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Choreographer 2009-2010

Babs Case
Mary Fitzgerald
Kelly Roth
Karen Schupp

Choreographers

This year, for the first time since it beginnings in 1977, A Ludwig Dance Theatre has invited the work of four choreographers, each of whom has danced with the Company along the  way. Selected guests for this first shared gala are:

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. As an educator Babs has touched the lives of a wide spectrum of students, of all ages and abilities. As a dance educator, she has taught ballet, modern, improvisation and creative movement developed a workshop for children entitled "Discovery Through Creative Movement" and the workshop "Dance As Visual Language". Both have been presented at universities and schools throughout the United States and abroad. She was an adjunct professor at Florida International University in 1997, teaching intermediate, advanced modern dance technique, improvisation and composition. Babs has served on Grants Panels for the Florida Arts Council, the Wyoming Arts Council, and the Nevada Arts Council.

Mary Fitzgerald

Mary Fitzgerald has been active in the professional dance community as a performer, choreographer and teacher since 1984.  She was a member of Kei Takei’s Moving Earth for nearly ten years, performing and teaching internationally. Fitzgerald also has danced with A Ludwig Dance Theatre, Fred Darsow Dance, and several independent choreographers throughout the United States.  She has been a guest artist for several professional companies and dance programs in the United States, Europe Japan, China, Mexico, India, Colombia, and Israel.  Her choreography has received funding from the Ministry of Culture in Mexico, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture and the Herberger College of the Arts. Mary was a winner of the 2005 Arizona Choreography Competition, and received an Artists Project Award in 2006.  As an Associate Professor at ASU, she has been awarded two Distinguished Teaching Awards from the Herberger College of the Arts.  From 1998-2007, she co-directed Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre (DART), the student community dance company in the Department of Dance.  DART’s program excellence was recognized with the President’s Award for Social Embeddedness in 2004, and for a second time in 2007 as a partner to the ASU Art Museum. www.maryfitzgeralddance.com

Kelly Roth

CSN Dance Program Head; Artistic Director - Kelly Roth & Dancers, studied ballet at the Arizona Academy of Dancing, under the direction of Mary Moe Adams, a Royal Academy of Dance examiner This led to a Ford Foundation Scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet where at eighteen he was asked to join the company. In 1976, NYC, at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Theatre lab he began an apprenticeship under modern dance legends Murray Louis, Alwin Nikolais, and Hanya Holm. He has since choreographed and performed globally with companies including Murray Louis, Robert Small, A Ludwig Dance Theatre, and Kelly Roth & Dancers as well as Danse Theatre Susan Buirge in Paris, City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong, and Danse Partout in Quebec. Kelly taught at Coker College, Texas Woman’s University, Mesa Community College, The University of Wisconsin and ASU where he received his MFA in dance and was honored as the Outstanding Graduate of the Graduate College. In 1995 he began to build a dance program for the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. His work has been seen at the Avignon Festival in France, International Choreographic Festival in Mexico City, Prague Festival in the Czech Republic as well as the Southwest. He received first prizes for Choreography and Best Contemporary Dance Presentation at the Dance Grand Prix Italia in Cesena, Italy; in Spain the silver cup for dance theatre at the Barcelona Dance Awards, 2006. He was awarded a Nevada Artist’s Fellowship, 2005.

Karen Schupp