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![](images/biopic2.jpg) | | IRVA HERTZ-PICCIOTTO Artistic Director HerPic Performances
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![Training](graphics/5training.gif)
- Cecchetti ballet: Whittier Civic Ballet
- Graham technique: David Wood, Marni Wood
- Limon and other modern techniques: Eugene Loring, Marcia Sakamoto,
Beth Harris, Aaron Osborne, Clay Taliaferro, David Dorfman
- Choreography: Marcia Sakamoto, Donald McKayle
- Circus arts: Bill Irwin, The Pickle Family Circus
- Voice for theatre: Rafael Lopez-Barantes
- Theatre workshops: Gerard Pardo, F. Murray Abraham
- Writing: Albert O. Wlecke
- Yoga, Pilates, & Alexander technique
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- Zellerbach Family Foundation (2008)
- The Open Circle Foundation (2007-2008)
- Berkeley Civic Arts Commission (2006-2008)
- The Puffin Foundation, Inc. (2006-2007)
- The North Carolina Breast Cancer Coalition (2001)
- Durham Arts Council (2000)
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- Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 2008)
- Oakland Dance Festival (June 2008)
- Footloose, producer for the Women on the Way Festival (2008)
- East Bay Regional Parks District (2008)
- Spectordance, producer for the Monterey Emerging Choreographers' Festival (2007)
- Works in the Works and the Choreographers' Performance Alliance (2006, 2007)
- the raw + uncut series (2006)
- Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (2005)
- Manbites Dog Theatre (2001)
- The University of North Carolina Department of Dance (1995)
- North Carolina Dance Alliance (1995)
- Durham Arts Council (1993)
- San Francisco Bay Area Dance Coalition
- Amaranth Dance (1989)
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- 2008 Constant Replays ½, producer: Company C Ballet, Oakland Dance Festival
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- 2008 Augury & Entropy. CounterPULSE Theater.
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Program:
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In Praise of Insects
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Constant Replays ½
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The Climes They Are A-Changin' (premiere)
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40 Years
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- 2008: In Praise of Insects, presented in collaboration with East Bay Regional Parks District
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- 2008: 40 Years (35 min) (premier), producer: Footloose, Women on the Way Festival
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- 2007: Dorothea's Doors (20 min), producer: SpectorDance, Monterey Emerging Choreographers' Festival
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- 2007: Nature's Limits, Cesar Chavez & other Berkeley Parks.
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Program:
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Water, Water Everywhere
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In Praise of Insects
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- 2007: In Praise of Insects, producer: Choreographers' Performance Alliance, Eighth St. Studio, Berkeley
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- 2006: Dorothea’s Doors raw & uncut series, curated by Joe Landini, Shotwell Studio, San Francisco
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- 2006: Dorothea’s Doors Works in the Works, Eighth St. Studio, Berkeley
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- 2006: Walls & Doors, ODC Theater, San Francisco.
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Program:
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Dorothea's Doors (premier)
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Side Unseen/H-2-Owe
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- 2005: H-2-Owe, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, ChoreoFest 2005.
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- 2003: Madness Public & Private, Dance Mission Theater in SF, Mondavi Center Studio Theater.
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Program:
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Side Unseen (with music by San Francisco composer Ted Masur;
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A Temporary Nervous Depression
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- 2001: Breast-taking, (1 hr 10 min). Manbites Dog Theatre. Presented in "Other Voices" Series, Durham, NC
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- 2000: Mind Undermined, The Ark, Durham, NC.
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Program:
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Constant Replays two interwoven duets on the theme of everyday obsessions
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A Temporary Nervous Depression
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- 1996: A Temporary Nervous Depression, (1 hr 15 min) (premiere), The Ark, Durham, North Carolina.
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- 1995: Surface Intention, choreographed as a commissioned work for ModernExtension, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student dance company.
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- 1995: Motherhood and Other Moods, (55 min). The Ark, Duke University, Durham, NC
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- 1992 The Yellow Wallpaper, produced by the Durham Arts Council.
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- Whittier Civic Ballet Company
- Bay Area Repertory Dance, 1985-1987
- Nancy Karp + Dancers 1987-1988
- Amaranth Dance 1989
- Time Circus with Michael Rush, Director 1992
- Numerous independent choreographers, including tours in Mexico,
North Carolina, and California
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