Mark Panzarino began his studies at the age of 6 with Nina Youshkevich, protégé of Bronislava Nijinska. His education continued at the School of American Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and at the David Howard Dance Center, before joining Miami City Ballet in 1990.
Favorite featured and soloist roles performed include Balanchine's
Allegro Brillante, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Jewels (Emeralds), Scotch Symphony, and Tarantella; Petipa's Don Quixote (Wedding Pas), The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty; and Litvinov's Cinderella.
Mark has performed, choreographed, and taught for Broadway Dance Center, Dance Theatre of Harlem, the American Ballet Russe, Metropolitan Repertory Ballet, InMotion Dance Company, the Renaissance Dance Ensemble, and Tampa Bay City Ballet. He is an adjunct at Eugene Lang College/The New School.
His most ambitious ballet to date, Fugue of the Mermaids, was presented at Steps on Broadway in April 2009 as part of their choreographic lab. A monthly cable-access dance-industry talk show with Mark as co-host is in pre-production. Adam and Eve and God: a dance for two, will be presented in January 2010 by Texas Dance Theatre.
Additional notable projects include his sculptural work of mixed media, Touchdown, featured prominently in the lobby of the Times Square Hotel, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A book of short poems was published in 2002. Mark is completing his first novel.
His ballet coach and life mentor is Peter Schabel. Mark lives in Manhattan with his completely spoiled 12-year-old dog, Zoey.
Born in Italy to opera singer parents, Elizabeth Gillaspy began creating dances at five years old – in her kitchen and living room. Since then, her works have been performed nationally and internationally, from Texas to Taiwan. She had the honor of creating two ballets for the late Fernando Bujones’ Orlando Ballet, and her work, A Gift, for Ishihara Ballet of Kure, Japan, appeared on the Dance Gala Hiroshima 2007. She has choreographed for finalists in New York’s Youth American Grand Prix and more recently premiered a solo, Lorelei, at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York, danced by former New York City Ballet dancer, Michele Gifford. Critics have noted her work as “poetic and real” and “skillfully structured”. Most recently she has founded her own project-based company, Nymbal – new ballet, dedicated to showcasing contemporary ballet choreography. She is an Associate Professor of Ballet in the School for Classical and Contemporary Dance at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, where she resides with her husband, Randy.
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