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Choreographers
Beth Burns has choreographed 46 pieces for 21 annual concerts for Saint Joseph Ballet 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.
Saint Joseph Ballet 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, Saint Joseph Ballet, 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.
Saint Joseph Ballet Commissions:
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 for the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Jose Limon Dance Company, and Joffrey II. Mark is the Artist-In-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle. Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times described Mark as "...a choreographer's choreographer."
Saint Joseph Ballet Commissions:
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.
Saint Joseph Ballet Commission:
Ruptable (2007)
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.
Saint Joseph Ballet Commission:
a howling flower bloomed in my eye (2006)
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