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Rob
Esposito Rob Esposito, M.F.A., received international
acclaim as a principal artist and soloist with the Nikolais Dance
Theatre from 1971-1981. Before joining NDT, he was a founding member
of John Gamble’s Church Street Dance Company in Washington
DC, and then a company member of Ann Halprin’s Dancers Workshop
in San Francisco. In 1982 Rob co-founded and directed Fusion Foundation
for Dance, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City. Fusion
housed a school and dance company affiliated with companies in France,
Italy, Brasil, Mexico, and across the U.S. He has premiered over 60 works
on three continents, receiving grants, awards, and fellowships for choreography
from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the McKnight, Dayton/Hudson, and
Jerome Foundations, among others. He has received commissions and served
on the Boards of Advisors of Kanopy Dance Co. of Madison, WI,
Ballet TheatreOhio, Teatrodanza di Roma, in
Italy, Teatro Construcao, in Rio de Janeiro. His companies, Esposito
Dance Theatre and Spontaneous Combustion, won positions
on the National Endowment for the Art’s/Arts Midwest Affiliated
Artist roster, presenting concerts and lecture demonstrations at universities,
civic auditoriums, public schools, hospitals, and community centers in
the U.S. Professor Esposito has served the U.S. State Department (USIS)
as a dance artist in Brasil, and was a Master Teacher at the French Ministry
of Culture’s Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, in
Angers, France, a school headed by Alwin Nikolais to train French choreographers.
Rob has served several universities as Artist in Residence, including
The University of Utah, University of Minnesota, Texas Christian University,
University of Arizona, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and Stephens
College. He holds the MFA in Dance from SUNY-Brockport. Rob is Artistic
Director of Worldance Theatre. He teaches modern dance technique,
theory, and composition, and AU’s General Education course, “Dance
and Society”. He is Artistic Director of the DPA/Dance Program’s
annual dance concert and serves as faculty advisor to AU in Motion,
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Vladimir Angelov Vladimir Angelov graduated from the National Ballet School in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Philosophy at the University of Sofia, and completed a Master of Arts degree at the American University in Washington, DC. Mr. Angelov dances have been shown at “New Choreographers on Pointe” in New York, Paris International Dance Festival, Vienna TanzFest in Austria, Kyoto Fall Arts Festival in Japan, All Latin America Dance Festival in Puerto Rico, among others. He has choreographed new works for companies such as Atlanta Ballet, Arizona Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet, Richmond Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Washington Ballet, Alberta Ballet in Canada, Tokyo City Ballet in Japan, and the Kirov Ballet in Russia. In addition, he has also choreographed for the Placido Domingo’s Washington National Opera production of “Samson et Dalila”; the Kennedy Center’s musical production of Debbie Allen’s "Soul Possessed"; for the “Brothers Karamazov” of the Stanislavsky Theater; and dances for TV advertisements with Hollywood director Mark Cartie. Mr. Angelov won the Choreography Award of the 1996 Varna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria , and the 2000 Choreography Fellowship Award of the Washington Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Lora Ruttan Lora Ruttan began her dance training with the Laurel Ballet in Greensburg, PA, and she went on to dance professionally with the Charleston Ballet Company in Charleston, WV. Ms. Ruttan graduated magna cum laude from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College with a BA in dance. She also received her dance education licensure, K-12 and taught ballet and modern classes at R-MWC. Upon graduation Ms. Ruttan taught dance for three years at Huntington Magnet School for the Arts and Communications in Newport News, VA. Ms. Ruttan has studied at the Pointe Park Conservatory, the North Carolina School for the Arts and the Laban Dance Centre in London, England. She is currently a graduate student at American University in her final year and is an adjunct faculty member teaching Beginning Ballet and Intermediate Modern. |
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