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BOARDS & STAFF
ICONS INTERNATIONAL
CHOREOGRAPHERS ADVISORY BOARD
Our honorary members come from different backgrounds, genres, generations and nations, yet we are unified in our efforts to achieve excellence and foster progressive thinking in choreography.
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (BELGIUM/ COLUMBIA)
Interim President
Interim Vice President
HONORARY MEMBERS:
Debbie Allen (USA), Tatiana Baganova (RUSSIA), Rafael Bonachela: (SPAIN/AUSTRALIA), Camille A Brown (USA), Ronald K. Brown (USA), Jiri Bubenicek (CZECH REPUBLIC), Deborah Colker (BRAZIL), David Dawson (UK/ GERMANY), Neil Ieremia (NEW ZEALAND), Lorenzo Rennie Harris (USA), Pontius Lidberg (SWEDEN), Liz Lerman (USA), Ashely Lobo (INDIA), Hans Van Manen (NETHERLANDS), Arsen Mehrabyan (ARMENIA), Krzysztof Pastor (POLAND), Stephen Petronio (USA), Rinana Raz (ISRAEL), Amelia Rudolph (USA), Toru Shimazaki (JAPAN), Christian Spuck (GERMANY), Jo Stromgren (NORWAY), Ea Torrado (PHILIPPINES), Osnel Delgado Wambrug (CUBA), Yuan Yuan Wang (CHINA)
STRATEGIC PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD |
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE BOARD |
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Regina Zhirui Zou, PhD, President Ballet Department Chair Beijing Dance Academy, CHINA |
Michael C. Lillys, President Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets, LLC Member Board of Trustees, Philadelphia Ballet |
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Jacek Luminski, PhD, Vice President |
Camilla Aquista, Secretary of the Board Chief Content Editor and Programming Associate, Dance ICONS, Inc. |
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Douglas Yeuell, CEO and Producing Director, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington DC, USA
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Elaine Parsons, Treasurer Certified Publick Accountant, CPA |
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Rainer Woihsyk, CEO and Producing Director, Noverre Society for Choreographers, Stuttgart, GERMANY |
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Kristopher McDowell, CEO & Producing Director KMP, Inc. USA |
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STAFF
Vladimir Angelov, Founder and Executive Director
Charles Scheland, Executive Assistant
Camilla Acquista, Programming Associate and Content Editor
Asami Seki, International Network Associate
Theo Kossenas, Director of Web Development and Management
Elizabeth Watson, Assitant, ICONS Choreographic Institute
CONTENT TEAM:
Dance Journalists and Contributing Writers:
Lisa Traiger (USA), Christina Lindenmuth (Australia), Jessica Teague (UK/Germany), Laura Chappelle (France),
Therese Ruth Howard, (USA), Maggie Foyer, (UK & Europen Union); Althea Skinner (South America), Roslyn Sulcas (UK)
ADMIN TEAM:
Elaine Parsons, Bookkeeping, and Accounting; Ken Smith, CPA, Tax, and Accounting
Kora Alfonseca, Graphic Design; Paul Gordon Emerson, Dance Art Photography
Julie Agurkis, Senior Researcher & US Databasing
Jessica Acolin, Researcher; Alison Eigsti , Researcher; Cecily Lo, Researcher
