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Gayle Madeira began her performing career
with the Loudoun Ballet Company in Virginia at the age of five. She graduated from
Purchase College, SUNY with a B.F.A. (cum laude) in performance and
choreography and a faculty award.
In her professional career, she
has performed with many companies including: Gleich Contemporary
Ballet, Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, David Gordon’s
Pick-Up Dance Company, Antonio Ramos, Thingsezisee’m Dance Theater, Shapiro &
Smith, DanceCompass, Phffft Dance Theater, D.D. Dorvillier and
Matthew Nash Ballet, among others. She has also performed the
Can-Can with choreography by Denise Dalfo-Zay on Bastille Day at
Restaurant Florent in New York City since 1993 and a variety of
other burlesque dances in the same venue, some of which were her own
choreography.
Her choreography has been produced
in numerous venues including: Dunois Theater (Paris, France), Spoleto
Festival USA, Here Theater, Joyce SoHo, Ohio Theater, PACE
University and SUNY Purchase. Recently she has been working with well-known theater director Sam
Helfrich on a variety of projects including "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"
(Opera Boston), "The Transparency of Val"
(New York City), "In a Pig’s Valise" (Bard College), and "Mirandolina"
(Manhattan School of Music).
Primary studies include: Janet Panetta
(ballet), the Merce Cunningham studio (modern), Cyrus Khambatta/Wendell
Beavers (improvisation/body mind centering), Nicolas Rodriguez
(salsa), Jeni Breen (Argentine tango).
Teaching experience
includes: Merce Cunningham Studio in New York City, professional
ballet in New York City and Virginia, modern technique at the
following institutions: Bard College, American Dance Festival (Seoul, Korea and Durham, North Carolina), Duke University, Dunois
Theater (Paris, France), University of Massachusetts,
Baltimore School for the Arts, Lyceum Summer Program for
the Arts (Virginia). Gayle has also taught various dance workshops
in Washington DC, Pennsylvania and New York City and body language and improvisation nationally and
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“The dancers Mr. Grenke has assembled in his Thingsezisee’m Dance Theater are
versatile and virtuosic.”
Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
“When Grenke and his colleagues were dancing, we were riveted.”
Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice
“It must be noted that Shapiro and Smith’s dancers, like themselves, are
simply extraordinary. Jeff Curtis, Kelly Drummond, Gayle Madeira and Edward
Winslow. They shape the couple’s craft into pure artistry with such sleight of
hand and foot that we barely notice the dances’ difficulty.”
The Raleigh News & Observer
“David Gordon and Valda Setterfield, now in late middle age, continue to
perform alongside their attractive ensemble of six—Tadej Brdnik, Tricia Brouk,
Scott Cunningham, Gayle Madeira and Karen Graham—all in their prime.”
Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
“Mr. Nash also assembled five dancers of considerable though quiet presence
and tumbled them into open space. Each has a solo. Two form a couple. And by the
end of their resonant play they have come to resemble mystic voyagers.”
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
“Notable standout among the dancers is the sprightly Gayle Madeira.”
Diane Vivona, The Dance Insider
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