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  3 Igal Perry
Artistic Director


Born in Israel, Igal Perry began his dancing career with Karmon, a folk dance company, and later joined the Bat-Dor Dance Company where he worked with leading teachers and choreographers including Inesse Alexandrov, Benjamin Harkarvy, John Butler, Rudi Van Dantzig, Alvin Ailey, Paul Sanasardo, and Lar Lubovitch. Upon arriving in the United States, Mr. Perry joined Dennis Wayne's Dancers as a ballet master and choreographer. During that period, he staged John Butler's work for the New York City Opera, the Opera of Munich, Caracas Ballet, and Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, where he also directed the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's opera Paradise Lost.

Mr. Perry's first full evening of ballets, Chromatic Motions, was presented in 1979, in collaboration with the Manhattan School of Music, presenting works to original music by Rand Steiger, Randy Packer, Edward Billous, and more. In 1981 and 1982, he headed the ballet department at Jacob's Pillow, and went on to co-direct the Clive Thompson Dance Company. In 1983, Mr. Perry celebrated the opening of his dance school Peridance Center, now Peridance Capezio Center, which has since been providing a nurturing and professional environment for all dancers. A year after the opening of his school, he founded his dance company the Peridance Ensemble, now Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, for which he has choreographed over 50 works. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Joyce Theater, and City Center are amongst the many theaters in which the Company has performed through the years. Mr. Perry has collaborated with numerous composers including John Mackey, Quentine Chappetta, Phillip Hamilton, and Avner Dorman, with whom he has created the full length workDreams and Demons (2003).

Mr. Perry's international engagements as a teacher and choreographer include The Scapino Ballet and Het National Ballet (Holland), Laterna Magica and the National Ballet (Prague), Architanz (Tokyo), The Royal Ballet of Sweden, The National Ballet of China, and the Kwang-Ju City Ballet Company (Korea), where he also serves as Artistic Director for the Kwang- Ju International Ballet Competition. Mr. Perry's works are in the repertories of companies throughout the world, including the Batsheva and Bat-Dor Dance Companies (Israel), Companhia de Danca de Lisboa(Portugal), the Alberta Ballet (Canada), Complexions (USA) and Alvin Ailey II (USA). Since 1995, Mr. Perry has been serving as guest master teacher at Juilliard, where he also staged his Intimate Voices, and premiered Mourning Song, created for the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. Mr. Perry's work has been repeatedly presented at the prestigious Florence Dance Festival (Italy) by his Company as well as by Florence Dance Company. In May 2007, Mr. Perry was inducted into the Dance Library of Israel Hall of Fame.
  3 Karin Averty
Master Teacher -Director of Curriculum Developmen
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Karin Averty joined the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1973 and became a member of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1979. She was quickly recognized internationally when she received the Varna Grand Prix (in the youth category) in 1980 at the International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria. During the Paris Opera Ballet Competition, she was promoted Premiere Danseuse in 1983. In 1984, the AROP Paris Opera Ballet Association awarded her the Prix du Public. From 1984 to 2005 she interpreted principal roles of the classical repertory (Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Bayadère, Don Quixote, Coppelia, la Fille mal Gardée, Romeo and Juliette, Etudes...) and new works from guest choreographers invited to the Paris Opera Ballet (William Forsythe, Odile Duboc, John Neumeier...) but also choreographies from Lifar, Balanchine, Robbins, Tudor, MacMillan, Graham, Taylor, Tharp, Kudelka...) In 1987 she was invited to be a Principal Dancer with the San Francisco Ballet during a leave of absence from the Paris Opera Ballet. In 1988 she became Guest Principal Artist with the San Francisco Ballet and the following year was part of the San Francisco Ballet's French tour at the Champs-Elysees Theater. In 2003 she obtained her Diplôme d'Etat in Ballet (official French teaching diploma). Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France, honored her with the National Merit Order as a Chevalier in 2004. As a final good-bye to the Paris Opera Ballet, and for the first time in her carreer, she interpreted the role of Juliet in Nureyev's choreography Romeo and Juliet at the Bastille Opera on July 9, 2005. Currently, she is pursuing her career as a Guest Artist, lately, she performed in Japan Les Biches, Nijinska's choreography. Karin has started a new career as well as a freelance Ballet Teacher and a coach for Ballet Companies and Schools throughout the world.
  3 Peter Brandenhoff
Core Ballet Teacher


Peter Brandenhoff was born in Denmark and graduated from Royal Danish Ballet. He danced with Boston Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and San Francisco Ballet as a soloist. As a guest, he performed with Royal Winnipeg Ballet, South African Ballet Theatre and Mzansi Productions, Les Ballets Grandiva, and Stars of the Royal Danish Ballet. His repertoire spanned from the classics of Balanchine, Bournonville and Petipa to the ultra-modern Redha, and he has been part of creating works with Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Val Caniparoli and Yuri Possokhov.

Peter's passion for teaching was born in 2004 when he helped initiate an outreach trip with SFB to teach in South African townships. In 2008 he joined the faculty at Ballet San Jose School creating a successful boys' program there. His teaching engagements include Royal Danish Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and School, San Francisco Ballet School, Oregon Ballet Theater, Lines Ballet, ODC/San Francisco, Marin Ballet.

In 2011, Peter completed his BA from St. Mary's College, CA and a Fellowship in Administration at Cal Performances in Berkeley. He is also a contributor of articles on technique, music and mime for Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit and Dance Studio Life.

"I believe that proper placement and technique keeps the body healthy and can prevent many common injuries. The class work is inspired by the philosophies of Bournonville, Vaganova and Balanchine. I try to challenge the brain as well as the body, while I keep a close eye on the individual dancers' needs. My dictum is: Turnout is a movement and dance is music visualized and above all ballet should be fun no matter what age or level of proficiency."
 

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Stephanie Godino
Preparatory Track Teacher


Stephanie Godino was born and raised in New York City. She had her early training in ballet with Margaret Craske and studied with Valentina Pereyslavec of American Ballet Theater and at the Joffrey Ballet School. Stephanie has danced with Kansas City Ballet; New York Theater Ballet; Joffrey 2 Dancers; "Lotte Goslar's Pantomime Circus"; The Metropolitan Opera Ballet and most recently New York City Opera. Ballet. Stephanie has directed and choreographed opera productions for the Bronx Opera; State Repertory of New Jersey; the DiCapo Opera and Juneau Dance Unlimited (Alaska). Ms. Godino holds a BA in theater and dance from SUNY Empire State College.
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