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Michael K. Arata (set designer) is a visual and performing artist
based in San Diego, California. His art work has been featured in
the Simayspace Gallery (San Diego) and he has performed at Sushi
Performance and Visual Art and the Eveoke Dance Theater. A member of
the internationally touring 1982 cast for the Harry Partch Ensemble’s
“The Bewitched ,” Michael has also collaborated with directors Darla
Cash, George Willis and with the San Diego Repertory Theater. Michael
is Director of Arts Education for City Moves Dance and has
collaborated on numerous stage designs, murals and art pieces for
youth programs through the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
Michael also teaches visual arts for the Chula Vista Elementary
School District. |
Sergio Cervetti (composer) was born in Uruguay in 1940 and moved to the USA in
1962 where he studied under Ernst Krenek and Stefans Grove at the
Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. In 1969 he was a DAAD
composer-in-residence in West Berlin. Following his return to the USA
he joined the music faculty of New York University where he taught
from 1972 to 1997. He has written over 160 works for dance, theater,
film and the concert stage, receiving commissions and performances
from Sudwestfunk Baden-Baden, Contemporary Music Players of San
Francisco, Hartford Ballet, Ballet Hispanico and Brooklyn Academy of
Music's Next Wave Festivals of 1983, '85 and '87, among others. Two
compact discs of his music contain The Hay Wain and the Triumph of
Death. Portions of the Hay Wain were used in the soundtrack of Oliver
Stone's film Natural Born Killers. He has retired from teaching but
continues composing and living in Bucks County Pennsylvania. |
Ebony Faith (dancer) has been dancing her entire life, and teaching dance for almost half of it. She has appeared in numerous film, TV and stage performances and worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. Currently you can catch her dancing in the Wayans Bros. comedy, "Dance Flick." |
| Alan Grant (performer) grew up in Canada (lived in Toronto and
Vancouver), went to school in Hawaii, and called the San Francisco
Bay area home from 1989 to 2001. There, he was a company member of
Fellow Traveler’s Performance Group and Mary Armentrout Dance
Theater. He recently married fellow dancer Christina Gray and they
live in a house they just bought in Hancock Park with their cat,
Odie. |
Ralph Kamon says "I am grateful to my aunt & uncle for bringing me to America. How else could I have been a Senior Vice-President at Paramount Pictures for 25 years? I now live in Los Angeles with my wonderful wife, Selma." |
Sheldon Londner (performer) was born to European parents, both of whom were Holocaust survivors who lost their entire families in the war. He was schooled in orthodox religious institutions including several years in an ultra orthodox yeshivah up until the time he entered University. For as long as his parents were alive, he continued to use Yiddish as the language of everyday conversation. |
| Klyda Mahoney (performer) is a retired professor of Dance at LA Valley College and a soloist of the Watts Senior Citizen Choir. Originally from Trenton, New Jersey, she is the 2002 Ms. Senior California and the 4th Runner Up Ms. Senior America that same year. |
Born in Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, Edgar Miramontes (performer) began his dance and theatre training at the Hollywood Performing Arts High School. He has performed with award-winning Los Angeles based Avaz International Dance Theater, Hae Kyung Lee & Dancers and with Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, which he also managed for three years. He has been recognized and praised by the Los Angeles Times and was the recipient of the California Arts Council Next Generation Artist. |
| Miyo (performer) recently graduated from UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures
Department. She is a multi-tasking artist and choreographer, having
worked with Trip Dance Theater, Oni Dance Company and artist Mike
Kelley in his recent film project, Day is Done. She is currently
teaching Pilates in Los Angeles. |
| Marcus Kuiland-Nazario (costume designer) has made costumes for many dance, theater and performance artists in Los Angeles and beyond. |
| Rollence Patugan (performer) is an actor currently working on
indepdendent, short and feature films. A graduate of Cal Poly with a
degree in I.T., Rollence enjoys surfing, traveling, and dancing
salsa. Check out his website at www.rollence.com. |
| Pat Payne (performer) is a Caribbean-American multimedia solo performer,
reluctant shaman and self-avowed troublemaker transplanted from
Brooklyn to Los Angeles. She holds the 2002 and 2003 Taos Poetry
Circus Heavyweight Title, and has collaborated/performed with Rachel
Rosenthal, Quincy Troupe, California Ear Group and Vernon Reid. |
| Rebecca Romero (performer) earned a BA in Dance from UC Santa Cruz
and an MA in Dance Education from Columbia Teachers College in NY.
Returning to her hometown only recently (LA), Buck dances sometimes
and choreographs in her head a lot. She has a son, a daughter and a
grand daughter. |
| Eryn Schon (performer) graduated with a BFA in Dance from Cornish
College of the Arts in Seattle. She has toured her choreography in
the US and abroad, dancing for numerous choreographers along the way.
Most recently, she premiered Hush at Highways in 2003 and created
Being There for S. Pasadena High School. Eryn has enjoyed dancing in
LA for Ilaan Egeland, Becca Levy, Joe Goode, Lineage, Erica Rebollar
and others. When she isn’t dancing, Eryn enjoys blending her love of
plants, art and business working at Orchid Fever in Culver City. |
| Jon Szanto (composer) is primarily a performing musician and is
currently Principal Percussionist with the San Diego Symphany
Orchestra. As a composer, Mr. Szanto has produced work for, and
collaborated with the dance companies of Patricia Sandback, San Diego
Dance Theater, Malashock Dance and Three’s Company. A long time
associate of Harry Partch and the Harry Partch Foundation, Jon
recently coordinated the re-issue of the recordings of the music of
Harry Partch. |
| Hawaiian born Ken Takemoto (performer) has performed on stage and in film (The Island) and TV (House, Curb Your Enthusiasm) for many years. He is a retired LAUSD high school art teacher and often helps the East West Players in the prop and costume departments. |
| Alan Terricciano (composer) is the current Chair of the University of
California, Irvine’s Dance Department, where he directs all musical
activities. A graduate from Yale and Eastman School of Music, Mr.
Terricciano recently won First Prize in Quebec’s Festival Des Artsde
Saint-Sauveur international competition for choreography. He is a
regular faculty member of the American Dance Festival and has
composed music for an extensive list of nationally and
internationally reknowned choreographers, including Donald McKayle,
Liz Lerman, and Colin Conner, among others. |
Jerome Thomas (filmmaker) is a digital video artist and a documentary film/video
maker. He started in video in 1979 at a news agency but later
discovered that much of the creative energy in video was behind the
scenes. Since the early 1990s Jerome has produced work that has
dealt with social issues ranging from the civil rights movement, jazz
music, to works of personal visions. In 1989 he produced the award
winning documentary “Stop The Madness’’ which was one of the first
documentaries to look at gang violence and the effects it has on
family and community. Jerome is also an instructor of video and
film production, and a personal consultant on using various video and
graphic software for video. His most recent work looks at the
subject of suicide among black men and how the effects of such a
dilemma is viewed socially, politically, and by the society overall.
Presently he resides in Los Angeles. |
Margarita Tinajero (performer) nacio mexicana, self employee por 30 anos, viuda con tres hijos, graduados de F.I.D.M. and Cal State Long Beach. Con dos nietos que son la luz de su vida. Actualmente deshabilitada lo cual me ha dado la oportunidad de servir mas completamente a mi communidad y dedicar un poco de tiempo a lo que secretamente siempre quiso hacer ”el teatro.” |
| Gloria Tinajero (dancer) began dancing at Rio Hondo College and recently graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a BA in Dance. She has danced with choreographers Rebekah Davidson, Lauren Winslow Kearns, Michelle Pritchard, Jeanine Durning, and Dian Sichel. |
| Claire Townsend (costume designer) is an independent/freelance costume
designer based in Los Angeles. She has worked as a Costume Assistant
at Opera Pacific and has designed and worked for PCPA TheatreFest,
Portero Neighborhood Theatre, the Arcola in London and ACT in San
Francisco as well as for numerous short films. She moved back to Los
Angeles 3 years ago after graduating from Wimbledon School of Art,
London. |
Scot Tupper has danced for Rudy Perez, Heidi Duckler, Michael Mizerany, B.E. Productions and for the dance studio in Westwood where he teaches modern and ballet classes. |
Jones Welsh (dancer) has a BA in theatre and dance from the University of Washington, and has toured with Diavolo Dance Theatre for 5 years. He has also collaborated with Invertigo Dance Theatre, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Collage Dance Theatre, The Company of Strangers, and has developed numerous shows and workshops in residency at CalState Los Angeles, University of Alabama Birmingham, University of Arizona Tucson, and many more. Founder of Making Faces Productions, Jones co-produces new work in Los Angeles, including the Improv Dance Festival, the Somatic Movement Arts Festival, and LEONIX. www.leonixtheatre.org www.makingfacesproductions.org |
Ian Zinn (videographer) is a Long Beach, California native. He has worked in the film and video industry for the past 8 years and is the co-founder of the Long Beach Filmmakers Society, an organization created for the sole purpose of networking with Long Beach based professionals that work in the film, video and production industry. |
Marty Zisner (performer) is a second generation son of Holocaust survivors and native to Los Angeles. He received a traditional Conservative/Orthodox education celebrating pre-World War II Eastern European Jewish values and customs. His career path took him into the technically challenging discipline of Environmental Safety and Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Human Systems Integration, and System Safety in the aerospace industry. |
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