Babatunji Johnson-Guest Artist
Babatunji is a dance artist, choreographer, and creative innovator based out of San Francisco. Over the past 8 years, Babatunji has developed a unique movement language, blending his background in ballet, contemporary, breaking, and hip hop. For over a decade he has worked with one of the greatest American choreographers, Alonzo King. As a freelance dancer, Babatunji has worked with Post:ballet, Ishida Dance Company, SFDanceworks, tinypistol and Ballare Carmel. Additionally, his work for film includes features in Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting on Starz, as well as Misty Copeland’s short art film Flower.
Tim Fox- Guest Artist
Mr. Fox began his training at the age of nine in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with Moscelyne Larkin and Roman Jasinski who danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He studied on full scholarships at American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and The School of American Ballet (SAB) where he was personally asked by George Balanchine to join The New York City Ballet. While dancing at NYCB, Tim worked under the direction of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Peter Martins. He also danced as a Principal Dancer with the San Francisco Ballet under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. Tim is grateful to have had teachers like Stanley Williams, Andre Kramarevsky and Suki Schorer. Tim performed principal roles in Divertimento #15, Symphony in C, Four Temperaments, Midsummer Night's Dream, Serenade (George Balanchine), Fancy Free, Four Seasons (original cast), and Interplay (Jerome Robbins), Romeo and Juliet (Michael Smuin), Val Caniporoli as well as Forgotten Land by Jiri Kylian and Sunset by Paul Taylor.
Stephen Agosto- Guest Artist
STEPHEN AGOSTO is an award-winning producer, director and educator currently serving as Director of Theater at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA. Most recently, Stephen was Line Producer at two-time TONY Award winning theater, Goodspeed Musicals where he produced five world premieres and two Broadway transfers. Previously, Stephen worked for Paper Mill Playhouse as a member of the TONY Award winning artistic team that shepherded such new musicals as Newsies (Broadway transfer) and Bandstand (Broadway transfer) to name a few. In addition to his long career in commercial theatre, Stephen has simultaneously worked as an educator and arts education advocate. In January 2017, Stephen drafted the Musical Theater Common Prescreen, a universal set of guidelines for college entrance that now boasts over 100 participating Musical Theatre programs and impacts over 20,000 students annually. Additionally, Stephen annually partners with online arts platform, Acceptd, to facilitate and host national round table discussions on equity in collegiate arts training. For 10 years he served as an adjunct Professor of Theatre at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and is a frequent expert instructor for universities across the country in the area of Song Interpretation and Performance. Stephen taught at the prestigious Paper Mill Playhouse Summer Conservatory for 12 years and served as Conservatory Director in his last three. Beginning at age eight, Stephen performed professionally as both a dancer and in musical theatre. Most notably he was seen in tours of Beauty and the Beast (2nd National) and Godspell (2001). Stephen holds a BFA in Acting from DePaul University and a Graduate Certificate from The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre.
Tatum Quiñónez- Guest Artist
Tatum Quiñónez grew up in Phoenix, Arizona where she began her training at Master Ballet Academy. In 2016, she continued with her training at Ballet West Academy and the BWA trainee program. She spent her summers at Ballet Arizona, Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet West, and Oregon Ballet Theatre. Quiñónez then joined Oregon Ballet Theatre’s second company, OBT2, in 2019. She has performed works by Alonzo King, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, Willam Christensen, Gerald Arpino, Christopher Stowell, James Canfield, and LeeWei Chao. Quiñónez joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet in 2021, where she is currently a company artist.
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