Nannette Brodie
Associate Professor, Dance
714-895-8281 or nbrodie@gwc.cccd.edu
Nannette Brodie, performed and choreographed for the nationally acclaimed Los Angeles modern dance company, The Moving Company, from 1970 to 1978. The company toured with the National Endowment for the Arts Touring Program, Artists in the Schools and the Los Angeles Performing Tree Program. Since that time she has choreographed independently in musical theatre, dance companies, television and film, while starting her own company and a nonprofit corporation, South Coast Dance Arts Alliance.
After receiving her BFA in Art and her Masters Degree in Dance from California State University Los Angeles, Nannette taught on the faculties of California State University Chico and Long Beach, Loyola-Marymount University, and Long Beach City College. In 1975, Nannette became the director of dance at Golden West College, and in 1986 she started her own contemporary dance company, the Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre.
Her choreography has been performed in more than 300 venues in New York, California, Utah, Nevada, Mexico, Czech Republic and France. Nannette’s principal training and theory of choreography stems from her work with Murray Louis, Janice Day and Alwin Nikolais. She is an alumnus of the Nikolais-Louis Dance Lab in New York.
Nannette was nominated for a Lester Horton Dance Award for outstanding teaching in 2000. She received the Else Loudon Solo Award for her choreography at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival in 2002 as well as recognition for Outstanding Woman in Arts and Culture for Long Beach.
Nannette has just been honored as the 2007 Distinguished Artist of the Year for the city of Long Beach. Also, during 2007 the South Coast Dance Arts Alliance was honored with a Milestone Award for 25 Years of Performance from the Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles. |
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Jeff Hendrix
Instructor, Dance
Jeff Hendrix is a master jazz and tap teacher with an M.F.A. in Dance from U.C.Irvine. His classes offer solid technique and cover a broad range of styles. Performance credits include A Chorus Line, Tap (the movie), Good Morning America (with Rita Moreno), Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, and Oklahoma. Jeff is also known for his choreography and teaching at Luigi’s (N.Y.C.), Svetlova Dance Center, Bermuda Ballet, Ballet Russe de Montreal, Columbo (Zurich), Schutz Ballet (Vienna), Maui Academy of Performing Arts, and three tours of Japan. Musicals choreographed include Baby, H.M.S.Pinafore, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jeff is on staff at Mt. SAC, Santiago Canyon, Cypress, Long Beach City, CSULB and Golden West colleges. He also teaches acting, musical theatre, salsa, swing, yoga, videography, graphics, animation and computer dance. |
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Angelika Nemeth
Instructor, Dance
Angelika Nemeth has been traveling and seeking to enhance her knowledge most of her life. For over two decades she has journeyed through the paths and roads of Oriental Dance, and has studied with many notables of Middle Eastern Dance in Egypt and the United States. She teaches workshops and lectures and has performed in Canada, England, Germany, Japan and throughout the USA. In 1982 and 1983 she arranged two dance study tours to Egypt and since 1987 has been producing critically acclaimed World Dance concerts at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, she performed in all the top Middle Eastern restaurant/night clubs in the Los Angeles area. You may have seen her picture on the magazine covers of Jareeda and Habibi and on Jalaledin's Volume III album cover, or watched her on numerous dance videos like Raja Zahr's Dancing Live to Raja or her own, Angelika and Ensemble Live in Concert. Her dance peers recognize her as a leading exponent of this dance form. |
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Erica Villalpando
Instructor, Dance
Erica received her B.A. in Dance from Chapman University, her A.A. in Dance/Humanities from Riverside Community College and is an Aline Certified Pilates Instructor. She is a choreographer, dance teacher and Pilates instructor throughout Orange and Los Angeles counties for high schools, colleges and studios. In 2003, she helped develop a state model creative dance program through Arts Orange County and taught two master classes at the American College Dance Festival in Modesto, California. Erica's choreography has been seen in many theaters across the United States and overseas. Those theaters have been located in New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and even Helsinki, Finland. Erica has studied with Fred Strickler, Stephanie Gilliand, Murray Louis, Risa Steinberg, Amanda Turner, Andy Vaca, Anandha Ray, Jenny Backhaus, Nannette Brodie and other well noted choreographers. She is currently on the dance faculty at Golden West College and has danced for Wasted Talent Dance, Sustaita Dance, Moving Arts Dance and guest performed with Metropolitan Ballet. She has danced with NBDT for 13 years and has participated in tours through California, Nevada, New York, Utah, Mexico and Europe. She is honored to have set the piece "Faith, Hope & Love ...", "Polymorphic" and "Journey of Change" on Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre. Erica is currently company rehearsal director for NBDT and helps manage the children's programs for the company. |
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Audrey Wilson
Instructor, Dance
Master teacher, Audrey Wilson, led the resurgence of Lindy Hop in Orange County beginning in the late 1980's and continues to influence the Swing scene today. Many of her students have gone on to become renowned teachers, performers and champion competitors.
Critically acclaimed on several continents, Audrey Wilson has performed and taught dance all over the world. Her performances and projects include collaborations with a litany of entertainment luminaries including Little Richard, The Righteous Brothers, Leonardo Di Caprio and Annie Leibovitz. She has also worked with CBS, PBDA and the Rose Parade.
Audrey's unprecedented exploration of the dances of the 1930s and 40s earned her a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of California at Irvine. And it is to this Southern Californian community that she has returned, to teach and to bring her wealth of knowledge and experience for us to share.
Constantly in demand, Audrey's unique style of choreography is filled with humor, excitement and surprise. Audrey has danced the Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa, and Shag with world renown instructors from Sweden, England, Germany, Singapore, and the United States.
Her creative and dynamic teaching style, combined with her extensive knowledge of Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa, and Shag makes Audrey one of the most renown and constantly in demand teachers available to the dance community today.
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