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  Annie Rudnick

Annie Rudnik is a dancer, artist, and teacher from Glenview, Illinois. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied dance with Roxane Butterfly, Emily Devine, Barbara Forbes, Peggy Gould, Neil Greenberg, and Sara Rudner. Annie has performed work in Boston, Chicago, New York, and Prague. In the Czech Republic, she worked with sculptor Barbara Benish. She is currently recording oral histories with former Vaudeville performer Harold ÒStumpyÓ Cromer, for a book called No Room at All.

  Grace Whitworth
Grace Whitworth graduated from Point Park University with a BA in Dance. She started off as a ballet major and moved on to aquire a second concentration in jazz. Shortly after graduating she moved to Chicago to continue her training on scholarship at Lou Conte Dance Studio. Throughout steadily being on scholarship Grace has had the oppurtunity to perform in two pieces for Dance Chicago '07 (Dionna Pridgeon, Eddy Ocampo). She also is grateful for Winifred Haun and Dancers in which she has performed in Circle in the Square at Cheney Mansion in Oak Park and the Milwaukee Avenue Arts festival in Logan Square. Her most recent performance includes two pieces in Thodos Dance Chicago's New Dances (Ryan Miller, Dori Santarsiere). She is excited to currently be working with RTG Dance and hopes everyone enjoys the show.
  Gina T'ai

Gina T'ai has been dancing and making dances for many moons. Her modern dance education began when she attended the Milwaukee High School of the Arts and studied off campus for her Junior and Senior years at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with Janet Lily and Ed Burgess. She then studied at the California Institute of the Arts and completed her B.A in Dance from Hollins University as well as receiving her MFA in Dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. She has danced with annlivyoung dances (NYC), and was a member of bopi's black sheep/dances by Kraig Patterson (NYC), and has worked with many others including Li Chiao Ping, Andrea Woods, Karinne Keithley and Sam Piperato. She has studied with John Jasperse, Brenda Daniels, Pamela Pietro, Doug Neilsen, Gerri Houlihan and many others. She has recently presented her work at the WUK in Vienna, Austria, at The American Dance Festival and at Danceworks' ScreenDance and Causing Effect concerts.

  Jeannine Salemi

 

  Jennifer Thompson

 

 
  Erin Kilmurray