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Dennis Nahat

Performing Artist: Choreographer, Dancer

Dancer, choreographer and artistic director American, born in Detroit, Michigan on February 20, 1946… Dennis Nahat studied dance at the Juilliard School and at the School of American Ballet in New York. He made his debut with the City Center Joffrey Ballet in 1965. Between 1968 and 1971 he was principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, where it premiered The River (1970) by Alvin Ailey and Texas Fourth (1976) of Agnes de Mille. Soon it began as a choreographer, and his first creations include: Brahms Quintet (Brahms, 1969), Monumentum (Tchaikovsky, 1969), Ontogeny (Husa, 1971), Some Times (Ogerman, 1972) and Mendelssohn Symphony (Mendelssohn, 1973). He worked for the London Festival Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet, this last group played in the IX Festival international de Danse de Paris his Brahms Quintet. In 1974 he was appointed resident choreographer and artistic director of the Cleveland/San José Ballet, a company which he himself had founded with Ian Horvarth. Subsequently he served as artistic director of the group as well as the associated school. Among his latest creations for this formation is Blue Suede Shoes (Presley, 1995) and Go Daddy-0 (Duncan, 1998). The last time that you took to a stage was in 1994 to participate in the revival of the ballet The Overcoat, created in 1990 by Flemming Flindt for Rudolf Nureyev.

Ann Neelon

Literary Arts: Poet, Writer

Ann Neelon is a native of Boston and a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and of Holy Cross College. She has been a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa, as well as a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her poems and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Pequod, Poetry East, Manoa, Michigan Quarterly Review, and other magazines. She lives with her husband and son in western Kentucky, where she is Assistant Professor of English at Murray State University. Her collection of poems, Easter Vigil, won the 1995 Anhinga Prize for Poetry.

Minh Duc Nguyen

Literary Arts: Writer; Visual Artist: Filmmaker

Minh Duc Nguyen attended UC Berkeley, where he discovered his love for creative writing. He had several short stories published in prestigious literary journals and anthologies. Tale of Apricot was nominated for the O. Henry Award. In graduate film school at USC, Minh received the Jeffrey Jones Scholarship for excellence in screenwriting. His thesis film, Sunshine, inspired a favorable review in LA Weekly and was enthusiastically received at the Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Seattle Asian Film Festivals. For the past several years, Minh has worked as an editor for a variety of television shows that have aired on MTV, ABC, NBC, Bravo, Lifetime, USA, Spike, E!, Style, HGTV, Oxygen, The Travel Channel, Sundance Channel, and SOAPnet. Touch will mark his feature-length directorial debut.

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