Curriculum Vitae

Home(s): Csantavér, Vojvodina, Serbia & Berkeley, California, USA

Born 1979 in Tucson, Arizona, USA

Languages:
Mother tongue - English
Upper-intermediate understanding of Hungarian


Teaching

2011
"Culture of Movement"

Ongoing weekly sessions for students of the Kosztolányi Dezső (Gimnázium) Philological Grammar School
Szabadka/Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia

2010

"Culture of Movement"

From September: weekly sessions for students of the Kosztolányi Dezső (Gimnázium) Philological Grammar School
Szabadka/Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia

Mozdulatművészeti Stúdió
November 13-14
Budapest, Hungary

"Sensitivity and Atmosphere"
Mozdulatművészeti Stúdió
August 23-26
Budapest, Hungary

Indoor Environment
Kunst-Stoff arts
San Francisco, California
August 14-15

Outdoor environment
Inverness, California
August 7-8

"Sensitivity and Atmosphere"
Mozdulatművészeti Stúdió
Budapest, Hungary
February 27-28

"Sensitivity and Atmosphere"
Mozdulatművészeti Stúdió
in conjunction with the Szóló Duó International Dance Festival
Budapest, Hungary
January 8-10

2009

Workshops for children of mixed ethnicity, co-taught by Visnja Obradović
Novi Sad, Serbia
October 31 and December 12

Dance Improvisation and Exploration
Mozdulatművészeti Stúdió
Budapest, Hungary
March 20-22

2008

October
One-day workshop for the Hungarian students of the acting department at the Novi Sad Academy of Arts
Novi Sad, Serbia

September
Three-day workshop for the actors of the Kosztolányi Dezső Színház
Szabadka, Serbia

2006 to 2008

Assistant to and apprentice under Anna Halprin during her bi-weekly classes
Mountain Home Studio
Kentfield, California

Autumn 2005

Guest Teacher - teaching creative movement, ballet and contemporary dance
The Royal Academy of Ballet
Napa, California


Training (not including performance projects)
(Chronological order within fields of influence)

Anna Halprin and the Sea Ranch Collective:
-Certified instructor of Movement Ritual (2008)
-Three-time invitation to work and collaborate at The Sea Ranch
The Sea Ranch, Mendocino County, California, August 2005/2006 and September 2007
-Regular bi-weekly classes at the Mountain Home Studio
Kentfield, CA - 2005 to 2008
-annahalprin.org

Body Weather Laboratory:
-"Dance on Land" : one week workshop in the environment of California's northern coast with Dana and Shinichi Iova-Koga and Sherwood Chen in Petrolia, CA - August 2009
-inkboat.com
-Regular workshops with Sherwood Chen in San Francisco, CA, 2004 to 2008
-sherwoodchen.com
-Oguri (Body Weather Laboratory USA) in Venice, CA (since 2006, whenever in LA)
- lightningshadow.com
-One week workshop with Min Tanaka and Shiho Ishihara in Horgos, Serbia, June 2006
- min-tanaka.com

Paratheatrical Research
-Alchemy Lab with Antero Alli
March 12th through June 15th, 2006. Berkeley California and beyond
- paratheatrical.com

Butoh
-Four training events with Midoh Ohmura in a living room in Göttingen, Germany, learning his unique merging of Yoshito Ohno's butoh and his own method acting training, Spring 2009
- midohohmura
-Workshop with Tadashi Endo, Göttingen, Germany, December 2008
- tadashi-endo.de
-Workshop with Ryuzo Fukuhara, San Francisco, CA February 2006
-One week workshop with Shinichi Iova-Koga (aka: Momo Io)
Montana, August 2005

Movement research
-Barbara Mahler (Klein/Mahler Technique)
One week workshop in SF, 2003 plus visitations in NYC, NY - 2004
-Sara Shelton Mann
½ year of rehearsals for a performance that never happened, SF, CA - 2006

Modern Dance
-Martha Graham-based technique taught by Chris Dolder and Marni Thomas Wood
UC Berkeley, CA - 2003-2005
-Received a scholarship to attend the Winter intensive at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
New York - January 2004
-José Limón Summer Intensives with Sara Stackhouse
Oakland, CA - 2003 and 2005
-Daily classes with Liz Burritt at UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA - Summer 2005
-Weekend workshop with Miguel Gutierrez
San Francisco, CA - Summer 2005
-Danced and performed for modern dance group Triada under the direction of Janet Welsh
Oakland, CA - 2002-2003

Classical Ballet
-Beth Hoge and Danspace
Oakland, CA - 2001 to 2006
-Ernesta Corvino
New York, NY - January 2004
-Andra and Ernesta Corvino
Annual two-week summer workshops at Danspace
Oakland, CA - June 2001-2006

Martial Arts
-Judo
2010 to present - Csantavér/Čantavir, Serbia
-Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu
1997 to 2000 - Tucson, AZ - Yamaneko (no longer affiliated)
Solo training since 2000 with brief teaching exploits and visits to Warrior Wind Dojo and the SF Bujinkan Dojo (Dale Seago)
-Shodan awarded 2001 in Tucson, awarded by Todd Luethjohann

Massage
-24 hours training fundamentals with Steve Coleman
San Francisco, CA – 2005

Somatic Bodywork
-Intrinsic Synergy ~ Sensory-based integration for body and soul
Under Rei McColly (founder)
Personal apprenticeship since 2006


Performances

2010

I.nter S.ex
Tour of Germany
January 23 – February 21

2009

I.nter S.ex
Choreography: Tadashi Endo
Concept: Harald Wolff
Premiere: September 26 - Junges Theatre, Göttingen, Germany

Admeto, re di Tessaglia (Admetus, King of Thessaly; HVW 22)
-an Opera in three Acts by George Frideric Handel
Direction: Doris Dörrie
Conductor: Nicholas McGegan
Choreographer: Tadashi Endo
Göttingen International Handel Festival and the International Festival Edinburgh
Premiere: May 26 – Deutsches Theater, Göttingen, Germany
Scotland premiere: August 28 - Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland

2008

May
- "thirty seven isolated events"
Choreography: paige starling sorvillo / blindsight, co-presented by CounterPULSE as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival
Media-artist: Lucy HG (LA, California)
Composers: Susan Hawkins (AUS/UK) and Liz Allbee (Oakland, California)
Premier: May 22 – CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

2007

September
- Bare Bones Butoh VIII
One night, one piece in San Francisco
Choreography: Benjamin Jarrett
Solo - recycled beach score from Sea Ranch 2007, using J.S. Bach: Partita In E Major, "Loure," played on the cimbalom by Aladár Rácz
“utter failure”

August
- Dijalog I
Solo improvisation with musicians Ivana Grahovac (Cello) and Rastko Lazić (Electronics)
OЗONE Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia

July
- Bare Bones Butoh VII
Two nights, two pieces in San Francisco:
1. Improvisational duet, "Dialogue #2" with musician Phillip Gelb playing shakuhachi
2. Recycle of "In My Solitude..." from Sept. 2006, music: Igor Stravinsky's "Russian Maiden's Song."

June
- The Flower of the Season, “Magnolia”
Solo performance at the Electric Lounge in Venice, California.
Facilitated by Body Weather Laboratory USA (Oguri and Roxanne Steinberg)
Music: Arnie Saiki and Robert Scott

May
- Seasons: Part III "Awaken"
Performance with the Sea Ranch Collective in Kentfield, California under the direction of Anna Halprin

2006

September
- "In my solitude ..."
Solo performance at the Lotus Studio in Mt. Shasta City on the 1st as the product of a week's residency at the Round the Mountain yurt owned by Alexander Zendzian and Ray Pettengell.

January
- "Parades and Changes," "Intensive Care," and "En Route"
Performance with Anna Halprin and her Sea Ranch Collective at the SFJCC
Music by Morton Subotnick and lighting by Nick Cave