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Adjudicators
Elizabeth Zimmer
Elizabeth Zimmer was the senior editor at the Village Voice, handling
dance, from 1992 through August 2006. She has written for the Voice,
Metro, Dance
Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications. She edited
Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones
and Arnie Zane (Station Hill Press, 1989), and text editor of Envisioning
Dance on Film and Video (Routledge, 2002). She has studied many forms
of dance, and performed in the work of Joshua Fried, Jamie Cunningham & Tina
Croll, Christopher Williams, Kriota Willberg, and other downtown artists,
as well as writing and performing her own show, North Wing. Her “Kamikaze
Writing Workshop” has been a feature at Dance Critics Association
conferences and other gatherings since 1993. A graduate of Bennington College,
she holds a master’s degree from the State University of New York
at Stony Brook. She has taught at SUNY Stony Brook, Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles, the University of California at Riverside,
the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design, and Capilano College in North Vancouver, British
Columbia, as well as lecturing in various cities in Taiwan, in Taormina,
and in Miami, Berkeley, Columbus, and other cities across the United
States.
Douglas R Nielsen
Former member of the Batsheva Dance Company in Israel and Gus Solomons,
Pearl Lang, and Paul Sanasardo dance companies in New York. Performed
solo works by Viola Farber, Beverly Blossom, Anna Sokolov, Murray Louis
and
Charles Weidman. Established Douglas Nielsen Dances in 1982. Internationally
known teacher, choreographer, peformer, director. Residencies abroad
include the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (Angers/France),
L'ecole-Atelier
Rudra Bejart Lausanne (Switzerland), Dansens Hus (Copenhagen), The Beijing
Dance Adademy (China), University of Chile (Santiago), Palucca Schule
(Dresden, Germany), University of the Americas (Mexico). Associated
with The American
Dance Festival since 1987 at Duke University and in China, Korea, Russia,
Czech Republic, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Received the 2003 Lester Horton Dance Educator Award for excellence in
teaching (presented by Donald McKayle). Adjudicator for The American
College Dance Festival in Virginia, Texas, Idaho, Kansas, Connecticut,
and California.
Distinguished panelist for the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards,
The National Association for the Advancement of the Arts, the Los Angeles
County Arts Commission and the McKnight Foundation. Recipient of four
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Performing
arts fellowship
with the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Helanius J. Wilkins
Helanius J. Wilkins, a native of Lafayette LA, is an award winning choreographer,
performance artist, and instructor based in Washington DC. He is the
Founder & Artistic Director of EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (EDT), DC’s
premier all male contemporary dance ensemble of predominately African
American men. He is a 2006 Recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts Local Dance Commissioning Project, an award he also
received in 2002; and the 2001 Metro DC Dance “Emerging Choreographer” award.
In addition to performing the works of several internationally recognized
choreographers including Robert Moses, Troy Powell, Joy Kellman, and
Kevin Wynn, he has enjoyed creating, presenting, and receiving commissions
for choreography throughout the United States and abroad. Foundations
and organizations including The Meredith Foundation, Regional Arts Commission,
and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities have supported Wilkins'
work. Wilkins is a much sought-after instructor who teaches professional
and pre-professional dancers, as well as students of various ages and
skill levels. He has served as an adjudicator and master teacher at American
College Dance Festivals in 2004 and 2005. He is currently on faculty
at dance centers in the DC metropolitan area, and most recently completed
a guest artist residency at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).
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