GUEST ARTISTS

To promote dance in the Piedmont Triad, Sidelong Dance Co. has presented performances by a number of guest artists. These artists have been dancers, choreographers, and poets, and have come from the Piedmont Triad, Washington DC, and New York. Together, they have added a great diversity to Sidelong Dance Co. programs.

	Stephanie Guelzow (Lighting Design) has her MEd in Theater from University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has been the lighting designer for productions of Into the Woods, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and The Actor's Nightmare. Stephanie was the Director of Campus Lighting at Concordia University and was the Lighting Coordinator for the 1992 LCMS Youth Gathering in the New Orleans Superdome. She has been the Stage Manager for recent Little Theatre of Winston-Salem productions of A Few Good Men, The Fantasticks, Nunsense, Anything Goes, and Sweeney Todd. Stephanie currently teaches second grade at St. John's Lutheran School.
	Cara Hagan/87 Dance Productions performed her duet Kitchen Table in Sidelong Dance Co.'s Recall (March, 2007). She graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts. Cara's work has been seen at Miller Park in Winston-Salem, the Civic Center in Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University, the Mulberry St. Theatre, New York, and at Lincoln Center Institute.
	Lacy James performed her solo trinity in Sidelong Dance Co.'s Night/Life (Nov. 2001). She began dancing at Swarthmore College where she received a BA in Religion/English Literature. She has trained with the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco) and at the Martha Graham School. Lacy has performed with Isadora's Dance Legacy, Coyote Dancers, the Mandala project of Maureen Fleming and the Martha Graham Company's Panorama. She performs with and directs her own company Mereminne Dancers, which has appeared in Philadelphia, Germany, and several New York venues.
	Nina Lucas is an Associate Professor of Dance, Program Director and Artistic Director at Wake Forest University. She performed Brenda Daniels' solo April during Sidelong Dance Co.'s Perspectives. She received her BFA from The Ohio State University in Dance Performance. She studied at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and Martha Graham Studio in New York, and later went on to receive her MFA in Performance and Educations form the University of California Los Angeles. She has performed work by choreographers such at Shapiro and Smith, Risa Steinberg, Carol Scothorn, Ronald Brown and in the Los Angeles Art Festival's "The Dance Collective." Her teaching credits include, UCLA, Illinois State University, University of Wisconsin, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms. Lucas is the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching of dance in the State of North Carolina presented by the faculty of the school of dance at the School of the Arts in May 2000 and the Reid-Doyle Award for Excellence in Teaching for Wake Forest in February 2001.
	Shona Simpson (Poet) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and moved to the United States in 1977. She received her Ph. D. in English from Duke University in 1997, and has since taught literature and writing at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. Her poem Twinning was used for a duet of the same name which was performed by Sidelong Dance Co. in both Daydreams (Nov. 2000) and Night/Life (Nov. 2001). She is currently taking time off from teaching to be with her two daughters and to concentrate on writing. She has previously published critical work, short fiction, and poetry.
	Sister's Trousers Dance Company, under artistic director Alice Howes, emphasizes the experience of women and has a mission to educate young women and teens in the creative process of choreography and performance. The choreography deals with issues of life today; issues like race relations, gender identity, anxiety, community, and more. Sister's Trousers performs several times a year, including two formal evening-length concerts. The company brings the human element of modern dance to receptive audiences in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia and in spaces like the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Dance Place, Theater Project in Baltimore, American University, and James Madison University. Sister's Trousers was presented by Sidelong Dance Co. in the split program Double Vision (June 2001). Also, Sister's Trousers presented Sidelong Dance Co. in Interstate Dances (Washington DC, Feb. 2002).
	Barry B. Stoneking is artistic director of B Tribe, a dance/theatre/performance ensemble based in Greensboro. Stoneking's Dreaming in Color was performed in Sidelong Dance Co.'s 4/WARD (Nov. 2002). Barry Stoneking received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater from West Virginia University and his Master of Fine Arts in dance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is on the board of directors for the North Carolina Dance Alliance and serves as the director of marketing for the Greensboro Ballet. He also performs with the John Gamble Dance Theater and is on the faculty in the department of performing arts at Elon University.