AKIN.AMIN.ATIN

Akin, Amin, Atin Performers for Alay Sa Inyo (Our Offering for You) at Kalayaan Hall.

2009-05-22T16:50:00.000-07:00

LEONIDES D. ARPON

WILLIAM “BILLY” BELL was born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida where he first started dance at the age of 12. He attended the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL and graduated in May 2008. Billy has danced with Broadway’s most famed stars, Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Harolyn Blackwell, Johnny Rogers and Brian Stokes Mitchell in “Back to Back to Broadway” and he toured with Broadway Arts Productions in their production of “West Side Story” playing the role of “Baby John.” He also holds many titles at various dance competitions around the U.S. including West Coast Dance Explosion. Most recently he has been accepted to The Juilliard School in New York City for dance and is currently attending as a part of the class of 2012.

SELENA ELAINE CHAU. Freelance dance work includes: The Metropolitan Opera (The First Emperor, Orfeo), Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza, Savage Jazz Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group (Romeo and Juliet, understudy), The Santa Fe Opera (Alceste, La Traviata), Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Christopher Caines, Errol Grimes, The Yard. Selena trained on scholarship at California Ballet School in San Diego, CA.

STEVEN CUEVAS holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson College. Favorite roles include Ching Ho in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Feung Schwey in The Awesome 80s Prom, the Balladeer in Assassins, Roberto in Working, Ernst Robel in Spring Awakening, and the Young Thing in Hello Again. Steven is also an experienced musical director and is currently working at Forestburgh Playhouse, where he is musically directing All Shook Up, Show Boat, and Hairspray.

RAYMUND “RANN” GOLAMCO. Born in Manila, a Pasig native, Mr. Golamco collaborated and helped produce some of the Philippines' finest artists; Hungry Young Poets, Jett Pangan Group, Mojofly, Eraserheads, Sandwich SQUID9, DRIP, Ladybugstingray, Lindsey Wilson, Kendra Samson Dance, Deep Foundation, Djkiva/ADIOSBABYLON STUDIOS, Brother Ah's World Ensemble.
Mr. Golamco is currently based in New York and is pursuing projects in the field of production, film, advertising and marketing.

LESLIE HUBILLA is originally from New Jersey. She received her formal training from the prestigious schools of The School of American Ballet and The Ailey School in New York City. Leslie was a member of the acclaimed Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet School Ensemble and Training program for two years. She currently dances for various contemporary companies in New York City including Sidra Bell Dance New York and Bennyroyce Productions. She also dances for and acts as Co-Artistic Director for Fr3sh Dance Company, a hip hop company based out of New Jersey.

DEVIN ILAW created the role of Jake in the world premiere of Wanda’s World Off-Broadway (Lucille Lortel Award nom) and has been seen across the country in Miss Saigon (Thuy), The King and I (Lun Tha), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ching Ho), Les Miserables and on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” on TV. A musician, Devin conducted the pit orchestra for Silver Bullet Trailer Off-Broadway and has had his arrangements performed at Lincoln Center and various cabarets and concerts in NYC. Devin holds a BFA in Acting and Music Theater from Carnegie Mellon. Next, Devin will be creating the leading role of Dionysys
in Pete Mills' new musical THE ROCKAE.

LORESA LANCETA Credits Include: Off-Broadway/NYC: NAATCO's 'The House of Bernarda Alba' (Chay Yew), 'Rocky Horror' with Neil Patrick Harris, and 'The Awakening' at the Workshop Theatre Company. Favorite Regional productions include: Miss Saigon (Yvonne/Kim us), My Fair Lady (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Virginia Stage Company, and The Cleveland Play House), Aida (Nehebka) at Count Basie Regional Theatre, and Joseph (Narrator). Loresa will next be seen in the off-Broadway production of 'Imelda' with Pan Asian Repertory.

PETER SLOAN LEWIS has worked/played with: Gil Evans Orchestra, Pawel Macivoda, Ornette Coleman, Ricky Martin, Oprah Winfrey, Azouni Adou, Clark Terry, Todd Horton, Elvin Jones, Randy Brecker, Raffi Torn, Arnie Lawrence, Arturo O’farrill, James Katz, Hiram Bullock, Jahn Margulies Bill Payne, Adam Holzman, Mamadou Ba, Larry Goldings, Reggie Washington, Alvin Ailey, Matt Garrison, Dominique Kanza, Richard Bona and many others.

JONELLE MARGALLO. This coming fall, she will be performing in the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s New York Premiere of Imelda, A New Musical. Other theatrical credits include: Tears of Heaven (NY Workshop), Flower Drum Song (AMTSJ), West Side Story and The King and I at Carousel Dinner Theatre, Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular Show, Disney Cruiselines, Music Theatre of Wichita, and The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. B.F.A.: The Boston Conservatory.

JP MORAGA, born and raised in Meycuayan Bulacan, Philippines. Credits include: Aguinaldo: Mark Twain in Purgatory (NAATF), Miss Saigon (Drury Lane Oakbrook) My Scary Girl (Barrington Stage Co.), The King and I; Thouroughly Modern Millie; Anything Goes (CDT), Altar Boyz (FST), My Fair Lady (ATL, Cleveland Playhouse, & VSC). B.M. at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music.

BENNYROYCE ROYON was born in the Philippines and started his professional dance training at age 16. In 2006, Bennyroyce received his BFA degree from the prestigious Juilliard School. He has freelanced with numerous companies in New York City such as the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Nilas Martins Dance Company, Chamber Dance Project, Sidra Bell Dance NY, and Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys of Dance. Bennyroyce has toured the US, Canada, Europe, teaches ballet & contemporary classes and has presented his choreographic works in Seattle, New York City, Montréal, and at Jacob's Pillow. He currently dances with Armitage Gone! Dance and is the founder of Bennyroyce Productions, a project-based collaborative contemporary dance company.

KENDRA SAMSON began her formal dance training at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Dance School and subsequently further honed her artistry at the Philippine High School for the Arts. During her senior year at PHSA she had the amazing opportunity of competing in the 9th Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 2004 she was accepted at The Juilliard School where she enjoyed performing works by Ohad Naharin, Lar Lubovitch, Anthony Tudor, Larry Keigwin, Susan Marshall and more.

HOWARD TOMLINSON the president of The Tomlinson Agency, has garnered a near twenty-year tenure of success in the business of Art, Dance, Fashion, Music, TV & Film.
Having owned his first model agency at the age of twenty while attending college, in Washington, D.C. was the start of his corporate success. Opening an agency in New York City after attending the prestigious Howard University, he quickly gained international recognition and notoriety, due to the success of his models and the other talent he represented.
In the years to follow, Tomlinson finds himself consulting CEO’s, Presidents and Founders of various companies and organizations. Gifted with an innate sense of the elements required to make one successful and showing them how to blend them in with the day to day activities of the present, is what Tomlinson effortlessly shares with his clients.

Akin, Amin, Atin Performers at Flushing Town Hall. September 26th and 27th, 2008

2008-08-05T20:57:00.001-07:00

Mica Bernas (1984) born and raised in Manila, Philippines, started her training at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Dance (CCP) School under the direction of Noordin Jumalon. In 2000,she joined Ballet Philippines (BP) performing with the company as Soloist and a regular faculty member of the CCP Dance Schoool for 6 years. Upon arriving to New York in 2006 she has worked with Max Luna III,Karole Armitage, Connecticut Ballet, Zig Zag Ballet, H.T. Chen and Dancers, Leonides D. Arpon, Gallim Dance. She is currently a member of the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company.

R. Colby Damon was born and raised in Richmond VA, and received his training at the Richmond Ballet, the Boston Ballet, and the Virginia School of the Arts. After graduation he joined the Sacramento Ballet, where for five years he performed soloist and principal roles in numerous classical and contemporary works. He has also worked with Thang Dao Dance Company, Lydia Johnson Dance, Amy Seiwerts Im'ig-ery, and the Northwest Professional dance project. Colby is currently persuing his BA in Dance through the New York LEAP program, and is also a certified Chen Style Tai Chi Teacher.

Norbert L. De La Cruz III,20, born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. He came to the United States at the age of 2 and was raised in Los Angeles, California. Mr. De La Cruz has been dancing since the age of 13. He recieved his ballet training in Los Angeles by teacher Vera Ninkovic where he was also a former student at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. He has trained in numerous ballet schools such as The Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, American Ballet Theatre NYC, San Francisco Ballet School, Miami City Ballet, and Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. In 2006, he was a finalist winner for both the Music Center’s 17th Annual Spotlight Awards and was awarded the Emerging Young Artist Scholarship from the California Alliance for Arts Education (CAAE). Mr. De La Cruz is a current 3rd year BFA student at the Juilliard School of New York City.

Dana Marie Ingraham began her training at the Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center. She attended the Laguardia High School for Performing Arts and subsequently studied at The Ailey School on a 3-year Van Lier Fellowship. Ms. Ingraham graduated Magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University with a BFA in Dance Performance and a BA in Sociology. She has danced with the companies of Philadanco, Ballethnic, The Francesca Harper Project, and Nathantrice/ Rituals; and has worked with noted choreographers Alonzo King, Louis Johnson, Roger C. Jeffrey, Penny Frank, and Karole Armitage, among others. She made her Broadway debut in the musical Hot Feet, and has also performed in the national tour of The Lion King. She is a Presidential Scholar of the Arts, and a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

Takao Komaru, originally from Ibaraki, Japan, moved to New York in 2004 and graduated from The Ailey School. He has danced with Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, H.T. Chen and Dancers, Saeko Ichinohe Dance Comany and others.

Chu Ying Ku is originally from Taiwan. Ms. Ku holds a BFA and a MFA in dance from the Taipei National University of the Arts. During her studies, she worked with renowned choreographers such as Lo Men-Fei, Lin Huai Ming, Ross Parkes and Zheng Xiou Shong. Ms. Ku has since danced with ACME Physical Theater and Body Expression Dance Theater in Taipei and performed in many dance festivals in France, Germany and Malaysia. She has also taught traditional Chinese dance and modern dance at many senior high schools and dance studios throughout Taiwan. She has choreographed many of her own works and coached many students for the National Students Dance competition. Ms. Ku is currently a member of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company.

Michael Francis McBride (Johnson City, NY) began his pre-professional training
under the tutelage of Amber Perkins at the Amber Perkins School of the Arts in
Norwich, NY. Currently, Michael is in a junior in the Ailey/Fprdham BFA program.
Michael has trained on scholarship at Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts for the past
two summers. In 2007, Michael was assistant to Earl Mosley as he set "Saddle Up!"
on the Alvin Ailey American Dace Theater. Michael has had the opportunity to work
with such choreographers as Jacqueline Buglisi, Ronald K. Brown, Christopher
Huggins, Elisa Monte, Earl Mosley, and Kevin Wynn.

A duet repertory company inspired by the Dada movement, Da·Da·Dance Project was founded by Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez and Guillermo Ortega Tanus in New York City. In the spirit of Dadaism, we challenge conventional notions of art making with travesty, absurdity, and physical authenticity; we constantly question aesthetic ideals. We continuously seek to find a language that speaks, communicates and delivers uniquely expressive vocabulary, to reveal our eccentricity. www.dadadanceproject.org

A native of Korea, Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez has had numerous opportunities to work with gifted collaborators and dance companies for the past 12 years in various parts of the world. She has been a guest artist at North Carolina School of the Arts since 2006. As a creator, she has been presented in venues, including Danspace Project’s City/Dans and Global Exchange, Sexto Encuentro de Nueva Danza y Nueva Musica (Mexico City), Mexico Now Festival, Daegu International Dance Festival (Korea) amongst many others. She graduated from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program with a Masters Degree and works as an Interaction/Graphic designer.

Guillermo Ortega Tanus, a recipient of Performing Artist Fellowship 07-08 from National Foundation of Culture and Arts, Mexico (FONCA), has presented his work at various places, including recent presentation at Movement Research’s Judson Church Series. In both Mexico and US, he has danced with many companies such as UX Onodanza, A Poc A Poc, Eterno Caracol, Miro, Pick Up Performance Co. and many others. He has received grants from National Center for the Arts (CENART) 05-06, and from IMJUVE 03-04. He would like to thank National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) for their support.