WCAF  TEACHERS

West Coast Arts Foundation is the home of The Ballet Folklorico Dance, which provides Mexican folk dance classes four children and adults, under the direction of Nitza Vidal.  

Dance is one of the oldest and most significant forms of cultural expression. Beginning with its origins in the earliest of primitive societies, dance has been an integral part of the human experience. Regardless of whether it functions as art, entertainment, social commentary, or something entirely different, the importance of dance is universal.

Director Netza Vidal founded ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl of Marin County in 1996. For many years our highest goal in the Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl has been to research our folklore and share with the world some of our country’s most prized gifts: its dances, customs and traditions!

The Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl is currently comprised of thirty students. Student’s ages range from five years old to….well, she won’t tell us how old she is. Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl is a group of people from many different cultures. Netzahualcoyotl Ballet Folklorico has participated in many local events and venues including The Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, The Marin County Fair, Petaluma Fair, Sonoma Fair, Solano County Fair, Canal Community Alliance Festival, San Rafael High School Festivals, St. Vincent de Paul Church events, and other Hispanic restaurants and locations as well as private parties, from weddings to quinceañeras and birthday parties.

Director Netzahualcoyotl Vidal is a young, enthusiastic, professional dancer born in the city of Compostela, Nayarit, Mexico. As a youth and to adulthood, he studied under Profesor Jaime Buentello Bazan at Escuela de la Danza Mexicana in Mexico. For the past fifteen years, he has been an instructor and director of Mexican Folkloric Dance. He started his dance career as a director at San Rafael High School in Marin County where he taught for three years and in 1996 he founded Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl. He teaches both adults and children in different locations such as Petaluma, Windsor and San Rafael, Ca. The goal of Netza and the group is to continue the art of traditional Mexican folk dance and Latino culture through performance art education.

Director Netzahualcoyotl Vidal was born in the city of Compostela, Nayarit, Mexico in .He studied Mexican Folkloric dance at the Escuela de la Danza Mexicana Jaime Buentello Bazán from the time he was a young boy on through his early adult life. For the past fifteen years, he has been an instructor and director of Mexican Folkloric Dance. He started his dance career as a director at San Rafael High School in Marin County where he taught for three years. In 1996 he founded Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl which is composed of twenty five students. He teaches both adults and children in different locations such as Petaluma and San Rafael, Ca.
One of his dreams is to have his own studio where he can teach Mexican Folkloric dance as a living, this way he can reach his goal of sharing and spreading part of the Mexican Culture in the United States.

The Marin Actors Workshop under the direction of Terry McGovern, for teens and adults.

ACTOR'S WORKSHOP
Tuesday & Thursday ~ 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM with Terry McGovern

Terry is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most versatile performers. He's had
all-around success in radio and television broadcasting, in commercials and voice-overs,
in animation and CD-ROMs, and in feature movies and theatrical television. He started his movie career working with George Lucas, providing voices for Lucas' first film, THX1138 and later for Star Wars. While recording wild lines in post-production with sound wizard,
Ben Burtt, Terry was given those immortal words: "These are not the droids we're looking for." (More on the Star Wars story.)

In between, he played the young high school teacher in American Graffiti. "The thing
that's always amazed me, is that nothing gets cut out of that movie. Watch it late at
night. I always figure my scene's going to get cut. But there it is. And the restored stuff
is great: Harrison Ford singing, the Committee's John Brent as the evangelical salesman.
It really is a cult classic. I had two guys in their twenties come up to me at a bar a couple
of years ago. 'You're Mr. Wolfe, right?' 'Guilty,' says I. They then launched into the
dialogue from the scene I'm in with Richard Dreyfus. Word for word!"

In 1992, Terry appeared as the nasty man who fires Robin Williams in the opening scene of Mrs. Doubtfire and as the
needle-toting doctor in Nine Months. During a successful twelve years in Los Angeles, his television appearances included guest star roles on "Fernwood 2-Night", "Cagney and Lacey", "St. Elsewhere", "The Hogans", "My Sister Sam", "Happy Days", "The Jeffersons" and "Newhart", to name only a few. He was a season regular on the CBS series "Charlie and Company", starring Flip Wilson and Gladys Knight.

Terry has worked on hundreds of commercials, on-camera and voice-over. In addition, he became a star animation voice, creating the voice of Launchpad McQuack for Walt Disney's "Ducktales" and "Darkwing Duck". You can hear Terry's voice work here.

His stage roles range from Shakespeare to musical comedy; from Tennessee Williams to Neil Simon. Terry has provided voices for several new CD-ROM games. His list of credits include game and educational producers such as Lucasarts, X-Box, Sega, ASCII Entertainment, Accolade and many others. Terry McGovern teaches commercial and character voice, as well
as scene and monologue acting at Voice One in San Francisco, and serves on the faculty of The University of San Francisco and The College of Marin.

Reach Terry at 1-866-29-ACTOR
www.TerryMcGovern.com
bayactor@hotmail.com