Guest Faculty

• Gilma Bustillo DeQuattro, Lee Provancha Day, Michel Gervais, Steven Hyde, Lorin Johnson, Alexander Kalinin (Character dance), William Lu (Modern), Colleen O'Callaghan, Lawrence Pech, Amy Rose

Gilma Bustillo DeQuattro

Gilma Bustillo was born in New York City and received her training at the Joffrey Ballet School with Meredith Baylis and later at the American Ballet Theater School.

Ms. Bustillo became a member of American Ballet Theater under the direction of Lucia Chase and later, Mikhail Baryshnikov. There she performed the roles of Myrtha in Giselle and Mercedes in Mr. Baryshnikov's staging of Don Quixote, as well as solo roles in Natalia Makarova's staging of La Bayadere and ballets by Anthony Tudor, Paul Taylor and Jerome Robbins. As Principal dancer with the Basel Ballet in Switzerland, Ms. Bustillo danced the leading roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote and the Nutcracker. Her repertoire also included works by George Balanchine, Nils Christi, Hans Van Manen and Nacho Duato. In 1990 Ms. Bustillo joined the Hamburg Ballet under the direction of John Neumeier. There she added to her repertoire the roles of the Dark Angel in George Balanchine's Serenade and Tatiana in John Cranko's full length ballet Onegin, as well as roles choreographed for her by Mr. Neumeier in Cinderella, Requiem and Fenster Zu Mozart. Since returning to the U.S., Ms. Bustillo has performed as guest artist with Pasadena Dance Theatre and DanceCorps as the Sugar Plum Fairy in their productions of The Nutcracker and as Lise in Charles Maple's staging of La Fille Mal Gardee.

Ms. Bustillo has been part of the faculty at Le Studio since 1993. She has taught at the American Ballet Theater Summer Intensive in Orange County and in New York City at the Ballet Hispanico Summer Program. She was also part-time dance faculty at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles from 1997-2000. Ms. Bustillo is also a certified American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum teacher.

Lee Provancha Day

Lee Provancha Day was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Ballet classes began at age five and continued at each location her "Air Force family" was assigned. At age 15 the family moved to North Carolina where Ms. Day was accepted into the North Carolina School of the Arts to finish her last three years of high school and study with Robert Lindgren, Sonya Tyven, Duncan Noble and others. Summers were spent touring Italy with North Carolina Dance Theatre and studying on full scholarship at School of American Ballet.

Upon graduation, Ms. Day moved to New York to continue her studies at School of American Ballet. She then joined American Ballet Theatre's junior company, Ballet Repertory Company, under the direction of Richard Englund and Gage Bush. One year later Lucia Chase offered Ms. Day a position with American Ballet Theatre. She danced with ABT for the next three years and was privileged to be in the original cast of Makarova's staging of La Bayadere as well as performing demi-soloist roles in Swan Lake, Rodeo and Lilac Garden. While in ABT Ms. Day had the opportunity to work with many world renowned choreographers and teachers as well as perform in two Live from Lincoln Center productions of Swan Lake and Giselle. She was also in the cast of Swan Lake as part of the movie Turning Point, and was invited to model in national print ads for Danskin®.

In 1976 Ms. Day joined Ballet West under the direction of Bruce Marks. Over the next ten years she danced many principal roles in full length ballets such as Swan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia and Nutcracker. She performed the 20th century world premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, of August Bournonville's Abdallah staged by Toni Lander and Bruce Marks. Bruce Marks also choreographed his full length Don Quixote for Ms. Day and her partner Bruce Caldwell. One-act choreography at Ballet West included several works of Ashton, Balanchine, Bournonville, Butler, Levans, Lichine, Loring and others. At Ballet West, Ms. Day continued her modeling for Danskin as well as being featured in TV commercials and the documentary, Backstage at Ballet West.

She has taught at University of California, Irvine, University of Utah and Brigham Young University. As well as being on the staff of the Utah Summer School of the Arts, Ms. Day has taught for Utah Regional Ballet, Ballet Aspen, School of Ballet West and Utah Ballet. Guest teaching, master classes and personal coaching have also given Ms. Day many opportunities to impart her knowledge and love of dance.

Michel Gervais

Michel Gervais is a native of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, started dancing at the age of 11. He studied with the Ida Sauvé Dance Studios, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal and the National Ballet School of Canada. Mr. Gervais has worked extensively as a performer, assistant and ballet master for choreographers David Allan and Juan Antonio. Mr. Gervais has danced for such companies as: Feld Ballet/NY, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Theatre Ballet of Canada, National Dance Theatre of Bermuda, Ontario Ballet Theatre, Sacramento Ballet, Ballet Pacifica and California Riverside Ballet. His teaching credentials include: American Ballet Theatre, London Rambert Dance Co., Hong Kong Ballet, Canadian Dance Teachers Association, Ballet Pacifica, University of California, Irvine and Riverside campuses, York University, and The National Dance Theatre of Bermuda. His choreography has been performed by: University of California, Irvine, ABT (summer intensive), Festival Ballet Theatre, California Riverside Ballet and Excalibur.

Steven Hyde

Steven Hyde began his dance training at Ballet Florida under the artistic direction of Marie Hale in 1980. Steven was invited by Artistic Director Arnold Spohr to join the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1983 as a member of the corps de ballet and quickly rose to the position of Principal dancer in 1987. In 1988 Steven was invited by Evelyn Hart to perform at the International Ballet Competition in Tokyo Japan. In 1990 he received the attention of the international ballet world as he partnered Laura Graham at the 14th International Competition in Varna, Bulgaria. Although not an official competitor, Steven nonetheless was awarded the certificate for "Excellence in Partnering." Mr. Hyde danced with the American Ballet Theatre from 1993-96, dancing many soloist and principal roles partnering Paloma Herrera, Amanda McKerrow, Julie Kent and Christina Fagundes.

In January 2000, Steven retired from dancing and joined New England Ballet Company as Ballet Master/Associate Director. Steven has also served on the faculty of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of American Ballet Theatre in 2003-04. He has taught and choreographed for American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive Program in Alabama from 2000-2003 and at Kaatsbaan's International Dance Centers Summer Intensive Program from 2004-2007 and American Ballet Intensives 2005-2007. Steven has guest taught at Cornell University, Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY and at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. In October 2006 Steven was appointed the Assistant Director of the Classical Contemporary Dance Department at the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana, CA.

Lorin Johnson

Lorin Johnson danced with the San Francisco Ballet before joining the American Ballet Theatre in New York in 1987 under the directorship of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Johnson performed at ABT until 1995, creating original roles in ballets by Ulysses Dove, Clark Tippet and Agnes DeMille, among others, and working with some of the 20th century's most influential choreographers, including Glen Tetley, Kenneth Macmillan, Twyla Tharp, and Jerome Robbins.

His choreography has been commissioned in the U.S. and abroad, and in 2003 he choreographed and produced an evening of dance at the renowned dance festival at the Fabbrica Europa in Florence, Italy. His premiere for the festival, Moto-bio: Bodies in Motion was hailed by the dance critic of Danza & Danza as "a work of extraordinary interest."

Johnson has been on faculty of the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensives program since 2004. In 2005 he directed the Ballet Pacifica Academy in Southern California. In 2006, Johnson became an Assistant Professor of Dance at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches courses in ballet technique, dance appreciation and history. Johnson has published several articles as a result of his extensive research in Moscow, Russia, and has both B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Southern California.

Alexander Kalinin (Character Dance)

Alexander Kalinin was born in Moscow, Russia and began his dancing career at the age of four with his father. Mr. Kalinin graduated from the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Moscow. He has performed and toured as a soloist in over 60 countries with the most prestigious dance companies in the former Soviet Union.

After immigrating to the United States in 1981, Mr. Kalinin has performed on stages from New York to Las Vegas, Reno, and Australia as well as throughout Southern California. He has taught dance for over 25 years in the U.S., as well as abroad. Mr. Kalinin is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Kalinin Dance Company.

William Lu (Modern)

William Lu began his training at Chapman University under the direction of Cyrus Parker-Jeannette. Throughout his training, he has worked with renowned choreographers, such as David Parsons, Doug Varone, Robert Battle, Tiffany Billings, Cyrus Parker Jeannette, Nancy Dickson-Lewis, Jenny Backhaus and Amy Bates. Upon his graduation from Chapman University, he received the Fannie Kalis Award, a prestigious award given to the graduating seniors, for his contibution in dance.

Mr. Lu has taught as a guest teacher at Golden State Ballet Summer Intensive, Torrance Cultural Arts Center, Dance Masters of America conventions, Madrona Dance School of Spectrum Dance Theatre in Seattle, Southwest Dance Movement & Acro-Sports convention and few other regional dance schools. He received national recognition, the Engman Award, for his choreographic work Mon Prison Ma Chambre at the Palm Desert's 2002 Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival. His work Jolly Lolly Holiday was presented in 2003 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and broadcasted live on the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, KCET.

Mr. Lu is currently a member of Backhausdance, and has been performing with the company since its inception in 2003. His credits include a lead in Yo-yo Ma's music video and Tiffany Billings' Idiosyncrasy. Mr. Lu has also performed as a guest artist with the Orange County Regional Ballet and the Redlands Ballet Festival Company. He was named as one of "Best Male Dancers of 2004" by the Beverly Hills Outlook and, recently, he received the 2006 Lester Horton Award For his performance in Jenny Backhaus' Exit.

Visit Mr. Lu's website at www.wldance.com.

Colleen O'Callaghan

Co-Director of the Orange County High School of the Arts Classical and Contemporary Dance Conservatory, Colleen has danced with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) under the direction of Lucia Chase and Mikhail Baryshnikov and has trained on scholarship with the schools of the Louisville Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and ABT. Before joining ABT's main company, O’Callaghan danced with ABT's Ballet Repertory Company under the direction of Richard Englund and Gage Bush.

O'Callaghan has served as an instructor for prestigious dance companies and institutions throughout the United States including University of Utah, Ballet West, California Institute of the Arts, Stanley Holden Dance Center, Westside School of Ballet, Louisville Ballet, ABT Studio Company, The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT, California State University, Long Beach and more. Additionally, O'Callaghan is co-founder and co-director of American Ballet Intensives, a company dedicated to providing pre-professional training to dance students in a positive and nurturing environment.

O'Callaghan currently holds teaching positions at South Bay Ballet and California Dance Theater. She is a certified Yoga instructor and has developed a Yoga program for children in pre-kindergarten through grade eight that has been highly successful throughout Southern California. O’Callaghan holds a bachelor’s degree in university studies from University of Utah.

Lawrence Pech

Lawrence Pech is from Denver, receiving his early classical music training in piano and voice. His first choreographic effort was in the fourth grade, to the Beatles' Something… He began studying ballet at age 14 with the Colorado Concert Ballet. At 16, he won First Prize in the Colorado Council for the Arts Choreography Competition with a piece set to Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar. The following year (Œ77), he received full scholarships to The Joffrey and American Ballet Theatre schools, the School of American Ballet, and Mudra (Maurice Bejart's Ballet of the 20th Century in Brussels).

Mr. Pech accepted a contract from ABT in 1980 directly from the artistic director, Mikhail Baryshnikov. For the next seven years, Lawrence worked with all of the great choreographic masters of our time. He danced opposite such greats as Mr. Baryshnikov, Ms. Makarova, Ivan Nagy, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Gelsey Kirkland, Cynthia Harvey, Martine Van Hamel, Kevin McKenzie, and others. He has appeared in numerous Live From Lincoln Center telecasts, and figured prominently with Baryshnikov in the movie Dancer and the Dance (BBC).

In 1986, Helgi Tomasson invited Lawrence to join the San Francisco Ballet. He worked with William Forsythe, Mark Morris, James Kudelka, David Bintley, Val Caniparoli, Mr. Tomasson and Lisa deRibere. He was promoted to Principal Dancer in 1990. In 1991, Mr. Pech was the subject of a KQED special entitled Blue Lair, a ballet about his victory over cancer. It was awarded a 1991 Emmy for Best Choreography.

In 1993, Lawrence became co-founder and Artistic Director of the Diablo Ballet. In 1996 The Lawrence Pech Dance Company was inaugurated to sold out houses and chosen as one of the resident companies of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Mr. Pech has choreographed over forty ballets and 30 musicals. He has won numerous awards for his magnificent work. He has produced, directed and performed in many programs of original choreography and composition for The Florence Gould Theater at the Palace of the Legion of Honor's Summer Arts Series, The Neptune Society at the Columbarium, and the CalArts Summer Program (Valencia).

Mr. Pech graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with honors in May '05 and received a degree in composition. He is serving his ninth season as Ballet Master and Resident Choreographer for the San Francisco Opera.

For the past six summers, Mr. Pech has taught and choreographed at the ABT Summer Intensives in New York City, Texas and Orange County. He is also a guest teacher at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, San Francisco Dance Center, Pacific Ballet Academy, Marin Ballet, Marin Dance Theatre, Petaluma City Ballet, Marshon Academy of Dance, and others.

Amy Rose

Amy Rose trained on scholarship at the American Ballet Theatre school, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance. She performed with the Chicago Ballet before joining ABT at the age of sixteen. She was a soloist with ABT, and from 1979-1992 was featured in Principal, Soloist and Character roles in both the classical and contemporary repertoire. She has also been a guest artist with the Universal Ballet in Korea, Japan, and China, and performed with Stars of the American Ballet in Manila.

In 1992, she joined the Pacific Northwest Ballet where she danced leading roles in many ballets. Most recently she was a guest artist with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dance West Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, as well as being on staff as a faculty teacher for Terpsichore Dance Chicago Ballet Arts and North Shore Dance schools.