About the Collection
A number of media files pertaining to the Shair Dance Company and Sharir+Bustamente Danceworks are located on the Texas ScholarWorks page for this collection.
Biographies
Yacov Shair
After graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Professor Yacov Sharir studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, the Bat-Sheva Dance Company School, the Stuttgart Ballet, and the Ballet Theatre Contemporaine in Paris. He has performed under the direction of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, Jose Limon and Anna Sokolow, among others. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel, Sharir is the founder of both the American Deaf Dance Company and the Sharir Dance Company, a professional dance company of the UT College of Fine Arts. As a multiple recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship, he has choreographed for such companies such as the Bat-Sheva Dance Company, Hartford Ballet, Dallas Ballet, the Kibbutz Dance Company of Israel and the Utah Repertory Dance Theatre. He was a recipient of an "Arts And Virtual Environments" two year fellowship awarded by the Banff Center for the Arts and is engaged in extensive international lectures and workshops directly related to the issues of virtual environments, cyberspace and computerized choreography. As of March 2013, he has been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Plymouth, England for a programme of work entitled "Beyond the Electronic Connection: The Technologically Manufactured Cyber-Human and Its Physical Human Counterpart in Performance: A Theory Related to Convergence Identities."
Citation
“Yacov Sharir.” The University of Texas at Austin: College of Fine Arts. Web.
José Luis Bustamante
José Luis Bustamante is the former artistic director of Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, and currently serves as Department Chair of Dance at Austin Community College. His work has been commissioned by Ballet Austin, Cleveland’s Repertory Project, Florida State University, and the University of Texas at Austin, among others. He served as a dance panelist at the Center from 2010–12 as well as a dance LOI panelist in 2011 and 2012.
Citation
“José Luis Bustamante.” The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. 8 Jul. 2015. Web.
