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Artists The touring roster of the 2010-2011 North Carolina Dance Festival includes work by eight dance artists from across the state: Ashley Suttlar Martin works as an independent artist, performing and teaching in the North Carolina region. She holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University, and has presented her choreography widely, from Brooklyn to San Diego. Until recently, she was Assistant Professor of Dance at Morehead State University, and in winter of 2010, she was guest faculty at Queensborough Community College - City University of New York. Now in Charlotte with her husband, Felton, they hope to establish a facility for adult artists of all kinds. www.4thrightdance.com Since graduation from the UNC School of the Arts in 2005, Cara Hagan’s work has been seen on stage and on film across the country from NC to WA. She is currently Artistic Director of 87 Dance Productions, a company based in Winston Salem and NYC that focuses exclusively on solos and duets danced with twin sister, Mackenzie Hagan. Cara is on faculty at High Point University. To find out more about 87 Dance Productions, visit www.87danceproductions.com E.E. Balcos, originally from Minneapolis, holds an M.F.A. in Choreography from The University of Iowa and is an Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte. He has performed nationally and internationally for over 25 years. In 2009 he was guest artist-in-residence at UNC School of the Arts and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Washington, DC. His company, E.E. Motion has been featured in Charlotte Dance Festival, ADF’s Acts to Follow, Dances at the Lakes in Minneapolis, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. www.eemotion.org/ Gaspard Louis received a BFA from Montclair State University and continued his studies on scholarship with Gus Giordano in Chicago and Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab in New York, He was a member of Pilobolus Dance Theater from 1996 to 2002, and continues to do special projects with Pilobolus, the most recent being a commercial for Hyundai Motors. He is currently directing the American Dance Festival’s creative movement outreach program and co-teaching Haitian Creole dance at Duke University. Jan Van Dyke has set work on a wide variety of groups including the dance faculty at Appalachian State University, touring with the Dance Festival this season. She is Head of the Dance Department at UNCG, co-founder and producer of the NC Dance Festival, and a 1993 Fulbright Scholar. In 2001 the NC Dance Alliance honored her with its annual award for Contributions to the Development of Dance, and DANCE TEACHER magazine gave her its 2008 Dance Teacher Award for Higher Education. www.janvandykedance.org Lauren Kearns received the 2008 NC Dance Alliance Choreography Fellowship for artistic excellence. She is Associate Professor of Dance and Head of the Dance Program at Elon University as well as artistic director of the kearns dance project. Kearns holds an M.F.A. in Choreography and Performance, and an M.A. in Dance Education and Theory from UCLA, as well as national certifications in Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Classical Pilates and a master level certification in Alignment Based Yoga. www.kearnsdanceproject.com Karola Lüttringhaus holds a BFA from the UNC School of the Arts and is a recipient of the 2006 NC Arts Council Fellowship. She formed ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY in 1997, and has taught and performed widely. The group is currently in residence at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington and is looking forward to a three-year residency at Salem College in Winston-Salem. Ms Lüttringhaus founded the SARUS Festival for Performing Arts and Dance in Wilmington in 2007. www.albanelved.com Code f.a.d. Company uses film, visual art, and dance to create unique performance works for stage and screen. Artistic Director Autumn Mist Belk earned a B.A. in dance and studio art from the University of Alabama and an M.F.A. in choreography from the University of Maryland. Belk’s choreography and visual artwork has been show throughout the United States, including evening-length concerts in North Carolina, Maryland, and Texas. Belk is also the Assistant Director of Dance at NC State University. www.codefadcompany.org |
