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2010
Faculty
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LAUREN
BEALE (Boulder,
Colorado)
NANCY CRANBOURNE (Boulder, Colorado & Seattle,
Washington)
HELEN ESTRELLA (Santa
Rosa,California)
MARK HAINES (Seattle,
Washington)
CHRIS HARRIS (Denver,
Colorado)
JESSICA HENDRICKS
(Dallas, Texas) KARI
HERMAN-TAFOYA (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
AMANDA LEISE (Dallas, Texas)
TIFFANY LEISE (Longmont,
Colorado)
WADE
MADSEN (Seattle, Washington)
BRITTANY MAXWELL HOPKINS
(Mt. Pleasant, Utah)
CHRISTY MCNEIL (Seattle,
Washington)
ERIKA RANDALL (Boulder,
Colorado)
JENNY
SCHIFF (Boulder, Colorado)
KAT WOLANSKE (Studio City, California)
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Lauren
Beale (Boulder, Colorado)
Following
the footsteps of her soul, Lauren began her movement journey
in Colorado 27 years ago. Since then, she has received a BFA
in Dance from the University of Colorado in Boulder and performed
and traveled the world with Colorado companies Helander Dance
Theater, David/Capps Dances, Interweave Dance Theater; and
artists Jerri Davis, Len Barron and many others. On some sort
of calling, she then moved to New York City where she performed
nationally and internationally with Curt Haworth, Ellis Wood,
Jane Comfort; and produced her own work and co-created Two
Peas & A Pod, a new dance company with her fellow native
Coloradoan and partner in crime Jessica Hendricks. In the
mean time, she received her Vinyasa Yoga teaching certification
from NYC's Om Yoga Center. Delightfully back in Colorado,
Lauren teaches dance and yoga throughout the area including
the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop and C.U., Boulder where she
was on faculty in the Dance Department in fall 2005. Lauren
is looking forward to performing with Kim Olson/Sweet Edge
and 3rd Law Dance, collaborating with her boyfriend Jimmy
on interdisciplinary performance art and saving the world
with her newly discovered super powers. |
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Nancy
Cranbourne (Boulder, CO &
Seattle, WA)
Nancy Cranbourne began her dance career in Seattle, Washington,
where she performed extensively with Wade Madsen in their
collaboratiove show Duo, among many other film, theater,
and dance projects. She has served on the dance faculties
of Colorado State University, Cornish College of the Arts,
the National Theater Conservatory, and currently teaches
at the University of Colorado/Boulder. Nancy has been a
guest artist for numerous dance festivals including the
New Orleans Dance Project, Spectrum Dance Theater, and the
Bates Dance Festival. She has earned several awards for
performance in theater: 2 Denver Drama Critics Circle Awards
(for Betrayal, an Actors Ensemble production, and 2 Women
Avoiding Involuntary Hospitalization with Patti Dobrowolski
for BMoCA), and was named "Best Actress 2002"
by Westword Magazine. Nancy's current passion is her dance
company, 40 Women Over 40 (featured on the Hallmark Channel
and Dance Teacher Magazine). 40 Women Over 40 presented
"Sweet Release" at the Dairy Center for the Arts
in November 2007 to standing-room-only audiences. They will
perform again at the Dairy in the spring of 2009, with more
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Helen
Estrella
(Santa
Rosa,California)
Helen was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Much
of her youth was spent in the rigors of competitive artistic
and rhythmic gymnastics through which she found her love of
dance. Helen eventually moved to Los Angeles to dance with
some of the industry’s top choreographers. In 2002 she
found her way back to Sonoma County where she directed local
competitive companies until the birth of her own, Estrella
Dance Company. Helen is known for her cutting edge, contemporary
style and is currently a faculty member of “Winterfest
& Summerfest The Convention”. She is a nationally
recognized instructor and choreographer who travels extensively
teaching master classes and setting choreography on various
dance companies. She can also be seen on tour with “Talent
on Parade” as an adjudicator and Dance Directive faculty
member. She currently directs her own company out of her studio,
The Dance Room in Northern California. |
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Mark
Haines (Seattle, Washington)
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Chris
Harris (Denver, Colorado)

Chris Harris was born in Denver and try as she might
she just can't leave the mountains. She has a BFA in Dance
from the University of Colorado and a second Bachelor's
in Architecture. She
is currently an Artist in residence at the
Denver School of the Arts, and
on the Faculty
of Kim Robards Dance, Dance
Kaleidoscope, Gwen Bowen Dance Studio, Mosaic Movement Arts,
and A Living Arts Center. She is
the Artistic Director/Choreographer for Louder Than Words
Dancetheatre in Denver, has
choreographed for Magic Moments and local Radio Disney shows,
acted with Littleton Town Hall, been a guest lecturer at
The Arts Institute of Colorado, and has designed 4 different
websites. Chris is the Assistant Artistic Director for Interweave
Dance Theatre as well as a co-director for the Boulder Jazz
Dance Workshop. Her current obsession is creating a system
to record choreography using digital media and animation. |
Jessica
Hendricks (Dallas, Texas)

Jessica Hendricks graduated from the University of Colorado
with a BFA in Dance. Her training consisted of summers at
Perry Mansfield School of the Performing Arts, American
Dance Festival, Harvard Dance Festival, EDGE Scholarship,
Gus Giordano and Hubbard Dance Street. Her
credits include commercials and industrials for Godiva,
Loreal, Reebok, Toys R Us, Universal Studios, Volkswagon
and Warner Brothers. Jessica has worked on the European
tours of HAIR, Grease and Jesus Christ Superstar as Dance
Captain, performed for the opening premiers of moulin rouge
and The Great Gatsby and can be seen in such movies as Living
Out Loud and Between The Sheets. She has danced in or been
the assistant choreographer to the Elan Awards, Bob Fosse
Awards, Ms. America Pageant, Carnival, Dance Break and Broadway
Bares. Jessica has choreographed the New York musicals “The
Shaggs”, “The Book Of The Dun Cow” and
“Dead City” as well as the movie musical “Free
Fall” and the music video “Just A Dress”
for the Berlin Film Festival. She recently choreographed
European artist Sofia Strati’s music video “Mia
Agapi Fotia” in New York for eurovision. Jessica has
taught at Universities and Festivals throughout Costa Rica,
Cyprus, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway and the United
States. She has danced with “The Wes Veldink Movement”,
co-created her own company “Two Peas & A Pod”
and has recently moved from New York City to co-direct a
performing arts center in Dallas, Texas. |
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Kari
Herman-Tafoya (Colorado
Springs, Colorado)
Kari is the owner and artistic director of Synergy Dance
Academy. She started teaching at age fourteen and began
dancing professionally at seventeen. Her performance experience
includes commercials, music videos, and industrial shows
throughout California, Houston, Las Vegas and Colorado.
She returned to her home town of Colorado Springs after
training and performing in Los Angeles with the industry’s
top instructors and choreographers. Kari’s versatile
dance background and passion for the arts enables her to
instruct and choreograph in jazz, lyrical, ballet and hip
hop. Her energetic teaching style motivates dancers to take
their training to the next level. Her students have received
top honors at competitions, and scholarships at The EDGE
Performing Arts Studio, the University of Arizona and Walt
Disney. |
Amanda
Leise (Studio City,
California)

Amanda Leise, originally
from Boulder, Colorado has been performing, teaching and
choreographing in LA for the past 5 years. Her film and
industrial credits include Dance 10, Disney Scooby Doo industrial,
Heart Association Ball and Cherry Creek Arts. Her stage
appearances include Kitty McNamee Benefit, Carnival performances
at the Key Club, California Adventure, EDGE scholarship
show, and Adam Parson’s Essentials show. Amanda currently
teaches at the EDGE Performing Arts Center and is also on
the Urban Jamm faculty. She is in high demand as a Master
teacher and choreographer all around the world. This past
summer she was a guest teacher in Nicosia, Cyprus for Dance
Anonymous, as well as for the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop.
She looks forward to sharing her passion of dance and teaching
her students how to express themselves through the art of
dance. |
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Tiffany
Leise (Longmont, Colorado)
Tiffany Leise, just recently made her way back to Colorado
after spending 15 years in LA as a professional dancer,
teacher, and choreographer. She was twice selected for The
Colorado Tap Dance Residencies to study with tap greats
Honi Coles and Jimmy Slyde. She performed for the premiere
of the movie TAP starring Gregory Hines in New York. Her
film and TV credits include Hoodlums, A Life In The Theatre,
King of The Ants, Stanley’s Gig, and Opposite Sex.
National tour, stage appearances, and industrials include
Sugar Babies, The Flintstones, Tap Girls, McDonald’s,
Intel, Compaq and Kraftmaid. Tiffany has taught at the EDGE
Performing Arts Center and toured nationally with L.A. Danceforce
(LADF), Urban Jamm and Tamjams. Tiffany is currently teaching
in Longmont at her parents' dance studio Dance Dimensions
and continues to teach and choreograph nationally. She is
excited to be back teaching for BJDW and hopes to pass on
her passion for dance to future generations. |
Wade
Madsen (Seattle, Washington)
Wade
Madsen has been teaching, performing and choreographing
in Seattle for 32 years. A former dancer with Tandy Beale
& Company, the Bill Evans Dance Company, and his own
company for over 30 years. Wade is a professor of dance
at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. He has guest
taught at the University of Colorado, University of New
Mexico, UC Santa Cruz, Western Washington University and
the University of Washington. Wade has been commissioned
to set his work on dance companies in El Paso, New Orleans,
Durango, Bellingham and Seattle. Wade has been a Guest Artist
for the New Orleans Jazz Dance Project and artist in residence
at Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts. Wade has been commissioned
to set his work on dance companies in El Paso, New Orleans,
Durango, Bellingham and Seattle. His choreography has been
featured several times at the American College Dance Festival,
Seattle Opera and various theater companies in Seattle.
Wade has created well over 180 choreographic works and has
received two individual choreography grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts, and several arts organizations in
Washington state. He has appeared in films and on Star Search
with his dance company, Wade Madsen and Dancers. In 2002,
he acted as Interim Director for Dance Spectrum, Seattle.
Wade has been a regular faculty member for the Boulder Jazz
Dance Workshop since 1983. His modern class blends spinal
work with, Pilates floor work, Limon, Cunningham and release
techniques along with Wade's own unique movement vocabulary. |
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