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JEREMY BENSUSSAN began his performance career in 2001 with Out on a Limb Dance Company and School. He earned his BFA at the University of Minnesota in 2010. His dance credits include Minnesota Dance Theatre, Flying Foot Forum, Eclectic Edge Ensemble, Christopher Watson Dance Company, Keane Sense of Rhythm, MN Opera, and others. Region theater credits include Fiddler on the Roof (Westchester, NY), 9 TO 5 (Springboro, OH), Annie Get Your Gun (Fort Atkinson, WI), and CATS (Matunick, RI). Currently Jeremy is producing a new musical GOLDEN BOYS by New York artist Horace Turnbull. GOLDEN BOYS will premiere at The Lab Theater in Minneapolis, August 22nd-24th. See www.thelabtheater.org for details.
COURTNEY HENRY, from West Palm Beach, Florida, began her training at Palm Beach Ballet Center. As a high school senior, Henry was a finalist in Youth American Grand Prix’s “Stars of Tomorrow” program in New York City. After graduating from A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, she returned to New York to attend Fordham University/The Ailey School, where she earned a B.F.A. in dance. Henry has worked with choreographers including Francesca Harper, Troy Powell, Robert Moses, and Elisa Monte, and joined LINES Ballet in 2011. In 2013 Henry was honored with the Princess Grace Foundation – USA and Chris Hellman Dance awards. |
KATIE JOHNSON received her BFA in Dance from the University of Iowa, where she was the recipient of the Iowa Center for the Arts Scholarship. She is trained in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and was a competitive gymnast prior to graduating high school. She studied at The Butterfield School of Dance, Mark Morris Dance Center, and the Beijing Dance Academy in China. Katie has worked with Tania Perez-Salas, The Joffrey Ballet, Duarte Dance Works, and Ballet America. She has performed works by Jiri Kylian, Dwight Rhoden, Eliot Feld, Hope Boykin, Louis Falco, Elisa Monte, Wynn Fricke, Martine van Hamel, and Emery LeCrone. She is a 2011 SAGE Award nominee and a 2012 SAGE Award winner for Outstanding Performer. Katie has been a company member with Minnesota Dance Theatre since 2008. |
A native of Lakeland Florida, DOMINIQUE MCDOUGAL started his education in art (visual arts, theatre tech, theatre) at the age of 9. Later at 15, he went on to study classical ballet at Florida Dance Theatre, becoming a trainee with their professional company when he was 17. After high school, he received an apprenticeship under Zane Booker in Smoke, Lilies and Jade in Philadelphia. In 2011, Dominique attended the Alonzo King LINES Ballet training program in San Francisco. In 2013, upon graduating, Dominique took an apprentice contract with James Sewell Ballet in Minneapolis. He's had the honor to work with such influences as Earl Mosley, Ferdinand DeJesus, Carol Krajacic-Erkes, Amanda Miller, Gregory Dawson, Sidra Bell, Renee Redding Jones, Kevin Wynn, Leonard Meek and many more. Besides exploring improvisation, contemporary ballet and modern dance he enjoys learning techniques from other art forms including photography, sculpting and music. Dominique is ecstatic as a participant in this years Minneapolis Fringe Festival.
Born into a family of musicians, ERIN ROSS began studying dance at Ballet Arts Minnesota and Minnesota Dance Theater. At age 16, she became an Apprentice with the Minnesota Dance Theater, under the direction of Lise Houlton, where she performed Nutcracker Fantasy, Swingin’ Nutcracker, Rite of Spring, Carnival of the Animals and Swan Lake. She spent summers at Interlochen Arts Camp, where she received the Fine Arts Award for Ballet, at ABT and Complexions in New York, Houston Ballet and at the Dawson/Wallace Dance Project Professional Workshop in Denver. In 2012 She graduated from the Alonzo King Lines Training Program, and soon after moved to Miami to dance with Dance Now! for a season. |
DYLAN WALD studied in various dance techniques starting at the age of three before beginning to train with Minnesota Dance Theater’s Dance Institute under the direction of Lise Houlton. He has attended the Juilliard School, the School of American Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet School and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for summer intensives since 2011. In 2012, Dylan joined Minnesota Dance Theater as an apprentice where he performed works by Loyce Houlton, Emery LeCrone, and Lise Houlton. In 2013, he joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a Professional Division student where he performed often in company productions such as: Kent Stowells The Nutcracker, Ronald Hynes staging of The Sleeping Beauty, George Balanchines A Midsummer Nights Dream, Peter Boals staging of Giselle, and Crystal Pites Emergence. Dylan will be joining Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice for the 2014/15 season. |
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ALEX CHAMBERS-OZASKY is currently a scholarship student at DePaul University School of Music in Chicago, where he studies cello performance with Stephen Balderston. Previously he had studied with Kirsten Whitson in St. Paul, as well as Angel Garcia Jermann and Israel Fausto in Spain. He played for five years with the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies and served as principal cellist with the Minnesota Youth Symphony for a year. He has also participated for three years with the Artaria Chamber Music School, and his quartet was a finalist in the 2013 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition. In 2010, he performed the Haydn Cello Concerto in C with the Minnesota Sinfonia as the 2009 winner of the Junior Division of their Young Artist Competition. Recently, Alex has taught private lessons, and coached string quartets through the Sartory String Quartet Institute at the MacPhail Center for Music.