Guests

Bill Young & Dancers, established in 1988, has been presented in New York City at the Joyce Theater, DTW, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, PS 122, Movement Research, Symphony Space and the 92nd St. Y, and on repeated international tours, including performances in Austria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, Finland, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. Now an international group of artists (with recent and current dancers hailing from the US, Greece, Africa, China, Albania & Venezuela), the company has received support from the NEA, Artslink, the Mary Duke Biddle, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore, Harkness and Greenwall Foundations, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the US Information Service, The Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals.

Larry Southall was born in the Bronx, NY where he began dancing hip hop dancing in the early eighties. He received his MFA in Performance and Choreography from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Larry has danced, taught and choreographed for many local Boulder companies including the Boulder Ballet, Harambee African Dance Ensemble, Blue Moon, Motion Underground, the Longmont Symphony and Dance Theatre, and the Steamboat Springs Dance Theatre. Larry has worked as a master teacher in the guest artist series at the Dance Place in Washington DC, at Slippery Rock University, and for the American College Dance Festival in Ann Arbor, MI. His choreography has been showcased nationally in the repertory of Native Tongue Dance Theatre (Washington DC), in Unseen Shakespeare's production of Romeo, the Skeleton Dance Project in Boulder, CO, the American College Dance Festival, and the Black College Dance Exchange (Tallahassee, FL). He has choreographed and appeared as a performer with Inneract Productions, Inc. in New York City.