Dorothy Percival
7632 Larkspur Lane
Stockton CA 95207
(209) 477-8073

Dorothy Percival, Founder and Artistic Director of the San Joaquin Ballet, enjoys an international reputation as a director, choreographer and teacher of dance.
She is the immediate past president of the Pacific Regional Ballet Association and a past coordinator for the National Association of Regional Ballet.
Percival was asked to serve on the Evaluation Committee for the Regional International Dance Competition. She attended the 1975 competition in Varna, Bulgaria. She was an observer of the American delegation, led by Robert Joffrey, to the 1980 competition in Moscow. Recently, she returned to Russian to study.
She has choreographed productions for the Stockton Opera Association (for whom she also has directed), Stockton Civic Theatre and other area groups.
Percival has taught dance at University of the Pacific and still teaches privately, at Delta College, and as Director of Dance at Idyllwild, the University of Southern California summer arts camp near Palm Springs.
As a Stockton Arts Commissioner, she has organized the ethnic dance evenings at the Stockton Arts Festival, and she has played a prominent role in making dance the popular audience attraction it has become in Central California.

Credits:

· Director/Owner, Lodi Dance Source/Bolshoi West

· Founder and Director, San Joaquin Concert Ballet 1966-89

· Charter Member, Pacific Regional Ballet Association

· Past-Coordinator, P.R.B.A. to National Ballet Association

· President, P.R.B.A. 1981 and 1985

· Secretary, P.R.B.A. 1 year

· Treasurer, P.R.B.A. 3 years

· Faculty Member, Department of Dance, San Joaquin Delta College

· Instructor, Dance Department, University of the Pacific

· Director, U.S.C. Idyllwild Dance Session

· Charter Member, Stockton Arts Commission

· Past- Chairman, Dance Panel of Stockton Arts Commission

· Past Member, Board of Directors of the Stockton Opera Association

· Member, Dance Panel, California Arts Council, 1984-1985

· Recipient, Susan B. Anthony Award, Stockton 1985

· Recipient, Stockton Arts Commission Star Award 2000

Accomplishments:

· At age 18, was the youngest member allowed in the Dance Masters of California

· Brought two artists from Europe to Stockton for “The Nutcracker” in 1981

· Brought International Dancers to Stockton for Gala Concerts in 1982 and 1983

· Saved Commodore Stockton Theatre from the wrecker’s ball; renovated building

· Hosted 600 participants in 1981 and 1985 P.R.B.A. Festivals

· Initiated Senior Citizen Gala Performance (with Stockton Ambulance Company) 1984

· Sponsored Shamil Yagudin to U.S. for month of teaching (Bolshoi Ballet Master)

· Choreographed and produced Nutcracker Ballet, full length, 1975-2003

Teaching Experience

Private Lessons

· Began teaching dance at age 15, in 1945

· Owned and operated schools of dance for 58 years

College Level

· San Joaquin Delta College Fine Arts and P.E. Departments 1974-1999-2004

· University of the Pacific Dance Department (1980-1982)

· U.S.C. Idyllwild Isomata, Director (1980, 1981, 1982)

High School

· Tracy High School, Tracy CA 1957-1959

· Modesto High School, Modesto CA 1965

· Lincoln High School, Stockton CA 1971

· Stagg High School, Stockton CA 1973

· Linden High School, Linden CA (mini classes) 1973

Guest Teacher

· Sacramento (Marguerite Phares’ School) 1966

· Tacoma, WA (Patricia Cairns’ School – 1966; Jo Emery’s School – 1973)

· The Hague, Netherlands (Royal Conservatory of Dance – 1971)

· Sacramento (organizer and participant for nationally advertised dance seminar held annually since 1973)

· Sacramento (Master Class for P.R.B.A. Festival – 1973, 1975)

· Anchorage, AK (3 week seminar for Anchorage Civic Ballet Company – 1982)

· Alaska State Ballet Festival (master teacher and seminar lecturer – 1984)

· San Joaquin Delta College Drama Day – 1984

· Dance masters of Northern California, San Francisco (master teacher, 1985-88)

· Tbillisi Georgia Ballet Company – U.S.S.R. – 1983 Jazz classes

Photography Coaching

· John Allen

· John Swingle

· Bernard Bang

· Michael Martinez

· Mahlon Schmidt

· Laurence Remeriz

· Richard Wong

More than 30 scholarships for students:

· Banff School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada

· City Center Joffrey Ballet, New York, NY

· North Carolina School of Fine Arts

· Billy Martin Viscount, Dallas TX

· Rec Russel Jazz Company, San Francisco CA

· San Joaquin Delta College Dance Department, Stockton CA

· Lisbon, Portugal

· San Joaquin Concert Ballet’s Scholarship Program

· Stockton Arts Commission

· School of American Ballet, New York NY

· San Francisco Ballet

Performing Experience

· Performer (Stockton Teenage Opera Group – 1945 through 1947)

· Performer ( Golden Bough Theatre, Carmel CA – 1946)

· Performer (Fort Ord Hospital for servicemen – 1951-1952)

· Principal Soloist (Stockton Symphony Ballet – 1951-1958)

· Performer (Carmel Studio Theatre – 3 seasons)

· Soloist (Sacramento Ballet Company – 1958 through 1969)

· Television performances (Sacramento Ballet)

· Soloist (first Pacific Regional Ballet Association’s festival – 1966, receiving national recognition in Dance Magazine)

· Demi-Soloist (P.R.B.A.’s second festival – 1967)

· San Joaquin Concert Ballet (House of Bernarda Alba)

Ballets and Musicals

· Swan Lake

· The Owl & the Pussycat

· The Set

· Palette

· The House of Bernarda Alba

· Eight and Run

· Les Sylphides

· House of Bamboo

· Rodeo

· Peter & the Wolf

· Paquita

· Bach with a Beat

· Hansel and Gretel

· My Fair Lady

· Ballet Gala

· Sacrifice

· La Ronde

· Sacrifice

· Peck’s Bad Boy (Double Trouble)

Choreography

Original Ballets

· “Our Lives Two Times Divided” (P.R.B.A. Festival Performance Gala – 1978)

· “Das Fest” (P.R.B.A. Festival Performance Gala – 1979)

· “Rooms for Rent” (P.R.B.A. Festival Performance Gala – 1980)

· “Chopin Solos” (P.R.B.A. Festival Performance Gala – 1981)

· “Right Next Dorr to French Camp” (P.R.B.A. Festival Performance Gala – 1983)

· “La Vie” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet)

· “Opus 100” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet)

· “Hoe Down” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet and the Sacramento Theatre Ballet)

· “Serenade to Julia” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet – 1975)

· “La Favorita” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet – 1967)

· “Camille” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet – 1967)

· “Tico and the Golden Wings” (Sacramento Theatre Company)

Excerpts

· “The Sound of Music” (Sacramento Civic Junior Ballet)

· “I Hear You Calling” (Sacramento Theatre Ballet)

· “Sympathique” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet)

· “Ergo” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet – 1973)

· “Loose Ends” (San Joaquin Concert Ballet – 1974)

· Summer stock work (Pollardville Palace Theatre, Stockton – 1972)

Musicals

· “Pajama Game” (Tracy Civic Theatre)

· Three seasons for Tracy High School musicals

· “Plain & Fancy” (Stockton Civic Theatre)

· “Applause” (S.C.T. – 1981)

· “Guys and Dolls” (S.C.T.)

· “I Do, I Do” (S.C.T.)

· “Once Upon a Mattress” (S.C.T.)

· “The Fantastics” (S.C.T. and Children’s Theatre of Lodi)

· “O.K.” (University of the Pacific and Carmel Studio Theatre)

· “West Side Story” (San Joaquin Delta College – 1966)

· “Grease” (S.J.D.C. – 1983)

· “Annie” (S.J.D.C. – 1984)

· “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (S.J.D.C. – 1984)

Operas

· “Amahl and the Night Visitors” (University of the Pacific and the Stockton Opera Association, 1970 and 1976)

· “Hansel and Gretel” (directed and choreographed, Stockton Opera Association – 1981)

· “Gypsy Baron” (Stockton Opera Association – 1974)

· “The Bartered Bride” (Stockton Opera Association – 1975)

· Summer stock work (Pollardville Palace Theatre, Stockton – 1972)

· “The Merry Widow” (Stockton Opera Association – 1990)

Dance Education

· Elva Eilers, Stockton, California (began at age 10 – 1940)

· Richard Gibson in California, New York City and The Netherlands

· Michael Brigante in Los Angeles

· Dean Crockett in Sacramento

· Alan Howard, Mark Wilde and Harold Christensen in San Francisco

· Madame Vera Volkova in Canada

· Professor Omensky from Russia in Carmel

· Mr. Pluses from Denmark in Sacramento

· California Community College Eminence Credential in Ballet, Jazz and Tap Dance

· Joffrey Ballet School

· Banff School of Fine Arts

· Shamil Yagudin – Bolshoi Ballet – Moscow U.S.S.R.

Seminars

· P.R. B.A. Choreographic Seminar (1968)

· Seminars for Handicapped in Dayton, OH (1969)

· New York and The Netherlands (Summers 1971, 1973, and 1974)

· London (1971 and 1974)

· Cologne, Germany (1973)

· Venice (1973)

· The Netherlands Ballet Company – toured as an observer (1973 and 1976)

· Paris (1974)

· Varna, Bulgaria (1974)

· Cannes, France and Spain (1975)

· Moscow & Leningrad, U.S.S.R. – seminar participant and observer of international competitions (1980 – 1983)

· Tiblisia (Georgia), U.S.S.R. - Vaganova Method – 6 weeks of intensive study (1981 and 1983)

· P.R.B.A. Festivals in Sacramento, San Jose, San Deigo, Pasadena, Laguna Beach, Fresno, Stockton, San Rafael, Seattle WA, Austin TX, and Duluth MN – studied with various master teachers (21 annual 3 day festivals)

· The NARB Artistic Directors Seminar, Sara Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (July 15-30, 1986)

· Monte Carol, Monaco (1985)

Master Classes

· Peter Apple

· Milenko Banovitch

· Robert Barnett

· Ann Barzel

· Meredith Baylis

· Sally Bliss

· Ruthanna Boris

· Patricia Cairns

· Richard Cammack

· Jean Paul

· Sonja Chamberlain R.A.D.

· Nico Charisse

· Jerry Bywaters Cochran

· Leon Danlian

· Joe Emery

· Maria Feye

· Ernie Flatt

· Japp Flier

· Martin Freedmann

· Raoul Gelabert

· Bill Griffith

· Ron Guidi

· David Howard

· Jean Isaacs

· Jillana

· Robert Joffrey

· Anatol Joukowsky

· Stanley Kahn

· Bella Lawitsky

· Robert Lindgren

· Eugene Loring

· John Marshal

· Billy Martin-Viscount

· Roberta Meyers

· Alexander Minns

· June Mitchell

· Ed Mock

· David Moroni

· Fernand Nault

· Duncan Noble

· Ann Parson

· Jim Piersal

· Ron Poindexter

· Nora Roach

· Jerome Robbins

· Angez Roboz

· Vernon Russel

· Job Saunders

· Fenano Schauffenberg

· John Magna

· Ralph Simmons

· Michael Simms

· Benny Smith

· Michael Smuin

· Bill Spencer

· Arnold Spohr

· Marina Stavitskya

· Marion Stuart

· Maria Tallcheif

· Sonya Tivan

· Anna Lee Uherek

· Rudy Van Manen

· Eva Van Genscy

· Hans Van Manen

· Peter Van Muyden

· Jenny Veldhuis

· Violette Verdy

· Norbert Vesak

· Renee Vincent

· Jonathan Watts

· Stanley Williams

· Yuriko

· Hector Zaraspe

· Olga Ziceva