Roster of Performing Artists
Paula Clancey: Paula has been a teacher of modern and other dance for two decades. She runs the Anacortes Youth Arts Dance Studio. Paula was for many years a well-regarded dancer, working with Bill Evans and other dance luminaries. She has worked with LAIS for many years. In past years she worked with:
- Pam Torgerson and Jill Strainer-Wallis and 46 kindergarten students. Students learned arts vocabulary, concepts, skills and techniques, and to express their ideas and feeling through movement. They performed different kinds of movements - fast, slow, large, small, shapes, space, forms, gallops, walks, jumps, crawls, hops and rolls. They moved safely through space, responded to signals and moved spontaneously to music, applied these elements to perform a creative work. They practiced appropriate audience behavior, and learned that art concepts occur in other areas such as literary arts, science and math.
Paula has many cross-curricular activities and encourages teachers to contact her to plan jointly.
Glynna Goff-Eloe: Glynna has an extensive background in theatre and dance, graduating from both the Professional Actors Conservatory and Chapman University in Orange, California. Performing for over 35 years, she has also been a member of such companies as the Professional Actors Theatre Company and Benita Bike’s DanceArt.
Glynna teaches a variety of workshops based on the focus of the curriculum. Study of social dance forms, such as ballroom, American, English and Irish Ceili set dances, and even Elizabethan dance open windows of understanding on social customs within a culture and time period. Creative movement and performance dance workshops offer unique opportunities to explore different ways for expression and communication.
Lorrie Steele: Lorie has taught, choreographed and directed dance concerts for private and non-profit dance schools for the past 25 years. She has also worked with untrained dancers in many local theater productions. In the 2004-2005 school year she worked with:
- Larry Verbano’s Challenge class. Lorrie assisted the students with their own movement ideas and also worked on stage presentation for their year-end performance.
Ali Marcus: is a nationally touring songwriter. For the past decade or so, she has written her own songs, produced her own records, run her own record label, and talked about herself in the third person. A classically-trained pianist, she started a band in the 8th grade, learned guitar from her bandmate, picked up a harmonica somewhere along the way, and spends most of her time writing and singing in venues around America. She has shared the stage with Tom Paxton and Dar Williams, among others, and is a folk singer to the core. She has a double degree in Music and Modern Studies from the University of Virginia, and if there were one to be had, a PhD in Songs to Sing Around a Campfire.
- Possible LAIS residencies:
- Harmonica
- Music Reviewing
- Stealing Folk Music (the re-writing process of the folk tradition (woody guthrie, bob dylan, nirvana, etc...)
- Partners in Songwriting (Carole King/Jerry Goffin, or Lennon/McCartney, etc...) - good for shortage of guitars