2009 LCPD SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE
ARTIST TEACHER BIOS
Robin Baartman began her dance training under the instruction of Charlotte Wendel of Southwest School of Dance, Marshall, MN. With this studio, Robin toured the Baltic States and performed her international debut at Red October Hall, Moscow. Continuing her education in dance, she had the pleasure of working with Julie Kerr-Berry, Maggie Desenberg, Sherone Price, Jin-Wen Yu, Li Chiao-Ping, Ed Groff, Pat Catterson, Sean Curran, and others. After obtaining a B.S. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Robin continued her second season with the nora.new.dance.company. Shortly thereafter, she began performing with Li Chiao-Ping Dance. Since, she has obtained certification in Pilates, served as an adjunct instructor for UW Division of Continuing Studies, and is currently an instructor at Capital Fitness.
Anneliese Charek had been studying and performing dance for 15 years in her hometown of Los Angeles, before joining the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company last year. She received a B.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts, where she majored in dance and choreography, and worked in costuming for dance as well as dance on camera. There she was influenced by great teachers such as Glenn Eddy, Colin Connor, Francesca Penzani, David Burns, Fontella Boone and Ed Groff. Now also pursuing her passion for visual art, she is currently an M.F.A. candidate in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She would like to thank her friends for their support from many miles away, her family for understanding her professional pursuits, and the lovely people she’s met in Madison- especially her employers and professors who put up with her schedule (thank you).
Wisconsin native, Colleen Coy trained at Virginia School of the Arts, the Joffrey Ballet, and Centro Minero de Dancas Classicas in Brasil before graduating cum laude from UWSP in 2002. Even before graduating, Colleen became a member of the acclaimed Madison based modern dance company, Li Chiao-Ping Dance. During her four seasons with the company she had the opportunity to tour the United States performing at such venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. In Madison Colleen has also performed for Collette Stewart, Jin-Wen Yu, and Maureen Janson with the Madison Opera. After Madison Colleen danced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for several years where she is a member of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists. Colleen now resides in Dili, Timor-Leste where she teaches ballet and Pilates. Colleen will be certified by Movement Insights in classical method Pilates by the end of the month.
Mariah Meyer LeFeber grew up in Lincoln,
Nebraska. She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in dance and
psychology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she had the
honor of training with and dancing for a group of highly esteemed faculty
members and guest artists. She performed for four years with the University
Dance Theatre, and was proud to represent the University of Minnesota as a gala
performer at the 2004 National American College Dance Festival. Following her
time in Minnesota, Mariah completed her Master of Arts in Dance/Movement
Therapy & Counseling at Columbia College Chicago. Mariah currently works at
Common Threads Family Resource Center in Madison. She is thrilled to be dancing
with Li Chiao-Ping Dance, and would like to thank her
husband Paul for his support in this and every endeavor, and for helping her
keep life in perspective.
Andrea Harris (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is
the author of essays in Interrogating
America through Theatre and Performance; A tavola con Spadolini, le grand
danseur; and Discourses in Dance, and the forthcoming Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors
of the Radical. She is also the editor of Before, Between,
and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing, a collection of Sally Banes’s writings.
She has taught at Texas Christian University, the University of
Oklahoma, and the Universidad de las Américas, and has performed with companies including the Martha Graham Dance Company and Li Chiao-Ping Dance. Dr. Harris will join the faculty of the UW-Madison
Dance Program in Fall 2009.
Kate Hewson is a modern dancer and choreographer
based in Madison, WI. She has also lived and performed in Belgium, England, and
South Africa, her country of origin. She has presented her own aerial and
modern choreography and performed in the work of many local and national
artists. She runs an interdisciplinary arts residency program at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and will complete her MFA in Dance Choreography and
Performance this August.
Choreographer and performer Li Chiao-Ping was named by Dance Magazine as one of the 25 to watch. She formed LI CHIAO-PING DANCE in 1990 and co-directed DZIGA VERTOV PERFORMANCE GROUP from 1992-94. Renowned for her solo work (Yellow River, Entombed Warrior, Chi, Men’s Project, and nowWomen Dancing) she is equally well-known for her multimedia and/or intergenerational productions (Odyssey, Venous Flow: States of Grace, Painkillers, Laughing Bodies, Dancing Minds). Her collaborations with Douglas Rosenberg include dance films such as DE L’EAU, RESIDUES, PERIPHERY, GRACE, and a new suite of dances made for the camera which were co-funded by Wisconsin Public Television and Bravo! FACT of Canada. A prolific choreographer of over 80 works for stage and screen, Ms. Li’s dances have been shown throughout the world, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, Los Angeles, Paris, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Riccione, Toronto, as well as festivals such as Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, The Yard, the International Festival of Video and Dance in Argentina, and the American Dance Festival. Ms. Li has received numerous awards, grants and honors, including several grants from the NEA and awards from the Asian Pacific Women's Network, National Arts Association, and the Los Angeles Arts Council first prize awards for performance and choreography. She has also received choreographic fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon. She was the American representative in ADF’s International Choreographer’s Program. Her choreographic works have been commissioned by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Movement Source Company, Milwaukee Dance Theater, George Washington University, Opera Roanoke, Southwest Virginia Ballet, Georgetown University, James Madison University, Symphony Space, and Mulberry Street Theater's EAR TO THE GROUND SERIES. Ms. Li earned her Master of Arts degree from UCLA and has been on the dance faculty at Hollins University, Mills College, and UW-Madison where she continues to teach. Professor Li is the recipient of the Romnes Award, the Creative Arts Award from the Arts Institute, the Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts, and the Wisconsin Dance Council Award in Choreography and Performance.
Emily Miller is pleased to be performing with Li Chiao-Ping Dance. As an undergrad, Emily met Li and fell in
love with Li’s athletic and full-bodied movement style, which was much like
Emily’s previous training in gymnastics. Throughout her undergrad, Emily not only
had the pleasure of working with Ms. Li, but also worked with such
distinguished artists as Peggy Choy, Larry Keigwin,
Luis Lara Malvacias, Jeremy Nelson, Chris Walker,
Nina Watt, and Jin-Wen Yu .
She has performed at the American College Dance Festival and has received
numerous scholarships and summer awards which have allowed her to study in
Miami, North Carolina, and New York. She would like to thank her
parents for supporting her choice to pursue her not-so-lucrative dance career
and her boyfriend Andy for keeping her sane.
Douglas Rosenberg’s work in video and video installation has been shown both in the United States and internationally in museums, galleries, on Public Television and in festivals around the world. Mr. Rosenberg has received numerous grants and awards including an NEA Dance/Film/Video grant (with choreographer June Watanabe), an NEA/Southeast Media Fellowship, two Zellerbach Foundation grants, a Painted Bride Art Center New Forms Grant, (co-recipient with Li Chiao-Ping), a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, an IZZIE award for his work with Ellen Bromberg and John Henry on “Singing Myself A Lullaby” and a Fellowship from The Project on Death in America for another project with Ms. Bromberg. His video dance, “My Grandfather Dances” with Anna Halprin, was awarded the Directors Prize at the Jewish Video Festival, Judah Magnes Museum, in Berkeley. He has been an artist in residence at The Institute for Studies in The Arts, Bates Dance Festival, and the International Festival of Video Dance in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his writing on dance for the camera has been published in journals including LEONARDO. Recent shows include, Dance on Camera Festival, New York, Video Festival Riccionne Teatro Televisione, Riccione, Italy, The Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, Mostra de Vídeo Dansa de Barcelona, Spain. He was the Director of the American Dance Festival’s video archival program for over a decade and continues to direct ADF’s Dancing for the Camera Festival.
Collette Stewart has been deemed an
“acute, subtle mover and an expressive performer” by the New York Times. Ms.
Stewart’s professional career as a dancer and choreographer has spanned the
last 13 years, during which time she has danced with Jin-Wen
Y u Dance and Li Chiao-Ping Dance in Madison, 1*4*8
the collective, and Dixiefun Dancetheater
in New York, and Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas. Her
choreography, a mix of sensual movements and wry texts, has been presented in
New York, New Jersey, Texas, New Mexico, South Carolina and Madison. Ms.
Stewart is certified in Pilates and Yoga and directs the Pilates program at
Capital Fitness in downtown Madison. She also directs a Pilates Apprenticeship
program through her own company Movement Insights. Ms. Stewart holds a BFA in
Modern Dance from Texas Christian University and in Madison, has taught for the
UW Dance Program. Currently, she offers modern dance classes to the community
through UW Extension.
Megan Thompson (Guest Dancer) received her MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland and her BS in Dance from UW-Madison. She has danced professionally in the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company and the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and presented her own work in Chicago, Madison, Washington, DC and Krasnoyarsk, Russia. In addition to her dance training, Megan completed a 700-hour (Classical) Pilates certification program in 2006. She has taught dance and Pilates at numerous festivals and universities, such as the University of Maryland, the Isadora Festival in Russia, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet's summer program, and the National Institutes of Health. Currently, Megan is a faculty member of the Theatre and Dance Department at Winona State University.
The Onus Trio
For nearly ten years, the Onus Trio, led by clarinetist Darryl Harper, has cultivated a rich repertoire of original pieces, group improvisations, and works by contemporary composers. The trio has appeared on television with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Their album Triphony (Hipnotic 2005) grabbed the attention of fans and critics alike, persisting near the top of the CMJ chart for several weeks and garnering a citation in The Village Voice for one of the best albums of the year. The trio includes Matthew Parrish on bass and Butch Reed on drums.
Darryl Harper (clarinet)
Harper began working professionally on
clarinet at the age of sixteen in his native Philadelphia. He has performed for over twenty years in
venues throughout the world and has recorded several albums on the Hipnotic Records label.
His credits include opening concerts for Max Roach, The Billy Taylor
Trio, and The Wynton Marsalis Quartet; dates with
Freddie Bryant, Orrin Evans, Tim Warfield, Dee Dee
Bridgewater, Carla Cook, Roscoe Mitchell, Dave Holland, and Uri Caine; and a two-year stint touring with Regina
Carter. Harper holds music degrees from
Amherst College, Rutgers University, and New England Conservatory. His projects as a leader
include The Onus Quintet, The Onus Trio, Into Something, and the C3
Project.
Matthew Parrish (bass)
Parrish started playing the acoustic bass at the age of eighteen after playing trumpet for several years. He received musical training at Rutgers University under the tutelage of Kenny Barron, Larry Ridley, and Caroline Davis. In the beginning of his career, Parrish performed regularly with Orrin Evans, Shirley Scott, Mickey Roker, Bobby Durham, Ralph Peterson, Sam Dockery, and Terrell Stafford. He toured for three years with late bebop trombone legend Al Grey and for five years with violinist Regina Carter. His performance credits also include dates with Clark Terry, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Marion McPartland, Miri Ben-Ari, Wynton Marsalis, Mark Turner, Eric Lewis, Ravi Coltrane, Miss Justine, Ruth Naomi Floyd, and Linda Hopkins.
Harry “Butch” Reed (drums)
Reed began playing drums at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School and received private instruction from Carl Mottola and Skeets Marsh. Reed has toured and performed with John Blake, the Gerald Veasly Band, and the Philadelphia Cleff Club Jazz Big Band. Reed’s performance credits include dates with Nat Adderly, Bobby Watson, Lew Tabackon, Roy Hargrove, Hank Crawford, Ralph Moore, Steve Turre, Randy Brecker, Archie Shepp, the Blue Note Allstars, and vocalist Ruth Brown.