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Guest Artists 2004-2005
Sang-Cheul Choe was born in South Korea. After graduating from Han Yang University with a major in dance, he went to New York to study dance and earned both M.A. and PhD degrees in Dance and Dance Education at New York University, studying with Sara Pearson, Douglas Dunn and Sintiya Reynolds. Choe has been a guest choreographer for Washington Square Repertory Dance Company in New York. Since 1991 his work has been presented in NYC at the Loyola Marymount-Manhattan theater and the New York University theater and received high acclaim in The New York Times reviews. Mr. Choe returned to South Korea in 1996 to establish the Choe Sang-Cheul Dance Project in Seoul. In 2000 Mr. Choe received a Korean Ministry of Culture & Tourism grant to choreograph Black Angel, which was chosen as best choreography of 2000 by Korean Society of Dance Critics. Mr. Choe is interested in contact improvisation and has worked on collaborative projects with filmmakers, musicians and visual artists. Mr. Choe’s choreography for The Lake will be performed by Department of Dance students in the Fall Dance Collection, November 18-21, 2004.
Described by The New York Times as “a wonder of equilibrium,” Jo Kreiter is a San Francisco-based dancer/choreographer with a background in political science. As Artistic Director of Flyaway Productions, an apparatus-based dance company whose performances integrate risk, spectacle and social potency, she is seeking to engage imagination, physical innovation and the political conflicts we live within. In addition to its annual San Francisco Home Season, the company tours its work nationally and performs at festivals and universities including Boston Dance Umbrella’s International Aerial Festival, Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance, Improvisation Festival/NY, SUSHI Performance Space in San Diego, and Aerial Dance Festival in Colorado. Kreiter is a recipient of a 2002 Wattis Residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a 2001 CA Dancemakers Fellowship, a 2000 Gerbode Foundation Award for Choreography, a San Francisco Bay Guardian 2000 GOLDIE (Outstanding Local Discovery) Award and has been nominated for Isadora Duncan Dance Awards in Choreography (2000) and Performance (1999). She has been recognized with six California Arts Council Artist-in-Communities Residency Awards and has received grant awards from the San Francisco Arts Commission and CASH/Theater Bay Area. She has also enjoyed a long-term company membership in Joanna Haigood’s ZACCHO Dance Theatre. Kreiter has taught classes and workshops highlighting her unique approach to inverted motion at Stanford, Duke, University of Nevada, Sonoma State and Ohio State Universities. Articles written by Kreiter have been published in Contact Quarterly, In Dance and Window in the Works, and arts education manual published by Lincoln Center. She is one of the few women in the world to have gained expertise in the art of Chinese pole acrobatics. Kreiter’s the Grim Mathematics of Water will be performed by ASU students in the Spring Dance Collection, April 20-24, 2005.