| .
|
 |
Repertory Dance Theatre
Choreographers <<<
BACK
Pat Catterson
Born in Indianapolis to professional ballroom dancing parents, moved to New York City in 1968 after graduating from Northwestern university with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in philosophy. She presented her first full evening of choreography at Judson Church in 1970 and has subsequently created ninety dances. A 1995 Fulbright Scholar, she has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the CAPS Program, the Harkness Foundation and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Her work has been commissioned by companies, individuals and schools most recently, Adelphi University, Princeton University and the Julliard School. She has been a guest artist in schools all over the USA and Finland, Norway, Sweden and Italy. Currently she is on the faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and Muhlenberg College.
Shapiro & Smith
Founded in 1985, the Company is a collaboration between Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith. After meeting in the companies of Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais, they went on to create their first choreography during a Fulbright Lectureship in Helsinki, Finland. Since then Shapiro and Smith’s blend of contemporary dance and dramatic theater has elicited enthusiastic receptions across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Canada. The Company has been presented by major festivals and venues including the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Dance Theater Workshop, St. Mark’s DanSpace Project, PS 122, Festival di Milano, Teatro de Danza in Mexico City, Recklinghausen RuhrFestSpiele, and the Korean International Festival.
Shapiro & Smith Dance has a reputation for performing tales of beauty and biting wit that run the gamut from searingly provocative to absurdly hilarious. Dancing with breathtaking physicality and emotional depth they have earned an international reputation for virtuosity, substance, craft, and pure abandonment.
Zvi Gotheiner is a native of Israel and a permanent resident of the United States, based in New York since 1978. Mr. Gotheiner was originally trained as a violinist and at the age of seventeen founded his first performing dance groups. In 1977, he received a scholarship from the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation to further his study of dance in New York City with Maggie Black at the schools of Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey. He went on the dance with the Joyce Trisler Dance Company, Garden State Ballet, The Feld Ballet/NY and Bat-Sheva Dance Company. In 1987, he founded the company bearing his name. In 1991, he received an Artist Fellowship in Choreography from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Weiselberg Award from the National Arts Club. As a teacher, choreographer and artistic director of his own
company, Zvi Gotheiner has an exceptional international reputation and has taught in numerous cities around the world. He currently serves as a company teacher for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and teaches regularly at City Center in Manhattan. Repertory Dance Theatre has enjoyed an artistic association with Mr Gotheiner since 1990 and has five of his works in their repertory.
Scott Rink
Originally from Baltimore, Mr. Rink began his dance training with the Maryland Gifted
program under the direction of Pam Marcin. He then continued his studies at Towson University and The Juilliard School. As a dancer, Mr. Rink has performed as a soloist in the companies of Eliot Feld, Elisa Monte and as a principal dancer with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. In addition to teaching master classes throughout the US, Europe and South America, Mr. Rink has been a guest teacher at North Carolina School for the Arts, University of Minnesota (Cowles Chair 1996, 2000, 2003), University of Utah, among others. Mr. Rink’s assistant choreography credits include: (Broadway) “The King & I” Tony Award, “Allegro” Encore Production; (Regional) “What The World Needs Now” Old Globe / Roundabout; (TV) World Music Awards; (Concert Dance) American Ballet Theater “Othello”(1997), “Meadow”(1999), “…smile with my heart”(2002), Royal Danish Ballet “Thus Is All”(2000).
Laura Dean began her music and dance training at the Third Street Music School in New York and danced professionally in the companies of Paul Sanasardo and Paul Taylor. Her dance and music works have been commissioned by such esteemed institutions as the Walker Arts Center, the American Dance Festival, the Joffrey Ballet, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York City Ballet and Dartmouth College. Among the coveted awards she has received are two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships for Choreography, the Dance Magazine Award for Outstanding Achievement, 1982, and the Bradeis Creative Arts Award for Extraordinary Artistic Achievement in Dance, 1986. Her fine reputation has led her to participate in several dance panels with the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. She has had her own company, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, since 1976.
<<< BACK
.
|
 |
