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Mark Godden has created works for Boston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre (studio company), Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Northern Ballet Theatre (UK), Ballet Florida, Compania Nacional de Danza (Mexico), Ballet Contemporania (Argentina), Ballet Memphis, Alberta Ballet, Ballet de Jalisco, Ballet British Columbia, Ballet Met, Charlotte Ballet, and Ballet Nacional del Peru.

Godden is Resident Choreographer for the prestigious Harid Dance Conservatory and was Resident Choreographer for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He won Top Honors in choreography in both Varna, Bulgaria and Helsinki, Finland international ballet competitions. He is a recipient of the notable Choo-San Goh award.

Godden’s ballet Dracula was adapted for film and won an Emmy for Best Performing Arts Film; Dracula also won Best Choreography at The Monaco Film Festival. Godden’s Magic Flute film won a Gemini for Best Ensemble Performance.

Godden Directed the 2006 Olympic Games Flag Hand-over Ceremony in Torino, Italy.

In 2014 Godden’s full-length ballet Going Home Star - Truth and Reconciliation was a three-year project based on the forced assimilation of Canada’s First Nations Peoples. Godden premiered Rite of Spring with Fort Wayne Ballet in January 2025 and has acquisitions in Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Orlando Ballet for the 25/26 season.

Tsai Hsi Hung graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2011, an education which included travel to Australia as an exchange student to Queensland Technology University Dance Department. She has worked with the Australian Dance Theater, Tasdance, Expressions Dance Company, and Chunky Move Dance Company Dancers. Since then, her choreography has been commissioned and performed throughout the United States and Asia. 

Hung was recently awarded the Jaffee and Hall Emerging Choreographer Award from Indiana’s Dance Kaleidoscope Company and will create a new work for the company in 2025. Hung is additionally set to premiere a new piece with the Joffrey Concert Group in New York City as part of their Creative Movers Choreography Competition as well as a new work for the South Chicago Dance Theatre. Hung’s work has been featured at companies such as Philadelphia’s BalletX, New York City’s Ballet Hispanico, Milwaukee Ballet, Arkansas Ballet, and Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet. She has been in residence at Western Michigan University, Keenesaw University in Georgia, and the National University of the Arts in Taiwan, where she was a guest teacher from 2022-2024. 

Hung’s choreography often features the interplay between dance and painting. In 2022, Hung created an original work inspired by the paintings of Hans Hofmann that was commissioned by the Battery Dance Company, NYC. In 2020, Hung received a Choreography Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. In 2024, she won Milwaukee Ballet’s Genesis International Choreographic Competition. 

For more than a decade, Fassl has consumed mass quantities of electricity at American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee Ballet, First Stage, Skylight Music Theatre, Peninsula Players, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Next Act Theatre, Forward Theater Company, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, The Fireside Theatre, and many others. Fassl is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local #829; the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local #18; and a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. Portfolio and information at www.AntiShadows.com