Company Members:

Amy Cain	Riccardo Denigris	Dawn Dippel	Domenico Luciano	Federica Vincifori

AMY CAIN was born in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up in The Woodlands/Spring area of Texas. Her 20 years of dance training include working with such instructors/choreographers as Wes Veldink, director of The Wes Veldink Movement in New York; Fred Strobel, Clara Cravey, Barbara Bears, Naomi Glass, Caleb Mitchell, and Damien Schwiethale of Houston Ballet; Randall Flinn and Laura Ziegelbauer of Ad Deum Dance Company; Dominic Walsh and Domenico Luciano of Dominic Walsh Dance Theater; Steve Rooks of the Martha Graham Company; Hope Boykin of Alvin Ailey; Steven Boyd; and Ken McCulloch, Ms. Cain’s personal dance coach and source of inspiration throughout her career. Ms. Cain is a founding member and co-director of Revolve Dance Company, resident company of NHPA® Dance Studio in Spring where she is in her fourteenth year of co-ownership. Ms. Cain recently become a full-time member of Dominic Walsh Dance Theater where she has performed works by Mr. Walsh, Italian choreographers Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli, and Mauro Bigonzetti.

RICCARDO DENIGRIS was born in Italy and trained at La Scala Ballet School in Milan where he studied classical, modern-contemporary, and folk dance techniques. During this time, he took part in all of the school's performances and danced in several galas. He also danced with La Scala Ballet Company in galas and in Kabuki choreographed by Maurice Bejart and Nozze di Figaro choreographed by Anna Maria Prina. Mr. De Nigris won first prize as a soloist and second prize for choreographic composition under Enrico Morelli's guidance at the international "Rieti danza Festival 2003." In 2007, he received his diploma from La Scala and also won a scholarship for young dancers for "Fragmentos de Ombra Maestras del Siglo XX" from Jiri Kylian.

DAWN DIPPEL has been dancing most of her life and is now part owner of North Harris Performing Arts in The Woodlands, Texas. Ms. Dippel is co-director and member of Revolve Dance Company, while also working full-time with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. Ms. Dippel grew up in Houston, graduated from Houston’s High School of Performing and Visual Arts Dance Department, and since then has been training in and outside of Houston. Locally she has trained with Fred Strobel, Priscilla Murphy, Naomi Glass, Randall Flinn (director of Ad Deum Dance Company), Clara Cravey, Dominic Walsh, Domenico Luciano, Ken McCulloch, and has worked closely with Wes Veldink (director of the Wes Veldink Movement in New York. Recently, Ms. Dippel had the opportunity to work with some of the leading Italian choreographers. She has spent many years working beside many talented and professional artists who have been an influence and inspiration in her journey of this art.

DOMENICO LUCIANO from Naples, Italy joined DWDT in 2005 becoming the first company dancer to be hired under full-contract. Having made his American debut with Tulsa Ballet in 2004, Mr. Luciano has studied at the Teatro di San Carlo Ballet School and danced with various companies in Europe including Europadance in France, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Germany, Teatro Comunale in Florence, and Teatro Dell’Opera in Rome. His repertory includes many of the classical principal leads such as Romeo, Paris, and Benvolio in both Sir Kenneth MacMillan and John Cranko's Romeo & Juliet, Solor in La Bayadere, The Prince in The Nutcracker, Albrecht in Giselle, In the Night by Jerome Robbins, Roland Petit's Ma Pavlova, and Don Jose with the National Ballet of China in Carmen. Mr. Luciano also excels in his contemporary repertoire which includes works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Mauro Bigonzetti, Carole Armitage, Michele Merola, and Dominic Walsh. He culminated his first season with DWDT dancing the challenging role of Tybalt in Walsh's new creation, Romeo & Juliet. In 2003, he received the Leonide Massine award in Positano.

FEDERICA VINCIFORI was born in Italy and trained at La Scala Ballet School in Milan where she studied classical, modern-contemporary, and folk dance techniques. She received her diploma in June 2007 under the direction of Frédéric Olivieri. Ms. Vincifori participated in all of the school’s performances, interpreting solo roles in Mats Ek’s Sleeping Beauty, George Iancu’s La Mascherata, and Jiri Kylian’s Nomeden, and also took part in several galas with La Scala Ballet Company. In addition, she performed in The Royal Opera House production of Sleeping Beauty in London and in the opening ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.