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GUS SOLOMONS JR (artistic director/choreographer) - dances (guest with Martha Clarke, et al), makes dances (Solomons Company/Dance, Ailey II, et al), teaches dance (Master Teacher at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, and worldwide), writes about dance for cheap-papers.com at https://cheap-papers.com/ (Dance Magazine, Gay City News, DanceInsider.com); loves pockets, puzzles, and structures (architecture degree from M.I.T.); danced in companies of Pearl Lang, Donald McKayle, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham; bicycles everywhere. He created the leading role in Donald Byrd/The Groupís nationally acclaimed The Harlem Nutcracker. He also created a dancing role in Martha Clarke's production of The Magic Flute at Glimmerglass Opera and Canadian Opera, and danced recently as a guest artist with Complexions. Solomons received a 1999-2000 New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. "Bessie") for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. In 2001, Solomons was the first recipient of the annual Robert A. Muh Award for a distinguished artist/alumnus of M.I.T. †In 2004, he was honored by receiving the American Dance Festivalís Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. †During the 2022-7 season, he was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.
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CARMEN DELAVALLADE (dancer) first appeared in NYC with the Lester Horton Dance Theatre and subsequently made her Broadway debut with Alvin Ailey in House of Flowers. She has appeared in a number of films for Twentieth Century Fox including Carmen Jones (1954), in which she danced with Ailey and Jack Cole. As a dancer she has had ballets created for her by Alvin Ailey, Lester Horton, John Butler, Glen Tetley, Agnes De Mille, Geoffrey Holder, Donald McKayle, Louis Johnson and Tally Beatty. She was a principle dancer with the Metropolitan Opera, a guest artist with American Ballet Theater and a soloist with the NYC Opera. At Yale she taught movement classes for actors and eventually became a member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard. She has choreographed for Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joyce Trisler, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a number of operas including the landmark production of Porgy & Bess at the Metropolitan Opera House. She continues to do stage and film projects, such as Oscar Wildes Salome with Al Pacino, and in John Sayles film Lone Star. She received the Dance Magazine Award in 1964 and an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1994. Carmen received a 2000 New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. "Bessie") for Sustained Achievement in Performance.
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DUDLEY WILLIAMS (dancer) after graduating from The Performing Arts High School in 1957, he attended The Juilliard School of Music and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. He performed with the companies of Alvin Ailey, May O'Donnell, Martha Graham, Donald McKayle, Eleo Pomare, Hava Kohav, Talley Beatty, and the Coyote Dance Company. He has made numerous solo appearances on television both at home and abroad. He is a sought-after teacher, most recently at The Juilliard School and the Martha Graham School. In 1994 the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrated his thirtieth anniversary with them by presenting him in signature works. He has been honored with the Dance Magazine Award (1997) and the 2001 Dance Award for Longevity & Distinguished Contributions to Dance by the International Association of Blacks in Dance. Dudley recently retired from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater after celebrating his 40th year with the company.
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KEITH SABADO (dancer) was born in Seattle and moved to NYC in 1978. From 1980-1984 he performed with several New York modern dance companies, among them the companies of Pearl Lang, Pauline Koner, Hannah Kahn, Jim Self and Rosalind Newman. From 1984 to 1994 he was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group, and in 1988 he received a New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. "Bessie") for his work with that group. From 1994 to 1997 and again in 2001 he was a member of the White Oak Dance Project. In 2000 he danced with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company during its 25th anniversary year. Most recently he has performed with Richard Daniels, PARADIGM and johannes wieland. He has also danced leading roles in operas directed by Peter Sellars and Martha Clarke. Keith is currently on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.
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HOPE CLARKE (dancer) was in Bernsteins cast of West Side Story. She went on to play lead roles on Broadway in Grind, Dont Bother Me I Cant Cope, Purlie, and Hallelujah Baby, and Off-Broadway in The Reckoning, House of Flowers, On Last Look, Othello, Raisin In The Sun, Dark Of The Moon, Time Slips and The Vagina Monologues. Her starring role in The Beautiful La Salles won her an AUDELCO Award nomination for Best Actress in 1991. In 1992, she earned a Tony nomination for best choreography for the Broadway hit Jellys Last Jam, and went on to receive the Dramalogue Award, Joseph Calloway Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the NAACP Image Award. She danced with Katherine Dunham, Talley Beatty, Louis Johnson, George Faison, and was a principal with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Hope has appeared in Hill Street Blues, Threes Company, The Jeffersons, Hart to Hart, New York Undercover, Sex In The City, and others. She co-starred in the film A Piece Of The Action and A Book Of Numbers. Hope has directed Cosi fan Tutti, The Medium, The Telephone, La Sevra Padrona, and an acclaimed production of Porgy & Bess for the Houston Grand Opera and Opera Ebony (Finland). She directed/choreographed John Henry Redwoods The Gathering (New Professional Theater), and Hallelujah Baby (York Theater). With writer/director George C. Wolf she has created dance and staging for Spunk, The Colored Museum, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Tempest, and The Odyssey. Hope recently received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Choreography for the Broadway hit Caroline, or Change. She will be choreographing the revival of Hallelujah Baby.
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VALDA SETTERFIELD, British born dancer/actor has worked with: JoAnne Akalaitis, Woody Allen, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Caryl Churchill, Merce Cunningham, Graciela Daniele, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Brian DePalma, Ain Gordon, David Gordon, Ivo van Hove, Don Mischer, Marie Rambert, Yvonne Rainer, Donald Saddler, Michael Sexton, James Waring, Robert Wilson and Mark Wing-Davey. She has worked at: BAM, NYTW, DTW, PS 122, Danspace Project, Soho Rep, The Public, A.R.T., A.C.T., Adirondack Theatre Festival and Mark Taper Forum. She has received an OBIE for The Family Business and Bessie for Outstanding Acheivement. She has been a member of the Pick Up Performance Company(S) since its inception.
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MICHAEL BLAKE is a New Jersey native. He received his early ballet and modern dance training from Rutgers University and Purchase College. Mr. Blake began his dance career in the Murray Louis Dance Company where he danced from 1982-1984. In 1985 Mr. Blake was the manager of Studio Dancin'; a dance studio based in Osaka Japan. In 1986 he joined the Jose Limon Dance Company dancing principal roles until 1991. Mr. Blake danced with Donald Byrd/The Group from 1991-1998. He has also danced with Martita Goshen Earthworks, David Rousseve Reality, Joyce Trisler Danscompany, Senta Driver, Neo Labos, 40Up and Paradigm. Mr. Blake has appeared on stage in the Broadway national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Lenny and the Heartbreakers, Cab Calloways Cotton Club Review, the Supper Club (NYC), and the films The Adventures of Cri Cri and Unsettled Dreams. Mr. Blake has taught numerous workshops in the United States, Asia, and Europe. He has held faculty positions at Purchase College, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, Rutgers University and at various dance studios in New York including Peridance Center, Dancespace, Limon Studio and Steps Studio. Mr. Blake is currently on the Theater Arts faculty at Rutgers University and HB Studios in New York City teaching Movement for Actors. He holds a BA in Dance from Empire State College and an MFA in dance from Purchase College.
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