Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Choreographers

  • Artist Profile #81: Kate Weare (Brooklyn, NY)

      Photo by Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang Hometown: Oakland, CA Current city: Brooklyn, NY Age: 42 College and degree: BFA CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) Website: kateweare.com How you pay the bills: choreographer and artistic director of Kate Weare Company, company touring, outside company commissions, teaching and student commissions, awards and fellowships All of the dance…

  • The Dance Artists of: Paufve Dance

    Photo of Randee Paufve by Kegan Marling Over the past two years on the blog, 12 artists who have worked with San Francisco Bay Area artist Randee Paufve (currently or in the past) have been featured. Click on any name below to read more. Randee Paufve is a stellar choreographer and performer, who recently was…

  • Artist Profile #78: Dawn Karlovsky (Saint Louis, Missouri)

    Hometown: Chicago, Illinois Current city: Saint Louis, Missouri College and degree: Northern Illinois University, Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts/ Dance Performance Graduate school and degree: University of Utah, MFA in Modern Dance/Choreography; I started grad school in my late 20s after dancing for a couple years in a repertory based dance company in Louisville, KY. Website:  www.karlovskydance.org How you…

  • Artist Profile #77: Joanna Kotze (Brooklyn, NY)

    Photo by Ted Roeder (Joanna in her work titled FIND YOURSELF HERE: Duet – Industry City) Hometown:  Born in Durban, South Africa; grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, Bloomington, Indiana and Littleton, Massachusetts Current city:  Brooklyn, NY Age:  38 Attended an arts high school?  No. But I started in ballet at age 6 and…

  • Artist Profile #76: Cathy Davalos (Richmond, CA)

      Photo: David Gaylord Hometown: Cerritos, CA Current city: Richmond, CA Age: 52 College and degree: California State University, Long Beach (CSULB); BA in Philosophy and Dance Graduate school and degree: California State University, Long Beach; MFA in Dance: Choreography and Performance when I was 32 years old. Website: www.davalosdance.org and http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-dance How you pay…

  • Artist Profile #75: Jennifer Salk (Seattle, WA)

    Hometown: Woodstock, VT Current city: Seattle, WA Age: 52 College and degree: 2 years at UCLA 1979 – 81; BFA from the University of Utah in 1992   Graduate school and degree: Ohio State University MFA 1994; I was 32 when I graduated How you pay the bills: I work at the University of Washington as…

  • Artist Profile #74: Ivy Baldwin (Brooklyn, NY)

    Photo by Steven Schreiber Hometown: Madison, FL Current city: Brooklyn, NY Age: 38 Attended an arts high school? No, I went to a rather unimpressive public high school in a very small north Florida town, but I took dance classes (ballet, tap, jazz) at my local dance studio from the age of 5 until I left…

  • Artist Profile #73: Kelli Brown (Idaho)

    Hometown: Boise, Idaho Current city: Eagle, Idaho Age: 45 College and degree: Boise State University – BS Physical Education Graduate school and degree: MA Dance, Cal State Long Beach (age 34); MFA Choreography and Performance, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (age 38) Website: www.offcenterdance.org How you pay the bills: Teach at an arts charter school All of the…

  • Artist Profile #70: Douglas Nielsen (Tucson, AZ)

    Douglas Nielsen Professor, University of Arizona School of Dance Choreographer, Teacher, Freelance Guest Artist   Photo by Ed Flores, Center for Creative Photography; contemporary photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota Current city:  Tucson, Arizona Age: 66 College and degree: Augsburg College; BA in Psychology/Sociology (1970) Post grad: Attended California Institute of the…

  • Artist Profile #68: Sara Rudner (New York)

    Now in its third year, the Life as a Modern Dancer Blog is posting new content as the 2014-2015 academic year begins. It is an honor to have dancer Sara Rudner be our first artist profile for the new academic year. – Jill Randall, Blog Director ———————- Photo: Nathaniel Tileston I was born in February 1944,…