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Christine Fendley, Artistic Director and Founder, has taught children
and adults dance for over 30 years. As an educator, performer and choreographer,
Ms Fendley has taught for the Aesthetic Education Institute in Rochester
and Albany,The Rochester AEI/Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning,
through the artist-in-residence program of Project U.N.I.Q.U.E. and
the Rochester City School District and through Young Audiences of Rochester.
She was on the faculty at Nazareth College in the graduate Studies program
teaching teachers the benefits of using dance in the classroom and has
taught dance at Wells College, NY. Ms Fendley has developed programs
for children in private and public schools.
Her
choreography has been presented at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School
of Music, Wells College, Pyramid Arts Center's Choreographer's Series,
MCC Choreographer's Series, Park Avenue Dance Company's concerts, and
as part of the Contemporary Dance Series. She is the recipient of choreography
grants for her interdisciplinary collaborative work in video, dance,
music and theater form the New York State Council on the Arts, from
the Wulitzer foundation and from the Wilmot Foundation.
She
holds a BA in English, Drama and Dance from the University of Maryland
and MA in Choreography and Perfomance from State University of New York
at Brockport.
Cora
Kannel is a Licensed Massage Therapist and company member of Park Avenue
Dance Company. She is currently teaching Orthopedic Assessment at the
Onondaga School Of Therapeutic Massage and Ballet and Parent Toddler
workshops with Park Avenue Dance Company. She began teaching at The
Rochester City Ballet in 1995 and continued exploring movement education
in Tucson, AZ with Orts Theatre Of Dance. Here she expanded her teaching
from ballet to creative movement, aerial, and parent/toddler dance classes.
Cora uses her experience and education to integrate function and movement
in both classical and contemporary movement education.
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Marina Peters is from New York City where she studied with Thalia
Mara, Carmen de Lavallade, Sophie Maslow, Donald McKayle, and Rod Rodgers,
among others. She has performed and choreographed with Park Avenue Dance
Company since its inception and is Assistant to the Director. Further
performances, along with workshops in Rochester City Schools and other
counties, have been with Kinecore Dance Circus and the Elizabeth Clark
Dance Ensemble. Currently, she studies with and recruits master class
instructors for Park Avenue Dance Company from the Toronto companies
of Dancemakers, Toronto Dance Theater, and Danny Grossman Dance Company.
Linda Goebel has been teaching dance for 23 years. She is on the
faculty in the Dance program at Rochester Institute of Technology. Linda
has choreographed numerous musicals in schools and community theater.
She is known as the "tap teachers' teacher". She has
a B.S. in Dance from SUNY Brockport. Linda is a certified aerobics instructor
and personal trainer. Linda also creates stained glass jewelry through
her business Goebel Glass
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