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GINA B. DARLINGTON is the
executive director of Canyon Movement Company and Canyon
Dance Academy. Gina’s training began at the Virginia
Tanner Children’s Dance Theater at the University of Utah
at age 4. She received her dance degree from Brigham Young
University in 1991. She also attended the University of
Utah and University of Nebraska in Omaha. She has
performed in dance companies in Utah, Missouri, Nebraska,
and Arizona. She has been an Artist-in Residence for the
State of Arizona where she conducted numerous residencies
throughout northern Arizona. Gina is an associate faculty
member for Coconino Community College (since 1993) and
recently was a guest teacher at the American College Dance
Festival in Salt Lake City, Tempe, Scottsdale, and
Bellingham, WA. Previously, Gina owned and operated Gina’s
School of Dance in Sandy, Utah, and Danceworks Studio in
Omaha and Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Gina keeps busy with her
husband and five sons. Her philosophy and teaching style
is congruent with those methods taught at the Children’s
Dance Theater at the University of Utah.
CORI WALL has been dancing since
she was two and performing since she was three. She grew up
dancing at Darlene Nosworthy’s Academy of Dance in Paradise,
California. When Cori was 10 years old she began dancing
with The D. Noswothy Dancers, Academy of Dance’s competition
and touring company. In 2006, at the
age of 19, Cori moved to Flagstaff and began dancing with
CCC’s ENCORE dance company and pursuing her AAS degree in
dance. In May 2008 she received her degree and will continue
school to pursue a business degree at NAU; Cori is also
continuing to further her dance education at CCC.
ANNELIESE
SCHLECT has been dancing since she was 3 and performing since she
was 5. She grew up taking a variety of classes including ballet,
tap, and jazz in Phoenix, AZ. She moved to Flagstaff in high
school and began taking dance at Flagstaff Arts & Leadership
Academy and CCC. As a senior in high school Anneliese began
dancing with CCC's Encore Dance Company. Now attending NAU,
Anneliese continues to dance with CCC as well as pursuing her
degree in Elementary & Special Education. Dancing has always
been a passion for Anneliese, and she is very excited to combine
her love of dance with her love of teaching children.
ERIN GLOCKNER was born and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. She began dancing at age
twelve studying dance at the Flagstaff School of
Ballet as well as NAU Preparatory Academy and graduated from
Flagstaff Arts
and Leadership Academy. She is currently
working toward her dance degree at Coconino Community College.
Aside from Canyon Movement Company, she also belonged to the West African dance performance troupe
Kuma Tunyale and the Isolated Incident Performance Group. Outside of dancing, she has two
beautiful children ages 3 and 6 and a wonderful and supportive
husband.
RACHEL THURSTON began
dancing at age three at the NAU prep-school, where she
trained in the Royal Academy of Dance method. She
completed the RAD program through Advanced II
with Distinction, which qualified her for the Genee
International Ballet Competition. Rachel also has jazz,
tap, and modern dance training. She danced at CCC for four years, and
was a member of Encore Dance Company, with whom she
traveled to Italy to perform in an
international dance festival. She is currently a Senior
at NAU with a major in Biomedical Science and a minor in
Chemistry, and hopes to attend medical school. She
joined Canyon Movement Company in 2011, and is loving
the opportunity to dance with this amazing group!
KRISTI
LONG
is a Canyon Movement Company dancer and has over 14 years of
teaching experience. After obtaining her BFA, she
began teaching tolerance and violence prevention to Flagstaff teens when she co-founded the P.E.A.C.E Project in
1998. After 7 years with the project Kristi moved on
to teach Theater Arts and Dance at Coconino High School, and Pilates at Full Circle Pilates. Over the years she has continued to
be a student as well. She received her Associates in
Dance from CCC and has sampled many different forms of movement
over the years including Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Contemporary,
Hip Hop, West African, Capoeira, Flamenco, Tap, Yoga, Acro
Yoga, Feldenkrais, and now Circus!
JESSICA TAYLOR received
her MA degree in Dance Education (K-12 certification) from
the
Miss Carol and Miss Sarah at the DaCI conference in