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Palmer Booth has red hair that you can see from a mile away. This is Palmer's first year as a member of HRDC and second year attending Hollins. She loves her hometown of Gainesville, Ga., where she was born and raised. She started dancing at the age of three with The Gainesville Ballet Company, spent five years as a Gainesville cheerleader, but loves the change to modern dance at Hollins.
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ShaLeigh Comerford graduated cum laude in 1998 from Hollins University with a B.A. in studio art and returned in 2000 for a master's degree in visual and performing arts. She has created, conducted, and directed creative programs for inner city youth, the artistically gifted, and children with special needs. Currently, she teaches at the Roanoke Ballet Theatre, tours with Young Audiences of Virginia, and dances on the sides of buildings with RBT’s Arial Ballet. She is a member of Roanoke Ballet Theatre’s Professional Dance Company and is honored to be a part of the Hollins Repertory Dance Company.
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Angie Fowler was born in Bucaramunga, Colombia, South America. At the ripe old age of five weeks, she was adopted from this roasty equatorial region into the home of her fabulous family in Juneau, Alaska. She considers herself Alaskan for having lived in Juneau until deciding to come to Hollins as a dance major. She has loved movement since the moment she began to bounce in her rocker to the soundtrack of the movie Flashdance, which just happened to be released the year of her birth. |
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Meredith Glisson is from Hampstead, Md. She received her training at Karen Sach’s Academy of Dance and Rhythm in Shoes Dance Studio. She has attended the American Dance Festival in New York City and Durham, N.C. She is a double major in dance and French. She is currently abroad for the year in France, studying dance and language.
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Susan Leah Honer is a dance and creative writing double major. She is currently researching the effects of fiction on the portrayal of memory through dance and poetry. Susan is a native of Roanoke. She was a member of the Southwest Virginia Ballet Company throughout high school. At Hollins she is a member of the Hollins Repertory Dance Company. She has studied at American Dance Festival the past two summers in Durham, N.C., as well as the ADF January intensive in New York. Susan is a certified instructor of the Pilates mat technique.
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Mia Jacobucci was born in Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter moved to Cleveland, Ohio. She began taking dance at the age of four with The Cleveland School of Ballet. She then attended Marguerite Duncan Dance studio in 1996 where she danced until she moved from Cleveland to High Point, N.C. in 1997. In North Carolina, she danced with the Greensboro Ballet before attending the North Carolina School of the Arts. She started NCSA during the summer of 1998 as a ballet major. She is very excited to continue dance at Hollins as a first-year student.
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Jen Schworm is a senior from Lisbon, Md. and has been in HRDC since her first year at Hollins. Before coming to Hollins she danced and trained at Peabody Prepatory in Baltimore and Goucher College in Towson, Md. She has performed in every HRDC event on campus (with the exception of spring 2003 because she was abroad in London). In the spring of 2002 she choreographed her first solo work at Hollins. She is a certified Pilates mat instructor and is currently teaching Pilates at Hollins.
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Emily Wexler is a current senior at Hollins and comes from the Philadelphia region. Previously, she studied dance in South Jersey. She has been dancing with HRDC for the past four years and has traveled far and wide with them around the country and around the world. She has also studied at the American Dance Festival, as well as The Place in London. She is currently investigating the physical relationships that can be developed before birth.
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Alysha Wood is a junior from Charleston, W.Va. constructing an interdisciplinary major in Asian studies, with minors in modern dance and creative writing. She will be studying abroad in Thailand next spring. |
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