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Our Team
Artistic Director, Michael Buoni
Michael Buoni is a choreographer/actor from Philadelphia. He has danced with Ohio Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater, Dayton Ballet, and guested with Eglevsky Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Maryland Ballet. He has performed works by George Balanchine, Lucinda Childs, Laura Dean, Jose Limon, Agnes DeMille, Alvin Ailey, Heinz Poll, Sal Aiello, and many other iconic greats. Michael has been a teaching artist for over 20 years and his World Cultures dance residency reaches hundreds of students each year. Michael began his NYC career in Shakespeare and off-off Broadway theater. He currently works on TV episodics and film and has appeared in numerous local and national commercial campaigns.
Osamu grew up in Bloomington, Indiana and was originally trained as a musician. He has an AB in Music, Physics, Mathematics and Theatre from Cornell and an MFA in Dance from NYU . A 10-year member of New York Theatre Ballet, he was Company Associate for Chen & Dancers, Artistic Associate for American Ballet Russe and an Associate Director of Bernierdance. A faculty member at the Great Neck School of Dance and Artistic Associate for American Ballet Russe for 3 decades, and he is currently also a rehearsal director for Performing Arts Ensemble of NJ, Managing
Director of Folk Dance Theatre, and Manager for Ballet & Body in NYC. He has staged modern, folkloric and classical works including most of the major full-length classical ballets. He studied Bournonville style in Copenhagen and was selected to teach Cecchetti Method at the Compagnie de Danse Hallet-Eghayan in Lyons. A schooled designer, he has also simultaneously served as a dancer and resident designer for many companies and often also handles costumes, scenery, lighting, music/video editing and graphic design for many organizations and collaborators including BernierDance, Wendy Osserman
Dance Company, Kathryn Posin, Mark DeGarmo and Dancers, and Ai Dance Theater.
Stacy Yoshioka was born in Honolulu, Hawaii where she began training at a very young age. Graduating from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in dance in 1998, she joined the Michael Mao Dance Company 2 months before her graduation. She has danced in over 15 of Michael Mao's works, originated roles in 7 including the principal role of Tiny in Mao's Firecracker which premiered at the Pepsico Purchase Theatre and toured China in 2001. During the creation of the touring version of this show she met and worked closely with Michael Buoni and has happily returned to the stage in CDNY's Cinderella (wicked stepmother) and The Snow Queen (grandmother). Her other credits include Shiva by Ted Shawn (costume design and construction), Spinning Song and The Pug's Groove (choreographer and dancer) for the Composer's Concordance, Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre (dancer), Juan Michael Porter II's We Were Never Awesome (dancer), Fini Dance Festival NYC (dancer) and Open Up the Curtain (player) with the St. Jean's Players. Stacy is also a certified personal trainer in NYC and lives in Manhattan with her husband, son and 2 dogs. Stacy is a board member of CDNY.