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Arizona Wind Symphony http://www.arizonawindsymphony.org/ Bill Richardson (Directory AWS) William J. Richardson is an Arizona music educator with 30 years of service in the Tempe Union High School District and the founding director of the Tempe Youth Band and the Arizona Ambassadors of Music. Mr. Richardson received both his Bachelors degree and Masters degrees in Music Education from the University of Arizona and recently retired from Corona del Sol High School in Tempe where his groups long distinguished themselves by excellence in training and performance. He conducts the Arizona Wind Symphony, an adult community band, and is a frequent clinician and guest conductor for honor bands and festivals throughout the American Southwest. He is an active performer and trombonist with the Tempe Symphony OrchestraAmong his many accolades, Mr. Richardson was selected to receive the ASBDA Stanbury Award for Teaching Excellence at both the state and regional levels in 1975 and the AMEA Golden Anniversary Commemorative Award for Teaching Excellence in 1989. In 1990 he received the ASU Lillian Williams Outstanding Band Directors Award, and the George C. Wilson AMEA Leadership/Service Award that same year. He was named Teacher of the Year by his students and peers several times in his career and was honored as AMEA Music Educator of the Year in1992. Roberta Burnett continues in this dramatic lyric written for Glass Blocks/Steel Bars her interest in the poetry of witness. Her other subjects include negative attitudes about voting in the United States; the school slaying of children in Beslan, Chechnaya; a portrait of a homeless woman; an homage to the bravery of a Latino teen in metro Phoenix; the compressed nature of urban existence in contemporary times; and imitations of the 18th-century famine poems of Zheng Xie. Her most recent publications are The Bellevue Literary Review (NYU), Obsessed with Pipework (London), and Beauty/Truth. She was a solo reader in the ³Poetry in April² series in Tempe, 2006 (Catherine Hammond, moderator). A chapbook of poems is accepted for publication by Flarestack Publishing (London, 2008). Composer William Michael Clay wrote a work for chamber ensemble, performed in 2007, in Missouri, for one of her poems. She has written about the fine and performing arts in national, regional, and local magazines and newspapers: The Arizona Republic, New Times, Ceramics Monthly, Native Peoples, Southwest Art, among others. She has taught literature, rhetoric and research at the university and community college level. She was a gillnetter in Cook Inlet, Alaska, for six summers in the 1970s. She owned and was the creative director of Burnett Communications, Inc., and Jacaranda Press, and was named one of the ten best public relations people in Phoenix by the New Times in 1984. Babs Case (Choreographer) Babs Case, Artistic Director of Dancers Workshop and Contemporary Dance
WY, Jackson, WY, began her career with the San Diego based A Ludwig Co,
touring and teaching in the SW. She founded The Center For The Arts, a
dance, music, visual arts and theater center in FL. and Case & Co., a
professional modern dance company. Babs toured Asia as choreographer and
received NEA funding to work as an artist at The Atlantic Center For The
Arts. Her choreography has been seen internationally for 25 years. Babs is a
recipient of the FL Fellowship Award for Choreography, and was awarded an
Indo-American Research Fulbright Fellowship to study dance and theatre in
India. Babs has served on Grants Panels for the Florida Arts Council, the Wyoming Arts Council, and the Nevada Arts Council. Frances Smith Cohen is a teacher, choreographer, administrator and dance graduate from Bennington College in Vermont. She was dance director of the Jewish Community Center in Tucson for 18 years, and directed the first touring dance company in Arizona, the Kadimah Dancers.. In 1963 Cohen helped create Arizona Dance Arts Alliance in Tucson and in 1972 she co-founded the dance program at the University of Arizona. While living in Washington DC from 1978-1986 she became involved with the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, which places professional performing artists in Head Start classrooms. Cohen brought this program to Arizona in 1987. Today she is also co-director of Dance Theater West with partner Susan Silverman and artistic director of Center Dance Ensemble, resident modern dance company at the Herberger Theater Center. Cohen is the proud recipient of the 1994 Arizona Governor's Outstanding Artist Award, and the 2004 Women Who Care Lifetime Achievement Award Frances also received the British Columbia Arts Council Dance Scholarship, Vancouver Foundation Scholarship and the annual Service Award for Dance at Simon Fraser University. This is Frances' second year of performing with A Ludwig Dance Theater. Gus Edwards (Narrator) Gus Edwards is a professional playwright and director whose plays have been performed around the country and abroad. He has also written for TV. Most notably the PBS adaptation of James Baldwin's novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. He is a professor who teaches film studies at ASU's School of Theatre and Film . And he is also the author of 9 books including: Black Heroes in Monologue (Heinemann 2006) and Black Theatre : Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora (Temple U. Press 2002). TOM ELDRIDGE has been behind a camera for the past twenty years. He has produced numerous promotional and educational programs including Along the Bozeman Trail, a documentary on the historical trail in Wyoming and Montana; and Weaving Elements of Dance and Drama, a five part instructional series which aired on KAET. Take A Look At The World, a rap video on teen health issues and Home Base Arts Projects, a documentary on instructional workshop between several artists and homeless, runaway youth both earned an "Award of Excellence" from the International Television Association, Phoenix Chapter. He has been guest artist with A Ludwig Dance Theater, producing video works for A Woman I Know and The Queen's Project. Leonard Gordon is Dean of the Emeritus College at Arizona State University. His role at ASU since 1967 has included Professor and Chair of Department of Sociology, President of the University Faculty Senate (1980-81), and Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1990-2002). Professor Gordon received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Wayne State University in 1966 and an M.A. in History from University Michigan. Among numerous grants received: National Science Foundation grant for an analysis of suburban consensus formation and the issue of school desegregation. His many publications include Protest Movements and Student Movements in the Encyclopedia of Sociology. Len is an avid baseball fan and a regular softball player at El Dorado Park in Scottsdale. LAURIE HERMAN Attorney at Law established her firm in 1993. She was admitted to the bar in 1986, Arizona and U.S. District Court, 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S.Supreme Court; 1992, California. Her education includes a B.F.A, magna cum laude, in Dance from Arizona State University, and J.D. in 1986; Vermont Law School (M.S.L., magna cum laude 1991). She was Pro Tem Judge, City of Tempe, and currently City of Mesa. Areas of practice include criminal defense, misdemeanors, DUI, domestic violence, personal injury, motor vehicle accidents, probation, felonies, drug offenses, criminal appeals, criminal law. A current project is working with Xavier Catholic Girls School Mock Trial; they are going to state this year, and Lost Boys of Sudan, assisting with legal advice. Laurie is the 2006 recipient of the Herberger College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award. She is on the Board of Directors of A Ludwig Dance Theatre. Sally Jesse has an M.A. in Dance from Mills College in Oakland, has studied many styles and techniques with numerous artists and has toured with her own company in Northern California.. Sally has taught at the university and private level for thirty-six years. Her range of expertise includes dance therapy, dance notation, musical theatre, folk and ballroom dance as well as the art of modern, jazz, and ballet. Since 1988 she has been on the faculty of Chandler-Gilbert Community College, where she established the Dance Program for the college. Her long time direction of the San Tan Arts Festival was awarded with " Innovator of the Year" in 1990. At CGCC, along with numerous committee responsibilities, Sally has served as president of the Facutly Association. Robert Kaplan (Composer) Robert Kaplan is a multi-instrumentalist/composer who has worked as a musician in dance since 1976. Over seventy of his scores for choreography have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Mexico by such artists as Mel Wong (30 for Mel), Ze'eva Cohen, Sarah Stackhouse, Senta Driver, Ann Ludwig, Elina Mooney, Susan Marshall and Douglas Nielsen. He is currently a Professor/Music Director and Co-Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Dance at Arizona State University. His book, Rhythmic Training for Dancers, CD-ROM, An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers, and Instructor’s Guide are published by Human Kinetics, Inc. link—http://www.humankinetics.com/products/showproduct.cfm?isbn=0736037802 Kelly Roth (Choreographer) Kelly Roth (CCSN Dance Program Head; Artistic Director - Kelly Roth & Dancers: Concert Dance Company) was born in Carmel, California. As an adolescent, lessons in karate followed by ballet studies at the Arizona Academy of Dancing, under the direction of Mary Moe Adams, a Royal Academy of Dance examiner, led to a Ford Foundation Scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet where at eighteen he was asked to join the company. In 1976 Mr. Roth moved to New York City where at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Theatre lab he commenced an intensive artistic apprenticeship under modern dance legends Murray Louis, Alwin Nikolais, and Hanya Holm. Since then he has choreographed and performed globally in a variety of settings with dance companies including those of Murray Louis, Robert Small, and his own company, Kelly Roth & Dancers in New York City, as well as Danse Theatre Susan Buirge in Paris, City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong, and Danse Partout in Quebec. Mr. Roth has also taught at Coker College, Texas Woman’s University, Mesa Community College, The University of Wisconsin and Arizona State University where he received his MFA in dance and was honored as the Outstanding Graduate of the Graduate College. In 1995, Mr. Roth was invited to relocate to Las Vegas in order to build a dance program for the Community College of Southern Nevada. In addition to his duties as Head of the CCSN Dance Program, he continues to choreograph for such organizations as the Las Vegas Civic Ballet and Desert Dance Theatre, and appears as guest artist with various companies including Nevada Ballet Theatre, The Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre and A Ludwig Dance Theatre. In his ongoing role as Artistic Director of Kelly Roth & Dancers: Concert Dance Company, he has of late taken his mixed choreographic bag of literal and abstract narratives to the Avignon Festival in France, to the International Choreographic Festival in Mexico City, the Prague Festival in the Czech Republic and to frequent engagements in California, Arizona, and Utah. In June 2003 Kelly Roth and company received first prizes for Choreography and Best Contemporary Dance Presentation at the Dance Grand Prix Italia in Cesena, Italy. In Spain, the company gleaned the silver cup for dance theatre at the Barcelona Dance Awards, 2006. Described in Dance Spirit Magazine as “one of the most exciting modern dancers and choreographers on today’s dance scene,” Mr. Roth was also cited by the Nevada Arts Council for “high artistic achievement,” and awarded a prestigious Nevada Artist’s Fellowship for 2005. Evaluating Mr. Roth’s impact on the cultural climate of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas dance critic, Hal de Becker, stated, “CCSN and the community at large are fortunate to possess a creative artist of his caliber.”Galina Mihaleva (Costume Designer) was born and raised in Bulgaria, where as a child she learned to sew and to appreciate the colors, and the patterns, and textures of traditional Eastern European folk costumes. She immigrated to the US after earning a MS degree in fashion design and textiles from the Academia of Fine Arts in Sofia. She received the grand prize in International Furnishings and Design Association competition in 1995. Her innovative designs are commissioned privately and are prized by a growing number of fashion leaders. She is currently the costume designer for the ASU Dance Department and teaches at Phoenix College. Galina has worked with A Ludwig Dance Theatre on numerous projects.
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