Oliver Tobin is a former dancer with Graham 2 and the Martha Graham Dance Company where he performed leading roles in Graham’s repertoire for over ten years. His off-Broadway credits as an actor include The Kentucky Cycle, Nirvanov, The Lesser Magoo, and Tallahassee. As a Regisseur of the Graham repertoire, Mr. Tobin has restaged and directed Graham’s Diversion of Angels, Celebration, Episodes, Panorama, and Maple Leaf Rag. In 2019, he reimagined and choreographed Martha Graham’s 1938 American Document, which received its world premiere in Los Angeles.

As a teaching artist, he has helped to create and teach dance programs for NYC-area performing arts high schools, Kaatsbaan, the Stapleton School, and the Martha Graham School. As a dancer and cultural ambassador with Battery Dance Company, Mr. Tobin had the opportunity to lead choreography workshops throughout Germany and Africa. Mr. Tobin is a graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy, The Sivananda Yoga Institute, and Empire State College, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in dance and theater.

He currently serves on faculty at the Martha Graham School and Adelphi University. In 2016, Mr. Tobin was named Director of Martha Graham Resources where he oversees both the Graham archives and the licensing of Graham works. Mr. Tobin began his tenure as a teacher in Teens@Graham in 2005 and was named Director of Teens@Graham in 2019.

Kim Jones is the Artistic Director of Movement Migration, a modern dance company based in Charlotte, North Carolina and New York City. Additionally, she is an Associate Professor of Dance at UNC Charlotte and a Regisseur for Martha Graham Resources. Ms. Jones danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and served as a principal dancer in the US National Tour of The King and I. Ms. Jones is well known for her work with historic modern dances.

Most recently, choreographer Paul Taylor offered Tracer (1962), a collaboration with the artist Robert Rauschenberg (set and costumes), as the subject of a scholarly reconstruction by Ms. Jones. She recreated the work using her research and dance expertise on Taylor 2 Dance Company members, thanks to funding from the NEA Art Works grant. Tracer has been performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. In 2013, Ms. Jones reconstructed Martha Graham’s Imperial Gesture from 1935, which is now in the repertory of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Both reconstructed works were featured in the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

As a Regisseur, she has restaged Graham’s Primitive Mysteries, Panorama, and Steps in the Street, with funding from the NEA American Masterpieces grant. In 2018/2019 served as Resident Director at Kingston University. Ms. Jones is delighted to be returning to Orsolina 28.

Lorenzo Pagano has been a Soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company since 2012 where he has embodied some of the most iconic leading roles in Graham’s Appalachian Spring, Cave of the Heart, Embattled Garden, Night Journey, and Diversion of Angels as well as in new contemporary works by Andonis Foniadakis, Lucinda Childs, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nacho Duato, Pontus Lindberg, Lar Lubovitch, Troy Schumacher, and Sonya Tayeh.

A native of Torino, Italy, he moved to the United States of America in 2011 where he trained as a scholarship student at The School at Jacob’s Pillow and The Martha Graham School. Mr. Pagano has been a Guest Artist with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and is currently a performer with Movement Migration and balletXtreme.

He has danced with Paris Opera former Étoile and Artistic Director Aurélie Dupont in Martha Graham’s Lament from Acts of Light and has partnered Miami City Ballet and Bejart Ballet Principal Dancer Myrna Kamara in Martha Graham’s Moon from Canticle for Innocent Comedians. In July 2016, Mr. Pagano was awarded the Italian International Dance Award as “Male Rising Star”.