Kathleen Hermesdorf. Photo: Robbie Sweeny
From Blog Director Jill Randall:
Yes, the list gets longer and longer to scroll through....but what an incredible list of artists who have shared, in their own words, about their career paths. Since August 2012, 172 artists have taken the time to reflect and to write on their dance experience.
Browse through the list and click on a name or two, or ten. Any name in blue has also shared a second post, "updating" their artist profile and how life has shifted/changed/grown since first writing for the project.
To quote from Linda C. Smith's artist profile:
Enjoy the journey. Be patient. Decide why you love to dance and then just DO IT. Don’t question yourself every day. Just get up and work and work and work.
Dance is for everyone but life as a professional performer is not for everyone. There are so many ways to make dance part of your life. Don’t get stuck. Experience dance on many levels. Teach it, perform it, make it, fund it, watch it, write about it…love it.
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Melecio Estrella (Oakland, CA)
Rachael McClellan Leonard (Port Orange, FL)
Ashley Thorndike-Youssef (Washington, DC)
Annie Rosenthal Parr (Mill Valley, CA)
Christal N. Brown (Middlebury, VT)
Laura Everling Mulchay (Las Vegas, NV)
Helen Simoneau (Winston-Salem, NC)
Katie Sopoci Drake (Chicago, IL)
Stephanie Sleeper (Brooklyn, NY)
Stephen Koester (Salt Lake City, UT)
Valerie Gutwirth (Oakland, CA)
Jill Voorhees Edwards (Salt Lake City, UT)
Amelia Rudolph (San Francisco, CA)
Dawn Robinson (New York, NY and Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Angie Hauser (Florence, Massachusetts)
Daniel Charon (Salt Lake City, UT)
Annie Arnoult Beserra (Chicago, IL)
Jennifer Nugent (Brooklyn, NY)
Wendy Jones (San Francisco, CA)
Emily Carson Coates (New Haven, CT)
Gigi Arrington (Salt Lake City, UT)
Elizebeth Randall (Oakland, CA)
Ellen Bromberg (Salt Lake City, UT)
Alexandra Beller (New York, NY)
Charlotte Boye-Christensen (Salt Lake City, UT)
Jill Patterson (Lakeville, MN)
Jillian Harris (Philadelphia, PA)
Jennifer Kayle (Iowa City, IA)
Carrie Homuth (Minneapolis, MN)
Patricia West Sotelo (Oakland, CA)
Gretchen Pick (Minneapolis, MN)
Tandy Beal (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)
Victoria Marks (Los Angeles, CA)
Marlena Penney Oden (Brooklyn, NY)
Stephan Koplowitz (Los Angeles, CA)
Sara Rudner (New York, New York)
Dawn Karlovsky (Saint Louis, MO)
Ellie Goudie-Averell (Iowa City, IA)
Eddie Martinez (Wuppertal, Germany)
Linda C. Smith (Salt Lake City, UT)
Jennifer Monson (Urbana, IL and New York, NY)
Jeanine Durning (New York, NY)
Netta Yerushalmy (New York, NY)
Abby Fiat (Salt Lake City, UT)
Alice Sheppard (New York, NY and San Francisco, CA)
Molly Heller (Salt Lake City, UT)
Chantal Sampogna (Oakland, CA)
Brandon Cournay (New York, NY)
Donna White (Salt Lake City, UT)
Keith Johnson (Long Beach, CA)
Sarah Wilbur (Los Angeles, CA)
Ashley Anderson (Salt Lake City, UT)
Adriane Fang (Silver Spring, MD)
Dawn Stoppiello (Portland, OR)
Richard Burrows (Seattle and Vancouver, WA)
Sondra Fraleigh (St. George, UT)
Abby Zbikowski (Champaign, IL)
Gwen Welliver (New York, NY and Tallahassee, FL)
Joan Woodbury (Salt Lake City, UT)
Rashaun Mitchell (Brooklyn, NY)
Todd McQuade (Los Angeles, CA)
Banning Bouldin (Nashville, TN)
Elizabeth McPherson (New York, NY)
Jo Kreiter (San Francisco, CA)
Rosana Barragan (San Francisco, CA)
Paloma McGregor (New York, NY)
Phyllis Haskell Tims (Arizona and Idaho)
Angela Demmel (San Francisco Bay Area)
Jennifer Edwards (New York, NY)
Camille A. Brown (New York City)
Christy Funsch (San Francisco, CA)
Pamela Geber Handman (Salt Lake City, UT)
Courtney Moreno (San Francisco, CA)
Jeremy jae Neal (Brooklyn, NY)
Heidi Henderson (Wakfield, RI)
Raja Feather Kelly (Brooklyn, NY)
Nicole Vaughan-Diaz (New York, NY)
Charles Slender-White (San Francisco, CA)
Shirley Ririe (Salt Lake City, UT)
Kathleen Hermesdorf (San Francisco, CA)
Lauren Simpson (San Francisco, CA)
Mark Travis Rivera (Oakland, CA)
Raissa Simpson (San Francisco, CA)
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