Photo by Brian
Klimowski
Our Mission: Canyon
Movement
Company,
Inc.,
is
a
modern
dance
ensemble dedicated to sharing
our passion and excitement with a growing audience by creating and
presenting the art of dance through performance, education, and
community and collaborative projects.
We
can be reached at 928-774-3937, 5680 E. Sunset Drive, Flagstaff, AZ
86004,
email:
cmcgina1
at
gmail
dot
com
BIOGRAPHIES
Gina
B.
Darlington
is the executive director of Canyon Movement Company and Canyon Dance
Academy. Gina has traveled to Ireland, Italy, and the Southwest where
she and the company performed for and taught hundreds of people. She
has performed in dance companies in Utah, Missouri, Nebraska, and
Arizona. She has been an Artist-in Residence for Arizona where she
conducted numerous residencies. Gina is on faculty at Coconino
Community College and has been a guest teacher at the American College
Dance Festival. She recently choreographed for NAU Theater including
"Rivals" and "The Grapes of Wrath." She received her dance
degree from BYU. Gina served on the Arizona Department of Education
(DOE) Committee to re-write the Arts Standards in 2005-06, and is
currently on the Arizona DOE National Content Review Committee for Arts
Assessments. Gina keeps busy with her growing family including her
grand-daughter
and grand-son.
| Erin
Glockner was born and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. She
began dancing at age twelve.
She studied dance
at the Flagstaff School of Ballet as well as NAU Preparatory Academy. She is
a graduate of
Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy, where
she studied dance, and
has also studied dance at Coconino Community
College.
She danced with the West
African dance performance troupe
Kuma
Tunyale. Outside of dancing, she has two
beautiful children ages 3 and 6 and a wonderful and supportive
husband
of 7
years. |
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Amanda
Kapp
has enjoyed dancing with Canyon Movement Company since 1995 and became
a member of the Company in 2000. She has performed in many productions
including The Quiltings, Hanging in the Balance, Ephemeral
Architecture, and the Vertical Relief performance Paradigm Shift. Thus
far, two of her choreographic
efforts,
including
Falling
Water
Too,
have
involved
copious amounts of water and extensive stage cleanup. She
looks forward to dancing more with Canyon Movement and future
choreographic projects.
Barbara Klimowski earned a Bachelor of Science degree in
Theatre and Dance, and a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Drama and English Education from the University of
Wyoming. She then earned a Master of Science degree in Counseling with
a major area of study in the unique needs of dance majors. Post
college, Barbara has enjoyed choreographing and performing with several
regional dance groups and has taught master classes in dance as it
relates to worship arts. She was owner/director of the Prima School of
Dancing, in Rapid City, South Dakota, where she taught ballet, modern,
jazz, tap, and musical theatre to kids from 2 to 92 years of age.
Barbara relocated to Flagstaff four years ago. This is her fifth season
with CMC. She is an associate faculty member at Coconino Community
College. She has three great kids and a really groovy husband.
Jayne Lee has
choreographed more than 100 dances for companies worldwide. Trained as
a dancer in London
and at Julliard, she danced and choreographed for London Contemporary
Dance Theatre for 10 years and toured internationally. Jayne co-founded
and co-directs both Human Nature Dance Theatre and Canyon Movement
Company. Jayne is an associate faculty member at Coconino Community
College and she choreographs regularly for NAU's theatre department.
Jayne is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® with a private
practice in Flagstaff. She has served on the board of Grand Canyon
River Guides and still works on the river in the summers.
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Kristi Long
currently teaches drama, dance, and Pilates at CHS and Full Circle
Pilates. She is an outdoor enthusiast and enjoys spending time with her
dogs and her incredibly supportive partner Wade. This is her third year
dancing in "Nutcracker". She is one of the newest members of
Canyon Movement Company. When not in the dance studio, Kristi enjoys
being outside with her four dogs and her incredibly supportive partner,
Wade. |
Amanda
Moore
has enjoyed choreographing
and
dancing with Canyon Movement Company for nine years. She danced through
high school, increasing her interest
and technique while receiving her Bachelor's in Psychology at the
University of New Mexico. When she moved to Flagstaff in 1997, she
created "Tippy Toes" Children's Creative Dance program, which still
continues to fill her weeks with incredible classes full of imaginative
dancers. She hopes to bring a new flavor to her movement with Canyon
Movement Company as she is now a proud mama of a beautiful little girl.
Melissa McMaster
began dancing at a very young age and found her passion for modern
dance while attending Utah State University where she danced and taught
for several years. While taking a break from Utah, she danced in
Albuquerque with the Keshet Dance Company and performed at the
University of New Mexico. After college she spent some time
in Bozeman,
Montana where she and six other women formed a dance collective
performing at local venues. Currently she is working on her master's in
forestry at NAU and enjoying the time spent dancing; thinking less
linearly and more creatively.
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Originally from New Hampshire, Sarah Thomas
has been dancing in Flagstaff since the age of 3. She is a graduate of
NAU and CCC but is still a student of life. She has studied and
recieved honors from the Royal Academy of Ballet through NAU's Prep
School, and studied and performed at several American College Dance
festivals.She has had the honor and pleasure of dancing with CCC's
Encore for 3 years, and is new to Canyon Movement Company. She is
currently in love with Flagstaff and the people in it even though she
grew up here. |
| Cori Wall began dancing at the age
of 2 at
Darlene Nosworthy's Academy
of Dance in Paradise,
California. She
began dancing with ENCORE Dance Company when she moved to Flagstaff in
2006 and has been enjoying working with Canyon Dance since 2007. While
Cori
loves performing with these groups she also enjoys the art of teaching
dance to
students at Canyon
Dance Academy. |
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History
of
Canyon
Movement
Company
(CMC):
CMC
was
established
in
April
of
1993,
and
was incorporated in July of 1995.
CMC has produced and performed in numerous venues in the past 15 years.
We have an annual Spring Concert, we work in the schools through
lecture/demonstrations and residencies, and travel throughout the
region. Our
project,
"The
Quiltings",
a
dance
interpreting
women
and quilts of the
pioneer migrations" (2000) has been toured throughout the region. CMC
traveled to Cesena, Italy to perform in a festival in June 2004.
CMC
completed
a
residency
in
Wexford,
Ireland
in
October 1996. The company
conducted lecture/demonstrations, performances, and community classes
during a 16 day tour. They concluded with a fringe event performance at
the Wexford Festival Opera. CMC worked again in Wexford Ireland in
2006. Myriad Dance of Ireland were guests at DanCelebration in June
2005, and June 2006, and CMC traveled to perform again in Ireland in
April 2006.
CMC
is
listed
as
a
company
on
the
Arizona Commission on the Arts roster for
community and school based residencies through 2008.
http://www.azarts.gov/roster_display.asp?namekey=80&Submit=Go
Director
Gina
Darlington
is
an
instructor
of
modern
dance at Coconino Community
College.
Prior
to incorporation, the company traveled to Aspen, Colorado in March
of
1994 to participate in a residency and performance. They taught 300
students in public and private schools. They have also performed for
residencies and lecture demonstrations in Flagstaff Unified Public
Schools, charter schools, Tuba City schools, and Grand Canyon Schools.
The company was commissioned by international conductor Maestro Irwin
Hoffman to perform with the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra in
1994, and was asked back in 1995 and 1996. CMC and it's director have
received grants from the City of Flagstaff since 1992. CMC also
received funding from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. CMC
frequently collaborates with other artists
including
choreographers,
musicians, sculptors, visual artists and writers/poets. The company has
performed in numerous venues including Wheeler Park in Flagstaff, NAU,
outdoors at Lowell Observatory, Scottsdale Center for the Arts,
Coconino Center for the Arts, Las Vegas, MAD BAD festival in the Bay
area, the Kerr Center at ASU in
Scottsdale, The Herberger Theater in Phoenix, Pima Community College in
Tucson, and Tuacahn Center for the Arts in St. George, Utah. The
company has performed with Arizona Contemporary Dance Festival from
1996- 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009.

Sara Frain is
honored to have the opportunity to dance with Canyon Movement Company. Sara
recently discovered her love for dance when hired to teach with "Tippy
Toes," creative movement four years ago.
Carol
Hart (emeritus) has
been performing with Canyon Movement
Company since its
inception in 1993. She served as CMC's President of the Board of
Directors and is an instructor wit
h
Canyon Dance Academy. Her dance
background began in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980's and
continued at Oberlin College performing with Oberlin Dance Company. She
has a Masters Degree in microbiology. She is married to Prof. Stephen
Hart. They have two dancing children: Lukas, 9 and Kira, 12.
Kristen McBride (emeritus) is
a
founding
member
of
Canyon
Movement
Company.
She has danced with
several modern dance companies and choreographers: Funhouse Movement
Theater, Semaphor, ZUZI! Move IT!, and Liz Casebolt and Carly Condor.
She was a guest choreographer for "Poetry in
Motion" in Wexford,
Ireland in 1997. Kristen received a Masters in Range Science and
Management from the U of A in 2001 and now works with her husband
Scotty for the Tonto National Forest. Kristen has taken the last year
off from dancing to focus on her 3 year old son Liam Scott.
©
2009
Canyon
Movement
Company