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Alex Abarca is a native of Houston, TX ,where he attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and a recent graduate of the University of Houston where he obtained a degree in Theatre on the dance track. Alex was also a scholarship student at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC in the summer of 2006 where he studied with Mark Haim and Gerri Houlihan. While at ADF, he was in a world premiere for Keigwin and Company. In Houston, he has worked with Travesty Dance Group (Karen Stokes), Suchu Dance (Jennifer Wood), Dancepatheatre, Teresa Chapman, and Jhon Stronks. Most recently Alex had the honor of performing at Jacob's Pillow with Suchu Dance. This is Alex's second season with CORE. |
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Blake Dalton began working with CORE Performance Company in the autumn of 1998. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in English in 1998 from the University of Georgia. Blake was introduced to dance at UGA and spent 4 years training in Ballet, Modern Dance, Martial Arts, and performing in UGA’s modern dance company. In 1999 Blake co-founded VERGE Modern Dance, an experimental group focusing on collaboration with visual and other performing artists. He also dances with Beacon Dance Company, Gardenhouse and is a member of the board of directors for Canopy. He is a founding member of White Crane Style, a music and visual performance art group, as well as a member of the hardcore band Avengers Assemble. Blake continues to pursue interests in writing, music, mythology, construction work, teaching and martial arts. |
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Corian Ellisor graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor’s degree in dance. Corian has danced for Becky Valls, Karen Stokes, Hilary Bryan, Leslie Scates, Jhon R. Stronks, Teresa Chapman, Sara Draper, Mechelle Fleming, Toni Valle, Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston, and Suchu Dance. Besides loving to dance, Corian loves to create. His choreography has been presented at American College Dance Festival twice; and in the final gala performance once. Also, in 2006, Corian was awarded a scholarship to American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. There he danced under the direction of Sherone Price and Lisa Race. Most recently, Corian received the great honor of performing for the Inside/Out series at Jacob's Pillow Festival. |
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Claire Molla received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance in May 2008 from the University of Georgia. While at UGA, she studied under Bala Sarasvati for three years in the CORE Concert Dance Company. During her time with Sarasvati, she trained in modern dance and aerial arts. Through this involvement she has had the privilege of working with Larry Keigwin of KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Emily Kent of Pilobolus, and Elsie Smith of Cirque du Soleil. Her participation in student choreography led her to perform at ACDFA in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, she received the Cynthia Jarvis Memorial Scholarship and attended a Skinner Releasing Technique Intensive in Seattle, WA. Claire has also enjoyed actively performing in the Athens dance community. This is her second season with CORE Performance Company. |
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Mary Jane Pennington began her dance training at a young age and later realized that movement (dance) was her motivation and sanity. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgia College & State University with a degree in Mass Communication and minors in Dance and Spanish. Mary Jane joined CPC in 2008 and her passion continues to grow as she works with gloATL and Lauri Stallings, Crossover Movement Arts, and other choreographers. Mary Jane had the opportunity to work and perform with David Dorfman Dance in Underground at the Rialto Center for the Arts in March 2008. She spent two summers at the American Dance Festival where she studied with Doug Nielson, Andrea E. Woods, Daniel Clifton, and Ming-Lung Yang in 2007, and Ruth Andrien, Curt Haworth, Pamela Pietro, and Lisa Race in 2008. She is forever grateful for the opportunity to dance with CPC.
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D. Patton White(Company Manager) has been involved in the arts all of his life. Initially interested in the world of make-believe play, he began to develop his interests in other arts disciplines including acting, singing, dancing and choreography. In Atlanta since 1979, Patton has continued to expand his artistic endeavors into the realms of costume design, photography, videography and installation-based sculpture. His work has been produced locally, regionally and nationally, and he has performed all over the world. He has worked with numerous arts organizations, including the Atlanta Ballet II, Dance South, The Georgia Ballet, Lee Harper & Dancers, The Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre, Theatre of the Stars, Theatre Gael and many others. He is currently Artistic Director of Beacon Dance, Company and Production Manager of CORE Performance Company, and the Chair of the Alternate ROOTS Executive Committee. Patton believes passionately in the power of the arts to transform our society into a more compassionate and caring community of people. |
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Kate Huggins Hinkel (Artistic Associate) grew up in Atlanta, where she studied ballet and modern dance at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and the Atlanta Ballet. She received her BFA in Dance from the Florida State University in 1999. In 2000, Kate received the A.J. Fletcher Foundation scholarship to the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC. She enjoys teaching and choreographing at Callanwolde and is a member of Room to Move Dance Company. She’s performed nationally and internationally including Canada, England and Germany. Kate joined CORE Performance Company in 2002.
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Alicia Sánchez (Choreographer “Tus Pasos Encontrados” or “Your Found Steps”-- part of THREE)
Sanchez is founder in 1993 of Alicia Sánchez y Compañía: El Teatro de Movimiento, based in Mexico City. Sanchez’s early dance training was with Alwin Nikolais, and she has an extensive background in theatre. Her works have been commissioned by the International Historical Center Festival and the Queen’s NY Latino & Cultural Festival. She was included in the list of the 100 most important Mexican artists of the 20th Century. |
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Beppie Blankert (Choreographer “Cumulus”--part of THREE)
Blankert has been making dances with her company in Amsterdam, Netherlands, for the past two decades. Her company has toured to the US, Canada, England and Wales, as well as around the Netherlands. Her work is often inspired by music; she has collaborated with many composers on new works, though she has also lately been inspired by the life and music of Charles Ives. |
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Polly Motley (Choreographer "Charmed Romantics"-- part of THREE) is a dance maker and performer with over thirty years experience with professional dance companies, museum and gallery performances, academic institutions, and community residencies, and was recently commissioned to create a multimedia work at The Kitchen with video artist Molly Davies. Polly’s expertise is in solo forms, inter-media collaborations, and facilitating others’ dance-making skills. She has worked extensively in western styles of post-modern and modern dance, classical ballet, improvisation, composition and contemplative dance. She has training in dance ethnology, Body-Mind Centering, dance therapy, Feldenkrais, Alexander, and traditional and experimental vocal techniques. |
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Susan M. Prins (Co-Director--Corazón Abriendo)
is committed to intercultural artistic projects. She has studied tai chi ch’uan, Chinese folk dance and opera in Taiwan, butoh in Japan, and indigenous dance forms in Mexico. Prins received a BA in East Asian Studies and Dance from Middlebury College in Vermont, and earned her MFA in Theater Arts from the University of Arizona in 1994. For the past seven years, Prins has been co-director of Teatro en la Selva, an experimental theater group in Palenque, Chiapas. Her works are multicultural and multi-disciplinary, incorporating dance, live music, poetry, and shadow theater in evocative and magical contemporary expressions. |
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Maya Ciarrocchi (Video Artist--Corazón Abriendo)
Ciarrocchi is a New York City-based video designer and installation artist. She has created video and projection design for leading dance performances on the New York stage. Ciarrocchi holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase and a MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts and has served as the Director of Digital Programs at Dance Theater Workshop. |
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Walter F. Morris, Jr. (Set design--Corazón Abriendo)
Morris is an anthropologist and Coordinator of Mexican Initiative for Aid to Artisans. He has been studying and writing about Maya culture since 1972. Fluent in several Maya languages, Morris is a collector, cataloguer, and curator of Maya textile collections in the United States and abroad and has contributed to media programs on the Maya as producer, scriptwriter, and consultant. In 1983 he received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Award for his innovative study of the symbology of Maya textiles and his significant participation in the formation of the weaver’s society, Sna Jolobil. He is presently coordinating a number of artisan development programs in Mexico, including the Lead Free Project that is teaching artisans how to profit from using lead-free glazes in their pottery. |
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Terrence Karn (Composer--Corazón Abriendo)
Karn has over 25 years of experience as a composer, musician, percussionist and dancer. Trained in ballet, flamenco and mime, Karn has performed with major companies in the US, Canada, and Europe. Karn teaches dance at the Houston Ballet Academy, is co-director of Gypsy Dance Theater and serves as Music Director for the University of Houston Dance Department. He has scored musical compositions for many prominent modern dance companies, and works with a variety of ethnic bands as a featured musician and dancer. |
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