FUSION Dance Theater profile picture

FUSION Dance Theater

Dance through life and enjoy each beat it has to offer

About Me

The mission of FUSION Dance Theater is to fuse together the rich diversity of different cultures through dance. Albertossy Espinoza founded the company in 2004 to expand the boundaries of dance performance by fusing dance, music, costumes, acting, light and set designs to create a wonderland. Through its repertoire, the company touches upon many daily and social issues as well as emotions. With trained dancers of various styles the company offers a broad range of skills both to performance and teaching.FDT serves as a forum for collaborations among artists and educators to share their talents with the community and the world. The artistic philosophy is to educate and prepare young and old to enter the field of dance as a career or as an enthusiast. To contribute to the art of dance with creations of innovative work and integrate the practices of performance and teaching.Through music and movement, FUSION Dance Theater welcomes you to a wonderland where dreams and reality come together as one. A FUSION of life!

Cool Stuff at BlingJam.com
...... value="userID=145160579&bgColor=10079487&bgColor2=10 079487&transitionSpeed=4&transitionStyle=a&showC aptions=1" / ..

My Interests

The company has been invited by Stephanie Sullivan to perform at Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena www.levittpavilionpasadena.org on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 7PM. We will PREMIERE a quartet entitled, "Into the Light." The piece is about entering a new world, a new beginning of life. The joy of the free spirit. This piece is dedicated to Shirley Gwinn, Jon Aaron Saenz and Hoyle Reidling. It is a free event and I hope you join us. Dances from all over the world will be presented. A fun evening under the stars. FUSION DANCE THEATER INVITES YOU TO VIEW THE MUSIC VIDEO "FUEGO MALAGUENA" WITH ESTEBAN. CHOREOGRAPHY BY: ALBERTOSSY. DANCERS: PAMELA DEBIASE & ALBERTOSSY ESPINOZA.

I'd like to meet:

Albertossy Espinoza - Artistic Director/Choreographer/DancerAn actor, dancer and choreographer born in Ecuador and raised in Chicago, Albertossy began his dance career as a Theater Dance major at Northern Illinois University. His training includes ballet, modern, jazz, flamenco, hip-hop and folk. After three semesters at NIU, he was scouted by Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater and offered a company scholarship. Albertossy soon became an apprentice and started touring with the company, nationally and internationally. He also has toured nationally and internationally with Soul y Duende Spanish American Dance Theater, Walt Disney Productions, Regina Klenjoski Dance Company and FUSION Dance Theater. His other credits include teaching abroad, guest choreographing for various dance companies and performances in West Side Story, Annie Get Your Gun, Babes in Toy Land, Carmen, The Pajama Game, and El Barbero de Sevilla. He was also a proud member of Joel Hall Dancers, Teresa y Los Preferidos Spanish Dance Company and Winifred Haun & Dancers. His works as a choreographer have been presented nationally from Chicago to California and internationally in Spain, France and Guatemala.In Los Angeles, Albertossy was a founding member of the Regina Klenjoski Dance Company, discharged duties as Associate Director for four years and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. He has choreographed for the DVD series "Boystown" and music videos, "Life is for Living," featuring Julissa Aguirre and "Fuego Malagueña" featuring Esteban. Albertossy has worked with Lula Washington Dance Theater, Rosanegra Flamenco Company, Celina Zambon Flamenco Dance Company, Company of Strangers and Media City Ballet Company. In 2004 he founded FUSION Dance Theater (www.fusiondancetheater.org) and made his company debut at SOLA Contemporary Dance Festival.In his pursue of acting, he made his debut in one of the lead roles in an independent film, The Price of the American Dream. Since then he has had a lead role on two more features, a short film and the DVD series Boystown. The Price of the American Dream and East LA King are both available at Blockbuster Video. He is currently working on the feature, "HEELS" to be released in 2008.Albertossy credits his mother for giving him the strength, will and drive to push onward in all aspects of life. He is tremendously grateful to his family, friends and teachers for their love and support and especially recognizes his good friend and foremost supporter, Carolyn James.

Heroes:

God and my family