About Olympic Performance Group:
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Olympic Performance Group is a nonprofit organization formed with the purpose of increasing dance appreciation, education, and providing semi-professional productions for the local community in the form of stage productions, workshops and summer programs. Productions of dance along with other performing arts offers a multitude of options in performing, teaching, directing as well as employing other artists. Auditions will be open for the whole community in the appropriate performing arts: dancers (ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop and ballroom dance), singers, gymnasts, and actors. Our hope is to attract and engage local talent, not only from Bainbridge Island, but from all the surrounding areas in our collaborative effort to provide professional productions.
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Sara L. Cramer, OPG President
Sara Cramer has danced from age 5. She trained with Doreen Gilday. Her school, Bainbridge Ballet opened in 2003 and is now located on Sportman's Club Rd in its' 7th year. She has taught for over 20 years on Bainbridge and staged numerous productions such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and various versions of The Nutcracker. OPG (non-profit) was started to enhance the performing arts in the area and gives the local community an opportunity to participate and watch professional level productions. One of her great joys is to pass on the enjoyment and enrichment that dance can offer.
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Stephanie Clarke
Stephanie has been dancing for for more than 26 years; teaching and choreographing for 11. She has trained in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado, graduating from Cornish College of the Arts (1998) with a BFA in Dance, Cum Laude. She's studied with and performed works by Lori Wilson, Pat Hon, Bebe Miller, Deborah Wolf, Wade Madsen, and Nancy Cranbourne. Stephanie currently teaches at Bainbridge Ballet and at the Just for Kicks School of Dance in Port Orchard where she also co-directs the Allegro Dance Performance Troupe.
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Daniela Faget
Daniela Faget wanted to dance as a child in Berlin, and would watch the ballerinas practice at the Berlin Ballet. It was not until she got to America that she was able to take classes herself, and has been loved danced ever since. After a scholarship to Whitworth Ballet in the 90's, Daniela danced with the Spokane Ballet Theatre, under one of Balanchine's students. She taught classes to underprivileged kids throughout her college years, and after a car accident that stopped her dancing for years, realized she would never take dancing for granted. Daniela is excited to join Bainbridge Ballet and looks forward to bringing the joy of dance to a new generation of little ones. In our Nutcracker 2009 production, Marisa is choreographing the Little Stars.
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Marisa Haga
Marisa Haga was raised in Ridgway, Colorado, where she began her dance training at the age of ten. She is a recent graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. While at Cornish she studied with Wade Madsen, Michele Miller, Deborah Wolf,Pat Hon, and Tonya Lockyer, and performed for guest choreographers Daniel Wilkins, Christy McNeil and Paige Barnes. Marisa has taught at several studios in Colorado and is very excited to be teaching again at Bainbridge Ballet.
She is currently teaching pre-ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical jazz and modern at Bainbridge Ballet.
In our Nutcracker 2009 production, Marisa is choreographing Waltz of the Flowers as a lyrical piece, and Spanish.
(photo courtesy ©MarieCommiskey)
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Pamela Dharamsey Lee
Pamela Dharamsey Lee is a visual, performing, and teaching artist has been presenting her work nationally in schools, studios,
theatres and museums for 22 years. In 2000, she and her husband Joshua L. Lee formed their company Ox + Dragon to continue
their work in visual performance working with artists of all ages. Currently she is working on the series Frozen Clothing;
the embodiment of spirit, Border Ghetto; a view of Mexican immigrants through the eyes of a young girl, and
The Nutcracker, in conjunction with Olympic Performance Group. Pamela is on staff
at Bainbridge Ballet, and is a member of the
Bainbridge Island Arts and Education Community Consortium.
(photo courtesy Kate DeVeaux)
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Alex Ung
Alex Ung, an Iowa native, danced while in high school, and in college choreographed and performed for ISU Hip Hop Dance Club. He also performed at half-time games and competed in a regional UDA competition. While finishing his degree in Seattle, he spends his spare time teaching street hop hop and jazz.
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