MAY 16 - 18 Workshop
Jim Vincent - University Faculty
Jim Vincent is a freelance artist and creative consultant d.b.a. ONE-DER-BOX, LLC. He has more than 35 years of entertainment & cultural experience through his work in theater, music, dance, film, special events, theme parks & site-specific installations.
For more than 25 years Jim held positions with prestigious. companies like Nederlands Dans Theater, The Royal Conservatory of the Hague (Holland), National Opera of Lyon (France) and Compañia Nacional de Danza (Spain).
In 2000 he returned to the US to become the Artistic Director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. During his tenure with HSDC, he collaborated with and commissioned works by Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Christopher Bruce, Johan Inger, Jorma Elo, Trey McIntyre, Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, Toru Shimazaki, Andrea Miller, Marguerite Donlon, Susan Marshall, Daniel Ezralow, Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, and Lucas Crandall.
He was then invited back to Holland in 2009 and appointed Artistic Director of the Nederlands Dans Theater through 2012. During his tenure there, he commissioned new works by Jiri Kylian, Crystal Pite, Alexander Ekman, Aszure Barton, Marco Goecke, Alejandro Cerrudo, Ivan Perez, Amanda Miller, Johan Inger, Lightfoot/Leon and Medhi Walerski for both NDT I and NDT II.
As a choreographer, Vincent created works for NDT I, NDT II, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Bern Ballett (Switzerland) and realized collaborative projects with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Hollywood Bowl, St Louis Symphony,
From 2012 to 2018 he was an Executive Creative Director with the Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Ent.
Since 2018 he has been engaged in teaching, adjudication, residencies, creations and restagings at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Point Park, University of AZ, UNC School of the Arts, LACHSA, CALARTS, USC Kaufman, New Century Dance Project, The Lawrenceville School, Dance Conservatory of Pasadena, Laguna Dance Festival, San Francisco Danceworks, SLO Movement Arts, International School of Los Angeles, DIAVOLO - Architecture in Motion, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
Vincent is a former member of the advisory boards of UNCSA and USC Kaufman School of Dance and an alumnus of the Lawrenceville School and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Bruce McCormick - Faculty, USC Kaufman
Bruce McCormick is an educator, choreographer, performer and scholar. He earned his BFA from The Juilliard School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy and his MFA from the University of Washington, where he also worked as Assistant Professor of Dance. He joined the faculty at the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance in 2018 where he serves as Associate Professor of Practice.
Originally from New Jersey, he trained with the Vineland Regional Dance Company and the Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet, spending summers at the School of American Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Boston Ballet and as a private student of Maestro Héctor Zaraspe in Argentina and Ecuador. He performed in 12 countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Guest Rehearsal Director with Ballet BC.
His most recent festival credits include Against the Grain/Men in Dance, Dance Deck, the Seattle International Dance Festival, the International Festival of Contemporary Dance of Mexico City and the ITS Festival in Amsterdam. He has presented for the National Dance Education Organization and CORPS de Ballet International, and his scholarship has been published by The International Journal of Arts Theory and History.
Fiona Lummis Eddy - Faculty, USC Kaufman
Fiona Lummis was a principal dancer for two decades with the Netherlands Dance Theatre, and was involved in over thirty creations by Jiri Kylian, Hans Van Manen, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Christopher Bruce and Mats Ek among other choreographers, as well as dancing featured roles in ballets by William Forsythe, Jerome Robbins, Lar Lubovitch and Glen Tetley and many more. Ms. Lummis is a graduate of the Elmhurst School of Dance in Birmingham, England and the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London.
Fiona is now on faculty at LACHSA as well as ballet, repertoire, and admissions faculty at USC Kaufman School of Dance.
Julianne Pedersen - Dean and Chair, Chapman University Dance
Julianne O’Brien Pedersen has a background in the field of dance as a performer, choreographer, academic leader, and dance educator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Connecticut College, a Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University, and is certified yoga instructor and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst.
Prior to joining Chapman University, she served as the Dean of the School of Dance at Dean College in Massachusetts and as program director and professor at Eastern Michigan University. She teaches modern techniques, pedagogy, dance history, yoga, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban movement analysis, improvisation, and choreography.
Julianne performed as a founding member and soloist for fourteen years with the Peter Sparling Dance Company. While with Sparling, who was a member of both the Limon Company and the Graham Company, she had the opportunity to train deeply in two foundational modern techniques. She has also had the privilege of performing with William (Bill) Evans, and in repertory by Isadora Duncan set by Lori Bellilove. She has choreographed more than sixty works that have been seen in venues across the states and in El Salvador and received recognition for choreography including funding from the US Embassy in El Salvador, and selection for the American College Regional Dance Festival finale.
An interest in K–12 movement integration curriculum has spanned two decades: receiving several grants from the Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children to work with under-served middle schoolers; working with the Malashock Dance School on teaching residencies and math in motion curriculum; and spear- heading movement curriculum into MA public schools in partnership with college internship programs.
She has presented at numerous conferences, most recently including the Somatic Dance Conference (2022), The National Association for Schools of Dance (2023), The National Dance Education Conference (2023), and the Dance and the Child International Conference (2024).
Paige Borowski - Event Artistic Director
Paige Borowski received her BFA degree from The Juilliard School in 2018. There she studied under world renowned instructors and choreographers, including: Jiri Kylian, Crystal Pite, Aszure Barton, Ohad Naharin, Pam Tanowitz, and Bobbi Jene Smith. She continued on to dance in Switzerland for the Ballett Theater Basel where she performed and toured works by Bryan Arias, Johan Inger, Jiri Porkorny, Alexander Ekman, and Sharon Eyal.
In addition, Paige was on faculty for the Ballettschule Theater Basel, where she assisted in developing their Modern and youth programs. Paige has been on faculty at Orange County High School of the Arts and is now the founder and director of the first collegiate arts preparation agency and program, Collegiate Arts Prep. Paige currently continues to live and work in Orange County, CA.
Jennifer Lott -Faculty, USC Kaufman
Jennifer McQuiston Lott joined the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as an Assistant Professor in 2016. She is the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of the Traverse City Dance Project, a seasonal company based in Traverse City, Mich. In 2018, she became the eighth teacher in the United States of Countertechnique, a revolutionary contemporary practice developed by Dutch choreographer Anouk Van Dijk.
Lott earned her BFA in Ballet Performance from Indiana University, and her MFA in Dance from the University of California, Irvine, where she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship and numerous scholarships. She is certified in GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® and is an ABT® Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. She has served on the faculty of Interlochen Summer Arts Camp and taught master classes and workshops nationally and internationally.
Gracie Whyte - Faculty, UCLA & LMU
Gracie Whyte is a contemporary movement designer whose work comprises choreography, performance, production, education, and entrepreneurship. Gracie received her professional training from London Contemporary Dance School, where she received a Masters degree in Contemporary Dance Performance. In 2014, Gracie relocated to Los Angeles, where she co-founded choreographic platform WHYTEBERG and educational platform Ground Grooves with her creative and business partner, Laura Berg. Through WHYTEBERG, Gracie has performed, choreographed, and produced for film, stage, music videos, and site-specific productions, working with prominent artists, producers, and platforms, such as Mac Miller (Grammy and MTV Video Music Award Nominee), Anderson .Paak (Grammy Award Winner), Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (US Billboard top 10 musician), and TEDxUCLA. Gracie currently teaches at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Liz Maxwell - Faculty, Chapman University Dance
Liz Maxwell, MFA, CLMA, RSME, is an associate professor of dance at Chapman University, specializing in teaching somatic disciplines, modern dance techniques, dance history, and choreography. She received her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School of Music. There, she worked with such leading figures as Hanya Holm, Paul Taylor, Daniel Lewis, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Alfredo Corvino, Anna Sokolow, and Martha Hill. Upon graduation she continued her performance studies in New York with Dan Wagoner, Jocelyn Lorenz, Alfredo Corvino, Irene Hultman, Vicky Shick, Merce Cunningham, Mel Wong, and Maggie Black.
Liz went on to earn her MFA in Dance at the University of Washington’s unique “returning professional” program where she honed an interest in dance aesthetics and philosophy. While attending UW, she was a member of the Chamber Dance Ensemble, a company dedicated to the preservation and reconstruction of historically significant dance works, and there performed in seminal works. In addition, she is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CLMA) through Integrated Movement Studies (IMS), and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).