NPAFE Supports Acclaimed Performing Artists Who YOU Will Want to See and Support!
Every NPAFE performing artist makes audiences, donors and sponsors look and feel great.
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State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara
Anastasiya Kharchenko, Ukraine
Every NPAFE performing artist makes audiences, donors and sponsors look and feel great.
Scroll down to meet them and you will see why.
In the United States
In the United States
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Alight’s signature artistic specialty employs multiple elements of theater, including dance, physical theater, live music, designed sound score, theatrical lighting and often spoken text. Creating a complete world unique to each piece is central to alight’s focus on original creative process, elements that are always communicated to alight’s audiences. Alight’s creative energy, tenacity, and true grit surely reflects the…more… (back to menu)
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Alison Cook Beatty Dance is an astonishing NY-based modern dance company founded in 2012 by award-winning choreographer Alison Cook-Beatty. She has successfully married passion, leadership, originality, entrepreneurial courage, and dance expertise that have been thrilling audiences ever since. …more… (back to menu)
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Talk about Influencers! Counting upwards of 400 US colleges and universities as members from almost every state in the Union, the American College Dance Association — ADCA — touches the lives of tens of thousands of people every year.…more… (back to menu)
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Arts on Site is changing the New York City performance space scene for good. How? Three words: innovation, determination, and creation. Arts on Site is a non profit organization that gathers the unseen artists of New York City and provides them with a platform to be seen. From musicians to dancers to theater artists …more… (back to menu)
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As Maryland’s premier professional ballet company, Ballet Theatre of Maryland has so much to celebrate: great classical dance, new and talented dancers, rising stars in their company, and many new classical and contemporary choreographic works. As a professional company, BTM aims to inspire our audience through…more… (back to menu)
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It is always so special for us when we meet yet another exceptional creator for the first time. So it was with Betty Weinberger when we discovered her “Purple Hat” video on Instagram. Directed and choreographed by Weinberger herself and…more… (back to menu)
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No matter where you see Boulder Ballet, in the theater, on tour, in the classroom, even outdoors in the open spaces at the foot of the Rockies, you are…more… (back to menu)
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The human experience in motion. This is BJP. A steadfast dance artist of the human experience, and known to her friends and the world of performing arts and beyond as BJP, Britta Joy Peterson upholds the principle of simplicity that reveals…more… (back to menu)
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Caitlin is Energy and Enthusiasm. Humility. Inner pride. Her dance works are riveting. Her students at Barnard College in New York City and all around the country love her. Her entrepreneurial presence on the web through Dancio, her remarkable online dance lesson series…more… (back to menu)
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CelloPointe functions on a unique concert structure that equally highlights the talents of both musicians and dancers. In a CelloPointe concert, chamber music pieces with musicians alone on stage divide the collaborative musician and dancer pieces. The result is…more… (back to menu)
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Christopher K. Morgan & Artists (CKM&A) is a widely-acclaimed professional contemporary dance company founded as a vehicle for Morgan’s choreographic exploration of social and cultural issues. CKM&A is committed to art that creates a resonance that runs deep into our shared human experience; to create…more… (back to menu)
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ClancyWorks Dance Company was founded by Artistic Director Adrienne Clancy in 2001. Central to ClancyWorks’ mission is expanding the relevance of dance in people’s lives, by demonstrating how creative movement can be used to…more… (back to menu)
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Company Danzante advances and enriches the modern dance art form by investing heavily in the special creative process that produces new choreographers, enables their close collaboration with artists of multiple disciplines, and…more… (back to menu)
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DEVIATED THEATRE tell stories because stories are food for the soul. They are our doorway to dance, to revitalizing the stage, to inspire people, to point the audience towards excellence. Humans crave transcendental experiences. We crave stories. We consume stories and imagery almost constantly throughout the day. We can’t seem to get enough of them; be it through…more… (back to menu)
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Acclaimed East by North Dance Theatre principals Sarah Nachbauer and Jon Eden are making a special mark on the world of modern dance, embarking on a special creative journey to bring original works of physically intense, evocative, and oftentimes gravity-defying choreographic movement to audiences in New York City, nationally, and internationally. …more… (back to menu)
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Edy Blu wrote her material on her guitar after moving to D.C., but it was the process of getting the songs produced that confirmed the EP’s central idea that life works best when you keep your heart open. While traveling in Barcelona during the summer of 2015, Edy met…more… (back to menu)
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Color. Action. Lots of action. An arm moves. Faces close to one another. Closer still. Bodies and minds touch. And not only those of the performers: audience and actors reach to one another. And then they touch as …more… (back to menu)
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Errant Movement, founded in August 2015, is the culmination of Rachel Turner’s vision to create dance that combines technical dancing, coming from Turner’s years of ballet training, with gestures and movement patterns that are common of post-modern dance. The product is dance that is both beautiful in its execution, while being…more… (back to menu)
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Grace Copeland
Theatrical Photographer, Dance Filmmaker, Creative Director and Producer
New York City
Would you believe that someone who had no background in dance or theater has created a great reputation in New York City for working with the best choreographers, performing artists, dancers, and musicians? Yes, that`s right! …more… (back to menu)
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Helanius J Wilkins lived in Washington, D.C. for eighteen years and founded EDGEWORKS Dance Theater, an all-male dance company of predominantly AfricanAmerican men that existed for thirteen years (2001 – 2014). His honors include…more… (back to menu)
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Island Moving Company was founded in the belief that collaboration and a supportive environment enhance the creative process, producing great works of art representing profound expressions of the human spirit and experience. The Company develops dance as…more… (back to menu)
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Jane Franklin Dance celebrates movement and makes dance accessible to a wide range of audiences through public performance, dance education, community engagement and collaborations with artists from other disciplines. Jane Franklin Dance crosses disciplines in partnership with…more… (back to menu)
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Slight of form, hair shorn to a quarter inch, a captivating smile, an aura naturally inspiring positivism, if we’re lucky, wearing her cool sunflower earrings … and possessed of a brilliant mind and an…more… (back to menu)
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It was clear to us right away when we first came upon Joan Dwiartanto’s “Crying On The Island They Own” filmwork that here was someone that warranted our putting other things aside and make the time to find out more about her. Good thing we did. For in this young designer of dance and filmmaking lies a creative …more… (back to menu)
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Jordan Gehley is one of a kind. A dancer, choreographer, and designer based in Washington, DC, Jordan holds a BA in Philosophy and Dance from the College of William and Mary. Jordan is a visual thinker. The daughter of…more… (back to menu)
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A renowned classical ballet dancer from Paris, Julia Battist pushes herself hard. That is much to her credit. It is a superior quality in any milieu where people live to create, certainly to dance, and where there are so many competing ideas as to just what dance really is… especially modern dance. Julia feels that insurmountable barriers to her creativity lie within the…more… (back to menu)
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Kate Douglas is the person who you want to know and want to be known by. Her mind and creative spirit have an unmatched power that have manifested themselves into some of New York City’s greatest works of art. Not one to give up on a challenge, Kate creates gift after gift…more… (back to menu)
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Once a Radio City Music Hall Rockette and now an acclaimed and entrusted choreographer, performer and mentor at dance studios in the United States and abroad, Katie Drablos is a uniquely talented human being with an inspiring story for…more… (back to menu)
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Kevin majored in Dance at Grossmont College while also studying on scholarship at the Academy of Performing Arts in San Diego. He trained with Ahita Ardalan, Kathy Meyer, and Dave Mullen before going on to perform with Mirable Ballet, Jean Isaacs, and Butterworth Dance Company. He appeared on television…more… (back to menu)
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Dancer, choreographer, author, educator… it’s hard to believe that all these words describe the same person: Kristalyn Gill…more… (back to menu)
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An accomplished Cuban dancer, Lis grew up in Holguín, Cuba where her mother directed the Codanza Dance Company for Contemporary and Modern Dance. She spent her childhood as a company member and had her first performance in…more… (back to menu)
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Passionate about dance and dance performance. That’s Maddie Burnett. Acknowledged nationally and internationally for the energy, elegance and sensuality of her convincing dance expressiveness whether live on stage or…more… (back to menu)
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There aren’t many in the world of the Performing Arts who can claim to have made it to the On-Broadway stage by age 19. A member of that exclusive club, Miriam Ali stands out as much for her fierce determination to make her way to stardom as for her truly markable array of performance talent:…more… (back to menu)
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Nancy Flores is a multi-faceted artist who creates performing art from a state of power and magic. She is a Baltimore native of Puerto Rican heritage. Influenced by her musical family, she learned to dance salsa and merengue at the age of 7. The passion to dance was instilled at a young age as she remembers…more… (back to menu)
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Imagine for a moment an unapologetically quirky, curious, and adventurous woman with a never-ending drive to create and perform. That is, without a doubt, Natalie Deryn Johnson. Everything about Natalie is one-in-a-million: her boundless creativity, devotion to magic, and remarkable presence. …more… (back to menu)
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An independent filmmaker based out of Houston, TX. Naveen Tan was born and raised in Malaysia, and went to college of Engineering in West Virginia. Moving to Houston in 2013 after being assigned to Siberia, Russia for 3 years, he has been based in Texas ever since. Professionally, Naveen but had no prior training in filmmaking. Nevertheless, with his passion for filmmaking…more… (back to menu)
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Nejla Yasemin Yatkin’s NY2Dance Company is a project based virtuosic dance theatre company of engagingly individual dancers from around the world, exploring the abstract telling of humanities story. In her dance projects, Ms. Yatkin explores…more… (back to menu)
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Nicole Ashley Morris is among that rare group of creator/performers wholly immersing herself in the tough competitive grind that is the world of performing arts in New York City. Unlike most, however, she has earned the lasting respect of…more… (back to menu)
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Every so often, if we’re lucky, we’ll meet someone who embodies just about all that we have ever admired in a human being. Nicole Baker is one of those human beings……more… (back to menu)
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The Taylor Company has performed in more than 540 cities in 64 countries, representing the United States at arts festivals in more than 40 countries and touring extensively under the aegis of the U.S. Department of State. The Company is regularly is invited to…more… (back to menu)
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“Always making sure that you are pushing yourself to the fullest”. With this sentence, you know who Payton Primer is. Based in New York City as a contemporary dancer…more… (back to menu)
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Many children dream of becoming dancers, musicians, actors, or artists. Very few have the opportunity, the skill, and the determination to live out those dreams. Rachel Isadora is one of those very few. When she was just a small child, she knew that she wanted to be…more… (back to menu)
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Sidra Bell Dance New York, is a boutique brand of prolific movement illustrators based in New York City that presents and fosters innovative and progressive dance theater in a world of ideas. SBDNY is rapidly gaining an international profile for…more… (back to menu)
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Embrace the journey! This is a story of how and why NPAFE sees so much potential and tenacity in two fascinating New York City-based dance artists, Sofia Bengoa and Valentina Guedez Delgado, and in their true entrepreneurial “Cafe Con Rumba” dance performance series.…more… (back to menu)
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State Street Ballet is a critically-acclaimed company of professional dancers from around the world. They are under the direction of former American Ballet Theatre dancer Rodney Gustafson, who founded the company in 1994. State Street Ballet are dedicated to ensuring the highest quality of…more… (back to menu)
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Tattiana Aqeel was raised and resides in Washington, D.C. Her artistic experience is in Theater, Vocal Music, and Dance. She graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and then trained at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Tattiana was one of…more… (back to menu)
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She comes on stage. You are certain that you are about to see, hear, feel something special. As dancer or as choreographer, by herself or with colleagues, she draws you in as witness to her originality, her drive, her unique dance entrepreneurship, energy that empowers others to see and feel her creative pulse.
You are on a magic carpet…more… (back to menu)
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Threads Dance Project was founded by Karen L. Charles when her beloved father passed away leaving her just enough money to produce her first show in 2011 and realize her dream of becoming a choreographer and director of her own company. Karen and her Threads Dance Project were nominated for…more… (back to menu)
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Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn are accomplished performers of theater and dance, which only begins to describe all that they are now achieving. They believe in storytelling as culture’s oldest and dearest way of inspiring compassion, understanding, and empathy, with the power to …more… (back to menu)
Around the world…
Around the world…
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Some say that Amy Groves’ style of dance is too modern for classical ballet. Others say just the opposite, that she’s too classical to be thought of as a modern dance choreographer and dancer. Seeing a few of her videos for the first time, you might indeed think that classical ballet is Groves’ main play and passion. But then, what about…more… (back to menu)
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Anastasiya Kharchenko: Choreographic genius, tenacity, and an uncanny ability few others have to transform imagination into brilliant stage and screen performance. She has been sought out not only by her own countrymen but also by Mercedes Benz, America’s Got Talent and…more… (back to menu)
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Along with being an impressive dance artist and choreographer, Anja Mujic is an extraordinary creator ever passionate about sharing her music talents and writing skills. Originally from Australia of Bosnian heritage, Mujic has been based in Germany since 2018…more… (back to menu)
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Arina enchants. In Russia, Denmark, Sweden and many more countries in Europe. And in New York. Her performances in premiere presentations like Maurice Bejart’s “Tchekov au Bois Dormant”, her eloquent duet in the 2014 MasterPeace Live Concert, and her lead role in …more… (back to menu)
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Whether as choreographer, classical and contemporary ballet dancer, creator and interpreter of original modern dance performances, or the go-to person in France and internationally, Bérangère Andreo and her magic touch open the door to …more… (back to menu)
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Our bet is that the UK’s CTC Dance Company is unlike any other performing arts organization that you have seen. It is led by award-winning choreographer Christopher Tendai, himself an acclaimed performer on London West End stages …more… (back to menu)
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Call her by her given name Constance or “Coco” as her friends and admirers do, this much and more is true about this remarkable performing artist: while evidence abounds of her stellar professional achievements and international acclaim as Principal Dancer in the UK’s Scottish Ballet, Constance Devernay-Laurence’s unending commitment to …more… (back to menu)
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Constant Vigier isn’t “just” from Brittany in France. Not hardly. Determined to become a great dancer, Constant trained at l’Opéra de Paris, progressing from 5th division to 1st division. Spotted by ballet master Kevin Haigen at the end-of-year show organized by …more… (back to menu)
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Ekaterina Krasyuk is an acclaimed ballet soloist of fierce yet humble determination to expand her own horizons and to help others expand theirs. Someone who could have easily made a remarkable career simply by staying in the world of classical ballet, she has instead competed for and danced contemporary ballets by many of the world’s famous choreographers, working directly with… …more… (back to menu)
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Who is Elisa Lons? A young yet clearly accomplished French dancer of classical and contemporary ballet, selected at age 22 to perform with the…more… (back to menu)
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Originally from Washington D.C. in the US, Elizabeth “Liz” Gahl living right now close by the River Seine is using her remarkable skills in the art of choreography and dance to build on the uniquely rich history…more… (back to menu)
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Eva Kolarova in her own words: My artistic work is marked by an inner feeling of being a rootless nomad, the sentimental residue of history that I carry with me, plus my quest to understand my identity in relation to …more… (back to menu)
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Italy’s Francesca Santamaria is an especially expressive young creator of dance movement whose partiality for careful research as well as her love of dance itself is …more… (back to menu)
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Betraying a powerful sensitivity to human emotion and a masterful knowledge of music, dance, and history, creator – choreographers Ina Broeckx and Walter Matteini have given new meaning to “pushing the envelope” in ways that…more… (back to menu)
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From New Zealand. Resident in Amsterdam. A leader in producing, choreographing and performing original dance works. Commissioned time and again to choreograph and perform all over Europe. A creative magnet attracting…more… (back to menu)
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What leaves us breathless about Jamiel Devernay-Laurence is that there resides in just one human being the wherewithal to be a brilliant star of ballet, a recognized genius in high-tech iPhone videomaking, an acclaimed choreographer and producer of live dance performances and film festivals, all while finding the time to…more… (back to menu)
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The UK’s Jordan James Bridge is a brave dancer, choreographer, and director. He inspires young people to create more. The message behind Jordan`s videos: “You shouldn`t be ashamed of your feelings, emotions and yourself!.” His creative process is avant-garde and…more… (back to menu)
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Within the United Kingdom’s Katya Bourvis lies a potent one-person human laboratory that right now is supercharging the world of dance, singularly marrying research, people and technology to create new forms of live and video dance movement meant to……more… (back to menu)
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For the past two years, Laura has been freelancing, following “a very conscious decision I made in 2016 looking at my life and thinking about in which direction I want to continue professionally”. Performances of her own creation including…more… (back to menu)
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Lauren Blair Smith
Founder of the Multidisciplinary, Coming-Of-Age Contemporary Dance Company in Singapore.
A professional performing artist, a choreographer, a producer, a dancer, an actor, and a proud founder of her own dance company. All this and more is Lauren Blair Smith, a true creative who is passionate about producing original choreography…more… (back to menu)
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Lenka Vagnerová is proof that if there is yet another special “best” that Prague offers: creative genius. Vagnerová personifies that creative genius. People all over Europe have come to…more… (back to menu)
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It is impossible not to be carried away by the energy, sensitivity and conviction of Lisa Bless. A dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist from Heidelberg, Germany, this ambitious artist ingeniously explores …more… (back to menu)
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Lucile Grolleau goes by the stage name with Linabery. Only 23 years old. she has already swept away the NPAFE team. Words that might best describe her? …more… (back to menu)
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It was our discovering Les Chansons faites Maison created by Louise Charbonnel on Instagram that NPAFE came to understand Louise’s special value as an artist. Combining her musical gift with the magic of editing, Louise plays magically with harmonies and instruments layering to create real masterpieces from another world.…more… (back to menu)
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The stage? Darkened. With a ghostly haze. Tension. A pendulum of sound, something rigid, unseen, wooden perhaps, maybe steel, back and forth, back and forth, not in silence and instead with an ominous strike against something heavy, echoing, nowhere to be found but heard. …more… (back to menu)
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The inevitable takeaway when you first meet Maria Angela Talavera Tejeda – who goes by “Mar” – is that you have just met a supernova of dance and film creativity. Talavera Tejeda’s cv is compelling, testimony that she is armed with…more… (back to menu)
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Nicoline is not only a singer full of talent, but she is also a dancer and a creator in soul. Her interpretation was…more… (back to menu)
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When choreographer-dancer-filmmaker Roberta Riontino walks into the room, one is immediately taken by her quietly seductive smile. Take note: behind that smile lies a laser-like creative drive that…more… (back to menu)
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A Quebec City native whose hometown today is Montreal, Sara Harton is the personification of dance patience and performance. Dance thought as well as dance action. And a firm not-just-anything-will-do opinion about how technology should be used to…more… (back to menu)
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Originally from Miami, Florida and now a London-based professional dancer and new on the scene as choreographer and producer …more… (back to menu)
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Meet Serena McCall! A contemporary ballet dancer from Scotland and at 20 years of age already a standout in classical ballet and contemporary dance, a social media star, lead brand ambassador for “Acropad”, and wholly determined to achieve what she wants in life and in her dance career.…more… (back to menu)
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Sina Doering is in fact a famed 21-year-old drummer from Germany with a lifetime of love and connection to music. By age 2, she was already accompanying her dad on an international tour with a Beatles Tribute Band…more… (back to menu)
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After her first-place October 2021 win at the Berlin Young American Grand Prix (YAGP) 2021 regionals, the then-14-year-old ballet student Sofia Naumenko was selected to compete at the April 2022 Florida YAGP Annual Finals. But then, in late February, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, leveling a good portion of Sofia’s hometown of Bucha, murdering citizens, making the US trip impossible, and…more… (back to menu)
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There aren’t many dance artists in the world of performing arts who from the very first meeting show such nonstop energy, positivity, open mindedness, and willingness to make new connections as does Sophie Quay …more… (back to menu)
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A 12-year-old ballet student from Wales, UK, Thea Martin is one of those exceptional young students of dance with the passionate inner drive to persevere that so impresses NPAFE. In a word, she is a dedicated and hardworking dancer with a strong desire to achieve excellence …more… (back to menu)
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Immerse yourself in a one-of-a-kind journey into the world of ballet and contemporary dance – a series of elegant, captivating, and superb London ballet performances! But that is not the main topic. Our spotlight here is on a passionate young dance artist, Tienne Campbell …more… (back to menu)
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Oh! If it only happened more often than it actually does. Two dancers with a sixth sense for choreography as well as dance show up at the same workshop in London. They don’t know one another, the class begins…more… (back to menu)