Jodie Gates (Dancer) has been working professionally in the dance world for over 25 years. She has worked with the Joffrey Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Scottish Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet and Miami City Ballet, among others.  Now a nationally recognized choreographer, she is also a guest teacher for professional dance companies internationally and stages the ballets of William Forsythe around the world. Upon relocating to Southern California, Ms. Gates is also a professor of dance at the University of California/Irvine and is founder and artistic director of CaDance, which presents the annual Laguna Dance Festival in Laguna Beach, California. Ms. Gates has worked extensively with several master choreographers and teachers. She has served as rehearsal director for the Joffrey Ballet and Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and guest taught for dance companies such as the Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Frankfurt, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Washington Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Parsons Dance Company, The Scottish Ballet, and Matthew Bourne’s touring company of Swan Lake.  She has been featured in two PBS ‘Great Performances’ series and other television events, including a special presentation performance at the White House in Washington, D.C., ‘The Tonight Show’ with Jay Leno, and has appeared in several commercial and video works. She can be seen featured on video as ‘the women in red’ in The Joffrey Ballet's Billboards, a full-length rock ballet set to music by the musical artist Prince. Her choreographic credits include: Barely Silent for Complexions Contemporary Ballet, premiered in NYC at the Joyce Theater in January, 2007; Minor Loop for the Washington Ballet in June, 2006; Naked Exchange for the University of California/Irvine, February 2007; Momentary Play for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, October, 2005; now and again at The Joyce Theater, created for Ballet N/Y in 2005; In the Arms of Morpheus for the Phrenic New Ballet of Philadelphia in 2004; Three At a Time, for Laguna Dance Theater; Somewhere/In-Between, for Ballet Pacifica in 2003; Por Ti for American Ballet Theater’s summer workshop in 2003; and Vinyasa for Pennsylvania Ballet dancers in 2000.

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