The People

Christin Severini is a former dancer with American Ballet Theatre in New York City where she performed extensively in numerous full length and repertory ballets throughout the country and around the world. While on full scholarship, Ms. Severini trained and excelled at the School of American Ballet and the North Carolina School of the Arts, two of the most celebrated ballet schools in the USA. Throughout her training and career, Christin has worked with some of the leading teachers and renowned dancers of our time and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards such as, the D.A.N.C.E Award, Firolla Keane Award, and recognition in Who’s Who Among American High School Students for artistry, as well as academic achievement.  Ms. Severini established and directed the Pre-Professional Ballet Training Program, was School Director, and currently teaches classes and choreographs, at Moving People Dance in Santa Fe, NM. She also taught classes and choreographed at Dance Arts Los Alamos in White Rock, NM. Severini was recently invited and will be attending the ABT National Training Curriculum intensive in February 2008 as part of an exciting new teacher certificate program that American Ballet Theatre is offering to their former company members.
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Sarah Cecile Goldstone is currently studying at The Juilliard School in New York City, under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes, where she has performed original Jose Limon and Twyla Tharp repertory, as well as new work by Matthew Neenan. Originally from Santa Fe, Sarah has studied and performed with MPD for the last seven years. She has worked with many renowned chorographers, such as Gail Gilbert, Ronn Stewart, Sam Watson, Robert Moses, Tina Gerstler, Max Stone, Alonzo King and Robert Battle. Sarah is also a certified Gyrotonic instructor.
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Cecily Campbell is a native Santa Fean, and began dancing at the age of six with Gisella Genschaw at Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet. She studied and performed with Moving People Dance Santa Fe for three years and just received a BFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Dwight Rhoden and Bill Yang. She plans to stay in New York and make friends with life after graduation, and would like to thank her family for their endless love and support which is always felt and ever inspirational.
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Catherine Cabeen is currently based in Seattle, completing her BFA through Cornish College’s Professional Dancer’s Program. Cabeen was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1998-2005. She was Assistant Choreographer to Bill T. Jones for his work on Spring Awakening with the Atlantic Theater. She is a founding member of Richard Move’s MoveOpolis!, and has also been a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Pearl Lang Dance Theater. Cabeen can be seen on the PBS Great Performances documentary, Free to Dance. She has performed with Debi Harry, Laurie Anderson, Vernon Reed, and the Orion String Quartet. Her choreography has been performed in New York at Aaron Davis Hall, the 92nd St Y, Wow Café Theater, and the American Place Theater. Cabeen’s choreography has also been performed in Seattle, Bellingham, Boston, Philadelphia, and Amsterdam. She has received commissions from the American College Dance Festival NW, Pig Iron Theater Company, Lehua Dance Company, and Arc Dance Company. Cabeen teaches at high schools, universities and festivals throughout the United States. She is a featured artist in Gigi Berardi’s book on Dance, Finding Balance. Cabeen is also a yoga teacher certified by OM yoga in NYC.
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Kevin Gallacher started tap dancing at the age of 16. At 17 he began to further his education with ballet training with Park Avenue Dance Works in Colorado, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and is currently under the special guidance of Moving People Dance Santa Fe. Kevin has taken Master Classes with Gail Gilbert, Sam Watson, Kevin Iega Jeff, Michael Vernon, Valeria Madonia, Layla Amis and Arturo Fernandez. Kevin has performed with Park Avenue Dance Works, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Moving People Too!, Moving People Dance Santa Fe, Valeria Madonia, Circus Luminous, and the Santa Fe Opera, where he recently performed with his mentor Ronn Stewart. This is his second season as a company member of Moving People Dance Santa Fe.
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Jesus Cortes was born in Veracruz Mexico in 1979. He began his training in Mexican folk dance when he was 6 years old under the direction of his uncle Juan Natoli. In 2000 ,at the age of 21,he started dancing with Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He became a soloist in the role of The deer Dance “La Danza Del Venado” and toured Mexico, Europe and the US. Currently he is the company choreographer and lead teacher for Los Ninos de Santa Fe y Compania. In addition he teaches hundreds of elementary school children as part of the Arts in the Schools program in Espanola New Mexico. He joined MPD in June 2005. In 2006 he founded and is the artistic director of Arte Sin Fronteras, a new dance school/company in rural Northern New Mexico.
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Eleanor (Ellie) Hausman trained at Early Street Studios and Aspen-Santa Fe Dance studio, before transferring to train with Moving People Dance Santa Fe in 2002. There she was a member of Moving People Too! and an apprentice to MPD for three seasons. In March 2003 Ellie performed with Bobby McFerrin in “A Magical Evening with Bobby McFerrin” as both a dancer and singer. She has attended several pre-professional programs including LINES Ballet of San Francisco, Virginia School of the Arts, and the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts. In 2005 she traveled to France and Poland as a backstage manager, understudy and dancer for the Komenka Dance Troupe, where they performed in numerous International Folk Dance Festivals. Ellie is a junior at the University of Arizona Dance Department where she has worked with renowned teachers and choreographers such as Douglas Nielsen, James Clouser, Amy Ernst, Sam Watson, Melissa Lowe and Jory Hancock. This will be Ellie’s second season dancing in the MPD company, and she is grateful and honored for the wonderful opportunity.
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Erica Gionfriddo, a native of Enfield, CT., began her arts career in theater and vocal performance. Her dance training began in 2000 at the New England Dance Conservatory in Longmeadow, MA where she was invited into the pre-professional program. In May of 2006 Erica received her B.F.A in Dance Performance and Choreography from Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. During her time with the Shenandoah Dance Ensemble, Erica was selected to perform works by John Mead, Rebecca Lazier, and David Parsons, as well as in works presented at the Kennedy Center and Joy of Motion Dance Center in Washington, D.C. Erica’s choreography was performed for adjudication at America College Dance Festival. Internationally she has performed and studied intensively in Spain and Taiwan. In the summer of 2005, Erica worked in residency with Second Wind Dance Company in Virginia Beach, VA, where performed featured roles in original Anna Sokolow repertoire. In April 2006 she performed with Cie: Ekilibre; international dance company directed by Maurice Fraga. In May 2006 she earned her Pilates Teacher Certification. Erica is currently living and teaching in Santa Fe, NM, where she is training and performing with Moving People Dance Santa Fe.
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