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 Diana Tokaji’s
choreography has been featured in San Francisco at the Cowell Theatre, in London
at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and at multiple venues in the D.C./Baltimore area.
She was an AGMA dancer with the San Francisco Opera Ballet, danced the roles
of five women on national tour with Dance Through Time, and has performed
locally with Word/Dance/Theater and VTDance at Blackrock, Dance Place, and
Jack Guidone. Her one woman dance/essay, "Loss for Words," has been
featured at local colleges and conferences, as it reveals loss from the rare
perspective of a young child. Diana is a published poet and an essayist:
her feature stories,
parenting essays, feminist column, and poetry have appeared in anthologies,
newspapers, and most recently in the Bellevue Literary Review. In the
Bay Area, she was also the dance critic for the East Bay Express.
Diana has been blending words, dance, signing and music into unusual
mixed media creations since first establishing herself as an award-winning
performing high school student in Berkeley, California. She is a
yoga instructor at Strathmore Arts Center and in private practice, deeply
influenced by Siddha Yoga and the teachings of Swami Chidvilasananda.
With great hope and determination, her full-length work,
The Gobe Fish and the Blind Shrimp, will premier next year.
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Annie Johnstone - mother, healer, holder,
master of strange sounds and funny faces, never misses an opportunity to
play, if she can help it. What is possible when heart and soul give rise to
voice, sound, movement, art, and love in human form? DELIGHTEDLY! she sings!
a rich and magical invitation home to yourself - a living instrument of
song, and touch. She has over 100 years of watching miracles weave
themselves into the fabric of life, death and everything that falls between.
Then, like a blanket, she crawls beneath it, snuggles up and naps, ..... at
once on fire and at rest. Her private practice is in Silver Spring.
Her new CD
entitled "CRASHING HOME" will be released by the end of 2008.
Annie has been
practicing Physical Therapy with a specialty in manual therapy for 20 years.
Her training includes Craniosacral Therapy, Joint Manipulation,
Biomechanics, Visceral Manipulation, Strain/ Counterstrain, Somato Emotional
Release, Lymphatic Drainage, Muscle Energy, Lymphatic Drainage of the Brain,
and Myofascial Release.
Annie treats
women, men, children, and infants from one day to a hundred years old. She
works with many different needs and diagnoses, including Learning
Disabilities, Fibromyalgia, Autoimmune Disorders, Cancer, Musculoskeletal
Dysfunction, Neuromuscular Dysfunctions, physical challenges that come up as
a result of life transitions, and more.
To
Contact Annie, call 301.587.7287 ext. 2 or write
johnstones@earthlink.net
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Photo by Jessica Earle at EssencePhotography.Net
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David Jernigan - bassist, guitarist and music
transcriber - is well-known on the DC music scene where he specializes in
jazz and Brazilian music. A regular feature with the Wayne Wilentz Trio on
Thursdays at U-Topia, he also plays on a frequent basis with
George Botts
Quartet, , Bill Harris, Victor Prudofsky, and Danielle Westphal.
Over the
years, David has played with Dick Morgan, Elsworth Gibson, Lawrence
Wheatley, Rick Harris, Pam Bricker, Alaor Macedo, Gigi Maclaughlin and many
other established names.
A man of
many talents, David is also a certified Alexander Technique teacher &
performance coach in private practice. On the home front, he is Ruthy and
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Young soprano
Chinwe Enu is rapidly garnering acclaim for her beautiful voice and
captivating stage presence. In August 2006, she appeared as Saffi in Der
Zigeunerbaron in concert in Graz, Austria with the American Institute of
Musical Studies Festival Orchestra. Following her concert appearances, she
was praised for her “glorious sound” and “superior talent.”
On June 25th, 2006, Ms. Enu made
her debut as a soprano soloist at the annual summer concert of the Heritage
Signature Chorale, a choir hailed by the Washington Post for its
“spectacular vocal polish.” Notable past performances include a June recital
of arias and art song at the MUSON Center in Lagos, Nigeria with the MUSON
Center Orchestra, and roles as Edith in The Pirates of Penzance, The
Duchess in The Gondoliers and Buttercup in HMS Pinafore, with
the Georgetown Gilbert and Sullivan Society. She has also performed
internationally in Italy and in Salzburg, Austria.
Ms. Enu balances her passionate career as a
singer with her training as an attorney. She received a Juris Doctor degree
from Georgetown University Law Center and is licensed to practice law in the
District of Columbia and the state of California. Ms. Enu currently studies
voice with renowned Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano Carmen Balthrop, and
she plans to pursue her music studies full-time by attending the University
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Margaret Riddle has lived and danced in the D.C. area
all her life. She started her dance training at the age of 5 with Ethel
Butler, former member of Martha Graham’s company. As a young girl she
performed at many local venues including Lisner Auditorium and the Carter
Baron doing traditional Japanese folk dances. In college, Margaret was a
member of the George Washington University Dance Company. After college she
performed with the Ava/Teri Dance Theater and the D.C. City Ballet.
Margaret took a hiatus from dance to raise two lovely
children, but has been very happy to get back to the dance world in recent
years. She would like to thank her children, Robert and Isabelle, for their
continuing support, and her husband Bruce for always being there for her.
Margaret would also like to thank her many girlfriends for the support they
have given her over the years. Margaret would like to send a very special
thank you to Helen Hayes, teacher extraordinaire, who is the dance teacher
she was searching for all her life. |
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