Past Members
LIONEL POPKIN |
Board Member, 2021 - 2023
Lionel Popkin (choreographer/performer) has had his choreography presented nationally and internationally at numerous venues including DanspaceProject and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, The Getty Museum, REDCAT, and Highways in Los Angeles, the Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Series, On the Boards in Seattle, the Wilma Theater and Philadelphia Dance Projects in Philadelphia, Sushi Performance in San Diego, Dance Place in DC, The Place Theater in London, and the Guongdong Modern Dance Festival in Guongzhou China. From 1999-2000 Lionel was a Choreographer-In-Residence at the Susan Hess Studio in Philadelphia, PA and he has been commissioned by San Diego’s Lower Left Performance Collective, the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, Carolyn Hall, and Nejla Yatkin. As a dancer, Lionel has performed throughout the US and Europe in the companies of Trisha Brown (2000-2003), Terry Creach (1996-2000), and Stephanie Skura (1993-1996). He has received grants from the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund and Forth Fund, the National Dance Project Touring Subsidy, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs, the Santa Monica Artist Fellowship, the Puffin Foundation, the Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative through the Jerome Foundation, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the New York State Music Fund, and the Durfee Foundation. He has served on the faculty of Bates College, London’s Laban Centre, Sarah Lawrence College, Temple University and the University of Maryland. Lionel Popkin is the Chair of the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA, and Professor of Choreography and Performance. He is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique. lionelpopkin.org
DAVID ROUSSÈVE |
Awards Jury Captain, 2018 - 2023
Board Member, 2018-2022
David Roussève, a choreographer/writer/director/performer, is a magna cum laude grad of Princeton University and a Guggenheim Fellow. His dance/theater company REALITY has performed throughout the UK, Europe, South America, and the U.S., including three commissions for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. Roussève has created 17 commissions for other companies and three short films, the most recent short screened at festivals in eleven countries and received ten awards including four for “Best Film.” Roussève has been published in collections by Bantam Press and Rutledge Press, and was twice a Fellow in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter Lab. Roussève just completed Twit, a feature screenplay based on his 2014 dance/theater work Stardust. In 2017, Twit was a finalist in two “Best Screenplay” categories at the Nashville Film Festival and a semi-finalist for the Los Angles Outfest Screenwriter’s Lab. Among other’s, Roussève’s awards include a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Award, three Horton Awards, the CalArts/Herb Alpert Award in Dance, a Creative Capital Fellowship and seven consecutive NEA fellowships. At UCLA, Roussève is Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. For the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture he has served as Associate Dean (2014-15), Acting Dean (2015), and Interim Dean (2015-17). davidrousseve.com
GEORGE LUGG |
Board President, 2018 - 2022
George has been working in the field of contemporary dance and performance for more than 25 years. He was on the founding team that launched the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and served as Associate Director of REDCAT for a decade. Through REDCAT’s annual New Original Works Festival and ongoing Studio series, he presented more than 250 new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles artists. He was an Associate Producer for two editions of RADAR L.A. and served as Hub Site Representative for the National Dance Project (2012–14), Lead Program Consultant in the Performing Arts for the Creative Capital Foundation (2011–2012), and on the U.S. curatorial team for the National Performance Network’s Performing Arts Asia Project (2011) and Performing Americas Project (2009–10). georgelugg.com