Place: Dancing the Green Map®

March 31 - April 2, 2011
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Jeanne Wagner Theatre 7:30 pm

March 31 | Community Night - All tickets $15
April 1 - April 2 | Tickets $30 ($15 seniors/students)
Tickets available through ArtTix | 801-355-ARTS | www.artTix.org

Green Map Exerpts from RDT on Vimeo.

Bicycle Path
Photo by Chris Detrick

Migration Zone
Photo by Chris Detrick

Zvi Gotheiner

Zvi Gotheiner, choreographer, is a native of Israel and a permanent resident of the United States, based in New York since 1978. Zvi was originally trained as a violinist and at the age of seventeen founded his first performing dance group. In 1977, he received a scholarship from the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation to further his study of dance in New York City. He went on to dance with the Joyce Trisler Dance Company, Garden State Ballet, The Feld Ballet/NY and Bat Sheva Dance Company. In 1987, he founded the company bearing his name. As a teacher, choreographer and artistic director of his own company, Zvi Gotheiner has an exceptional international reputation, and has taught in numerous cities around the world. He currently serves as a company teacher for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and teachers regularly at this school in Manhattan.

Ellen Bromberg

Ellen Bromberg, Media Director/ Video Designer, is a filmmaker, performance media designer, curator, and educator. A former dancer and choreographer with RDT, she has received numerous awards for her work including a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, three Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, a Bonnie Bird American Choreographer Award, a Pew National Dance/Media Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the George Soros Foundation, and others.

Ellen’s screen works have been broadcast on public television stations,
online, and presented at a variety of national and international dance film festivals. Recent work focuses on the integration of media in performance and she has designed video for stage and installations in her own work and in collaboration with other choreographers.

An Associate Professor at the University of Utah, Ellen is the founding
director of the International Dance for the Camera Festival. She has recently
designed a Graduate Certificate in Screendance, in collaboration with the
Department of Film and Media Arts.

Scott Killian

Scott Killian, composer, has composed works for such major American companies as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance-Chicago, Nikolais/Louis Dance and Jose Limon Dance Company. At the present, he has completed 15 works with Zvi Gotheiner. Mr. Killian also created over 20 works with long-time collaborators Danny Shapiro and Joanie Smith, as well as numerous works with Cherylyn Lavagnino, Johannes Wieland and others. As a composer/sound designer for theater, Mr. Killian has served as Resident composer for the Berkshire Theatre Festival since 1997. Among the many other theatrical venues are the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Public Theater, Woman’s Project, The Acting Company, Rattlestick Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C., Shakespeare & Co., Seattle Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, George Street Playhouse, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Boston’s Huntington Theatre, GEVA Theatre, Theatre Calgary and the Vancouver Playhouse. Music for film includes Witnessing, a documentary film which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on MSNBC, the film Undetectable: The Changing Face of AIDS (premiered on PBS and the NOW Film Festival/NYC) and Swan Lake, Minnesota an award winning video adaptation of the classic ballet produced by the A&E network in conjunction with PBS.