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The following alumni announcements have appeared in our Spring 2008 Newsletter. The news items featured here are career-related achievements of alumni collected from news articles or online submissions. Please understand that it is very difficult to keep track of the many professional advancements within our alumni body, and this represents only a fraction of the wonderful things our talented alumni have accomplished. If you would like to include a news item of your own, please click here to fill out our alumni announcement form.
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Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi are creating and producing a modern film adaptation of the 1958 Jerome Robbins ballet, NY Export: Opus Jazz. The first section to be filmed, “Passage for Two,” featuring Rachel Rutherford and Craig Hall, was previewed at NYCB's Winter Gala, won Best Camera Re-Work at the Dance Screen film festival in the Hague, was featured at the Guggenheim Museum's Works and Process, and is currently on view at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of the Jerome Robbins retrospective, New York Story. To learn more visit www.opusjazz.com While this page is dedicated to career announcements, the flexibility of the web may allow us in the future to share personal announcements such as marriages and births. If you would like to share such information, again please fill out the alumni announcement form and check back as this area begins to evolve.
Gabrielle Leslie Baden, Darius Crenshaw, Damien Johnson, Priscilla Crommelin-Monnier, Aubrey Morgan, Megan Pepin, Peter Snow and Lucy Van Cleef are dancing with Los Angeles Ballet.
Toni Bentley was granted a Guggenheim fellowship in the field of general nonfiction.
Peter Boal recently initiated a scholarship fund at SAB to honor Andrei Kramarevsky, his teacher and later his colleague on the School’s faculty. So far nearly 100 alumni have joined him in making gifts in honor of Krammy.
Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Kari Brunson writes a culinary blog: visit www.anticiplate.com.
Igor Burlak is dancing and choreographing for Minnesota Ballet.
Brett Emmons joined the national tour of Twyla Tharp's Movin' Out.
Wilhelmina Frankfurt choreographed The Real Theatre Company's production of Hair last fall at the Acorn Theater in New York.
Kurt Froman can be seen dancing in the Julie Taymor film Across the Universe; he performed with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center; he danced Lynn Taylor Corbett’s Ruby and the Dancer with live accompaniment by Melissa Manchester at the CTFD Gala and a featured role in Juno, both at City Center; he can also be spotted in print ads for Converse and Pfizer.
After 15 years with the Minnesota Ballet, Robert Gardner has stepped up to a new role as artistic director.
Noah Gelber assisted choreographer William Forsythe on ballets recently performed by the Kirov Ballet at City Center.
Tom Gold choreographed works for Ballet Met in Ohio, for Oregon Ballet Theater's apprentices, and new works for his own Tom Gold and Associates, which toured Europe last summer. He also choreographed Lucas Foss's Grifliken opera for the Manhattan School of Music in November.
Since August, Gloria Govrin has been leading the faculty at the Dance Institute, the teaching arm of Minnesota Dance Theatre.
Kenneth Greve has been appointed Artistic Director of the Finnish National Ballet and will begin in August 2008.
Linda Haberman choreographs for the Rockettes.
Lane Harwell is Director of Development at the Alliance for the Arts.
Anthony Jones has joined the faculty at the Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance in Connecticut and also works at The Frick Collection in New York City.
Ryan Kelly continues working with his Moving Theater group. Following a film/performance project at the Whitney Museum last December, the group is preparing for a residency at the Park Avenue Armory.
Jerri Kumery has joined Richmond Ballet as a ballet master. Elizabeth LaCause is the executive director of the Staten Island Chamber Music Players.
Mark Lamanna received the 2007 Stage Director of the Year Award at the Classical Singer Convention in San Francisco.
Shannon T. Lazzarini is an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Manhattan.
Edwaard Liang choreographed works for the following companies: Washington Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, National Ballet de Novosibrisk and Morphoses, for which he danced as well.
Eric Lindemer has joined the teaching staff at the Academy of Dance and Music in Wolfeboro, NH.
David Liu, director of Ice Theatre of New York, performed Twyla Tharp's After All solo, coached by Keith Roberts, and presented his own ice dance entitled Pull.
Timothy Lynch and Julie Tobiason (pictured right) founded the Seattle Dance Project, which gave its debut performance in January. Dana Hanson and Melanie Skinner perform with the group.
Leza Milham opened the Creative Arts Dance Conservatory in Massachusetts.
Deanna McBrearty released her own workout DVD called “Balocity,” merging dance moves with fitness training.
Benjamin Millepied choreographed From Here on Out for ABT's City Center season last fall, a new Petrushka for Ballet de Genève, and received a 2007 USA fellowship grant for his choreography.
Matthew Neenan has retired from dancing with Pennsylvania Ballet but will continue as their choreographer-in-residence. His own company, Ballet X, has been named company-in-residence at Philadelphia's Wilma Theater.
Avichai Scher's Last Dance was performed by Festival Ballet in Providence, RI and his Tribulations was performed at the Ballet Builders showcase in NYC. He has been dancing with Ballet British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
John Michael Schert is currently dancing with Alonzo King's LINES Ballet in San Francisco.
Marian Seldes starred with Angela Landsbury on Broadway in Deuce. She has also appeared in six new movies, including The Visitor and Leatherheads, and on television in Law and Order.
Aaron Severini's piano composition, Flit of Fury:The Monarch, will have its World Premiere on June 18th at The National Arts Club.
Erin Stiefel has opened her own ballet school in Lewisburg, PA, called Stiefel Steps. Jessica Biorn is a member of the staff.
Ethan Stiefel was named the new Dean of Dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He continues as a principal with American Ballet Theater, and appeared in Fancy Free with NYCB this spring.
Terpsie Toon co-directed and choregraphed the Watertown Lyric Theater's production of Mame. Margaret Tracey is the associate director of the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education.
Nina Waisman's “Nano2.0,” an exhibition about nanotechnology that explores movement, choreography and sound, was shown last fall in Berlin.
Wendy Whelan received the 2007 Dance Magazine Award, which was presented to her by Jock Soto.