HerPic Performances: Biography

IRVA HERTZ-PICCIOTTO
Artistic Director
HerPic Performances

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

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)

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)

2008 Constant Replays ½, producer: Company C Ballet, Oakland Dance Festival
2008 Augury & Entropy. CounterPULSE Theater.

Program:

In Praise of Insects

Constant Replays ½

The Climes They Are A-Changin' (premiere)

40 Years
2008: In Praise of Insects, presented in collaboration with East Bay Regional Parks District
2008: 40 Years (35 min) (premier), producer: Footloose, Women on the Way Festival
2007: Dorothea's Doors (20 min), producer: SpectorDance, Monterey Emerging Choreographers' Festival
2007: Nature's Limits, Cesar Chavez & other Berkeley Parks.

Program:

Water, Water Everywhere

In Praise of Insects
2007: In Praise of Insects, producer: Choreographers' Performance Alliance, Eighth St. Studio, Berkeley
2006: Dorothea’s Doors raw & uncut series, curated by Joe Landini, Shotwell Studio, San Francisco
2006: Dorothea’s Doors Works in the Works, Eighth St. Studio, Berkeley
2006: Walls & Doors, ODC Theater, San Francisco.

Program:

Dorothea's Doors (premier)

Side Unseen/H-2-Owe
2005: H-2-Owe, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, ChoreoFest 2005.
2003: Madness Public & Private, Dance Mission Theater in SF, Mondavi Center Studio Theater.

Program:

Side Unseen (with music by San Francisco composer Ted Masur;

A Temporary Nervous Depression
2001: Breast-taking, (1 hr 10 min). Manbites Dog Theatre. Presented in "Other Voices" Series, Durham, NC
2000: Mind Undermined, The Ark, Durham, NC.

Program:

Constant Replays two interwoven duets on the theme of everyday obsessions

A Temporary Nervous Depression
1996: A Temporary Nervous Depression, (1 hr 15 min) (premiere), The Ark, Durham, North Carolina.
1995: Surface Intention, choreographed as a commissioned work for ModernExtension, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student dance company.
1995: Motherhood and Other Moods, (55 min). The Ark, Duke University, Durham, NC
1992 The Yellow Wallpaper, produced by the Durham Arts Council.

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