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ABOUT TRDance
ABOUT TODD
Todd Rosenlieb began his professional career in 1992 when Erick Hawkins selected him from a technique class to join his company in New York City. Named Company Director in the fall of 1995, Mr. Rosenlieb has staged Hawkins repertory around the country, including the last piece of Hawkins’ choreography, Journey of a Poet. During this time he coached Mikhail Baryshnikov in the lead role and danced with The White Oak Project at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for its premiere.
He has created original choreography for the Richmond Ballet, the Nashville Ballet,
Ballet de San Juan, Virginia Ballet Theatre, the Virginia Symphony and the Indianapolis
Symphony, as well as for the National and Regional High School Dance Festivals, at
Montclair State University, Virginia School of the Arts, Old Dominion University,
University of Nevada, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, James Madison
University, Goucher College, University of Richmond, among others.
In 2009, together with Carol Thomas Downing, Todd created an original story and choreography for The Gift of the Magi with music by Adolphus Hailstork, and in 2010 he choreographed a triumphant Bernstein’s Mass under the direction of Pam Berlin.
Todd is considered the area’s most prolific choreographer and collaborator. Todd’s other work includes creating a series of dances based on the artwork of Goya and for the Art of Glass exhibits at the Chrysler Museum, staging for the Imani Quintet, choreographing for the new opera Pocohantas presented by the nationally acclaimed Virginia Arts Festival, filming a music video with Annie Lenox and Twyla Tharp, choreographing for Petula Clark, and staging the daunting music of I Never Saw Another Butterfly with the Virginia Children’s Chorus.
He earned his BA degree from Bucknell University in English and Economics and his MFA degree in Performance and Choreography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Todd Rosenlieb
ABOUT RICARDO
Ricardo Meléndez
Artistic Director, Ricardo Meléndez is the former Artistic Director for Ballets de San
Juan, Puerto Rico. He holds a BA in Dance Pedagogy from Butler University and an MFA in Theatre from Brooklyn College, where he served as adjunct faculty.
Ricardo has performed with the Alvin Ailey Dance Ensemble, Ballet Hispanico, the
Omega Liturgical Dance Company, and Indianapolis Dance Company. He was also
principal dancer and rehearsal director for Dance Kaleidoscope in Indiana where he
dedicated his efforts in developing arts in education programs.
Ricardo served as Resident Choreographer for the American Cabaret Theater, and he has taught,choreographed, and performed in the US and abroad as both an actor and dancer. Some of his acting credits include Puck in the Virginia Arts Festival production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet in Hamlet at Theater 22 in NYC, Rodolfo in A View from the Bridge, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Paul in A Chorus Line.
Currently he teaches at The Governor’s School of the Arts and Old Dominion University.
COMPANY DANCERS
Daena Bortnick
TRDance & VBT since 2016
Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy, Pacific Northwest Ballet Professional Division, Ballet Met II
Elise Giannotti
TRDance & VBT since 2015
Montgomery Ballet, MoveWorks, The Ailey School
Caitlin Granville
TRDance & VBT since 2014
BFA-Dance, Shenandoah University, Soloist-Dissonancy Dance Theatres, Pointe Magazine’s Solo of the Month- Jan. 2013
Timothy Knoll
TRDance & VBT since 2018
BFA-Ballet, University of Utah, Central West Ballet First Soloist
Megan Montagne
TRDance since 2016
BFA-Dance Performance, University of the Arts, Choreosplat Dance Works, the Philadelphia Dance Ensemble
Alexa Dunks
TRDance since 2019
BFA-Dance, Radford University
Soloist- danahbella Danceworks
GSA-Dance Dept 2012
Amber Romano
TRDance & VBT since 2016
Brookline Ballet School,
Nashville Ballet 2
Andrew Cook
TRDance & VBT since 2019
Danced with Academie De Ballet 2004- 2016 , Past Company member with BVI 2016-2017 , Trainee with Orlando Ballet 2017-2018
Morgan White
TRDance 2019
TRD Company Member 2007-2009, Member AEA since 2012, CATS National Tour Virginia Opera , BA Christopher Newport University
Kathryn Gardner
TRDance & VBT since 2019
TRDance and VBT Ensembles
Pittsburgh Musical Theater
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Michaela Hutchins
TRDance & VBT since 2019
Atlanta Ballet Conservatory Dancer
Contracted Huntsville Ballet Company Dancer
Melody Stowe
TRDance & VBT since 2019
Performer and Assistant Director, The Limelight Collective;
BFA--Dance, Belhaven University
STUDIO INSTRUCTORS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Inaugural Chair
Deborah Thorpe
Immediate Past President
Susan Hirschbiel
2019-20 Officers & Board of Directors
Lisbet Hanson, MD, President
Deborah L. Swiecinski, Treasurer
Emily Mitchell, JD, Vice President
Katie Kenerson, Secretary
Connie Campbell
Michael Curry
Emily Miller
Christie Mendoza McCall
Elise Giannotti,
Company Representative
2019-20 Advisors
Elizabeth Blachman
Helene Uhlfelder, Ph.D.
Mikaela Watkins
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
OUR SPONSORS
Thank you for your interest in supporting Todd Rosenlieb Dance and in helping us provide the Hampton Roads community and surrounding regions with professional dance and dance education. We are grateful to our sponsors and board members who dedicate their time and resources to helping us revitalize dance in Hampton Roads.
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Todd Rosenlieb Dance was founded and incorporated in January of 2004. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, and your contribution is tax deductible as allowed by law.
