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Choreographers
Beth Burns has choreographed 46 pieces for 21 annual concerts for The Wooden Floor as Founder and Artistic Director. She’s created several collaborative works, bringing to the stage youth and adults from many parts of Orange County and Los Angeles. Beth attended the Jacob’s Pillow Choreography Workshop in 1998, where she first saw Melanie Ríos’s choreography. Beth received a California Arts Council Choreography Fellowship in 1991.
Seán Curran performed with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Stomp. Sean has worked with the Trinity Irish Dance Company, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and Playwright’s Horizon, and tours with his company, Seán Curran Company.
The Wooden Floor Commission:
Trabajar es Alabar (To Work is To Pray) (2004)
Melanie Ríos Glaser has created more than thirty pieces for professional companies and dance schools such as the Group Motion Dance Company in Philadelphia, the Ballet Moderno y Folkorico de Guatemala, the Ballet de Cali, Colombia, The Wooden Floor, and her own Mosquito Dance Company. Her work has been seen in New York, California, Philadelphia, México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, France, Colombia, and Brazil.
The Wooden Floor Commissions:
True or False: I Was Born in the Nederlands (2010)
Living with Murky (2007)
by leaps and bounds (2006)
6.8.1997 (2005)
dreamChild (2005)
Mi Corazón Canta (2005)
The Music Came Last (2002)
All Heaven Broke Loose (2000)
Embraceable You (2000)
Mark Haim has choreographed over 90 dances since he graduated from the Juilliard School in 1983, including works for Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballett Frankfurt, the Limon Dance Company, and The Joffrey Ballet. He has been the Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle and has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1993. He has received choreographic fellowships from the NEA and NYFA, among others.
The Wooden Floor Commissions:
What is Too Strong for Breaking (2008)
Presence (2004)
Los Angelitos (2002)
Sally Silvers celebrated 25 years of dance making in 2005. Silvers has received support for her choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NY Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988. Silvers is a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” winner and has co-directed two dance films, Little Lieutenant and Mechanics of the Brain.
The Wooden Floor Commission:
Ruptable (2007)
Scott Wells directs a dance company in San Francisco and has created works for skateboarders, boxers, and is currently choreographing West Side Story for Sonoma State University. Scott has received choreographic awards in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Europe and he was selected by Dance Magazine as “one of the 25 to watch in 2005”. Recently he has taught and performed in Ankara, Turkey, at Impultanz in Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Amsterdam, Transylvania, Munich, Bern, Halifax, Toronto, and Zagreb.
The Wooden Floor Commission:
Tumblefish (2008)
Nami Yamamoto has been presented in New York and elsewhere including Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Studio 303 in Montreal. Originally from Matsuyama, Japan, Yamamoto graduated from New York University in 1993 with a M.A. in dance education. As a dancer she has enjoyed working with wonderful choreographers such as Yoshiko Chuma, David Dorfman, Patricia Hoffbauer, Clarinda Mac Low, Victoria Marks, David Neumann, Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig, Cydney Wilkes, Yasuko Yokoshi, and many others.
The Wooden Floor Commission:
a howling flower bloomed in my eye (2006)
Flying With My Shooting Stars (2009)
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