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Stephen Aubuchon |
Montreal born artist Stephen Aubuchon turned to Stephen's current interests are in minimalist landscapes
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Amy Love Beasley |
Amy Love Beasley is an artist whose investigations explore visual and moving mediums.. She received a BA in Visual Arts, with a minor in dance, from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where she also danced with The Robert Ivey Ballet. Beasley has had the good fortune of participating as a performing artist in works by various choreographers including Gerri Houlihan, Niki Juralewicz, BJ Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Talani Torres, Christina Tsoules Soriano, and Jan Van Dyke, and she is currently a member of John Gamble Dance Theatre. In the spring of 2007, she received her MFA in Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently teaches as an adjunct faculty member at UNCG and at Elon University. She continues to explore her crafts, creating and performing in North Carolina. |
| J.C. Bobbitt | |
A native of Winston Salem, J.C. Bobbitt is proud to be involved with CTS Dance and this production of Petitions. He is a double major in theatre and English at Wake Forest University. This is his first time as a lead lighting designer. He has assistant designed a University Theatre production of Wings and served as a master electrician on numerous productions. He was the assistant stage manager for the Wake Forest Dance Company’s productions last year, and served as stage manager for this year’s fall concert. In the summer of 2007 J.C. worked at Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, FL as an assistant stage manager on deck for the premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots. Other credits throughout his technical theatre background include, Psycho Beach Party, Nine: The Musical, Twelve Angry Men, South Pacific, Peter Pan, Romeo & Juliet, An Enemy of the People, An Evening With Dead Essex and, Machinal. He would like to take the opportunity to thank all those who have made this show successful and flow so smoothly including Christina and the dancers. He would also like to thank Jon Christman for his guidance throughout this process. Finally, he would like to thank all those that are here to see the show tonight. “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ~ Oscar Wild
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Sarah Klyap |
| Sarah Klyap is a recent graduate of Wake Forest University where she received a BS in Physics and minored in Dance. At Wake, she was a member of the Wake Forest Dance Company for four years and served as the Treasurer of the company in her senior year. Sarah will be teaching high school physics in the Bay Area next year as a corps member of Teach For America. Originally from Columbia, Maryland, Sarah has been dancing since the tender age of three and has studied ballet (Cecchetti Method), jazz, tap, and modern dance. She plans to continue dancing in San Francisco next year. Sarah has enjoyed working with Christina at Wake and is excited to be touring with CTS Dance this Summer. |
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Jennifer McNure |
Jennifer McNure is in her tenth season with the John Gamble Dance Theater. She received her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1998. Subsequently, she has performed and choreographed throughout the state in works featured in the Bickett Gallery, Falling Grounded, the Greensboro Fringe Festival, Here and Forward, Multiple Exposure: Dance and Images, the North Carolina Dance Festival, NC Dance Project’s Saturday Series, Physical Initiation, and Two Nights of Rain. In recent years, she attributes her choreographic inspiration and vision to her work with fellow choreographer and performer, Ashlee Jo Ramsey. This summer, she will tour the northeast with CTS Dance.
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Katie Miller |
Katie Miller is a Sophomore at Wake Forest University from Athens Georgia. She is currently in the Wake Forest Dance Company and has been working with Christina for 2 years now. While living in Nova Scotia Canada, Katie Danced with Halifax Dance and was a member of the Young Company and performed in their spring show and Then Nutcracker for several years. She hopes to one day become a physical therapist and continue to work with dance in her practice. Katie enjoys working with Christina and hopes for many more performances to come! |
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Ashlee Ramsey |
Ashlee Ramsey received a BFA in Dance in December of 2004 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since graduating, she has produced and curated two dance concerts—Physical Initiation: An Evening of Modern Dance in 2006, and Falling Grounded: A Modern Dance Performance in 2007. Ms. Ramsey has taught modern dance, creative movement, ballet, and improvisation for Greensboro City Arts since 2005 as well as for Artistic Motion School of Dance since 2005, and most recently for the North Carolina Dance Project. Since graduating Ms. Ramsey has had the privilege of dancing for Sean Sullivan, Amy Beasley, and Christine Kiernan. For the past two years she has toured the North Carolina Dance Festival as a dancer for Christina Tsoules-Soriano and for the John Gamble Dance Theatre. Ms. Ramsey has choreographed 13 dance works and performed in over 30 dance concerts and venues throughout North Carolina. Her work is marked by collaboration with dancers Jennifer McNure, Kathryn Ullom and Renay Aumiller and with Raleigh-based musical group PHON. In 2008, Ms. Ramsey and poet Clement Mallory received funding from the United Arts Council to teach Moving Words, a poetry and dance fusion curriculum they have collaboratively developed to implement into after-school programs at Greensboro Recreational Centers.
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Jennifer Reppucci |
Jennifer Reppucci is from Naples, Florida and a rising junior at Wake Forest University. She is majoring in Health and Exercise Science with a minor in Dance. Jennifer has been dancing for as long as she can remember and got her first taste of the stage at Rhode Island College when she was four years old. She is trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical, and modern. She was the captain of her high school’s dance team for two years and has danced in the Miami City Ballet’s “Nutcracker”. She has also taken numerous classes with Hubbard Street Dance Company. Currently, Jennifer is a member of the Wake Forest Dance Company. She is delighted to be touring with Christina Soriano and the rest of the “Petitions” dancers and hopes to peruse some aspect of professional dance later on in life. She would like to thank her mom for introducing her to the world of dance; she can’t imagine her life without it! |
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Katherine Kiefer Stark |
Katherine Kiefer Stark grew up outside of Philadelphia. After graduating from Connecticut College in 2002, Katherine moved to New York City where she danced with Luis Lara Malvacias, Meghan McCoy, and Deganit Shemy. Katherine arrived in North Carolina in December 2005. In North Carolina, she has danced with Immediate Theatre collaborated with choreographer Courtney Greer, and become a member of Choreo collective. Currently, she is dancing for Christina Tsoules Soriano and earning her MFA in choreography at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In addition to being a student, Katherine is a teaching assistant. She teaches contemporary technique and dance appreciation. Katherine has presented her own work in Connecticut, Philadelphia, New York, and North Carolina.
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Brooke Vogel |
Brooke Vogel is a first year law student at the University Of Nebraska College Of Law in Lincoln, NE. Brooke graduated with a BA in Philosophy in 2007 from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. In addition to studying philosophy, Brooke was an Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise and Dance double minor. Brooke is interested in drawing interdisciplinary correlations between philosophy and law and the arts. Brooke spent a semester in France studying the philosophy of aesthetics of paintings, architecture, and dance. In addition to pursuing performance and choreography opportunities, Brooke aspires to create a non-profit public service organization dedicated to providing legal assistance to Midwestern artists and arts organizations in need of help regarding arts-related problems in an effort to nurture the Midwest’s creative economy. |
