Summer Intensive 2005 Faculty |
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Elaine Gardner |
Benedetta Capanna |
Colin Connor |
Debra Noble |
| Elaine Gardner (on separate page) |
Benedetta Capanna is a dancer and yoga teacher from Rome, Italy. There she started her artistic and performing carrer in 1992 touring extensively in Europe, North and South America. She danced and acted with the Teatro Bellini of Naples in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the role of Titania for two seasons. She has appeared in music videos and TV ads, and has won several poetry awards as well. In The New York Times she has been recognized as an outstanding performer and actress.
Yoga now has a huge influence in her artistic productions. She has taught yoga at the Integral Yoga Institute, the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and at the New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble, where she also taught modern dance and improvisation.
In Rome she is working on her own choreographic projects, collaborating with the percussionist Oscar Bonelli. Together they are performing in several artistic and social venues and festivals. |
Colin Connor was a soloist with the Limon Dance Company for eight years. Born in London, England, he began dancing in Canada, and moved to New York, where he danced with the Mary Anthony Dance Theater. Mr. Connor has been on the faculties of The Juilliard School, NYU, and the City College of New York (where he was also Choreographer in Residence), and is presently on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts. He has also been a guest teacher at many of the finest training centers in the world including The Place in London, the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, Jacob's Pillow, the Palucca Schule, in Dresden, the Joffrey Summer Workshop, the Dance Studio, in Novosibirsk, Siberia and the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. |
For the last twenty years, Debra Noble has been dancing with some of the foremost American choreographers, teaching a broad range of dance techniques and related studies, choreographing widely, performing her own solo work, and, for ten years, directing her own company. Her work has been presented in the United States, Europe, and Central America. Ms. Noble is currently an Assistant Professor in the dance program at California State University at Fullerton. She has been guest faculty at The Limon Institute of New York City, Ballet Moderno y Folklorico de Guatemala, University of Nevada, The University of Vera Cruz Mexico, Pasadena Dance Theatre, Saint Joseph's Ballet, Pasadena Civic Ballet and at Cal Arts. |