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KITTY LUNN, RDE*
- Founder and Artistic Director - Ms. Lunn's love affair with the dance
began at the age of eight, when her grandmother took her to see the film The Red Shoes.
By the time she was fifteen, she was dancing principal roles with the New Orleans Civic Ballet,
where she made her professional debut in Coppelia.
Her work in New Orleans led to
a scholarship to the Washington Ballet where she studied and worked with both Mary Day and the
great ballet master Edward Caton. Numerous ballets in which she danced include Swan Lake,
Giselle, Les Sylphides, and The Nutcracker. While in Washington, Ms. Lunn
worked with such dance legends as Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Jose Limon and Erik Bruhn.
While preparing for her first Broadway show, she slipped on ice, fell down a flight of stairs and
broke her back. Now a paraplegic using a wheelchair, Ms. Lunn works diligently on behalf of
performing artists with disabilities. In the fall of 1995, she founded Infinity Dance Theater,
a non-traditional dance company featuring dancers with disabilities and non-disabled dancers.
Infinity Dance Theater is committed to bringing the joy and drama of motion and movement to a new
level of inclusion by expanding the boundaries of dance and changing the world's perception of
what a dancer is. To this end, she has developed wheelchair dance techniques strongly rooted in and
growing out of classical ballet and modern dance.
*"Registered Dance Educator"
certifies that Ms. Lunn has passed an evaluation conducted under the authority of the National
Dance Education Association and the National Registry of Dance Educators, Inc.
MICHAEL A. FITCH, Executive Director, brings to Infinity Dance Theater almost 30 years of
experience in operating and advising companies in the communications, media production, and theatrical
fields on a national and international level. These ventures and positions have included Michael A.
Fitch Productions; President & CEO of Hawkwind Productions Ltd.; President of Linksland
Productions, Ltd.; President of Visions Virtual Arts; and operating partner in Visions Imaging,
a consortium of multi-media artists.
As an owner/operator of several companies, Michael's
experience includes general business operation and raising capital to ensure the successful
operation of performing arts companies. He is well-versed in the writing and implementation of
strategic business plans, budget creation, and standard business practices. Mr. Fitch also has
extensive experience in marketing and promotion, and has created and managed budgets for a variety
of television and film productions.
As an award-winning producer in the media communications
field, his film and video work has appeared on the Public Television Network, Discovery Channel, ESPN,
and several other major networks. He has also presented his nature work at The British Museum of
Natural History in London.
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