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Summer Morgan - Summer holds
a BFA in dance from S.U.N.Y. Purchase. She has been creating work in California,
New York, and Portland since 1992. Her work has most recently been presented
at the Center Stage Theatre in Santa Barbara, the Old Creamery Dancenter and
John Van Duzer Theatre in Arcata, the Astoria Dance Center, The Brooklyn Museum
of Art, The Williamsburg Art Nexus, the Merce Cunningham Studio, "New Steps"
at the Mulberry Street Theatre, and Dixon Place at University Settlement in
New York.
Toby Tobias of the Village Voice writes of Summer Morgan's
work at New Steps, "...its performance was striking, all ravaged beauty and
morbid sensitivity .... all things considered, I'm placing my bets on Morgan."
Summer performs in "Ten Tiny Dances, One Very Small Stage" in Portland
and Tacoma to benefit the homeless. Get more information at tentinydances.org.
Summer Morgan Dance presented "Evolver" at The Historic Firehouse
Theatre, 1436 SW Montgomery St., Portland Oregon
November 9 - 11, 2007.
Choreography: Summer Morgan
Performers: Summer Morgan, Arti Boyd, Sonya
Barker, Robyn Conroy, and Matthew Ellis
In November, 2008, Summer performed in Katowice, Poland.
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Michelle Knudsen - Michelle
holds a BFA in dance from UC Santa Barbara. She is currently a member of the
Colorado based company The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble.
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Tabitha Sisson- Tabitha is a
member of San Francisco based dance companies The California Contemporary
Dancers and Zooz Movement Mosaic Dance Company.
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Jessica Swanson - Jessica Swanson
earned her BFA in dance performance from the conservatory at SUNY Purchase.
From 1989-1999 she choreographed for and performed with Shaken, Not Stirred
Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble, after which she created Planet Caravan Middle
Eastern Dance Ensemble, which performed in New York for six years. Swanson
has worked with Doug Varone and Dancers in New York, Doug Elkins in Amsterdam,
and Capacitor in San Francisco. Currently she collaborates with Zooz: a live
mosaic of dance and music from the Middle East and North Africa, and performs
around the world in the Joe Goode Company of San Francisco. The photo above
right shows Jessica performing "The Live Billboard Project," a site-
specific dance on an original billboard in San Francisco.
Jessica performed
with the Joe Goode Performance Group's "Wonderboy" in June, 2008 in San Francisco.
For more information visit
www.joegoode.org
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Chelsea Retzloff - Chelsea graduated
from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a BFA in Dance and
BA in Chemistry. In addition to dancing at The Studio of Dance Arts, she also
studied at The Kirov Academy, Lines Preprofessional Program, and California
State Summer School for the Arts. Chelsea was a Governor's Art Scholar at
the age of 14.
Upon graduation, Chelsea won the Daniel G. Aldrich
Outstanding Senior Award and the Vice Chancellor's Award for Scholarship,
Leadership and Citizenship, as well as awards for her choreography and lighting
design.
On August 21, 2008, Chelsea danced with David Dorfman Dance
at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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