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Mordine Alumni Updates:
Ann Boyd, Mordine & Company dancer, 1991-1996
Ann: My work in recent years has ranged from directing theater that is highly visual and physical to choreographing for theater to solo performance. Most recent projects include: directing the Sweat Girls in Sweatily Ever After fall '07 to be remounted for Steppenwolf's Traffic series in spring '09, writing, directing and performing Naguales for Urban Gateways touring performances fall '07-spring '08, choreographing Dead Man's Cell Phone at Steppenwolf spring '08, performing audience participatory solo at Finch Gallery spring '08, dancing in Colleen Halloran's thesis film fall'08, and ongoing teaching with Columbia College's theater department, Urban Gateways and at University of Chicago beginning in the winter '09.
Adriana Durant, Mordine & Company dancer, 2004-2005
Adriana Durant is a choreographer, performer, and teacher. Adriana's choreography has been performed in Chicago, New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Columbus and Athens Ohio, where she is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Ohio University, teaching ballet, modern, and composition. She has an MFA in dance from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Performance from Emerson College in Boston.
Deborah Siegel, Mordine & Company dancer, 1979-1988
My current artistic life is in flux. Before I left the Dance Center in 2003, I had been doing a lot of improvisational dance performance, both with my company, Iris, and solo. I had gotten into using text and telling stories with my movement improv and wanted to know more about the story part, so I started taking classes in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia. I ended up going through the entire MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction program, which I completed in May 2008. My thesis is a full-length novel, which has potential but needs more rewrites. Right now I am spending all my creative writing energy on persuasive cover letters because I desperately need a job. (My oldest kid starts college in the fall!) Sometimes, when I roll up the rug and do my little dance workout in our bedroom, I fantasize about teaching a movement class called "Baby Boomer Boogie", and another class that combines journal writing with movement. We'll see what comes next...
Joanna Rosenthal, Mordine & Company Dancer, 1998-2004
Joanna is currently Artistic Director of Same Planet Different world Dance Theatre and an Iowa Arts Fellow in Dance at the University of Iowa.
Jan Erkert, Mordine & Company Dancer, 1969-1978
Jan is currently the Head of the Department of Dance at University of Illinois.
Amy O. Woodbury, Mordine & Company Dancer, 1980-1988
Amy is now a visual artist whose current exhibit venues (all in Evanston): Rose's Bakery and Cafe, Dance Center Evanston, Pick a Cup. Learn more about Amy���s painting at www.amyowoodbury.com
Krenly Guzman
Krenly Guzman is working on his Masters degree at UCLA. This photo is from his show Reclaiming the Sacred, which just premiered in Los Angeles at Glorya Kaufman Hall in late November.