November 3, 2008: Gerri Houlihan
6:45-8:15 pm
Hosted by the Richmond Ballet
407 East Canal Street
Open to experienced dancers aged 15+. Admission $5.
Lobby opens at 6:00 pm for sign-in.
Gerri Houlihan is Associate Professor of Dance at Florida State University. She was a faculty member at New World School of the Arts from 1988–1999, and Artistic Director of Houlihan and Dancers (HAD) from 1991–1999. Ms. Houlihan was a former principal dancer with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, and Paul Sanasardo Dance Co., and she was founder/director of Boston Dance Project school and company, 1984–1987. She has served as faculty/guest artist at Connecticut College, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Virginia Commonwealth University, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of South Florida, and Boston Ballet; and has taught in Brazil, Chile, China, Estonia, Paraguay, Poland, and the Philippines for American Dance Festival (ADF) linkage programs since 1993. Ms. Houlihan taught in the ADF/ Korea program in 1990, 1991, 2002, 2004; ADF/Russia in 1997; ADF/Mongolia in 2004, 2005; and was the ADF Four Week School Director from 2001–2005. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching at ADF. Ms. Houlihan holds an MFA from HU/ADF program in 2007. She has served on the ADF faculty from 1981–1983 and since 1989.