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Guest Choreographers Dance Works Erika Del Pozo, B.A., is a recent graduate of the college’s dance program. She began her dance training in ballet, tap, and jazz and later discovered Middle Eastern dance. During her first two years of college at Florida International University, Erika studied ballet under Whitney Shulman and Paul Vitali and modern dance under Heather Maloney. In 2009, Del Pozo began studying at Vladimir Issaev’s School of Classical Ballet and performed in Don Quixote. During her time as a dance major at NSU, she performed in Dance Works, Dance Concert, and Festival of Student Works. She won the 2010 Black Box Award for Best Student Choreographer. Now studying to earn a master’s degree in occupational therapy at NSU, Del Pozo feels fortunate to still be involved in dancing and choreographing at the university. Rachel Belmont was born in New Jersey and raised in Palm Beach County, Florida. She is a senior dance major, pursing a minor in theatre, at the college. She has been dancing for 19 years and is not stopping anytime soon. By the age of 15, she was dancing for a professional a hip-hop company, Pfuzion Dance Theater, and is now on the board of directors for the Pablo Malco Foundation, a nonprofit organization. In addition, she has danced in several music videos, movies, artist tours and commercials, as well as worked with celebrities including DJ Ian Carey, T-Vice, Casely, Sal Richards, Mandy Ventrice, and Video Music Award-winning director Eddie Enciu. After college, Belmont plans to direct music videos and continue on with her dance journey. “Motivation is the key, and passion is the drive.” College Faculty Members Katie Sopoci Drake, M.F.A., adjunct professor at the college, has been dancing professionally since 2001. She has earned a B.A. in Theater/Dance with a minor in vocal performance from Luther College, an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, and a Graduate Laban Certification in Movement Analysis from Columbia College. She is currently a company member of Momentum Dance Company in Miami, Florida. She has been a company member of Wild Space Dance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Your Mother Dances of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rosy Simas Danse of Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Vox Medusa of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sopoci Drake is also an avid singer and has performed with The Minnesota Opera and the Florentine Opera. Her choreography has been performed by Momentum Dance Company and Wild Space Dance Company, as well as in multiple venues and schools including The Southern Theater, The Milwaukee Art Museum, Patrick’s Cabaret, Danceworks Studio Theater, the University of Wisconsin— Milwaukee, Lawrence University, Carthage College, and Broward College. Sopoci Drake is currently on faculty at Miami Dade College/Kendall, and Nova Southeastern University, where she teaches modern, jazz, ballet, and composition. Chetachi Egwu, Ph.D., assistant professor at the college, was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Nigerian parents and raised in Buffalo, New York. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Communication at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996. While a student there, Egwu undertook many ventures, including dancing 6
Performing and Visual Arts | Studio Series with Buffalo’s renowned African dance company, Kakilambe. She earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Howard University in 2005. She has served on the faculties of Howard University, Morgan State University, and The George Washington University. She has studied under and performed the choreography of several wellrespected dancers, including Sherrill Berryman-Johnson, Deborah Riley, Carla Perlo, Chris Aiken, Mohammed DaCosta, Nejla Yatkin, and Reggie Glass. She has been a company member of Carla & Company, Coyaba Dance Theater, and the Choreographers’ Collaboration Project and has also danced various projects with companies, including Son Urbano. Elana Lanczi, M.F.A., assistant professor at the college, is a dancer and choreographer originally from Boston, Massachusetts. She has performed internationally in both South Korea and Brazil and nationally with noted choreographers Sean Curran, Katie Duck, Anita Gonzalez, Li Chiao-Ping, Lionel Popkin, Merian Soto, and Maida Withers, in venues such as the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival and Judson Church, among others. Her own choreography is influenced by the investigation of contemporary and improvisational dance forms and has been performed throughout Pennsylvania; Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Florida. In 2004 and 2005, she received commissions from Tigertail Productions to perform and travel to Germany and Mexico. Recently, she was involved in the Florida Waterways Dance Project and performed in Vertical Sprawl (choreographed by Heather Maloney) at the 2011 Florida Dance Festival, where she was also a choreographer in residence. This year, Lanczi will be presenting new work as part of the INKUB8 2011–2012 season. She serves as the major chair of the dance program at the college. Lanczi holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from The George Washington University and an M.F.A. in Dance Choreography and Performance from Temple University. Augusto Soledade, M.F.A., assistant professor at the college, is a native of Bahia, Brazil. He is a performer, choreographer, and Founding Artistic Director and resident choreographer of Brazz Dance Theater in Miami. In August 2011, Soledade was nominated for the Zelda Fichandler Fellowship. In 2010, he was awarded for the third time the Dance Miami Choreographer’s Fellowship; he received this important fellowship the second time in September of 2008. Also in 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography. In 2007, he was awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artist Access Grant. In 2006, Soledade was awarded the Artist Enhancement Grant and the International Cultural Exchange Grant from the State of Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs. In 2005, he received the Miami Dade Choreographer’s Fellowship and the Creative Capital Workshop Grant and the Community Grant from Miami Dade Cultural Affairs. He received his M.F.A in Dance from SUNY Brockport in 1998. He received the 1998 Pylyshenko-Strasser Graduate Dance Award and was the finalist in the dance category for the 1998 Thayer Fellowship. He has performed in Brazil, Trinidad/Tobago, and throughout the United States. His dance training started at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil in a program with strong modern dance emphasis and has had training with Garth Fagan and Clyde Morgan. He also holds a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Bahia. 7
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