Panelists
2016-2017 Dance Level 3 and Projects

August 27, 2015
9:00 AM - to conclusion
Teleconference (How to participate)

Chair: Holly Raschein
Program Manager: Sarah Stage

Josephine Garibaldi

Leon County

Chair, School of Dance, Florida State University; Artistic Director, Callous Physical Theatre
An interdisciplinary performing artist, educator and administrator dedicated to fostering collaborative art-making across communities, disciplines and cultures regionally, nationally and internationally through a dialogic practice of art-making and pedagogy.
Collaboratively devised over 20 original performance, installation and digital works.
Founding member of award winning Barefoot Studios and the Barefoot Collective; producer/director of site-specific performance festivals SiteWorks: Dance on Tour; SiteWorks 2006, SiteWorks 2009, Train and Big Dance/Little Space; education director for all-ages interdisciplinary arts programs; chair of a municipal arts council; and past director of dance at Idaho State University.
2013/2014 Fulbright Scholar, Choreography and Contemporary Dance, Riga, Latvia
M.F.A, Dance, UC Irvine; M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Creative Arts, CSU, San Francisco; B.A., Dance, CSU Long Beach

Miami-Dade County

Founder and Director of Momentum Dance Company and Coordinator for the Dance Program at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, Florida
Previously danced with the Cincinnati Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Atlanta Ballet and she has choreographed two off-Broadway shows, several works for the Greater Miami Opera (Now Florida Grand Opera) and the Miami Chamber Symphony and work for the Florida Shakespeare Festival
Serves on the Board of Directors for Arts Action Alliance (a South Florida based arts advocacy group), and formerly served on the statewide Boards of Arts for a Complete Education and the Florida Dance Association
B.A., Teaching of Ballet, Virginia Intermont College; M.F.A, Dance, New York University

Palm Beach County

Founding Chair and Professor of Dance, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Palm Beach, Florida
Previously, Executive Director, Klein Dance Inc. and Klein Dance Company; Dance Teacher, Palm Beach Community College; taught dance technique and dance appreciation courses at Florida Atlantic University
Current board member, Florida Dance Education Organization and the CedC Leadership Team at the Palm Beach Cultural Council
Ph.D. in Global Leadership, Lynn University; MFA, Theatre, Florida Atlantic University

Durham, North Carolina

Director, American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina
Previously, Co-Director, American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina and Co-Producer, Thirteen/WNET
B.A., Arts Administration, New York University

Miami-Dade County

Executive Director and Artistic Director, Karen Peterson and Dancers and the Excello Dance Space, Miami, Florida
Partnered with Arts for Learning and The Children's Trust and is a longtime teaching artist, performer and trainer for Very Special Arts Florida
Founding member of “danceable,” an annual conference of “mixed-ability” research and an improvisational women’s troupe “dancersImprovgroup”
Recipient of Choreographic Fellowship Awards from the Division of Cultural Affairs in 1995 and 2005; Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs Dance Fellowship Awards in 2006 and 2010; New Forms Florida Grants; Artist Access Development Grant; City of Miami Award; danceAble Award from the Florida Dance Association; Tigertail

Indian River County

Founder and Artistic Director/CEO, Ballet Vero Beach
Previously, Resident Choreographer, Omaha Theater Ballet and Sarasota Ballet; Director of Dance for Riverside Children’s Theatre
As a professional dancer he has performed with the Channel Islands Ballet, Omaha Theater Ballet, Sarasota Ballet of Florida, and Nevada Ballet Theater
B.A., Arts Management and Dance Education, Empire State College; M.S., Arts Administration, Drexel University

Escambia County

Artistic Director, Ballet Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida
Previously, Artistic Director, Ballet Theatre Company, Hartford, Connecticut and Founding Director, Connecticut Contemporary Ballet Theatre
B. A., Theatre and Dance, Catawba College