Background:  

Danceworks will feature choreography from:

·        Daniela Wancier, GW Senior – Transfiguration #1: Arrangement in glass, sculpture and painting. 

Wancier is a Presidential Arts Scholar in dance, double majoring in art history and

dance.

·        Laurel Grey, GW faculty – Performing an Islamic dance, the Egyptian raqs sharqui.

Grey currently teaches weekly classes at the Joy of Motion Dance Center and a course on dances of the Islamic world at GW.

·        Neil Greenberg, GW Department of Theatre & Dance guest artist  – Construction 2: Autobiography.

Greenberg has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”), as well as choreographer’s fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

·        Tracy Marion, GW visiting student – Common Ground.

Marion is a senior dance major from Smith College in Massachusetts, who has conducted workshops and classes at private academies in Western Massachusetts and schools throughout northern Ohio.

·        Anthony Gongora, GW adjunct faculty – I Want to Want I Want to Have.

Gongora has received choreographic awards from Chicago Arts Council, Chicago Council of Fine Arts, Unicorn Foundation and the Asheville Arts Alliance.

·        Tommy Parlon, GW adjunct faculty – Rail.
Parlon’s choreography is produced throughout the United States.  He is the Artistic Associate of Ground Zero Dance in Richmond, VA and performs with City Dance Ensemble in Washington.

For more information please visit www.gwu.edu/~theatre, call (202) 994-6178

or e-mail trdanews@gwu.edu.

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