SATURDAY November 23RD
Show 3 - 6:00 pm
Meet the Artists
NATALIA DE MIGUEL ANNONI (she/they) is an Argentinian American choreographer, teacher, and dancer from Toledo, Ohio. In 2019, she graduated from Eastern Michigan University Cum Laude majoring in dance where they had the opportunity of working with Evik Abbott-Main, Levi Marsman, Joori Jung, Kathy King, Wendi DuBois, Jeremy Blaire, and many others. During their time at EMU, Natalia’s work was performed in the Gala showing at the American College Dance Association in 2018 and 2019. Their choreographic works have also been performed at Eastern Michigan University, Koresh Artist Showcase, Detroit Dance Exchange, and Detroit Dance City Festival. In 2022, Natalia was awarded Michigan Dance Council’s Maggie Allesee Choreography Award for their dance film Shrimp Cocktail. Their most recent dance film secrets in strawberry frosting was accepted into Screen Dance International and Bridge Chicago Film and Video Festival. It is currently being streamed through Bridge Chicago’s streaming platform. They have had the opportunity to be a guest teacher at CCA Ballet Day, EMU Company Class, Toledo School for the Arts and various local dance studio intensives. In March of 2024, Natalia co-directed, choreographed, and was the filmmaker for Ni Une Menos. A music, theater, and dance production created by Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra of Healing Bells and the University of Michigan to bring the stories of survivors of gender-based and sexual violence. She is currently a teacher at River Raisin Dance Academy where they teach modern, contemporary, and jazz.
ELLIOT REZA EMADIAN (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Their work occurs in the intersection of dance and choreography, video art and editing, sound and music, light and photography, and popular culture. Through a lifetime of dancing, they have accrued influences from tap and jazz styles, contemporary releasing forms, modern dance, ballet, popular music video dance, and experimental performance art. Elliot has performed and toured with Sara Hook Dances and David Parker, and presented solo choreography across the US. Most recently, Jack and Diane was presented at In the heartland (Links Hall, Chicago, IL). Choreography functions as a framework for re-chronicling the story of American culture through written, artistic, and educational interventions. Elliot interrogates systems of ableism in dance classrooms and presented “Accessibility in College Dance: a collaborative approach” at the 2024 Illinois DEO conference and National Dance Educators Organization Dance and Disability Summit. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from W&L University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Illinois. Elliot is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Rochester Institute of Technology and serves as Director of Video Promotions for Bates Dance Festival.
CHLOE NAPOLETANO (she/her) is a Columbus, Ohio based movement artist. Chloe received her BFA in dance from The Ohio State University. She holds many roles within the dance field including choreographer, performer, community dance practitioner, and art administrator. Chloe co-directs Perennial Movement Group (PMG), a Columbus based program that provides dance opportunities for adults over 50. The program includes classes, rehearsals, and performances with participants. Chloe is engaged in a rigorous research and rehearsal process with PMG dancing artists, and their work has been performed in numerous venues including the OhioDance Festival and The Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, OH. In 2017 she began directing Columbus Dance for Parkinson’s (CDP), a community dance program that provides weekly movement classes specifically designed for individuals with Parkinson’s. CDP became a program on Perennial Movement Group in 2022. Chloe is a Lead Teacher for Momentum-Excellence, a dance outreach organization that empowers children through dance, music, and performance. She teaches for Arts Possible Ohio (APO), providing accessible arts education in schools. Through APO, Chloe has led several year long dance residencies for students with physical and developmental disabilities. From 2017-2021, Chloe collaborated and performed with SeaBus Dance Collective, a group who researched improvisation as performance. Chloe performed with SeaBus in many venues and settings including the Columbus Arts Festival and the Columbus Museum of Art. Chloe also co-choreographs, co-produces, and performs in original dance pieces with her artistic partner Hana Newfeld in their performance project, Soft Moss Dance Club.
PAIGE CUNNINGHAM CALDARELLA (she/her) is a dance educator, choreographer, performer, and mother whose research interests include contemporary ballet and codified modern dance techniques. Caldarella joined the dance faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2022, after fifteen years on faculty at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as the Associate Chair. During her time in Chicago, she received a Chicago Dancemakers Forum grant, DCASE Individual Artist grants, and a Teaching Excellence Award from Columbia College. In 2019, she was profiled in a cover story in the September edition of DanceTeacher magazine, an issue focused on dance in higher education. She is a 2023 Merce Trust fellow and a recent recipient of a fully sponsored artist retreat from Bearnstow in Mt. Vernon, Maine in collaboration with dance artist Mandy Salva. Caldarella performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, touring nationally and internationally, and worked with The Seldoms, Darrell Jones, Timothy Buckley, and Onye Ozuzu among others. She holds a B.F.A. from the Juilliard School and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
ANNA PERETZ ROGOVOY (she/her) is a dance artist and educator currently based in the US Midwest. Her choreographic research is located at the collision of rigorous formalism and gross humanity, offering a critical queer feminist perspective on ecology, gendered bodies, and dance itself. Anna was based in NYC from 2012-2021, after which she earned her MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. While in NYC, Anna studied at the Merce Cunningham Trust, performing multiple reconstructions of Cunningham’s work and most recently becoming an authorized teacher of Cunningham Technique®. She was also a longtime student and assistant with the late master teacher Janet Panetta, who profoundly influenced Anna’s approach to ballet pedagogy. Anna’s choreography, called “moving architecture, sculptural and strong” by The Dance Enthusiast, has been presented in many NYC venues as well as in upstate New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. She is a full-time faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
JOEL K. LINEBACH (he/they) is a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio working on his PhD in macromolecular science & engineering. He graduated in May of 2024 with his MFA in contemporary dance and holds various degrees in dance and polymer engineering. He was the recipient of the 2021 Lily Dreyfuss Memorial Award for Excellence in Dance, the 2022 and 2023 Kathryn Karipedes Scholarship for Modern Dance, and the 2024 Naomi Wolin Award for Excellence in New Directions in Dance. At CWRU, he has performed in works choreographed by various graduate students and prominent choreographers Gary Galbraith, Larry Keigwin, Janice Rosario, Pam Tanowitz, and Pascal Rioult. Outside of Cleveland, Linebach has performed excerpts of works by Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Yin Yue, Ronald K. Brown, and Omar de Roman de Jesus. Choreographically, Linebach holds interests in combining technology and dance, exploring the kinesthetic impulses from textiles and costuming, and using movement to communicate human experiences. From a dance science and medicine perspective, Linebach holds research interests in the biomedical implications of plastics in dance. He has assisted in presenting locally and internationally on the use of Microsoft Hololens and HoloAnatomy for dance kinesiology as well as work on various research projects concerning cartilage injury prevalence and prevention in the dance population; prosthetic design for lower-leg unilateral, transtibial, contemporary dance amputees; and dance education for STEM students. Most recently, Linebach has joined Inlet Dance Theatre as an apprentice for the 2024-2025 season.