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BOARDS & STAFF

ICONS INTERNATIONAL

CHOREOGRAPHERS ADVISORY BOARD

 

Our honorary members come from different backgrounds, genres, generations and nations, yet we are unified in our efforts to achieve excellence and foster progressive thinking in choreography.

 

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (BELGIUM/ COLUMBIA)

Interim President

 

Kyle Abraham (USA)

Interim Vice President

 

HONORARY MEMBERS:

 

Debbie Allen (USA), Tatiana Baganova (RUSSIA), Rafael Bonachela: (SPAIN/AUSTRALIA)Camille A Brown (USA)Ronald K. Brown (USA), Jiri Bubenicek (CZECH REPUBLIC), Deborah Colker (BRAZIL), David Dawson (UK/ GERMANY), Neil Ieremia (NEW ZEALAND),  Lorenzo Rennie Harris (USA), Pontius Lidberg (SWEDEN)Liz Lerman (USA),  Ashely Lobo (INDIA)Hans Van Manen ,posthumous (NETHERLANDS),  Arsen Mehrabyan (ARMENIA)Krzysztof Pastor (POLAND)Stephen Petronio (USA)Rinana Raz (ISRAEL), Amelia Rudolph (USA)Toru Shimazaki (JAPAN), Christian Spuck (GERMANY), Jo Stromgren (NORWAY),  Ea Torrado (PHILIPPINES),  Osnel Delgado Wambrug (CUBA)Yuan Yuan Wang (CHINA)

 


 

STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD

BUSINESS EXECUTIVE BOARD

 

Regina Zhirui Zou, PhD

Ballet Department Chair

Beijing Dance Academy, CHINA

 

Michael C. Lillys, President

Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Member Board of Trustees, Philadelphia  Ballet

 

Jacek Luminski, PhD

Dean and Dance Program Director

 The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, POLAND
 

 

Camilla Aquista, Secretary of the Board

Chief Content Editor and Programming Associate,

Dance ICONS, Inc.  

 

 

Assis Carreiro, MBE

Director 

 International Arts and Cultural Projects, London, UK

 

 Elaine Parsons, Treasurer

Certified Publick Accountant, CPA

 

Tobias Round,

Managing Director and Producer 

The Round Company, Ltd, London UK

 

 

 

Mattie Fenton,

Executive Director 

American College Dance Association, USA

 

 

 

 
   

 

STAFF

 Vladimir Angelov, Founder and Executive Director

Charles Scheland, Programing and Content Manager

Camilla Acquista, Executive Editor-in-Chief

Asami Seki, International Network Coordintor

Theo Kossenas, Director of Web Development and IT Manager

Elaine Parson, Bookkeeping and Accounting

CharleneDouglas, Bussness Services and Taxation

 

 

CONTENT TEAM:

 

Dance Journalists and Contributing Writers:

Lisa Traiger (USA), Christina Lindenmuth (Australia), Jessica Teague (UK/Germany), Laura Chappelle (France),
 Therese Ruth Howard, (USA), Maggie Foyer, (UK & Europen Union);  Althea Skinner (South America), Roslyn Sulcas (USA, UK)

 

ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM AND VOLUNTEERS:

 

Kora Alfonseca, Graphic Design;  Paul Gordon Emerson, Dance Art Photography

Julie Agurkis, Senior Researcher & US Databasing

Jessica Acolin, Researcher; Alison Eigsti , Researcher; Cecily Lo, Researcher