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Graham Lustig (Artistic Director of the American Repertory Ballet and ARB’s Princeton Ballet School) was born in London and received his dance training at the Royal Ballet School. After graduation, he danced and choreographed for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam and the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet in London. Upon retiring as a performer, the Washington Ballet chose him as its Choreographer-in-Residence. In June of 1999, Mr. Lustig was named Artistic Director of the American Repertory Ballet and ARB’s Princeton Ballet School.

Mr. Lustig has commissioned numerous new works for ARB including twelve pieces specially created for Dancing Through the Ceiling, a program that serves as a platform for women choreographers. He has set fifteen of his own works, including most recently Beauty and the Beast… a Gothic Romance, and Dialogues, created with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2003, Mr. Lustig was invited to become a charter member of the Artists Council for Americans for the Arts in Washington, DC. He currently serves of the Board of Directors of the American Repertory Ballet, the Choo-San Goh and H. Robert McGee Foundation, and on the Advisory Boards of the Princeton Festival and the Terpsichore Theatre of Dance. He has served as panelist for the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and twice for the National Endowment for the Arts. Upcoming commissions include new ballets for Louisville Ballet and American Repertory Ballet plus West Side Story that he will be directing and choreographing for Boheme Opera of New Jersey in April, 2008.

Geoffrey Doig-Marx (guest teacher) is the Artistic Director and Founder of "The Mantis Project" Dance Company, and Creator/Artistic Director of "The Elan Awards" (an annual showcase that honors a choreographer who has changed the face of dance and showcases the work of fourteen additional choreographers).

Mr. Doig-Marx received a Certificate of Excellence in Cultural Achievement from C. Virginia Fields Manhattan Borough President office of The Mayor of New York City for his work with The Elan Awards. In 2005 along with then Co-Producer Dance Spirit Magazine, The Elan awards honored Susan Stroman with special guests The Original Cast of Contact. Past honorees of the award include Graciella Daniele, Jerry Mitchell, Ann Reinking, Rob Marshall and Lar Lubovitch.

Currently, Mr.Doig-Marx is working with Tracie Stanfield and The Soho Agency on The 2009 Elan Awards. In the summer of 2008, along with Tricia Arenson, Geoffrey will be launching a New Annual Summer Dance Festival that will premier in Provincetown Mass. Geoffrey is also working with LA Composer Peter Michael von der Nahmer on a ballet based on story ideas from HP Lovecraft set to tour.

This summer 2007, Geoffrey was a Creative Associate on Broadway Bares 17 at Roseland in NYC. (Assistant Choreographer to Director Denis Jones for Broadway Bares 2006 and Creator/Executive Producer Jerry Mitchell).

In January 2007 he created a piece for The American Theatre Dance Workshop and Geoffrey's piece entitled Need (based on Punk Rocker Sid Vicious girlfriend Nancy Spungen) was selected by Michael Blevins to be presented at The Group Theatre Too festival in NYC (TBA).

In December 2006 his piece 3 More 3's was performed at The Theresa Lang Theatre in NYC and on December 16th 2006 his farcical look at the Nutcracker One Tough Nut premiered in New Jersey at The Villa Victoria Theatre.

Mr. Doig-Marx wrote a tell all book about his days as a Disney dancer entitled "Not Only Magic Floats".- currently being edited by The Soho Agency.

Kathleen Moore (Guest Artist) was born in Chicago, Illinois, but was raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She began dance lessons at a local ballet school and then studied dance seriously with Dame Sonia Arova during high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA). Kathleen also attended summer sessions in New York, at the School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre School, before graduating from ASFA as a National Scholar in the Arts and moving to New York as a member of American Ballet Theatre's junior company, ABT II. (1980).

Miss Moore joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in 1982, was appointed Soloist by Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1988, and Principal Dancer in 1991. Her roles with ABT were many, working in the classics as well as the dramatic and modern repertory. Her repertory includes Myrta in Giselle, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Hagar in Pillar of Fire, The Cowgirl in Rodeo, a Stomper in In the Upper Room, and roles in works by Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Jiri Kylian and Glen Tetley.

Miss Moore created the role of The Girl in The Informer by Agnes de Mille, leading roles in Mark Morris’ Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes and in Twyla Tharp’s How Near Heaven and Jump Start.

She was a member of the premiere tour of the White Oak Dance Project under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris in 1990 and has appeared in several dance documentaries and the Herbert Ross movie Dancers.

In 1988 Miss Moore married Peter Tovar, in 1997 she gave birth to a son, Becket, and retired from dancing in the fall of 1998. She currently lives in Princeton and teaches periodically at ARB's Princeton Ballet School and is secretary for the Board of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.

Kyra Nichols (Guest Artist) began her early training in Berkeley, California, with her mother, Sally Streets, a former member of New York City Ballet. By age 13, Ms. Nichols started spending her summers in New York at the School of American Ballet. She performed with Alan Howard’s San Francisco based Pacific Ballet before moving to New York full-time when she was 15 years old.

She became an apprentice to NYCB in 1974 and quickly became a member of the corps de ballet. In 1979 she was promoted by George Balanchine to the rank of Principal Dancer. Her early years in the company were enlivened by the presence of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, both of whom were choreographing on the Company.

Kyra Nichols danced numerous leading roles in the company repertory, ranging from pyrotechnic displays of bravura skill in ballets such as Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto Number 2 and Stars and Stripes to more lyrical and dramatic roles such those in Liebeslieder Walzer and Robert Schumann’s Davidsbundlertanze.

In addition to her work with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, Ms. Nichols has worked with an extensive list of choreographers including, William Forsythe, Susan Stroman, Christopher Wheeldon, Peter Martins, Jacques D’Amboise, Robert La Fosse and Robert Garland.

During her career, Ms. Nichols has toured extensively. In 1981 she joined a small group led by Jerome Robbins that performed in mainland China as a part of a US Information Agency effort to bring American culture to the Chinese. Over the years Ms. Nichols has all over the world, including Great Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel and Italy. She has also appeared as a guest artist in various productions including Franco Zeffirelli’s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. By special invitation she performed in Cuba as a guest of Alicia Alonso. With New York City Ballet dancer Gen Horiuchi Ms. Nichols led a group of dancers for a three week series of performances in Tokyo. Of course, her touring included sites all over the United States, from High School gymnasium’s in Alabama to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Nichols has appeared on national television in Balanchine's Vienna Waltzes for the Lincoln Center Special "A New York City Ballet Tribute to George Balanchine," in Balanchine's Serenade for a "Dance in America" program, and also in Mr. Martins' Beethoven Romance for the "Dance in America" program, "Ballerinas, Dances by Peter Martins." Ms. Nichols also appeared in the 20th anniversary broadcast of the PBS series "Great Performances" in Mr. Martins' Not My Girl.

Ms. Nichols danced the featured role of Dewdrop in the film version of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™, produced by Elektra Entertainment/New Regency Enterprises, and released in November 1993 by Warner Brothers.

In recent years Ms. Nichols has been teaching ballet, bringing her vast experience and knowledge to a new generation of dancers. She has taught at many schools including the School of American Ballet (New York), The Rock School (Philadelphia) Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (Carlisle, PA), The Jillana School (Summer program, Taos, NM), Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) and Boston Ballet (Boston). IN addition to her work with New York City Ballet, since 2000 Ms. Nichols has been teaching regularly at the Princeton Ballet School and conducting private lessons.

Ms. Nichols lives in Princeton, New Jersey with her husband, David Gray, and their two sons. On the odd occasion when she experiences free time, Ms. Nichols enjoys cooking and gardening.