Born in Pomona, California, USA, on December 22, 1946
1955 | Classical Ballet studies with Igor Schwezoff and Harriet De Rea. |
1959 | Scholarship: San Francisco Ballet Co., American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet Co. |
1963 | Pennsylvania Ballet Co. - Soloist, 1966 Repertory: George Balanchine, Marius Petipa. |
1968 | Eliot Feld’s American Ballet Co. - Soloist, choreographic assistant, teacher Ballet masters: Barbara Fallis, Richard Thomas Repertory: Eliot Feld, Donald Mc Kayle, Herbert Ross. |
1970 | Scholarship: Julliard School of Music, Martha Graham School. Professors: Mary Hinkson, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Anthony Tudor. |
1972 | Tanz Forum Köln - Soloist, choreographic assistant, teacher. Repertory: Helmut Baumann, Christopher Bruce, Jürg Burth, Kurt Jooss, Glenn Tetley, Jochen Ulrich, Gray Veredon, Norman Walker. |
1981 | Master Degree for teaching - Folkwang Hochschule Essen . Professors: Irina Bartos, Jean Cebron, Hans Züllig. |
1982 | Teacher - Gymnasium Essen-Werden and Folkwang Hochschule Essen. |
1987 | Ballet Mistress - Folkwang Tanzstudio. |
1989 | Ballet Mistress - Pina Bausch's Wuppertaler Tanztheater . |
1994 | Ballet Mistress - Joachim Schlömer's Tanztheater Weimar. |
1996 | Ballet Mistress - Joachim Schlömer's Tanztheater Basel. |
Since 1987 | Guest teacher for Lena Josefsson in Malmö, Susanne Linke in Bremen, Anna Teresa de Keersmacker in Belgium, Jochen Ulrich in Cologne, Angelin Preljocaj in Aix-en-Provence, Liz King in Vienna, Daniel Goldin in Münster, Frédéric Flamand in Marseille, William Forsythe in Frankfurt/Dresden, John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theater in Dublin, Dance On/Diehl+Ritter in Berlin, M.F.A. Dance Hollins University in U.S.A. Workshops in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland and Japan |
Since 1994 | Classes and workshops with Dimitris Kraniotis based on the movement research of Jerome Andrews and classical ballet: Daniel Goldin, Tanztheater Münster, 1995 Wanda Golonka / VA Wölfl, Düsseldorf, Germany 1996 Maguy Marin, Paris, France 1996 Papa Tamahumara, Tokyo, Japan 1996, 2000 Skänes Tanztheater, Malmö, Lena Josefsson, Sweden, 1997 Studio K.E.R , Creta, 1997 Dansens Hus Copenhagen, Denmark 1998 Goethe Institut Kyoto, Japan 1998, 2000, 2001 Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine, Angers, 1999 Centre National de la Danse, Paris, 1999 also with Thomas Mc Manus SEAD Salzburg, Austria 2002 Tanzquartier, Wien, Austria, 2001, 2002, 2003 Studio Metsis,Athens, 2003 Ménagerie de Verre, Paris 2004 Michel Casanovas, Company "Morespace", Basel/Paris 2004 - 05 Irina Pauls, Tanztheater Freiburg/Heidelberg 2005 Micadanses, Paris, France 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 DCA - Philippe Decouflé Paris, France, 2008 Studio so7, Athens, 2010 Studio the 14th day, Athens, 2011 Studio Ph. Genty, Paris, 2011 - 2019 Μicadanses, Paris, France, 2019 - 2021 |
Dance Events
2001 - 04 | Dance events in Jena and Weimar with Dimitris Kraniotis, David Kern and the Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar . |
2002 | If out of, at “Le Regard du Cygne” in Paris with Dimitris Kraniotis, David Kern and Augusto Pavanel. |
2002 - 03 | The Seventh Day a film by Paolo Rudelli . |
2006 | Impromptus, at "La Chaufferie" in Paris with Dimitris Kraniotis, Thomas McManus, Augusto Pavanel, Paolo Rudelli. |
2007 | L’altra svolta, a duet with Dimitris Kraniotis, for the festival “Biarteca” in Rosazza, Italy. |
2009 | Nothing always returns, at “La Chaufferie” in Paris with Dimitris Kraniotis, Thomas McManus, David Kern, Paolo Rudelli. |
2011 | Spontaneous Composition Research Project with Dimitris Kraniotis and Thomas McManus for “L’animal à l’esquena ”, Cerlà, Spain. |
2014 | Aporia, at Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece with Dimitris Kraniotis, Stéphane Vernier, Liz Waterhouse, Paolo Rudelli. |
2019 - 2020 | You should have seen me dancing waltz created by Rabih Mroué for Dance On Ensemble, Berlin |
2021 | Ηauch, at the Philharmonie Essen, Germany Dancing with D. Kraniotis in collaboration with the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt to the composition of Rebecca Saunders and with the movement direction of Frances Chiaverini. |