Panel Report Dance Level 3 and Projects

Memorandum

The Dance Level 3 and Projects grant panel meeting was held via teleconference on August 27, 2015. Nine (9) eligible applications were reviewed and all were recommended for funding.

A complete list of all reviewed applications, with the request amounts and final scores, is provided in the following sections.

Panel comment was as follows:

There were no panel comments.

Public comment was as follows:

There were no public comments.

Panel Biographies

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

Delma Iles

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

Kathleen Klein

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

Jodee Nimerichter

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

Karen Peterson

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

Adam Schnell

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

Richard Steinert

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

Panel Recommendations

This list contains the panel recommendations to the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. This is not a final funding recommendation. Panel review is step 2 in a 4 step review process.