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Daniel
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Charon
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DANIEL CHARON (Artistic Director) Daniel is a dance artist who has been active as a choreographer, teacher, and performer since 1995 and is currently the Artistic Director of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. He spent 15 years in New York where he maintained a project-based company and danced with Doug Varone and Dancers (1999 – 2010) and the Limón Dance Company (1996 – 1999). Additionally, he performed with Doug Elkins and Friends, the Metropolitan Opera, the Aquila Theater Company, the Mary Anthony Dance Theater, Opera Colorado, Minnesota Opera, Music Theater of Wichita, Mordine and Company, and Dance Kaleidoscope (Indianapolis). Daniel’s work has been produced by the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, the Inside/Out series at Jacob’s Pillow, the Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA) and by East Tennessee State University. He has also presented two full evening concerts at Joyce SoHo (NYC). Daniel has been commissioned to choreograph new work for many companies, universities, and festivals. Most recently by the Zenon Dance Company (Minneapolis) where his piece Storm was named “Best Dance Performance of 2012” by the Minneapolis City Pages. Daniel has taught in New York at respected studios such as the Limón Institute, the 92nd Street Y, Peridance Center, 100 Grand, Dance New Amsterdam (formerly Dancspace Center), and University Settlement. He regularly teaches master classes and workshops around the country and has taught at the Metropolitan Opera, the Bates Dance Festival, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Comprehensive, the Varone Summer Dance Workshop (2000 – 2009), and the Limón Summer Workshop (1996 – 1999). He has been a guest artist at numerous universities and was an adjunct faculty member at Hunter College (NYC) as well as the California Institute of the Arts. Daniel holds a B.F.A. from the North Carolina School of the Arts and an M.F.A in Choreography and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts.
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Artistic Director - Dance Company
