TRIPHAMMER ARTS - Key Persons
, co-director of the CRS Barn Studio, has been speaking the language of contemporary dance for over forty years. She has trained and performed with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Beverly Brown, June Finch/Danceworks, Lois Welk, and Jill Becker and Dancers. She was a founding member of FLOORPLAY Contemporary Dance Theatre in Buffalo, New York, and Firehouse Dance Company in Ithaca, NY. Her work has also been commissioned by ballet, modern dance, and opera companies, by public television, and by the Western NY Institute for the Arts in Education. Jeanne holds an M.A. in dance from SUNY Brockport and a Certificate in Movement Analysis from the Laban-Bartenieff Institute in New York City. She received the Alumni Award from the Zodiaque Dance Company (Buffalo) and the Excellence in Teaching Award upon her retirement from Wells College, where she created over 30 choreographic works and taught technique, improvisation, composition, dance history and multidisciplinary courses from 1987 - 2016. She continues to teach and choreograph at the CRS Barn Studio and other venues, in collaboration with solo musicians, orchestras, and chamber ensembles.
STEVEN and JEANNE have worked collaboratively since 1984. They have produced and directed a wide range of operas and musicals including Mozart's The Magic Flute; Telemann's Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho, Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance and H.M.S. Pinafore, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel as well as several world premieres and devised pieces.
Steven Stull, executive director, and Jeanne Goddard, President, have over 40 years' experience performing, writing, directing, and producing music and dance events in traditional and non-traditional venues and have been artistic co-directors of the CRS Barn Studio since 1990. Stull holds degrees in vocal performance from Oberlin College Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, and has performed with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States. Goddard honed her craft in the avant-garde dance world of the 1970's, trained and performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and many other choreographers, and has run the dance program at Wells College since 1987. She has choreographed for numerous opera companies across New York State. For more extensive biographies please scroll to the bottom of this page. For additional information please visit: operacowpokes.com