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July 30, 2014

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Brian

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Fretté

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Brian Fretté has performed, choreographed and directed for the concert stage, theater, commercial venues and television. He was trained in Classical Ballet at Contra Costa Ballet with Donald Eryck and Jocelyn Vollmar, and at Manhattan School of Dance with
Margaret Craske, both on scholarship. In Modern Dance he trained at the Graham and the Paul Taylor School on scholarship. He has studied Jazz with Kate Leland
formerly of Luigi’s Company, NYC, and also with River North Dance Company of Chicago under Sherri Zunker (Giordano). He has worked with various companies including the Keshet Chaim Israeli Folk Dance troupe at the International Jewish Folk Dance Festival in Moscow, Russia, and the Georgian State Ballet in Tiblisi, Georgia (Ukraine) with ISO Dance, Joyce Trisler Danscompany and May O’Donnell Dance Company, New York Theater Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet of New York, Marilyn Klaus Dance in Dusseldorf, Germany, the Walter Nicks Dance Theater of Poitiers, and Thingseziseeim theater dance company in Denmark to name a few. He has created theater works of his own including
The Defenders, The BoyKing, Tales of November, The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Happy Hour, as well as helped Vittorio Gassman realize his epic Ulisse i la Balena Bianca in Genoa, Italy with choreography by Daniel Ezralow. Musical Theater credits include Brigadoon, The Music Man, The King and I, Anything Goes as well as other original works premiered in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Brian Fretté has choreographed for Ballet, Musicals, and Opera, including Matthew Nash Music and Dance, Chicago Opera Theater, Trinity Irish Dance Co., Juneau Dance Unlimited, Princess Cruises, and ISO Dance. He has choreographed and performed in both the P.A.W.S. and S.T.A.G.E. Benefits of Los Angeles directed by David Galligan, where he worked with, Betty Garrett, Tyne Daly, Janis Paige and Tim Curry among others. He has choreographed for the CBS 50th Anniversary of Israel Celebration, various Industrials for Irwin Productions of San Diego, as well as productions for many independent theaters of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts, The Marlborough High School, The New Roads School and Center Studio’s Pilates Music Video for cable television in Burbank. He has won the Grand Prize for Choreography for his duet Samael loves Lilith, at the Dance Under the Stars Festival of Palm Desert, and also a
Garland Award for best choreography for his work in Zoo District’s production of Nosferatu. He also has an LA Weekly Theater Award for his choreography in The Master and Margarita, also by Zoo District. He has directed and choreographed The Defenders, his homage to the great spy shows of the 60’s, which garnered a Garland Award honorable mention for choreography, costume design, and set design. He also received Best Hamlet on the Fringe for his choreography of Hamlet Q. Jones, a rock and roll Hamlet at the 2007 Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Harvard Westlake School Rembiko Project. He has taught at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) of Brussels, run by directors; Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas) and Bernard Foccroulle (De Munt/La Monnaie), and is currently teaching at The Brockus Conservatory in Redlands, Ca. Most recently, he is happy to have graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA where he earned his B.A. degree in Anthropology and also a minor in Classical Civilizations. While at UCLA he was awarded the Hazel Lagerson Scholarship and also qualified for the prestigious Helen Caldwell Award given by the Classics Department.

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Movement artist (dancer/interdisciplinary performer), Actor (theater), Stage director (choreographer/ theater director)