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2024 Dance GPS Level 2 & 3


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9/23/2022 9:00:00 AM

2024 Dance GPS Level 2 & 3

2024


Holly Raschein

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Materials

Agenda Files

Dance2Scoregrid.pdf
DanceLevel2&3PanelNotebook.pdf
gps-scp-rubric-2024.pdf

Panelists (9)

Klein, Demetrius

  • County: Palm Beach County

Bio:

County: PalmBeach

Bio

  • Artistic Director, Demetrius Klein Dance Company, West Palm Beach, Florida
  • Recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient; National Endowment for the Arts Choreographers Fellowship
  • Two-time Bessie Award Nominee
  • B.S., General Studies, Palm Beach Atlantic University; B.F.A., Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; B.F.A., Dance, Full Scholarship, Wright State University, Fairborn, Ohio

Peterson, Karen

  • County: Miami-Dade County

Bio:

County: MiamiDade

Bio

  • Founder and Artistic Director, Karen Peterson and Dancers and “The Forward Motion Dance Festival and Conference of Physically Integrated Dance” (2018-2022)
  •  25 works in the KPD repertory as lead choreographer
  • Recipient of Knight Foundation Award, NEA and Funding Arts Network company Awards for “Forward Motion”; Lifetime Achievement Award from the New World School of the Arts; The Boston Conservatory at Berklee Alumni Entrepreneurial Award for performances at the Judson Church, NYC,  
  • American Red Cross-Cultural Award; State of Florida: Citizens For Florida Arts and Artist Opportunity Award; Cultural Exchange Fund from APAP for international travel; Choreographic Fellowship Awards from Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, DMC 2017, 2019; Choreographic Fellowship Awards from the Division of Cultural Affairs in 1995, 2005;
  • a 2022 recipient for The Boston Conservatory at Berklee School of Music Alumni Achievement Awards for her “dedicated work in the field and contributions to society”; invitation to  join “Beyond Barriers, Boundaries and Beliefs” a national NEA funded physically integrated dance tour to Cleveland, Brooklyn and Miami with Dancing Wheels and Heidi Latsky Dance, June 2022


Pinsky, Susan

  • County: Brevard County

Bio:

County: Brevard

Bio

  • Board Member, Grant Writing Chairperson and Chair of Public Relations, Melbourne City Ballet Theatre, Melbourne, Florida
  • Working in private practice as of August 2022
  • Former Family Medicine Physician for the Uninsured and Underserved, Treasure Coast Community Health Center, Melbourne, Florida
  • High School State Champion, Original Oratory
  • M.D., Ohio State University College of Medicine; Columbus, Ohio; Residency at University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine; Integrative Medicine Fellowship, University of Arizona; Master in Public Health and Fellowship in Women's Health, UCLA School of Public Health; B.A., Dance/ Theatre; B.S., Biology/Chemistry, University of Toledo Ohio; Studied at Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute Los Angeles 

Schnell, Adam

  • County: Indian River County

Bio:

County: IndianRiver

Bio


  • Founder/Executive Director/CEO, Ballet Vero Beach, Vero Beach, Florida
  • Trained at Walnut Hill School for the Arts and danced professionally throughout the United States and abroad
  • Member of the Thomas Jefferson High School Alumni "Hall of Fame"
  • Contributor/Supporter of the Arts Council
  • M.S., Arts Administration, Drexel University; B.A. with a double major in Arts Management and Dance Education, SUNY Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, New York


Nunez, Paula

  • County: Hillsborough County

Bio:

County: Hillsborough

Bio

  • Artistic Director & Founder, Tampa City Ballet, Tampa, Florida
  • Faculty Member, Dance Department, University of South Florida, Tampa
  • Founder, America’s Ballet School, Tampa; and Fundacion Ballet de las Americas, Venezuela
  • Paula Nunez has 30 years of experience in the performing arts world which includes performing as Principal Dancer internationally and nationally with Ballet Nuevo Mundo, the renowned Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, and the International Ballet of Caracas.
  • She has collaborated with the Florida Orchestra, Florida Museum of Photography, the Glazer Children’s Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Ybor City and launched seven world premiers.
  • Recipient, USF Hispanic Woman of the Year Award.
  • B.A., Graphic Design, Colegio Universitario Monseñor Talavera-Venezuela

Phillips, Erin

  • County: Polk County

Bio:

County: Polk

Bio

  • Program Director and Associate Professor, Dance Program, Florida Southern College
  • Erin LaSala Phillips has worked as a free-lance choreographer throughout the U.S. and her choreography has been performed and recognized in numerous national and international dance festivals and venues, including the American Dance Guild Festival in NYC and the Your Move New Jersey Dance Festival.
  • She has been an invited international guest artist at the 33 35 Dance Intensive at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus as well as is a guest artist at various universities, dance festivals, and dance intensives each year.
  • Former Dance Education Coordinator at Kent State University and Director of the Jacksonville University Summer Dance Intensive, and instructor at several institutions including the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Winthrop University Summer Program.
  • Co-author of “Dance and Culture” published by Great River Learning.
  • 2021-2022 Featured Academic, Florida Southern College Vertex Magazine
  • M.F.A. in Dance Choreography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and B.A. in Dance Education, University of South Florida.

Pihos, Melissa

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  • Associate Professor of Dance at Valdosta State University (Tenured) and Artistic Director of PIHOS A Moving Biography
  • Previously, Adjunct Professor of Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of North Caroline at Charlotte, Salem College, High Point University; and Dance Convention Faculty for Gear Up Dance Convention, Dance Machine Dance Convention, and Xtreme Dance Convention
  • Danced for Flatlands Dance Theatre, Larry Keigwin, Van Dyke Dance Group, John Gamble Dance Theatre, and Sidelong Dance Company
  • National Judge for Dance Machine Dance Competition, Boogie Fever, and Xtreme Dance Challenge
  • M.F.A., Dance/Choreography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; B.A., Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro


     

 

Phillips, Erin

  • County: Polk County

Bio:

County: Polk

Bio

  • Program Director and Associate Professor, Dance Program, Florida Southern College
  • Previously, Dance Education Coordinator, Kent State University; Director of the Jacksonville University Summer Dance Intensive, and instructor at several institutions including the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Winthrop University Summer Program
  • Co-author of “Dance and Culture” published by Great River Learning
  • 2021-2022 Featured Academic, Florida Southern College Vertex Magazine
  • M.F.A., Dance Choreography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and B.A., Dance Education, University of South Florida

Nunez, Paula

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