Dance Makers 2023 Program
This year, “Dance Makers” features new, imaginative dance pieces created by nationally acclaimed contemporary choreographers. Their eclectic STORIES will be embodied by our fierce and versatile dancers. “Dance Makers” promises to be a season favorite by highlighting a range of works from the aesthetics of jazz dance performed to Miles Davis and syncopated, athletic Afro-Cuban movement, to more dramatic solo and duet works. The featured artists include Gilliane Hadely (Orlando, FL), Lisa del Rosario (Austin, TX), Melissa Cobblah Gutierrez (Miami, FL), and Tania Vergara Perez (Sarasota, FL).
This year, “Dance Makers” features new, imaginative dance pieces created by nationally acclaimed contemporary choreographers. Their eclectic STORIES will be embodied by our fierce and versatile dancers. “Dance Makers” promises to be a season favorite by highlighting a range of works from the aesthetics of jazz dance performed to Miles Davis and syncopated, athletic Afro-Cuban movement, to more dramatic solo and duet works. The featured artists include Gilliane Hadely (Orlando, FL), Lisa del Rosario (Austin, TX), Melissa Cobblah Gutierrez (Miami, FL), and Tania Vergara Perez (Sarasota, FL).
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ARTISTS<br />
Melissa Rummel (<strong>Dance</strong>r/Associate Director<br />
of SCDE) was raised in Dryden, Michigan where she<br />
started dancing at the age of seven. She graduated<br />
from Belhaven University with a BFA in dance, emphasis<br />
on modern dance and choreography. She has trained<br />
with companies such as Eisenhower <strong>Dance</strong> Ensemble,<br />
RiverNorth Chicago, Ad Deum <strong>Dance</strong> Company, and<br />
Sarasota Contemporary <strong>Dance</strong>. This is Melissa’s eighth<br />
season with Sarasota Contemporary <strong>Dance</strong> and fourth<br />
as Studio Coordinator. Melissa is the Associate Director<br />
for Sarasota <strong>Dance</strong> Ensemble (Training Company) and the SCD Summer Intensive<br />
Administrative Director. She also enjoys fitness and the positive effect it can bring<br />
to others, and she strives to find new ways to combine her love of dance and<br />
fitness. She strives to never stop stretching herself as a performer, choreographer,<br />
and teacher.<br />
Jessica Obiedzinski (<strong>Dance</strong>r/Rehearsal Assistant)<br />
A Florida Native, Jessica is in her 4th season as a<br />
performer, choreographer, teaching artist and is<br />
currently serving as rehearsal assistant with Sarasota<br />
Contemporary dance. She is also involved with<br />
independent dance projects in the St. Petersburg<br />
community and works with many interdisciplinary<br />
artists, playwrights and photographers. She holds<br />
a Bachelor’s degree in <strong>Dance</strong> and a Master’s Degree in Science in Tourism and<br />
Hospitality Management from the University of Florida. She’s created works in<br />
Tampa for the New Grounds Festival, Creative Pinellas, and Sarasota Contemporary<br />
<strong>Dance</strong> summer intensive as well as the In The Round performance series. Jessica is<br />
certified as a Simonson technique teacher and has a love for teaching the dance<br />
community, collaborating new works with the company members, and is excited to<br />
continue teaching Yoga each week at the studio this season.<br />
Juliana Cristina (<strong>Dance</strong>r/Development Associate)<br />
was born in West Palm Beach, FL. A graduate from<br />
the University of North Carolina School of the Arts<br />
(UNCSA). She received her B.F.A Degree in <strong>Dance</strong> under<br />
the direction of current Artistic Director of American<br />
Ballet Theater (ABT) Susan Jaffe and Associate Dean<br />
Brenda Daniels former faculty at Merce Cunningham<br />
Studios, NY. During her time at UNCSA, Ms. Cristina has<br />
had the pleasure of performing works by Azure Barton,<br />
Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, Brenda Daniels, Kira<br />
Blazek, Helen Simoneau, Ming Lung-Yang and Juel D. Lane. Juliana has studied in<br />
Trainee <strong>Program</strong>s with Nashville Ballet, Ballet Palm Beach, CDI directed by Casey<br />
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