Director, WCB Arts Foundation Inc.
Sarah Berges - choreographer and performer - produced her own dance works in the San Francisco Bay Area for fifteen years prior to moving to Los Angeles. While working in the Bay Area, she worked as a choreographer in the theater, garnering great reviews for her choreography in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Stravinsky's The Soldier's Story. She also created original choreography for All At One Point based on fiction by Italo Calvino. Ms. Berges' dance company, Amaranth, toured Mexico in 1988; in 1983 she produced a program of modern dance at the International Arts Festival in Amman, Jordan.
Sarah Berges' choreography is informed by a graphic sensibility bolstered by raw emotional expression. She makes ample use of many technical and stylistic influences absorbed over a lifetime of studying, performing and choreographing contemporary & ethnic dance as well as ballet.
In 2004, Sarah Berges founded Lion's Pounce Dance Theater and in March 2005 premiered "Mindscape" an hour-long work featuring an original electronic score by Steve Hopkins.
Sarah Berges has taught modern and creative dance in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles for 25 years. At present Ms. Berges teaches modern and creative dance in Santa Monica, California.
As a dance writer and critic in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah Berges published dance reviews from 1984-1986 in The Daily Cal, the Berkeley Monthly, and the Express.
Education
B.A. Theater Arts / Dance, University of California at Berkeley, 1980
M.F.A. Choreography, Pedagogy, Mills College Oakland CA, 1984
Awards
Eisner Prize - Outstanding Artist at UC Berkeley, 1976-1980
Theater Arts / Dance Department Achievement Award - Choreography, 1976-1980
Co-Artistic Director, Lion's Pounce Dance Theater
Diane has toured around the world with the Mehmet Sander Dance Company, performing at the Holland Dance Festival, and in Brazil at the Festival Internacional de Danca. She has also performed in Germany, in Switzerland at the Bollwerk/Belluard Dance Festival, in Denmark at the Kobenhavns 4 Internationale Dansefestival, and in Turkey at the Istanbul Muzik Festivali.
Diane has performed extensively in the United States, also locally at the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts Dance Series, Los Angeles Open Festival, Palm Desert Dance Under the Stars Festival, Praxis Project, Spectrum Dance in LA, and Kaleidoscope Dance Festival. She has performed with The It Squad, R Dance Company, Fred's House, young Ae Park and Dancers, J Strauss Jazz, and Marion Scott's Spirit Dances; and with choreographers such as Kai Ganado, Ron Brown, Kiha Lee, Paula Present, Janice Garrett, and currently, Sarah Berges.
Diane has taught modern, jazz, hip hop, ethnic, gymnastics and performance classes. She has also been in dance and music videos.
Presently, Diane is Co-Artistic Director of the Lion's Pounce Dance Theater. She has a degree in Graphic Design and is very proud of her husband and of her two sons, ages 18 and 19.
Courtney Trowman
Courtney Trowman discovered dance when she was five years old.
She studied first with The Dayton Ballet and was later a member of the Kettering Youth Ballet. A little time off turned into an eight year hiatus. She returned to dancing in 2003. Courtney is happy to be dancing again having realized that dance is truly her life's passion. Courtney continues to study ballet along with modern dance and tap.
Marc Chase
Marc has been a pirate most of his adult life. The opportunity to perform Tweedle Dee has Hollywood's popularization of the pirate lifestyle. Marc has found a port in the storm, a snug harbor and a new persona as Tweedle Dee "T-Dee" to his public and friends!
Henry Diltz
Henry Diltz never set out to take some of the most iconic photos of our era, it just happened. Fresh from a globe-trotting childhood, he attended colleges in Munich, West Point, then Honolulu, and later became known as a musician and founding member of the Modern Folk Quartet. This led to his many friendships with recording artists of the California rock community in the 60s and 70s. Immersed in this world he accidentally discovered a passion for photography, which turned into obsession and occupation.
“I am amazed at the accumulation of images that has resulted, simply by doing what I love to do, day after day after day,” he says. “It’s a result of being with countless people over the years, waiting at the sidelines for the moment to happen. Photography has been my passport, and I have arrived in the present, where I have always been, camera in hand. There! That says it best for me!” In October, 2006, Henry transformed himself into character actor/dancer extraordinaire, performing as Tweedle Dum in Lion’s Pounce Dance Theater’s Adventure In Wonderland: truly a man of many talents!
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