Danielle Arci - The first graduating class! Danielle was part of the first graduating class of 2004! Danielle toured North America in the Broadway National Tour of HAIRSPRAY starring as the lead Tracy Turnblad! Alongside Idina Menzel, Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald and the late Elaine Stritch, Danielle, alongside choreographer Jerry Mitchell performed in PBS Broadway Celebration: In Performance at The White House! Closing the show with You Can't Stop The Beat after meeting and performing for President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and First Family! After graduating from AVPA she had the honor of working at The Fulton Theatre, John Engeman Theatre in Northport, Prather's Broadway Palm, Prather's Dutch Apple & many more. Also toured with High School Musical as well as performing regionally in productions of Hair, Footloose, Grease, and Godspell. Along with performing Danielle works as a Makeup Artist throughout the tri-state area.
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Victoria Strata is a New Jersey native and a summa cum laude graduate from Montclair State University. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in dance in just three years, and performed in main stage works by Jessie DiMauro, Kathleen Kelly, Nancy Lushington, Earl Mosley, Maxine Steinman, Christian Von Howard and Abby Zbikowski. Strata has also studied with other renowned artists and choreographers such as Sidra Bell, Flockworks Dance, Shannon Gillen, Troy Ogilvie, Doug Varone, and Alexandra Wells, at various summer intensives such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Intensive in Los Angeles, California, VIM VIGOR’s Intensive in Summit, New Jersey, the Movement Invention Project in Manhattan, New York, and Doug Varone and Dancers Summer Intensive at Brockport, New York. After graduating, she had the wonderful opportunity to train with the Limón Dance Company as a part of their professional training programs Limón Pro and Limón Launch under the director of Kathryn Alter and Colin Connor. She performed restaged works of Jose Limón’s masterpieces such as A Choreographic Offering, Missa Brevis, and Psalm. Victoria was given a scholarship to attend the program, and worked with distinguished artists such as Bradley Beaks, Daniel Fetecua, Logan Frances Kruger, Risa Steinberg, Nicole Wolcott, and the Limón Company dancers. Strata has most recently been a guest artist with Donna Scro’s Company Freespace Dance for their Summer Dance Season and is also a performing artist with Daniel Fetecua Productions. Victoria Strata is currently a dance educator and choreographer for Studio J Dance Academy, a ballet instructor for Linda D’Amico’s Academy of Dance, and a touring guest teacher with Man in Motion!
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Keila Pérez-Vega is a 2015 BFA Dance graduate from the University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia, PA. She has trained and performed works by artists like Sidra Bell, Mark Caserta, Christine Cox, Gary Jeter, Roni Koresh, Matthew Neenan, Dwight Rhoden, Katie Swords, Tommie Waheed Evans, Shawn-Lamere Williams and Jesse Zaritt. In 2012, while still at UArts Keila became a principal dancer at Eleone Dance Theatre where she remained for 3 years.
Post graduation, Keila settled in Philadelphia, worked as a freelance artist and was a part of Dance Iquail in it's 2015 season. Thereafter, Keila has worked with numerous local artists in dance and photography including: ANI Gavino/Malayaworks (Philadelphia, PA), 10HL Projects (New York City, NY), Melissa Rector (Koresh Dance Company) among others. Keila now dances for Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers and enjoys supporting dance artists at Koresh Dance Company as their Marketing and Events Coordinator. Outside of her concert dance career she fell in love with salsa and bachata, and now is also a well respected instructor and social dancer in the Philadelphia region. |