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levels of Modern Dance Technique and Dance Education & Administration at
Manhattanville College where she has been an adjunct for the past seven
years. She is a Master Teacher at Yale University where she works with the
"Yaledancers" and is the Dance Director at Brant Lake Dance Centre, teaching
Modern Dance for the past nine summers in the Adirondacks. Val has been the
recipient of individual artist grants from the Connecticut Commission on the
Arts.
K eely Garfield, Guest Choreographer, originally from London
England, has lived in New York since 1986. Garfield has received
numerous commissions for her work, and has been presented at theaters
and festivals including The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop,
92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project, Performance Space 122, Dancnow/
NYC, Lincoln Center (New York), The Place Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall
(London), and Danse Vernissage (Montreal). Among other projects, Garfield
has created work for ballet dancers (Dance Theatre of Harlem), antique puppets
(Golem - Chechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre), musical theater
(Gypsy, Sundance Theatre, Utah, Carnival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival),
children (Reel to Real), students (Barnard, University of Maryland), and MTV
(Adam Ant). Garfield serves as the chair of DTW's Artist Board, and is a member
of Pentacle‟s Help Desk program. Her work has been supported with
funds from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts (Build
& Artist Fellowship), Harkness Foundation for Dance, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable
Foundation, Meet The Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and
the American Music Center. Garfield has co-curated DTW's Family Matters
series since 1997. Recent highlights include, Disturbing The Peace (Zenon
Dance Company, Minneapolis), Disturbulance (DTW, NYC), Iron Lung
(GroundWorks DanceTheater, OH), and a Film Project of Garfield's work commissioned
by Radio Bremen/Canal Arte (Germany/France). Garfield will premiere
new work at Danspace Project in March 2007. For more information
visit www.KeelyGarfield.org.
B arbara Duffy is “one of the most inventive tappers around….”,
said Gregory Hines. Barbara‟s performance highlights include,
“The Gregory Hines Show”, featured dancer, actor and choreographer, “Gala
For The President”, performing with Gregory Hines before President and Mrs.
Bill Clinton, and dance captain of Brenda Bufalino‟s American Tap Dance Orchestra.
Barbara performs regularly as a featured soloist across the United
States and overseas, including London‟s Queen Elizabeth Hall, where she was
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hailed as a “riveting performer” by the Independent. Barbara Duffy & Company,
her own company of all women tappers, is currently touring their concert,
“Stages”, which is being developed into a full-length theatrical production.
A highly sought after teacher, Barbara has taught at workshops and festivals
in 15 countries. Barbara is based in New York City, where she teaches
regularly at Broadway Dance Center and Steps Studio. Her greatest inspirations
are the late Leon Collins, Brenda Bufalino and the late Gregory Hines.
J ordan Fuchs, Guest Performer, has been dancing and making dances
since 1991, first in San Francisco and then, since 1998, in New York City.
His company has twice been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project.
He is a dance specialist in the Dance Division of the New York Public
Library for the Performing Arts, as well as an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College.
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He enjoys improvising with K.J.
aiaclaire Garrison, Choreographer, began her performance
career as a featured child acrobat with The Big Apple Circus.
Daughter of celebrated Jazz bassist Jimmy Garrison (John Coltrane Quartet),
she was raised in the midst of vibrant artist communities in both New York
City and Rome, Italy. Upon graduating from Sarah Lawrence College she
toured extensively thru out the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America
and the Caribbean with the multidisciplinary performance group Urban Bush
Women. From „95-„01 she directed her own company M‟Zawa Danz, presenting
her work at Aaron Davis Hall, Bennington College, City College, Central
Park Summer Stage, Connecticut College, Dance Space Project, Dance Theater
Workshop, Florida State University, Jacob‟s Pillow, The Kitchen, Lincoln
Center Out-of-Doors, NYC Technical College, New Jersey City University,
NJPAC, Playhouse 91, 651 Arts, Rutgers State University, SUNY Potsdam University,
Symphony Space, Syracuse University and at the World Trade Center
Plaza. Awarded three consecutive production grants from the New York Foundation
for the Arts and featured on WABC‟s “New York Views” hosted by Roz
Abrams, she most recently co-founded ChoreoConcepts with long time collaborator
Kimani Fowlin, and is also assisting as a production coordinator for
the Education Department at The Joyce Theater in New York City.
K .J. Holmes, Choreographer, is an independent dancer, singer,
poet and body worker who has been exploring improvisation as