Company
Rebecca Keyser Houck Founder and Artistic Director
She is a native of Los Angeles, holds a B.A. in Dance from UCLA, and was a recipient of the Design for Sharing Scholarship. During her senior year, she choreographed and performed in Naked Closet, a duet addressing the issue of date rape, which was featured in Fem (L.A. Feminist NewsMagazine) in the article entitled, Choreographing One’s Identity. She has since used this piece to give lecture demonstrations to high school and college students to bring awareness of date rape and hopes to continue on this mission.
As a professional dancer in L.A., she joined bodytalk dance and Carol Solomon Dance Company. She performed throughout southern California, in Father/ Daughter Dances (Victoria Marks, choreographer) as well as Women’s Work (Arianne MacBean, choreographer). She choreographed for the production of StoryPeople directed by the M.Y.E. theater company and presented her own choreography at Highways Performance Space. She was the full-time Dance Director at Harvard-Westlake, a prestigious private school, and she taught dance throughout the Los Angeles area.
In 2004 she moved to Hoboken, NJ with her husband. Since being out here she has established herself in the fitness industry, as a well sought after yoga and Pilates instructor, a group fitness coordinator, and a fitness model. She has given lecture demonstrations at LaGuardia High School and Stevens Institute of Technology. She had promising opportunities with Parsons Dance, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. and David Dorfman Dance. In 2006, she founded Truth dance and premiered Set Free at the 411 Space @ Times Square Arts Center as part of the Artery Dance Showcase. In 2007, she gave birth and took a sabbatical. Since then, she has choreographed and performed in “The Burning of My Heart,” a collaborative performance piece with dance, poetry and percussion, at St. Mark’s historical church in West Orange, NJ. She also choreographed a piece with novice dancers as part of a community project for the Lamb of God Fellowship Gala. Though she has the tools necessary to build a successful dance company, it is only by the grace of God that she fulfills this calling on her life.
Katherine Richardson Dancer
Katherine is a recent graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, earning a BFA in Modern Dance Performance and the award for Outstanding Performance in Modern Dance. Katherine first received her dance training at Towson University’s Children’s Dance Division in Towson, Maryland. Additional training includes North Carolina School of the Arts, The Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and the Doug Varone and Dancers Summer Workshop. She has performed works by Silvana Cardell, Christine Cox, Manfred Fischbeck, Gus Giordano, Martha Graham, Curt Haworth, Ronen Koresh, Molly Misgalla, Twyla Tharp, and Doug Varone. Other credits include the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2008, 80th Anniversary Tour of the Martha Graham Company (guest ensemble work), Disney World, the CEC in Philadelphia, and MOMIX Industrial at the Smashbox Studios in LA during Fashion Week. In April, Katherine successfully self produced a show, consisting of six new works, in Philadelphia made possible through a grant awarded to her from the University of the Arts. Katherine is currently working and living in New York City.
Daniel Genalo Dancer
Initially inspired by Motown music and Soul Train, Daniel “DanSir” Genalo first performed in 1990. Though primarily self-taught, DanSir crafted his style from a variety of movement vocabularies, especially House, Hip-Hop, Locking, Popping, Bboying and Capoeira Angola. He trained and worked with dance groups Sour Patch, HouseBroken, Vissi Dance Theater and Kundu Dance Co. Daniel has also worked with Nike, Vogue Bambini, Bud Light, Time Out NY, Current TV, Universal Records Spain, Geffen Records, The Blue Note Jazz Club NY (with The Boundary Band), Louie Vega/Masters at Work, and more. DanSir and Junious “House” Brickhouse partnered to win Scion’s B-boy Hodown House Dance competition in 2005. In 2006, Daniel toured the U.S., Europe and Asia to teach, judge competitions, choreograph and perform. Since then, he has appeared on the cover of Time Out NY’s dance issue, in Bud Light’s advertising campaign, and expanded his repertoire into acting and modeling.
Maria Carofano Dancer
Maria graduated with a BFA in Arts Management with a focus in dance from Long Island University. She has performed in various venues in NYC including the Joyce SoHo, Waldorf Astoria, Riverside Theater and the Tilles Center. She taught dance classes and choreographed productions for KJ Dance Theater, Bayport High School, and J&L Dance Express. She is excited to be performing with Truth dance and thanks her family and friends for all of their support throughout the years.
Andre Sanford Jr. Dancer
As a native New Yorker, he has been a diligent practitioner of Urban Music and Dance Culture and has made his mark in the urban dance scene. He has been pursuing his professional dance career for five years now and has performed throughout NYC. In addition to performing with the House Dance Project, he has taught Hip Hop/House at Djoniba School of Dance. His eclectic dance style conveys an urban perspective through his expressive yet rhythmic movement. He is grateful to be part of Truth dance, as it is another opportunity for him to expand his horizons as an artist.