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Please join us for an intimate evening at the Telluride Transfer Warehouse with Valerie Madonia and Kim Epifano for the reveal of a site-specific dance theatre piece they've created through a month-long artist residency at Telluride Transfer Warehouse.
The project was made possible by the Telluride Artist Fund, a program of Telluride Arts.
Masks, sanitization, and social distancing will be strictly adhered to.
Valerie Madonia danced professionally for more than 20 years with the National Ballet of Canada (under the direction of Alexander Grant), at American Ballet Theatre (under Mikhail Baryshnikov) and at the Joffrey Ballet (under Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino). She has had the honor of choreographing and directing productions all over the world, performing in the grandest opera houses and in outdoor venues such as the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, the Alhambra in Grenada, Spain and now, Telluride's Transfer Warehouse!
Kim Epifano has a 35-year history as a choreographer, director, performer, vocalist, educator, producer and curator. She founded Epiphany Dance Theater in 1997 and serves as its Artistic Executive Director based in San Francisco. Founder of the popular San Francisco Trolley Dances. She has received residencies at Paul Dresher Studio ARC, Djerassi, Margaret Jenkins CHIME mentorship. A recent Bogliasco Fellowship in Italy. Epifano received a Gerbode Choreographer Commissioning Award for “Last Blue Couch in the Sky” presented and produced by Yerba Buena Center For the Arts. It was nominated for an Isadora Duncan award in Choreography, adding to her 4 past awards. She co-directed the Mudd Butt Mystery Theater Troupe and Mudd Butt International with the Telluride Academy. Epifano has taught Modern Dance Technique, Contact Improvisation and many other forms of movement, theater and vocalization most recently at Mills College, UC Berkeley, ODC in SF. and at Le Murate Pac in Florence/Milan Italy. She holds an MFA in choreography from UC Davis.
Lighting design by Tree Priest, Night Circus Lighting.