, and various Fringe venues; and in NYC at: The Danspace Project, LA MAMA, DNA, Symphony Space, Movement Research at the Judson Church, IFNY, Dixon Place, PS122, Metamorphosis, DanceNow, New Dance Alliance; as well as at: Rockland Community College, Bennington College July Program, and Tanecne Divadlo in Bratislava, Slovakia. He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence in 2001-2002. Curt performed with Lisa Race's Race Dance from 1993-2000, and toured internationally with David Dorfman Dance from 1990 to 2002, while creating over 15 original roles. He has taught regularly at Movement Research and DNA (formerly Dance Space Center) in NYC. He is the director of PARD in Philadelphia, an organization dedicated to supporting new movement performance and teaching, located at the Mt Vernon Dance Space and has co-founded Falls Bridge, new movement, improvisation and performance festival. He has taught and set work as a guest artist throughout the United States and Europe and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Ellen Hemphill Artistic Director, Managing Director and co-Founder of Archipelago Theatre Company in Chapel Hill, NC; Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies and on the faculty of Duke University's Department of Theatre Studies since 1993; long time member of the Roy Hart Theatre of France, where she worked and performed for 13 years. Ellen has written and produced and directed 20 performances in the last 15 years, all performed primarily at Duke University. Among many extraordinary artists, she has collaborated with Allison Leyton-Brown, composer, Basil Twist, puppeteer, Mark Dendy, choreographer, and others. Invited artists include actors and dancers from around the country and internationally. You can read more about the work at: www.archipelagotheatre.org. ADF faculty since 1992.

Gerri Houlihan (Co-Dean) began her professional training at the Juilliard School, studying with Antony Tudor, Alfredo Corvino, and members of the Martha Graham and Jose Limon dance companies. She performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company and spent five years as a soloist with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company touring extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Houlihan has taught or choreographed for such institutions as N. Y.'s High School of the Performing Arts, the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, the Bates Dance Festival, the Boston Ballet, the Harvard Summer Dance Center, Meredith College, the University of South Florida, North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Richmond, the University of North Carolina- Greensboro and Virginia Commonwealth University.From 1984-1987 she directed her own school and company, the Boston Dance Project. She was one of five finalists in the Boston Ballet's International Choreography Competition. From 1988-1999, Ms. Houlihan was on the faculty of New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. During that time, she was also the artistic director of Houlihan and Dancers. The recipient of two Florida Individual Artist Fellowships in Dance/Choreography in 1991-92 and 1996-97, Houlihan and Dancers was on the touring roster for the state of Florida. She recently became a member of the board of directors for the Florida Dance Association and also for the American College Dance Association. Ms. Houlihan has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival from 1981-1983, and from 1987 to the present. As an international representative for ADF she has participated in eighteen international linkages, teaching in Korea, China, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Estonia, Poland, the Philippines, Moscow and Mongolia. She is the 2005 recipient of the Balasaraswati, Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching, and received her MFA degree in 2007 from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival MFA program. She is currently a professor at Florida State University.

Ishmael Houston-Jones

Ishmael Houston-Jones Dance and text-work has been performed across the US, as well as in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Latin America; his work has a foundation in improvisation, contact improvisation, authentic movement, releasing techniques, and vocal work; ADF faculty 1990–1991, 1993, and since 2005.

John Jasperse is a dance artist living and working in New York City since 1985. Jasperse has produced fourteen evening-length works, as well as several shorter works. Over the years, he has collaborated with various artists, including composers Jonathan Bepler, Chris Cochorane, James Lo, Zeena Parkins, and Hahn Rowe; visual designers Matthias Bringmann and Tony Orrico; and lighting designers James Clotfelter, Joe Levasseur, Carol Mullins, Stan Pressner and Philip Sandström. His work has been presented by festivals and presenting organizations throughout the United States and Europe and in Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan including The American Dance Festival, The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Cannes International Dance Festival, Dance Umbrella, EuroKaz, Kampnagel, Montpellier Danse, Tanz im August, TanzQuartier Wein, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, and the VEO Festival. Jasperse has received fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Lambent Foundation. He received a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for the recognition of his body of work. Jasperse has created commissioned works for several companies including Baryshnikov's White Oak Project, Batsheva Dance Company, and The Lyon Opera Ballet.

LaShawn Jones A member of Kelly Peters Dance Company; trained at Broadway Dance Center (BDC) in New York in 2010 summer intensive, dancer in Sybarite Dance Showcase in NYC and BDC's Step Up 3d Dance Dub; instructor at Korea Dance Festival in 2010; choreography has been presented throughout North Carolina and Seoul, South Korea; Zumba instructor at Equinox in NYC; HIV prevention researcher; relocated to NYC to pursue her passion for dance; ADF faculty since 2009.

Terrence Karn, dance and musical artist/composer/educator, began his career as a dance musician in 1971 at The Minnesota Dance Theatre. He is the resident Musician/Composer at Denison University's Dance Department. Terrence has performed with the Houston Grand Opera, Karen Stokes Dance, and HopeStone. Summer 2012, Karn will return to the Bates Dance Festival for his 13th year as the Musical Director for YAP. Terrence is the co-director of Gypsy Dance Theatre and performs regularly at Renaissance Festivals throughout the country. He has composed numerous works for dance companies on planet earth and has played for over 16,001 dance classes & counting. Terrence is honored to be a part of the ADF Family.

Yangkeun Kim, choreographer/teacher/dancer/writer, is a professor of Soongeui Women`s College, Artistic Director of Garion Dance Company and vice president of The Dance Science of Korea. She has performed her own work with Garion Dance Company, and Korea Contemporary Dance Company and Wansoon Yook`s Dance Company, toured Europe, US, and Asia. She has also choreographed famous musicals and Korean opera, on numerous TV show when she was the Artistic Director of MBC Broadcasting Dance Company (1985-1989) and "One World" (1988) at the opening ceremony of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Ms. Kim has organized KDF (KADF) since 1990, Seoul International Choreographer's Festival since 1995 and workshops. She received a prize of Coppanase from the Modern Dance Association of Korea, Il Min Fellowship from Dong-A Daily newspaper.

Rafael Lopez-Barrantes Performer, voice teacher and co-founder of Archipelago Theatre France as well as Archipelago Theatre USA, has been acting, directing and teaching with the Roy Hart Theatre in France since 1974. His research in Traditional Japanese Performing Arts and Flamenco singing has shaped extensively his approach to voice, body and performance training. He was the Voice Chair at the National School of Puppetry Arts in France (1984-1992). His teaching includes Japan, Mexico and Europe, notably the Riksteater of Norway and the French National Conservatories of Dramatic Art. For fifteen years he held a position at the Theatre Studies Department of Duke University where he directed a number of performances for main stages (Kaspar, King Ubu, Blood weddings, The Tempest, Don Juan, House of Desires, etc). He established Celebrations Inc. (www.CelebrationsUS.com) in 1996, a very successful business venture addressing design, theatrical and production needs in the special events industry (for such notables as President Bill Clinton, Yo-Yo Ma, Luciano Pavarotti, Michael Jordan, etc). He collaborated as assistant director for the Opera Company of North Carolina in 2003 and 2004 seasons. Between 2002-2007 he was officially appointed Honorary Consul of Spain in North Carolina. Since 2009 he did residencies at the National University in Costa Rica and at the North East Normal University in Chanchung, China. In 2007 he joined CalArts where he teaches "Extended Vocal Range Techniques" as full-time faculty member. Currently he is the Associate Director for Performance at the Theatre School of the California Institute of the Arts (rlopezbarrantes@calarts.edu). He taught for ADF at Henan, China in 2011. ADF faculty since 1992.

Paul Matteson is a member of the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company. In addition, he creates his own work and teaches regularly. He completed his graduate degree in choreography from Bennington College in 2007. From 2000-2005, he was a member of David Dorfman Dance and Race Dance, receiving a BESSIE for performance. He has also performed with Jennifer Nugent, Terry Creach, Peter Schmitz, Kota Yamazaki, Chamecki/Lerner, Neta Pulvermacher, and Keith Johnson among others. ADF faculty from 2002 – 2006 and in 2009.

Amanda K. Miller Founder, artistic director, and choreographer of Pretty Ugly Dance Company, formed in 1992; toured internationally and won an array of awards and acclaim for unique collaborations; from 1984 to 1992 she was a founding member, principal dancer and resident choreographer of the Frankfurt Ballet under the direction of William Forsythe; continues to choreograph, direct and teach; ADF faculty since 2009; a native North Carolinian; www.amandakmiller.com

Trebien Pollard

Christine Nowicki is currently in her 10th year of teaching Classical Pilates in Cary, North Carolina, and has over 20 years of experience in the field of dance. She earned her B.F.A. in dance from UMASS/Amherst, and her M.S. in child development from ECU. She is certified in mat and equipment instruction through both Power Pilates and The Physicalmind Institute. As a Pilates professional, Christine is a Continuing Education teacher trainer for Power Pilates and continues to be an active member and certified teacher through the Pilates Method Alliance. Christine strives to put the passion in Pilates and to enliven your spirit through movement.

Ursula Payne is the Chairperson and Professor of Dance at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Payne has received four choreographic fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts from 2000-2006. Her choreography has been presented nationally and internationally in the Monaco Danses Dances Forum (Monaco), Freed Voices Project: Exploring Race and Gender Through Dance (TN), American Dance Guild Performance Festival (NYC), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), This Woman's Work (NYC), LABCO Dance Company (PA), Dance Alloy (PA), Project Motion Dance (Memphis,TN), Taiwan College Dance Festival (Taipei, Taiwan), and the African Center for Peace and Conflict Awards Ceremony in (Sacramento, CA). Payne received her MFA from The Ohio State University with a concentration in Direction from Labanotation Score and CMA certification from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in NYC. She reconstructed from labanotation Donald McKayle's masterwork Rainbow Round My Shoulder for her MFA project. Since then she has directed from labanotation score Scenes from the Music of Charles Ives by Anna Sokolow and Air for a G String by Doris Humphrey. ADF faculty since 2002.

Jillian Peña is a dance and video artist primarily concerned with confusion and desire between self and other. Her work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, pop media, and spirituality. She has been presented internationally, including at Dance Theater Workshop and The Kitchen in New York, Akademie der Kunste Berlin, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, International Festival of Contemporary Art Slovenia, and the Tate Modern London. Jillian was a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar during which she was awarded an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a fellowship recipient, and a Practice-based MPhil in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has her BA from Hollins University. Her video work is distributed by Video Data Bank. She is a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a 2009 DanceWeb Fellow at Impulstanz in Vienna, a 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Archauz in Århus, Denmark, a 2011 Artist-in-Residence at the National Dance Center of Bucharest, Romania, and a 2011-2012 Artist-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Jillian is an adjunct professor at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an ADF faculty since 2006. jillianpena.com

Sara Procopio

Pamela Pietro has equally combined careers on stage and in academic fields of dance successfully. She has performed professionally with Houlihan and Dancers, Anthony Morgan Dance Company, Michael Foley Dance, RaceDance and bopi's black sheep/dances and Jennifer Nugent. Pamela served as rehearsal director for Houlihan and Dancers, as well as for New World Dance Ensemble. She collaborated with choreographer Mark Haim for several projects at The Wooden Floor, formerly Saint Joseph Ballet. Pamela has been on the faculty at the American Dance Festival since 1997 and taught for the Festival's linkage programs to Guangdong Dance Company in Guangzhou (China) and the Dance Library Summer Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel and Henan Normal University in Henan, China and Internationally Pamela has taught at Newtown High School for the Performing Arts in Sydney, Australia, Momentum Danza in Panama, LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore, Singapore, Tsekh Festival in Moscow, Russia and Ekoda de Dance at Nippon University in Tokyo, Japan. Nationally, she has been on faculty at Florida International University, New World School of the Arts, Hollins University, New York University Tisch School for the Arts, Dance New Amsterdam and Dancewave Center. Pamela's choreography has been presented in NY by Dancespace Draftworks and Dance New Amsterdam, BAX, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dancespace in Miami, Booker School for the Arts in Sarasota, Florida, Fuzion Dance Artists in Sarasota, Florida, Momentum Danza Company/Panama, Meredith College/Raleigh, NC, University of Wisconsin Madison, and La Salle Academy/Singapore. She has presented and taught at and at the ACM Multimedia Conference in Santa Barbara. Pamela received the first place award for academics and performance from the National Society of Arts and Letters, a gold medal winner at the Asiagraph Video/Choreography competition in Shanghai, China and her latest research was presented at the Hawaiian Arts and Humanities Conference in Waikiki. Pamela is currently based in New York City, where she is an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University Tisch School for the Arts. She is a certified personal trainer and Pilates instructor, as well as the assistant to pioneering bodywork expert Irene Dowd. Pamela received a BFA/Dance from Florida State University and her MFA/Dance from University of Washington.

Trebien Pollard is a graduate of Florida A&M University with a BS in Mathematics Education and received his MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He has performed with many dance companies, including the Tania Isaac Dance, Martha Graham Ensemble, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Pascal Rioult Dance Theater, Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, Rebecca Stenn Co., Erick Hawkins Dance Co., and Pilobolus. He has also worked as a guest artist with Urban Bush Women and appeared in Mannic Production's feature film "Ghostlight", starring Richard Move as 'Martha Graham'. As a choreographer, Trebien's work has been performed throughout United States, England and Japan. In July 2002, he premiered an evening-length work at Joyce SoHo, entitled Stories Told. In 2007, Trebien returned to Joyce SoHo with his work, entitled Color Codes: a point of hue. He has also choreographed William Electric Black's The Hamlet Project, The Damned: A Rock Musical and Frankenstein: The Rock Musical. Trebien's ongoing projects include: a one-man show entitled Vegan Chitlins and the artist formally known as the N-word and an opera entitled Democracy Divine. Presently, He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Goucher College and a licensed certified GYROTONIC® trainer.

Sherone Price Dancer, teacher, choreographer; currently Assistant Professor of Dance at Appalachian State University, Lecturer, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; dancer and choreographer, Visiting Instructor of dance, Florida International University in Miami, Fl; artist in residence/Henry Bascom Professor of dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Principal with Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble, Durham, NC; Guest Performer, Gamble Dance Theater and Jan Van Dyke Dance Group, Greensboro, NC 2000-2002 Regional touring modern dance companies; BFA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro and MFA, Hollins University in Roanoke Va.; Performed Talley Beatty's Mourner's Bench at the 1993 Scripps/ADF Award Ceremony (Durham, NC); Study West African Dance and Drumming in Guinea, West Africa; ADF faculty since 1995, Guest instructor for NFAA in Miami and The McIntyre Institute in Miami Lakes, FL.

Sara Procopio is a founding member of Shen Wei Dance Arts and the company's former Artistic Associate. From 2001-2011 she was a full-time member of the company, performing at renowned venues and festivals throughout the world. As both an independent teaching artist, as well as for Shen Wei Dance Arts, Sara has taught master classes and workshops throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the U.S. She co-taught an 8-week practice and performance project in Italy at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan and Fabbrica Europa in Florence. Recent teaching engagements include The University of the Arts, the ADF/NYC Winter Intensive, Hollins University, the Peridance Capezio Center, Marymount Manhattan College. Sara earned both her undergraduate and master's degrees from Hollins University. ADF faculty since '08.

Claudia Howard Queen

Claudia Howard Queen Multi-instrumentalist who has accompanied for over 200 dance instructors throughout the US, Ireland and Taiwan in studios such as Merce Cunningham and Gus Giordano, and Tisch Summer Dance Festival. Queen uses piano, percussion, voice, electronic, and stringed instruments to create sophisticated, uplifting, kinesthetic music for dance. Queen composes music designed to illuminate the visual poetry of the choreographer. Her dance scores have toured the US, Ireland, England, Uruguay & Taiwan. She has performed with companies such as the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble, Jan Erkert & Dancers and recently toured in Taiwan with Ku & Dancers. Queen's awards include two Fulbright Awards to teach at Taipei National University of the Arts and TAIPEiDEA, three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and four Meet the Composer Awards. Queen is Assistant Professor of Music for Dance at the University of North Texas (UNT) where she teaches Choreography, Music for Dancers, Composer/Choreographer Collaboration, and trains musicians in the art of dance accompaniment. She is a guest artist throughout the US. Queen holds an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts. She has been faculty at ADF since 2006 & participated in ADF Henan, China in 2011.

Atiba Rorie has been playing percussion instruments since he was a young child. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he received a BA in Music.  He has studied with Babatunde Olatunji, Fahali Igbo, Bradley Simmons, Chief Bey, and Osei Appiagyei. He has also studied with Titos Sampas, Andrew Cacho, in Accra, Ghana at Lagon with the National Dance Ensemble, and Guinea, West Africa with Famoudou Konate. Rorie has performed with the Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers, Resounding Steel, Collage Dance Ensemble, and the African American Dance Ensemble. He has toured with Baba Olatunji’s drummers and dancers and has performed at Dance Africa in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rorie has also performed in two presidential inaugurations and in 2005 performed in a Drums of Passion tribute to Olatunji at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Columbus, Ohio.

Khalid Saleem, Percussionist, musician; former musical director for the African American Dance Ensemble; lived, worked, and studied in the Ivory Coast; worked/studied with Rose Marie Guiraud, Babatunde Olatunji of Nigeria, Ladji Camara of Guinea (West Africa), Titos Sampa of Zaire, and Les Ballet Africains, the National Dance Company of Guinea; on faculty in the Dance Department at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, since 1994; Khalid has been very active during The College at Brockport's, annual diversity conference; invited to present African percussion workshops in Salvador, Brazil in November 2008; Khalid's latest International cultural exchange travel, have taken him to Haiti in January 2011, traveling with SUNY Oswego's Psychology Department, in coping with stress and trauma, as a consultant, teacher and musician; He performed at the August, 2011 National Black Theater Festival in Winston Salem, NC; Sankofa, The African Dance and Drum Ensemble at The College at Brockport, (Khalid Saleem, Music Director) are the recipients of The Greater Rochester Cultural Arts, recognition Award, November, 2011; Khalid also participated in Konkoran's, 2011 annual conference in Washington DC, where Chuck Davis and Melvin Deale was being honored; ADF faculty since 1985.

Stuart Singer is a Brooklyn based performer and teacher.  Originally from Western Massachuestts, he began dancing at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School and received his BFA from the SUNY-Purchase College Conservatory of Dance.  He has danced in the companies of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane (2004-2008), Doug Varone (2009), Wally Cardona (2008-2010) and Lucinda Childs (2011-present).  He has recently collaborated on performance projects with dance artists Yanira Castro, Jack Ferver, Christopher Williams and Mollye Maxner, and is currently creating new works with Gwen Welliver, Joanna Kotze, and Lindsay Clark.  He is currently performing in the revival tour of the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson opera, Einstein on the Beach. Stuart is a guest artist in dance at Bennington College (2011-2012) and is a teaching artist for New York Live Arts; recent NYLA teaching projects include a guest faculty position at Bard College (2010-2011), various company workshops, and re-staging the works of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane at Princeton University and California State University - Long Beach.  Recent guest teaching includes Wesleyan University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, SUNY-Purchase College, and Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul). 

Dawn Strom Licensed GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, MLS
Dawn draws on her experience of a lifetime with movement from dance and gymnastics to marathon running, rock climbing, horse training and her studies as a movement artist. Dawn holds a BA in Philosophy and Religion from the College of St. Catherine in St Paul, MN and a Master of Liberal Studies from the University of Minnesota in Philosophy of Mind and Movement. In her exploratation of movement she integrates principles and techniques she has learned in her study of a variety of modalities and disciplines, including but not limited to: Global Somatics™, Body-Mind Centering®, Reiki/Energy-work, Touch for Health, Dance, meditation and the Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis exercise methodologies. She currently lives in Atlanta where she teaches and conducts teacher training in Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis exercise methods.

Michael Wall began collaborating with dance and other art forms at an early age and continues to work with artists internationally. He has made work for the Jose Limon Company, Mark Haim, Lisa Race, David Dorfman, David Grenke, Rudy Perez, Pam Pietro, Bebe Miller, K.J. Holmes, Jenn Nugent and many others. Michael and designer, Jamie Karczewski, formed the company ASIMPLESOUND, LLC that distributes music and resources for dance, film and other media. Michael works full-time in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University and accompanies at the Bates Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival. His music and recordings can be found at www.asimplesound.com.

Andrea Weber graduated with a BFA from The Juilliard School, under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy. Andrea joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in January 2004 and is currently a faculty member of the Merce Cunningham Studio.
Andrea has danced and taught for Canadian based Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, participating in the Manitoba and Gros Mourne Project. She has assisted and staged Lila York's works on ballet companies throughout the United States and in Denmark. Andrea appears as the Dancer in THE DANCER FILMS, a series of very short films based on the cartoons fo Jules Feiffer, directed by Judy Dennis and produced by Ellen Dennis, with choreography by Susan Marshall and Larry Keigwin. She will be visiting Brown University as an adjunct professor for the spring 2012 semester.

Jesse Zarrit

Gwen Welliver Dancer and choreographer; recent works presented at Center for Performance Research, Dance Theater Workshop, 92nd Y Harkness Dance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church; performed with Doug Varone and Dancers ('90-'00); recipient of a Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement ('00); Rehearsal Director Trisha Brown Dance Company('00-'07) responsible for directing stagings of Brown's seminal early works, an extensive repertory, and Brown's choreography for opera; also performed in projects by Douglas Dunn with Rudy Burckhardt, Helmut Gottschild (ZeroMoving Dance Company), Ohad Naharin, and Dana Reitz, among many others; teaches worldwide at the American Dance Festival, International Summer School of Dance (JP), Kalamata International Dance Festival (GR), P.A.R.T.S. (BE), Trisha Brown Studios, TSEKH Summer School (RU); guest teaching venues include Bard College, Barnard College, Hampshire College, Hollins University, Hunter College, Mount Holyoke College; Movement Research faculty member 1997-present; previously on the faculty of NYU Tisch School of the Arts ('95-'00, '09-'11); Bennington College ('07-'09 Fellow); currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College.

Ken Ray Wilemon Percussionist, painter; based in Durham, NC; has accompanied dance at Texas Christian University, University of Texas, Connecticut College, Hollins University, various ACDFA's, and the White Mountain Summer Dance Festival (ongoing); currently playing with singer-songwriter Gilbert Neal, was a featured musician at the 2009 and 2010 Hoop Path gatherings, is the staff musician at Meredith College, and at Duke University; ADF faculty since 1988.

Felice Wolfzahn BFA Juilliard, MFA Bennington College. Felice is a dancer, choreographer and veteran teacher of Contact Improvisation. She has been teaching in the Five College dance department of MA for the past fifteen years and has taught in many colleges and dance centers including The School for New Dance Development in Holland. Felice's work combines investigations into Authentic Movement and Contemporary dance technique as well. She has danced with the companies of Victoria Marks, Mimi Garrard, and Pooh Kaye Eccentric Motions, among many others. Felice has collaborated with other artists including Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkoff and Patrick Crowley. She is interested in how dance can be instructional as well as healing and incorporate the whole self into its investigations. New ADF faculty.

Abby Yager A member of the Trisha Brown Company from 1995–2002, Ms. Yager has danced in the companies of Sungsoo Ahn, Robin Becker, Donna Uchizono, JoAnna Mendl Shaw as well as other independent choreographers. As a reconstructor of Ms. Brown's choreography, she has worked with Candoco (London, England) The Lyon Opera Ballet (Lyon, France), La Monnaie National Opera Of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium), Le Festival International d'Art Lyrique (Aix-en-Provence, France) and has directed educational projects at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Five College Dance Department, The Ohio State University, and at P.A.R.T.S. Ms. Yager has served as guest teacher at universities, festivals, and studios both domestically and abroad, including the Independent Dance at the Siobhan Davies Studios, and Le Centre Choréographique National de Rennes et de Bretagne and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. She has been a member of the ADF faculty since 2003.

Ming-Lung Yang is a native of Taiwan. He earned his B.A. in Dance from Chinese Culture University and his M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Yang has danced in the companies of Trisha Brown, Wally Cardona, Hillary Easton, Henry Yu, Ming-Shen Ku, and was a founding member of Dance Forum Taipei. Mr. Yang served as the Artistic Director of Dance Forum Taipei from 2002-2005. His choreography has been presented across Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at The Ohio State University 2006-2010 and a Visiting Professor at the Korean National University of the Arts 2005-2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Taipei National University of the Arts, and a returning member of the faculty at the American Dance Festival since 2000.

Jesse Zaritt received an MFA in Dance from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival Program (2008). Jesse has recently taught at the American Dance Festival (NC), Hollins University (VA), Pomona College (CA), and the University of the Americas Puebla (Mexico) as well as at festivals in Japan, Korea, and Russia. He has performed his solo work in Korea, Germany, New York, Japan, Mexico and Israel. His solo 'Binding' is the recipient of three 2010 New York Innovative Theater Awards: Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Solo Performance, and Outstanding Performance Art Production. He has created choreography for the Seminar HaKibbutzim College and the Acco Theater Festival (Israel). Jesse was the recipient of a 2006-2007 Dorot Fellowship in Israel. Jesse was a member of the Hollins Dance Project (2000- 2001/Roanoke, VA), the Shen Wei Dance Arts Company (NYC/2001-2006), and the Inbal Pinto Dance Company (Tel Aviv/2008). Jesse currently dances in the work of Faye Driscoll and Netta Yerushalmy. Jesse graduated Cum Laude in 2000 from Pomona College (CA). ADF faculty since 2008.