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HH11 DANCE FESTIVAL

FILM ARTIST BIO

Robin Bisio Films | Robin Bisio’s award winning dance films have been screened at film festivals worldwide, Credits: Barbara International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Short Fest,  Dance On Camera, Danza Di Napoli, Festival Du Films Independants/Brussels, Chicks With Flicks, A New Generation of Women Film Makers/Napa, CA., New Media Film Fest, Hollywood Short Pictures Film Fest, Columbia Gorge International Film Fest, Wine Country Film Fest, Blue Ocean Film Fest, MFF (Sicily), International Motion Fest (Cyprus), Bucharest Short Cut Cine Fest, Barcelona Planet Film Fest, Twin Rivers Film Fest, Fine Arts Film Fest, Move Me Short Film Fest (Brussels) and many others. Her aim is to present dance that celebrates landscape. Training Credits: Sorbonne, UCSB and UC Berkeley where she received an M.A. in English. South Coast Contemporary Dance Theater, UCSB for non majors, Lone Mountain College, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio and with Deborah Hay, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, Meredith Monk, Merce Cunningham  and other post modern luminaries. She worked with Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks in Sensory Awareness and with Joan Chodorow in Authentic Movement. Honors: Santa Barbara Arts Fund Award for Choreography in 1995 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Dance from the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance in 2010. She is a teen mentor for Dance on Camera for the Santa Barbara Arts Fund. A recipient of numerous grants from the City and County of Santa Barbara, she received a California Council for the Humanities Grant for a documentary on the artist Ray Strong.

MUSICAL ARTISTS

Jazara | Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Jazara, is ready to show off her music from heartbreak to dance, she's excited to let you into her life.

Katy Caballero | Katy Caballero is an 18 year old singer/songwriter based in Santa Barbara. She has been writing her own music since she was 10 & now has several singles available on iTunes & Spotify. Her first EP will be available on all streaming platforms this summer!

CHOREOGRAPHERS’ BIOS

Anisha Ramakrishna Yarlapati | Anisha Ramakrishna is an upcoming dancer whose tryst with Bharatanatyam, an Indian Classical dance form, began at the tender age of 4. Trained under stalwarts in the field, Dr. Shridhar and Smt. Anuradha Shridhar, for over 15 years she continues her artistic pursuit under accomplished guru and mentor Shri. Sheejith Krishna with whom she is currently expanding her horizons in the approach to aesthetic movements and dance vocabulary. Anisha also studies the scholarly aspects of Bharatanatyam and vast intricacies of the Natyashastra and Sanskrit literature through the guidance of Shri. Arjun Bharadwaj. She is the recipient of titles such as ‘Nrithyavilasini’ and ‘Nrithya Shree’ from esteemed institutes in India among several other awards. To further her knowledge in the arts, she is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree from Annamalai University and Post-graduate Diploma in Natyashastra from Karnataka Samskrit University. Her training in Carnatic vocal and violin for the last several years help connect her to the compositions she performs at a deeper level. She currently resides in the Bay Area and regularly presents her work both in the US and in India.

Arianna Hartanov | Denver, CO, trained with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Houston Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theater, and Kansas City Ballet. She then joined State Street Ballet’s Professional Track Program, where she had the opportunity to work with Kassandra Taylor Newberry, Kevin Jenkins, Edgar Zendejas, and Autumn Eckman. Arianna joined SSB as an apprentice in 2018 and was promoted to full company member in 2019. Since joining the company, some of her favorite moments have been choreographing for Modern Masters and performing as Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty.

Cal Poly Orchesis | Horacio Heredia currently teaches dance at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He also teaches at various local dance studios in the community. Heredia’s choreography work has been presented at Allan Hancock’s Dance Department, Orchesis Dance Company, the American College Dance Festival’s Baja regional conference and the HH11 Dance Festival in Santa Barbara. He has performed with dance companies such as Variable Velocity Performance Group, Ballet Theater San Luis Obispo, Deyo Dances, and Civic Ballet San Luis Obispo. He earned a degree in civil engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

CaZo Dance | CaZo Dance Theatre is a Kinesthetic, Story-telling dance company that unites the performers with the audience experience by evoking emotion and discussing universal topics. They feel that it is important to not only connect to the work and allow the audience to escape their everyday lives, but to also use the work as therapy for physical and mental health.

Danielle Diniz | Ms. Diniz has been commissioned to create new works for Jacob's Pillow, Performance Santa Fe, Avant Chamber Ballet, two ballets for Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Ballet Hartford, Central Utah Ballet's 21/22 season and was a choreographer for DanceBreak 2020. She is a winner of the New York Dance Project Choreography Competition and her work has been shown in Stars of American Ballet rep, New York Choreographers’ Forum, the Steps Beyond Foundation performance lab, Jazz Choreography Enterprises, and the Higher Ground Festival, among other showcases, and she is thrilled to be presenting work again for Nebula Dance Festival, after coming to Santa Barbara in 2019 and taking part virtually last year.

Edgar Aguirre | Edgar Aguirre is originally from Guatemala City, Guatemala and grew up most of his life in Redwood City, California. He attended the University of California, Irvine in 2019 where he danced in Donald McKayle's Etude Ensemble and graduated with a BFA in Dance Performance. Edgar has danced for Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Robert Moses' Kin and Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company. As a Latin American dancer and choreographer, Edgar feels a cultural responsibility and desire to highlight the voices and experiences of the Latinx community; furthermore, uplift the voices of the BIPOC community.

FUSE Dance Company is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that supports and fosters the growth and development of the performing arts in Southern California. Through research and exploration, FUSE develops in an aesthetic that merges contemporary dance with other movement practices. http://www.fusedanceco.com/

Hannah Ruth Brothers | Hannah Ruth Brothers (she or they) is an abundantly bodied, queer dance artist based in her hometown of Santa Barbara, CA, on unceded Chumash land. She has danced on beaches, mountains, and subway stops, and in grocery stores, and parking lots, as well as on many stages. Since 2016, she has managed her private massage practice, Hannah Ruth Massage for Wellness, serving clients in the Santa Barbara area.

Kairos Dance Company uses dance as a platform to build social awareness on topics such as the mental illness stigma, homelessness, domestic abuse, and separation at the border. Kairos begins the conversation... and encourages you, the audience, to continue it. www.kairosdancecompany.com

Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers | Reichlin began her career in NY in concerts & Broadway, and her company has performed and choreographed throughout the USA, with her choreography also seen in six countries. She was on faculty at USC for 30 years. Since 1972 she has worked from her LA base, founding LOS ANGELES CHOREOGRAPHERS & DANCERS (LA C&D), the non-profit base of Louise Reichlin & Dancers in 1979. Since 1995, many of her concert works include multimedia. Some of her critically acclaimed works include “The Tennis Dances”, “Urban and Tribal Dances”, “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”, “Dream Scapes” and more recently “Tap Dance Widows Club”, a 50’ video and live multimedia work from “The Baggage Project”, and "Reboot! Reboot!" Reichlin has created more than 100 works for the company and received many awards.

Los Olivos Dance Gallery | We are proud that our studio is "Where Students Learn to Love Dance!" For more than twenty six years, one dancer after another has carried with them the love, confidence, and self esteem dance gives to them on the journey to their future. Whether you are an aspiring professional, studying to audition for a university dance program, or simply wish to enjoy the beauty that is dance, LODG is THE place to be. https://lodancegallery.com/

Murphy Brewer | Murphy Brewer is 17 years old and currently completing her 14th season with Los Olivos Dance Gallery. She has lived in the Santa Ynez Valley her entire life and fell in love with dance at the young age of 3. Murphy is a senior in high school and is excited to announce that she will be attending the University of San Diego in the fall of 2022 to pursue a career in Biology while continuing to pursue her love of dance. 

Nika Antuanette | Nika Antuanette is a performing artist & choreographer who creates her own work. She has been a company member of Sarah Berges Dance, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, ZCO Dance Project, Gaspard & Dancers, & Gotham Dance Theater. She will be featured as a Dancer on HBO's upcoming series,The Gilded Age and has performed in productions such as Dancing Queen (Spirit Productions). Nika has danced works by Rami Be'er, Mats Ek, Larry Keigwin, Carl Flink, Penelope Freeh, & Arnie Zane. She has also appeared in commercials, music videos, & immersive events as a dancer and choreographer. In 2020, she received a Queens Council on the Arts grant to create the dance film, HOLOGRAM. There is always more on the horizon @nika.antuanette

Jeremy Cone | Combines music, words, and imagery to tell stories and capture moments.
His work has been presented on screen, stage, pages, and streaming platforms.

RE| Dance Group | Lucy Vurusic Riner and Drew Lewis are contemporary dance artists working together in Chicago. Tunnel Vision was a movement investigation that Lucy invited Drew to explore during the pandemic. Their relationship has grown from dance mom and student to multi-generational collaborators. https://www.redancegroup.org/

Roberta Wolin-Tupas | Roberta Wolin-Tupas, originally from Washington D.C.., has presented choreography at the Broad Stage, ACF, Highways, California Choreographers Festival. She served as Artistic Director of R Dance Company, Synapse Contemporary Dance Theater, and Producer of Marion Scott's Spirit Dances. Teaching experience includes California State University, Los Angeles, Santa Monica College, and Glendale Community College.

Santa Barbara Dance Arts | Celebrated 20 years of community, artistry, and the core belief that dance lessons teach life lessons. Under the direction of Alana Tillim, Dance Arts promises to provide a safe and healthy place for emerging and pre-professional artists. We are a full service studio that offers recreational and pre-professional classes for ages 2-72. We are proud to offer additional performance opportunities through our performance groups and competition team. We are proudly partnered with the non-profit Arts Mentorship Program allowing us to bring the healing gift of dance to our community’s most vulnerable populations through scholarships and programs. Together, we help local artist find affordable rehearsal space in order to maintain Santa Barbara’s thriving arts culture. 

Team Dance Arts | Team Dance Arts (TDA) is a performance and competitive based team from Santa Barbara Dance Arts. TDA consists of youth and high school age dancers who train weekly in order to travel and compete their dances at numerous events. TDA is under the direction of Sunny Reichert.

The Dance Network | The Dance Network is a dance and fitness studio in Santa Barbara, CA, under the direction of Karyn Laver. We offer classes in tap, ballroom, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, ballet, and more to students of all ages, abilities, and experience levels. Visit our website at www.thedancenetworksb.com for more information and to sign up for your first free class! We can’t wait to have you dance with us! https://www.thedancenetworksb.com/

The Resource | The Resource is a collaborative live music and dance company started by dancer and choreographer, Nathalie Wutkee Agredano. The inspiration for starting the company was a need to create combined with a desire to build a live music and movement experience that performers and audience members could share. The Resource creates their own sound and movement for all of their works and cherishes the audience’s gift of presence and support. The Resource thanks the audience for giving these artists the space to be and to share.

Nebula Dance Lab / founded in 2010 under the Artistic Direction of Devyn Duex, a proud recipient of the 2016 Indy Dance Award for the HHII Dance Festival, provides an incubator for creative art in motion- allowing the professional company of artists in modern and contemporary dance the opportunity to experiment, push boundaries, and create new language in dance through physical exploration. Nebula has quickly garnered the attention of the industry showcasing their work from intimate venues to large theaters, outreach to concerts. Nebula has been invited to showcase their work in the US and Internationally. 

We are gratified to give back to the community that supports us through our outreach program, which provides performances and movement workshops, and Student Matinee Program at The Lobero Theater busing in students for a live theater experience, thanks in partnership with The Lobero Fund, Santa Barbara Education Foundation, CAPTRUST Community Foundation, Towbes Performing Arts Fund, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, CA Arts Council and the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation. Nebula’s student matinee program has provided 8000+ students an opportunity to see live professional performance since 2015. 

As a producer Nebula launched the Indy Award Winning festival, HHII Dance Festival in 2015. History of HHII; 

• 2015 HHII Launches showcasing over 30 works across 3 unique shows highlighting performances by 20 companies and over 100 artists from across the US. 

• 2016 HHII Dance Festival expanded to include international artists, an electrifying opportunity for the community to experience a broad range of professional dance works all under one roof over a 3 day exhilarating festival format. 

• 2016 HHII Introduced the Apogee Awards honoring excellence in dance performance.

• 2017 Apogee Awards expanded & revised including an Opening Night celebration featuring Awards honoring excellence in Dance Education, and highlighting youth and pre-professional performances throughout this exciting night of celebration! 

• 2017 Master Class series launched. HHII Artists teach at UCSB.

• 2019 HHII launched the Mix & Mingle Friday Night, which offers small bites, live music and a curated bite-size performance night, followed by an After-Party. 

• 2020 Annually, HHII Dance Festival produces over 45+ dance works, all styles, youth-professional, offers masterclasses, workshops, networking and more! 200-300 artists participate each year. 

• 2021 HHII Dance Festival VIRTUAL, featured artists from across the US, Canada, Budapest Hungary, including 10 masterclasses with artists in NY, Canada, CA, 40+ professional performances, and 15+ interviews connecting artists and audience worldwide. 

• March 31st-April 3rd 2022, Center Stage Theater. Stay tuned as the HHII Festival continues to push the envelope on live arts in the community!

As we look forward into the 11th season, we remain focused on strengthening the sustainability of our organization so that we may continue to provide dance arts to the community through our performances, outreach program, and training opportunities.

Nebula Dance Lab
2021-2022 Support Network - Annual Fund 

Angel Sponsors
Duex Family, Lobero Fund, Strategic Incentives

Gold Sponsors
MacNaughton Family 

Silver Sponsors
Robin Bisio, Misa & Stephen Kelly, Anaya Cullen 

Business Sponsors
Strategic Incentives, Pacific Premiere Bank, Graphic Ink

Foundation Support 

Special thanks to the company members of Nebula Dance Lab, Denise Easton, Ashley Kohler-Reynolds, Heather Shea, Paseo Nuevo, Riviera Media, Teri Ball, Addyson Duex, Jen Baron- Girls Rock SB, Kendall Klein Graphics, Apogee Awards Recipients Past & Present, and the countless volunteers.