Randee Paufve received her early dance training from Robert Christopher and
Helene Yelverton in Binghamton, NY, and graduated from Elmira College, Magna
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cross-Cultural
Performing Arts. She spent her junior year in India, studying classical and folk
dance, Tamil, and Karnatic music. Randee holds a Master of Arts degree in Dance
Choreography and Performance from the State University of New York, Brockport,
and is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dramatic Arts from
the University of California, Davis.
Randee has been working on the west coast as a dancer, choreographer and
educator since 1987. She performed professionally with several Bay Area
companies including Nancy Karp+Dancers, and Spoon; as a guest artist with
choreographers Ellen Bromberg and Della Davidson, and with the Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project in Portland.
Randee has received numerous choreographic and teaching commissions from
west coast organizations including Dancer’s Group San Francisco, Portland
Institute for Contemporary Art, and Conduit (Portland). She has taught on the
faculties of California State East Bay, the University of California at Davis, Reed
College and University of San Francisco, and has served as head of the dance
programs at Lewis & Clark College and Saint Mary’s College of California.
Randee has also trained professional dancers for the last fifteen years through
her popular dance classes at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley.
Randee’s choreography has been presented by West Coast organizations
and institutions, including The Mondavi Performing Arts Center in Davis; by
Summerfest/Dance, the West Wave Dance Festival, Dancer’s Group Studio
Theater, Theater Artaud and ODC Theaters of San Francisco; the Julia Morgan
Theater in Berkeley; Max10 in Los Angeles; PICA (Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art), Lewis & Clark College, Conduit and Echo Theater in Portland,
and by On The Boards/Seattle. Randee’s work has been seen nationally through
multiple performances at the Joyce SoHo Theater in Manhattan, the Dance
Complex in Boston, Elmira College, Elmira, NY, and by the Phantom Theater
in Warren, VT. Her work was recently selected for performance during the 2007 Dance Under Construction Conference at UC Davis.
Randee’s commissioned works for college and university dance companies have
been selected numerous times for performances at American College Dance
Festivals. From the Doll’s House, a 2003 work commissioned by St. Mary’s
College Dance Company, was chosen for the ACDF gala performances.
Among other prizes, Randee has received Isadora Duncan Dance Award
nominations, as well as numerous scholarships for research and study, including
a 2006 UC Davis Humanities Graduate Research Award. Publications include
articles for In Dance (San Francisco Dancer’s Group), and [One] Factorial
Performance Journal.
Randee has been awarded multiple choreography residencies at the Djerassi
Resident Artist Program in California; the Red Cinder Creativity Center, Hawaii;
the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and at the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.
Influential teachers include Jim Payton, Susannah Newman, Beverly Brown, Garth
Fagan, Santo Giglio, Irene Dowd, Nina Martin, Margaret Jenkins, Joe Goode, Sara
Shelton Mann, Shelley Senter, Gwen Welliver, Susan Rethorst, Tere O’Connor,
Yvonne Meier, Chris Aiken, Andrew Harwood, Beth Harris, and Frank Shawl.
Paufve | dance has been funded by the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Clorox
Company Foundation, CA$H/Theatre Bay Area, Genentech, the University of
California/Davis, the Saint Mary’s College of California Faculty Development Fund
and Alumni Association, Southwest Airlines, the Helen L. Bing Foundation, the
Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, the Shawl/Anderson Dance Center
Foundation, and numerous individual donors.
Helene Yelverton in Binghamton, NY, and graduated from Elmira College, Magna
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cross-Cultural
Performing Arts. She spent her junior year in India, studying classical and folk
dance, Tamil, and Karnatic music. Randee holds a Master of Arts degree in Dance
Choreography and Performance from the State University of New York, Brockport,
and is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dramatic Arts from
the University of California, Davis.
Randee has been working on the west coast as a dancer, choreographer and
educator since 1987. She performed professionally with several Bay Area
companies including Nancy Karp+Dancers, and Spoon; as a guest artist with
choreographers Ellen Bromberg and Della Davidson, and with the Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project in Portland.
Randee has received numerous choreographic and teaching commissions from
west coast organizations including Dancer’s Group San Francisco, Portland
Institute for Contemporary Art, and Conduit (Portland). She has taught on the
faculties of California State East Bay, the University of California at Davis, Reed
College and University of San Francisco, and has served as head of the dance
programs at Lewis & Clark College and Saint Mary’s College of California.
Randee has also trained professional dancers for the last fifteen years through
her popular dance classes at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley.
Randee’s choreography has been presented by West Coast organizations
and institutions, including The Mondavi Performing Arts Center in Davis; by
Summerfest/Dance, the West Wave Dance Festival, Dancer’s Group Studio
Theater, Theater Artaud and ODC Theaters of San Francisco; the Julia Morgan
Theater in Berkeley; Max10 in Los Angeles; PICA (Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art), Lewis & Clark College, Conduit and Echo Theater in Portland,
and by On The Boards/Seattle. Randee’s work has been seen nationally through
multiple performances at the Joyce SoHo Theater in Manhattan, the Dance
Complex in Boston, Elmira College, Elmira, NY, and by the Phantom Theater
in Warren, VT. Her work was recently selected for performance during the 2007 Dance Under Construction Conference at UC Davis.
Randee’s commissioned works for college and university dance companies have
been selected numerous times for performances at American College Dance
Festivals. From the Doll’s House, a 2003 work commissioned by St. Mary’s
College Dance Company, was chosen for the ACDF gala performances.
Among other prizes, Randee has received Isadora Duncan Dance Award
nominations, as well as numerous scholarships for research and study, including
a 2006 UC Davis Humanities Graduate Research Award. Publications include
articles for In Dance (San Francisco Dancer’s Group), and [One] Factorial
Performance Journal.
Randee has been awarded multiple choreography residencies at the Djerassi
Resident Artist Program in California; the Red Cinder Creativity Center, Hawaii;
the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and at the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.
Influential teachers include Jim Payton, Susannah Newman, Beverly Brown, Garth
Fagan, Santo Giglio, Irene Dowd, Nina Martin, Margaret Jenkins, Joe Goode, Sara
Shelton Mann, Shelley Senter, Gwen Welliver, Susan Rethorst, Tere O’Connor,
Yvonne Meier, Chris Aiken, Andrew Harwood, Beth Harris, and Frank Shawl.
Paufve | dance has been funded by the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Clorox
Company Foundation, CA$H/Theatre Bay Area, Genentech, the University of
California/Davis, the Saint Mary’s College of California Faculty Development Fund
and Alumni Association, Southwest Airlines, the Helen L. Bing Foundation, the
Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, the Shawl/Anderson Dance Center
Foundation, and numerous individual donors.
