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ALYSON CARTAGENA,
Director of Dance
Ms. Cartagena’s training includes the American Dance
Festival, International Ballet Competition, Ballet
Aspen/Ballet West, Harvard University, two
consecutive scholarships to the Joffrey Ballet,
Florida State University (BFA), and the University
of California, Irvine (MFA)Her recent performance in
Loretta Livingston's Blooming, Re-Joyceing,
was named one of the Best Dance Performances of
2006 by the LA Times. Currently Alyson
is working on certification in Integrated Movement
Studies at Loyola Marymount University and
certification in Isadora Duncan technique in New
York City.
LIZ CASEBOLT received her Master of Fine Arts
in Experimental Choreography from the University of
California, Riverside and a Bachelor of Fine Arts,
Dance from New York University, Tisch School of the
Arts. Liz is the Co-Artistic Director/Choreographer
for casebolt and smith a Los Angeles based company.
Her emerging duet dance/theater company has
presented work all over Southern California,
including at the UC Riverside Performance Lab, New
Dance at St. Joseph Ballet, and UCLA’s Department of
World Arts and Cultures.
RACHEL ANNE LOPEZ was
born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She
received a BA in Psychology from the University of
California, Santa Cruz
and an MFA in Dance from the University of
California, Irvine. Rachel
recently deepened her yoga practice with the Yoga
Shakti 200 hour Teacher Training Certification
Program. When not sharing her love of movement with
children by teaching dance, improvisation and
choreography, Rachel performs as an improvisational
dance artist locally and abroad. Ms. Lopez
currently teaches at Rio Hondo College, Long Beach
City College and
California State University, Long Beach.
CAROL McDOWELL is a
movement/video artist based in Los Angeles who
creates interdisciplinary performance structures and
environments. Her work has been presented
internationally, most recently in Southern
California at Under the Radar Series/High Energy
Constructs, Skirball Cultural Center, Sweeney Art
Gallery, Electric Lodge, Wedge/Women’s Building,
Platinum Oasis, Crazy Space, Highways, FAIRY/Side
Street Projects, and the Dance Moving Forward
Festival. Commissions, grants, and fellowships
include the National Dance/Media, Asia Pacific
Performance Exchange, Makasar Arts Forum, Indonesian
Dance Festival, Djerassi Foundation, Colorado
Council of the Arts, Island Dance Festival, DTW,
Working in the Kitchen, DIA Art Foundation, and PS
122. McDowell was the Director of the Performing
Arts Center at the Naropa University in Boulder, CO
and is currently a PhD candidate in Culture and
Performance at UCLA.
SHYMALA MOORTY is a
founding member of the Post Natyam Collective, an
international collective of choreographers that
create contemporary work based on South Asian and
western dance forms. She has performed with Post
Natyam in Europe, India, and across the U.S. Her
solo show, RISE, was acclaimed as a "tour de force"
by the LA Times (1/17/04) and is featured on the
Artist Roster of TeAda Productions. Shyamala
received an MFA in dance from UCLA's Department of
World Arts and Cultures and has studied the
classical Indian dance Bharata Natyam from Medha
Yodh and Malathi Iyengar.
DIANA SHERWOOD
has a background that includes ballet, modern dance,
world dance, philosophy, yoga, Pilates, and new
media. She has performed throughout the US and
Canada including a motion captured performance in
Riverbed's "Pedestrian" that has been touring
internationally since 2002. Diana was a member of
the Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble from 2003-2007
and currently appears with Afro-Brazilian dance
company Swing Brazil. A choreographer and maker of
installations, her work has been seen locally at
Open Space, Beyond Baroque, LATC, and Diana was
recently chosen to curate an evening of found dance
as part of Highways Performance Space 2008 Curator
Series. Her work has been screened at Dance
Camera West and she is the recipient of a Pew
Charitable Trusts Fellowship for media and dance.
Diana holds a Master of Arts from UCLA and a Master
of Fine Arts from the
University of California, Irvine.
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