VAL

Valentine Aprile is a newcomer to on-camera directing. She has worked as an actor, acting coach, a director and associate director for the stage, and is currently the resident movement director for Art of Warr Productions in NY. An artist of multiple disciplines, she has won varied arts awards for painting, performance art, and aerial dance theater creation. Her own work has been shown in such galleries and stage venues as Rehs Contemporary Galleries (NY NY), Lyons Wier Gallery (NY NY via The Art Students League of NY), The Panama Art Factory (Sacramento CA), The Goggleworks Center For the Arts (Reading PA), The Reading Museum (Reading PA), Artists’ House Gallery (Phila PA), Columbia Art Center (Columbia MD), Harlem School of the Arts with NAWA (NY NY), NYCOO Gallery (NY NY) Manhattan Borough President’s Office (NY NY) The Painted Bride (Phila PA), Paolo Soleri’s Acrosanti (Acrosanti AZ with Group Motion), Martha B Knoeble Dance Center (Long Beach CA), Temple University guest artist (Phila PA), Ursinus College (Collegeville PA), The Trocadero (Phila PA), Kumquat Dance Center (Phila PA), and others. Ms Aprile is currently a collaborating ‘Drawing the Dance’ workshop instructor at The Art Students League of NY. She has been published in American Art Collector and Create! Magazine. Ms. Aprile’s education includes The University of the Arts for drawing & painting, dance, and art education (PA), The Art Students League of New York-workshops (NY), The Martha Graham School of Dance (NY), The Maggie Flanigan Acting Conservatory (NY), Peridance (NY), and Nimble Arts (VT).