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Dance Concert Selection Panel
| Dance companies participating in the Saturday night dance concert at Round House Theatre will be selected by a distinguished panel of dance professionals. The 2008 Dance Bethesda selection panel is made up of Dr. Rima Faber, Jessica Hartz and Cheles Rhynes. |
Dr. Rima Faber
Dr. Rima Faber is the Program Director of NDEO; Research Director for Research in Dance Education project, and co-editor for Priorities for Research in Dance Education: A Report to the Nation. She has recently served the DC dance community through her leadership to form the Capital Region Educators of Dance Organization (CREDO), organize the new DC Dancing Forever group founded by Michelle Ava, and direct the DC Dance Archives Project. She was the founder and director of the Primary Movers Dance School and Company from 1979-2000. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in 1965 and a Ph.D. and M.A. from American University in 1994 and 1997. Rima has also gained experience from teaching as an Adjunct Professor at Montgomery College from 1994-1998, at American University from 1997-1999, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor from 2004-2005 at New York University.
Jessica Hartz
Jessica Hartz is the current Director of Dance/Metro DC. For two years prior, she served as the Executive Director for the Council for the Arts of Herndon, VA. She introduced the Herndon community to dance by bringing in professional companies from Washington, DC, for the first time in the town’s history. She also increased fundraising revenue, brought in new grant money, instituted a National Gallery of Art lecture series, and received a grant to bring the Latin Ballet of Virginia to the area. Jessica graduated from the University of Alabama with degrees in dance and journalism. While there, she performed with the University dance company and worked with Pilobolus Dance Theater, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, and Urban Bush Women. Upon moving to the DC metro area after graduation, she performed as a member of Crossroads Dance Company until 2004. In the spring of 2007, Jessica graduated from a highly competitive Emerging Leaders Institute held in Virginia and completed a month-long cultural exchange to South Africa and Swaziland with Rotary International.
Cheles Rhynes
Cheles Rhynes is Co-founder and Managing Director for Mason/Rhynes Productions, a prolific African-American arts service organization located in Washington, D.C. His multifaceted experience in technical theater has brought him across the nation and around the globe, including stops in Brazil and Eastern Europe. He has worked in many theaters in the DC area including Howard University Cramton Auditorium, George Washington University Lisner Auditorium, Living Stage Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre, and Dance Place. He was also the Production Stage Manager for the annual Mayor's Arts Awards and the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, his duties included announcing the President of the United States. He has also worked with the Dallas Children's Theatre, and Pocket Sandwich Theatre in Dallas, TX, Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis, MN, and toured with the Flying Karamozov Brothers of Seattle, WA.
Douglas Yeuell
Douglas
Yeuell is the Executive
Director of Joy of Motion Dance Center and has been an active part
of the Washington, D.C. dance community since 1982. Whether through
directing, teaching or performing, Yeuell believes and lives the
mission of Joy of Motion that, “dance is for everyone,” and continually works to make dance accessible to all, to celebrate
dance, and to bring strength and awareness to an ever growing and
evolving Washington, D.C. dance community.
During his tenure at Joy of Motion Dance Center, the center has
grown from a small one room studio to an organization with four
center locations and a student base consisting of thousands of dancers
of all ages. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Yeuell worked
for many years in the for-profit sector prior to transitioning to
a career in nonprofit arts. In addition to his administrative work,
Yeuell is also one of Washington, D.C.’s most highly acclaimed
jazz dance instructors. Teaching since 1982, Yeuell has brought
his infectious style of jazz to thousands of students regionally,
nationally and internationally. As a dancer and artist, Yeuell has
performed and worked throughout the Washington, D.C. region as a
soloist, choreographer and also as the director of his own jazz
dance ensemble, JazzDanz.dc.
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