THE COMPANY

Sally Clawson received an MFA in choreography from Mills College, coming to San Francisco to dance with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. She is a recipient of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Performing Arts Fellowship; and was a finalist in the Ellen Hansen Memorial Prize competition at UC Davis. She has performed with Sonya Delwaide, Jon Weaver, Colleen Mulvihill, A Travelling Jewish Theater and Shotgun Players. Currently, Sally performs voice over, on-camera and stage acting. She joined Stephen Pelton Dance Theater in 2002.

 

Christy Funsch holds an MFA in Performance and Choreography from Arizona State University and a BA in Dance and English from Hamilton College, NY. Christy has presented her own work in New York City, Phoenix, Toronto, Santa Cruz, and throughout San Francisco. In addition to dancing with Stephen, Christy is a member of Maxine Moerman Dancetheatre and has also worked with Sue Roginski, Stephanie Schaaf, Mary Armentrout, Megan Nicely, and Leslie Seiters. She serves on the Advisory Board of The Field SF, and has twice been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Performance. She joined Stephen Pelton Dance Theater in 2002.

 

Nol Simonse grew up in and around Washington DC. He began dancing at age 9 with Alison Miller. He continued his training at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Since moving to San Francisco he has had the pleasure of dancing with Janice Garrett and Dancers, kunst-stoff, Sue Roginski, Eric Kupers and Dandelion Dance Theatre and Della Davidson's Sideshow Physical Theatre. He joined Stephen Pelton Dance Theater in 2002.

THE DESIGN TEAM

Costume Designer, Susanna Douthit has been designing costumes for Pelton's work for over twenty years.  During that time she has also worked with National Theater for the Deaf, Robert Moses' Kin, A Travelling Jewish Theater and Word for Word among many other dance and theatre companies.  She is currently working on a series of soon-to-be-award-winning screenplays.  Susanna is the executive director of the San Francisco-based company Dance Through Time, a professional performing arts organization that is committed to preserving social dance heritage.

 

Since 1985, Matthew Antaky has created scenic and lighting designs for many theater, opera and dance companies.  His work has been seen throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Canada and Mexico.  He has designed all of SPDT's shows for the last eleven years.  He has also collaborated with Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, Dziga Vertov, Fellow Travelers, La Tania Flamenco Music and Dance and Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company.  For the Cabrillo Music Festival he has designed fully staged productions of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, Copland's Tender Land, Philip Glass' The Photographer and Lou Harrison's Rapunzel.  He has also worked with Karen Finley, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Della Davidson, Janice Garrett, Caminos Flamencos, Liss Fain and Huckaby/McAllister.  Mr Antaky is also the designer/director for the ongoing project Frames, exploring an expanded role for visual design in mixed company dance concerts.  He was the recipient of the Isadora Duncan award for visual design in 1999 as well as being nominated for the 2000, 2001 and 2003 seasons.

 

photos by Andy Mogg

^^ back to top ^^

mission | background  ·   teaching | choreography | classes  ·   company | design team   ·  upcoming | projects  ·  gallery | contact