Mar 15

An Evening of Dance Theater

About Moderator Amy Smith:

Amy Smith is Co-Director of Headlong Dance Theater. She grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she studied ballet, jazz and tap and got early professional experience with Jazz Dance Theater. Back then, she could do triple pirouettes and lay-outs. At Wesleyan University, she took full advantage of the amazing dance department, studying modern, composition, improvisational forms, ballet, Bharata Natyam, and Ghanaian dance. She also majored in Religion. After college, she spent a year at the Center for New Dance Development in Holland, where she soaked up European New Dance and learned from incredible people like Stephanie Skura, Ishmael Houston Jones and Steve Paxton. Other important teachers/mentors include Cynthia Novack and Richard Bull, Susan Foster, Deborah Hay, and Ann Trenka.
Besides Headlong, Amy has performed in the work of Deborah Hay (lamb, lamb, lamb…), Ishmael Houston Jones (Specimens), and many others. Theater goers may remember her as Ivona in Theater Exile’s 2002 production of Princess Ivona. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Dance/USA board of Trustees, and spent several years working to create Dance/USA Philadelphia, our local service organization. She also serves on the board of the Canary Project, and helps artists and organizations with their tax preparation and financial planning. Amy has a rock-star husband and two kids who fulfill her more than words can say. She lives in a geodesic dome in the woods, where the smells of woodsmoke and baking tofu fill the air.
About Sarah Gladwin Camp:
Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts in dance and linguistics from Swarthmore College and holds a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from Laban in London. She spent time in Australia training in Capoeira, practicing yoga, and learning Taiko, and in Poland training extensively with Silesian Dance Theatre. In Europe she has participated in festivals in Lithuania, Slovakia, Finland, and Poland, and has performed with groups in Italy and England.
In 2004 she helped to co-found Green Chair Dance Group, a collaborative dance theater company based in Philadelphia, which has since toured in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, and Poland. Recently in Philadelphia she has performed at nEW Festival for Megan Mazarick and is currently dancing with Workshop for Potential Movement as well as Nora Gibson.
While in London, Sarah taught creative movement classes to young children and developed an acrobatics class for 3-6 year olds. Now she is continuing to teach dance, music, and tumbling to kids from 6 months to 6 years.

About Danielle Kinne:

Danielle Kinne, originally from the desserts of Ridgecrest California, received her BFA in Modern Dance at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. She began her formal training at Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI and attended Purchase College, SUNY. While living in California’s Bay Area Danielle was a member of Blind Geese Dance Co. and Crash Burn and Die Dance Co. Since her relocation to Philadelphia, PA she has worked and performed for many local artist, and choreographers, including Philip Grosser, Meghan Durham/MERGE Dance Company, Megan Mazarick, Makoto Hirano and Olive Prince. She is currently a member of Leah Stein Dance Company where she has appeared in works such as Carmina Burana and GATE. She recently premiered Merian Soto’s What Is Love? In New York City as part of Lincoln Center’s Out Of Doors summer series and appeared at Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME as a perfmorfer/videographer with Marinela Boan’s BoanDanzAction in False Testimony.

In addition to performing Danielle helped curate a film forum for short dance films, and premiered her own film in the 2006 Philly Fringe Festival. In the 2007 Philly Fringe Festival Kinne presented Pink Demise a work performed at The Arts Parlor. She has also enjoyed opportunities such as teaching modern dance at Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, MI, and Sierra Academy of Dance, Ridgecrest, CA to children ages 7-15. Danielle is currently Space coordinator at The Arts Parlor in her free time.

About Rebecca Lloyd-Jones:

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, and moved to US when she was 14. She has received BFA in dance from Temple University. She has also studied Capoeira Angola with Mestre Valmir in Salvador, Brazil. She has worked with various artists and companies in Philadelphia and in NY such as Marianela Boan’s Boan Danz Action, Leah Stein Dance Company, Yelena Gluzman’s Science Project, Nicole Bindler, Noemi Segarra, Darla Stanley, Megan Mazarick, Melanie Stewart, Merian Soto, Charles Anderson, Makoto Hirano, Meg Foley, Sasha Welsh, and more.

In winter 2007, she was a part of Japanese and American artists collaboration theater project “Worman” directed by Yelena Gluzman which premiered in Tokyo. Her own choreography has been and will be shown in various venues in Philadelphia and NY.

About Zornitsa Stoyanova:

Zornitsa Stoyanova is a native of Bulgaria and holds her B.A. in Dance and Sound Design from Bennington College, where she studied with Susan Sgorbati, Dana Reitz, Eva Kartzag, Brendan McCall, Paul Matteson, Keith Thompson, and Terry Creach. After graduating, she moved to Philadelphia and started dancing with Amnesiac Music and Dance and was one of the co-founders (Bilwa, Emily Sweeney, and Mikeronesia) of Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd. During this time, Zornitsa started working professionally as a lighting designer, launched her dance company, Herebegin Dance Co., and started producing “Current” an evening of dance and art series at Mascher Space Cooperative.While still in college her work was shown in Bulgaria, Hungary, and St. Marks Church in New York City.Presently she is making pieces and exploring different kinds of traditional and not so traditional mediums. She continues dancing with Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd as well and the Emergent Improvisation Project, directed by Susan Sgorbati.

Herebegin Dance Co.’s primary goal is to produce innovative art in collaboration with guest artists. More info at www.herebegindance.com.

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