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Collaborating Artists
Sacred Dance Guild Michael Bautista Design Photography George Peters The Museum of Outdoor Arts Dorothy Tanner Cory Gilstrap and Imagined Creations |
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Collaborating Artist Biographies
Amiyo Devienne is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance therapist who oriented her explorations in dance towards a more holistic approach of movement. She has trained in several psycho-corporal techniques including the Esalen Institute in the USA, in African dance in Douala in Cameroon, and in contemporary dance in France. She studied the Gurdjieff movemernts with Avrom Altmann who was a direct student of J.G. Bennett, and with Deorah Rose and James Tomarelli, also students of the Bennett lineage. Amiyo lived many years in India, in the international commune of Osho, where she created a unique synthesis between the eastern and western visions of dance, and where she learned the stillness of meditation. For 30 years now she has travelled worldwide, sharing her experiences on movement as a science, as an art, and as a tool for inner development, for both, amateurs and professionals. In 2002 she taught at the Carolyn Carlson Institute "Accademia Isola Danza". Amiyo is currently leading several seminars internationally: in France, in Germany:Munich, Bielefeld and Koln, in New Delhi and Dharamsala in India, in Ukraine, in Moscow and St Petersburg, Siberia in Russia, in the United States in New York and Boulder. As a choreographer, she has created and directed more than 50 public demonstrations, 30 of which being Gurdjieff movements. She has also opened her school in Alsace, France, where she offers initiation and training in Gurdjieff movements, as well as dance-therapy-expression seminars.
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Chetan Greenberg has been deeply involved with the practice and the teaching of the Gurdjieff movements with Amiyo Devienne, in seminars, trainings and public demonstrations since 1997. An accomplished musician, he brings his skills for a deeper understanding of the music and rhythms, and of the science of vibrations.
Cory Gilstrap and Imagined Creations combines engineering know-how, limitless imagination and skilled craftsmanship to produce an array of quality sets, props, costumes, puppets and much more. With more than 30 years of television and stage experience, Imagined Creations has earned the reputation as Colorado’s “…preeminent theatrical dream team…” Denver Post (2005). Their work has appeared on stages across the U.S. as well as many nationally broadcast commercials and network television. |
Devin Gores has been running his own design/fabrication business for over 13 years. He combined his talents with Charles Lefkowitz after ten years of working together to form Perspective Design Fabrication. Devin loves working across a broad palette of mediums and stays grounded by remaining committed to developing environmentally conscious projects from design to demo. He especially thrives with the challenge of helping his clients solve complex design, engineering and construction problems. Devin brings a professional level of determination, commitment and thoughtfulness to all his projects to ensure they will pass the test of time with an enduring sense of functionality and style.
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Deborah Rose Longo has been an instructor of the Gurdjieff Movements for over 30 years, working with groups in the United States, Germany, Australia, England, Chile, Canada, Italy, India, Russia and Ukraine. She began her training in the Gurdjieff Work and the Sacred Dances in 1975 at the Claymont Society for Continuous Education in Charles Town, West Virginia (founded by John Bennett), where she has been a long time community member. Deborah Rose is an artist specializing in mandala making and has had her work featured in numerous publications. In recent years, she has also enjoyed the challenges of substitute teaching in the public school system as an opportunity to positively influence the lives of many young souls.
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Jesse Manno is Music Director of the University of Colorado, Boulder Dance Division. He is also a frequent accompanist/composer in residence with The Bates Dance Festival, ACDA, Florida Dance Festival, and others. He has composed around 200 dance, theatre, circus art and film scores for a variety of collaborators, including David Dorfman, David Taylor, Michael Foley, Robert Moses, Chris Aiken/Angie Hauser, Frequent Flyers, and Turning The Wheel, Inc. His work has been presented all over the U.S., and sporadically in Europe and Asia. His group SHEREFE performs Balkan and Middle Eastern music at festivals, weddings, and conferences throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Please visitwww.jessemanno.com and www.sherefe.org for more information.
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Dorothy Tanner was born in New York which is where she began her art career. Her main project for the past several decades has been "Lumonics," a light and sound multi-sensory expression involving the light sculptures, projection, video, electronics, and music. Lumonics has been presented in California, Maine, Florida, and now Denver. Dorothy and her team of technicians relocated the studio from South Florida to Denver in 2008. Her art was exhibited at the Denver International Airport in 2014, and prior to that at the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Englewood and VERTIGO Art Space on Santa Fe Drive. Dorothy’s latest exhibition is “Creatures From Left Field," which had its debut on Thursday, June 6 2016 at the Lakewood Cultural Center in Lakewood, CO. It is a departure her main body of work which is entirely abstract, and is the first time they have been assembled as an exclusive installation. "The major challenge for me in art is to keep under control the tyranny of a logical mind. The spirit that moves me is capricious, unruly and irreverent. Most of my work grows out of intuitive impulse — the rest gets underway by just playing.”
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Meg York grew up off-grid near the Village of Los Lunas, New Mexico surrounded by the sounds of Mexican, Spanish, Native American, and Jewish music. Always drawn to eastern sounds and dance accompaniment, Meg has a Performance Degree from the University of New Mexico in Clarinet, Flute and Flamenco Accompaniment and toured Turkey and Mexico studying and performing world fusion music. Her passion is dance accompaniment.
Colorado: Arise Festival, Athena Project, Bella Diva Dance, Colorado Friends of Old Time Music and Dance, Dazzle Jazz, Denver School of the Arts, Denver Metro State College, Denver Spring Institute, Denver Sister Cities Worldwide Festival Director, Frequent Fliers Circus Arts, Jefferson Unitarian Church, Mercury Café, Nueva Escuela De Musica, Paonia Blue Sage Arts. New Mexico: Pomegranate Studios, Santa Fe, Maple Street Dance, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico. California: Mendocino Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp, Mendocino Balkan Camp, Stockton University International Camp Society for Creative Anachronisms, Society for Ethnomusicology Farabi Persian Ensemble with Ahmad Soufiani, Shahrzad Khorsandi and David Taylor Zikr Dance. Yo-Yo Ma’s Conversations with Refugees. Meg directs the multicultural Tarab Retreat Music and dance build mindful community bridges between the past and the future, so vital in our modern times. |