Where Are They Now?
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Congratulations to 2001 DCNT Fred Kelly scholarship recipient Diana Herrera– one of the newest members of 2010 Dallas Black Dance Theatre! Diana is a recent graduate of Oklahoma University's Dance program.
Tune in to the Tony Awards on Sunday, June 13th at 7pm to see LaQuet Thompson Sharnell, 2002 dance grad, performing in "Memphis: A New Musical." The show is nominated for 8 Tony Awards. Check out what LaQuet is up to these days by here.
Lacy de la Garza, 2007 recipient of Gene, Louise and Fred Kelly Scholarship, is creating choregraphy for "Oklahoma," University of Dallas' spring musical.
Photos by (l) Andrea Mohin~NYTimes, (m) Nigel Barker, (r) Rosalie O'Connor
2007 Nadyne Legere scholarship recipient and American Ballet Theater II company member Katie Boren travels to Spain with the company May 2010. Katie is a former member of Ballet Academy of Texas company Ballet Ensemble of Texas in Coppell.
Recently in The New Yorker: "The dancers looked marvelous.... Domingo Estrada, Jr., the company's
newest member, quick and happy, like an animal.... In New York today,
there are several companies so good that you gasp when you look at
them: the Morris, Alvin Ailey, and Paul Taylor companies, plus American
Ballet Theatre. I do not expect ever to see a dance troupe more
accomplished than these. But none is more of a piece -- one instrument
-- than the Morris company."
-- Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, March 15, 2010
Domingo Estrada, Jr. is the 2002 recipient of DCNT’s Jerry Bywaters Cochran Scholarship.
Mark your calendars…Olivia Rehrman should be featured on May 9th with Tony Award winning Choreographer, Bill T. Jones of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Olivia was the 2008 recipient of the Charles Andrew Kulp scholarship, Finalist in Jazz dance 2009 youngARTS, Academy of Dance Arts Alum, Allen, Texas, and is currently a Freshman Dance major at The University of Arizona.
Funding for the arts in America may be dismal, but the talent in our high schools isn’t. “MASTERCLASS,” the new HBO series set to premiere Sunday, April 18, presents nine world-class creative artists sharing their arts and their life experience with young people representing the best of a new generation of talent in America . Each edition of MASTERCLASS highlights the importance of mentorship, allowing emerging young artists to meet and work with legends in the fields where they aspire to become legends themselves.
The nine-part series will feature half-hour episodes with:
Placido Domingo (premiering April 18th at 5:30pm)
Liv Ullmann (April 25th at 5pm)
Frank Gehry (May 2nd)
Bill T. Jones (May 9th)
Michael Tilson Thomas (May 16th)
Olafur Eliasson (May 23rd)
Edward Albee (May 30th)
Jacques d’Amboise (June 6th)
Julian Schnabel (June 13th)
The students in the series are part of YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Founded in 1981, this non-profit organization is dedicated to identifying, nurturing and supporting emerging young artists as they pursue their dreams and to raising appreciation for and support of the arts in American society.
MASTERCLASS is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, an award-winning documentary filmmaking team whose work has garnered four Oscar nominations, many Emmys and the duPont-Columbia Award for Independent Programming.
 
Photographer: Jenny Anderson
LaQuet Sharnell (formerly Thompson), a 2003 DC South Dallas Dance Festival Scholarship recipient and grad of BTWHSPVA, is currently in a new original musical on Broadway called Memphis. It beganpreviews on September 23, 2009. She also taught at Camp Broadway thispast summer. .
Steven Loch, 2009 George Skibine Memorial Scholarship recipient, will be in the top level of Pacific Northwest Ballet's professional division this fall and has already been cast as an understudy for Romeo & Juliet even though he's not in the company yet. Way to go!
Sarah Pope performing "Grasp" choreographed by Sarah Council. Photo by Hope Davis.
1999 Jerry Bywaters Cochran Scholarship recipient Sarah Pope is currently dancing and teaching in NYC and Brooklyn. She teaches dance to children and adults at Spoke the Hub Dancing (where she has been an administrator for the past 3 years), as well as the Prospect Park YMCA, where she is also a group fitness instructor. She dances with two emerging companies, Mark Lamb Dance www.marklambdance.org and Sarah Council Dance Projects www.sarahcouncildance.com. She is a graduate of TCU.
Another Jerry Bywaters Cochran recipient, Domingo Estrada Jr., currently dances with the Mark Morris Company. Domingo is a graduate of TCU.
Jenny Mendez (in yellow), 1999 recipient of a Summer Study Scholarship and student at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts joined the world-renownedtroupe, Pilobolus Dance Theater in August 2004. During her tenure withthe company, she has performed and taught extensively throughout theUnited States and 12 countries. She has also helped collaborate in 11company pieces. Jenny holds a BFA in Modern Dance and BS in Radio-Television-Film Production from Texas Christian University. She has worked with Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth, Andrew Jannetti, Jody Oberfelder, Susan Dodge, Lisa Giobbi, and the Tiger Lillies. She has also presented her own work at the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists (Toronto) and Joyce SoHo (New York). Her film credits include working on the Dance in America production of "ABT's Leading Men" and "Fosse". She would like to thank all her professors at the School for Classical and Contemporary Dance and the Dallas Dance Council for helping her achieve her artistic goals!
 
2008 George Skibine Memorial Scholarship recipient Eric Vaughn performed for Texas Dance Theatre in
Ft Worth. Eric most recently completed a full season with the Oklahoma City Ballet.
 
Julie DuBois, Dance Council's 2003 recipient of the Texie Waterman Scholarship and 2005 recipient of the Caryn Halperin Sechrest Ballet Scholarship, is a student at Texas Christian University. After graduating from Harid Conservatory in 2004, where she trained on full tuition scholarship, Julie danced with Tulsa Ballet II and Orlando Ballet (under the direction of Fernando Bujones) before attending TCU. Prior to attending Harid, Julie trained with the Academy of Dance arts in Allen, TX and was a member of the Dallas Repertoire Ballet. Julie received the NFAA Arts Merit award for ballet in 2004 and 2005. She currently dances with Texas Dance Theatre in Fort Worth and continues to perform as guest artist throughout the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex.
2007 Nadyne Legere scholarship recipient Katie Boren (17) joins American Ballet Theater II August 2009.
Katie is a former member of Ballet Academy of Texas company Ballet Ensemble of Texas in Coppell.
 
Emily Dixon, 2003 Caryn Halpern Sechrest and 2007 Fred Kelly Memorial Scholarship recipient, is currently performing with the Sarasota Ballet. Two years at Tulsa Ballet brought her performances in Carnival of the Animals, the Nutcracker, Cinderella, Don Quixote, and the Great Gatsby. Emily is a former member of Ballet Academy of Texas company Ballet Ensemble of Texas in Coppell. Photos by Cathy Vanover
2003 Margaret Rylatt
Scholarship recipient Christopher Vo graduated from The Juilliard School in 2008.
He was a Princess Grace Awardee for 2007. He is currently dancing with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. Christopher is a graduate of Booker T Washington High School for the Performing And Visual Arts.
Photo by Sharen Bradford
2003 Thom Clower Summer Study recipientJonathan Campbell, is currently a junior at The Juilliard School in New York. Jonathan, above, and others take flight in four pieces at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in December 2008. Jonathan is a graduate of Booker T Washington High School for the Performing And Visual Arts. Photo By Roslyn Sulcas
Rachael Klopfenstein 1999 Caryn H. Sechrest Ballet Scholarship ~ Rachel danced her senior year in high school and freshman year in college with Ballet Austin as a trainee. She taught on staff with Ballet Austin for
four years until her graduation from University of Texas. She went to Florence, Italy to receive a masters degree in Fashion Marketing and Management and was an assistant buyer for Neiman-Marcus. Presently she lives in Dallas and is a field marketing representative for Taryn Rose Shoes as well as teaches at the Dallas Ballet Center when her schedule allows. She helps to rehearse Dallas Ballet Company with Nutcracker and other repertoire.
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