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22 High Street, Brattleboro VT 05301 |
Kathleen Keller, Director |
802-254-6884 |
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Staff
Pascal Benichou, a native of Provence, France, studied ballet with Vladimir Dokoudovsky and Madame Darvash and choreography with Lucia Diugoszewski. He has danced with The Chicago City Ballet, The San Francisco Ballet, and The Joffrey Ballet and has been a guest performer with The Metropolitan Opera, The Chicago Lyric Opera, The New York City Opera, Erick Hawkins Dance Company, and The St. Louis Ballet. Pascal has taught at the New York Conservatory of Dance, Broadway Dance Center, Sarah Lawrence College, and Perry Dance in NYC. Mike Di Filippo ( schedule )grew up in West Milford, N.J. and began studying Country & Western, Contra and Square dancing when he was fifteen. In 1992, he met Brian Nash in Oakland N.J. and began studying ballroom. In 1998, he helped start a dance company with Heather Gehring, now Gehring Dancetheatre. He performed with the company and served as the company's producer until 2002. He performed with Heather in the Viennese Opera Ball for 9 years until it 's 50 th anniversary in 2003. He's been seen on TLC's America's Castles as well as Fox TV news dancing Hustle at 5:00 AM. Mike has taught ballroom dance for Dance Manhattan and the Nash Dancenter, among others. Mike has also DJ'ed and produced performance events for Dance New York, Midsummer Nights' Swing, and the New York Swing Dance Society. He's an engineer for DemocracyNow, lives in Newark, N.J., and can't stop dancing. C. Griffin Goehring is a creative dancer who has dedicated her professional path to making dance accessible to all people. Her students have ranged from three months to 101 years! Her work in Brattleboro has included "Arts for All Abilities": a series of dance classes bringing together able-bodied and "other-abled" dancers, classes for students from Austine School for the Deaf, and for adult clients from HCRS Developmental Disabilities Service. Griff is an adjunct faculty member at Hampshire College. She also works with Vermont Very Special Arts. Griff was a member of the Barbara Mettler Dance Company at the Tucson Creative Dance Center in Arizona from 1978-1986. She holds a master's degree in dance/movement therapy from Antioch New England Graduate School. Sarah Grasso was born and raised in Stamford, CT, and has been studying dance since the age of three. Sarah has years of training in ballet, tap, jazz, and modern but specializes in pop and hip hop. She studied and performed all through college and culminated those four years by co-choreographing and co-producing a multigenerational dance show. Sarah has been the Master Teacher of Dance at a Connecticut summer camp and has performed and taught at Marlboro College. Jane LoMonaco is a Certified Yoga and Pilates Instructor. She currently teaches creative movement, fitness and Pilates classes and also works with individual clients at The Brattleboro School of Dance. She has taught at The Moving company in Keene, Northfield Mt. Hermon, Marlboro College and many area schools. While living in NYC she studied and performed with Dance June Lewis. Locally she has performed with Brattleboro School of Dance, Coincidance, and ZIA, a multi-age dance group which toured in Russia in 1995. Jane holds a BA from Mt. Holyoke and an MA in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College of Education. Nan Mann has fifteen years teaching preschool and older aged children in the Brattleboro area. For ten summers she directed a children's theater group, the Fairytale Theater which performed as part of Brattleboro's Arts in the Park series. She has taught numerous children's theater classes and camps, worked with Jane LoMonaco in BSD's summer camps, and also directs rehearsals for the Nutcracker for Albany Berkshire Ballet. She currently works as the Preschool Teacher at the Winston Prouty Center and is also a familiar face in the office at BSD. Alison Mott received her early training at the Norwalk Ballet Etuded under the direction of Russell Fratto. Shortly before graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she joined ZeroMoving Dance company, under the direction of Hellmut Frick-Gottschild and Karen Bamonte. Her choreography and teaching explores breath and weight, partnering and inversions, to create movement that takes us beyond the human and into our social-animal selves. A graduate of the Persons School of Marlboro College with an MAT with Internet Technology, she teaches at Marlboro College, Brattleboro School of Dance, and the Performing Arts/Dance Program of the Southeastern Vermont Career Education Center. Brenda Siegal is a dancer choreography in the Brattleboro area. She received her BA in dance from Hampshire College. She is the owner of Flow Yoga and Dance Center. Brenda has choreographed shows for the Baltimore Children's Theatre, Cape Cod Repretory Theatre, and Kids on Camera based out of Baltimore out of Baltimore, MD. In addition she choreographs for the Window Theatre as well as her own Flow Dance Company. Amy Softic received her masters degree in performance and choreography from Smith College and her BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is currently on faculty at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She has also taught at Smith College, The Dance Connection in Fayetteville, NC, and The Dance Studio in Orange, MA. Her most recent performances include the Solar Powered Dance Festival in N.Y. and the Edinborough Fringe Festival iin Scotland. Carrie Towle grew up in Vermont, dancing at the Brattleboro School of Dance. She studied with The Boston School of Ballet, the New York School of Ballet, and was a dance major at SUNY Purchase. She also teaches for the Performing Arts/Dance Program of the Windham Regional Career Center and has been an adjunct faculty member at Deerfield Academy since 2000. Carrie has also taught at Marlboro College and the Stoneleigh-Burnham School and taught and danced for the New Mexico Ballet while teaching extensively throughout Albuquerque. Carrie holds a MA in Counselor Education from the University of NM. Robin Wolf has studied dance extensively in New York and Chicago and has taught dance in the area for over 25 years. She has choreographed productions with Kathleen Keller and is well known in the area for her dance and theatre performances. Most recently, she studied tap at the Leon Collins Dance Studio in Boston and with Sharon Arslanian in Greenfield, MA. Robin holds a BS from Northwestern and an MSW from Hunter College. |
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Kathleen
Keller (pictured at right), Director of the BSD, holds a
BA in child development and psychology and an MA in education and
has been teaching for 26 years. She has studied at the New York
and Atlanta Schools of Ballet, Alvin Ailey's American Dance
Center, and with such artists as Elizabeth Serbon, Erick Hawkins,
and Twyla Tharp.