Company Leadership
Lawan Morrison (Artistic Director) and Mallory Morrison (Assistant Director)
Lawan Morrison is the founder of Peninsula Dance Theatre and has been PDT’s Artistic Director since 1973. She owns and operates the Bremerton Dance Center, providing dance instruction to Kitsap county. She also serves as a guest teacher at Olympic College in Bremerton. As a choreographer, she has collaborated with directors throughout the local area, including Oregon and Montana. In 2002, Ms. Morrison received the YWCA's coveted "Women of Achievement Award." She is an avid member of the "Red Hat Club." An active member of the West Sound Arts Council board, Ms. Morrison has worked to promote the arts in the greater Kitsap community for many years. Ms. Morrison has twice served as president of Regional Dance America/Pacific, and in 2006 had the honor of hosting the RDA/Pacific Dance Festival.
Mallory Morrison Assistant Artistic Director, received her training with Bremerton Dance Center and joined PDT as a dancer in 1998. Much of Ms. Morrison’s dance education also stems from attending several summer dance intensive across the US. As a PDT dancer, Ms. Morrison toured with the company to France, in 2001 and in 2006, she performed at Disney World and with the Royal Caribbean Cruise line tour. Outside of PDT she has had professional opportunities to perform with Dance This! a company based in Seattle and as a backup dancer in Cheri Moon’s, One More Crazy Summer. In 2008, Ms. Morrison graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration through Central Washington University. She is also a certified ABT Teacher for levels Pre-Primary through Level 3. Ms. Morrison received the Kitsap Sun’s 20 under 40 for 2015 and the Women of Achievement for Arts, Culture, design from the YWCA in 2016. As the Assistant Artistic Director Ms. Morrison hopes to inspire every dancer to reach his or her highest aspirations.
Mallory Morrison Assistant Artistic Director, received her training with Bremerton Dance Center and joined PDT as a dancer in 1998. Much of Ms. Morrison’s dance education also stems from attending several summer dance intensive across the US. As a PDT dancer, Ms. Morrison toured with the company to France, in 2001 and in 2006, she performed at Disney World and with the Royal Caribbean Cruise line tour. Outside of PDT she has had professional opportunities to perform with Dance This! a company based in Seattle and as a backup dancer in Cheri Moon’s, One More Crazy Summer. In 2008, Ms. Morrison graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration through Central Washington University. She is also a certified ABT Teacher for levels Pre-Primary through Level 3. Ms. Morrison received the Kitsap Sun’s 20 under 40 for 2015 and the Women of Achievement for Arts, Culture, design from the YWCA in 2016. As the Assistant Artistic Director Ms. Morrison hopes to inspire every dancer to reach his or her highest aspirations.
Alan Futterman (Music Director)
Alan Futterman is the Music Director of both the Peninsula Ballet Orchestra and the Academy Chamber Orchestra. He served on the Faculty of Central Washington University for 10 years and as Music Director of the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Dover Symphony, Principal Conductor for the Weierstrass Society Concerts of Contemporary Music (New York, NY) and Conductor in Residence for Jeunesse Musicale of Europe (Croatia). Mr. Futterman holds a Master's degree from the Juilliard School of Music, a Bachelor's degree from Manhattan School of Music, and completed two years of Doctoral Studies and advanced studies in Linguistics and Musicology at Brandeis University. Always active as a composer, Mr. Futterman's works include orchestral and chamber music. His Ode, with text by Theodore Roethke, was performed on tour in many cities throughout the United States. Lepi nash kostanich, variations on an original Istrian folk song, was premiered in the spring of 1995 and has been performed on numerous occasions in the U.S. and in Croatia. His orchestral works include Farrago and Fugue(1997); Double Trouble, a setting of the Witches' Scene from Macbeth; the World Beat Dance Suite #1 (1998); World Beat Dance Suite #2 (2000) and Fiesta Mexicana (2005).
You can hear his Chamber Orchestra here.
You can hear his Chamber Orchestra here.
