Studio Stories: Reminiscing Twin Cities Dance with Tom Kanthak Season 3 Episode 37

Tom Kanthak served as an Instructor of Dance Composition and
Improvisation, Music for Dance, Arts Improvisation, the New Music
Ensemble, and Music Director and Dance Musician for the Perpich
Center for Arts Education, Arts High School Dance Program from
1988 to 2012. He holds a B.A. in Performing Arts from
Metropolitan State University and an M.A. in Music from Ohio
State University. Tom has been involved with music for dance for
over 40 years as a composer, dance musician, choreographer,
dancer and performer. He began his classical music training at
the age of six with piano and today plays a variety of
instruments. He is also a trained modern dancer having studied
with Hanya Holm, Nancy Hauser, Claudia Gitelman, Alwin Nikolais,
Murray Louis and more. He is a member of the International Guild
of Musicians in Dance and the MN based Dance Educators Coalition.
Tom is the originator of SoniCoMotion, the overriding name for
many collaborations with many composers, musicians,
choreographers, dancers, and dance musicians. Some of his
collaborators include choreographers Chris Aiken, Cathy Young,
Patrick Scully, Georgia Stephens, composers/improvisors Michelle
Kinney, Manjunan Gnanaratnam, Jonathan Bayley, David Means, Steve
Goldstein, Brent Michael Davids, dancers Jane Schockley, Mary
Harding, and students from the Arts High School at the Perpich
Center for Arts Education.