ttgsf guest artists
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Rena Butler hails from Chicago, IL, and began her studies at The Chicago Academy for the Arts. She studied overseas at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Rena performed with companies including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, AIM by Kyle Abraham, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, The Kevin Wynn Collection, Pasos Con Sabor Salsa Dance Company, and Gibney Company.
Photo | Nir Arieli
Rena Butler
Sidra Bell is the founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York and a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She has been an artist in residence at University of Oklahoma (Brackett Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair), Visiting Lecturer and Artist in Residence at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Professor at Barnard College. Bell received a BA in History from Yale and an MFA in Choreography from Purchase College. She is the founder of the award winning MODULE Laboratory. Bell has won awards for her work, notably a First Prize for Choreography at the Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, a National Dance Project Production Award from NEFA and Creative Capital Wild Futures Award. In 2017 Mayor Thomas Roach named February 3 "Sidra Bell Day" in White Plains, NY. Her work has been seen throughout the United States and in Denmark, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, China, Canada, Aruba, Korea, Brazil, and Greece.
Sidra Bell
David Harvey is a Seattle-based dance artist. He danced for Alonzo King Lines Ballet from 2008-2014, and has since worked with choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith, Sarah Foster-Sproull, Tom Weinberger and Lavinia Vago. He was a member of Kate Wallich’s The YC, has guested with Contemporary Dance Wyoming and has been a collaborator of Out InnerSpace Dance Theatre since 2017. Harvey was an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow at Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU in 2021. His latest work, Chimera, a collaboration with Babatunji Johnson, was presented as a part of ODC’s 2024 State of Play Festival.
Photo | Quinn Wharton
David Harvey
Natasha Adorlee is an Emmy Award-winning choreographer, filmmaker, composer, and educator based in San Francisco, CA. A first-generation Asian American woman, she was the final Artistic Fellow with Amy Seiwert's Imagery. Natasha began choreographing in 2016 while maintaining an award-winning dance career with Robert Moses' Kin, ODC/Dance, Kate Weare and Co., and The San Francisco Symphony.
After winning over ten international awards for her acclaimed short film Take Your Time in 2018, she has been a sought-after filmmaker, choreographer, and composer ever since. After attending SUNY Purchase and graduating from UC Berkeley, Natasha was invited to join ODC/Dance. As a performer, Natasha has danced a vast repertoire of works and contributed original choreography, sound design, and art direction to over 20+ ODC/Dance repertory works.
Natasha Adorlee
Alejandro Perez is a first-generation Mexican-American from Los Angeles, California, wherein he has been a tangible presence in the dance community and beyond, first seen performing internationally in a street dancing crew. An alum of the LINES Ballet Training Program, he has been a dancer and collaborator with Sidra Bell NYC, ISHIDA Dance, Dawsondancesf, ZiRu Dance, Mike Tyus & Co, in addition to other companies throughout the United States. Alejandro believes fervently in supporting young artists, and in recent years has focused primarily on teaching opportunities. He has created and set work on California School for the Arts, LINES Ballet Training and Summer Programs, for Youth America Grand Prix, and Joffrey Ballet Academy Training Program and Studio Company.
Alejandro Perez
Gretchen Ackerman, raised in Michigan, is a performance artist based in Los Angeles. An alum of the LINES Ballet Training Program, her research studies the enigmatic design of the human experience. She builds and performs solo works, as well as project-based works throughout LA and the US. She is a collaborator with visual artist, Iva Gueorguieva, and has been fortunate to work with creators such as Rosana Gameson, Derion Loman, Alejandro Perez, Mike Tyus, Luca Renzi, Philein Wong, Mark Caserta, and Sidra Bell, in intimate processes.
Gretchen Ackerman