Company Members: Bryan Smith Meghan Coulombe Katie Moncebaiz Iouletta Startos Darcie Froman
The Company ___________________________________________________________I ouletta Startos has been dancing professionally for four years and brings with her more than 17 years of modern and ballet experience. She also has four years of choreography and teaching experience. Ms. Startos is the Co-founder and Co-choreographer for SOMA Dance Company. She has performed with the Sonia Plumb Dance Company, displaying her artistic talent through modern dance in solo and group performances. Prior to working with Sonia Plumb Dance Company, Ms. Startos performed with Anima Modern Dance Company in Athens, Greece. She has worked with the David Dorfman Dance as an understudy for all the dancers (David Dorfman was a guest teacher for Trinity College). Ms. Startos has experience in partnering and performing athletic modern and release modern, as well as other types of dance such as improv and contact improv. Her performance in the 2002 Conservatory's Duke Ellington's Nutcracker earned her a photo shoot in Artistic FX magazine and an interview that aired on Fox news in Connecticut. Ms. Startos's choreography credits include: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at St. Joseph College, numerous pieces for the Hartford Conservatory and was selected by the Artistic Director of the Ted Hershey Marathon in Connecticut in 2002 and 2003. Ms. Startos earned a Dance Performance and Dance Pedagogy diploma from the Harford Conservatory. She has also completed advanced workshops with the American Contemporary Dance Festival in Boston, the L'imon Company at Skidmore College in New York, the Alvin Ailey Modern Dance Company in Athens, Greece, the New England Regional American Contemporary Dance Festival in New Hampshire, and advanced ballet workshops at the Boston Conservatory in Boston, Mass._______________________________________________________ ____Darcie Froman is the Co-founder and Co-choreographer for SOMA Dance Company and is a 2006 Graduate of the Hartford Conservatory in Dance Performance and Dance Pedagogy. Ms. Froman is originally from Oklahoma where she attended NEO A&M College as a Theater Major, her theater credits include: “Fiddler on the Roof,†“The Mystery of Edwin Drood,†“Will Rogers Follies,†and Dancing at Lughnasa.†She has trained at the University of Oklahoma, under the direction of Denise Vale (a former Graham dancer), the Jasinski Academy (formally Tulsa School of Ballet), under the direction of Moscelyn Larkin (one of the five Indian Ballerinas), was a Principal dancer with Midwest Regional Ballet from 1998-2001 in Missouri, her performance credits at MRB include: lead role Lucy in “Dracula,†Arabian “Nutcracker Swing,†Wicked Queen “Snow White,†Fairy Godmother “Cinderella,†and Kitri in the Grand Pas de Duex “Don Quixote.†She was also a member of the Modern Reparatory Dance Theater at OU in 2002. Ms. Froman also was on a full scholarship at the Alvin Ailey School in New York in 2002. While at the Conservatory she performed in the 2004 and 2005 5x5 Concert, danced with the Eva Dean Dance Company and was a member of the Sonia Plumb Dance Company. Ms. Froman was "Clara" in the Annual Jazz Nutcracker in 2004 and 2005; she studied with Jacques d' Ambois and National Dance Institute, participated in the 2005-06 American College Dance Festival, and the 2004 and 2006 Ted Hershey Marathon. While at the Conservatory she choreographed many musical theater productions including: “Working,†“Side By Side,†“Pippin,†and “Rodgers and Hart.†This past summer Darcie also worked with Adam Battelstein (former Pilobolus member) in “Storeographyâ€. Her original work “Don’t Explain,†was performed in the 2005 Hartford Conservatory’s Spring Concert, by Meghan Coulombe (Soma Member) and Darcie Froman. Ms. Froman’s original work “Amantes" was performed in the 2006 Hartford Conservatory Spring Concert and the 2006 5x5 Concert by the Hartford Conservatory dancers. Ms. Froman was also the Director and Choreographer of the Conservatory’s 6th Annual Jazz Nutcracker in 2006. Darcie also studies Taekwon-Do in West Hartford at White Tiger where she is a green belt. She was awarded Highest GPA for the class of 2006 and received a Puffin Foundation grant for her 2007 summer program.
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