Featured Profile: Intersect Dance Theatre
Intersect Dance Theatre 2010/11
Intersect Dance Theatre (IDT) is proud to be Riverside’s first regional Contemporary company. IDT is multi-genre with a focus of blending the vocabularies of modern dance and contemporary ballet. The company features both Riverside Community College students as well as professional dancers from across Southern California. The company is led by Sofia Carerras and Mark Haines.
Sofia Carerras was born in Barcelona, raised in Geneva, Switzerland, where she received her early training at the Ecole de Danse du Grand Theatre de Geneve. She began her professional career at age 13 at the Geneva Opera House performing alongside Mikhail Barishnikov, and working under the direction of George Balanchine in his staging of Coppelia.
Sofia Carerras was born in Barcelona, raised in Geneva, Switzerland, where she received her early training at the Ecole de Danse du Grand Theatre de Geneve. She began her professional career at age 13 at the Geneva Opera House performing alongside Mikhail Barishnikov, and working under the direction of George Balanchine in his staging of Coppelia.
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Encouraged to move to the US she then trained with Alonzo King of Lines, performed for the San Francisco Ballet and was a soloist for the Sacramento Ballet. Gradually recovering from an injury that ended her professional career, she trained with Ballet West and began her education at the University of Utah. She earned a BA in English with a minor in Theatre from Sacramento State University. She spent a year in the graduate modern dance program at Mills College before transferring to UC Irvine in the ballet program. She graduated from UCI with an MFA in dance in 2001.
She has taught in several schools and companies in Southern California, including Riverside Ballet Arts, Inland Pacific Ballet and Ballet Etudes of Huntington Beach where she served as Artistic Director. Her choreography has been performed at the International Ballet Competition (Varna, Bulgaria), the American Grand Prix in New York, and in venues throughout California. As an Associate Professor of Dance at RCC, Sofia is passionate about giving back what she had received along the way to her community.
She has taught in several schools and companies in Southern California, including Riverside Ballet Arts, Inland Pacific Ballet and Ballet Etudes of Huntington Beach where she served as Artistic Director. Her choreography has been performed at the International Ballet Competition (Varna, Bulgaria), the American Grand Prix in New York, and in venues throughout California. As an Associate Professor of Dance at RCC, Sofia is passionate about giving back what she had received along the way to her community.
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Working alongside Sofia, is Mark A. Haines who has been the Co-Artistic Director and resident choreographer for the Riverside regional modern/ballet company, Intersect Dance Theatre for the past 2 years. He has been teaching dance in Southern California and around the nation for the past 20 years, working with dance companies in Washington, Colorado, South Carolina, and California as well as choreographing for television, Industrials and Musical Theater.
After years of performing throughout the United States and Europe as an entertainer with King’s Productions and Princess Cruise Lines, Mark began his formal dance training at Riverside City College under the tutelage of Jo Dierdorff and Rita Chenoweth. He has since graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from University of California, Irvine, with an emphasis in Lighting Design. Currently, Mark is an Associate Professor of Dance at Riverside City College.
After years of performing throughout the United States and Europe as an entertainer with King’s Productions and Princess Cruise Lines, Mark began his formal dance training at Riverside City College under the tutelage of Jo Dierdorff and Rita Chenoweth. He has since graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from University of California, Irvine, with an emphasis in Lighting Design. Currently, Mark is an Associate Professor of Dance at Riverside City College.
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Intersect aims to create and occupy the space where historically distinct genres can coexist. Envisioning a differentiated art form, Intersect is committed to drawing on the emerging talents of local students, developing talents of choreographers and dancers from different backgrounds with the help of experts from varied genres.
It is this commitment which allows Intersect to appropriately represent innovative art to the world of diverse communities throughout Greater Riverside area, the Inland Empire and Southern California regionally. The meeting of past and future, classical and avant-garde, professional and student, define Intersect and its bold new/innovative direction for dance as art.
The company invites real people – such as dancers on stage of all ages, backgrounds, gender and form – to become part of the exciting blend of human form exploring art and offering it back to their community.
It is this commitment which allows Intersect to appropriately represent innovative art to the world of diverse communities throughout Greater Riverside area, the Inland Empire and Southern California regionally. The meeting of past and future, classical and avant-garde, professional and student, define Intersect and its bold new/innovative direction for dance as art.
The company invites real people – such as dancers on stage of all ages, backgrounds, gender and form – to become part of the exciting blend of human form exploring art and offering it back to their community.
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For our 2011 Golden West Professional Invitational, Intersect Dance Theatre will be performing their piece “Losing Port”. Using a vocabulary of everyday pedestrian gestures and set against a haunting score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Intersect Dance Theatre’s Losing Port is an emotionally compelling exploration of a world faced with vanishing interpersonal relationship skills.
The Golden West College Professional Invitational will take place on February 18 & 19 2011, at 8 pm. It is being held at the Robert B. Moore Theater, which is located on the Orange Coast College campus in Costa Mesa, California. Tickets are $12 for General and $10 for Students; they are available through the OCC Box Office and online at www.occtickets.com.
For more information on Intersect Dance Theatre please check out their website: www.intersectdancetheatre.com
The Golden West College Professional Invitational will take place on February 18 & 19 2011, at 8 pm. It is being held at the Robert B. Moore Theater, which is located on the Orange Coast College campus in Costa Mesa, California. Tickets are $12 for General and $10 for Students; they are available through the OCC Box Office and online at www.occtickets.com.
For more information on Intersect Dance Theatre please check out their website: www.intersectdancetheatre.com
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