 Linda Kent toured internationally for over 21 years as a principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Her national television appearances include Ailey's On Being Black, Memories and Visions, Cosby Celebrates Ailey and five Taylor programs for the PBS series Dance in America. Miss Kent has staged works by Taylor, Ailey, and David Parsons for dance companies around the world, including Joffrey Ballet, Bat Dor Company of Israel, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, London Contemporary Dance Theater, La Scala Opera Ballet and the Juilliard School. Miss Kent graduated from the Juilliard School and has been a faculty member there since 1984. She has also taught at the Taylor School, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the University of Illinois, and Wake Forest University. In 1992, she was the first modern dancer asked to teach at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. Linda is returning to Perry-Mansfield for her ninth summer as Director of Dance. |
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 Antonio Brown, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, began his dance training at the age of 11 at the Cleveland School of the Arts. After graduating, he traveled to New York City to attend The Juilliard School where he had the opportunity to perform works by Jose Limon, Ohad Naharin, Jiri Kylian, Eliot Feld, Aszure Barton, Jessica Lang, Susan Marshall, and many others. After graduating from Juilliard, Mr. Brown joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in the spring of 2007 and is excited to be sharing his gifts and talents with the world. |
 Camille A. Brown began her dance training at Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Studio, attended LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts and The Ailey School, and received her B.F.A. in Dance from The North Carolina School of the Arts. She was a member of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence (2001-2007) and also dances with Renni Harris/Puremovement. Ms. Brown has been honored with awards and fellowships that include a 2006 Princess Grace Award in Choreography, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography, The Presidential Scholar of the Arts Award in Dance, NFAA Young Artists? Award and The Project Next Generation Award. She has received commissions from Hubbard Street II, Urban Bush Women, and Ailey II, and has been featured in Marie Claire, Dance Magazine, and Dance Spirit. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater premiered her work, The Groove To Nobody's Business, at New York's City Center to which Jennifer Dunning observed her work as being, "..delicious...Ms. Brown's choreography is both expressive and economical-no words needed". |
 Ernesta Corvino studied ballet with Margaret Craske, Antony Tudor, Alfredo Corvino and Andra Corvino. At the age of 14 she joined the Maryland Ballet as soloist then went on to dance with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Radio City Music Hall Ballet Company. She toured the U.S. with the American Chamber Ballet and went to Asia with the Opera Theatre of New York. She has also performed with Ruby Shang, Bill Badolato, Roberto Cartagena and ethnic dance specialist, Matteo. In 1991 she became a member of the New York Baroque Dance Company appearing in New York City, the Carmel Bach Festival , The Kennedy Center and in Europe. Ms. Corvino has also performed as a baroque soloist with Apollo's Banquet. In 1981 she formed her own company, ERNESTA CORVINO'S DANCE CIRCLE COMPANY, which appeared annually at the Riverside Dance Festival in New York City from 1982-87. The company has also performed at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, the Downtown Dance Festival, the Meet-the-Artist Series at Lincoln Center, USDAN Center, Randolph-Macon Womans College, the Nikolais/Louis ChoreoSpace and Marymount Manhattan Theatre. Ms. Corvino has choreographed over twenty pieces for the company ranging from a Charlie Chaplin two-reeler to a ballet about the Kentucky Derby. Well-known for her wry treatment of popular culture in ballets such as the critically acclaimed Holmes, Sweet Holmes, Ms. Corvino is equally adept at crafting works of pathos and tragedy. Her recently created The Early Morning Hours of the Hard Moon is a tender and heroic treatment of one man's struggle with AIDS and of Somnus, Jennie Schulman of Backstage wrote, "This is one of the most novel utilizations of the Ravel score ever conceived." From 1968 to 1993 she was teacher and co-director of her own school, DANCE CIRCLE in New York City. Her teaching credits also include the Juilliard School, the Inner-City Ensemble, the Governor's School of New Jersey, Randolph-Macon Womans College, the Tappan Zee Dance Group, SUNY/ Purchase, and Stephens College (all for whom she has choreographed), as well as Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY/Brockport, Long Island University, Hofstra University, the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, STEPS ON BROADWAY, and Danspace of Oakland, CA. Ms. Corvino frequently teaches, choreographs and performs as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Recently she has appeared at the Kaye Playhouse in New York City and The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in "From The Horse's Mouth", a live dance documentary as well as with BALLET MINK COLBERT in the U.S. and Denmark. She currently teaches open classes in New York City, is ballet master for the Jose Limon Dance Company as well as Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal and conducts workshops throughout Europe. |
 Janet Taisey Craft is founder and artistic director of The Ipswich Moving Company. Her choreography has been presented in the US, the Netherlands, the former Soviet Union, and twice at the International Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. In 1990, Janet was a guest artist with The Independent Company of Alla Sigalova and presented a full evening concert of her work at the Hermitage Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Her choreography has been recognized by the Massachusetts Artist Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council as a grant recipient numerous times and a fellowship finalist. Janet was Professor and Head of Dance at Emerson College for twenty-four years where she taught ballet, modern dance, dance history, all levels of dance composition, improvisation, and aerial dance. She directed dance concerts and co-directed and choreographed original dance theatre works for Emerson Stage. Janet created her first aerial dance in 1986 for the Montserrat Gallery. Over the past twenty years, Janet has evolved a unique form of aerial dance using tied climbing rope and fabric slings. Her aerial dances have been presented throughout New England and at the Festival Fringe in 2000. Her aerial dance, "Snake in the Grass" was selected for the First International Aerial Dance Festival in 1992. Craft's "Free Fall" was presented in the Spotlight on Dance Series at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2003. Her latest work, "Dreaming Head", premiered in March 2008 and includes aerial dance in climbing rope, and on an aluminum swing.
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