Guest Artists
Guest Artist Residencies
Guest Artist Residencies enliven and amplify the experience of CSULB dance majors. Through one or two-week residencies, professional choreographers and dancers from around the world set new or restaged dances on our students, giving them a taste of the rehearsal process that is a part of a professional career.
- Sidra Bell, Artistic Director Sidra Bell Dance New York
- Janis Brenner, Choreographer, New York City
- Frank Chaves, Artistic Director, River North Chicago Dance Co.
- Leah Cox, Education Director, New York Live Arts Norbert De La Cruz, Choreographer
- Mike Esperanza, Choreographer, BARE Dance Company
- Melecio Estrella, Bandaloop, Joe Goode Dance
- Marjani Forté-Saunders, Choreographer, Co-founder, LOVE|FORTÉ A COLLECTIVE
- Maria Gillespie, Artistic Director, Oni Dance, Los Angeles
- Kate Hutter, Co-Founder, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company
- Laurel Jenkins, Trisha Brown Dance Company
- Holly Johnston, Artistic Director, Ledges and Bones Dance Project
- Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director,Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
- Zippora Karz, Repetiteur, Balanchine Trust
- Alex Ketley, Artistic Director, The Foundry
- Sharon Kinney, Repetiteur, Paul Taylor
- Stephen Koester, Choreographer, University of Utah, Faculty
- Stephanie Lapis, Repetiteur, Doug Varone and Dancers
- Fiona Lummis, Repetiteur, Nederlands Dans Theatre
- Victoria Marks, Choreographer, U.C.L.A., Faculty
- Robert Moses, Artistic Director, Kin Dance Company
- Shyamala Moorty, Choreographer
- C. Kemal Nance, Choreographer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Tere O’Conner, Choreographer, New York City
- John Pennington, Choreographer Pennington Dance Group
- Kameron Saunders, Dancer and Choreographer
- Dolly Sfeir, Choreographer
- Kensaku Shinohara, Choreographer
- Patrick Simoniello, Ballet Master River North Dance Chicago
- Shawn Stevens Dancer, Repetiteur Twyla Tharp Dance Company
- Eddie Taketa, Repetiteur, Doug Varone and Dancers
- Micaela Taylor, Artistic Director, TL Collective
- Colleen Thomas, Choreographer
- Donna Uchizono, Choreographer, Artistic Director of Donna Uchizono Company
- George Willis, Charles Weidman Repetiteur
- Megan Williams. Repetiteur, Mark Morris Dance Group
- Kevin Williamson, Choreographer
- Dan Wagoner, Choreographer
- Bill Young, Artistic Director Bill Young and Dancers
Guest Artist Classes and Workshops
Guest Artist Classes and Workshops provide opportunities for students to interact with a wide array of dance professionals. Below is a partial list of guest artists who have enhanced the education of CSULB dancers.
- Kyle Abraham, Artistic Director, A.I.M.
- Janis Brenner, Artistic Director, Janis Brenner & Dancers
- Jennifer Backhaus, Backhaus Dance
- Genevieve Baker, Artistic Director, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company
- Lillian Barbeito, BodyTraffic Dance Company
- Bill Bohl, Managing Director, DDO Artists Agency/The Movement
- Leslie Carothers-Aromaa, Colburn School, formerly with Joffrey Ballet
- Evelyn Cisneros-Legate, Boston Ballet, formerly with S.F. Ballet
- Robert Cohan, Artistic Dir. London Contemporary Dance School
- Misty Copeland, Soloist, American Ballet Theatre
- Lauren Kias, Cast of Hamilton
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Dance Scholar
- David Dorfman, Artistic Director, David Dorfman Dance
- Glen Eddy, Cal Arts Faculty, formerly with Netherlands Dance Theater
- Glenn Edgerton, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- Arturo Fernandez, Alonzo King Lines Ballet
- Joe Goode, Artistic Director, Joe Goode Performance Group
- Rennie Harris, Artistic Director, Rennie Harris Dance Company
- Alaine Haubert, American Ballet Theatre
- Millicent Hodson/Kenneth Archer, Rite of Spring Centennial
- Kevin Iega Jeff, Artistic Director Deeply Rooted Dance Theater
- Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Co.
- Zippora Karz, former Soloist, New York City Ballet
- Alex Ketley, The Foundry
- Jmy James Kidd, Director, Pieter Performance Space
- Shouze Ma, Choreographer, Beijing, China
- Cheryl Mann, Choreographer & Dance Photographer, Cheryl Mann Productions
- John Malashock, Artistic Director, Malashock Dance
- Patrick McCollum, Choreographer The Band’s Visit, CSULB alum
- Sergio Mejia, Commercial dance choreographer
- Colleen Neary, Artistic Director Los Angeles Ballet
- Colleen O’Callaghan, Ventura Ballet, formerly with ABT
- Rocio Ponce, Professional Flamenco choreographer
- Summer Lee Rhatigan, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
- Melanie Ríos, Glaser Artistic Director, The Wooden Floor
- John Selya, ABT, Come Fly Away, Movin’ Out
- Robbie Shaw, Choreographer/Screendance creator
- Eddie Taketa, Doug Varone and Dancers
- Rosanna Tavarez, Countertechnique, LA DANSA DANSA
- Doug Varone, Artistic Director, Doug Varone and Dancers
- Wendy Whelan, Former Principal Dancer, Associate Artistic Director, New York City Ballet