The Conservatory
Guam Conservatory of Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive performing arts training to the communities of Guam. Through tuition, fundraising efforts and grants, we aim to make professional-level training accessible to all who are dedicated to learning a classical art. Presently, we are concentrating our efforts on building out our ballet program. Developing our music and drama programs will follow.
Guam Conservatory of Arts is governed by its board of directors. It is the policy of the organization not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical disability, veteran’s status, political service or affiliation, color, religion, or national origin.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EUGENE BOB BORDALLO
President & Artistic Director
Eugene is a former professional dancer with the San Francisco Opera Ballet, Peninsula Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Dance Theater. He has taught various forms of dance throughout California and New York. He worked on the original New York City production of Hedwig & the Angry Inch and his work was featured on the David Letterman and Rosie O’Donnell shows, in magazine and in book form. Mr. Bordallo is also a musician who has composed, staged and directed two full-length musicals for churches in San Francisco. He is a current member of the International Dance Council (CID) and a former member of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA). Mr. Bordallo is overjoyed to return to the island of his youth and the homeland of his parents and ancestors.
REBECCA Z. GRUNZKE
Treasurer
Rebecca, an anthropologist and assistant professor of education at University of Guam, developed her appreciation of the arts while performing as a horn player in marching and jazz bands, wind ensembles, and orchestras. While serving as a dropout prevention teacher in the public school system, she earned both her M.Ed. in social foundations of education and her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Florida. Before moving to Guam in 2021, she was a parent performer and costume mistress for the Atlanta Festival Ballet Company and Gwinnett Ballet Theatre. Dr. Grunzke is married with three children: one, a visual artist with a B.A. in music; another, a talented guitarist and martial artist who attends UOG; and her youngest, a classically trained performing artist who teaches ballet at the Conservatory.
MIRANDA C. DUENAS
Secretary
Miranda Duenas is a passionate advocate for education and sustainability, with a background as a CHamoru Immersion Educator. Her expertise and dedication led her to become the Education Programs Manager at Guahan Sustainable Culture, where she has played a pivotal role in developing the Dinekko Guahan board game. Miranda has also
led numerous Newman's Own Foundation Farm to School field trips and has coordinated the Children's Healthy Living Li'l Sprouts Academy summer and after-school
programs focused on sustainability. With a mission to educate Guam's school children about sustainability and agriculture, Miranda strives to increase food security and sovereignty for future generations.
Past Board Members
MICHAEL A. PANGELINAN
Mike has been a business lawyer for 25 years but he's been involved in the performing arts all of his life. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mike danced tap at an east bay dance studio and received extensive training on the saxophone from private instructors and summer music clinics. As a young adult, Mike won jazz competitions in California and Washington and played in Bay Area concerts with some jazz legends. He has a philosophy degree from U.C. Berkeley and a law degree from Loyola Law School. Mike moved back to Guam in 1995. He is now a partner in a law firm and regularly plays in Guam bands. He is married with two daughters. One is a dancer. The other is a drummer.
JUDY NICHOLSON
Judy began studying piano at age 6. She then took up a love for the cello and studied the instrument throughout her college years. Judy has enjoyed playing as part of ensembles and orchestras ever since. She is a freelance writer, an Oregon-certified substitute teacher and a music instructor. She is married to a traveling veterinarian and considers both Oregon and Guam her home.
KRISTINA F.W. MANIBUSAN
Tina Manibusan is a teacher at CDR William C. McCool EMS, located on Naval Base Guam. She holds bachelor's degrees in Environmental Studies and Japanese and a master's degree in Early Childhood Education. She is a current Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy in Education, Educational Management. Tina is married and has three children, one who can do the splits.
MIA PEREZ
Mia is an educator and a curriculum designer with a passion for working with children. She received her bachelor's in English from the University of Washington and her master's in Education from the University of California, Berkeley, where her program focused on teaching for social justice and integrating the arts. Mia worked as an educator in Seattle, Washington and Oakland, California. She was a part of the founding faculty for California's first public K-8 Mandarin Immersion Charter School and served in many roles including English Language Coordinator. Mia returned home to Guam in 2016 with her family and is excited to reconnect and contribute to her island community.
ANDREW T. PEREZ
Andrew was the Deputy Attorney General of the Child Support Enforcement Division of the Office of the Attorney General of Guam. He previously served as the Assistant Attorney General at the Guam Department of Education. Prior to his legal career, Andrew was a speech therapist with the Division of Special Education at the Guam Department of Education. He attended high school at Father Duenas Memorial School, graduated and majored in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington, and obtained a Juris Doctorate at Western Michigan University – Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He is an admirer of the arts in all its forms. Moreover, he is an amateur artist interested in sketching and painting in modern and abstract styles and enjoys researching new techniques and applying them to his projects.
