Vivian Grigorian Goldes
(VG): One of the first alumni of CDT, earned her B.A. in Dance from UC
Irvine where she also danced with Opera Pacific at the Orange County
Performing Arts Center. She attended New York University’s Tisch
School of the Arts and earned her MFA in Dance working with
choreographers David Parsons and Bebe Miller. She danced with various
choreographers in New York and was a member of Battery Dance Company,
touring nationally and to India and Sri Lanka. Vivian taught ballet,
tap, jazz and modern at the Peri-Dance Centre and the Steffi Nossen
School of Dance in New York. Vivian is also on the dance faculty at
Moorpark College.