Dance Alumni Achievements
Jessica Wolfrum news interview:
http://blogs.buffalonews.com/gusto/2013/03/start-your-weekend-with-gustotv-1.html
UB Alumni Perform Benefit Concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL4J3SJFtlo&feature=channel
UB DANCE PERFORMANCE
2011 Britney - Sprung Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
2010 Patrick Leahy – Norwegian Cruise Lines
2010 Ashley Currey Celebrity Cruise Lines
2010 Sarah Creagen - Radio City Rockette Christmas Show
2010 Krista Scimeca - Disney Professional Management
2011 James Walters - River North Dance Company
2009 Christie LoCango - Busch Gardens
2009 Colleen Walsh - LehrerDance Company
2009 Christopher Howard - National Tour: Billy Elliott
2008 Mike Deeb - National Tour Young Frankentstein
2008 Nicole Dalton - Disney Live!
2008 Katie Heintz - Houston Met
2008 Nicole Klerer - New Jersey Devils
2008 Sarah Kaye - Celebrity Cruise Lines
2008 Jenny Laroche -Television SMASH on NBC, Radio City Rockette
2007 Megan Castlevetere - Stiletto Entertainment /Holland America Cruise Lines
2008 Jason Stotz - Missouri Contemporary Ballet
2007 Nicole Pavone - Urbanity Dance, Boston, MA
2007 Matt Pardo - Lucinda Childs, Top 100 Dancers 2010-11 in the World Dance Euro Magazine
2007 Brittany Griffin - Performer: Dream Girls, National Tour; Tour/Rehearsal Director, South Africa
2007 Jenny Richiuso - National Tour Spamalot
2007 Richard Ashworth - Principal Dancer: Chicago Tap Theatre
2007 Cesar Salinas - Principal Dancer: Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago
2006 Kristen Danga - Choreographer, Walt Disney Productions, Orlando, Florida
2005 Tracy Zimmerman - American Music Theater
2004 Amanda Benzin - Principal Dancer: Jump Rhythm Jazz Project
2003 Maia Evwaraye-Griffin - Performer: Wicked, Broadway Cast
2003 Roberto Villanueva - Principal Dancer: Alpha Omega Dance Company, Complexions Dance Company, and Marie-Christine Giordano Dance; Executive/Artistic Director BalaDole Dance Company, Inc.
2002 Shelley Isler - Choreographer, Busch Gardens
2002 Meghen Squires - Convergence Dance Theater, Honolulu, Hawaii
2002 Jessica Wolfrum - Principal Dancer: River North Chicago Dance Company
2002 Gina Pero - Performer, Model, and Educator: Rockettes, Las Vegas, Founder - Inside Out, an audition technique seminar
2002 Lisa Lentilucci - Principal Dancer: LehrerDance
2001 Joe Celej - Dancer and Choreographer: Elisa Monte Dance and Houston Metropolitan Dance Company
2001 Chanon Judson - Principal Dancer: Urban Bush Women
2000 - Michelle Willadeson - Dance Faculty, Drury University, Missouri
2000 Sara Bowen - Principal Dancer: Jump Rhythm Jazz Project
1998 Leanne Rinelli - Dayton Contemporary Dance, Bill Evans Dance, Adjunct Buffalo State College
1998 Michelle Utzig - National tours: Crazy for You, Peter Pan
1996 Beth Polito - National Tours: Some Like it Hot, Beauty and the Beast
1996 Jamie Holmer - Performer, Choreographer: Rugrats, National Tour; 42nd Street, European Tour
1994 Jon Lehrer - Artistic Director, LehrerDance, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago; Performer - Erick Hawkins
1994 Melanie Manale-Horton - Principal Dancer: River North Chicago Dance Company
1994 Stephen Hunneshagen - Performer: Peep Show, Off Broadway
1994 Marty Nagel - Performer, Choreographer, and Master Teacher
1992 Jeffry Denman - Actor, Director, Choreographer, Playwright, and Author: Broadway credits, White Christmas, The Producers, Dream, Cats, and How to Succeed in Business...; author and choreographer of Dancing in the Dark; first book - My Year With the Producers
1992 Anne Biancofiore Beck - Choreographer, Educator, and Performer: Saturday Night Fever, Broadway
1992 Maria Jo Ralabate Canosa - Performer: Cats, Broadway Credit; World Dancer Epcot Center
1984 Joyce Dara - Performer and Actress: TV credit, All My Children; Cabaret, La Cage aux Folles, Broadway National Tours
1984 Leasen Almquist - Performer: Annie Get Your Gun, Broadway credit
DANCE EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT & RELATED FIELDS
2012 Taylor Hiller - Arts Management River North Dance Company Chicago
2008 Rachel Elzufon - Reporter/Anchor KYMA TV, Imperial Valley, Arizona
2008 Andrew Delo - Peking University Institute of World Theater and Film, Faculty
2006 Alexandra Swonder - Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, Dance Faculty
2002 Teal Darkenwald - East Carolina University, Assistant Professor
2002 Courtney Anderson - University of Rochester, Lecturer
2003 Lindsay Craven - Salve Regina University, Assistant Professor, Director of Dance,
2002 Nikia Manders - The Berkely Institute, Hamilton, Bermuda. Dance Faculty
2004 Marissa Manzare - Operatins Manager Boston Ballet School. Dancer Urbanity, Boston MA
2002 Rebecca Guile-Wind - Director Xtreme Talent Convention & Infinity Dance Project
2001 Robin Thompson Ph.D - Adjunct New York University
2001 Amy Pizio - Aiken Performing Arts High School, South Carolina, Dance Faculty,
1997 Monica Karwan - Arts in Health Care, Women and Children’s Hospital, Buffalo,
1999- Aisha Shebaine - Stage Manger Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
1999 - Tracy Degenfelder-Navarro - University at Buffalo Lecturer, Dance
1999 Takyia Amin Ph.D. - Assitant Professor North Carolina
1994 Karen Schupp - Arizona State University, Assistant Professor
1994 Dr. Tammy Bialek-Lehrer - Chiropractor
1994 - Jon Lehrer - Founder/Director LehrerDance
Graduate Study
Students matriculated in M.F.A. programs in the following schools: Ohio State University; University of Arizona; Arizona State University; Sarah Lawrence; University of Michigan; University of California, Irvine; Oklahoma City University