​Alamo City Dance Company
Artistic Director ​

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

choreographing for the Alamo City Performing Arts Association (ACPAA) where she was quickly named as the companies Ballet Master.  Mrs. Hall has recently been asked to direct the live entertainment for San Antonio Riverwalk Association’s Halloween and the nationally syndicated Ford Holiday River Parade. Mrs. Hall has also returned to Fiesta Noche Del Rio where she is currently the Director and Choreographer.  This year, Mrs. Hall has come full circle to where her career began and has succeeded Mr. Conway as the Artistic Director for the Alamo City Performing Arts Association.

​Associate Choreographer  ​

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 continues to teach at the University 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

Chouteau and Miguel Terekhov, Susan achieved solo and principal status in a number of regional and professional companies including Oklahoma City Civic Ballet, Austin Ballet Theatre, Festival Ballet of San Antonio, Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Ballet Arts Company of Denver, Rocky Mountain National Ballet Company, and Ruth Page International Ballet Company, Chicago. IL.  As a Choreographer, she hold over 250 original works and theatre production credits as well as collaborating with many ballet companies to choreograph, costume and produce performances. The famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo premiered her production of Gaite Parisienne in 1996 at the Danny Kaye Theatre in New York City, and that production has since toured internationally. Continuing to support Regional Dance in America, Ms. Trevino has been on the faculty teaching Ballet, Pointe and Character Dance in many RDA Festival cities.  She has been commissioned by the Nutmeg Ballet, Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Interlochen School of the Arts, Lawton City Ballet, Victoria Ballet Theatre, Ballet Ensemble of Texas, Midland Festival Ballet, and Alamo City Dance Company to create and premier new and original works. She was named “Outstanding Woman in the Arts” by the San Antonio Express-News in 1986 and has received many prestigious awards over the years. She holds membership with the National Society of the Arts and Letters, the National Association of Schools of Dance and was on the founding board of the San Antonio Arts Council and the curriculum committee for Dance for The Citizens for the High School of the Arts organization. She was inducted into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame in the Arts Category.  Happily married for 45 years, Susan and Buddy have a daughter Teresa, a former dancer who now serves the field of veterinary medicine, and two beautiful granddaughters, Natalie Grace
and Emily Rose.

 ​​Company Teacher

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

Igor Youskevitch and Stanley Hall. In 1977, Robert Jofrey asked Buddy along with his partner Susan Trevino to develop and host a summer workshop that would attract young, talented dancers from across the country and expose them to the rigors and demands of a professional career in dance. Thirty-five years later, The Jofrey Workshop Texas continues to draw some of the most exceptional dancers in the U.S, Canada and Mexico and has served as a conduit for many dancers who have in turn been accepted into the Jofrey Ballet, Jofrey II Dancers and many other professional companies throughout the world.

 Ballet Master

Michael Landez 
Michael Landez is originally from San Antonio, Texas where he began his training with Buddy and Susan Trevino. He attended the Joffrey Workshop Texas for numerous summers, working with Trinette Singleton, Diane Orio, Willy Shives and Adam Sklute. Mr. Landez joined American Repertory Ballet as a Trainee, learning from Maria Youskevitch, Kathleen Moore, and Mary Pat Robertson. As a company member with American Repertory Ballet he performed works by Douglas Martin, Kirk Peterson, Mary Barton and Jose Limon. He has been a guest artist with the Alamo City Dance Company, Victoria Ballet Theater, and San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet. Mr. Landez holds a BS in Biology from the Texas A&M University- San Antonio. He is currently an MFA Candidate in the University of Iowa Department of Dance on the Performance Track. His research currently focuses on the duality of performance in ballet, including gendered and grand Performance.

​Symphony Viva
Interim Artistic Director ​

Guadalupe Rivera, PhD. 
Dr. Guadalupe Rivera, Jr., is the Director of Choirs at Tuloso-Midway High School and the former Assistant Director of Music at the Corpus Christi Cathedral. Dr. Rivera received a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree
in Choral and Orchestral Conducting at the University of Arizona in 2010 under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Chamberlain. While there he conducted the Kantorei Chamber Choir and Recital Choir, along with being the Assistant Conductor of the University Community Chorus. Dr. Rivera, a native of Corpus Christi, Texas and a product of the Corpus Christi Cathedral Choir Program, received his Bachelor of Music Education from Texas Christian University in 1996, where he studied with the late Ronald Shirley and Dr. Ruth Whitlock. He completed his Masters of Music in Performance in Choral Conducting at the University of North Texas in 2005, where he studied with Dr. Jerry McCoy. In 1996, Dr. Rivera had the opportunity to study with the late Robert Shaw at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Most recently in January of 2014, Dr. Rivera was chosen to participate in the DCINY Conducting Master class with Rene Clausen

((Concordia) and in 2010 the Chorus America A Cappella Conducting Master class, studying with famed conductors Marguerite Brooks (Yale) and Robert Sund (Sweden). In the summers of 2006 and 2007, D r. Rivera conducted at the Oregon Bach Festival, studying under renowned conductor and Bach scholar Helmuth Rilling and in October 2006 was able to conduct for famed choral composer Morten Lauridsen. Dr. Rivera is the former Assistant Conductor of the Turtle Creek Chorale, Dallas, TX under Dr. Tim Seelig. As an educator, his choirs continue to receive superior and excellent ratings at UIL Choral contests and many of his students participate in the ACDA National Honor Choirs and TMEA All-State Choirs. In 2011 and 2012, Dr. Rivera was a recipient of the TMISD Igniting the Spirit Teaching Award, an award given to several TMISD teachers for their positive influence on students, and most recently again in M ay 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Dr. Rivera serves as TMEA Region XIV Vocal Division Chair and is a member of TMEA, TCDA, ACDA and TMAA.