Hampshire College

Special Congrats to Yasuko Yokoshi for her second Bessie! Yasuko was awarded a 2006 Bessie for her choreography of What We When We at Danspace Project.

Pele Bauch performed her first solo show -ism at Joyce SoHo during July 2007, and published an article in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue of Contact Quarterly.

Illana (Berman) Krechmer is working as an actress and Pilates trainer.

Nicole Bindler created PIA MATER in 2007 and performed at Mascher Space Coop to sold-out audiences. In the fall of 2007 she spent two weeks in Japan dancing with Corrie Befort at the Venue SuperDelux in Tokyo. During 2008 she’ll offer a six-week Self Care for Dancers and Yogis workshop series, perform with Mascher in their Influx Series, and teach with Cyrus Kambatta in Seattle. See her piece on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=nBXbDTDLD3I

Kimberly Brandt and Walsh Hansen had a showing of their video 50 MPH at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

Cheryl Brous is living in Portland, and attending graduate school in education. She is also dancing and teaching with a local tribal belly dance troupe.

Katharine (Kat) Callard joined eight others to bicycle from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. to raise money for social justice organizations across the country. The riders – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, straight, and allied cyclists – rode to raise awareness about forms of oppression in queer communities while meeting with other marginalized communities, such as Native American reservations, small farmers, homestead ranchers, mining towns, and low-income neighborhoods.

Nichole Canuso mounted two pieces for a showcase at Joyce SoHo in March, 2008 and performed with The Mural and The Mint in Philadelphia in January 2008.

Eva Dean toured BOUNCE with her New York-based company, Eva Dean Dance. They performed at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York, and Union Street Dance, Brooklyn. In 2007 she launched a Repertoire Workshop Series featuring her choreography and that of Susan Marshall.

Sarah Eley has danced with Krisen Day in the Hawley Martin Dance Company, and in the Blaze Dance Group. With Blaze, she performed in the LiveArts Festival in the Philadelphia Fringe Fest; at First Night, Northampton; and at Thornes, A.P.E. Sarah collaborated with drummer Katie Koti to create a percussive dance performed at the PaperMill Studio in Holyoke, MA. She began graduate work in the Smith College School for Social Work last year.

Ashley Hensel-Browning is currently finishing her M.Ed. in the Arts in Education program at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she is studying art education, community organizing, and education policy. She's working on a project right now to develop yearlong dance residencies in public schools in northern New England and directing operas with the Opera Theatre of Weston in Weston, VT. She is also making work with fellow Hampshire alum Zoe McDonnell, co-artistic director of their modern dance company, ZoAsh Dance, which premiered work this fall 2007 in their Cambridge concert "close door: an open house dance production." They are currently working on a concert of new work.

Becca Gardener dances with Ballet Ariel in Denver. They performed at the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by The Nutcracker and The Spring Show. She has also been dancing with, and teaching master classes regularly for, the Denver Independent Choreographers Project.

Cass Ghiorse joined Dance Alloy Theater, Pittsburgh's premier modern repertory company, in the fall of 2000. With DAT she has worked with Pilobolus, Kevin Wynn, Stephen Keoster, David Shimotakahara, Mark Taylor, and Beth Corning, among others. She can currently be seen in Nike.com's ad campaign I Feel Pretty.

Jane Jerardi produced Chance, a video dance that will appear on the sides of buildings in and around Washington, D.C. This public art project will be presented at four sites.

Hannah Margulis-Kessel was accepted into the master's program in the School of Education at University of California at Berkeley.

Zoe Klein performs and teaches internationally with her partner, Dave Paris (HC),  as PARADIZO DANCE, combining acrobatics and salsa. They performed Eireann at the New York Salsa Congress in August 2007 and at the Cuba Libre nightclub, Tropicana Casino, in Atlantic City. Zoe performed a new solo combining acrobatics, Afro-Cuban dance, and personal narrative at the Dumbo Dance Festival; plus Sleepers, an acrobatic dance interpretation of Walt Whitman's poem by Dave and Zoe.

Michelle Marroquin teaches Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis movement techniques at Movement Resource Studio in Northampton and yoga courses at Hampshire College. She is dancing Odissi style Indian dance with Ranjanaa Devi’s Nataraj Dancers. “It's been an awesome creative outlet for me…combining my love of dance with the devotional aspect of yoga. It's incredibly challenging and technically precise, but so beautiful!”

Brett Marshall Lefferts has found his niche making music for dance. His band, Seed A.I., was featured on the NPR All Songs Considered Open Mic podcast when the song 2D was picked up from their new album.

Stephen Petronio and company performed at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center and at Joyce Theater in NYC. He received great press for his NYC concert.

Marta Renzi had a screening of her dance video Porch Stories at the Moving Images Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Jen Rosenblit premiered BottomHeavy Productions' newest work, Underbelly and Superfly Afterthoughts, followed by a special guest appearance by Kimberly Brandt (HC). The piece will also be performed at the Movement Research's Open Performance at Dance Theater Workshop.

Julia Skloot danced for the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group in Seattle; taught dance at the Creative Dance Center, which she helped to start; and was a member of the Left Field Dance Collective, which performs throughout Seattle in theaters, warehouses, and public spaces. She studied for an MFA in choreography at Sarah Lawrence College.

Norah Zuniga Shaw, assistant professor and director of Dance and Technology at Ohio State University, is currently working with William Forsythe and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design to create an interactive score for One Flat Thing, Reproduced. She has been recently published in Performance Research Journal and was the assistant editor for the book and DVD Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, eds. Judy Mitoma and Elizabeth Zimmer, (Routledge, 2002).