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Tandy Beal

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Tandy Beal creates “dance that is exciting, mysterious, theatrical, humorous and energetic” (Seattle Post Intelligencer). “Her stage is a wondrous wayside where mystery unfolds.” (Los Angeles Times). She is “a choreographer of taste and...

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Maria de la Rosa

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Musician

Maria de la Rosa earned both her BA and MA from Stanford University. For 20 years she has devoted her talents to the performance and production of dance in the Folklorico traditions of Mexico. Her works have been performed at the San Francisco...

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Diane Frank

Performing Artist: Choreographer

After completing a B.F.A in Theater (Ohio University) and an M.A. in Dance (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), Diane Frank taught for four years in the Dance Department at the University of Maryland, where she was a founding member of the...

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Karen Gabay

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Karen Denise Gabay was born in San Diego, California and began her ballet training at the age of eight at the California Ballet School, and later studied at the School of American Ballet in New York City. A principal dancer with Ballet San Jose,...

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Judith Komoroske

Educator; Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer; Visual Artist: Painter

Dancer, choreographer and teacher Judith Komoroske is now retired after a 38 year career. She now pursues creative expression through painting and writing.

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Mythili Kumar

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Artistic Director Mythili Kumar founded Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose in 1980 to present professional–quality and innovative performances of South Indian classical dance. Now celebrating 35 years of performance and instruction, Mythili has...

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Gary Masters

Performing Artist: Choreographer

Gary Masters (Founder and Co-Artistic Director) for sjDANCEco is the 2014 Isadora Duncan Awardee for Outstanding Achievement in Restaging/ Revival/Reconstruction for the company’s 2012 production of Joseé Limón ‘s The Moor’s Pavane and the...

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Dennis Nahat

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Dancer, choreographer and artistic director American, born in Detroit, Michigan on February 20, 1946… Dennis Nahat studied dance at the Juilliard School and at the School of American Ballet in New York. He made his debut with the City Center Joffrey...

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Gary Davis Palmer

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Gary Palmer began his career in the 1970s as a San Francisco–based dancer with the Lucas Hoving Performance Group, the San Francisco Opera Ballet, and Christopher Beck & Company Dance Theater. In the late 1970s, he performed in numerous works by...

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David Popalisky

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

David Popalisky teaches dance history, modern dance and choreography. He has a MFA in Choreography from Mills College and an MA in Theatre Arts/Dance Emphasis from San Jose State University. Former artistic director of DaaPo, based in New York City,...

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Bih-Tau Sung

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Bih Tau Sung is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Dancing Sun Foundation, and is an acclaimed interpreter and choreographer of ballet, modern, and traditional Chinese dance opera techniques. Her professional career started in 1974 when she...

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Margaret Wingrove

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Margaret Wingrove has created over 80 works for her dancers. She has also been a frequent guest choreographer for other dance companies. These hosts have included the Palo Alto Ballet, Berkeley Ballet, San Jose Dance Theater, Janlyn Dance Company,...

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Yong Yao

Educator; Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Mr. Yao is an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and dance instructor from Beijing. He began dancing with the Hubei Province Dance Company at the age of twelve. In this company he was trained in Chinese classical and folk dance technique...

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