Meet the Artistic Team
Of
Alamo City Dance Company
and
Alamo City Symphony VIva
Of
Alamo City Dance Company
and
Alamo City Symphony VIva
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 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 |
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
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. |
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 conducted 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 2021-2022 season, Joseph will lead a full year of concerts and ballet performances, including a full production of The Nutcracker with the Alamo City Dance Company and Mozart’s Requiem with the combined Trinity University Choirs. Kneer’s conducting mentors include Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, Neil Thomson, and Scott Weiss. |