Alonzo King LINES Ballet

Category: BFA Faculty

  • Charles Moulton

    Charles Moulton

    Guggenheim Award winner Charles Moulton began his career dancing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1973–1976. He created and set works on the Joffrey Ballet, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Project and many other dance companies in the US and abroad. He won 1989 Dorothy Chandler Arts Achievement Award and received support for his work from the NEA, NYSCA, The Jerome Foundation, and New Music USA. Moulton directed many theater and opera productions and created numerous works for film and television, including choreography for 2,000 dancers in the Matrix Reloaded.

    Charles Moulton is a founding co-director of Performance Space 122 in downtown Manhattan and is widely regarded for his signature work Ball Passing, in which large groups work together to solve a living puzzle. Over its more than 40 year history, Ball Passing emerged as a powerful tool for learning and change for community centers, corporations, hospitals, management teams, performing arts organizations, and those with special physical and emotional needs. Moulton lives in Oakland, CA and is the co-artistic director of Garrett + Moulton Productions with choreographer Janice Garrett.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican

    Photography | © Charles Moulton

  • Carmen Rozestraten

    Carmen Rozestraten

    Carmen Rozestraten is a founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet and danced with the company from 1978-1996. She is a senior faculty member for LINES Ballet’s education programs and teaches the company regularly. A native of Amsterdam, she has toured the world as a performer and educator, teaching at major ballet companies such as Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Opera de Lyon and Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza.

    She has choreographed for Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, the LINES Ballet Summer Program, the LINES Ballet Training Program, and LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican University of California.

    Carmen has also made three award-winning dance films.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican, Dance Center, and Summer Program

  • Debra Rose

    Debra Rose

    Debra Rose is the founder and owner of San Francisco GYROTONIC®, primarily created to serve the San Francisco Bay Area’s dance community in 1988. Debra created the first syllabus and GYROTONIC® manual associated with a dance program for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California. She has also created a unique GYROTONIC® curriculum for the LINES Ballet Training Program, LINES Ballet Summer Program, San Francisco State University, and, most recently, The San Francisco High School of the Arts.

    As a dancer, Debra trained in New York at The School of American Ballet, after which she danced with the Oakland and San Francisco Ballets. The majority of her career was spent dancing for the San Francisco Opera Ballet and as a principle and founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Debra also served as a Ballet Mistress for LINES Ballet and assisted Mr. King in setting choreography on various companies that include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem, and the Joffrey Ballet.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican and Summer Program
  • Victor Talledos

    Victor Talledos

    Victor Talledos is an international independent artist based in SF. He began his dance training at Conservatorio de Danza in Mexico City and graduated from Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2008, he moved to NYC to attend the Ailey School for two years. Victor has performed for Proyectos en Movimiento dance company and Ballet Moderno de Mexico-Las Bestias in Mexico. In 2010, Victor moved to San Francisco and became part of the Bay Area Dance community, he has worked for Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company, Copious Dance Theater, Labayen Dance San Francisco, Alayo Dance Company, The Anata Project, RAWDance SF, among others. As a choreographer, Victor has shown his work in venues including Ailey Citigroup Theater, Dance New Amsterdam for the “Latin Choreographers Festival” in NYC, Dance Mission Theater for the “Latin American Contemporary Choreographers Festival” in SF, Safe House Arts, Cowell Theater. He has been a guest choreographer for Labayen Dance, Copious Dance Theater and Emote Dance Theater.

    Victor is currently faculty member for all education programs at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, from Teens at LINES to the BFA Program at Dominican University of California. He is part of the Modern Dance faculty at Berkeley Ballet Theater and teaches open classes (ballet, modern and contemporary) at Alonzo King LINES Dance Center. Victor has also taught in places including ODC Dance Commons, Shawl Anderson Dance Center, and Westlake School for the Performing Arts and has been a guest artist at Stanford University, guest teacher and choreographer at Mills College, guest choreographer at The Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA). He has taught workshops in Amarillo, Texas, Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico. Aside from his professional dance career, Victor is also a visual artist, part-time model and photographer.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican and Summer Program

    Photography | © Victor Talledos

  • Liv Schaffer

    Liv Schaffer

    Liv Schaffer received her Bachelor’s degree from Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California in 2013, and has spent subsequent seasons performing with AXIS Dance Company, DanceWorks Chicago, The Dance Exchange, and Robert Moses’ Kin. Liv is a Community Engagement Artist with Jacob’s Pillow Curriculum in Motion®, and a Lead Artist with the Pillow’s Medicine in Motion program, investigating ways in which dance is a tool for medical practitioners to enhance humane and holistic practices in their work. Liv teaches Contemporary Dance and directs University of San Francisco’s intergenerational dance company; the Dance Generators. Liv was named a Shawl Anderson Dance Center 2019 Artist in Residence, and her choreography has been presented by DanceWorks Chicago’s DanceMoves Choreographic Competition, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Performance Series, Jacob’s Pillow Lab In Process Series, the JUNTOS Collective, The Big Muddy Dance Company, LINES BFA & Summer Programs, Western Michigan University, and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival ChoreoFest.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican, Summer Program

    Photography | © David DeSilva

  • Anne-René Petrarca

    Anne-René Petrarca

    Anne-René is a modern dancer, choreographer, Alexander Technique teacher, yoga instructor and the founder and artist-director of the dance company Sculpted Motion. Anne-René received her undergraduate degree in dance from Point Park University, her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her Alexander certification from The American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York City. She re-located to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009 after 20 years in New York City. She is currently on faculty for all of LINES Ballet’s education programs, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Square One Yoga and she maintains a private Alexander practice. She continues to travels as a guest artist to universities across the country.

    In New York she had the pleasure of assisting Jane Kosminsky at The Juilliard School for ten years in the dance division and at national conventions and in the making of her DVD; For Dancers; The Alexander Technique. Anne-René was on the faculty at DNA (Dance Space Center), Dancewave, Mark Morris Dance Center and she has been a guest teacher at Sarah Lawrence College, Long Island University/Brooklyn, Barnard College, The Next Stage Project, Joffrey Jazz Summer Intensive, Mills College, San Francisco State University, Penn State, Bucknell University, Hope College and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

    Her work has been performed at the Cowell Theater, McKenna Theater, Z-Space, ODC Commons, Mint Plaza, ChoreoProject, Dance New Amsterdam, Kumbel Theater, City Center Studios, Makor Theater, Evolving Arts Theater, Mainstage Theater, Discovery World and Knickerbocker Theater.

    Anne-René’s approach to teaching contemporary/modern dance and her creative process integrates the concepts of the Alexander Technique. The dancer is encouraged to identify and change inefficient habitual patterns in order to access resiliency, expansion, risk taking and the freedom to explore the range of motion and expression in the body. The dancer will gain clarity, efficiency, softness, strength and truth in movement, breath and performance quality. Sculpted Motion creates choreographic works that stimulate the viewer viscerally, emotionally and kinesthetically by using movement containing strong circular shapes, organic undertones and rich details with an athletic and sensuous aesthetic.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican and Summer Program

  • Nicholas Korkos

    Nicholas Korkos

    Native San Franciscan, Nicholas Korkos has performed with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Aszure Barton & Artists, Hubbard Street 2, Loni Landon Dance Project, Zhukov Dance Theatre, Robert Moses’ KIN, project agora, tinypistol, Opera Omaha, San Francisco Opera and three times with the San Francisco Symphony, including a restaged version of On the Town with the original Broadway revival cast. In addition to performing, Korkos has choreographed on San Francisco Danceworks, LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican, LINES Ballet Summer Program, at SAFEhouse Arts, and in the RAW Concept Series. As a photographer Korkos has photographed for Opera Philadelphia, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Opera Parallèle, and various dance companies, and his work has been seen in numerous publications including The New York Times. Finally, Korkos is the founder of Red Brick Company, a contemporary dance theatre company, a band of missing puzzle pieces coming together to tell the stories of the people, of the simple yet profound, and of those that celebrate the inclusive and collaborative necessity.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican, Summer Program

    Photography | © Maximillian Tortoriello

  • David Harvey

    David Harvey

    David Harvey is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, The Kirov Academy of Ballet and the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program. He then danced for Alonzo King LINES Ballet from 2007-2014, and continues his relationship with LINES Ballet’s education programs as a returning faculty member and choreographer. Harvey has also worked as a dancer and collaborator with Bobbi Jene Smith, Tom Weinberger, Sarah Foster Sproull and David Raymond + Tiffany Tregarthen. He has been a member of Kate Wallich’s The YC since 2015.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet |  BFA at Dominican and Summer Program

    Photography | © Jobel Medina

  • Brett Conway

    Brett Conway

    Brett Conway is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and artistic director of SFDanceworks. As a former company dancer of Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater, Brett has worked with many influential choreographers, including Alonzo King, Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot, Sol Leon, Mats Ek, Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, and Ohad Naharin. Since 2017, Brett has been on faculty with the LINES Dance Center and LINES Ballet’s education programs.

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet |  BFA at Dominican, Dance Center, and Summer Program

    Photography | © Nick Aitken

  • Christian Burns

    Christian Burns

    Christian Burns has been choreographing, teaching and performing in the Bay Area for 21 years. His pursuit for finding meaning and purpose through dance has yielded a dynamic range of interdisciplinary dance works for stage, video and visual art.

    From teaching statement: “By approaching a work from two opposite ends of the spectrum—ballet and improvisation—I allow the mirroring to reveal truths about each that might not be at first apparent. The tension of contrast between the traditional and contemporary approaches has deepened my understanding and appreciation of each of its core principles, and led to a personal philosophy that highly developed training in both will yield more authentic results of pure expression that we strive for in Dance. For me, embracing this duality has been informative not only in dance but a helpful way to approach learning in all areas of life, and something I would like to imbue through my various teachings.”

    In the San Francisco Bay Area his work has been presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, Counter Pulse, The Garage, Headlands Center for the Arts, Z Space Theater, Dancers Group Studio Theater, Shotwell Studio Theater, Howard Street Studio Theater. Beyond, his work has also been presented at The Walker Art Center, Canal Danse in Paris, Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, Nightingale Theater in Brighton UK, WINLAB Independent Festival in London, Escapade Festival at MovingArtsBase in London, The Dada House in Zurich Switzerland, OT301 in Amsterdam NL, The Southern Theater in MN, as well as performances in numerous independent studio locations in Brussels, Oslo, Copenhagen, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Southern France, New York and Western Massachusetts. His dance-video work has been shown at Pacific Film Archive Berkeley Art Museum, Impakt Festival (NL), Dutch National Television (NL), Moving Pictures Festival for Dance on Film and Video in Canada, Roberta Beck Cinema (NY), Santa Fe Art Institute and Stuttgart FilmWinter Festival in Germany.

    His commissions include Hope Mohr Dance, The Cambrians, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, James Sewell Ballet, Stanford University, USF, Mt. Holyoke College, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, The Laban Center London, Interlochen Center for the Arts, LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican University and LINES Ballet Training Program. He created over 70 dance pieces for the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance during its fourteen year history between 2004-2018.

    Christian has been awarded a 2010 Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME) grant – given by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, a 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship for Choreography, the 2004 National Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, the 2001 Paula Citron Award for Choreography for Camera (from the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto), 1997 McKnight Artist Fellowship and was an artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center (NY). Christian is a contributing author for When Men Dance, Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders, Edited by Jennifer Fisher and Anthony Shay, Oxford University Press 2009 and has self published a book chronicling his choreographic process titled Motion and Process: knowing not knowing, ideas on dance 2006-08.

    Christian has been a guest artist with The Forsythe Company and was a company member of Alonzo Kings LINES Ballet and James Sewell Ballet. He has been researching and practicing improvisational methods since 1994 and has performed internationally with Improvisers; Kirstie Simson, Katie Duck, Michael Schumacher, Ave Karczag, and Chris Aiken among many others. Christian completed three years of training at The School of American Ballet, working with renowned ballet teacher Stanley Williams.

    In 2008 Christian co-founded the interdisciplinary art center Parsons Hall Project Space Holyoke, MA. In 1998 he co-founded The Foundry, an interdisciplinary dance company based in San Francisco. The Foundry received critical and popular acclaim as well as the support of numerous private Foundations, Contemporary Art Centers and Residency programs. In 2002/03 The Foundry were exhibited in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts biannual Bay Area Now3, named by Dance Magazine one of the ‘25 to Watch‘ and the San Francisco Chronicle said, “The Foundry is at the vanguard of American dance.“

    Alonzo King LINES Ballet | BFA at Dominican and Summer Program

. Раменбет выделяется своими регулярными турнирами и акциями, предлагая игрокам не только шанс на крупные выигрыши, но и захватывающее соревнование с другими участниками. Комфортный вход и превосходный игровой опыт обеспечивает казино Vavada. Официальный сайт казино Vavada предлагает быструю регистрацию, а рабочее зеркало гарантирует бесперебойный доступ к игровой платформе в любых условиях. Наслаждайтесь игрой без блокировок с Раменбет зеркало. Только лицензированные слоты, щедрые бонусы и круглосуточная поддержка. Играйте там, где выигрывают!