2024 Dance GPS Level 2 & 3



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9/23/2022 9:00:00 AM

2024 Dance GPS Level 2 & 3

2024


Holly Raschein

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  • County: Palm Beach County

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County: PalmBeach

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  • Artistic Director, Demetrius Klein Dance Company, West Palm Beach, Florida
  • Recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient; National Endowment for the Arts Choreographers Fellowship
  • Two-time Bessie Award Nominee
  • B.S., General Studies, Palm Beach Atlantic University; B.F.A., Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; B.F.A., Dance, Full Scholarship, Wright State University, Fairborn, Ohio
  • County: Miami-Dade County

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County: MiamiDade

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  • Founder and Artistic Director, Karen Peterson and Dancers and “The Forward Motion Dance Festival and Conference of Physically Integrated Dance” (2018-2022)
  •  25 works in the KPD repertory as lead choreographer
  • Recipient of Knight Foundation Award, NEA and Funding Arts Network company Awards for “Forward Motion”; Lifetime Achievement Award from the New World School of the Arts; The Boston Conservatory at Berklee Alumni Entrepreneurial Award for performances at the Judson Church, NYC,  
  • American Red Cross-Cultural Award; State of Florida: Citizens For Florida Arts and Artist Opportunity Award; Cultural Exchange Fund from APAP for international travel; Choreographic Fellowship Awards from Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, DMC 2017, 2019; Choreographic Fellowship Awards from the Division of Cultural Affairs in 1995, 2005;
  • a 2022 recipient for The Boston Conservatory at Berklee School of Music Alumni Achievement Awards for her “dedicated work in the field and contributions to society”; invitation to  join “Beyond Barriers, Boundaries and Beliefs” a national NEA funded physically integrated dance tour to Cleveland, Brooklyn and Miami with Dancing Wheels and Heidi Latsky Dance, June 2022


  • County: Brevard County

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County: Brevard

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  • Board Member, Grant Writing Chairperson and Chair of Public Relations, Melbourne City Ballet Theatre, Melbourne, Florida
  • Working in private practice as of August 2022
  • Former Family Medicine Physician for the Uninsured and Underserved, Treasure Coast Community Health Center, Melbourne, Florida
  • High School State Champion, Original Oratory
  • M.D., Ohio State University College of Medicine; Columbus, Ohio; Residency at University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine; Integrative Medicine Fellowship, University of Arizona; Master in Public Health and Fellowship in Women's Health, UCLA School of Public Health; B.A., Dance/ Theatre; B.S., Biology/Chemistry, University of Toledo Ohio; Studied at Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute Los Angeles 
  • County: Indian River County

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County: IndianRiver

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  • Founder/Executive Director/CEO, Ballet Vero Beach, Vero Beach, Florida
  • Trained at Walnut Hill School for the Arts and danced professionally throughout the United States and abroad.
  • M.S., Arts Administration, Drexel University; B.A. with a double major in Arts Management and Dance Education, SUNY Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, New York
  • County: Hillsborough County

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County: Hillsborough

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  • Artistic Director & Founder, Tampa City Ballet, Tampa, Florida
  • Faculty Member, Dance Department, University of South Florida, Tampa
  • Founder, America’s Ballet School, Tampa; and Fundacion Ballet de las Americas, Venezuela
  • Paula Nunez has 30 years of experience in the performing arts world which includes performing as Principal Dancer internationally and nationally with Ballet Nuevo Mundo, the renowned Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, and the International Ballet of Caracas.
  • She has collaborated with the Florida Orchestra, Florida Museum of Photography, the Glazer Children’s Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Ybor City and launched seven world premiers.
  • Recipient, USF Hispanic Woman of the Year Award.
  • B.A., Graphic Design, Colegio Universitario Monseñor Talavera-Venezuela
  • County: Polk County

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County: Polk

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  • Program Director and Associate Professor, Dance Program, Florida Southern College
  • Erin LaSala Phillips has worked as a free-lance choreographer throughout the U.S. and her choreography has been performed and recognized in numerous national and international dance festivals and venues, including the American Dance Guild Festival in NYC and the Your Move New Jersey Dance Festival.
  • She has been an invited international guest artist at the 33 35 Dance Intensive at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus as well as is a guest artist at various universities, dance festivals, and dance intensives each year.
  • Former Dance Education Coordinator at Kent State University and Director of the Jacksonville University Summer Dance Intensive, and instructor at several institutions including the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Winthrop University Summer Program.
  • Co-author of “Dance and Culture” published by Great River Learning.
  • 2021-2022 Featured Academic, Florida Southern College Vertex Magazine
  • M.F.A. in Dance Choreography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and B.A. in Dance Education, University of South Florida.
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  • Associate Professor of Dance, Valdosta State University, 2015-present
  • Certified IMPROVment Teacher
  • Volunteer IMPROVment/Parkinson’s Dance Instructor, The Dance Project and Turner Center for the Arts.
  • Faculty, Dance Arts Valdosta, Inc.
  • Featured in NFL Films feature, Remembering Our Fallen Heroes
  • Co-Author of digital dance textbook, Dance and Culture
  • National Competition Judge, Dance Machine, Boogie Fever
  • Gear Up Convention and Dance Machine Convention Faculty member
  • Several films have screened in various film festivals across the U.S. and won multiple awards
  • Working with Dr. Ali Duffy, Professor of Dance at Texas Tech University and Dr. Peter Fischer, Professor of Music at Texas Tech University on a multimedia dance, film and music performance called The Evolution of Gaia
  • Created and currently touring, PIHOS A Moving Biography, a multimedia performance that explores the life of Melissa Pihos’ father, pro football hall of famer, Pete Pihos and his battle with Alzheimer’s disease
  • Over 30 years of professional performing arts experience; performed pieces by Martha Graham, Twyla Tharp and Larry Kiegwin, Ann Dils, Jan Van Dyke, Robin Gee and Christina Soriano; performed with Jan Van Dyke Dance Group, John Gamble Dance Theatre, Flatlands Dance Theatre and Sidelon Dance Company. Former professional model and dancer with Dancer and Co and Lasting Impressions
  • Former adjunct professor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Salem College.
  • MFA Dance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2011
  • BA Biology, 1999
  • County: Polk County

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County: Polk

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  • Program Director and Associate Professor, Dance Program, Florida Southern College
  • Erin LaSala Phillips has worked as a free-lance choreographer throughout the U.S. and her choreography has been performed and recognized in numerous national and international dance festivals and venues, including the American Dance Guild Festival in NYC and the Your Move New Jersey Dance Festival.
  • She has been an invited international guest artist at the 33 35 Dance Intensive at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus as well as is a guest artist at various universities, dance festivals, and dance intensives each year.
  • Former Dance Education Coordinator at Kent State University and Director of the Jacksonville University Summer Dance Intensive, and instructor at several institutions including the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Winthrop University Summer Program.
  • Co-author of “Dance and Culture” published by Great River Learning.
  • 2021-2022 Featured Academic, Florida Southern College Vertex Magazine
  • M.F.A. in Dance Choreography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and B.A. in Dance Education, University of South Florida.
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