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After moving to California, she trained in the Classical and Contemporary Dance Conservatory at the California School of the Arts SGV continuing her ballet training as well as contemporary and modern. She is a graduate of CSUF and holder her BFA in Dance. Robinn Jaide is currently working and dancing with Re:Born Dance Interactive under the direction of Boróka Nagy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/7db3a0b3-700a-4870-a712-f3434ef92120/JOrdan_low.jpg Dancers - Jordan Daley Hometown: Bloxom, VA Jordan began his dance training at the University of California San Diego, where he received a BA in Dance and a BS in Cognitive Science. After graduation, he would join Litvak Dance as the start of his professional dance career. Having recently completed a Master’s in Library and Information Science, he is working as a technology librarian and community organizer/activist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/4e9cb22a-94be-4d57-866b-e4b5c0ca963a/Nicole_low.jpg Dancers - Nicole Kim Hometown: Rancho Santa Fe, CA Nicole Kim began her dance journey at age 4, dancing hula at Kehulili O Kailani in Encinitas for ten years, then trained in contemporary, hip hop, and ballet at Danceology PAC. She holds a BFA in Art & Design from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and an AA in dance from MiraCosta College. Outside of dance, she is a full time graphic designer working in the music industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/d8bcf43d-db6f-48e1-b1e8-d3cefdbc0e9b/Lauren_jump.jpg Dancers - Lauren Lee Hometown: Singapore Growing up in Singapore, Lauren Lee discovered her love for movement through modern and contemporary forms. She has since supplemented her training through intensive programs with San Diego Dance Theater, CONTRA-TIEMPO, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, and at the American Dance Festival. Lauren holds a B.S. in Public Health and a minor in Dance from UC San Diego. She is currently an intern with DISCO RIOT’s (R)Evolution Artist Program, and performs and presents work throughout the San Diego/Southern California dance ecosystems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/dd368080-7d0a-415c-8b79-36cf81cd53de/Mya_low2.jpg Dancers - Mya Dixon Hometown: Pauma Valley, CA Mya(she/her) is a Payómkawichum (Pauma band) artist, dancer, and aspiring choreographer. She recently graduated with her B.F.A. in modern dance from the University of Utah in 2023 with a minor in Native American Studies. This will be Mya’s second time performing with Litvak. Outside of dance, Mya works at a nature inspired retreat/ regenerative farm & creates jewelry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/07121c16-d67b-44fd-ac66-e37a88332be2/Briele-0187.jpg Dancers - Briele Melahn Hometown: Denville, New Jersey Briele Melahn grew up training and competing at her hometown studio in contemporary, modern, jazz, and hip hop. She holds a BFA in dance from the Dance Conservatory at Purchase College in New York and has also trained internationally at Taipei National University of the Arts. Outside of dance, she works at Trader Joe’s and has an independent pet care business https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/c38f2356-256d-4945-938d-fc7ee76ad2a5/FINAL+LITVAK-0041.jpg Dancers photo: Jenny Wingrove https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/9c043285-2ced-4bad-980d-d81060b251b9/Nick-1621.jpg Dancers - Nick McGhee Hometown: San Diego, CA Nick McGhee is a San Diego-based dance artist who began his training in 2015 at Canyon Crest Academy. He continued his studies at MiraCosta College before earning his BFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach. During his time at CSULB, Nick received intensive training in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, and Contemporary techniques, and worked professionally in Los Angeles. He has since returned to San Diego, where he dances with LITVAKdance. Outside of the studio, Nick works as a bartender and freelance graphic designer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/294dfc33-fc1e-4e08-9048-9ae34ca8acee/00000183-24c1-d8cb-abc3-ace93ef30000.jpg.webp Dancers - Sadie Weinberg As a second-generation dancer, Sadie spent a lot of time in the studio as a young person, but didn’t start her own training until high school. In high school, she trained mostly in ballet at California Ballet, City Ballet of San Diego and Hammonds Studio of Dance. She completed her BFA at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College in 1999 where I was influenced by Neil Greenberg, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Doug Varone and Kevin Wynn among others. After moving back to San Diego in 2002, she produced and presented an evening of work every year and toured her work nationally and internationally. As a dancer, she worked briefly with Gina Gibney while in New York, and performed locally in San Diego as a company member with Malashock Dance, McCaleb Dance, Jean Isaac's San Diego Dance Theater, Yolande Snaith's ImagoMoves, and other independent dancemakers. Since completing her MFA at UC Irvine in 2005, she has taught for two decades throughout San Diego in high schools, studios, colleges and universities. She is currently on faculty at MiraCosta, Palomar and UC San Diego. In 2018, Sadie founded LITVAKdance along with core group of homegrown dancers she met as an educator in local institutions. Photo credit: Ana Ramirez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/48a86c9c-cc75-4ecd-93e0-259950400de3/Emily_low.jpg Dancers - Emily Hreha Hometownn: Encinitas, CA Emily started dancing at six years old at Ballet Arte in Solana Beach, where she trained in classical ballet. At Canyon Crest Academy, she joined the Dance Conservatory and discovered her love of contemporary dance. Emily continued dancing at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, joining the Orchesis Dance Company, while obtaining her BS in Business Administration, with a concentration in Accounting, Dance minor. Outside of dance, she works for PricewaterhouseCoopers, in their assurance practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/8c27fce7-7901-4fac-a7db-af34b68f484c/Lulu+Litvak-0401.jpg Dancers - Lulu Arellano Hometown: Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines Lulu Arellano is a classically trained Cecchetti ballet and Philippine folk dancer from the Philippines. She moved to the US in 2022 to pursue her BA in dance in California State University, Fullerton where she furthered her training in ballet, modern, contemporary, and Afrocuban. 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Colin Jacobsen “What I've been up to the last year and what’s inspiring me while in quarantine: Appreciating family more than ever. Learning how to learn again from my daughter, Mimi. Creating "Unicorn Music Academy," in which I teach violin and piano to Mimi and her cousin Emi, who are part unicorn. Hiking. Learning a new Paganini Caprice every month. Doing more yoga than I ever have. Cooking more than I ever have. Writing music. Doing instrumental arrangements for Peter Gabriel and Playing for Change. Every few days, Maile and i saying to each other, "What the f--- world?!" and then moving on and forward. Fantasizing about living in exotic locales. Zoom, zoom, zoomy-zooming for music and everything...” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116648935-F9J7SX1MRWVG5T219D6W/Fontaine+Laing.jpg Collaborators - Fontaine Laing Fontaine Laing has an early memory of seeing a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at age five and coming home and playing all the songs from memory on the piano. Subsequently, she began her formal training. At age ten she knew she wanted to be a piano teacher for the rest of her life. She received her BA in Piano from the University of Texas, and MA's in Piano and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan. She taught piano in Detroit and at Oakland University in Rochester until she retired. She has played with many chamber ensembles and as a solo pianist. Now in her 85th year she is the pianist at the Unitarian Church in Solana Beach and produces concert events at the Encinitas Library - her latest, from Broadway to Carnegie Hall. Photo: Wren Polansky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116649971-S74VQ45HFTPVSIRYUINM/Joshua+White.jpg Collaborators - Joshua White Joshua White is one of the music scene’s most creative and technically accomplished pianists. Praised by legendary musicians like Herbie Hancock as having “immense talent” and lauded for his “daring and courageous approach to improvisation … on the cutting edge of innovation”, Joshua has distinguished himself as a formidable leader of distinct voice among his peers. Born and raised in Southern California, Joshua received early training at the piano and developed rapidly through rigorous study of both Western European Classical literature and the Black American Music traditions. Shortly after placing in the top two as a finalist of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, Joshua began performing as a soloist and musical collaborator all over the world -- and continues to maintain an active touring schedule throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1629244310339-SOL6SL6VD263R65IGWE4/erica_pete2mb.jpeg Collaborators - Pete Polansky In the late seventies, Pete Polansky was born into a non-musical family in the heartland of Pennsylvania’s Amish country. Surrounded by fields and squirrels, Pete began to play the violin as a child, following the Suzuki method. Pete has studied jazz, classical, and folk music and attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Manhattan School of Music in New York, the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and graduate study in Ethnomusicology at San Diego State. Now focused mainly on traditional Irish music, Pete regularly plays, performs, and teaches around the San Diego area and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116650973-5ZN0UFNV4MUD0YJ44G8F/Kate+Hatmaker.jpg Collaborators - Kate Hatmaker Violinist Kate Hatmaker enjoys a varied career as performer, educator and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Art of Elan (www.artofelan.org), a San Diego-based chamber music organization that has been building community through music since 2007, and has been a tenured violinist with the San Diego Symphony since 2006. Ms. Hatmaker has been a featured soloist with a wide variety of North American orchestras, including the San Diego Symphony, and has performed at the Vail International Dance Festival, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, and the Breckenridge Music Festival, among others. She has served on the faculty at the University of California-San Diego and the Coronado School of the Arts, and is a frequent chamber music recitalist, guest clinician, and keynote speaker. She completed her Master of Music degree at Carnegie Mellon University and her undergraduate training at both the University of Iowa and the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with high honors and degrees in both Political Science and French. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116650683-7P2MJT8FT0EV21KQTAGO/Kristopher+Apple.jpg Collaborators - Kristopher Apple Kristopher Apple is a violinist, composer, performer, and improviser working at the intersection of music, dance, text, and digital media. His music is a regular feature of the San Diego arts scene where he works closely with choreographers, writers, directors, composers, visual artists, and software developers to integrate music and interdisciplinary performance practices. He also provides music, dance accompaniment, and production support to numerous colleges, universities, dance companies, and theater companies throughout San Diego including University of California San Diego, MiraCosta College, San Diego State University (2007–2016), and Coronado School of the Arts. Apple’s work is informed by his ongoing investigation and interaction with dance, theater, poetry, and music practices in collaborative performance making and ensemble improvisation. He was a member of LIVE Collaborative Dance Theater from 2008–2014 and a co-founder of the collaborative music and dance ensemble Odd and Even. He has been featured as a composer and performer with several dance and theater companies including IMAGOmoves, Somebodies Dance Theater, Little Known Dance Theater, The PGK Dance Project, San Diego Dance Theater, Wallpaper Performance Company, TranscenDANCE Youth Arts Project, Animal Cracker Conspiracy, PADL West, and the podcast Incoming (incomingradio.org). Apple is a member of the Grey Pony Writer’s Guild and International Guild of Musicians in Dance. He holds a BA and MFA in Music from SDSU where he studied violin and interdisciplinary performance. Photo: Jim Carmody https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116651256-7JGB9JGR6661MCYVPS34/meredith+yayanos.jpg Collaborators - Meredith Yayanos Meredith Yayanos is a violinist, thereminist and vocalist Meredith Yayanos has a lifelong compulsion to explore and unpack some of the creepier, funnier, and more dysfunctional aspects of fairy tales, mythology, and the monstrous feminine. As both a session player and a touring performer, her body of work is informed by lifelong study of classical, folk, electronic, and experimental music. Yayanos has collaborated with a wide variety of acts including Faun Fables, The Dresden Dolls, Angelo Moore, Beats Antique, Halou, Stolen Babies, HUMANWINE, Jill Tracy, Elegi, Sport Murphy, The Living Jarboe, Edison Woods, Raz Mesinai, Pinataland, David Garland, Thomas Truax, Butch Morris, Kim Boekbinder, The Vanity Set, Love Life, and the Walkmen. In recent years Yayanos has also done a fair amount of film-scoring, most notably for The Narrative of Victor Karloch and The Mill at Calder’s End (two Victorian ghost story puppet films directed by Kevin McTurk, partially funded by the Jim Henson Foundation) and for the award-winning, feature-length psychological thriller, Empty Rooms. Her compositions, arrangementsj, and collaborative experiments with other artists often revolve around fusing classical sounds with varied folk traditions and electronic palettes to create a unique “uneasy listening” experience. She received her BA from Bard College. To support this amazing artist at Patreon, click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116651524-F57V47LHJ35DY0H3O46Y/Ray+Li+of+North+Wind.jpg Collaborators - Ray Li of North Wind North Wind is the solo project of Ray Li, formerly one-half of the music duo Veserium. A hybrid of musician and technologist, Ray creates stunning visual performances which highlight custom-built musical instruments. Ray pictured with LITVAKdancers Lemoe Mata’itusi and Erica Ruse. Photo Credit: Doug McMinimy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116651823-6JGM76WFY6M600TQNFWO/Sean+Walsh.jpg Collaborators - Sean Walsh Sean G. Walsh has actively performed as a musician since he was 15 years old. Even then, as a teenager, he knew he would base his life around music.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Two decades later, Sean continues to successfully fulfill his lifelong dream, working extensively as a session musician, engineer, producer, music teacher, performing artist, foley artist, and as an award-winning film composer. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ He has shared the stage with members of Ike Turner’s Grammy winning Band "The Kings Of Rhythm", members of Anoushka and Ravi Shankar’s Projects, Chapman Stick virtuoso Tom Grieisgraber, John Butler of the "John Butler Trio," and Isaiah Mitchell of “The Black Crowes." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sean has also worked in varied capacities with Greg Douglas of "The Steve Miller Band," K. Dean Smith of "Captain Beefheart," and as an apprentice for Bud Whitcomb, the man credited by Eddie Vedder of "Pearl Jam” in Rolling Stone Magazine as the person who taught him how to play the guitar.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ More recently, Sean completed four albums of original music and performed countless live venues with San Diego based progressive rock band “Privet."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Between years of work in the music industry and a network of lasting connections with world-class musicians, Sean has risen to his current position, spearheading the music production collective that is Lonely Sea Productions.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As Head Production Manager and Technical Director for LSP, Sean spends the majority of his time composing for film, crafting custom sound design, and overseeing the inner workings of Lonely Sea Productions. He seeks to provide the finest service in audio production for film producers and music supervisors alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116652881-DDN2ESGOZ29QMPNGXA8Z/The+Montalban+Quintet.jpg Collaborators - The Montalban Quintet The Montalban Quintet is a collective of musicians that have infused interests from various musical barrios including post-punk, minimalism, jazz, 50’s schmaltz, field recordings, and new western art music. We reside in San Diego and have birthed all of the recordings/collaborations at a small recording facility in Encinitas, CA known lovingly as the Belly of the Whale. The live band is: Chris Prescott (drums, electronics), Carl Prescott (trumpet), Kenseth Thibideau (bass, vocals), Jim Weiss (tenor and baritone saxophone), Greg Friedman (guitar, vocals), Julie Kitterman (glockenspiel, percussion, vocals) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1629244257804-Q9NR330QK7GIONL4L0S5/yale_emily4.jpg Collaborators - Yale Strom “Like all artists across the world this past year has been a difficult one. Personally my band Hot Pstromi had many concerts canceled and myself many lectures as well. But what this force sedentary period afforded me was to be able to focus on some other creative projects and family. First there was the publication of my second children's illustrated book that is in English and Yiddish, secondly I have been busy composing for a piece for multiple voices and strings for the Pro Arte Singers, thirdly I have been working on a new script for a play about Marc Chagall to be workshopped at the SD REP Theatre in October, fourthly I am working on a photo exhibition for the Jewish Museum in Cluj, Romania and fifthly I have gotten used to running in the mornings at 5:30am so I can avoid the public.Family wise my daughter, wife and I have enjoyed hours of music jamming, conversation, (often focused on politics) cooking, walking and just hanging out. Oh I almost forgot I am honored to be asked by Sadie Weinberg to participate in "Dances to Strings: Song of Hope!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1644878423902-RQSI9SWR58BXRT3ZFC2Q/IMG-6971.JPG Collaborators - Mariachi Champaña // Jeff Nevin Mariachi Champaña (music) Comprised of virtuoso mariachi and classical musicians, this unique ensemble embraces the ideals of traditional Mexican and European Classical music. Led by composer, trumpeter and conductor Jeff Nevin, they have delighted diverse audiences across the globe for more than two decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1678231415857-WTCG7B0QE92U3DXOJCZA/Charile_Chavez_head_shot.png.240x240_q90_bw_crop.jpg Collaborators - Charlie Chavez/Perla Negra Carlos “Charlie” Chávez is a virtuoso percussionist whose performances are a fusion of his exquisite talent, his passionate spirit, and his rigorous study of the history of Latin percussion. In addition to performing, Charlie is also a devoted bandleader and a dedicated educator. Charlie was born in Juchitán, Oaxaca, and grew up in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz. The city’s rich Cuban and Caribbean Rhythms had a profound influence on Charlie’s decision to pursue his formal education in music. The Conservatory of Music at the University of Xalapa in Veracruz is where Charlie studied Trombone, Percussion, and Piano from 1996-2001. In order to broaden his professional opportunities, Charlie moved to Tijuana in 2001. Since then, he has also performed extensively in Tijuana and in San Diego. Because of his natural musicality, Charlie has continued to broaden his repertoire of Latin percussion instruments which has earned him respect among his peers. In 2001, Charlie toured Europe and the United States with Lila Downs and Maldita Vecindad. He has also performed and shared the stage with some of Jazz and Latin music’s greatest artists including Poncho Sanchez, Charles McPherson, Gary Burton, Chuchito Valdez, Raul Pineda, The Spanish Harlem Orquesta, Denise De Kalafe, Iraida Noriega, Israel Varela, Celia Cruz Salsa Orquestra from Los Angeles, and Paquito D’Rivera in Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/8f265f3e-5e2e-4082-a89d-449f95c39dcb/IMG_0656.jpeg Collaborators - Betzi Roe Betzi Roe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/6b65b1ce-9787-4a08-b35f-933d13672160/KatieGardnerPhoto-8863.jpg Collaborators - Make it stand out photo: Katie Gardner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1664034807725-UCMTWH5A2ND71WRBZAFA/Somnium-72+%281%29-2048--01.jpeg Collaborators - The Rosin Box Project The Rosin Box Project is a contemporary ballet company based in San Diego focused on reimagining the way artists and audiences experience dance. The boutique contemporary ballet company aims to encourage artistic growth and exploration by creating a platform where professional artists can amplify their voices, permitting audiences new access to the transformative power of dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1664034687681-10Z5HDN0BDI6NCMPT0O6/Entity_GroupShot_MikeEsperanza_2019.jpg Collaborators - Entity Contemporary Dance Ensemble Entity Contemporary Dance was founded in 2009 by choreographers Will Johnston, Marissa Osato, and Elm Pizarro with the intent to forge connections between the Southern California hip hop and contemporary dance communities. Based in Los Angeles and directed by Will Johnston and Marissa Osato, Entity Contemporary Dance is a professional contemporary dance company that interweaves modern, jazz, and hip hop dance techniques to explore the nuances of emotionality and intercultural connectivity. Comprised of working professionals in LA’s commercial dance industry, Entity creates live stage, site-specific, and film/TV work that prioritizes rhythm, dynamism, power, and vulnerability. Through its educational outreach programs geared towards young artists and pre-professional students, Entity cultivates connection points to various dance career pathways in performance, choreography, education, and production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1664034309482-EYX3D9HXY8X9JIP51TZQ/ARCHITECTURE+OF+THE+SHADOW+PHOTO+HENRY+TORRES+%282%29.jpg Collaborators - Lux Boreal Danza Lux Boreal or ‘Light of the North' is a contemporary dance collective in Northern Mexico founded in 2002. The company is based in the historic building, Casa de Cultura, Tijuana and has toured throughout the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1628116493895-7HDJYETZVU5QZGAXBRUD/DAP+members.jpg Collaborators - Aja Randall, Damara Vita Ganely and Patricia West Meet DAP members Aja Randall, Damara Vita Ganely and Patricia West guest performers in LITVAKdance’s Spring 2019 Performance: “Aja was one of the first dancers I worked with when I moved back to San Diego 18 years ago. I loved her spunk and playfulness. We reconnected about a year ago, and shortly thereafter she introduced me to Patricia who is a longtime member of Joe Goode Dance Group in San Francisco. The two of them were a whirlwind of energy and I invited them to teach a class for me at UCSD. Watching them co-teach I knew they were onto something and I invited them to perform on our spring concert this year with their friend and collaborator Damara.” Artistic Director, LITVAKdance " DAP was created out of necessity as the collaborators found themsevles struggling what it meant to be a dancer/dancemaker while also taking on roles like mother, wife, provider and caretaker. The group uses movement as a language of solidarity, resistance and self expression while also considering the dynamics of listening, being heard and yielding while creating with others. DAP uses spoken word, organic movement and song as tools.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1691179056672-OE3HC9SMESVZSPY3R0TP/push_fold.jpg Collaborators - Push/fold Based in Portland, Oregon, and the vision of the composer-choreographer Samuel Hobbs Push/FOLD is known for its athletic dance performance coupled with abstract storytelling, immersive moodscapes, and original sound compositions. Samuel Hobbs is a mixed-Latinx presenter, educator, and multidisciplinary artist and founder of push/FOLD and Union PDX - Festival of Contemporary Dance. Samuel’s movement practice incorporates their training in athletics and dance integrating their background in Osteopathy. Learn more about Push/fold here: https://pushfold.org/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1691179060115-MHLMVY772E934RWPNQRF/kdc.jpg Collaborators - Khambatta Dance Company Based in Seattle/WA, KDC connects artists and audiences through the exploration of contemporary issues and emotionally resonant performances. KDC tours nationally and internationally, intentionally cultivating networks of support with other dance artists. Cyrus Khambatta is biracial with parents of Asian Indian and European descent. He founded KDC while at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His works have been presented in the U.S., Europe, Russia, Latin America and Canada. He has been a Seattle University Artist in Residence and recently was nominated for the Herb Alpert award in the Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1520113088116-UNOUYBZ4X8YEGC979AD9/WrenPolansky.jpg Collaborators - Wren Polansky WREN POLANKSY: For roughly two decades Wren has been practicing and teaching art, yoga, and mindfulness meditation. Her formal education includes an MA in Counseling Psychology from the Wright Institute, graduate study in Contemplative Psychology and Art at Naropa University, and a BA in Studio Art from Scripps College. Wren has worked as an artist and educator for various establishments including the Museum(s) of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Diego, La Jolla, and Boulder, Colorado and the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, CA, in addition to many public and private schools throughout California. As an artist, Wren has always worked in a broad range of media. One of her most frequently used tools is the camera. Viewing Litvak Dance company members through the lens on location throughout her homeland, North County San Diego, has been particularly fulfilling. Recently, Wren has had the honor of illustrating several books for Shambhala Publications: "The Awakening Body" by Reginald Ray, "The Fourth Trimester" by Kimberly Ann Johnson, and "Hip-Healthy Asana" by Charlotte Bell. Currently, she is working on a series of new mixed-media works inspired by the natural world and the moving body. She is married to a traditional Irish fiddling cheese expert and is a devoted mother of two busy little boys. She loves making custom, meaningful works, and is available for commissions. She can be found at: www.wrenpolansky.com or e-mail wrenpolansky@gmail.com. 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The work above depicts María José’s face but is meant to be María Amparo. Both women have felt torn between two cultures and two identities. They share a name, a heritage and a birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1588782892020-QS890GNXACXGIQY3VFX1/1B_2DA_1370499_3835881672_5.jpg Maria Photo Credit: Jim Carmody https://www.litvakdance.com/wren daily 0.75 2022-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/e64181b4-f2ce-4f6e-a14f-4847de9de3a5/IMG_4860.jpeg Wren - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522500133-81MDZ9YDAKQYYEHPNFBG/seaweed.jpeg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589153341508-0SF3QOZMM68CQCCVPZHH/Wren_151.jpg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522114254-X6OX1YPV3IDFANAJZMKR/victorian_1jpeg.jpeg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522401551-3AMBAFMG9Y1X6MJ0TWYD/victorian_3.jpeg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522548859-6LPBXYRW66SC65XKSD89/3americas.jpeg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522464735-FAJC2841GLUISCKCJB8K/Elizahead.jpeg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522476022-C76C792HXROIZJCZ4L2H/corset_Wren.JPG Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522711647-W7YO79RNEJREN2JJYM3W/Screen+Shot+2020-04-15+at+12.03.03+PM.png Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522727663-6PC4WW2SL5YNGUJUAUR9/immigration.jpeg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589949836994-INLHC7A50OFEM3C31QNL/image-asset.jpeg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522621158-VUH3955LIZDHHBNQZW5A/IMG-2563.jpg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522635881-4F4LJAVJ5TD5VQ6X7FLB/IMG-2562%281%29.jpg Wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589522043131-PVF2KX9H91X0F7MAPED4/victorian_full.jpeg Wren ‘Society’s Butterflies’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/a10ccb2a-63be-4a76-8d9e-8a8837a27bb9/IMG_4862.jpeg Wren - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589949865404-NS7D6KX04ZC8P5FX6FQQ/IMG_2867.jpeg Wren https://www.litvakdance.com/suffrage-expanded daily 0.75 2021-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589921275233-SVUVZFXE7CX6813UCL59/IMG_2619.jpeg Suffrage expanded https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589922255221-6B0WV283E9YPPYKGP8H7/IMG_3515.jpg Suffrage expanded https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589922039097-1Y04AV1J76A8LLPSA23L/Zephyr_EandS.jpg Suffrage expanded https://www.litvakdance.com/suffrage-expanded2 daily 0.75 2020-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1590182810534-3FXCS074UMIVP0F5UXVH/Jordan.jpeg Suffrage expanded2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1590181532272-5YTB2HET4LTCL08WOZTL/apriljlump.jpg Suffrage expanded2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1590183178850-YW7QDSG2TC4ONV3Q9CWB/13B_288_1370499_2993633427_4.jpg Suffrage expanded2 https://www.litvakdance.com/suffrage-expanded-2 daily 0.75 2020-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1590108002183-SGGCC1B0ZHHOT571T88W/apriljlump.jpg Suffrage expanded (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589922255221-6B0WV283E9YPPYKGP8H7/IMG_3515.jpg Suffrage expanded (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589921275233-SVUVZFXE7CX6813UCL59/IMG_2619.jpeg Suffrage expanded (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1589922039097-1Y04AV1J76A8LLPSA23L/Zephyr_EandS.jpg Suffrage expanded (Copy) https://www.litvakdance.com/untoldperspectives daily 0.75 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1597166985543-D4Q5ND3B6U63ISY8EM3I/1.png untoldperspectives https://www.litvakdance.com/bibliography daily 0.75 2020-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1597502858856-V8J7H3BRS4M94W5YATT4/DSC05339-Edit-2.jpg bibliography Photo Credit: Doug McMinimy https://www.litvakdance.com/final-suffrage daily 0.75 2020-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1599088019439-CMGM3XHLJ355XQLF9Y83/IMG_3249AF9A9859-1.jpg Final Suffrage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1599088413392-VNDJ4L0MEMQKG3MRXHSL/nick1.jpg Final Suffrage https://www.litvakdance.com/bonus-suffrage daily 0.75 2020-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1599665795911-FX2HNK0D1NXHUV8T0JG8/hightea.jpeg Bonus Suffrage Photo: Wren Polansky of Sadie Weinberg and their respective children https://www.litvakdance.com/board-members daily 0.75 2025-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/51d5113a-7c30-4816-b832-4ba3997d21ae/KatieGardnerPhoto-8798.jpg Board Members - Make it stand out Photo: Katie Gardner https://www.litvakdance.com/guest-choreographers-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1762147228270-NW8I019S67RMCOWPD87L/DSC_9043-54.jpg Guest Choreographers - Kaia Makihara + Chelsea Roquero Kaia Kaia Makihara (He/Him) graduated from California State University, Long Beach with his BFA in Dance in 2019. Throughout his dance career he has worked in both commercial and concert capacities. His work, while contemporary at the forefront, carries heavy influence from his roots in hip hop styles such as breaking, popping, and hip hop choreography. He has worked closely with artists such as Micaela Taylor, Robert Moses, Jessie Lee Thorne, and others. Chelsea Chelsea Roquero (she/her), born in Escondido, CA, is a second generation Filipina-American dance artist & choreographer based in LA. She received her dance training from San Diego Mesa College & her BA in Dance from CSU Long Beach (2019). She has worked with companies such as Whyteberg, Invertigo Dance Theatre, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company & Rosanna Gamson World Wide Dance. As well as Independent choreographers Jessie Lee Thorne for Austin P. Mckenzie, Cody Potter for AJ Lambert, JM Rodriguez for The Marias, Melissa Schade, Camila Arana, Genna Moroni, Charissa Kroeger, Kate Mason & Rosalynde LeBlanc. Joint This will be Makihara & Roquero’s premiere as a choreographic partnership. They have worked in close proximity in each other’s works throughout the years delving concepts of abstracted dance theatre & developing a highly rigorous and specific movement vocabulary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1663861433104-M13JIYEHFRYMWVG54YKM/Litvak+rehearsal-091822-150.jpg Guest Choreographers - Ronen Izhaki Ronen Izhaki is an Israely choreographer, the founder of the Between Heaven and Earth association and the Head of the Movement Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. His works have been shown throughout Israel and around the world, starting in 2002. Ronen investigates movement and sensory processes in order to produce meaningful performances on stage that play in the space between the abstract and the concrete, and that create a physical and non-verbal narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1762983472185-FWNJGSQJWAAHA4A63JBO/aprl_classpic.jpeg Guest Choreographers - April Tra April started dancing at age 5 with San Diego Civic Dance Association followed by Eveoke Dance Theatre primarily focusing on tap, modern and hip hop dance. She graduated from UC Irvine with a BA in Dance and has also trained at the American Dance Festival and Bates Dance Festival. Currently April works as a Department of Justice accredited representative providing legal services for the immigrant community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1692816883401-DUN9FB1DGKR1C8LCGCW6/zuleima.jpeg Guest Choreographers - Zuleima Burrel Zuleima won 1st Place in Lux Boreal’s 4x4 TJ Nights 2023 competition for her work, Vortex. She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts, University of Sonora andcodirects the independent group Dedalo Artes Escenicas. Her stage creations are performative and experimental, she invites the viewer to live a visual/aesthetic and visceral exprienence through dance. She is a PECDA Sonora Beneficiary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1663967840515-64VXKBBZ8Y2VCHPSVCHW/Majo_sadie2.jpg Guest Choreographers - María José Castillo María José was born and raised in Vera Cruz, Mexico where she trained in ballet and folkloric from a young age. Shes is a graduate of SUNY Purchase in New York and danced with LITVAKdance from 2018-2022. Through LITVAKdance she received a grant from the California Arts Council to create Estirpe on LITVAKdance for their spring production, Border Stories in April 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1646279567606-6A94WLI7KU1UT2E4GUFZ/Alex+Escalante.jpg Guest Choreographers - Alex Escalante Based in San Francisco and born in Los Angeles, Escalante received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1999. He has performed with Donna Uchizono Company, Gerald Casel, Metropolitan Opera and many other artists. His work has been presented at Danspace Project, La MaMa, Dixon Place, Movement Research, Joe’s Pub among other venues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362301176-KU5F9GNN5ILC2961NGCX/ERIC+GEIGER.png Guest Choreographers - Eric Geiger Eric Geiger: I dance and make dances in an attempt to make sense of the world around me. I am a full-time faculty member at UCSD, in the Department of Theatre and Dance, where the courses I guide question what dance is and can be. Early on, I received a full merit scholarship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, intensively studying the techniques of Martha Graham, Lester Horton, and Ballet. I was a company member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (as well as teacher and choreographic assistant to Bill), The Lyon Opera Ballet (performing works by artists such as William Forsythe, Stephen Petronio, Susan Marshall, Maguy Marin, and Angelin Preljocaj), and McCaleb Dance, directed by Nancy McCaleb (eventually becoming the Associate Artistic Director). I want to dance forever, so I became interested in continuing my dance training and practices by seeking ways of moving with greater efficiency and sustainability. Contact Improvisation, Trisha Brown-like qualities, Deborah Hay’s questions and choreography, and somatic approaches to dancing has transformed and expanded my movement capacities. As a Feldenkrais Method practitioner, I have come to understand how to move using only as much effort as needed, moment to moment. As a dancemaker, I am a collaborator. I’ve made dances with Anya Cloud, Karen Schaffman, Liam Clancy, Leslie Seiters and my most frequent collaborator and partner Jess Humphrey. Photo Credit: Self Portrait https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1679615855351-I3F3CDEFZWFP20ZV7OHS/IMG_6941.jpeg Guest Choreographers - Ido Gidron Born and raised in Jerusalem, Ido Gidron is a performance artist, Dancer, Choreographer, instructor of Pilates and Gaga. He graduated from the Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem and has danced for Kibbutz contemporary Dance Company and Batsheva Dance Company. As a student, Ido participated in the Juilliard school summer intensive, and was a finalist at the Mia Arbatova dance competition. As a freelancer, Ido has worked with choreographers Idan Sharabi, Sharon Vazanna, Arkadi Zaides. Ido was a guest dancer with the Norwegian National Ballet in fall 2017. He was a guest teacher for Gothenburg Danskompani in Sweden, and in Cie Toula Limnaios in Berlin. In 2018, Ido was invited to create a full evening work for the Institut za Umetničku Igru in Belgrade, Serbia. A duet that he created- Dualism, won 3rd prize at the Machol Shalem dance competition. In 2021, Ido was an artist in residence at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625373244637-1WBN167DTICTJ8N8AH9H/Tamisha+Guy.JPG Guest Choreographers - Tamisha Guy Tamisha Guy, a native of Trinidad and Tobago began her formal dance training at Ballet Tech, the New York City Public School for Dance under the direction of Eliot Feld. Later she attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and SUNY Purchase College as a double major in dance and arts management. Ms. Guy has completed summer programs with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Springboard Danse Montreal, and Nathan Trice. She has performed works by William Forsythe, Pam Tanowitz, Loni Landon, Mark Morris, and Martha Graham etc. Ms. Guy graduated with honors in 2013 from SUNY Purchase College and began dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Later she joined Kyle Abraham’s, Abraham in Motion, in which she is still a member. She was featured in the segment “Spotlight on Success” in Dance Informa Magazine and in 2016 she made Dance Magazine’ Top 25 To Watch list as well as winning the 2016 Princess Grace Award. In 2017, she was named one of the Best Dancer's of the Year by Dance Europe. Photo Credit: Whitney Browne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1665259945363-1XE20DFRK2DNNQ0LITMB/issa.jpg Guest Choreographers - Issa Hourani Issa Hourani is a Mexican-Jordanian movement artist and choreographer residing in Long Beach, CA. He received a BA in Dance from UC San Diego and earned his MFA from CSU Long Beach. He pursued post-collegiate training by taking dance intensives from world-renowned artists and companies such as MADBOOTS dance, Batsheva Dance Company, Ledges and Bones, and BODYTRAFFIC. He also had the honor to perform works by BODYTRAFFIC’s Haley Heckethorn, MADBOOTS dance, and LITVAKdance former company member, Beverly Johnson. After working on his screendance Dandy/Lions, challenging preconceived notions on homosocial male relationships, he has since prioritized researching and creating works that utilize memory to generate movement rooted in culture, identity, and ontological integrity. His dance collective, Issa Dance Co. has performed works nationally and internationally. Hourani is currently in the early stages of creating an event that will highlight underrepresented cultures in an evening of dance titled Foreign Landscapes in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362304515-YQUDH7X6N3E6004UMWKQ/TERESA+JANKOVIC.jpg Guest Choreographers - Teresa Jankovic Teresa Jankovic has been a dancer, choreographer and educator throughout Southern California for over twenty years. Inspired by kinesiology and the exploration of fusing multiple genres allows her to cultivate her artistry, movement vocabulary and research. As a professional performer, Jankovic danced with Jazz Spectrum, was a founding member of BARE Dance Company and Delineation Dance, a bi-coastal dance company where she performed in New York City in the company’s inaugural year. She served for three years as Operations Manager for the Laguna Dance Festival. While at LDF Jankovic was commissioned to choreograph for venues in Laguna Beach including Laguna Beach Art Walk where her pieces premiered at the Laguna Art Museum. She also founded Kinetic Dance Project, a pre-professional dance company for young dancers. Jankovic earned her B.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine where she served as Rehearsal Director to the late Donald McKayle. Currently she is Associate Faculty at Orange Coast, Irvine Valley and MiraCosta College and part-time lecturer at California State University, Long Beach. She has previously taught at and/or created works for the University of California, Irvine, Fullerton College, Laguna Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Summer Intensives, NUEVO School of Contemporary Dance, San Diego Dance Theater’s White Box, American College Dance Association (ACDA), Youth American Grand Prix and the Music Center’s Spotlight Awards. Photo Credit: Wren Polansky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362302052-037G9I6ZNZ87AXHHX94B/KEVIN+JENKINS.jpg Guest Choreographers - Kevin Jenkins Kevin Jenkins has choreographed for State Street Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, Island Moving Company, Big Muddy Dance, Ballet Dallas, Bellingham Repertory Dance, and the School of Ballet Arizona among others. His choreography has been performed on the Inside/Out Series at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and at West Wave Dance Festival in San Francisco. Dance Magazine has praised his work as "riveting" and he has served on the faculty of the School of Ballet Arizona and Boston Ballet School. A native San Diegan, Kevin trained at the Academy of Performing Arts under Kevin Patterson, Ahita Ardalan, and Jean Isaacs. He majored in dance at Grossmont College before going on to work with Mirable Ballet, San Diego Dance Theatre, and Butterworth Dance Company. He performed in regional productions of Guys and Dolls, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, and appeared in television commercials for Allstate Insurance, Verizon Wireless, and Latinva Fitness. Kevin now resides in New York whenever he’s not traveling throughout the country working as a freelance choreographer. He teaches for Boston Ballet School, Endicott College, and Green Street Studios. He has also served as an instructor at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, University of San Diego, Arizona School of the Arts, Southwest Classical Dance Institute, and Master Ballet Academy. Photo Credit: Sue Brenner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362301796-IPKKTQMH5JLD4HG0G2ZC/Keith+Johnson.jpg Guest Choreographers - Keith Johnson Keith Johnson received his MFA from the University of Utah. He has danced with Ririe/Woodbury, Creach/ Koester, Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Doug Varone and Dancers. Keith’s choreography has been commissioned by The Ririe/Woodbury, D9 Collective, Sierra Repertory Dance Theatre as well as universities and solo artists throughout the US. Keith has received The Dee R. Winterton Award For Excellence in Dance, Most Valuable Professor in The College of The Arts at CSULB, and Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Choreography among other awards. Keith was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Dance at the University of Utah in 2012/2013. He is a professor of dance at CSU Long Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625377587430-0GK3UGCJHBQ85A044W7W/_Barton.4329.1.jpg Guest Choreographers - Bradley Lundberg Bradley Lundberg received his B.A. in Communications from UCSB, where he began his dance training with Christopher Pilafian. While in Santa Barbara, Brad danced three seasons with Santa Barbara Dance Theater. After a move to New York, he was a member of Jennifer Muller/The Works, Steeledance, Creach/Company, and performed in works by Young Soon Kim, Ben Munisteri, Leda Meredith, and Michael Foley as well as having a number of his own works performed at Hatch and Danspace. After a brief stint ‘dancing’ on Celebrity Cruise Lines, Brad returned to the West coast where he has danced with Keith Johnson/Dancers, Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater, McCaleb Dance, Malashock Dance and Blythe Barton. Bradley's own choreography is defined by masterful partnering work, clever formation building and dissembling and continual flow based phrase work. Bradley's other passion and career is working with children with special needs. He has been teaching this population for most of his adult life. Photo: Jeffery Lamont Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362302732-ORDLFOBKRDH1X9595KM5/MADBOOTS+DANCE.jpg Guest Choreographers - MADBOOTS DANCE MADBOOTS DANCE is noted for it's "refreshing, often thrilling, straightforwardness", MADBOOTS DANCE is a queer, all-male, contemporary dance company based in New York City. The hyper-physical, provocative company led by Jonathan Campbell and Austin Diaz, was named "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine and has reached audiences nationally and internationally, mining topics of male identity and queer culture. The company had the honor of performing at The Joyce Theater's first-ever LGBTQ+ Pride Week, as well as performing works at Jacob's Pillow, Fire Island Dance Festival, BAM Fisher Hillman, and Velocity Dance Center, to name a few. Presently, Campbell & Diaz continue to create original works for the company, as well as, teach both emerging and professional dancers around the nation. To learn more, visit: WWW.MADBOOTSDANCE.COM Photo Credit: Scott Shaw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362301206-8RUHT7BUOXKY0QTBPJF8/JOSHUA+MANCULICH.jpg Guest Choreographers - Joshua Manculich From Windber, Pennsylvania, and a Point Park University graduate, Joshua Manculich was a dancer with Thodos Dance Chicago, The Pillow Project, JMT-JLS Productions, Jaxon Movement Arts, and Chicago Repertory Ballet. Returning to school after dancing for several seasons, he received his MFA from The Ohio State University where he was awarded a three year Dean’s Distinguished University Fellowship. Throughout his career, Joshua’s interest in the incubation, production, and exploration of movement has been a guiding force. In 2015, he was awarded a Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship and has worked with DanceWorks Chicago, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, METdance, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, The Big Muddy Dance Company, Thodos Dance Chicago in addition to Grand Valley State University, Point Park University, University of Dayton, and Western Michigan University. Joshua is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Sam Houston State University. Photo: Jim Carmody of Josh and his assistant, Karsen, working with LITVAKdance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362303850-74AH0OWQYDNDWKLBJXYE/Rebecca+Margolick.jpg Guest Choreographers - Rebecca Margolick Rebecca Margolick is a dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn NY and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Her multi-disciplinary and solo works have been presented in Poland, Bulgaria, Israel, Seattle, San Diego, Montreal, British Columbia, Mexico City and NYC. She was named one of Dance Magazines Top 25 to Watch in 2021. Her solo Bunker + Vault won the Jury Prize for “best indoor choreographic work” at the 2019 Festival Quartiers Danse in Montreal. She was a Dance Artist in Residence at The Banff Centre for the Arts in December 2019 and a 2020 New Directions Choreography Lab Fellowship at the Ailey School under the mentorship of Gus Solomons Jr. She was a 2017 GPS Fund Movement Research Artist in Residence at Derida Dance Center in Sofia Bulgaria, and a 2015/16 LABA Fellow at the 14th St Y in NYC. Rebecca is currently a dancer and rehearsal director of Chuck Wilt’s UNA Productions. As a freelance dancer she has worked with a number of artists including Kayla Farrish, Allen Kaeja, Patricia Norowol, Jerome Bel (The Show Must Go On), Derrick Belcham, Emily Terndrup, Maya Orchin, Shay Kuebler, Donald Sales and Barak Marshall, among others. Rebecca trained at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and graduated from NYU - Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Dance. Rebecca is a proud member of Dance Artists National Collective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362300107-OB8YNVS7HFJAPKW54X7J/DAVE+MASSEY.jpg Guest Choreographers - Dave Massey Dave Massey is a dance educator, choreographer, movement researcher and full-time faculty at MiraCosta College. He holds his MFA in Dance from UC Irvine. He began dancing at the age of 17 and was fortunate to study from teachers and mentors in the Los Angeles area such as Stefan Wenta, Carlton Johnson, Joe Tremaine, Sally Whalen, Patrick Franz, Paul de Rolf and Jerry Grimes. He danced professionally for over 15 years and worked with eminent Hollywood celebrities of the time including Mary Tyler-Moore, Lucille Ball, Carol Lawrence, Barry Manilow and Debbie Allen among others. He danced in film, television, stage and night-club acts. Dave assisted a variety of choreographers such as Joe Tremaine, Jaime Rogers, and Roland Dupree, in convention and television work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362299456-7VS1QZ709PAINZ6AZMQ3/AMANDA+NORA+LEGBETI.jpg Guest Choreographers - Amanda Nora Legbetti Amanda Nora Legbeti holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an M.F.A. in Dance with an emphasis on choreography from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where she studied on fellowship and was awarded scholarships to pursue and present her research on North American multiculturalism and fusion forms in dance. Amanda has performed professionally with several companies and her choreography has been showcased throughout the US and abroad as “Promising Artist of the 21st Century” in San Jose, Costa Rica; at ACDF (Albuquerque, Ann Arbor, and Long Beach), and in the international tour of ‘The San Souci Festival of Projected Dance’ in Mexico, Trinidad, and Tobago. She also volunteered her choreography to the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County’s (now “Radiant Health Centers”) annual showcase fundraiser, helping them raise over $900,000. Amanda has been a guest choreographer/instructor of dance at UCI, Iowa State University, Riverside College, Cypress College, Calvin College, The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago, Coronado School of theArts, Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop, and Dance Masters of Michigan. Also a Registered Yoga Teacher, Amanda enjoys flowing from form to form in her choreographic and performative work. Photo: Wren Polansky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362303170-VIBACGD3WSUADC5M3361/Maile+Okamura.jpg Guest Choreographers - Maile Okamura Maile Okamura, a San Diego native, studied ballet with Lynda Yourth, Steven and Elizabeth Wistrich, and at San Francisco Ballet School. She has danced with Boston Ballet II, Ballet Arizona, and for over twenty years with Mark Morris Dance Group. Maile currently performs with Pam Tanowitz Dance in NYC. She also collaborates closely with choreographer John Heginbotham as a costume designer and video editor. They are currently working on a dance film of Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin with Colin Jacobsen. Maile's most recent project was a film collaboration with The Knights, Art of Elan, and pipa virtuoso Wu Man. Photo: Doug McMinimy Maile Okamura performing her solo “This Time” with her husband Colin Jacobsen for LITVAKdance’s Dances to Strings Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1699043916714-8FQK0ML3E3ZPRCSUJLDS/10-6-23_Ando_0090.jpg Guest Choreographers - Betzi Roe Betzi started her career as an apprentice with the San Francisco Ballet, studied at the Centre de Dance Classique in Cannes France, and joined the Hartford Ballet Co in 1969. She received an MA in Dance from UCLA where she had the opportunity to work with many great American choreographers such as Murray Louis, Donald McKayle, Anna Sokolow, Jose Limon, Twyla Tharp, Donald McKayle and Margalit Oved. In 1974 she founded 3’s Company with Jean Isaacs and Patrick Nollet as co-directors & choreographers and taught and choreographed for California Ballet. In 1987 she created a solo concert that toured for a decade. As an independent choreographer Betzi has made works for many dance organizations such as San Diego Dance Theatre, Ballet Pacifica, SouthHold Dance Theatre, Mojalet Dance Collective, PGK Dance Project, Moscow Classical Ballet, and St. Petersburg Ballet. She has received numerous grants, awards and fellowships for her teaching and creative work including: US Cultural Specialist to Russia, soloist for the US at the Bi National Dance Encounter in Mexico and festivals in Hong Kong and Beijing & Helsinki. In her 60's she toured her 2015 Fringe Festival duet concert to Cuba, Chile, and Mexico. As an educator Betzi has been on the adjunct faculties of 6 So. California Colleges, directed and produced the Nations of San Diego International Dance Festival for 9 years and was Chair of Dance at Coronado School of the Arts for 22 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362305432-JHO0DZ343CZJV3ALCYON/yoshito+Sakubara.jpg Guest Choreographers - Yoshito Sakuraba Yoshito Sakuraba's work has been performed nationally and internationally and has won awards including the Int'l Choreographic Competition at NW Dance Project and Choreographic Shindig/Whim W'Him. He has created work for Bayerisches Staatsballett, DAF Rome, North Carolina School of the Arts and more. His company, Abarakus Dance, has performed at BAM Fisher, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Palm Desert Festival, Pan Asian Dance Festival, DanceNow at Joe's Pub other festivals. His company was invited to the Masdanza Extensions Tour in the Canary Islands. He has taught workshops at Amsterdam Dance Centre, DAF Dance Arts (Italy), The Playground (NYC), and FINI Dance Festival (Italy). He currently teaches at Peridance, GIBNEY, and the Martha Graham School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1679714637443-GOAAW92GMCDB7XU8H9B7/9AD87FE0-C520-4B2E-84E5-CCAB191ACE87.jpeg Guest Choreographers - Patricia Sandback Patricia Sandback is a dance educator, performer, and award-winning choreographer. She has created over 140 dances that have been presented in the United States, Mexico, Russia, China, and Europe. These dances have been presented by her own companies, Patricia Sandback and Dancers and Big Ladies Small Dance Company, as well as numerous other local and international companies. The inclusion of live and original music, theatrical elements, humor, and a collaborative process are a significant part of her work. She performs both choreographic and improvisation dance. Patricia is Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University where she was Coordinator of the Dance Program and taught classes in improvisation, choreography, technique, pedagogy, rhythmic analysis, and dance history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1699044136328-EGE1WSX6AMDUER7NKL3T/Dolly%2BHeadshot.jpg Guest Choreographers - Dolly Sfeir Dolly Sfeir is a director and choreographer who grew up in Lebanon. She is a 2022 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Choreography, the 2019 Grand Prize winner of the Palm Desert Choreography Competition, and recipient of a choreographic fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow. She was artist-in-residence for Abingdon Theatre Company, and was awarded a residency with CUNY Dance Initiative to create an evening-length work. Her commissions include Holstebro Dansekompagni in Denmark, WHIM W'HIM in Seattle and Litvak Dance Company. She has been guest choreographer and creative practice teacher at CSU Long Beach, Orange Coast College, Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Montclair University. She has developed a creative practice methodology, focused on unleashing creativity and breaking through fear, which she continues to offer in universities, studios and theatres nationally and internationally. Her film "It Cries too Loudly" has been at festivals such as San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Portland Film Fest, and has received awards such as 'best short film' and 'best cinematography'. Her work is currently touring in Denmark. She graduated summa cum laude from CSU Long Beach with a Dance BFA. Sfeir appeared in nationwide musicals by the Rahbani Brothers including work choreographed by Debbie Allen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362305025-LAASPJ60RS94CKVC1GM3/Yolande+Snaith.jpg Guest Choreographers - YOLANDE SNAITH YOLANDE SNAITH trained initially at Wimbledon School of Art, London, completing her degree in theatre and dance at Dartington College of Arts, UK, in 1983. Since then she has been creating her own work, performing, choreographing and teaching internationally, winning several awards including Digital Dance, Time Out/Dance Umbrella and Bonnie Bird Choreography Awards. In 1990 Yolande formed Yolande Snaith Theatredance with the support of the Arts Council of England; where she produced 11 full-length works, touring internationally to over 15 countries. In 1998 Blind Faith won the prestigious Prix D’auteur du Conceil Generale de la Seine-Saint-Denise. Yolande has received commissions from dance, theatre, opera, film and television companies, including the English National Opera, Birmingham Dance Exchange, Transitions, Ricochet Dance Company, The Verve, BBC and Channel 4 Television. In 1997 she choreographed Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut, and in 1999 she was the choreographic adviser for David Hinton’s film Birds, which was the overall winner of the 2001 Monaco Dance Screen Awards. Yolande joined the faculty of Theatre and Dance at UCSD, in 2002. She established IMAGOmoves in 2006 as an artistic ‘umbrella’ for collaborative projects. Since its inception IMAGOmoves has created a range of dance theatre works, including site-specific events in urban locations, smaller group and solo work presented in a range of venues, from the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj, Romania, to San Diego’s alternative performance spaces. Yolande has collaborated with several international artists in San Diego including director Gabor Tompa, composers Shahrokh Yadegari and Kris Apple, designer Victoria Petrovich, film director Mark Freeman and visual/performance artist Eleanor Antin and many dance artists. Photo: Doug McMinimy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1679616112815-5MQL6CQE2SSHHNXE0DZT/sol2.jpg Guest Choreographers - sol dela rosa Navigating the abyss, sol (previously known as Jaime Nixon) moved through time and their lives through queer love and loss, within color and always in a style of play. Play as a motive to learn, and as a means of sourcing passion. Passion as a driving force for compassion and community. Sol is grateful for the skills, lessons; and autonomy they have been gifted by the guidance of the San Diego City College Dance Department and the artist and staff of London Contemporary Dance School. Play is the foundation to sol’s class. Incorporating play as a way of exploring our bodies, creative minds, our environment, and our world. Through functional movements we will play with our bodies range of motion, degrees of effort, balance and begin self discovery. Moving from the floor to standing we will dance with gravity and organize through space, movement sequences, and through each other as a community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625370699769-NJWAV4RSWYK2IWEE59EK/Khamla%2BSomphanh.jpg Guest Choreographers - Khamla Somphanh Khamla Somphanh is most passionate about teaching and working as a freelance choreographer. She is faculty at The Malashock Dance School, Resident Guest Artist at Canyon Crest Academy High School and Artistic Lead for the Dance Ensemble at San Dieguito Academy. Khamla has performed professionally with ODC/San Francisco Dance Company, Wyliiams/Henry Dance Ensemble, Na-Ni Chen Dance Company, East/West Repertory Ensemble, New World Dance Company, Soundance Dance Company, Malashock Dance Company and the San Diego Opera to name a few and is noted for her performances on Broadway and first national tour of the “King and I”, choreographed by Lar Lubovitz. Her choreographic works have been commissioned by The PGK Project, San Diego Dance Theater’s Trolley Dances, Visionary Dance Theater, Diversionary Theater, Canyon Crest Academy and The Malashock Dance School. Khamla attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts before continuing her education at The University of The Arts in Philadelphia. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary’s College of California and Horton Pedagogy Certification from The Alvin Ailey School in NYC. Photo Credit: Jim Carmody https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362303224-10X8HW8WPTNGUINOXH2Z/Micaela+Taylor.jpg Guest Choreographers - Micaela Taylor Micaela Taylor is the recipient of the Inaugural Springboard EMERGE Choreographic Award was recently named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch,” 2019 and was featured on Dance Magazine cover May 2020. Alongside the launch of The TL Collective, Taylor has been commissioned to choreograph and teach by BODYTRAFFIC, Springboard Danse Montreal, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, B12 Festival Berlin, Carlos Acosta’s Acosta Danza, and more. Taylor's work has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Broad Stage, Ford Amphitheatre, The Barclay Center, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and more. Her quirky style of facial expressions and athletic theatricality sets her work apart. Micaela has formed a new movement style called Expand Practice, which allows individuals to expand their mind, body, and narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1656804959509-VZH7O5O9RG825W6UBS6P/whyteberg+%28142+of+278%29.jpg Guest Choreographers - WHYTEBERG WHYTEBERG is a Los Angeles-based contemporary dance theatre duo created by Gracie WHYTE and Laura BERG that makes colorful immersive works for non-traditional spaces, investigating the ways in which humor exists within a given circumstance. The antithesis of stale and passive traditional dance experiences, WHYTEBERG shows feel more like an adventure-filled party, leaning into the free-spirited functionality of unorthodox solutions in order to engage inner playfulness. Since its inception in 2014, WHYTEBERG has performed and choreographed for film, stage, music videos, and site-specific productions, working with prominent artists, platforms, and venues such as Mac Miller (Grammy and MTV Video Music Award Nominee), Anderson .Paak (Grammy Award Winner), Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (US Billboard top 10 musician), Seattle Art Museum, TEDxUCLA, and Jacob Streilein (Emmy-award winning animator). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1625362300184-6VUWJFBAT58SBQ2DH6TH/CHUCK+WILT.jpg Guest Choreographers - Chuck Wilt Chuck Wilt was raised in San Francisco CA, Chuck Wilt is the Artistic Director of UNA, and holds a BFA in dance from NYU Tisch. In 2013, Chuck founded his bi-coastal dance company UNA Productions, working in NYC and SF. UNA has been co-presented by ODC Theater and presented by Fusion International (Kaga&Tokyo, Japan), Spectrum Dance Festival, Movement Research/Judson Church, 92nd St. Y’s Dig Dance and FAN, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, Springboard Danse Montreal, 14th St. Y, Dumbo Dance Festival, Tisch Summer Dance Festival, CPR and more. He has been a selected mentee of KT Nelson’s RoundAntennae and Doug Varone’s DEVICES. Wilt was commissioned by LITVAKdance to create a new work for the company’s 2019 Season. In addition, Wilt has been an emerging choreographer at Springboard Danse, set senior solo repertory at SUNY Purchase and Ailey Fordham, set repertory for the senior class at Ailey Fordham, set repertory for the ODC Youth Company, been on faculty for Tisch Summer High School Program, has taught at the Lines Ballet Training Program as well as internationally. In 2017 Chuck was a selected choreographic fellow for the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation NDCL, and in 2018 he was selected as a Dance Initiative Artist In Residence (CO), a recipient of the Rainin Opportunity Fund and an Artist in Residence at the 92nd St. Y (NYC). Recently Wilt was an Artist in Residence of Fusion International (Japan), and for 2019/2020 an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn College through the CUNY Dance Initiative. Chuck is interested in how topics of gender, identity and unity can be involved in dance and dance film, transforming the way we can experience ourselves and others. WWW.UNA-PROJECTS.COM Photo Credit: Sue Brenner of Chuck and his partner, Kyle Filley, performing in Encinitas alongside LITVAKdance in May 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/56585a30-f566-4df1-bdf0-9c48aa1caf92/LITVAKfirstcastBW.jpg Guest Choreographers - Make it stand out Cast photo from LITVAKdance inaugural show in he Spring of 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/262893bc-1333-4cd2-9bf9-bf5ada2281a0/KatieGardnerPhoto-9269.jpg Guest Choreographers - Make it stand out photo: Katie Gardner https://www.litvakdance.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://www.litvakdance.com/tix daily 0.75 2018-09-05 https://www.litvakdance.com/tix/merch monthly 0.5 2025-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b9523ab7411cfd320843cc/1630165536425-NXCKKEXAZIBDD4FYLCEG/Anza_litvak-3.jpg Tix - Merchandise/Concessions https://www.litvakdance.com/products-1 daily 0.75 2016-09-21