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Peter Burroughs
B.M. in Music from Ithaca College; M.M. in Opera Performance
from the University of Maryland, College Park. A versatile singing
actor, Peter's repertoire encompasses opera, oratorio, musical theatre,
Shakespeare, traditional art song recital, zarzuela and the dance music of
Latin America. He debuted in 1999 with The Washington Opera and has since
performed with the company extensively. In addition to his work with AFTA,
Burroughs is an Artist Mentor for the Washington Opera, helping grade school
students write and produce original operas. He also develops outreach
programs with the Spanish Dance Society of Washington, D.C
Marla
Bush
Marla has a B.A. and M.A., American University and an M.S.W.,
University of California, Berkeley. She has over 20 years experience performing Flamenco and
other Spanish dances with the Spanish Dance Society and the Raquel Pena dance
troupe. Dance venues have included everything from nursing homes to the
Kennedy Center. She has done school outreach programs and taught Spanish
dance in Washington, DC and in Florida. In her "day job" at the
Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she
has developed projects with art therapy associations that use the arts with
healthy and frail elderly. For AFTA, she leads La Movida,
an interactive Spanish dance program, with fellow teaching-artist Peter
Burroughs.
Annetta Dexter-Sawyer
BA
English, minor Communications, Rutgers University; New Jersey State Teacher’s
Certification; MA Performing Arts-Dance, American University. In
addition to serving the participants of AFTA, Annetta
teaches Dance at Trinity University where she is the founder and Artistic
Director of the Trinity University Dancers. Over the last twenty years Annetta has taught and choreographed for all ages and
special populations. Her program structure utilizes movement, exercises, and
dance to accent strength and balance. Annetta would
like for “those taking the class to feel better about themselves
and walk away rejuvenated and refreshed!”
Joan
Hampton Fraser
Joan
has been a Creative Arts Consultant for 25 years. She has worked with many
populations of people and has specialized working with people in the
"Third Age" of their lives. She received her B.A. in
Sociology/Anthropology from Ithaca College, M.A. in Education
and Human Development with a Specialization in Dance, from George
Washington University and a Psychodrama Certification from the DC
Commission on Mental Health Services. She has utilized her extensive
background in psychotherapy, family therapy, dance
therapy and systems theory to complement her artistic work. Joan
studied with Liz Lerman for several
years at the Dance Exchange, having started her work with seniors
and dance at that time. Joan utilizes dance/movement for artistic
expression and to help build a sense of community and belonging. In her AFTA
workshops she leads the Marvelous Musicals and Creative Movement programs.
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Nancy
Havlik
B.S. and M.A. in Speech, Northwestern University. Founding
Director and choreographer of the Dance Performance Group, Nancy is a local
choreographer and dancer in the Washington D.C. area with over ten years
experience teaching movement to adults and seniors. Nancy formed AFTA's senior
creative dance troupe, Quicksilver, which regularly meets and performs
at senior centers in AFTA's program. Nancy also provides workshops in
creative improvisation for intergenerational participants.
Anthony
Hyatt
has been an AFTA teaching-artist since 1997. His primary
artistic disciplines are music and dance. In his violin programs
he draws upon a diverse repertoire ranging from works of the
classical composers to fiddle tunes, ethnic music and jazz standards.
He also co-leads collaborative multidisciplinary and intergenerational
programs with other AFTA artists and is co-director with Nancy Havlik of AFTA’s senior citizen improv
dance company which is known as Quicksilver. Anthony’s long interest in
the role and use of improvisation techniques in the creative process has made
him into a sought after leader at international conferences such as those of
the USA based Creative Education Foundation and of CREA - the Creativity
European Association. He does additional creativity consulting and
facilitation work through his own organization which is called Moving Beauty.
In recent years this work has merged with his role as an AFTA artist and he
has been honored to become one of the master trainers of the National Center
For Creative Aging. Under their auspices Anthony has been representing
AFTA as a recognized best practice program in the rapidly emerging field of
Creative Aging.
Donna
McKee
B.A., Art History, American University; M.A. Ed. Art Education,
University of Hartford; M.A. Art History, American University. Formerly the
Director of Education at the Philips Collection and currently adjunct faculty
at the Corcoran School of Art, has brought both art
history and visual art workshops to AFTA seniors. She has given talks on
Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz, Honore
Daumier, Romare Bearden, and her penchant for
collage work guides seniors in mixed-media approaches that explore rhythm,
visual movement, color and texture.
Liz Nichols, Storyteller
Liz Nichols got lost in the 398 (Folklore & Mythology) section of the public
library at age ten and hasn't found her way out yet. Formerly the
Storytelling Director of Oakland's Stagebridge, the nation's oldest senior
theater company, she has taught storytelling to both adults and children and
created many intergenerational programs. Her passion is to help everyone realize
they have a story to tell and provide them the safe and fun starting point
to take a risk and tell it! To that end, she became a trainer and
facilitator for TimeSlips™, a national storytelling project. She has
trained over 200 dementia care professionals and volunteers in this
innovative method of supporting creative engagement and imaginative
expression by people with memory loss and Alzheimer’s.
Sandra
Roachford
M.A. The American University; B.F.A. in dance, The Boston Conservatory of
Music. Sandy has 16 years of experience teaching dance, drama, movement and performance technique at Bethesda Academy of
Performing Arts/Imagination Stage. She has performed dance and theater work
with Nancy Havlik's Dance Performance Group and
recently performed in Washington, D.C.’s first Fringe Festival. Sandy has
choreographed numerous works both locally and in New York. A typical
workshop from Sandy includes stretching and warming up, one-on-one
interaction to create and share movement born from imagery, rhythm and sound,
and often in closing, a group dance fostering interaction and a sense of
community.
Carol
Siegel
Received her M.A. in Expressive Therapies from
Lesley College in Cambridge, MA, and her B.A. in Art History and Psychology
from American University. She trained through the D.C. Humanities program in
Poetry Therapy and interned at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. She also
facilitated groups in poetry and expressive arts at The Art and Drama
Institute in D.C. as well as local hospitals. She has presented ideas on
her groups with seniors at several national conferences. She is a former
professional photographer and has exhibited in many galleries including The
Corcoran Gallery of art. She taught photography on many levels and has worked
in some art form all her life. Currently Carol is exploring narrative
painting and collage and incorporates poetry, story and art in her AFTA
groups.
Candace Wolf
Candace
Wolf is a Storyteller-in-Residence with the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
She has lived and worked among migrant Gypsies in Europe, Mayan Indians in
the rain forest of Central America, itinerant circus performers in Mexico,
goat herders in Italy, fishermen on the Canary Islands, rice farmers in
Indonesia, artisans in the Middle East, and coal miners in Appalachia. As a
performing artist and educator, Candace is dedicated to preserving our rich
heritage of oral literature and providing a valuable service to the elderly
members of our community. Candace is creator and
artistic director of the Witnessing Project, an
intergenerational oral history initiative that invites older adults to share
personally significant stories from their lives with young people, who in
turn transform these stories into dramatic, literary and visual works of art
that honor and celebrate the life histories and wisdom of their elders.
Quicksilver
Quicksilver
is AFTA's dance improvisation company of senior adults, aged 60 years and
over. The dancers, most of whom are octogenarians, employ structured
improvisational dance pieces inspired by master teachers and artists such as
Robert Dunn, Simone Forti, Ruth Zaporah,
Eiko & Komo and
others in the field of contact improvisation. Quicksilver’s vitality, humor,
and rich, varied life experiences inform their development, performance and
engagement in improvisational dance. Co-directed by AFTA teaching-artists
Anthony Hyatt and Nancy Havlik, Quicksilver leads
interactive workshops for AFTA seniors throughout the metro area. Public
performances have included those at the International D.C. Improvisation
Festival, Executive’s Ball of Montgomery County, D.C. Elderfest,
Joe’s Movement Emporium, University of Maryland, and conferences for National
Aphasia Association, American Art Therapy Association, and the National
Council on Aging.
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