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What is it that drives a person to leadership—setting out on a path perhaps unforeseen in the formative stages of a career? The stories revealed in this edition of Center Stage are about Juilliard alumni who have chosen, out of passion or sense of purpose (or both), to take on something entirely new in their professional lives. For some, it meant delving into arenas other than those they may have envisioned when they began their professional journeys. For others, it meant broadening the scope and focus of their careers. Why these paths were taken varies from a desire to refashion performing careers to recognizing a need and filling it. All of the alumni of this Center Stage face the daunting challenges of being leaders, telling here why they chose to take the leap and ended up "running the show." Jamée Ard, Director of National Advancement and Alumni Relations
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 Running the Show
By MARGARET SHAKESPEARE
It’s a Saturday matinee performance of The Selfish Giant, a Literally Alive Children’s Theater production, at the Players Theater on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. After an introduction of the cast who will portray characters in this new stage version of the fairy tale written by Oscar Wilde, a marimbist strikes up a catchy march tune. What is perhaps not casually obvious is that the marimbist—make that marimbist/musical director/composer—is, additionally, the landlord/mortgage holder/man-in-charge of the whole venerable Players Theater building, where Literally Alive is among several dozen itinerant and full-time artist/tenants. More...
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 Artists Striving to Empower Youth
By MAHIRA KAKKAR
Joseph W. Polisi should be proud. The current president of The Juilliard School has always wanted his graduates to be flag bearers of artistic excellence and social consciousness. Today, through ASTEP, a group of Juilliard alumni are doing just that. More...
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 Lunch With Wally Cardona
By CHELSEA AINSWORTH
Cardona’s evening-length, abstract “landscape” works present dancers interacting not just with each other, but with their surrounding space and the shifting terrain of objects that create the performance setting. His work has been presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the Portland (Ore.) Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, as well as in Austria, Belgium, France, Portugal, Korea, Mexico, and Canada. Cardona received a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a 2006 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award. More...
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