Guests
BRIAN KUNNARI (Composer) has been composing in the Valley for almost 20 years and is thrilled to be collaborating with Ann Ludwig and this amazing dance troupe once again! Other A Ludwig Dance Theatre composing credits include ‘Til Death Do Us Part and The Living Room Project: Kids! Other original musical scores include Theseus, The Word From Miracle Valley, GUV: The Emperor Strikes Back and Phoenix Theatre’s Cookie Company productions of A Number of Wonders, There’s Something In My Kitchen!, Professor Flabberflapp’s Actual-Factual Magnetic Gathertorium and The Girl Who Saved the Sun as well as many others. Brian also owns and operates the award-winning original music house, Imagescore Music. Some composing credits include the WNBA, Walt Disney World Productions, KTVK, the Arizona Science Center, Kartchner Caverns, Maracay Homes, Cox Communications, Tempe Town Lake 4th of July Spectacular, Casino Arizona as well as scores for numerous award winning short films and video, radio and television jingles. Brian graduated from ASU with a degree in Music Theory and Composition and lives in Arrowhead with his wife and vocalist, Stacey and his greatest joy, his daughter, Ellie.
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.
MARK VANEK has been studying Kosher food laws since 1981 when he first started his culinary journey at Hillel Union of Jewish Students at Arizona State University. Now an accomplished and respected chef, Mark has catered events for ten to five hundred guests: weddings, fund raisers, many ASU Department gatherings, and parties of assorted styles in many venues. This is Mark's twenty seventh year as Head Chef at Hillel in Tempe.
His original cakes for all occasions have earned notoriety and his creative flair is evidenced in not only the food but the whole visual presentation. This has earned him a huge following throughout the area. In the early 90's Mark owned his own restaurant, Mark's Place, however currently devotes his full time to Hillel and his catering business.
Uniquely, Mark has a dance background in both modern dance and tap and performed and choreographed many years in the Valley with Desert Dance Theatre, A Ludwig Dance Theatre and Zarco Guerrero's productions. He continues, now his 20th year, to teaching in the Wolf Trap program of early learning in the arts.