About Richard Powers
Richard will be partnered with Emily Saletan
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Richard Powers is a full-time instructor of dance history and contemporary social dance forms at Stanford University Dance Division, Department of Theater and Performance Studies.
His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms. His research is drawn from a personal collection of over 2,500 historic dance manuals, the largest personal collection in the world, supplemented with a twelve thousand-title collection of period dance music. Other resources include ongoing exchanges of information with dance historians in the U.S and Europe.
Richard has choreographed folk and vintage dance suites for AMAN Folk Ensemble, the Ethnic Dance Theatre (Minneapolis), the Brigham Young University Folk Ensemble, Ahmet Luleci’s Collage Dance Ensemble in Boston, the Narodno Folk Dance Ensemble, Westwind, Jubilee American Dance Theatre, the Ensemble International, and the Beseda Dance Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic.
Richard has taught at New Mexico Folk Dance Camp, Stockton Folk Dance Camp, Texas Camp, Maine Folk Dance Camp, Pinewoods American, English and International Folk Dance Weeks, the National Folk Dance Federation of Japan, Centrum International Folk Dance Camp, Idyllwild Folk Dance Camp, Buffalo Gap Memorial Day and Labor Day International Folk Dance Festivals, the Flurry Festival, Brasstown Folk Dance Weeks, Mendocino Folklore Camp, and for many regional folk dance groups.
Read more about Richard Powers on his website: www.RichardPowers.com
About Richard's partner:
Emily Saletan has been dancing international folk dances literally all of her life, since she was an infant! Emily taught international folk dance classes at Stanford throughout her undergraduate education, in which she studied neuroscience with minors in music and dance. She is now in a master's program at Stanford focused on music, science, and technology, a flexible category that includes everything from performing audiology research at the Stanford Ear Institute to performing her own songs around campus. She has partnered Richard's classes at Stanford, Pinewoods (FAC), and Stockton Folk Dance Camp. Emily extends infinite thanks to her dad, Tony Saletan, for his compassionate legacy of arts education.
Read more about Emily Saletan on her website: www.emilysaletan.com
His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms. His research is drawn from a personal collection of over 2,500 historic dance manuals, the largest personal collection in the world, supplemented with a twelve thousand-title collection of period dance music. Other resources include ongoing exchanges of information with dance historians in the U.S and Europe.
Richard has choreographed folk and vintage dance suites for AMAN Folk Ensemble, the Ethnic Dance Theatre (Minneapolis), the Brigham Young University Folk Ensemble, Ahmet Luleci’s Collage Dance Ensemble in Boston, the Narodno Folk Dance Ensemble, Westwind, Jubilee American Dance Theatre, the Ensemble International, and the Beseda Dance Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic.
Richard has taught at New Mexico Folk Dance Camp, Stockton Folk Dance Camp, Texas Camp, Maine Folk Dance Camp, Pinewoods American, English and International Folk Dance Weeks, the National Folk Dance Federation of Japan, Centrum International Folk Dance Camp, Idyllwild Folk Dance Camp, Buffalo Gap Memorial Day and Labor Day International Folk Dance Festivals, the Flurry Festival, Brasstown Folk Dance Weeks, Mendocino Folklore Camp, and for many regional folk dance groups.
Read more about Richard Powers on his website: www.RichardPowers.com
About Richard's partner:
Emily Saletan has been dancing international folk dances literally all of her life, since she was an infant! Emily taught international folk dance classes at Stanford throughout her undergraduate education, in which she studied neuroscience with minors in music and dance. She is now in a master's program at Stanford focused on music, science, and technology, a flexible category that includes everything from performing audiology research at the Stanford Ear Institute to performing her own songs around campus. She has partnered Richard's classes at Stanford, Pinewoods (FAC), and Stockton Folk Dance Camp. Emily extends infinite thanks to her dad, Tony Saletan, for his compassionate legacy of arts education.
Read more about Emily Saletan on her website: www.emilysaletan.com
