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Dance Family Vine

By: Addie Levandowski

Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham

  • Dunham was a student at the University of Chicago where she studied dance.
  • Dunham attended a lecture on anthropology, where she was introduced to the concept of dance as a cultural symbol.
  • Dunham began to study African roots of dance and, in 1935, she traveled to the Caribbean for field research. Dunham was exposed to sacred ritual dances performed by people on the islands of Haiti and Jamaica. She returned to the United States in 1936 informed by new methods of movement and expression, which she incorporated into techniques that transformed the world of dance.
  • She started her first fledgling dance company, known as Ballet Negre, while studying anthropology at the University of Chicago with some of the founders of American anthropology, as well as the famous Africanist Melville Herskovits at nearby Northwestern University.
  • In 1940, she formed the Katherine Dunham Dance Company
  • Dunham is credited with introducing international audiences to African aesthetics and establishing African dance as a true art form. Called the “Matriarch of Black Dance,” her groundbreaking repertoire combined innovative interpretations of Caribbean dances, traditional ballet, African rituals and African American rhythms to create the Dunham Technique, which she performed with her dance troupe in venues around the world.
  • She was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honors Award, the Plaque d'Honneur Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce Award, and a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

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Alberto Alonso

Alberto Alonso

  • Alonso was born in Havana, and attended Springhill College in Mobile, Alabama.
  • He returned to Cuba in 1932 and began his ballet training at the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical arts school in Havana with Nikolai Yavorsky.
  • He studied in Paris with several teachers including Preobrazhenska and Idzikowski, and danced with the Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil from 1936 to 1940, performing principal roles in several ballets created by Michel Fokine.
  • He danced with the Ballet Theatre from 1943 to 1945, in works created by Fokine, George Balanchine and Leonid Massine.
  • In 1948, he co-founded with Alicia and Fernando Alonso the Ballet Alicia Alonso, which would eventually become the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, being its artistic director and choreographer.
  • His most well-known ballet is Carmen Suite (1967), to music by Rodion Shchedrin; it was created for Maya Plisetskaya in the Bolshoi Ballet, and simultaneously for Alicia Alonso in the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and later it has been re-created by several other companies.

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Sarah Harkness

Sarah

  • Sarah Harkness served as Assistant Professor of Dance at Santa Fe College until 2022, instructing courses in multiple levels of Modern and Jazz dance techniques as well as Dance Fundamentals and Performance. She received her MFA degree from The Florida State University School of Dance. Originally from Chico, California, she earned her BA in Theatre Arts, with a minor in Dance, at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and worked for Sherry Lansing, former CEO of Paramount Pictures. After earning her undergraduate degree, Sarah founded Meh-Tropolis Dance Theatre, in Los Angeles, and served as the company's Artistic Director for six years. Sarah has also performed with Oberlin Dance Company in San Francisco, and with Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, and other cast members of "The West Wing", in the Los Angeles production of "Raising Our Voices". She has directed and choreographed such productions as "A Chorus Line", "Rocky Horror Show", and "Brigadoon" for the Theatre and Dance Departments at Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine University as well as serving as Adjunct Faculty for both universities. Sarah was a principal company member of The Florida State University's Dance Repertory Theatre, working with Lynda Davis, and guest choreographers Alan Danielson, Michael Foley, Gerri Houlihan, Rick McCullough, and Dan Wagoner. She has also performed in the repertory of choreographers Tim Glenn, Andrew Noble, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and has served as Assistant Director, Workshop Coordinator, and Faculty for the Suzanne Farrell Workshop for Young Dancers and the FSU Summer Intensive for Young Dancers Workshop.

  • Internationally, she has studied and performed with the Oxford, England School of Drama, the Montpellier, France World Dance Festival, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and in Valencia, Spain in the Conservatorio Superior de Danza. Sarah served on the Faculty of Caxton College, in Valencia, Spain, instructing courses in Drama and Modern Dance. While in Spain, she performed her original work and that of choreographer, Tim Glenn, in Tasia, a performing artists' exhibit in the heart of Valencia's main city center, in collaboration with Spanish classical guitarist, Ruben Hidalgo Garcia.

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"I love working with college students because they've already made that big choice, which can be scary depending on how supportive their family is. They've decided to major in an art form – because they love it that much. It's something they need in their lives."

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Addie Levandowski

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Addie

  • Trained at the Performing Arts Conservatory in Ocala, Florida in multiple dance styles
  • Received my Associate in Arts degree in Dance on a full ride scholarship at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida.
  • Choreographed and presented work for the American College Dance Association.

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  • Communications and Creative Services, S. F. C. (n.d.). Santa Fe College. Sebastian. https://www.sfcollege.edu/instructors/h/sarah-harkness-sebastian
  • Finder, E. (n.d.). Sarah Harkness-Sebastian, Santa Fe College. Sarah Harkness-Sebastian, Santa Fe College • Expertise Finder Network. https://network.expertisefinder.com/experts/sarah-harkness-sebastian
  • Jawole Willa jo zollar. Urban Bush Women. (n.d.). https://www.urbanbushwomen.org/the-founder
  • Jawole Willa jo zollar: Essay. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive. (2022a, April 19). https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/themes-essays/african-diaspora/jawole-willa-jo-zollar/
  • Jessie Dominguez Reyes: College of the arts: University of Florida. Jessie Dominguez Reyes | College of the Arts | University of Florida. (n.d.). https://arts.ufl.edu/directory/profile/226261
  • Katherine Dunham Bio. Institute for Dunham Technique Certification. (n.d.). https://www.dunhamcertification.org/katherine-dunham-bio
  • Katherine Dunham’s biography. The HistoryMakers. (n.d.). https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/katherine-dunham-40
  • Wikimedia Foundation. (2023a, May 22). Nikolai Yavorsky. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yavorsky
  • Wikimedia Foundation. (2023b, August 6). Alberto Alonso. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Alonso

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Nickolay Yavorsky

Nikolay

  • During World War I he was an artillery officer, during Russian Civil War he fought in the Armed Forces of South Russia.
  • Studied at the Odessa real school of St. Paul, since 1909 he took classical dance lessons from the soloist of the Odessa theater Kazimirov.
  • In 1922 Yavorsky was invited to the newly created ballet company of the National Theatre in Belgrade, where he worked under the guidance of Elena Polyakova and in 1928 he moved to Paris where he joined the ballet troupe of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
  • In 1929 Yavorsky joined the ballet company of the Opéra Privée created by Maria Kuznetsova-Benois that the same year left Paris for a road tour to Latin America. After the Opéra Privée dissolution in 1930 Yavorsky had to stay in Cuba for the lack of money to return to Europe.
  • In June 1931 he was invited to direct the dance school established by the Pro-Arte Musical society in Havana where he taught classical dance there till 1939.
  • In 1939 - 1941 Yavorsky managed his own ballet studio in Vedado district of Havana.

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

Jawole

  • Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the Founder/Visioning Partner of Urban Bush Women.
  • Jawole Willa Jo Zollar trained with Joseph Stevenson, a student of Katherine Dunham.
  • Earned her B.A. in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, she received her M.F.A. in dance from Florida State University.
  • In 1980 Jawole moved to New York City to study with Dianne McIntyre at Sounds in Motion. The two women were both interested in using African-American cultural elements as key components of their choreography, and this was especially true when it came to jazz music.
  • In 1984, Jawole founded Urban Bush Women (UBW) as a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change. In addition to 34 works for UBW, she has created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Philadanco, University of Maryland, Virginia Commonwealth University and others; and with collaborators including Compagnie Jant-Bi from Senegal and Nora Chipaumire. In 2006 Jawole received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for her work as choreographer/creator of Walking With Pearl…Southern Diaries. Featured in the PBS documentary, Free to Dance, which chronicles the African-American influence on modern dance, Jawole was designated a Master of Choreography by the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in 2005.
  • She serves as director of the Institute, founder/visioning partner of UBW and currently holds the position of the Nancy Smith Fichter Professor of Dance and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.

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Jessie Dominguez Reyes

Jessie

  • Jessie Dominguez is a highly accomplished and classically trained ballerina with an illustrious career spanning over two decades. Her journey began at the prestigious Alejo Carpentier Elementary School of Ballet in Havana, Cuba, in 1993. Over the years, she honed her skills at the Cuban National Ballet School Fernando Alonso, garnering numerous awards, including two silver medals in 1998 and 1999 and a gold medal in 2000 at the esteemed International Ballet Encounters of Academies Competitions for the Teaching of Ballet in Havana.
  • In 2001, Jessie graduated from the Cuban National Ballet School as a Distinguished Graduate and received the prestigious Gold Diploma, an honor bestowed upon only one person per graduating class. The same year, she joined the esteemed ranks of the world- renowned National Ballet of Cuba under the artistic-technical direction of the legendary founder and absolute prima ballerina Alicia Alonso. Her journey with the company commenced as a soloist, but her extraordinary talent propelled her rapidly to the position of principal dancer.
  • In 2016, Jessie Dominguez embraced a new chapter in her career, joining Dance Alive National Ballet in Gainesville, Florida, as a principal dancer and ballet professor for the company and school.
  • In 2021, Jessie joined the Santa Fe College staff as the esteemed ballet professor.

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