SEPTEMBER FACULTY!
HOLLEY FARMER
Holley Farmer, MFA, University of Washington, was a member of The Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1997-2009, receiving the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement. Her performances with MCDC include a repertory of over fifty dances, and thirteen original roles created for her by Cunningham, with multiple seasons at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Paris Opera, Théâtre de la Ville, the Barbican, and venues in 23 countries. With Twyla Tharp, she danced on Broadway originating the principal role of Babe in “Come Fly Away,” for which she received an Astaire Award Nomination. In 2011, she began staging the work of Cunningham, and creating her own choreographies. Her solo work has appeared at New York Live Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design, LaMama, the Joyce Theater, and Jacob’s Pillow. For the last twelve years, in higher education, she has taught theory and practice courses, and has served on the faculty at Mills College, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, Nassau Community College, CSU Long Beach, and CalArts, among national guest teaching and lecture engagements including Stanford University, and Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her early career was inspired by training with Hae Shik Kim, leading to positions in Theatre Ballet of Canada, Phantom of the Opera (785 performances), and The Oakland Ballet.
PATRICK CORBIN
Patrick Corbin danced professionally with The Washington Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, ABT II, the Joffrey Ballet, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch, and Martha Clarke. He was featured in five PBS Great Performances and in the 1998 Academy Award-nominated documentary, Dancemaker. He is a recipient of the New York Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained Achievement with the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
He received an MFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. At USC, Professor Corbin laid the foundation for Dance and Health as an area of study, research, and practice resulting in his interdisciplinary course, DANC 140 Dance and Health.
PAIGE BOROWSKI
Paige Borowski received her BFA degree from The Juilliard School in 2018. There she studied under world renowned instructors and choreographers, including: Jiri Kylian, Crystal Pite, Aszure Barton, Ohad Naharin, Pam Tanowitz, and Bobbi Jene Smith. She continued on to dance in Switzerland for the Ballett Theater Basel where she performed and toured works by Bryan Arias, Johan Inger, Jiri Porkorny, Alexander Ekman, and Sharon Eyal.
In addition, Paige was on faculty for the Ballettschule Theater Basel, where she assisted in developing their Modern and youth programs. Paige is on faculty at Orange County High School of the Arts and is now the founder and director of the first collegiate arts preparation agency and program, Collegiate Arts Prep. Paige currently continues to live and work in Orange County, CA.
BRUCE MCCORMICK
Bruce McCormick is an educator, choreographer, performer and scholar. He earned his BFA from The Juilliard School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy and his MFA from the University of Washington, where he also worked as Assistant Professor of Dance. He joined the faculty at the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance in 2018 where he serves as Associate Professor of Practice.
Originally from New Jersey, he trained with the Vineland Regional Dance Company and the Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet, spending summers at the School of American Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Boston Ballet and as a private student of Maestro Héctor Zaraspe in Argentina and Ecuador. He performed in 12 countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Guest Rehearsal Director with Ballet BC.
BRET EASTERLING
Bret Easterling has been surrounded by dance ever since he was born in Palo Alto, CA. After growing up in his mother’s dance studio, his career began at the age of seven, dancing in commercial work including a duet with Angela Lansbury in Mrs. Santa Claus, and in Fiona Apple’s music video for Paper Bag. At the age of 11, he was a founding member of Teen Dance Company of the Bay Area, an original cast member of New York Stage Original’s Tap Kids, and an annual performer in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
After high school, Bret moved to New York City to study at The Juilliard School, where he received his BFA and the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography in 2010. While in school, he was a formative member of Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance, and a guest performer with Buglisi Dance Theatre.Bret received his BFA and the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography from The Juilliard School and was a formative member for Gallim Dance. After graduating, Bret joined Batsheva Dance Company under the direction of Ohad Naharin.
During his time in Tel Aviv, he became a certified Gaga teacher and an Ilan Lev Method practitioner. Bret currently teaches at USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and is the Artistic Director of BEMOVING, an LGBTQ+ led nonprofit that builds nurturing communal environments for the research, development, and dissemination of dance works and movement practices.
EBONY HASWELL FRAZIER
Ebony Haswell Frazier began her dance training at The Miami Conservatory (Thomas Armour Youth Foundation) and continued on to New World School of the Arts. She was later asked to join Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) where she danced in ballets such as Apollo, Giselle, Agon, Serenade and many others. Following her time at DTH, Haswell Frazier joined Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She has performed principal roles with those companies and the works of many renowned choreographers such as Ulysses Dove, Jodie Gates, Robert Battle, Talley Beatty and Maurice Béjart among others. She was also a member of the City Center Encores! production of The Wiz and is a cast member of the feature film Bolden!. In addition to teaching master classes throughout the country, Haswell Frazier teaches at Debbie Allen Dance Academy as well as AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Haswell Frazier is a graduate of University of Southern California and was a National Visiting Fellow with The School of American Ballet (SAB).
FIONA LUMMIS EDDY
Fiona Lummis-Eddy was a principal dancer for two decades with the Netherlands Dance Theatre, and was involved in over thirty creations by Jiri Kylian, Hans Van Manen, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, Christopher Bruce and Mats Ek among other choreographers, as well as dancing featured roles in ballets by William Forsythe, Jerome Robbins, Lar Lubovitch and Glen Tetley and many more.
Ms. Lummis is a graduate of the Elmhurst School of Dance in Birmingham, England and the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. Fiona now is on faculty of Los Angeles High School of the Arts as well as University of Southern California giving ballet lectures and staging Repertoire.
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