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| Dancers
for Fall 2009- Spring 2010 Season |
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Johannah
Wininsky |
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Wininsky is from Sharon, Pennsylvania.
She holds a BA in Dance from Slippery
Rock University of Pennsylvania and
an MFA in Dance from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where
she was the honored recipient of the
Vannie L. Shiery Award for excellence
in choreography and performance. She
is the co-artistic director of Thread
Meddle Outfit, a contemporary dance
company formed in 2003 with co-founder
Christine Betsill. Her choreography
with Thread Meddle Outfit has been
shown in a variety of venues in Chicago
as well as in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Chile and Ecuador. Johannah
has been performing with RTG Dance
since 2002 and is excited to be working
with Rachel again this season. |
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Ceilia
Bambara |
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Celia
Weiss Bambara is a dance artist
with a Ph.D in dance history and
theory/critical dance studies from
the University of California, Riverside.
She is co-artistic director of the
CCBdance Project, an African based
contemporary dance company formed
in 2006 Christian Bambara, her husband.
Celia has danced for JAKA in Port-au-Prince
and Martin Dancers in Los Angeles
among others. Between the late 90Õs
and 2003 Celia worked with artists
in Port-au-Prince on projects that
combined Haitian, modern/contemporary,
and other African diasporic dance
forms. Her choreographies and the
work of the CCBdance Project have
also been shown in Los Angeles,
Chicago, Iowa, Michigan, Haiti,
Cuba, and Jamaica. Celia has collaborated
with African diasporic dance artists
including Djenane St, Juste, Andrea
Ogundele, Florencia Pierre, Elizabeth
Chin, Christian Bambara, and Joseph
Velcime. She is currently teaching
at the University of Illinois, Chicago
and Rast Ballet and sheÊis thrilled
to work this year with Rachel Thorne
Germond Dance.
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Becky
O'Connell |
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O'Connell began her training in Rockford,
Illinois with Debra Nanni. She holds
a BFA in Dance from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During
her time at UIUC she received an award
for choreographic excellence, outstanding
service, as well as talented student
tuition scholarships. She is grateful
to have been featured in works by
Tere O'Connor, Cynthia Oliver, Christine
Betsill, Esteban Donoso, and Laura
Chiaramonte among many others. Becky
has been working recently with Chicago
dance makers such as Live Animals,
The Dance Team, Thread Meddle Outfit
and is excited to work with Rachel
Thorne Germond Dance this season.
She plans to pursue graduate work
and use her dance training as an occupational
therapist for children and teens. |
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Christopher
Knowlton |
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Chris
Knowlton recently graduated
from the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign with a BS in
General Engineering. Amidst
his academic studies, he also
performed in a myriad of undergraduate,
graduate and faculty works,
as well as teaching hip-hop
dance part time. Works include
John Dayger's adaptation of
Leonard Bernstein's Mass, Esteban
Donoso's Dubbed and site-specific
piece Madeline, Steve May's
thesis Friends Love Friends
and Stephen West's solo Swan
Song. In Cincinnati, Chris worked
with Diane Germaine & Michelle
Bump in Monologues & Little
Deaths and Judith Mikita in
A Leonardo Dream, for which
he also designed and built set
pieces. His own solo, Shortest
Distance, premiered in 2007
at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Most recently, Chris trained
in contact improvisation under
Kirstie Simson. He is now a
first year student pursuing
a master's in Bioengineering
at University of Illinois Chicago.
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Allyson
Esposito |
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coming
soon
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