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History
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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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M. Juana Farfán is originally from Bogotá, Colombia. She earned her BA in Modern Dance Performance at the University of South Florida. There she had the opportunity to study with choreographers such as Doug Varone, Claire Porter, John Mallashock, and Martin Kravitz. Juana was a recipient of the Victoria C. Seldom Award for Excellence in Choreography and Modern Dance, and Summer Study Scholarships, including the American Dance Festival Scholarship. Juana joined CORE Performance Company in January of 2002. |
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Kimberly Kleiber began dancing at a very young age. Beginning with ballet, tap and jazz, Kim found her love of movement rather quickly. After being introduced to modern, specifically Limon and Horton techniques, she decided the shoes were staying off. Kim attended The University of Georgia as a Lucy Lampkin dance scholar studying extensively with Bala Sarasvati and Pam Walden. Continuing to expand her movement styles, Kim decided to go back to the earth, upside down and into the air studying Afro-Haitian and Aerial dance. Kim was a founding member of Verge Modern Dance and Warehouse Collective (Athens, GA) and has worked with Kora Radella of Double Edge Dance Co.; Room To Move Dance and Beacon Dance (Atl., GA); Bill Young (NYC); Tanzcompagnie RUBATO (Berlin, Germany), and is currently in her fourth season with CORE Performance Company. |
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Molly Schneider Perez, a Pittsburgh, PA native, is a dancer, educator, and choreographer. She dances with Coriolis Dance Inc., Garden House Dance, George Staib II, and is a founding member of indieMOVE, with Sarah Ash Evens.
Prior to moving to Atlanta, Schneider danced in works by Trisha Brown, David Dorfman, Tere O’Connor, Mark Haim, Gina Gibney, and Doug Elkins. In addition to performing professionally as a dancer, Perez works for Georgia Perimeter College as an instructor, and as the Dynamic X-Change Healing Arts Program Coordinator and the Touring Manager for Several Dancers Core. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance from Ohio University’s Honors College and an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Michigan as a Rackham Merit Fellow. Schneider joined Core Performance Company in 2006.
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D. Patton White 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, a performing member 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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Nina Martin--Choreographer (TBA)--part of THREE
Nina Martin is known for her dancing, making dances and teaching, for decades in New York, then California and now in Marfa, Texas. She is recognized for taking improvisation to the next level in performance using her “Ensemble Thinking” method. She will be working with CORE in early fall 2008 to create a new work to round out the other two completed works in Three. The work will incorporate Martin’s improvisational systems that emphasize compositional forms within the ensemble, tightening reaction time and breaking habitual patterns arriving at improvisational performance.
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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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