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Asharaine Machala comes to Island Dance with 30+ years of dance experience. She danced professionally with the Minnesota Dance Theatre for 8 years, performing classics of both the ballet and modem repertoires. Touring included two seasons at Jacobs Pillow Festival, Spoleto, Italy, and
most of the Midwest.
Asharaine has been guest Teacher/choreographer at the University of Minnesota, Interlochen Arts Academy, Marin Civic Ballet, and Seattle University after being on the faculty at the Minnesota Dance Theatre's School for 7 years. Her modem classes are a unique syntheses of Graham, Cunningham, Limon and Humphrey/Weidman techniques. Ballet influences come from study with teachers from London's Royal Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. She has worked with alignment and placement with Maggie Black and Zena Rommett in New York and with students of Raoul Gelabert among others.
Locally, her work has been seen at Kaleidoscope, After the Fall, Jazz Alive The Nutcracker, The Snow Queen, and Whidbey Dance Theatre. Concerts.
In addition to being an instructor at Island Dance, Asharaine's ballets have represented Olympic Ballet Theatre at the RDA/Pacific festivals from 1995-1998.
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Artistic Directors:
Susan Campbell Sandri
Charlene Brown
Resident Choreographers:
Susan Campbell Sandri
Susan Vanderwood
2004 Guest Choreographers:
Leigh-Ann Cohen
Martha Graham/Sharon Tyres, repetiteur
Jennifer Bondelid
2004 Emerging Choreographers:
Andrea Burr
Kate Yates
2003 Guest Choreographers:
Wendy Johnson-Casper
Asharaine Machala
Carl Massey
Racheale Walsh
2003 Student Choreographer:
Jamee Brown
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