Golden Corpse
Cast members who perform with Golden Corpse are known for coming from diverse backgrounds in the arts and many have taken the stage in dozens of theater venues, locally and worldwide. We invite singers, dancers, actors, poets, and musicians on stage to delight audiences with stories about real characters who walked our streets, today and in yesteryear. We also set our stage for darker topics dealing with police injustice, corruption, murder, protests, and suicide as is seen in our show Journey of Memorie, about real San Diego characters and four ghosts. * (pictured below)
2024 Season
Andromeda Breeze,
Andromeda Breeze Bradley is new to Golden Corpse. She has multiple projects going at any given time and is heavily involved in the San Diego music scene. She is the current drummer for Poised in the Darkness, she founded a punk band called Sexworm and she danced in Pruitt Igoe for a number of years - their last performance together being for Project Blank in 2023.
Andromeda has also collaborated on video projects with Xavier Vasquez for artists such as Troikastra and Satanic Planet and was the host for the live stream show Radio Axiom from 2017-2019.
Her most current project is NUN TRUCKER where she is a tap dancing, drumming, singing nun.
Andromeda enjoys teaching ballet, tap, jazz and contemporary to children and adults. She currently teaches at Limitless Dance Complex in pacific beach.
Andromeda received her BA in dance from UC San Diego and her AA in Digital Music Technology from San Diego City College. Andromeda has a long history of dancing in San Diego and is forever grateful to everyone she’s ever danced with over the decades.
George Willis,MA MFA, Professor Emeritus, SDSU school of Music and Dance, is founder and past President of the Board of Directors of San Diego Dance Theatre. Mr Willis has performed with the Charles Weidman Dance Theatre, San Diego Dance Theatre, San Diego Ballet, the Harry Partch Ensemble, Starlight, Fantasia Espanola (Flamenco), and 3's Company & Dancers. He is a past President of the San Diego Dance Alliance, (SDDA). In 1998 he received the " Tommy Life Time Achievement Award from SDDA.
As past director of the San Diego State University Studio Theatre, he has presented over 500 concerts of student and professional dance. In 2007 he received the Outstanding Faculty Award in the Dance Division of the School of Music and Dance.
In 2019 he was honored by the Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater with the title "Founding Director".
Along with Jean Isaacs he received an award, Reconocimeintos, for many years of cross boarder exchanges with Mexico. Award presented at the opening of the Cuerpos en Transito 2019 at the Centro Cultural Tijuana.
It is an a honor to return to the stage at Les Girls.
Kate Brill, danced with Contemporary Dance Theatre for 12 years, seeing them grow from small and unknown to world-renowned, touring through Europe, the Far East, Canada, and the Americas. While there she also performed many leading roles for the BBC. Moving to San Diego in 1983 Kate danced first with 3's Company and later Isaacs McCaleb, rejoining the British Company to perform Stabat Mater for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. She has taught Graham technique for the London Contemporary Dance School, Ballet Rambert, UCSD, SDSU, SDDT, and SD Ballet. Trained in Bothe Pilates and Gyrotonics, she is heading towards retirement with gardening, Pickleball, dancing with the Aging Creatively group, and performing when opportunities come her way.
Minaqua McPherson, was first introduced to dance and the stage in her youth with classes in ballet and jazz at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. As a young adult, she began to study Modern Dance at UCSD, where she graduated with a BA in dance and theater in 2007. Since then, Minaqua has trained and performed in arts communities nationally and internationally with a multitude of outstanding choreographers including Evelyn Thomas of Nuba Dance Theater, Barbara Fritsche Danza, Gabe Mason, Lavina Rich of Push Process Movement, Monica Bill Barnes, Diego Pinon's Body Ritual Movement, Greg Sample of Sample Dance, and Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater. She joined Kata Pierce Morgan's Golden Corpse Ensemble in 2012 as a performer, and since has taken on set and stage design, costuming, and lighting design for the shows.
Stephanie Smith graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Modern Dance Performance. She was kicked out of Texas for not caring about football and landed in Sandy Eggo. She has performed for Malashock Dance, Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater, The PGK Project, Michael Mizerany, Golden Corpse, and many others in San Diego. She has trained aeriel apparatuses including the lyra and pole. Besides dance, her biggest passion is her dog training business and being the best dog mom she can be.
Steve Baker, retired in 2015 after 30 years of service in the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District as a music educator and Dean of Arts, Languages, and Communication. He has appeared numerous times during his career with symphonic orchestras performing large-scale jazz works such as Rapsody in Blue and the Concerto in F by George Gershwin, Dialog for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra by Howard Brubeck, and the 1998 West Coast premiere of the Duke Ellington Piano Concerto, New World a’Comin,’. In January 2005, he began working with Jean Isaacs of San Diego Dance Theater as the company musician and technical director. Since then,
he has collaborated with Ms. Isaacs on major staged dance productions. He continues to perform with Ms. Isaacs in annual productions of Trolley Dances and other dance and musical performances. He is also active in various film and recording projects as a composer, performer, audio engineer, and producer.
Golden Corpse Past Cast Mentions
John Diaz
Joyce Ann Martin
Alanna Deleon
Michael Stevens
Leslie Carter
Kate Mcgrew
Binh Nguyen
Sarah Jaffe
Todd Mitchum
Diego Pinon
Efren Limbag
Patti Coburn
Hannah Cook
Brianna Bellamy
Charlene Penner
Anne Gehman
Eric Hodkins
