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Donna Faye Burchfield, professor of dance and co-director of Hollins' program, teaches internationally, most recently with the American Dance Festival in Shanghai, and previously in Moscow and Seoul. She has been choreographing and performing her own work since 1979. Her work has been commissioned by Center Stage, North Carolina State University, Contemporary Dance Fort Worth, circa (1990), and New Works Project. She was the recipient of the 1992-93 and 1993-94 Artist Project Grant in Dance, given by the North Carolina State Arts Council for her choreographic work. Before coming to Hollins Burchfield was at Duke University, working since 1984 for the American Dance Festival (ADF). She is also dean at ADF, which enrolls more than 500 dance students and professionals from around the world each summer. She earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Texas Christian University.
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Jeffery N. Bullock, associate professor and co-director of Hollins' program, began his performing career with the North Carolina Dance Theater following graduation from the North Carolina School of the Arts. He continued his performing career with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. Later, he joined the contemporary dance company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, touring the United States and Europe. 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. Jeffery has been a faculty member at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina since 1998, and in ADF international festivals that have included Russia, Korea, and Mongolia. He earned his M.F.A. in choreography from the University of Iowa.
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Douglas Becker, teacher, choreographer, performer; former dancer of William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet, restages Forsythe Repertory, and teaches Ballet and improvisation for educational institutions and professional companies across the globe; his own choreography has been presented on the stages of Belgium's Royal Flemish Theatre, Switzerland's Grand Theatre de Geneve, and the Choreographic Centers of Grenoble and Nancy in France, faculty/guest artist PARTS Brussels, New York University, UC Irvine and The National Conservatories of Paris and Lyon. Returning resident artist in the Hollins University dance department and serving as the HU European Dance Curator for the program's various international extended study projects; Douglas Becker makes his home in Brussels, Belgium.
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Since 1993 Hollins has hosted more than 100 dance professionals as artists-in-residence. These talented artists perform on campus, conduct master classes, and create new works for and with students.
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Jesse Zaritt, received an M.F.A. in Dance from the Hollins University/ American Dance Festival program. Jesse has recently taught and choreographed for the Seminar HaKibbutzim College Theater Department and the Acco Theater Festival in Israel. Jesse was the recipient of a 2006-2007 Dorot Fellowship in Israel. This grant enabled Jesse to develop a method for teaching movement to individuals with physical disabilities, and to conduct research on the relationship between social/political conflict and choreography. Jesse spent five and a half years as a dancer with the Shen Wei Dance Arts Company, based in New York City, and spent a season dancing with the Inbal Pinto Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel. Jesse performed with the Hollins Dance Project, based out of Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, from 2000 through 2004. Jesse graduated cum laude in 2000 from Pomona College in Claremont, CA with a self-designed major in Visual Arts and Dance.
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Mark Haim set the work "Talk Soup" on the Hollins Repertory Dance Company. He was choreographer, teacher, dancer, and artistic director of Mark Haim and Dancers in New York City from 1984 to 1987 and a member of the Companhia de Dance de Lisboa in Portugal from 1987 to 1990. He has performed his evening-length solo, "The Goldberg Variations," throughout the United States and Europe and has choreographed for Nederlands Dans Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Frankfurt, Bat-Dor Dance Co., Rotterdamse Dansgroep, TRANS Luxembourg, and other companies in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Haim has been on the faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and guest artist at North Carolina School for the Arts, Cornell University, Ohio University, and Hollins University. He received his M.F.A. from Hollins/ADF program in 2006.
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nicholasleichterdance set the work "No Closer" on the Hollins Repertory Dance Company and Hollins Dance Project. He tours extensively throughout the United States and abroad and has served on the faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and as guest artist at Hunter College, JMU, VCU, and Connecticut College. He has danced in the companies of Ronald K. Brown, Gus Solomons, jr., and Ralph Lemon.
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Shen Wei, described by the Village Voice as "Michaelangelo's David as a sultry rock star," brings his imagined world to life through choreographing, performing, painting, and writing. As a child, from the age of nine, he trained as a performer for the Chinese opera. He was trained in modern dance at the Guangdong Dance Academy. He was awarded first prize for both choregography and performance at the Inaugural National Modern Dance Competition in China. In 1997, as guest artist at Hollins, he did his world premiere of "Small Room" to a standing-room-only audience on campus. |
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Lisa Race's work has been featured at many venues in New York City and beyond; has taught at festivals around the world, as well as engaged in numerous university teaching positions and choreographic residencies; member of David Dorfman Dance from 1989-2000; honored in 1995 with a New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award for her dancing; received her M.F.A. from HU/ADF in 2007; on faculty at Connecticut College; ADF faculty 1997-2002, 2004, and since 2006.
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Ishmael Houston-Jones, dance and text-work has been performed in New York City and across the US, as well as in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Latin America; work has a foundation in improvisation, contact improvisation, authentic movement, releasing techniques, and vocal work; has collaborated with filmmaker Julie Dash on the video Relatives, which aired nationally on the PBS series "Alive From Off-Center" (Alive TV); shared a New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award with Fred Holland for Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders; ADF faculty 1990-1991, 1993, and since 2005.
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Jennifer Nugent, co-artistic director along with Paul Matteson of Nugent+Matteson Dance in New York City; danced with David Dorfman Dance from 1998-2007; received a New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award; has danced with and for Shen Wei, Lisa Race, Nina Winthrope, Yin Mei, Daniel Lepkoff, and most recently with Martha Clarke; originally from Miami, FL; danced with Houlihan and Dancers and Mary Street Dance Theatre; has taught and performed her own work at universities and venues throughout the US, Korea, Russia, and Vietnam; ADF faculty 1998, 2000-2006.
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Miguel Gutierrez, dance and music artist whose work has been presented in venues such as Dance Theater Workshop, Diverseworks (Houston, TX), Walker Art Center, ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Springdance (Utrecht), and Kampnagel (Hamburg); support from Lambent Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, and Rockefeller MAP Fund; residencies at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Lexington Center for the Arts, and Hollins University; twice a recipient of a New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award, in 2006 for choreography and in 2002 for dancing with John Jasperse Company (1997-2001); performer with Alain Buffard, Deborah Hay, Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Lacey, Juliette Mapp, Ann Liv Young, and Joe Goode Performance Group; his Web site is www.miguelgutierrez.org; ADF faculty since 2001. photo by: Noah Hilsendrad
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