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Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Artistic Director, received her BA in Modern Dance from the University of Texas and her MFA in Performance and Choreography from Florida State University. She taught at FSU, Stephen F. Austin State University and UT, free-lanced as a guest artist, and produced her own annual dance concerts for five years before forming the dance company in 1998. Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company has received numerous choreography awards and recognitions, including the Austin Chronicle’s “Top Ten Dance Events,” the Austin Critics Table Award for “Outstanding Dance Concert,” and the Austin American-Statesman’s “Best of Arts.” It has performed throughout Texas as well as in Chicago, Toronto, New York and San Francisco. Kathy and company recently directed artist residencies at Texas A&M University and Del Mar College. In addition to performing, Kathy oversees three arts education programs empowering high-risk children and teens to face challenging situations with creative solutions. She teaches adults at Austin Community College, St. Edwards University and Hamrick/Warren, a professional modern dance studio and reaches hundreds of high school students each year by teaching modern dance, improvisation and choreography for dance camps, schools and conventions. Kathy is married and has two teenagers. | |
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Kate Warren, Associate Director, has been dancing professionally for twenty-six years. For eight of those years, Kate performed with the Sharir Dance Company and served as its Associate Artistic Director. During that time, she danced in works by Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, and David Gordon. In 1991, Kate established Hamrick/Warren Dance, a professional modern dance studio in Austin. And in 1996, she opened Café Dance, a teaching, rehearsal and performance space. | |
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Lisa Nicks is grateful to be
part of the collaborative camaraderie of the KDH Dance Company whether
in the creative process, in performance, at lunch or on tour. As a
member of Austin Independent Choreographers, she also maintains a solo
repertory, choreographs for other companies, and guest teaches. Shortly after the dawning of the millennium, Ms. Nicks relocated to Austin to develop her artistic vision through the creation of decorative boxes and functional art, utilizing mint and recycled postage stamps. Lisa Nicks/Emerald City – Postage Stamp Collage turns up at a variety of fairs and festivals, offers art parties for groups, presents a full show every other year, and has a growing holiday mail order business. Before earning her degrees in dance and business from Sam Houston State University, Ms. Nicks was a Texas State Champion gymnast. For many years she coached competitive gymnastics and taught dance for gymnasts, as well as recreational fitness for children, adults and seniors. After college she apprenticed with Space/Dance/Theater under Jim Clouser in Houston, and continued to study from Bill Evans and Lee Theodore’s American Dance Machine. She went on to perform with Farrell Dyde Dance Theatre, Chrysalis Repertory Company, Theater Under the Stars, children’s theater, and Houston Grand Opera. In the mid eighties Ms. Nicks left for New York City, where she studied contact improv while pursuing theater and television dance work. After securing a few lucrative but artistically unsatisfying gigs, she directed her focus back to the creative modern dance forms. She was thrilled to meet and dance with Doug Elkins, become a founding member of his critically acclaimed Doug Elkins Dance Company, and tour extensively as dancer, rehearsal director, and Chief Financial Officer. She has taught dance in programs as diverse as Vienna’s Tanswochen Festival and Bates Dance Festival, to NYC’s experimental dance project in the Coney Island School System and the 92nd St. Y’s Dance in Education program in Spanish Harlem. |
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Roxanne Gage is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. She performed nationally and internationally with the Sharir Dance Company and was also the Jazz Dance instructor for the Company School. She performed in works by Yacov Sharir, Jose Luis Bustamante, Heywood “Woody” McGriff, Sondra Lomax, Doug Varone, Ohad Naharin, Senta Driver, Llory Wilson and Carolyn Pavlik. She performed and choreographed with the Andrea Beckham Collaborative Dance Company. She is a Jazz, Ballet and Modern Dance Instructor, a choreographer and a Nationals Judge for Marching Auxiliaries Dance Company where she just celebrated 20 years. Oh…did you want her to name more names? While a Kilgore College Rangerette Lt. she shared performances with Bob Hope, Ann Jillian, Rock Hudson, Donny Osmond and even did High Kicks as an Honor Guard for Prince Charles of Wales. She worked with Sandra Bullock as an assistant choreographer for the pageant section in the movie “Miss Congeniality”. She is currently a dance instructor for the ACC Dance Department. She is passionate about living life to its fullest with the support of her amazing friends and loving family. She is married to Cameron Gage who is a wonderful supportive husband and together they have 2 FABULOUS children. Jack is 10 years old and Isabella is 4 going on 16. | |
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Marlo Harris received her B.A. in dance from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She has been performing with the KDH Dance Company for almost 10 years and is one of the last founding members of the company. Marlo was nominated as the Best Female Dancer in Austin in 2007. Her training included studying at the Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York and American Dance Festival at Duke University from 1995-1998. Marlo has performed at the Kennedy Center in D.C., PS 122 in New York, The Cunningham Studio in New York, in Las Vegas and Orlando on the Kohler Tour, and made a television appearance on the Deborah Duncan talkshow in Houston. In addition to performing in NY, San Francisco, Chicago, and Montreal, the KDH Dance Company tours throughout Texas and performs in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Corpus Christi, Fort Worth, and in College Station at Texas A&M. In conjunction to dancing and performing, Marlo teaches Pilates. She is a certified Pilates instructor through the Physicalmind Institute based out of NY and has been teaching for 10 years. She has had two of her own studios in Houston, but now just focuses on teaching as an independent contractor in order to concentrate on her performing career. Marlo's teaching career not only encompasses Pilates, but she has also spent time throughout the years in outreach teaching. Marlo has taught kids at MD Anderson Cancer and Research hospital in Houston, Safe Place, Settlement Home, and Salvation Army in Austin, and to women living with HIV in the Roanoke community during college. Marlo lost her mom to cancer almost 2 years ago and dedicates each and every performance to her mother with all the love in her heart. | |
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Shari Brown hails from El Paso, Texas, where she trained and danced with International Dance Theatre (also known as Contemporary Dance Theatre). As a company member, she performed works by Lisa Smith, Sandra Young, Candace Ernest, Amy Oakley-Samz and Madeline Jaztrembski. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from UT El Paso, she moved to Austin where she began teaching dance in public high schools. Shari was featured in the Texas Education Agency’s video “Fine Arts in Schools” while teaching at Round Rock High School with jon Fisher. In Austin, Shari has enjoyed performing with Wicked Cricket Dance Theatre, Cristina Jesurun, Kayo Tsujimoto, and Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company in The Big Push and The Co-Conspirator. | |
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E. Dru Chapman graduated in May 2005 with a BA in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis where she also studied modern and ballet from extraordinary teachers and mentors. While there, she had the pleasure of performing works from residencies with Donald McKayle and Donald Mahler. She is out to prove that dance and architecture have more similarities than differences (just ask her about her choreography project DECONSTRUCT). Dru is excited about joining the Austin dance community while working at a local architecture firm. She enjoys dancing (or rather moving frantically about) to Talking Heads in her spare time. | |
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Erica Santiago, a native of Austin, began her classical dance training at age 14 with Austin Contemporary Ballet. After graduating from high school, she moved to Fort Worth where she received her BFA in Ballet and Modern Dance from Texas Christian University in 2003. Erica has had the pleasure of studying with many dance artists such as Fernando Bujones, Li Chou Cheng, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Doug Varone, Adrienne Clancy, Susan Douglas Roberts, Kerry Kriemen, Lisa Naugle, Holly Williams, Kim Abel, Hope Boykin, Lynn Wilshire, Steve Ochoa and Alonzo King, and performing with Contemporary Ballet Dallas and Contemporary Dance Fort Worth. In addition to performing, Erica choreographed two original works for CBD (Full Circle and Porch Ties) and, as resident choreographer for Stars Theatre Company, choreographed musicals such as The Wizard of Oz, Alladin, Pirates of Penzance and Beauty and the Beast. Erica has taught at TCU, Contemporary Dance Fort Worth and privately owned studios. Most recently, Erica performed in North Carolina and premiered her new work, Awakening, in CD/FW’s November production. Erica currently teaches with Dance Associates and at Johnston High School through Ballet East Dance Theatre’s outreach programs. She also dances with, and will be re-staging two works for, Ballet East. Erica is very excited to have been adopted into the Dunn Hamrick dance family. | |
