Egoart, Inc.



	ANDREA BLESSO ALBUQUERQUE has many careers - as a dance instructor at Green Street Studios and Partners for Youth with Disabilities, as a performer with EgoArt, Inc. and Falling Flight Project, as a model for artist Judith Larsen, and as Office Manager & Dance Coordinator at the Boston Center for the Arts. Throughout her dance life, Andrea has performed with Snappy Dance Theater, Bennett Dance Company, and Turnpike Project, among others. She has danced with each of the elements - underwater, 18ft in the air, spinning fire fans, and on various land surfaces. Andrea's latest collaboration, which was selected for ADF’s Dancing for the Camera festival, had her dancing on the streets and mountains of Portugal.

	JIMENA BERMEJO is a founding member of EgoArt, Inc. She has killed stuffed animals, worn fat suits, danced in roller skates, cried, screamed, tried to breakdance, has been a prima ballerina and a heavy metal rock star. She has danced to Kermit The Frog, J.S. Bach and the Flashdance soundtrack among others. After years solving crime around the city as WonderWoman/Luchadora she has decided to take a short break to return to EgoArt, Inc.

	KATHRYN DUNKEL received her BA in Dance from Hamilton College with a Minor in Anthropology. While at Hamilton, she studied with Elaine Heekin, Leslie Norton, and Bruce Walczyk. Katie is a graduate of the Trinity/La Mama program out of New York City, where she studied with Maureen Fleming, Tiffany Mills, and Lisa Race, among others. Since moving to Boston, she has had the pleasure of performing work by choreographers and companies including: Cat Murcek, Mariah Steele, Danny Swain Dance Company, WeberDance, and of course, EgoArt! Katie has presented her own work in Cambridge at The Dance Complex and Green Street Studios, the Triskelion Arts Center in Brooklyn, and The Annex at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City.

	JULIE PIKE EDMOND began her academic pursuits in Dance Education and Performance at Columbia College in Chicago and completed her BFA at Bradford College. Upon graduation, Julie immersed herself in the Greater Boston dance community and has had the pleasure of performing with Brian Crabtree, Caitlin Corbett Dance Company, Exit Dance Theatre, Karen Murphy, Nicola Hawkins and WeberDance. Julie met Nicole Pierce through Green Street Studios and has been performing with EgoArt Inc. since 2002. In 2003, Julie founded the TurnPike Project, an experimental contemporary dance company, and has since shown her work in Cambridge, Newburyport, and New York City. Julie teaches dance at The Ipswich Moving Company in Ipswich, MA and The Dance Place in Newburyport, MA.. She also runs an independent Shiatsu, Craniosacral, and Reiki practice where she works on humans and pets alike.

	MAGGIE HUSAK formally discovered dance in high school at the "late" age of 16. Prior to that, her physical expressions consisted mostly of tantrum-throwing (age 3), impatiently circling her mother in department stores (age 6), country line dancing in "kicker" clubs in her home state of Texas (age 9), and diving for yet-to-be-served volleyballs (age 14). Maggie graduated in 1997 from Brown University with a degree in Urban Studies, and since moving to the Boston area oh-so-many years ago, she has had the pleasure of dancing with the wonderful ladies and gents of Caitlin Corbett Dance Company, Digby Dance, Falling Flight Project (with Karen Murphy-Fitch), Ipswich Moving Company, Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, Turnpike Project (with Julie Pike Edmond), Weber Dance, and now (drum roll, please) EgoArt!.

	MARY MCCARTHY has danced and created dance in the New England area for audiences large and small, in arenas open and closed. Performance spaces include numerous colleges and schools, and a variety of theaters, outdoor stages and unique public spaces such as: Somerville’s Davis Square Train station, 16 feet above the ground; a floating bridge on Lake Hibiscus in the heart of historic Forrest Hills Cemetery; Black Rock City in the Nevada desert at Burning Man 2007, dangling 40 feet in the air in front of an audience of over four thousand people; the Huntington Theatre’s lovely Calderwood Pavilion; New York City’s WAXWorks in Williamsburg and the 92nd Street Y; Cambridge’s Green Street Studios and the Dance Complex; and Boston’s historic Cyclorama Theatre. Currently she dances for Michael Jahoda’s Whitebox Project and Egoart, Inc.

	ELLEN PHILPOTT grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a big fan of dance education in public schools because she hated little kid studio life. Ellen luckily discovered freedom with movement in elementary school dance class. She also did high kicks in patent leather buckle shoes in her living room, and the rest is history. Ellen took every dance elective she could get her hands on, and loved to swim butterfly on the side. In college, Philly danced with the creative force of women at Hollins University in Virginia. Boston became Ellen's home in 2007. It has been an honor working with Ruth Birnberg at Boston Dance Alliance, sharing dance with incredible elementary school students through Community Music Center of Boston, and performing with several talented groups.

	LINDSEY RIDGEWAY was born in Heidelberg, Germany and began taking dance classes there as a kid. She has continued dancing since then and has performed with Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre,Contrapose Dance, and EgoArt.inc. She is currently living in Arlington MA, slowly working towards a bachelors degree, and still dancing.

	VICTOR TIERNAN Dancer, bicyclist, strong-man, hiker, accountant, chef, lover. Oh, and Executive Director.

	ANNA M. ZAMARRIPA is proud to be a founding member of EgoArt. She has served as Secretary on the board of directors until Nicole realized she wasn't doing any work, and also as costume designer because Nicole found out she can thread a needle. Anna holds a BSED in Dance Education from the University of Georgia and has taught dance technique at various private studios and in the Boston Public High Schools (Topf Center) for the past twelve years. She has worked in children's theater in Canton, Boston, Ashland, and Weston and in after-school programs such as the Freelance Players in Cambridge and ArtBarn Community Theater in Brookline. Recently she began working with senior citizens by teaching fitness classes at the Arlington and Watertown Senior Centers. A self-taught seamstress, Anna has designed costumes for Weber Dance, Turnpike Project, Daniel McCusker, Ipswich Moving Company, Marjorie Morgan and Karen Murphy through her own business Whynots. Check out her purses and other items from recycled books as well as quilts and clothing at www.whynots.net.

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