Meet the Artistic Team
Of
Alamo City Dance Company
Alamo City Symphony VIva
and
Heart of Texas Concert Band
Of
Alamo City Dance Company
Alamo City Symphony VIva
and
Heart of Texas Concert Band
Katie Rodriguez Hall
Katie Hall is native to San Antonio and has over 30 years experience in the performing arts. Mrs. Hall began her training with Scott Conway at the San Antonio School for the Performing Arts (SASPA) building a wide base of expertise in classical ballet, jazz, tap, folklorico, flamenco, latin ballroom, hip hop, musical theatre, comedy, and live performance. She later became a member of the Alamo City Dance Company where she performed in the Nutcracker, Mid-Summer’s Night Dream and Lepidoptera. Mrs. Hall has always maintained a strong love for the city of San Antonio and joined Fiesta Noche Del Rio as one of their core dancers. After her time with Fiesta Noche Del Rio, Mrs. Hall had the honor of being crowned Miss Fiesta San Antonio. She temporarily left San Antonio to attend Texas A&M University. During her time in College Station she became the president and choreographer of Texas A&M University’s Ballet Folklorico Celestial. Mrs. Hall was then named Choreographer and Artistic of Director of the wild west dinner show Tombstone Texas, and Santa’s Wonderland. After graduating from Texas A&M Katie moved to Austin, started a family, and then returned to San Antonio where she began teaching at SASPA. Mrs. Hall then began instructing and |
Susan Trevino
As Co-Director of the Incarnate Word Dance Department since 1977, and Co-Director of Incarnate Word Ballet School and Ballet Company 1978-2003, Ms.Trevino has brought years of quality dance to performers and students in San Antonio and South Texas area, and throughout the United States. Susan and her husband Buddy were Co-Directors of the Joffrey Workshop Texas in San Antonio from 1978-2017. She taught at the University of Incarnate Word until 2019 as well as many private schools throughout the city. Currently she is Associate Choreographer and Senior Master Teacher at San Antonio School for the Performing Arts.Trained in her native Oklahoma with Jayne Van Wey, Yvonne |
Buddy Trevino
A native of San Antonio, Abelardo “Buddy” began his formal dance training at age 11 with the Mexican-America Cultural Exchange Institute of San Antonio. Through the Institute he received a full scholarship to study at the Academia National de Danza in Mexico City. Upon completion of the academic curriculum, Buddy was accepted into the Ballet National de Mexico where he performed for five years. Returning to the US in 1975, he continued intensive study on scholarship at the University Texas in Austin under |
Michael Landez, MFA (he/him) is originally from San Antonio, Texas where he began his training in ballet and tap. He trained with Buddy and Susan Trevino for numerous summers at the Joffrey Workshop TEXAS before joining American Repertory Ballet under the direction of Douglas Martin. He enjoys performing, making, and teaching about dance through active participation with those that want the experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from TexasA&M- San Antonio and certification through the American Ballet Theatre National Teacher Training Curriculum (Pre-Primary - Partnering), Progressing Ballet Technique, and a 200-HR Yoga Teacher Training. After completing a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance at the University of Iowa with a performance emphasis, he is now pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. His research interests lie at the intersection of dance practice, performance studies, dance studies, Latinx studies, and queer studies, where he seeks to embody a more just and equitable sense of performance history in the present. He is a co-founder and current member of the Dance Farm Collective and Ballet Master for the Alamo City Arts.
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Joseph Kneer
Conductor and violinist Joseph Kneer currently serves as Music Director of Alamo City Symphony Viva and Conductor of the Trinity Symphony Orchestra at Trinity University. A recent finalist in the 2021 Los Angeles Conducting Competition, Kneer has led many orchestras and ensembles, including the Oberlin Chamber Players, the Mercyhurst String Ensemble and community string chamber music program, the Mercyhurst Civic Orchestra, and the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Chancel Choir in Baltimore. Recent collaborations and engagements include Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with Jinjoo Cho, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with pianist Carolyn True, Poulenc’s Gloria with the Trinity University Choir, a period production of Dido and Aeneas with Trinity’s Opera Workshop, Symphony Viva’s production of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and the premiere of Roger Zare’s commissioned work Neowise for the TSO in May 2021. In the 2022-2023 season, Joseph will lead a full slate of concerts and ballet performances, including a new production of The Tales of Beatrix Potter with the Alamo City Dance Company, and the TSO's tour of Houston in January. Kneer’s conducting mentors include Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, Neil Thomson, and Scott Weiss. |
R. Mark Rogers received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting from The University of Texas, having previously earned his Masters and Bachelors of Music Education degrees from Texas Tech University. His early teaching career included Graduate Teaching Assistant at Texas Tech University and The University of Texas, and staff arranger for the Longhorn Band; member of the band staff at Spring and Westfield High School (1977); Assistant Professor of Music/Director of Bands at South Plains College (Levelland, TX) 1978-1985; Assistant Professor of Music/Director of Bands at the University of South Alabama (Mobile) 1987-1993.
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John Goforth was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from Robert E. Lee High School in 1979, he attended Southwest Texas State University where he received his B.M.E. in 1983. After college he married his high school sweetheart, Nancy, and then became the Assistant Band Director at Winston Churchill High School where he taught until 1999. The following year he became the Head Band Director at Douglas MacArthur High School until 2009.
After 25 years of teaching high school band, he held a position at Bradley Middle School until retiring in 2013. During his career as a Band Director, he enthusiastically directed concert, marching and jazz bands. Under his direction and over the years, his bands received many awards at UIL contests, as well as marching, concert and jazz band festivals. He is a past member of TMEA, TBA, Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi. |
MEMORY LANE DANCE BAND
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SCOTTISH RITE
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