Cie Julie Bour - The Dancers

Casey
Loomis

Casey Loomis is a graduate of Skidmore College where she studied primarily Art and Dance. Since moving to New York in 2008 she has since studied on scholarship at the Graham School, performed with Buglisi Dance Theatre at the Joyce Theater, York Dance Works at Merce Cunningham, Oliver Steele and Compagnie Julie Bour at Dance New Amsterdam Theater and City Center. She has also worked with Graham II and Belinda McGuire amongst others.

Christopher
Rudd

Mr. Rudd has performed with such companies as Dance Theatre of Harlem, Maximum Dance Company, Pennsylvania Ballet, Carolina Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal and Cirque Du Soleil. Throughout his career he worked with varying choreographers such as Shen Wei, Diddy Veldman, Christopher Wheeldon, Mauro Bigonzetti, Robert Weiss, Donald Mahler and Tyler Walters to name a few. And has been featured in roles by George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Margo Sappington, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Jose Limon, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Jean-Christophe Maillot. Currently, Mr. Rudd has returned to the US where he is living.

Evan
Teitelbaum

experimented with improvisation and choreography in high school, began his formal training with Charla Genn, eventually graduating from the Juilliard School in 2009. Evan has been a member of Gallim Dance and Kevin O'Day - Ballet Mannheim in Germany. He has performed in works by Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, LarLubovitch, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Nicolo Fonte, Larry Keigwin, Daniele Desnoyers, Andrea Miller, Kevin O'Day, and Dominique Dumais among others. His own choreography has been presented in New York at the Clark Studio Theater and the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and in Montreal at Tangente. Evan is currently working with Azure Barton and dancers

was born in Israel, she attended the Thelma-Yellin High School of The Arts, then continued her training at Ballet Divertimento while working with Cas Public Dance Company in Montreal, Canada. In the fall 2006 Chen began her B.F.A studies at The Juilliard School. There she has had the privilege to work with the nurturing faculty and perform the works of Ohad Naharin, Aszure Barton, Johannes Wieland, Jose Limon and Paul Taylor. After graduation Chen has worked with Julie Bour on The Next Stage Project at City Center Studio (NYC) and performed with The Juilliard Ensemble at the Chicago Dance Festival.

Chen
Zielinski

was born in England, reared in Miami, and trained at the Miami Conservatory of Ballet. He has a BFA from the New World School of the Arts. He is currently a Soloist for The Martha Graham Dance Company which he joined in 2005. He would like to give thanks to Mrs.Bour for being part of the first Chapter of “Why Now?’.

Lloyd
Knight

joined The Martha Graham Dance Company in 2006. She has performed lead roles in Diversion of Angels, Satyric Festival Song and Serenata Morisca. Ms. Elder has had new works created on her by Aszure Barton, Julie Bour, Nina Buisson and Larry Keigwan. Jacquelyn is a former member of Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and Graham 2. Currently she is a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Compagnie Julie Bour.

moved to New York in 2007 to study at the Alvin Ailey School for two years, where she trained in Ballet, Horton and Graham. Her training also includes Gaga technique and release technique. She has danced for Brice Mousset company, Cindy Bernier company and joined the Steps Repertory Ensemble in 2008 and performed works by Nathan Trice, Sean Curran, Warren Adams, Karen Gayle and Luis Falco. She recently worked with Gallim Company and works with Company Julie Bour since 2010.

From 2003-2007 he was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, where he participated in the creation of several original works and acted as rehearsal assistant to Ms. Brown during her 2004 creation for the Paris Opera Ballet. He was the recipient of a 2004 Princess Grace Fellowship in dance for his work with the company. From 2007-2009, Neal was a member of Ballet Preljocaj in Aix en Provence, France. He has been working with the John Jasperse Company and Compagnie Julie Bour since 2009.

Christopher Adams trained at the Toynbee Ballet School and the Johannesburg School of the Arts in South Africa. He performed with the South African Ballet Theatre where his roles included the Peasant Pas de Deux from "Giselle". In 2001 he received the Nelson Mandela/Sainsbury scholarship to study at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary in London. He then went on to joining Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Most recently he performed in a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera.

Jacquelyn
Elder

Melodie
Casta

Neal
Beasley

Christopher
Adams