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Download CV LXSeries Software Photo Portfolio Open Source Software CLAUDE HEINTZ is a theatrical and software designer who has created lighting, settings, and video for numerous works seen onstage including hundreds of dance concerts with choreographers from around the globe. Recent highlights include pieces by Joe Goode, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran and Anna Halprin. Mr. Heintz also designs …
Ariel Juarez (AJ), who teaches Hip Hop for the Dance Department, is a native of Argentina and has been dancing for 16 years. He began his training in latin ballroom, but quickly discovered a love for lyrical jazz, musical theatre, hip hop, and modern contemporary styles. AJ studied dance at the Julio Bocca School of …
Download CV Rena Kornblum is a board-certified dance/movement therapist with over 40 years of professional experience as a dance/movement therapist. She is licensed in the state of Wisconsin to practice psychotherapy specifically through expressive arts therapies and is senior lecturer in the Dance Department, where she also serves as the advisor for the undergraduate certificate program …
Kelsey has been teaching various forms of movement since 2008, including yoga, Pilates, Functional Strength training, Barre, and TRX. She completed her Pilates Teaching certificate through the UW-Madison Dance Department in 2015 and is certified by the National Pilates Certification Program. Through years of practice, training, and teaching others, Kelsey believes in the integrity of …
Download CV 2020 National Water Dance National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Wisconsin Dance Council Karen McShane-Hellenbrand, M.F.A., Faculty Associate. She teaches a wide range of classes for the Dance Department. In addition, she serves the Dance Department’s Outreach and Recruitment efforts. Karen is an active choreographer and performer. Her lifelong professional goals have been to promote access to dance …
Download CV Chell Dance Wanderlust Dance Chell Parkins is a dance scholar, advocate, educator, choreographer, and performer whose research explores the experiences of Latinx communities engaged in culturally responsive-sustaining dance programs. Her recent documentary, WanderlustDance: Puerto Rico, invites audiences to look at the culture, politics, and people of post-Maria Puerto Rico through interviews set against footage of …
Anna Peretz Rogovoy is a dance artist and educator currently based in the US Midwest. Her choreographic research is located at the collision of rigorous formalism and gross humanity, offering a critical queer feminist perspective on ecology, gendered bodies, and dance itself. Anna was based in NYC from 2012-2021, after which time she earned her …
Artist Website: Imaginanza Michelle Ramos is an international ballerina, choreographer and teacher. She is a performance & choreography specialist with a focus on ballet, contemporary dance, and the development of the MindBody as an instrument of art. Ms. Ramos is a university professor and also teaches at conservatories, offers master classes for companies and creates original choreography. She …
Download CV http://www.avoidancepolicy.com/ Tim Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He has been called “The premier composer for Modern Dance in Milwaukee” (Shepherd Express), and a “thrilling show within the show” (DanceTabs). Tim has created over eighty works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His commitment …