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| Daniela Hoff ( artistic
director/ choreographer/dancer/teacher) Daniela Hoff was born in Germany, where she also started her dance training. She worked with international teachers and choreographers, like Joachim Schloemer, Alberto Alarcon, Vera Sander, Ismael Ivo, with members of the Tanztheater Wuppertal/ Pina Bausch, including Malou Airaudo, Dominique Mercy and Anne Marie Benati and others. In Germany she presented her own choreography for the first time, which was positively reviewed in the press. In 1995 Daniela moved to Amsterdam/ Holland to study at the School for the Arts, Department for Modern Theater Dance. There she again had the pleasure to work with international choreographers and teachers, including Michele Ann de Mey, Marcelo Evelin, Laura Moro, Eileen Standly, Feri de Geus, Shaunie and the Angel, Pauline de Groot, Katie Duck and Livnat Raiz as part of her study, but also professionally. She also presented her own choreography at different festivals and venues including the Plankgas Festival, the ITS- Festival and the Phillip Morris Dance Theater. Since moving to New York in 1999 she has danced with Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow/Incidents Physical Theater, Pat Cremins, Mary Seidman, Erica Essner, Christine Suarez, Peggy Peloquin, Ariane Anthony, Patricia Nichelson, Stephen Koplowitz, as well as an improvisational group compromised of both musicians and dancers, which she also co-founded. Daniela received a Scholarship at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio. In NY her own work has been shown at the Williamsburg/ Greenpoint Dance Festival, the Cathedral Arts Festival/ NJ, the Wight Room Series, Hatch, Dancespace, RAW Material, the Cunningham Studio, WAX, SWEAT in NJ, the d.u.m.b.o. Dance Festival, the Cool New York Dance Festival,Triskelion Arts, the Flea Theater, Newsteps at the Mulberry Street Theater, CT meets NY Dance Fest in NY at DNA and in CT at the Crystal Theater, the Clark Studio Theater/ Lincoln Center, at Joyce Soho Presents and the DancenOw/NYC at DTW. In the summer of 2005, 2006 and 2007 Daniela has been on a residency supported by Dancenow/NYC/Silo. Recently Daniela Hoff Dance Company has been featured on the public access TV video program on MNN. In September 2005 she founded her company HoffTanzt, that turned February 2008 into Daniela Hoff Dance Company. |
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| Liza
Austria Miller ( dancer) Liza Austria, a native New Yorker, completed her early training at the Joffrey Ballet School in NY. She completed a degree in Dance, Community and Social Change from the Gallatin School at NYU. Liza has worked with a variety of teachers and choreographers throughout New York, including Francesca Corkle, Trinette Singleton, Deborah Damast, Alan Danielson and Airi Suzuki. In Belo Horizonte, Brazil she danced for the Compania de Sesi Minas, where she worked with choreographers Cristina Helena and Pablo Moret. She is currently studying dance with Christine Wright. In addition, Liza is the lead singer in the jazz and Brazilian band Mambola and is performing regularly in the NY region. She has been teaching Gyrotonic since 2004. Liza has been dancing with Daniela Hoff since September 2006 and enjoys being constantly challenged and inspired by Daniela! |
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| Preston Burger ( dancer) Preston Burger recently graduated from Princeton University with a BA Psychology and Certificate in Dance, where he studied with Meghan Durham, Rebecca Lazier, David Dorfman, Gabri Christa, and Ze'eva Cohen. Preston has performed in works by Lazier, Durham, Cohen, Christopher Williams, and Anna Sokolow. He also had the honor of working with Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer on their 2005 reconstruction of Prokofiev's Le Pas D'Acier, in which he was featured as a Commissar. Preston also appeared on CBS television in 2006 as a solo dancer in the introduction and commercial buffers for their annual special on the NCAA Championships. Preston is currently a scholarship student with Jennifer Muller/The Works, and will be dancing in upcoming projects with MariaColacoDance. This October, Preston will be presenting his own choreography in the HATCH Performance Series. Preston is also an amateur documentary filmmaker, and his films have been presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and various other museums and film festivals nationwide. |
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| Ellen
Cremer ( dancer- guest artist) Ellen Cremer, born in Germany, studied dance at Palucca University in Dresden, Germany and dance, improvisation and acting at the Theater School Amsterdam. Supported by a scholarship she had the opportunity to participate in several workshops with Inaki Azpillages, Wim Vandekeybus, Katie Duck and the SITI Intensive Workshop in Saratoga in the United States. Ellen worked with choreographers in New York and Europe, including Robert Allen, Edward Winslow, Erica Essner, Jochen Roller and Marianne Kimamong. She is a member of Palissimo Dance Theater since February 2005. |
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| Tomomi Imai ( dancer) Tomomi Imai came to New York from Tokyo, where she taught and was a resident member at the Yoshiki Hommma Modern Dance and Ballet Theater. She also performed as a soloist with the Kho Fujii Dance Company, which performances are sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Culture. She was a dance member of the Tsukuba Expo. Tomomi’s choreography has been presented at several theaters in Tokyo and has won awards at the Itabashi National Modern Dance Competition, Akita Modern Dance Competition and grand prizes at both the Kita-Kyushu and Asia National Modern Dance and the Matsudo Art Society Competitions. She dances whit the Pi Dance Theater, the Dance Imprints, Maxine Steinman, Regina Larkin, and in “AGORA”(Noemie Lafrance). She taught at the Adelphi University in Long Island City and the Peridance in New York and teaches Pilates. She will perform for Harkness Dance festival with Maxine Steinman 2006. |
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| Miranda Mikesh (
dancer) Miranda Mikesh received a BFA in dance from California Institute of the Arts in 2001. While there, she got the opportunity to study abroad at London Contemporary Dance School. After college, Miranda moved to San Diego, where she danced with Butterworth Dance Co. and Eclectica Dance Theater. She also studied with John Malashock, and taught an outreach program with his company. Miranda recently performed with Zuvuya Collective at ABC No Rio's Ides of March festival. She currently studies with Tiffany Mills, Barbara Mahler, and Haitian dance with Peniel Guerrier. |
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| Andrea Rossi ( dancer) Andrea Rossi, originally from Italy, graduated in the Fall 2004 at the Academy of Dramatic Art “Paolo Grassi” (Tanz-teater), Milan. In 2007 he moved to NY after studying ballet (Vaganova method) with Prisca Picano in Milan. He has worked with different choreographers including Susan Linke, Isamel Ivo and Avi Kaiser, Pablo Bronstein, Cindy Bernier and Merce Cunnigham and he has done actor work with the directors Giorgio Marini and Tescari. Andrea Rossi is currently studying Cunningham technique at the Cunningham Studio, New York. |
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| Mary
Seidman ( dancer- guest artist) Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, and Artistic Director of Mary Seidman and Dancers, Mary Seidman began her early dance training with Shirley Ririe and Joanne Woodbury from Utah. Ms. Seidman also studied in Boston, Mass. with Susan Rose and Joy Kellman and upon coming to New York in 1980, Ms. Seidman began training at the Merce Cunningham studio. She also studies ballet with Jocelyn Lorenz, in NYC. A gifted teacher, Ms. Seidman won the honored Hilla Ribay Teaching Artist Award in 1998 from the Solomon Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art Program. Ms. Seidman has been invited as a guest teacher to several Arts Conferences and Symposiums. She has also taught through the Young Audiences of NJ, CT., and NY, Morris NJ Arts Council, Suffolk County, NY BOCES, Duchess County and Westchester County NY BOCES, New York Foundation for the Arts, Early Stages Program, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and has been on faculty at Peridance Center, NYC. From 1990-98, Ms. Seidman operated her own school of dance in Chelsea, teaching New York City children, ages 18 months to 13 years of age. Ms. Seidman is also a faculty member at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY. Ms. Seidman’s dance company, Mary Seidman and Dancers, tours extensively, and performs in venues as Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space, Jacob`s Pillow, St. Mark`s Church, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, among others. |
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| Heidi Turzyn ( dancer) Heidi was born and raised in New York. She graduated from Hunter College with BA in Dance and Minor in Psychology. She is a versatile dancer trained in Ballet, Modern, Hip-hop, and Aerial Dance. In addition to dancing for Daniela Hoff Dance Company, she works with the Mary Seidman Company, and Fly-By-Night Dance Theater. She has had the pleasure of dancing for Nichole Arvin, Chase Brock, Asami Morita, and T.Lion/Body Stories. Heidi enjoys exploring new ways of approaching dance; taking pleasure in new challenges that help her go beyond herself. She is also an active choreographer in the New York dance community. |
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| Richard Miller (
composer) Richard Miller is a composer and saxophonist currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. His works have been performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the MOSA Concert Series in NYC, and at the Manhattan School of Music. He is also an active jazz saxophonist and arranger in New York City, and has earned a degree in Jazz Performance from William Paterson University. Richard is currently studying composition with Paul Caputo. |