Gina Bolles Sorensen

completed her MFA in Dance at the University of Oregon in 2008, and her BA in Mass Media Communication Studies and Political Science at UCLA in 2003. She has danced with modern dance companies in New York, San Francisco, Oregon, and San Diego, including Stephan Koplowitz’s The Grand Step Project, Kirstin E. Williams’ Strong Current Dance Company, Rita Honka Dance, the collaborative High Release Dance, and with countless independent choreographers. She taught at the University of Oregon for three years as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Dance, and has taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, and at the American College Dance Festival in Missoula, Montana. In 2007, Gina was awarded a Gary E. Smith Summer Research Grant and a Center for Study of Women in Society Research Grant to study the classical Indian dance Bharatanatyam in Bangalore, India. In 2008, she was awarded the Georgianne Teller Singer Dean’s Fellowship in recognition of her work as a graduate student and instructor in Dance at the University of Oregon, where her MFA research aimed to identify target learners for imagery cues in dance classrooms, and to develop strategies for non-narrative concert design. An excerpt of her thesis entitled “Imagery Ability, Imagery Use, and Learning Style: An Exploratory Study” was published by the Journal of Dance Education in Spring 2009. Since returning home to San Diego in 2008, Gina has studied the art of Dance for the Camera with Ellen Bromberg, and danced for such choreographers as Yolande Snaith, Jean Isaacs, Elfi Schaefer-Schafroth, Elizabeth Swallow, and Alicia Peterson Baskel. In addition to co-directing somebodies dance theater with her husband, Kyle Sorensen, Gina has taught Dance History at the University of California San Diego and Dance in World Cultures at San Diego State University. She currently teaches dance at the Chula Vista School for Creative and Performing Arts, and at the Coronado School of the Arts, and yoga around San Diego county.

Kyle Sorensen

earned his BA cum laude in Dance at the University of Oregon, where he was recognized with the Dance Achievement Award in Recognition of Undergraduate Excellence as a Developing Artist. This award is presented to an undergraduate “demonstrating, through active investigation, intellectual growth as a choreographer.” While a student at the University of Oregon, Kyle was a member of the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company where he was chosen to perform Susan Marshall’s signature work, “Arms”. He has danced professionally in Los Angeles, Oregon, Washington, and San Diego, and his choreography has been exhibited and awarded special honors in national and international venues. In 2003, the pre-professional company that Kyle co-directed, All That Jazz, was invited by the Austrian government to participate in the prestigious Tanzsommer Festival in Austria. There, his choreographic work was featured and accompanied by his own original score. During the summer of 2008, Kyle studied with the renowned Ellen Bromberg at the annual Dance for the Camera workshop in Victoria, Canada and was featured in the dance films of four dance filmmakers. In the summer of 2009, Kyle was awarded a scholarship to attend the San Diego Dance Theater Summer Intensive and performed in works by Jean Isaacs and Gabe Masson. Kyle is currently an MFA candidate in Dance Theatre at the University of California, San Diego. His current research at UCSD involves an investigation of choreography, technology, metaphysics, politics, and humor in collaboration with sound and new media designers. He recently served as the Assistant Choreographer to Yolande Snaith for UCSD’s production of “Sexual Selection: Darwin and Shakespeare Ponder Love.” Kyle currently teaches dance at the University of California, San Diego, and at San Diego City College.