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Guest artists are former festival participants who are now professionals in the field of dance.
Kim Pauley, director, resident choreographer and principal dancer for the Charleston Ballet, will be partnered by Olivier Wecxsteen, principal dancer with Les Grand Ballets Canadiens and a frequent guest of the Charleston Ballet. Jazz dancer and choreographer Ronnie De Marco will return for the 20th year to conduct jazz classes. Among his former students have been Chita Rivera, Lorna Luft, Carrie Fisher, Gilda Radnor, Twyla Tharp, John Belushi and Robert Morse. He has performed in several Broadway and off-Broadway shows and was dance soloist at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra. Fla. Other adjudicators and members of the faculty are Kate Trammell, Shane O'Hara, Suzy Gunter, Kimberly Layne Thomas, Cynthia Thompson and John Parks.