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Katherine Crockett Katherine Crockett is a Principal Dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She began her dance training with Ballet Metropolitan in Columbus, Ohio. She attended SUNY Purchase before receiving a full scholarship to the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. In 1993 she joined the Martha Graham Dance Company, became a Soloist in 1994 and a Principal Dancer in 1996. Ms. Crockett's roles include; The Woman in White in Diversion of Angels, Pioneering Woman in Appalachian Spring, Chief Celebrant in Acts of Light, The Chorus in Cave of the Heart, Athena in Clytemnestra she of the Ground in Dark Meadow, The Attendant in Herodiade, Circe, and the Martha Graham signature solos Frontier and Lamentation. She was televised performing Graham's Appalachian Spring (PBS) and the solo Lamentation (BBC), and invited by Vanessa Redgrave to perform this same solo as a guest artist for the "Return Festival"in Kosovo. In 1998 Tony Award winning Broadway choreographer Susan Stroman featured her as the soloist in But Not For Me. In 2002 she performed as the star soloist in the role of Helen of Troy in Achilles with Mikhail Baryshnikov in his White Oak Dance Project. In 2003 Ms. Crockett was invited as a guest soloist to perform the role of Amneris in Placido Domingo's Aida at the Washington Opera. In 2004 she was filmed by PBS performing Herodiade. Ms. Crockett has had works created for her by Robert Wilson, Lucinda Childs, and has performed as a guest artist in Complexions under the direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. She was invited to perform in the "Gala of the Stars of the 21st Century in Paris. Ms. Crockett also performs with Richard Move nationwide in Martha@...
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Andrea Long Andrea Long began her dance studies at Pennsylvania Ballet. She later studied at the School of American Ballet. Ms. Long joined the New York City Ballet and danced there for eight years before joining the Dance Theatre of Harlem and becoming a Principal Ballerina. She has danced the roles of Choleric in The Four Temperaments, the lead in John Taras’ Firebird and performed Balanchine works Allegro Brillante and Concerto Barocco among others. Ms. Long is currently a freelance dance artist performing nationally and internationally.
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Dartanion Anwar Reed Dartainion Anwar Reed began his dance training at The School of the Hartford Ballet under a Dance City Youth Scholarship in the pre-professional program from 1990 to 1998. In 2000, Mr. Reed joined the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company for their 2000 season and promoted February of 2001 to the American Ballet Theatre Company where he performed until 2004. February 9th of 2005, Mr. Reed returned to Hartford as an Independent Artist and founded The Hartford City Ballet; an arts organization providing education in ballet and performing arts. Reed is currently Artistic Director for the Hartford City Ballet. www.hartfordcityballet.org |
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D. Teran Brown D. Teran Brown began her dance training in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is currently pursuing her BA in Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Teran has performed within her university’s dance department as well as on tour with Cyrus Art Production and the NC Dance Festival. She also served as captain and 3-year member of UNCG’s premier dance team. In addition to school, Teran also works as a lyrical and hip-hop dance instructor at Amber’s House of Dance in Burlington, NC. She also works with Positive Image Performing Arts based out of Winston Salem, North Carolina. Teran aspires to continue teaching and performing the art of dance. She hopes to one day open her own performing arts center for less fortunate youth.
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Clements Dereke Clements is an Administrative Assistant and Apprentice with Cyrus Art Production. A classically trained musician on clarinet and saxophone, he began his study of dance in the form of B-Boyin’ and Hip-Hop. Furthering his classical dance training at the University of Illinois and the Greensboro Ballet. Dereke teaches B-Boyin’ and Hip Hop and conducts dance residencies and outreach programs with Cyrus Art Production. Dereke will continue his work with the company, teaching, choreographing, and performing in domestic and international touring projects. |
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Milanda McGinnis Milanda Yasmin McGinnis (Knoxville, TN native) has been living her dream as a freelance dancer, teacher, and choreographer for the past four years. Her choreography credits include several pieces for Eastern TN high schools and studios. Her most notable work to date, PoliTrickin' was selected to the Southeastern ACDFA Gala Performance in 2003. Milanda attributes her love for modern dance to her first teacher Ms. Irena Linn at Dancer's Studio in Knoxville, followed by obtaining her BFA in Theater with a Dance Concentration from the University of Memphis, where she received numerous choreography and performance awards. Milanda is also trained in ballet, hip hop and West African dance. She is currently a dance teacher at Carver High School in Winston Salem, Concepts Studio in Greensboro (under the ownership of Ayinde Rivera). Milanda is also the Founder of ShackleFre3 Dance Productions and the Black Choreographers Collective.
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Tabia McKenzie Tabia McKinzie (Memphis, TN) has been working with Cyrus Art Production since the summer of 2007. She is currently pursuing her BFA in Dance with a concentration in Performance and Choreography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Tabia started dancing at the age of 14 at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, NC. It was here that she developed her love for dance, especially traditional African. Back in Memphis she trained in ballet, modern, jazz, and African, and was honored to be taught by Mel Tomlinson, a renown African American dancer, who shaped her eagerness for dance. She has attended American Dance Festival in Durham, NC for two summers where she has honed her skill by working with master teachers from around the world. Tabia also dances with Wesley Williams? Urban Dance Theatre in Greensboro, NC and is the Co-Founder of ShackleFre3 Dance Productions and the Black Choreographers Collective. |
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LaToya Weathers LaToya Weathers holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, began performing in musical and dramatic theatre during high school. Her very first show was "Two by Two,"with the Livestock Players Musical Theatre, directed by Barbara Britton. While attending The Weaver Educational Center, know called Weaver Academy, Latoya joined Domino Theatre Company and later advanced the Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC), a company that regularly competed in the SETC high school theatre competition. Daniel Seaman directed both of these companies during her time with them. Latoya’s most memorable roles, while working under Daniel Seaman, were the paraplegic of "Caged Voices II" and Fastrada of "Pippin." Her most recent stage credits include "Will Rogers’ Follies," "A Date with Destiny,"where she played the lead role of 55-year-old Rachel Cross, "Dreamgirls,"and “Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity."
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Rashod C. Wells Rashod C. Wells is an inspiring student and dancer at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro where he is majoring in Sports Medicine with a concentration in dance. He has performed African and International dances with E. Gywnn Dance Company and has worked with Cyrus Art Production performing contemporary, modern, and ballet. He was also a NC A&T cheerleader. Rashod believes the mind; spirit, health and the locomotives of the body correlates in a way that dance can portray and help kinesthetically. Dance and the movements of the body as an art inspire him. Beauty of the body and the knowledge of the mind is the creation of an art beyond art itself.
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