SCC Dance enjoys the priviledge of hosting nationally and internationally known guest artists each year. These artists are in residence at SCC in order to give master classes and choreograph on SCC students. These guests serve to expose our students to many techniques and choreographic styles as well as providing contacts to the national professional dance community.

BROWNRICE Dance is a newly formed duet company, which proliferates the performance, choreography, and other creative work of Graham and Erin Lehua Brown. :BROWNRICE presents a broad spectrum of contemporary dance within the construct of two performers deeply connected to one another, both on stage and in life. As performers and choreographers their work is grounded in, but not limited to their personal relationship. They exist as two dynamically different bodies working together in a range of movement palettes from the intensely physical to the intricately subtle. Performance sites for this season include Salt Lake City, UT, Scottsdale AZ, and Fallon, NV. Please contact us at gl.brownrice@gmail.com.

Natosha Washington began dancing at Ricks College in Rexburg Idaho. During her time at Ricks she choreographed for the Contemporary Dance Theatre with whom she also performed, touring New Zealand, Fiji, and Brazil during 1998-99. She earned her Associate Degree from Ricks College and BFA degree in Modern Dance at the University of Utah where she has been a member of Performing Dance Company Utah. She has presented her own choreography on numerous student produced concerts and one of her works, “Tea Party at the Morgue”, was selected to represent the University of Utah at the 2003 Northwest Region ACDFA Festival in Bellingham, where it was selected for the Gala Concert. Washington’s choreography is also performed by Repertory Dance Theatre, in Salt Lake City and the Dancers’ Company at Brigham Young University. Washington is a faculty member at Childrens’ Dance Theatre and Center City High School and is a frequent guest teacher for area conferences, festivals, and high schools as well as in the University of Utah Department of Modern Dance.

Nathan Trice is the Artistic Director/Founder of

Nathantrice/RITUALS based in New York City. The project-by-project group was founded in 1998 and consists of a nucleus of eclectic artists with diverse backgrounds of expression. The collaborative aim of the artists is to inform and produce a (VAST) Visual Audio Sensory Theater experience. Nathan has danced with MOMIX Dance Co., Complexions, Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater, Donald Byrd/The Group and his own group, Nathantrice/RITUALS. His group has toured throughout the United States, Bermuda, Japan, Argentina and Aruba over the past 8 years.

Richard Wacko early studies began at the Ukrainian National Federal School, Alberta Ballet School and Dance Art Academy. He continued his training in Kiev, U.S.S.R., at the Virsky State Academy and at Les Ballets Russes De Montreal.

He performed with Kiev’s Horlitsa and Drujba Ensembles and later toured with the professional character dance ensemble Kalinka. Rick Wacko served as Artistic Director of the Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, is co-founder of the character Company Volya and the Edmonton School of Folk Dance. In

addition to giving master classes in character and staged folk dance, Rick has choreographed for dance companies across Canada and the United States. He is presently an Associate Professor in the Ballet Department at the University of Utah and the Artistic Director of the Character Dance Ensemble. He holds a bachelors degree in Business Administration from Athabasca University and a masters degree in Ballet from the University of Utah.

2005/2006 Season

Keith Johnson originally from Tempe, Arizona, teaches at California State University, Long Beach. Before his teaching assignment he worked in New York City, where he danced with the Creach & Koester and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Companies. He has performed internationally in Japan, Australia, Denmark and France.
Johnson received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah and was a member of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company from 1986 through 1994. He has taught and choreographed for many colleges and universities. Keith teaches technique and composition at CSULB. His company, Keith Johnson/Dancers, will be in residence at SCC in fall 2005.

Holly Johnston is a Los Angeles based dance artist and educator. She graduated in 1996 with a BA in Dance from Loyola Marymount University. She was a founding member of TONGUE, Artistic Director, Stephanie Gilliland. She has worked extensively with Gilliland as a principal dancer, rehearsal director and teacher, and toured nationally and internationally with TONGUE. Holly has taught at Idyllwild Arts Academy; University of California, Santa Barbara; California State University, Fullerton; UC Irvine and is currently the only collegiate access to the Gilliland Technique. Holly is faculty at Loyola Marymount University and is committed to the rigor that transforms passion into art. Holly set a piece on Instinct Dancecorps in Fall 2004 titled "Capture the Fall."

PREVIOUS GUEST ARTISTS:
         Holly Johnston - Loyola Marymount University
         Anandha Ray, Viktor Kabaniaev and Michael Lowe-
                 Moving Arts Dance, San Francisco
         KT Nelson-ODC San Francisco
         Della Davidson-UC Davis
         Abby Fiat-University of Utah
         Steven Koester - Creach & Koester
         Laurie Eisenhower Dance Ensemble
         Bill Evans Dance Company
         Keith Johnson - Bill T Jones
         Doug Varone & Dancers
         Craig Berman - MOMIX
        Julia Chacon
        Cynthia Garner 
        Alan Danielson - Dance by Alan Danielson
        Loretta Livingston  - Loretta Livingston & Dancers
        Delisa Miles - Human Nature

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