grand marshals

Charles Reinhart
2011 Grand Marshall

Charles L. Reinhart has worked as a producer, manager, festival director, consultant and administrator in the arts since 1955. President of the American Dance Festival (ADF) since 1968, he was Co-Director with the late Stephanie Reinhart from 1993–2002. Mr. Reinhart is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Theatre Development Fund (TDF), where he is the Dance Chair. In addition to serving on dance panels for the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, he was the U.S. representative of the International Theatre Institute’s dance committee. He has produced many dance events in New York City and has written articles for The New York Times, Dance Magazine and the North Carolina Medical Journal. Mr. Reinhart has been the recipient of numerous domestic and international awards for his lifetime achievement in dance, service to the arts and production.

Joseph Harrington
2011 Grand Marshall

Joseph Harrington has been taking dance classes since he was three years old. When at home in Ohio Joseph trains at the "Just Off Broadway" dance studio in Mt. Carmel, OH and with the Cincinnati Ballet. He is a student at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in downtown Cincinnati. He started performing in Billy Elliot last October and loves all areas of dance, but will usually say that ballet is his favorite.

Kat Wildish
2011 Grand Marshall

Kat Wildish is a New York City master ballet and pointe teacher currently on faculty at The Ailey Extension Program. She performed with New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and numerous international companies including Zurich Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and The Eglevsky Ballet. She is an ABT® Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and has been teaching over 35 years. A Ford Foundation Scholarship winner, Kat is also Artistic Director of the semiannual Performing in NY Showcases & will produce the first annual NYC Festival of Dance Schools June 15-16, 2011.

Amy Marshall
2010 Grand Marshal
Amy Marshall

Performer, choreographer, professor and executive director Amy Marshall's performance affiliations include Paul Taylor, David Parsons, H. T. Chen and Dancers, Cortez and Company. She founded Amy Marshall Dance Company in 2000. The company's mission is to embody life's complexity and the pure elation it imparts to the world.

DJ Jellybean Benitez
2010 Grand Marshal
DJ Jellybean Benitez

Internationally renowned DJ Jellybean Benitez has produced and/or remixed over one-hundred "Top 10" hits and more than thirty-five #1 records for legendary artists such as Madonna, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and others. He has composed themes for hit TV programs including The Ricki Lake Show and PBS's American Family, as well as films Carlito's Way and Species. Benitez's weekly syndicated mixshow reaches millions of listeners worldwide. In 2005 he was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame.

Elizabeth Zimmer
2010 Grand Marshal
Elizabeth Zimmer

Elizabeth Zimmer writes for Metro, Ballet Review, and other publications. She is the editor of Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane (Station Hill Press, 1989). She has studied many forms of dance, and performed in works of Joshua Fried, Jamie Cunningham & Tina Croll, and Christopher Williams. Zimmer has lectured across the U.S., Canada, Taiwan, and in Italy.

Ellenore Scott
2010 Grand Marshal
Ellenore Scott

Ellenore Scott most recently won America's heart and votes with her dynamic performances on SYTYCD. In addition to appearing on the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, she has danced with numerous dance companies including The Von Howard Project. As a choreographer, she assisted Earl Mosley in setting "Saddle Up!" on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Scott received Honorable Mention from National Foundation for the Advancement of Arts and is an honors graduate from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School (the "FAME" school).

Don Campbell “Campbellock”
2009 Grand Marshal, Representing Urban Dance ("Locking")
Don Campbell "Campbellock"

Don Campbell "Campbellock" (Dance Innovator) The creator and originator of Locking or Campbellocking a dance art form with the improvisational steps called the locks , created in the nightclubs of Los Angeles in the early 1970s. This dance and subculture quickly caught on and was soon the rage of Soul Train. Through out the 70's this was the most influential group in street dance history.

Morocco (Carolina Varga Dinicu)
2009 Grand Marshal, Representing Middle Eastern Dance
http://www.casbahdance.org

Morocco (Carolina Varga Dinicu) is considered the leading performer & authority in her field. One of the first inducted into the AAMED Mideastern Dance Hall of Fame. In 2005 MECDA voted her their Humanitarian Award for her "body of work" over a lifetime in furthering and enriching Near and Mid-Eastern music and dance & in 2006 the Isis Foundation gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award in Ethnic Dance from the Near and Middle East. Morocco created the Casbah Dance Experience. She's spent over 48 years trying to find, recover, preserve and present them before they disappear, due to modernization and/or fundamentalism.

Luis Salgado
2009 Grand Marshal, Representing Broadway Dance
http://www.luissalgado.com/

Luis Salgado (Choreographer) is the Latin Assistant Choreographer of the Tony Award Broadway Musical, In The Heights. Luis is the founder/director of R. Evolucion Latina -- DARE TO GO BEYOND!, a collective of artists and activists committed to empowering the artistic community in order to inspire growth within the Latino Community.