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…John Castagna envisioned the end of social hostilities and the start of communal solidarity in “Peace by Piece” for the IT Squad. A propulsive Mark Governor score and periodic spoken maxims helped unify a collage of gesture, pedestrian motion, social dancing and gymnastics suggesting various facets of the dying power structure.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.6″ min_height=”511px” custom_margin=”17px|||||”]<\/p>\n serves as Resident Choreographer for the Contemporary Ballet Collective\/LA since 2001.<\/strong><\/p>\n Castagna won a Los Angeles area Emmy Award for a television special entitled Peace by Piece<\/em>, a collaboration with choreographer Lori DuPeron and composer Mark Governor. Dance Magazine nominated his work Joy<\/em> for Video of the Month and Castagna\u2019s The Golden Slave<\/em> won Pointe Magazine\u2019s Video of the Month.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Castagna directed and choreographed Kimono in 2017.\u00a0 This short dance film has screened in Warsaw, Rome and Los Angeles.\u00a0 Celebration Duet, his latest short dance film, is presently being released. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Castagna\u2019s oeuvre includes several works for Ballet Guatemala, Staten Island Ballet and Hamilton College.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Castagna holds a Master’s Degree in Choreography (M.A.) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a B.A. in Fine Arts.<\/strong><\/p>\n Maestro Stefan Wenta is Mr. Castagna’s mentor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_blurb image=”https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a_stefanBioPic.jpg” _builder_version=”4.0.7″ hover_enabled=”0″ background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)”]<\/p>\n John Castagna’s works always deal with social concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n — Stefan Wenta, Ballet Master, Choreographer<\/strong><\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John-Castagna-Choreographer.jpg” _builder_version=”4.0.6″ max_width=”74%” min_height=”345px”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …John Castagna envisioned the end of social hostilities and the start of communal solidarity in “Peace by Piece” for the IT Squad. A propulsive Mark Governor score and periodic spoken maxims helped unify a collage of gesture, pedestrian motion, social dancing and gymnastics suggesting various facets of the dying power structure. \u2013 Lewis Segal, Los […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcastagna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}John M. Castagna<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n