Graffiti Dancers
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About Graffiti Dancers
In 1974, a small, modern-based dance company was founded at Northwestern University by a select group of dancers who were looking for more dance options than were currently offered at the school. With a limited budget and nothing but a background spray painted with graffiti, the group produced their very first show and adopted the name Graffiti Dancers.
Over the years, the company has slowly evolved into a much different company than the one started thirty years ago, but the name and the desire for real choreographic and performance opportunities remains largely unchanged. Today, Graffiti Dancers is a sixteen person company that is completely student run. Company members produce, direct, and choreograph their own shows, creating a season that consists of a mainstage production in spring quarter and year-round commitments to charities, fundraisers, and other events on campus. Graffiti's dancing is based primarily in jazz and hip-hop, but because all of the dancers are trained in multiple areas of dance ranging from, and including tap, jazz, ballet, modern and hip-hop, the company prides itself on its versatility.
The various styles and the divers backgrounds of each of the dancers blend together to compliment each other and create a completely unique "graffiti" style of dancing. With each coming year, Graffiti Dancers carries on a tradition of expanding dance opportunities as well as building a reputation for dance as an art form on the Northwestern campus.
Graffiti Dancers is a satellite group of Arts Alliance. Their upcoming show is titled Actions Speak Louder. Look for it in McCormick Auditorium April 1-3, 2010.
Current Members
Leadership
- Inside Producer: Juli Farley
- Outside Producer: Darrin French
- Artistic Director: Kim Dooley
Company
- Julia DeNardo
- Esther Divovich
- Kim Dooley
- Juli Farley
- Jackey Giannitrapani
- Calyn Guberman
- Kayla Grayson
- Maxine Hupy
- Amanda Kroiss
- Emily Lamberg
- Natalie Marks
- Rachel Molinaro
- Aly Quigley
- Carly Robinson
- Abby Suskin
- Monica Thomas
2010 Design Team
- Scenic Designer: Evan Derrow
- Costume Director: Tracey Cook
- Costume Team:
- Rachel Birnbaum
- Casey Bishop
- Danielle Calvert
- Corinne Eckert
- RB Embleton
- Dana O'Brien
- Costume Team:
- Lighting Director: Jason Margolis
- Lighting Team:
- Andrew Tolbert
- Daniel Lazar
- Brad Zipser
- Aaron Quick
- Lighting Team:
- Sound Designer/Qlab Head: Daniel Carlyon
- Sound Mixing: Benjamin Zoll
- Video: Alberto Roldan
- Stage Manager: Tracy Smith
- Assistant Stage Manager:
- Production Assistants/ Run Crew: Jennifer Keats Snow, Megan Feibusch
- Trailer Video: James Daniel
- Graphic Design: John Allman
- Photographer: Justin Barbin
