The “25 to Watch” Club
IMAGE ABOVE: Allison Miller in Balanchine’s Ballo Della Regina. Photo by Amitava Sarkar.
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IMAGE ABOVE: Laura Gutierrez. Photo by Lynn Lane.
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IMAGE ABOVE: Snow Queen Leticia Oliveira and her son Tiago. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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IMAGE ABOVE: Dawn Dippel. Photo Courtesy of the artist.
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Jones blew me away when I first saw her dance in Jane Weiner’s Hope Stone Dance Company, where she just completed her fourth season. She’s such an in-demand teacher that she was featured in my Dance Teacher Magazine cover story on freelance teachers. Her work outside of dance is growing too: She served as the movement director for Houston Grand Opera’s The Passenger, and returned to Stages Repertory Theatre for Failure: A Love Story in the role of Gertrude Fail. She waltzes up a storm this month in HGO’s Die Fledermaus at Miller Outdoor Theatre, May 16 -17, before she heading to the Bates Dance Festival Young Dancers Workshop to teach.
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IMAGE ABOVE: Courtney Jones in Failure: A Love Story at Stages Repertory Theatre. Photo by Pin Lim.
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Laura Gutierrez proved a standout in Jonah Bokaer’s Eclipse, the centerpiece of CounterCurrent Festival at the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. (Bokaer was one of the “25 to watch” in 2006.) She will tour with Bokaer this spring. In February, she danced in a new work by Bokaer at Savannah College of Art and Design as a part of deFINE Art 2014 in Savannah, GA. This month, she shares a show in NYC with Amanda Hinchey and Nellie Rainwater at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn.
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IMAGE ABOVE: Nozomi Iijima in Stanton Welch’s La Bayadere. Photo by Amitava Sarkar.
IMAGE RIGHT: Derek Dunn in Paris. Photo by Jordan Matter.
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—NANCY WOZNY