Before his manifold career in arts management, Wayne Hazzard had a distinguished 20-year career performing with many notable choreographers and companies including the Joe Goode Performance Group; Margaret Jenkins Dance Company; Ed Mock & Company; June Watanabe; Aaron Osborne; Emily Keeler and more. Coinciding with his life as a dancer, Hazzard has and continues to work as an advocate for dance. In 2000 he worked with the dance legend Anna Halprin presenting her work in a performance retrospective celebrating her 80th year and received an Isadora Duncan (Izzies) Award for his innovation, dedication and contribution to the field of dance. In 1996 Hazzard was acknowledged for his role presenting The Dedication Project: remembering those lost to AIDS. Frequently asked to serve as an advisor and panelist with such organizations as the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, and Dance Advance/PEW Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, Hazzard currently serves on the board of trustees for Dance/USA.
Kegan Marling is an arts administrator, choreographer and independent designer working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marling was the co-director of the Renaud-Wilson Dance Festival and has served on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee, Dance/USA's national task force on Emerging Leaders, the San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals Group, and San Francisco Arts Commission panels. Kegan has been performing for the past 20 years with artists including Della Davidson, Lea Anderson, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Marlies Yearby, Oakland Ballet, Scott Wells, Nigel Charnock and Jane Schnorrenberg. He is a collaborating artist with the MuseMapWalk thinktank and Della Davidson's Sideshow Dance Theatre.
Originally from Southern California, Maureen began her dancing career sashaying down supermarket aisles. Since then she has expanded her horizons to many various dance styles. After graduating from Santa Clara University with degrees in English and Dance she moved to San Francisco and thoroughly enjoys the free-spirited people she encounters on a daily basis. Maureen is currently diving deeper into the Bay Area Dance community to try her hand (and feet) at arts administration, arts advocacy, modern dance and Pilates instruction. While not working Maureen enjoys watching dance performances in non-traditional spaces, theorizing about art and the sublime, sewing and crafting things for friends, and still dancing in supermarket aisles.
Shae Colett graduated with honors from Columbia College Chicago in 2008 with a BFA in Dance/Choreography and a minor in Arts and Entertainment Media Management. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2009, Shae has performed with numerous dance artist and is currently working with: David Herrera Performance Company, Here Now Dance collective and Ledges and Bones Dance Project. She has had the opportunity to work for Joe Goode Performance Group, Flyaway Productions and Rapt Productions. Besides dancing as much as she can, Shae is currently focusing her time at Dancers' Group as Advertising and Outreach Coordinator and acting as Administrative and Rehearsal Director of Holly Johnston's Ledges and Bones Dance Project.
Born in Los Angeles, Jorge went to the University of California, Santa Cruz where he got a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and a graduate certificate in Theater Arts. He got his early dance training by harassing his sisters and friends to dance salsa and swing with him whenever he felt the music. In Santa Cruz he was co-director of Grupo Folklorico Los Mejicas de UCSC, directed his own dance-theater pieces, and went to the beach religiously. He recently moved to San Francisco to plug into and absorb the local dance community and is loving every minute of it. Jorge is also a developing movie buff and constantly strives to be more like foreign/ classic film actors.
I am a choreographer, performer, teacher, and community activist. Bookkeeping is my day job for many years. Like dance it is an ancient form that still continues to make the world go round. It is about being in balance and creating a structure that allows numbers to flow into a clear statement of activity. I have enjoyed applying my trade for Dancers� Group since the time when our home was the Footwork Studio at 22nd & Mission.
Jessica Fishman is currently a student at the University of Washington studying dance and English. She grew up in the bay area and was exposed to the East bay dance community at a young age. Jessica has studied a wide range of dance forms from ballet to afro-Cuban; however, modern has always remained the closest to her heart. Jessica is excited to be part of the Dancers' Group crew and combine her love for academia and language with her passion for dance.