the 2016 Philadelphia screendance festival
February 16-21
Christ church neighborhood house theater
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NGCB is proud to present this film festival, which celebrates the nexus between the cinematic and the choreographic! Film/dance-makers from all over the globe: Philadelphia, Montreal, Santa Barbara, Greece, Iran, San Fransisco, NYC, London, and more . . . will be represented in three separate programs in this exciting, 6-day event.
PROGRAM A: Tuesday & Friday (8:30-9:30pm)
PROGRAM B: Wednesday & Saturday (8:30-9:30pm)
PROGRAM C: Thursday & Sunday (Thurs, 8:30-9:30/ Sun 4:30-5:30)
Running concurrently with the Festival, Nora Gibson Contemporary Ballet will be presenting a premiere of Ephemeral, a full-evening ballet, in collaboration with noted ambient/electronic composer, Michael McDermott, and Dutch lighting/installation artist, Katinka Marac. This program runs Friday-Sunday, (Fri/Sat 7-8pm; Sun 3-4pm) directly preceding the film screenings with a 1/2 break between the performance and film screening. Combo-tickets to both events can be purchased here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nora-gibson-contemporary-ballet-in-ephemeral-tickets-18831113367
PROGRAM A: Tuesday & Friday (8:30-9:30pm)
PROGRAM B: Wednesday & Saturday (8:30-9:30pm)
PROGRAM C: Thursday & Sunday (Thurs, 8:30-9:30/ Sun 4:30-5:30)
Running concurrently with the Festival, Nora Gibson Contemporary Ballet will be presenting a premiere of Ephemeral, a full-evening ballet, in collaboration with noted ambient/electronic composer, Michael McDermott, and Dutch lighting/installation artist, Katinka Marac. This program runs Friday-Sunday, (Fri/Sat 7-8pm; Sun 3-4pm) directly preceding the film screenings with a 1/2 break between the performance and film screening. Combo-tickets to both events can be purchased here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nora-gibson-contemporary-ballet-in-ephemeral-tickets-18831113367
2016 FESTIVAL DETAILS
PROGRAM A: Tuesday & Friday (8:30-9:30pm)
Gravity's Angel (New York City, NY)
Directer and Choreographer: Rosie Trump
Performer: Katie Jean Dahlaw
Music: Edita Gruberova
Editor: Casey Martinson and Justin Tanks
Synopsis: Gravity's Angel underscores the pull of gravity. The momentum of a singular movement transforms from banal to absurd.
Rosie Trump is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, and the artistic director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance, a pick up company with a hybrid practice in dance and video media. Trump's work is nostalgic in style, feminist, and deliberately understated. Trump’s choreography and films have been shown throughout the United States, as well as internationally. Recently, her work was presented by the Motion Captured Film Festival (Houston), Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), and the Toothache Duets (London). Trump is the director and choreographer of 12 short dance films. She is the founder and curator of the annual Third Coast Dance Film Festival. rosietrump.org
Directer and Choreographer: Rosie Trump
Performer: Katie Jean Dahlaw
Music: Edita Gruberova
Editor: Casey Martinson and Justin Tanks
Synopsis: Gravity's Angel underscores the pull of gravity. The momentum of a singular movement transforms from banal to absurd.
Rosie Trump is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, and the artistic director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance, a pick up company with a hybrid practice in dance and video media. Trump's work is nostalgic in style, feminist, and deliberately understated. Trump’s choreography and films have been shown throughout the United States, as well as internationally. Recently, her work was presented by the Motion Captured Film Festival (Houston), Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), and the Toothache Duets (London). Trump is the director and choreographer of 12 short dance films. She is the founder and curator of the annual Third Coast Dance Film Festival. rosietrump.org
chrysalis (Philadelphia, PA)
Concept, performance and filming: Zornitsa Stoyanova
Sound Design: Zornitsa Stoyanova – source sound by J.S. Bach and Frank Bredsneider.
An experimental dance film, chrysalis is a study of shifting perspectives, surreal imagery and emerging and falling horizons. It is homage of sci- fi perceptions and captures the power dynamics between a woman and the material that engulfs and remakes her. Offering imagery of multiplicity and sameness, birthing and engulfing, the film unravels in nonlinear timeline, questioning the perception of time and space. Part of a larger ongoing research called Mylar Storms, this film was shot and edited improvisationally. Mylar Storms started in 2013 with the making of light sculpture sets for performance art. Through parallel development of sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance practice, it challenges reality and in 2016 will culminate in a public art event, bordering the line between interactive installation and performance. The unique about this film is that it is based on an ongoing improvisation for the camera practice. It is shot, danced and edited by Zornitsa Stoyanova.
Zornitsa Stoyanova is a performance artist, curator, writer, lighting and video designer. A native of Bulgaria, she holds B.A. in Dance and Sound Design from Bennington College, VT. After concluding her studies, she moved to Philadelphia, PA where she started creating, producing and presenting performing art and video under the name Here[begin] Dance.
Concept, performance and filming: Zornitsa Stoyanova
Sound Design: Zornitsa Stoyanova – source sound by J.S. Bach and Frank Bredsneider.
An experimental dance film, chrysalis is a study of shifting perspectives, surreal imagery and emerging and falling horizons. It is homage of sci- fi perceptions and captures the power dynamics between a woman and the material that engulfs and remakes her. Offering imagery of multiplicity and sameness, birthing and engulfing, the film unravels in nonlinear timeline, questioning the perception of time and space. Part of a larger ongoing research called Mylar Storms, this film was shot and edited improvisationally. Mylar Storms started in 2013 with the making of light sculpture sets for performance art. Through parallel development of sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance practice, it challenges reality and in 2016 will culminate in a public art event, bordering the line between interactive installation and performance. The unique about this film is that it is based on an ongoing improvisation for the camera practice. It is shot, danced and edited by Zornitsa Stoyanova.
Zornitsa Stoyanova is a performance artist, curator, writer, lighting and video designer. A native of Bulgaria, she holds B.A. in Dance and Sound Design from Bennington College, VT. After concluding her studies, she moved to Philadelphia, PA where she started creating, producing and presenting performing art and video under the name Here[begin] Dance.
TWITCH (Montreal, CA)
Director/producer : Jules de Niverville
Creative producer : Marlene Millar
Performer : Arnaud Caizergues (Acro Arno)
Choreographer : Michael Watts
Cinematography : Jules de Niverville, Michael Wees
Production Designer : Jean-Marc Renaud
Costumes : Flavie Lechat
Make-up / Hair : Eleni Uranis
Editor : Jules de Niverville
Composer : Dino Giancola
Director’s statement:
TWITCH is an abstract story about conquering fear and the journey to self-acceptance. The film’s character is the embodiment of conflicting energy, and the film’s narrative ends where true strength begins: with the integration and acceptance of all that he is, the character restored to a state of balance.
TWITCH came about from a desire to showcase the multi-talented circus acrobat Arnaud Caizergues, as he was passing through Montreal in preparation of going on tour with Cirque du Soleil’s latest show Kurios: the diversity of his skill set rooting the inspiration behind the character of the film. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
- Buddha
- Native American Prayer: translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887
Jules de Niverville
A visual and media artist, Jules has been oscillating between photography and film for 30+ years. Following a University degree in filmmaking he was soon working in the feature film industry as set decorator for both Canadian and American productions, including television series and advertising. More recently his film career has shifted to cinematography and working as an editor, primarily contributing to short dance and circus based productions. His photography has led to numerous publications, and has been exhibited in both solo and group shows internationally. TWITCH is his first film as director/producer.
Director/producer : Jules de Niverville
Creative producer : Marlene Millar
Performer : Arnaud Caizergues (Acro Arno)
Choreographer : Michael Watts
Cinematography : Jules de Niverville, Michael Wees
Production Designer : Jean-Marc Renaud
Costumes : Flavie Lechat
Make-up / Hair : Eleni Uranis
Editor : Jules de Niverville
Composer : Dino Giancola
Director’s statement:
TWITCH is an abstract story about conquering fear and the journey to self-acceptance. The film’s character is the embodiment of conflicting energy, and the film’s narrative ends where true strength begins: with the integration and acceptance of all that he is, the character restored to a state of balance.
TWITCH came about from a desire to showcase the multi-talented circus acrobat Arnaud Caizergues, as he was passing through Montreal in preparation of going on tour with Cirque du Soleil’s latest show Kurios: the diversity of his skill set rooting the inspiration behind the character of the film. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
- Buddha
- Native American Prayer: translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887
Jules de Niverville
A visual and media artist, Jules has been oscillating between photography and film for 30+ years. Following a University degree in filmmaking he was soon working in the feature film industry as set decorator for both Canadian and American productions, including television series and advertising. More recently his film career has shifted to cinematography and working as an editor, primarily contributing to short dance and circus based productions. His photography has led to numerous publications, and has been exhibited in both solo and group shows internationally. TWITCH is his first film as director/producer.
Earth Bound (Dumont, NJ)
Director, Choreographer: Marianne D. Bator
Composer: Hammock
Dancers: Jacquelyn Carver and Christine O'Donnell
Editor: Marianne D. Bator
Location: Sukha Arts Center
Marianne Delehanty Bator, a native to north New Jersey, has studied ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, pointe, hip-hop, voice, and acting from a young age. Marianne competed in many regional and national dance competitions and has worked with numerous professionals, such as Anita Ehrler, Frank Mastrocola, Norma Riester-Smith, and Jennifer Marquardt to name a few. Marianne continued her dance education at DeSales University where she studied ballet and modern dance. She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. While at DeSales, Marianne has worked with professionals such as Trinette Singleton, Tim Cowart, Kristin Fieseler, Tara Madsen, Kate Jewitt (of Shen Wei Dance Arts), and Ashleigh Leite. She has also taken her dancing worldwide with DeSales dance majors to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she took classes with famous Brazilian choreographers as well as taught dance to underprivileged children. While at DeSales, Marianne also founded her own dance company, MarDelDance, a contemporary dance company aimed at introducing audiences to dance-drama. In the summer of 2011, Marianne traveled to Ireland where she was asked to teach master-classes and set work. Marianne’s work has been performed and adjudicated at the American College Dance Festival, and has been seen throughout the NJ, NY, and PA area. Her work has been performed at the Detroit City Dance Festival in Detroit, Michigan, Steps on Broadway in NYC, the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, The Carnegie Arts Center in Ireland, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in NY, and Rosa Parks High School and Bridgeton High School in New Jersey to name a few. Her work has been commissioned by Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing in Washington D.C. in 2013 and again in 2014. She has also won Dance Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for her piece Patsy. Marianne's choreography has been inspired by current events and those of others that have touched her heart. With a focus on dance-drama, Marianne’s works have collaborations with musicians, artists, multi-media, singers, and actors.
Director, Choreographer: Marianne D. Bator
Composer: Hammock
Dancers: Jacquelyn Carver and Christine O'Donnell
Editor: Marianne D. Bator
Location: Sukha Arts Center
Marianne Delehanty Bator, a native to north New Jersey, has studied ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, pointe, hip-hop, voice, and acting from a young age. Marianne competed in many regional and national dance competitions and has worked with numerous professionals, such as Anita Ehrler, Frank Mastrocola, Norma Riester-Smith, and Jennifer Marquardt to name a few. Marianne continued her dance education at DeSales University where she studied ballet and modern dance. She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. While at DeSales, Marianne has worked with professionals such as Trinette Singleton, Tim Cowart, Kristin Fieseler, Tara Madsen, Kate Jewitt (of Shen Wei Dance Arts), and Ashleigh Leite. She has also taken her dancing worldwide with DeSales dance majors to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she took classes with famous Brazilian choreographers as well as taught dance to underprivileged children. While at DeSales, Marianne also founded her own dance company, MarDelDance, a contemporary dance company aimed at introducing audiences to dance-drama. In the summer of 2011, Marianne traveled to Ireland where she was asked to teach master-classes and set work. Marianne’s work has been performed and adjudicated at the American College Dance Festival, and has been seen throughout the NJ, NY, and PA area. Her work has been performed at the Detroit City Dance Festival in Detroit, Michigan, Steps on Broadway in NYC, the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, The Carnegie Arts Center in Ireland, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in NY, and Rosa Parks High School and Bridgeton High School in New Jersey to name a few. Her work has been commissioned by Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing in Washington D.C. in 2013 and again in 2014. She has also won Dance Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for her piece Patsy. Marianne's choreography has been inspired by current events and those of others that have touched her heart. With a focus on dance-drama, Marianne’s works have collaborations with musicians, artists, multi-media, singers, and actors.
Feathers of La Fronde (2015) (London, ENG)
Director, Cinematography & Edit: Owa Barua
Concept & Choreography: Natalia Barua
Dancers: Natalia Barua, Maren Ellermann, Jessy Wenzel
Music: Martin Skog
Sound Design: Martin Skog & Erik Ullstad
Associate Producers: Jana Bobosikova, Jeffrey Ford
Assistant Director: Natalia Barua
Production Assistant: Thanos Palatos
Runners: Filipa Fabrica, Samantha Murphy, Zoi Orfanou
Feathers of La Fronde focuses on women in 'La Belle Époque' with huge inspiration drawing from artist Alfons Mucha and his representation of the female in what was a hugely influential time for women socially and politically. The film brings to life the women that Mucha painted - who often seemed so perplexed and tranced in a state of wild beauty and mystery - but who were damagingly passive. Awakening those characters from their decorative arrangement, Feathers of La Fronde represents the struggles for women of 'La Belle Époque' and also acts as a celebration of all of the lively, sometimes radical feminist activity which took place, that gave birth to assertive and modern women.
Owa Barua Biography
Owa Barua is an emerging filmmaker and photographer, originally from Paraguay and now based in London. As a freelance artist he has worked in documentary, promotional and experimental films with credits including street-art documentary 'Las Calles Hablan' (2012) and most recently dance film 'There Was Once' (2015) directed by the award-winning Wilkie Branson. Owa is currently focusing on creating dance film and exploring concepts of the 'camera as dancer' and choreography in the editing process.
Natalia Barua Biography
Natalia Barua (UK) is a dance artist, choreographer and inclusive practitioner based in London. Her work concentrates on dance/performance for non-theatre spaces and Dance Film/Screendance, with an aim to challenge preconceived notions of what dance can be. Presentations and screenings of her previous work include Centre Civic Barceloneta (Spain), Off-Loop Festival (Spain), Varazim Teatro (Portugal) and niu (Spain). She often works in collaboration with a diverse pool of artists, meaning the range of her work is broad and always experimental in its process of creation. Natalia is currently in research to develop her practice in Screendance and recently trained at Tanzfabrik Berlin with Katrina McPherson and Kirstie Simson.
Photo credit: Owa Barua
More info: Natalia Barua: vimeo.com/nataliab , Owa Barua: vimeo.com/owabarua
Director, Cinematography & Edit: Owa Barua
Concept & Choreography: Natalia Barua
Dancers: Natalia Barua, Maren Ellermann, Jessy Wenzel
Music: Martin Skog
Sound Design: Martin Skog & Erik Ullstad
Associate Producers: Jana Bobosikova, Jeffrey Ford
Assistant Director: Natalia Barua
Production Assistant: Thanos Palatos
Runners: Filipa Fabrica, Samantha Murphy, Zoi Orfanou
Feathers of La Fronde focuses on women in 'La Belle Époque' with huge inspiration drawing from artist Alfons Mucha and his representation of the female in what was a hugely influential time for women socially and politically. The film brings to life the women that Mucha painted - who often seemed so perplexed and tranced in a state of wild beauty and mystery - but who were damagingly passive. Awakening those characters from their decorative arrangement, Feathers of La Fronde represents the struggles for women of 'La Belle Époque' and also acts as a celebration of all of the lively, sometimes radical feminist activity which took place, that gave birth to assertive and modern women.
Owa Barua Biography
Owa Barua is an emerging filmmaker and photographer, originally from Paraguay and now based in London. As a freelance artist he has worked in documentary, promotional and experimental films with credits including street-art documentary 'Las Calles Hablan' (2012) and most recently dance film 'There Was Once' (2015) directed by the award-winning Wilkie Branson. Owa is currently focusing on creating dance film and exploring concepts of the 'camera as dancer' and choreography in the editing process.
Natalia Barua Biography
Natalia Barua (UK) is a dance artist, choreographer and inclusive practitioner based in London. Her work concentrates on dance/performance for non-theatre spaces and Dance Film/Screendance, with an aim to challenge preconceived notions of what dance can be. Presentations and screenings of her previous work include Centre Civic Barceloneta (Spain), Off-Loop Festival (Spain), Varazim Teatro (Portugal) and niu (Spain). She often works in collaboration with a diverse pool of artists, meaning the range of her work is broad and always experimental in its process of creation. Natalia is currently in research to develop her practice in Screendance and recently trained at Tanzfabrik Berlin with Katrina McPherson and Kirstie Simson.
Photo credit: Owa Barua
More info: Natalia Barua: vimeo.com/nataliab , Owa Barua: vimeo.com/owabarua
Barn Dance (San Fransisco, CA)
Producers/Directors/Editors: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, Amy Seiwert
Choreography: Amy Seiwert
Cinematography: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson
Dancers: From Amy Seiwert's Imagery: Sarah Griffin & Weston Krukow
Music: Darren Johnston and Fred Frith
Barn Dance was created as part of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival’s Co-Laboratory
Amy Seiwert is the Artistic Director of Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, a contemporary ballet company based in San Francisco. Seiwert’s artistic direction reflects commitment to create and present work of excellence and influence. Though she is a sought after choreographer, with commissions from companies such as Washington, Atlanta, Colorado, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Milwaukee Ballets, it is with Imagery that she can continually take risks and hone her artistic voice. Named one of "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine, her first full evening of choreography was named one of the "Top 10" dance events of 2007 by the SF Chronicle. www.asimagery.org
Kristine Samuelson was nominated for an Academy Award for ARTHUR AND LILLIE and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From 1999 to 2006 she served on the Board of ITVS. She has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. She was the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University, teaching in the M.F.A. Program in Documentary Film and Video.
John Haptas is a documentary film editor. His credits include SOUNDTRACK TO A RIOT for Frontline World (Emmy Nomination), HUNTING THE HIDDEN DIMENSION, exploring fractal geometry for PBS Nova ("Pierre-Gilles de Gennes" Science Film Prize), INSIDE GUANTANAMO BAY, a two-hour National Geographic Explorer special (editor/co-writer; Emmy nominations for Best Documentary and for Writing), and REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG (Special Jury Prize, Tribeca Film Festival; HBO broadcast December 2014).
John and Kristine’s films have been screened throughout the world, from Sundance and San Francisco to London, Belgrade, and Seoul. They have appeared on PBS and at museums including New York MOMA. John and Kristine recently completed TOKYO WAKA after living in Japan for six months.
Dancers:
Sarah Cecile Griffin was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. From the age of four, she trained in classical ballet with the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Ballet Estudio Maria Cecilia Diaz (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Kansas City Ballet School, and Barnard College, Columbia University. Sarah has performed a varied repertoire with Kansas City Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, and Oakland Ballet, and she currently dances Oregon Ballet Theatre.
Weston Krukow began his training in San Luis Obispo at American Dance, then continued his education at the University of Arizona. Weston resides in San Francisco where he dances with Smuin Ballet. Along with dancing, Weston loves choreographing and teaching and has traveled to Iowa since 2011 to Co-Direct SPARK (Superior Performing Arts Reaching Kids).
Photo Credits: Still from Barn Dance. A film by John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson and Amy Seiwert. Amy Seiwert's Imagery Dancers Sarah Griffin & Weston Krukow
Producers/Directors/Editors: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, Amy Seiwert
Choreography: Amy Seiwert
Cinematography: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson
Dancers: From Amy Seiwert's Imagery: Sarah Griffin & Weston Krukow
Music: Darren Johnston and Fred Frith
Barn Dance was created as part of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival’s Co-Laboratory
Amy Seiwert is the Artistic Director of Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, a contemporary ballet company based in San Francisco. Seiwert’s artistic direction reflects commitment to create and present work of excellence and influence. Though she is a sought after choreographer, with commissions from companies such as Washington, Atlanta, Colorado, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Milwaukee Ballets, it is with Imagery that she can continually take risks and hone her artistic voice. Named one of "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine, her first full evening of choreography was named one of the "Top 10" dance events of 2007 by the SF Chronicle. www.asimagery.org
Kristine Samuelson was nominated for an Academy Award for ARTHUR AND LILLIE and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From 1999 to 2006 she served on the Board of ITVS. She has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. She was the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University, teaching in the M.F.A. Program in Documentary Film and Video.
John Haptas is a documentary film editor. His credits include SOUNDTRACK TO A RIOT for Frontline World (Emmy Nomination), HUNTING THE HIDDEN DIMENSION, exploring fractal geometry for PBS Nova ("Pierre-Gilles de Gennes" Science Film Prize), INSIDE GUANTANAMO BAY, a two-hour National Geographic Explorer special (editor/co-writer; Emmy nominations for Best Documentary and for Writing), and REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG (Special Jury Prize, Tribeca Film Festival; HBO broadcast December 2014).
John and Kristine’s films have been screened throughout the world, from Sundance and San Francisco to London, Belgrade, and Seoul. They have appeared on PBS and at museums including New York MOMA. John and Kristine recently completed TOKYO WAKA after living in Japan for six months.
Dancers:
Sarah Cecile Griffin was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. From the age of four, she trained in classical ballet with the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Ballet Estudio Maria Cecilia Diaz (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Kansas City Ballet School, and Barnard College, Columbia University. Sarah has performed a varied repertoire with Kansas City Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, and Oakland Ballet, and she currently dances Oregon Ballet Theatre.
Weston Krukow began his training in San Luis Obispo at American Dance, then continued his education at the University of Arizona. Weston resides in San Francisco where he dances with Smuin Ballet. Along with dancing, Weston loves choreographing and teaching and has traveled to Iowa since 2011 to Co-Direct SPARK (Superior Performing Arts Reaching Kids).
Photo Credits: Still from Barn Dance. A film by John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson and Amy Seiwert. Amy Seiwert's Imagery Dancers Sarah Griffin & Weston Krukow
Pathway (Bethlehem, PA)
Director- Lindsay Schaefer
Choreographer- Lindsay Schaefer
Composer- Joshua Starmer
Dancer- Lindsay Schaefer
Editor/Cinematographer- Andy To
2nd Editor/2nd Camera- Kendra Brisco
www.artistsinunity.com
Lindsay Schaefer is a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, and director/ producer for dance film and movement based projects. Her professional career has taken her across the US to teach, choreograph, and perform in multiple disciplines in the arts. Lindsay is the Artistic Director of Artists in Unity- a professional multidisciplinary collaborative company specializing in dance film and photography based projects www.artistsinunity.com and founder of Movement for You Practice www.movementforyou.com Silent Dance, Pathway, Release, Petals of Love, Threads of Kin, and Project Landscapes are some of the dance works that have moved to film under Lindsay’s direction and producing. She also created in 2011 a fitness based DVD for the National Gymnastics Association. Lindsay’s voice and movement has been shared in Origin Magazine, Dance Enthusiast, and Yoga Stage. In December 2015, a collection of short stories and poetry will be released in Lindsay’s first book The Process~ The Practice~ The Artist. www.artistsinunity.com and www.movementforyou.com
Director- Lindsay Schaefer
Choreographer- Lindsay Schaefer
Composer- Joshua Starmer
Dancer- Lindsay Schaefer
Editor/Cinematographer- Andy To
2nd Editor/2nd Camera- Kendra Brisco
www.artistsinunity.com
Lindsay Schaefer is a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, and director/ producer for dance film and movement based projects. Her professional career has taken her across the US to teach, choreograph, and perform in multiple disciplines in the arts. Lindsay is the Artistic Director of Artists in Unity- a professional multidisciplinary collaborative company specializing in dance film and photography based projects www.artistsinunity.com and founder of Movement for You Practice www.movementforyou.com Silent Dance, Pathway, Release, Petals of Love, Threads of Kin, and Project Landscapes are some of the dance works that have moved to film under Lindsay’s direction and producing. She also created in 2011 a fitness based DVD for the National Gymnastics Association. Lindsay’s voice and movement has been shared in Origin Magazine, Dance Enthusiast, and Yoga Stage. In December 2015, a collection of short stories and poetry will be released in Lindsay’s first book The Process~ The Practice~ The Artist. www.artistsinunity.com and www.movementforyou.com
Rorschach (Brooklyn, NY)
Conception, Direction, Choreography and Editing: Ashley Marinelli
Originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, Ashley grew up dancing and performing in New York City. She holds a BFA in Dance (and a BA in English Literature) from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Over the past decade, Ashley has performed professionally in musical theater, concert dance and commercial contexts. She has danced with Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Ne-Yo, Lady Sovereign and Shakira and has worked on campaigns for X-Box, Wii, Rite Aid, Bloomingdale's and Cirque du Soleil. In the concert dance world, Ashley has worked with Jill Johnson (of William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet), Susan Marshall, Matthew Neff, Kelly Donovan and Hee Ra Yoo and helms her own contemporary dance company, Marinelli New Dance Theater. In the theatrical realm, Ashley has performed West Side Story, Mary Poppins, A Funny Thing...Forum, White Christmas, has worked for Disney Cruise Line, and created the role of "The Ballerina", in a re-imagined Petrouchka. She demonstrates at various workshops and events (from the NYC Dance Teacher's Summit to The Pulse on Tour) and often assists Jeffry Denman.When she is not performing, Ashley spends her time choreographing, teaching, judging dance competitions, playing drum set and drinking coffee. www.ashleymarinelli.com
Director of Photography: Vickie Dean
"Vickie Alvarez (Vickie Dean) is a filmmaker living, working, and schooling in NYC. After getting her B.A. from Wesleyan University in American Studies, she decided academia was not for her, and started working in the arts as a program manager at Theatre Development Fund (TDF). She is currently in the inaugural class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios on the Creative Producing track. Artists are her favorite kind of humans.
Instagram: @vickiedean"
Still Photographer: Eli Fendelman
Eli Fendelman is an educator, technologist, and world traveler from New York City. He is currently the Network Administrator, Statistics teacher, and promotional photographer at Saddle River Day School, an independent school in Bergen County, NJ. Primarily a landscape photographer, he has visited over 30 countries on five continents. He uses a Nikon D800, a host of Nikon lenses, and Adobe Lightroom to produce evocative, sometimes surrealistic imagery. He is completely self-taught.
Dancers: Michaela Catherine McGowan, Kory Geller, Berlyn Boswell, Ashley Marinelli
Music: "Runner" by Dustin O'Halloran, "Torrents" by Asgeir, "Human Contact (Remix)" by Catey Shaw and the French Horn Rebellion.
Conception, Direction, Choreography and Editing: Ashley Marinelli
Originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, Ashley grew up dancing and performing in New York City. She holds a BFA in Dance (and a BA in English Literature) from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Over the past decade, Ashley has performed professionally in musical theater, concert dance and commercial contexts. She has danced with Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Ne-Yo, Lady Sovereign and Shakira and has worked on campaigns for X-Box, Wii, Rite Aid, Bloomingdale's and Cirque du Soleil. In the concert dance world, Ashley has worked with Jill Johnson (of William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet), Susan Marshall, Matthew Neff, Kelly Donovan and Hee Ra Yoo and helms her own contemporary dance company, Marinelli New Dance Theater. In the theatrical realm, Ashley has performed West Side Story, Mary Poppins, A Funny Thing...Forum, White Christmas, has worked for Disney Cruise Line, and created the role of "The Ballerina", in a re-imagined Petrouchka. She demonstrates at various workshops and events (from the NYC Dance Teacher's Summit to The Pulse on Tour) and often assists Jeffry Denman.When she is not performing, Ashley spends her time choreographing, teaching, judging dance competitions, playing drum set and drinking coffee. www.ashleymarinelli.com
Director of Photography: Vickie Dean
"Vickie Alvarez (Vickie Dean) is a filmmaker living, working, and schooling in NYC. After getting her B.A. from Wesleyan University in American Studies, she decided academia was not for her, and started working in the arts as a program manager at Theatre Development Fund (TDF). She is currently in the inaugural class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios on the Creative Producing track. Artists are her favorite kind of humans.
Instagram: @vickiedean"
Still Photographer: Eli Fendelman
Eli Fendelman is an educator, technologist, and world traveler from New York City. He is currently the Network Administrator, Statistics teacher, and promotional photographer at Saddle River Day School, an independent school in Bergen County, NJ. Primarily a landscape photographer, he has visited over 30 countries on five continents. He uses a Nikon D800, a host of Nikon lenses, and Adobe Lightroom to produce evocative, sometimes surrealistic imagery. He is completely self-taught.
Dancers: Michaela Catherine McGowan, Kory Geller, Berlyn Boswell, Ashley Marinelli
Music: "Runner" by Dustin O'Halloran, "Torrents" by Asgeir, "Human Contact (Remix)" by Catey Shaw and the French Horn Rebellion.
Hamadryad (New York, NY)
Conceived, produced and directed by : Nancy Allison and Paul Allman
Choreography by : Jean Erdman, staged by Nancy Allison
Danced by: Miki Orihara
Music by Claude Debussy, performed by Elizabeth Brown
Director of Photography: Glen Mordeci
Camera: Paul Allman and Glen Mordeci
Edited by: Paul Allman
Costumes by: Karen Young Costume Design, Miki Orihara and Nancy Allison
Original Hamadryad dress designed by Roxanne Marden, recreated by Karen Young and Olivia Fuks
Nancy Allison (Co-Producer/Director/Dance Stager) is the leading interpreter of Jean Erdman’s classic American modern dance repertory, which she has also staged throughout the US. Her choreography has been presented by Athens Festival (Greece), House of Composers (Moscow) and Lincoln Center Out-of -Doors Festival among others. Most recently, supported by INDACO (Venice, IT) and Fondazione Arkad (Seravezza, IT), Allison collaborated with Italian choreographer, Laura Boato and filmmakers, Simone Verona and Luca Fortini to create two dance films in the quarries of Versilia, Italy, now in post-production. ([email protected])
Paul Allman (Co-Producer/Director/Camera/Editor) has won the Cine’s Master Series Award for Best NonBroadcast Production in the U.S. for Proud to be Verizon, Best Documentary at Birmingham International Film and Video Festival for Mississippi Wood, plus numerous Telly Awards for a series of Holocaust films he directed for the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. He has designed multi-screen installations for the Normandy Museum in France, Jamestown Museum, Palm Beach County Museum, United States Naval Academy Museum, NCAA Hall of Champions, College Football Hall of Fame and Discovery Center in Times Square.
Jean Erdman (Choreographer), a leading figure of the post-pioneering period of American modern dance, collaborated with some of the most innovative artists of her time, including John Cage, Lou Harrison, Merce Cunningham, Maya Deren and her husband, the mythologist, Joseph Campbell. The Coach with the Six Insides, her adaptation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake won OBIE and Vernon Rice Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Off-Broadway Theater before touring the world. Her Tony-nominated choreography for Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the fifty plus pieces she choreographed and directed all reflect the intricate blend of world dance and theater, and the sensitive musicality that are the hallmarks of her aesthetic vision.
Glen Mordeci (Director of Photography), an award winning cinematographer has filmed over 200 music videos and 500 commercials. He worked with The Royal Ballet on the films that were part of their 2011 innovative staging of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 production of Romeo & Juliet performed in London’s O2 arena and with Nigel Lythgoe, creator of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance on A Chance to Dance, a documentary series featuring London’s BalletBoyz, which aired on Ovation Network. For BBC’s Channel 4 TV show, Random Acts, Glen directed and shot two short dance films, Inspiration and The Fight.
Miki Orihara (Dancer) is best known for her work as a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, for which she earned a Bessie Award in 2010. She has performed on Broadway, and with Elisa Monte, SITI Company, PierGroupDance, Lotuslotus and in productions by Twyla Tharp, and Robert Wilson. Orihara has presented her choreography in New York, Amsterdam and Tokyo. She is a sought after teacher and coach working with the Kirov Ballet, New York City Ballet, Japan’s New National Theater Ballet School, the Ailey School, New York University, The Hartt School, L’ete de la Danse (Paris), Henny Jurien Foundation (Amsterdam) and is Dance Director for Mishmash (Japan).
Conceived, produced and directed by : Nancy Allison and Paul Allman
Choreography by : Jean Erdman, staged by Nancy Allison
Danced by: Miki Orihara
Music by Claude Debussy, performed by Elizabeth Brown
Director of Photography: Glen Mordeci
Camera: Paul Allman and Glen Mordeci
Edited by: Paul Allman
Costumes by: Karen Young Costume Design, Miki Orihara and Nancy Allison
Original Hamadryad dress designed by Roxanne Marden, recreated by Karen Young and Olivia Fuks
Nancy Allison (Co-Producer/Director/Dance Stager) is the leading interpreter of Jean Erdman’s classic American modern dance repertory, which she has also staged throughout the US. Her choreography has been presented by Athens Festival (Greece), House of Composers (Moscow) and Lincoln Center Out-of -Doors Festival among others. Most recently, supported by INDACO (Venice, IT) and Fondazione Arkad (Seravezza, IT), Allison collaborated with Italian choreographer, Laura Boato and filmmakers, Simone Verona and Luca Fortini to create two dance films in the quarries of Versilia, Italy, now in post-production. ([email protected])
Paul Allman (Co-Producer/Director/Camera/Editor) has won the Cine’s Master Series Award for Best NonBroadcast Production in the U.S. for Proud to be Verizon, Best Documentary at Birmingham International Film and Video Festival for Mississippi Wood, plus numerous Telly Awards for a series of Holocaust films he directed for the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. He has designed multi-screen installations for the Normandy Museum in France, Jamestown Museum, Palm Beach County Museum, United States Naval Academy Museum, NCAA Hall of Champions, College Football Hall of Fame and Discovery Center in Times Square.
Jean Erdman (Choreographer), a leading figure of the post-pioneering period of American modern dance, collaborated with some of the most innovative artists of her time, including John Cage, Lou Harrison, Merce Cunningham, Maya Deren and her husband, the mythologist, Joseph Campbell. The Coach with the Six Insides, her adaptation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake won OBIE and Vernon Rice Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Off-Broadway Theater before touring the world. Her Tony-nominated choreography for Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the fifty plus pieces she choreographed and directed all reflect the intricate blend of world dance and theater, and the sensitive musicality that are the hallmarks of her aesthetic vision.
Glen Mordeci (Director of Photography), an award winning cinematographer has filmed over 200 music videos and 500 commercials. He worked with The Royal Ballet on the films that were part of their 2011 innovative staging of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 production of Romeo & Juliet performed in London’s O2 arena and with Nigel Lythgoe, creator of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance on A Chance to Dance, a documentary series featuring London’s BalletBoyz, which aired on Ovation Network. For BBC’s Channel 4 TV show, Random Acts, Glen directed and shot two short dance films, Inspiration and The Fight.
Miki Orihara (Dancer) is best known for her work as a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, for which she earned a Bessie Award in 2010. She has performed on Broadway, and with Elisa Monte, SITI Company, PierGroupDance, Lotuslotus and in productions by Twyla Tharp, and Robert Wilson. Orihara has presented her choreography in New York, Amsterdam and Tokyo. She is a sought after teacher and coach working with the Kirov Ballet, New York City Ballet, Japan’s New National Theater Ballet School, the Ailey School, New York University, The Hartt School, L’ete de la Danse (Paris), Henny Jurien Foundation (Amsterdam) and is Dance Director for Mishmash (Japan).
Dance of the Neurons (New York, NY)
Co-directed by Jody Oberfelder & Eric Siegel
Camera and Editing by Eric Siegel
Choreography: Jody Oberfelder
Music: Daniel Wohl, "Neighborhood", used with arrangement by Schirmer Publishing
Dancers: Kirsten Adler Ariel Asch, Megan Bascom, Sarah Chein, Martin Davis, Caitlin
Dutton, Kevin Fay, Ben Follensbee, Cecilia Fontanesi, Cecilia Fontanesi, Fana Fraser,
Emily Giovine, Jacob Goodhart, Madison Krekel, Jordan Holland, Weiji Ma, Mary
Madsen, Lindsey Mandolini, Jody Oberfelder, Bo Pressly, Jule Jo Ramirez, Celine Syslo,
Amanda Tay, Emily Wassyng, Hannah Wendel, Madeline Wilcox
Collaborating Neuroscientist: Weiji Ma
Consulting Neuroscientists: Wendy Suzuki, Andre Fenton, Claudia Feld, Ed Lein, Gary
Marcus, Suzanne Dikker
This film is part of the "The Brain Piece", a live performance
For more information: contact [email protected] http://www.jodyoberfelder.com/the-brain-piece.phpJody
Oberfelder has been making work in New York for several decades. She has sung in a rock band, choreographed an array of boldly physical dances. As a filmmaker, Oberfelder has created nine films: Dance of the Neurons, 4Chambers, Come Sit Stay, Head First, Duet, Chance Encounters, LineAge, Rapt, and Snew. These films have been shown in The Dance on Camera Festival (NY), Cinedans (Amsterdam), Indie Fest USA (Garden Grove, CA), Art Basel Verge Festival (Miami), VideodanceBA (Buenos Aires), VoArte InShadow (Lisbon), The Tijuana Dance on Film Festival (CA), DTW’s Captured Series (NY), Fear No Film Festival (Utah Arts Festival), Green Bay Film Festival (WI), Cape Fear Festival (NC), NY No Limits Festival EDIT2008 (NY), 4th International Dance Film Festival (Budapest), The Michael Fuchs Theatre at HBO (NY), and Napoli Teatro (Italy). This film is part of the "The Brain Piece", a live performance that can be performed as a lecture, proscenium or immersive piece. For more information: contact [email protected] http://www.jodyoberfelder.com/the-brain-piece.php
Eric Siegel is a veteran television/film director, art director, and production/scenic designer who for over 30 years has provided creative and technical leadership to the world’s most prestigious program producers, including the ABC, CBS, PBS, HBO and MSG television networks. His work as a director, art director, and production/scenic designer has been recognized with 11 Emmy awards, the Dupont Columbia Award, the Peabody Award, a Christopher Award, the Cine Golden Eagle, and over 25 Broadcast Designers Association awards.
jodyoberfelder.com
Co-directed by Jody Oberfelder & Eric Siegel
Camera and Editing by Eric Siegel
Choreography: Jody Oberfelder
Music: Daniel Wohl, "Neighborhood", used with arrangement by Schirmer Publishing
Dancers: Kirsten Adler Ariel Asch, Megan Bascom, Sarah Chein, Martin Davis, Caitlin
Dutton, Kevin Fay, Ben Follensbee, Cecilia Fontanesi, Cecilia Fontanesi, Fana Fraser,
Emily Giovine, Jacob Goodhart, Madison Krekel, Jordan Holland, Weiji Ma, Mary
Madsen, Lindsey Mandolini, Jody Oberfelder, Bo Pressly, Jule Jo Ramirez, Celine Syslo,
Amanda Tay, Emily Wassyng, Hannah Wendel, Madeline Wilcox
Collaborating Neuroscientist: Weiji Ma
Consulting Neuroscientists: Wendy Suzuki, Andre Fenton, Claudia Feld, Ed Lein, Gary
Marcus, Suzanne Dikker
This film is part of the "The Brain Piece", a live performance
For more information: contact [email protected] http://www.jodyoberfelder.com/the-brain-piece.phpJody
Oberfelder has been making work in New York for several decades. She has sung in a rock band, choreographed an array of boldly physical dances. As a filmmaker, Oberfelder has created nine films: Dance of the Neurons, 4Chambers, Come Sit Stay, Head First, Duet, Chance Encounters, LineAge, Rapt, and Snew. These films have been shown in The Dance on Camera Festival (NY), Cinedans (Amsterdam), Indie Fest USA (Garden Grove, CA), Art Basel Verge Festival (Miami), VideodanceBA (Buenos Aires), VoArte InShadow (Lisbon), The Tijuana Dance on Film Festival (CA), DTW’s Captured Series (NY), Fear No Film Festival (Utah Arts Festival), Green Bay Film Festival (WI), Cape Fear Festival (NC), NY No Limits Festival EDIT2008 (NY), 4th International Dance Film Festival (Budapest), The Michael Fuchs Theatre at HBO (NY), and Napoli Teatro (Italy). This film is part of the "The Brain Piece", a live performance that can be performed as a lecture, proscenium or immersive piece. For more information: contact [email protected] http://www.jodyoberfelder.com/the-brain-piece.php
Eric Siegel is a veteran television/film director, art director, and production/scenic designer who for over 30 years has provided creative and technical leadership to the world’s most prestigious program producers, including the ABC, CBS, PBS, HBO and MSG television networks. His work as a director, art director, and production/scenic designer has been recognized with 11 Emmy awards, the Dupont Columbia Award, the Peabody Award, a Christopher Award, the Cine Golden Eagle, and over 25 Broadcast Designers Association awards.
jodyoberfelder.com
PROGRAM B: Wednesday & Saturday (8:30-9:30pm)
219 Gates (Brooklyn, NY)
Directed by Joel Marsh Garland
Conceived by Carlton Cyrus Ward
Choreography by Becky Radway
Original music by Scott Radway
Additional sound mixing by Shane Rettig
Cast: Rebekah Morin, Paul Olmer, Jessi Patz, Becky Radway, Niko Tsocanos, and Carlton Cyrus Ward
Joel Marsh Garland: television, film, and stage actor, lead singer/lyricist for The Atomic Grind Show, film maker, and graduate of Bennington College. Past acting credits include: film Limitless, The Bounty Hunter, I Sell the Dead, Rocket Science, Lady in the Water, Interstate 84, The Believer tv Bored to Death (recurring), Justified, Kings (recurring), Louie, Blue Bloods, Life on Mars, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, The West Wing, Witchblade, The Big C, Third Watch, Kidnapped stage Essential Self Defense,Checkers, The Golden Door, Woyzeck. Joel also appears in the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black.
Carlton Cyrus Ward is a dancer, circus performer, and actor from the woods of northern Vermont. He moved to New York City to study theater at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has recently performed with Third Rail Project in Then She Fell, the Artigiani Troupe’s That Beautiful Laugh, and Phantom Limb’s 69 S. at BAM. He also works with Becky Radway Dance Projects and Circus Amok. In the past, he has worked with El Gato Teatro, Christopher Williams, Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, Ateh Theater Company, Proto-type Theater Inc., Freefall, Alex Bag, Maureen Fleming, and Gary Indiana.
Becky Radway has been creating original dance works with her company, Becky Radway Dance Projects, since 2002. Her work has been featured at Triskelion Arts Presents, Food For Thought at Danspace Project, Fridays at Noon at the 92nd Street Y, and has been supported over the years by the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Radway has had the pleasure of performing professionally with the Kevin Wynn Collection, Heidi Latsky Dance, Ezra Caldwell, Incidents Physical Theater, and Leanne Schmidt & Company, among others.
SCOTT RADWAY is a classically trained composer, providing scores for film, videogames, advertisements, and live performance. At Temple University, he studied under the direction of composers Maurice Wright, Matthew Greenbaum, and Richard Brodhead, as well as percussionist Glenn Steele. As a multi-instrumentalist, he has performed in a number of ensembles playing jazz, rock, and ethnic music(s). In recent years, he has also worked with Tub Ring, based out of Chicago, and Polkadot Cadaver (formerly Dog Fashion Disco) out of Baltimore, MD. He recently released his third solo pop/rock album, All Stations, in September 2015.
More info: fatpigeonfilm.weebly.com
Directed by Joel Marsh Garland
Conceived by Carlton Cyrus Ward
Choreography by Becky Radway
Original music by Scott Radway
Additional sound mixing by Shane Rettig
Cast: Rebekah Morin, Paul Olmer, Jessi Patz, Becky Radway, Niko Tsocanos, and Carlton Cyrus Ward
Joel Marsh Garland: television, film, and stage actor, lead singer/lyricist for The Atomic Grind Show, film maker, and graduate of Bennington College. Past acting credits include: film Limitless, The Bounty Hunter, I Sell the Dead, Rocket Science, Lady in the Water, Interstate 84, The Believer tv Bored to Death (recurring), Justified, Kings (recurring), Louie, Blue Bloods, Life on Mars, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, The West Wing, Witchblade, The Big C, Third Watch, Kidnapped stage Essential Self Defense,Checkers, The Golden Door, Woyzeck. Joel also appears in the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black.
Carlton Cyrus Ward is a dancer, circus performer, and actor from the woods of northern Vermont. He moved to New York City to study theater at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has recently performed with Third Rail Project in Then She Fell, the Artigiani Troupe’s That Beautiful Laugh, and Phantom Limb’s 69 S. at BAM. He also works with Becky Radway Dance Projects and Circus Amok. In the past, he has worked with El Gato Teatro, Christopher Williams, Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, Ateh Theater Company, Proto-type Theater Inc., Freefall, Alex Bag, Maureen Fleming, and Gary Indiana.
Becky Radway has been creating original dance works with her company, Becky Radway Dance Projects, since 2002. Her work has been featured at Triskelion Arts Presents, Food For Thought at Danspace Project, Fridays at Noon at the 92nd Street Y, and has been supported over the years by the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Radway has had the pleasure of performing professionally with the Kevin Wynn Collection, Heidi Latsky Dance, Ezra Caldwell, Incidents Physical Theater, and Leanne Schmidt & Company, among others.
SCOTT RADWAY is a classically trained composer, providing scores for film, videogames, advertisements, and live performance. At Temple University, he studied under the direction of composers Maurice Wright, Matthew Greenbaum, and Richard Brodhead, as well as percussionist Glenn Steele. As a multi-instrumentalist, he has performed in a number of ensembles playing jazz, rock, and ethnic music(s). In recent years, he has also worked with Tub Ring, based out of Chicago, and Polkadot Cadaver (formerly Dog Fashion Disco) out of Baltimore, MD. He recently released his third solo pop/rock album, All Stations, in September 2015.
More info: fatpigeonfilm.weebly.com
Vector Solo (London, UK)
Choreographer: JK Gleich
Director: Jason Andrew
Composer: Chris Tate
Dancer: Abbey Roesner
Director of Photography: Theodore Collatos
JK Gleich is a critically acclaimed choreographer, teacher, scholar, and mathematics aficionado interested in re-contextualizing ballet: creating environments for traditional works and illuminating the relationships between the traditional and contemporary. GleichDances has performed in the UK and US including seasons at NYC’s Joyce SoHo (’01,’03) and CPR (’11,’12) with critical notice in The New York Times, Village Voice, The New Criterion and Brooklyn Rail. Gleich’s research on vectors and movement was published in the Dynamic Body in Space. Based in London/New York, Gleich is co-founder of Norte Maar and guest curator for Your Move 2016: New Jersey’s Modern Dance Festival.
Jason Andrew, Director and co-founder of Norte Maar, is an independent curator and producer. He is archivist/curator for the Estate of Jack Tworkov and co-directs OutletBK in Bushwick, Brooklyn. www.outletbk.com; www.nortemaar.org
Theodore Collatos is a Brooklyn-based, award-winning photographer and filmmaker, who works in both fiction and documentary. He is best known for his features Dipso (available on Fandor) and Move, and the shorts Berlin Day to Night and Adam and Joel (Both on NoBudge). Collatos is currently in pre production on a documentary in Brazil and a feature drama.
Abbey Roesner received her BA at The Juilliard School. Her professional career began at the Metropolitan Opera, performing original choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. In 2007 Abbey joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal and in 2008 returned to New York to join Armitage Gone! Dance. In addition to her company work, Abbey is a free lance artist now residing in Colorado.
Chris Tate, composer, is founder and lead writer singer for the band Trash Money based in London, UK.
Choreographer: JK Gleich
Director: Jason Andrew
Composer: Chris Tate
Dancer: Abbey Roesner
Director of Photography: Theodore Collatos
JK Gleich is a critically acclaimed choreographer, teacher, scholar, and mathematics aficionado interested in re-contextualizing ballet: creating environments for traditional works and illuminating the relationships between the traditional and contemporary. GleichDances has performed in the UK and US including seasons at NYC’s Joyce SoHo (’01,’03) and CPR (’11,’12) with critical notice in The New York Times, Village Voice, The New Criterion and Brooklyn Rail. Gleich’s research on vectors and movement was published in the Dynamic Body in Space. Based in London/New York, Gleich is co-founder of Norte Maar and guest curator for Your Move 2016: New Jersey’s Modern Dance Festival.
Jason Andrew, Director and co-founder of Norte Maar, is an independent curator and producer. He is archivist/curator for the Estate of Jack Tworkov and co-directs OutletBK in Bushwick, Brooklyn. www.outletbk.com; www.nortemaar.org
Theodore Collatos is a Brooklyn-based, award-winning photographer and filmmaker, who works in both fiction and documentary. He is best known for his features Dipso (available on Fandor) and Move, and the shorts Berlin Day to Night and Adam and Joel (Both on NoBudge). Collatos is currently in pre production on a documentary in Brazil and a feature drama.
Abbey Roesner received her BA at The Juilliard School. Her professional career began at the Metropolitan Opera, performing original choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. In 2007 Abbey joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal and in 2008 returned to New York to join Armitage Gone! Dance. In addition to her company work, Abbey is a free lance artist now residing in Colorado.
Chris Tate, composer, is founder and lead writer singer for the band Trash Money based in London, UK.
Queens Duets (Long Island City, NY)
Directors: Lindy Fines and Justin Fines
Choreographer: Lindy Fines
Composer: Justin Fines
Dancers: Lindsey Jones, Pareena Lim, Weaver Rhodes, Samuel Swanton
Editor: Justin Fines
Justin Fines is an artist and award-winning graphic designer and Lindy Fines is a choreographer and dancer, both based in NYC. The two co-founded GREYZONE in 2011 with the aim to further explore the intersection of dance, sound design, time-based media and the visual arts.
GREYZONE has performed at The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and The Secret Theater. The company premiered "Vehicle" in October 2012 at Mike Perry’s "Wandering Around Wondering" art space in Brooklyn. The work involved an exciting visual collaboration including set and costumes with visual artist Mike Perry. GREYZONE were artist's in residence at the Dragon's Egg in Mystic, CT in March and September of 2013. 'Even As I Tell You This', an evening length work, premiered at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn commissioned by FLICfest 2014. GREYZONE released a short film 'Queens Duets' shot in Queens, New York in 2015. They were 2015 Liftoff residents for the month of August at New Dance Alliance in Tribeca, and will perform a new work at the Abrons Art Center in Spring 2016 as part of the 30th anniversary of the Performance Mix Festival.
More info: http://www.grey-zone.com/
Directors: Lindy Fines and Justin Fines
Choreographer: Lindy Fines
Composer: Justin Fines
Dancers: Lindsey Jones, Pareena Lim, Weaver Rhodes, Samuel Swanton
Editor: Justin Fines
Justin Fines is an artist and award-winning graphic designer and Lindy Fines is a choreographer and dancer, both based in NYC. The two co-founded GREYZONE in 2011 with the aim to further explore the intersection of dance, sound design, time-based media and the visual arts.
GREYZONE has performed at The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and The Secret Theater. The company premiered "Vehicle" in October 2012 at Mike Perry’s "Wandering Around Wondering" art space in Brooklyn. The work involved an exciting visual collaboration including set and costumes with visual artist Mike Perry. GREYZONE were artist's in residence at the Dragon's Egg in Mystic, CT in March and September of 2013. 'Even As I Tell You This', an evening length work, premiered at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn commissioned by FLICfest 2014. GREYZONE released a short film 'Queens Duets' shot in Queens, New York in 2015. They were 2015 Liftoff residents for the month of August at New Dance Alliance in Tribeca, and will perform a new work at the Abrons Art Center in Spring 2016 as part of the 30th anniversary of the Performance Mix Festival.
More info: http://www.grey-zone.com/
Ame' (Jacksonville, NC)
Director/Choreographer: Savannah Joy Cobb
Director of Photography: Brandan Giehl
Composers: Olafur Arnalds and Sigur Ros'
Dancers: Cameron Birts, Mikhail Calliste, Stanley Glover, Roderick S. Phifer, Donovan Reed, Antonio C. Wright.
Editor: Savannah Joy Cobb
Director/Choreographer-
Savannah Joy Cobb is originally from North Carolina where she began serious ballet training at the age of nine under Galina Panova. In 2011 she moved to New York City on scholarship to train in Broadway Dance Centers Professional Semester where she was able to perform for Glamour and Details Magazines' End of the Year Celebration as well as for NYC's Choreographers Canvas. Savannah then chose to attend The University of the Arts where she has been in many works created by Dwight Rhoden, Douglas Becker, Roni Koresh, and Sidra Bell to name a few. Before graduating in May, Savannah was lucky enough to travel to France, perform in RAW: Artists of Philadelphia, World of Dance, and the Capezio Ace Awards.
Director of Photography-
Brandan Giehl is a filmmaker from Central New Jersey. Having studied at the University of The Arts, he has indulged in various modes of film and video. In his work, he explores characters and figures; while experimenting with activity and movement through composition.
Director/Choreographer: Savannah Joy Cobb
Director of Photography: Brandan Giehl
Composers: Olafur Arnalds and Sigur Ros'
Dancers: Cameron Birts, Mikhail Calliste, Stanley Glover, Roderick S. Phifer, Donovan Reed, Antonio C. Wright.
Editor: Savannah Joy Cobb
Director/Choreographer-
Savannah Joy Cobb is originally from North Carolina where she began serious ballet training at the age of nine under Galina Panova. In 2011 she moved to New York City on scholarship to train in Broadway Dance Centers Professional Semester where she was able to perform for Glamour and Details Magazines' End of the Year Celebration as well as for NYC's Choreographers Canvas. Savannah then chose to attend The University of the Arts where she has been in many works created by Dwight Rhoden, Douglas Becker, Roni Koresh, and Sidra Bell to name a few. Before graduating in May, Savannah was lucky enough to travel to France, perform in RAW: Artists of Philadelphia, World of Dance, and the Capezio Ace Awards.
Director of Photography-
Brandan Giehl is a filmmaker from Central New Jersey. Having studied at the University of The Arts, he has indulged in various modes of film and video. In his work, he explores characters and figures; while experimenting with activity and movement through composition.
Dark White (Philadelphia, PA)
Directed by Joseph B. Carlin
Produced by Matt DeVito
Choreography by Nora Gibson
Dancers: Gina Battista Shifferly, Melissa McCarten, Amy Novinski, Jessica Warchal-King
Music by Ta-Ku
Joseph B. Carlin is a director and writer based in Philadelphia, where he operates his production company, Transfixion Films. To contact him visit www.transfixionfilms.com or email [email protected]
Nora Gibson is an American, female choreographer evolving ballet for the 21st century. Gibson is interested in the beauty of the natural world, as evidenced in mathematics and science, and in working across disciplines to fully realize ballet's aesthetic and reach for all modern thinkers. Gibson trained at Baltimore School for the Arts, Chautauqua, and NCSA, and earned a BFA from Tisch, at NYU. In addition to performing with ballet and modern companies in MD, D.C., and NY, Gibson was selected to work from 2010-2013 with Lucinda Childs to perform various iconic 70s works as part of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage's virtual reconstruction project. Gibson was awarded an Artist Residency with the nEW Festival in Philadelphia (2009-10), the CEC New Edge Residency (2009-10), the Ellen Forman Memorial Award (2011), and the PHL/Poland Artist Exchange Residency (2012). Gibson’s choreography has been presented by New Dance Alliance at Joyce SOHO, at Dance Place in Washington DC, and by Philadelphia Dance Projects. Her choreography was featured in Transfixion Films’ Dark White, presented at the 2015 Triskellion Dance Film Lab in Brooklyn, NY. Gibson’s work has received consistent critical acclaim, heralded by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "spellbinding" and "the most authoritative work in Philadelphia. . ." In 2014, Gibson was in residence at Lafayette College to create a ballet in collaboration with mathematician Derek Smith, and commissioned for a new ballet by Georgian Court University in Fall 2015. Gibson is also a teacher, and has taught ballet and composition in the US and abroad,including Temple University, University of the Arts, the Zawirowania Festival, and many other institutions. For complete information, please visit http://noragibsoncontemporaryballet.com
Directed by Joseph B. Carlin
Produced by Matt DeVito
Choreography by Nora Gibson
Dancers: Gina Battista Shifferly, Melissa McCarten, Amy Novinski, Jessica Warchal-King
Music by Ta-Ku
Joseph B. Carlin is a director and writer based in Philadelphia, where he operates his production company, Transfixion Films. To contact him visit www.transfixionfilms.com or email [email protected]
Nora Gibson is an American, female choreographer evolving ballet for the 21st century. Gibson is interested in the beauty of the natural world, as evidenced in mathematics and science, and in working across disciplines to fully realize ballet's aesthetic and reach for all modern thinkers. Gibson trained at Baltimore School for the Arts, Chautauqua, and NCSA, and earned a BFA from Tisch, at NYU. In addition to performing with ballet and modern companies in MD, D.C., and NY, Gibson was selected to work from 2010-2013 with Lucinda Childs to perform various iconic 70s works as part of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage's virtual reconstruction project. Gibson was awarded an Artist Residency with the nEW Festival in Philadelphia (2009-10), the CEC New Edge Residency (2009-10), the Ellen Forman Memorial Award (2011), and the PHL/Poland Artist Exchange Residency (2012). Gibson’s choreography has been presented by New Dance Alliance at Joyce SOHO, at Dance Place in Washington DC, and by Philadelphia Dance Projects. Her choreography was featured in Transfixion Films’ Dark White, presented at the 2015 Triskellion Dance Film Lab in Brooklyn, NY. Gibson’s work has received consistent critical acclaim, heralded by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "spellbinding" and "the most authoritative work in Philadelphia. . ." In 2014, Gibson was in residence at Lafayette College to create a ballet in collaboration with mathematician Derek Smith, and commissioned for a new ballet by Georgian Court University in Fall 2015. Gibson is also a teacher, and has taught ballet and composition in the US and abroad,including Temple University, University of the Arts, the Zawirowania Festival, and many other institutions. For complete information, please visit http://noragibsoncontemporaryballet.com
Red Earth Calling (Philadelphia, PA)
Choreographed & Directed By: Jennifer Jessum
Produced By: Jennifer Jessum & Jillian Harris
Assistant Choreographer: Jillian Harris
CoProducer: Paula Cantu-Galindo
Original Score: Christopher B. Farrell
Cinematography & Editing: Jennifer Jessum
Costume Design: Heidi Barr
Starring: Jillian Harris & Yebel Gallegos
Jennifer Jessum, M.F.A., is the Founder and Artistic Director of Flying Limbs Inc. Productions. An award-winning director, choreographer, producer, and cinematographer, Jennifer holds a Master of Fine Arts degree, in Film Production, from USC School of Cinematic Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts degree, in Dance, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has directed and produced shorts, features, music videos, PSAs and commercials. Her film and choreographic work has been commissioned and presented throughout the United States and abroad. Her visceral and dynamic shooting style, which she refers to as Kinema, is an innovative synthesis of dance, somatics, and film.Her two award-winning feature documentaries, Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White, narrated by Martin Sheen, and Finding God in the City of Angels, have both received critical acclaim. Her short narrative dance film, Red Earth Calling, is currently on the festival circuit and has recently won awards at the Maui Film Festival, Moondance International Film Festival, and Toronto Independent Film Festival. Her new film, Running On A Wing And A Prayer, is currently in post-production. www.flyinglimbs.com
An Associate Professor of Dance at Temple University, JILLIAN HARRIS toured nationally with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, performing works by noted choreographers such as Doug Varone and Moses Pendleton. She went on to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers. Her choreography has been commissioned and shown at venues in New York City, Virginia, Maryland, Utah, Tennessee, and Italy. Known for her innovative collaborations, her recent projects include a dance film shot in Arches National Park with Flying Limbs Inc. Productions, a collaboration with the Temple University Singers and composer Ola Gjeilo (Philadelphia), and research with the L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra (Virginia Tech University). Her latest project INVASION, an interactive dance installation involving a Kinect depth sensor camera and video dj software,premiered at Temple University and was presented at the 2015 NDEO Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Jillian maintains an active teaching schedule, conducting master classes in the United States and abroad. She is a member of the UNESCO International Dance Council, the National Dance Education Organization, and Dance USA.
Choreographed & Directed By: Jennifer Jessum
Produced By: Jennifer Jessum & Jillian Harris
Assistant Choreographer: Jillian Harris
CoProducer: Paula Cantu-Galindo
Original Score: Christopher B. Farrell
Cinematography & Editing: Jennifer Jessum
Costume Design: Heidi Barr
Starring: Jillian Harris & Yebel Gallegos
Jennifer Jessum, M.F.A., is the Founder and Artistic Director of Flying Limbs Inc. Productions. An award-winning director, choreographer, producer, and cinematographer, Jennifer holds a Master of Fine Arts degree, in Film Production, from USC School of Cinematic Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts degree, in Dance, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has directed and produced shorts, features, music videos, PSAs and commercials. Her film and choreographic work has been commissioned and presented throughout the United States and abroad. Her visceral and dynamic shooting style, which she refers to as Kinema, is an innovative synthesis of dance, somatics, and film.Her two award-winning feature documentaries, Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White, narrated by Martin Sheen, and Finding God in the City of Angels, have both received critical acclaim. Her short narrative dance film, Red Earth Calling, is currently on the festival circuit and has recently won awards at the Maui Film Festival, Moondance International Film Festival, and Toronto Independent Film Festival. Her new film, Running On A Wing And A Prayer, is currently in post-production. www.flyinglimbs.com
An Associate Professor of Dance at Temple University, JILLIAN HARRIS toured nationally with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, performing works by noted choreographers such as Doug Varone and Moses Pendleton. She went on to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers. Her choreography has been commissioned and shown at venues in New York City, Virginia, Maryland, Utah, Tennessee, and Italy. Known for her innovative collaborations, her recent projects include a dance film shot in Arches National Park with Flying Limbs Inc. Productions, a collaboration with the Temple University Singers and composer Ola Gjeilo (Philadelphia), and research with the L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra (Virginia Tech University). Her latest project INVASION, an interactive dance installation involving a Kinect depth sensor camera and video dj software,premiered at Temple University and was presented at the 2015 NDEO Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Jillian maintains an active teaching schedule, conducting master classes in the United States and abroad. She is a member of the UNESCO International Dance Council, the National Dance Education Organization, and Dance USA.
undertow (Boston, MA)
Produced by: Wilder Project
Director/Choreographer: Holly Wilder
Cinematographer/Editor: Duncan Wilder
Composer: Peter Wise
Dancers: Holly Wilder and Santiago MacLean
Holly Wilder (director/choreographer) is currently a freelance dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher based in NYC, and artistic director of Wilder Project, a dance film collective. She graduated summa cum laude from the Boston Conservatory in 2015 with a BFA in Contemporary Dance and an emphasis in choreography. Some of her performance credits include the national tour of Debbie Allen's musical Brothers of the Knight and performing with the Thang Dao Dance Company. She has choreographed for the Boston Conservatory mainstage, the internationally touring JUNTOS Collective, for composer John Heiss, and for multiple music videos. www.hollywilder.com.
Duncan Wilder (cinematographer/editor) is currently a freelance videographer based in NYC, as well as the videographer of Wilder Project, a dance film collective. He graduated from the Principia College in 2012 with a BA in Mass Communication. He has worked in sports video production with Major League Lacrosse and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, and his personal film projects have been selected to multiple film festivals. www.rhythmofyou.com.
Produced by: Wilder Project
Director/Choreographer: Holly Wilder
Cinematographer/Editor: Duncan Wilder
Composer: Peter Wise
Dancers: Holly Wilder and Santiago MacLean
Holly Wilder (director/choreographer) is currently a freelance dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher based in NYC, and artistic director of Wilder Project, a dance film collective. She graduated summa cum laude from the Boston Conservatory in 2015 with a BFA in Contemporary Dance and an emphasis in choreography. Some of her performance credits include the national tour of Debbie Allen's musical Brothers of the Knight and performing with the Thang Dao Dance Company. She has choreographed for the Boston Conservatory mainstage, the internationally touring JUNTOS Collective, for composer John Heiss, and for multiple music videos. www.hollywilder.com.
Duncan Wilder (cinematographer/editor) is currently a freelance videographer based in NYC, as well as the videographer of Wilder Project, a dance film collective. He graduated from the Principia College in 2012 with a BA in Mass Communication. He has worked in sports video production with Major League Lacrosse and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, and his personal film projects have been selected to multiple film festivals. www.rhythmofyou.com.
The Camera Betrays You (Phoenixville, PA)
Conceived by: Liz Staruch & Mark O'Maley
Choreographed by: Liz Staruch (In collaboration with the cast)
Dancers: Anna Karas, Megan Mazarick, Donnell Oakley, Liz Staruch
Photographer: Victoria Zolnoski
Production Designer: Mark O'Maley
Editor & Additional Photographer: Daniel Kontz
Music by: Gabriel Prokofiev, DJ Yoda, Heritage Orchestra, Phantogram
3b.
Liz Staruch (Choreographer, Dancer) works in both the dance and musical theatre programs as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at West Chester University. Her concert and dance film work has been presented in Philadelphia and New York City in addition to North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia in the US, and England and Poland. Among her WCU musical theatre credits are The Rocky Horror Show and Godspell (director/choreographer), She Loves Me, Cabaret, The Pajama Game, and Assassins (choreographer). Her musical theatre choreography has earned several awards from Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, including a national commendation for WCU’s production of Hair!. Staruch was elected to the ACDA National Board of Directors, representing the Northeast region and is currently serving as chair of the fundraising committee. She was previously on faculty at DeSales University, Elon University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her M.F.A. in Dance/Choreography.
Mark O'Maley (Instigator, Production Designer) is an instigator of space, bodies, and ideas whose work has been produced throughout the United States, Europe, and South America - including off-Broadway and the West End - with such people and places as The Orchard Project, Danny Hoch, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fusebox Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Ravenna Teatro, Walnut Street Theatre, Joyce Theater, Boston Center for the Arts, David Dorfman, River North Chicago Dance, Daniel Nagrin, Rennie Harris Puremovement, La MaMa E.T.C., Chris Akien, Headlong Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, Nichole Canuso Dance, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Brighton Festival, New Paradise Laboratories, Delaware Theatre Company, Sadler’s Wells, P.S. 122, Ohio Theatre/Ice Factory Festival and Dance Chicago. O’Maley has served on the faculties of the University of Colorado Boulder, Franklin Pierce University, and Arcadia University. Currently he serves on faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in the Dance Department, and is the production manager & designer for Rennie Harris’ Grass Roots Project as well as the Vermont Governor’s Institute on the Arts. He received his BA from the University Without Walls program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.
Victoria Patrick Zolnoski (Photographer) has been an Associate Professor of Photography at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont since 1987. She received her MFAIA from Goddard College in 2013. Her thesis, "Re-Enchantment of the Self", continues the philosophical explorations of Morris Berman, Suzi Gablik and Owen Barfield. As a self-taught horticulturist, she tends a two-acre garden that serves as her summer studio, a place to reinterpret and expand the photographic vision of Julia Margaret Cameron. Her video, "Sacred Life", was a 2012 selection for the VI SÃO CARLOS VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL in Brazil. Victoria’s art can be seen at victoriazolnoski.com or beautyshaman.com.
Daniel Kontz (Editor, Additional Photographer) is a Multimedia Designer from London, England, based in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from West Chester University in 2011 with a B.A. in Theatre Arts, the JP Adler Award for Excellence in Theatre, and the Maverick Award for Excellence in Theatre. He designs sound and projections for theatrical productions in Philadelphia, include productions with The National Constitution Center, InterAct Theatre Company, Simpatico Theatre Project, Azuka Theatre, Plays & Players, The Renegade Company, and Matchbox Theatre. He is the Art Director for Revolution Shakespeare and was a member of Azuka Theatre's inaugural "New Professionals" series. Outside of Philadelphia, his work has been seen and heard in the VI São Carlos Videodance Festival in Brazil, Columbia University's New Plays Now Festival, the NYC Fringe Festival, The Left Out Festival, and the American College Dance Festival. His work can be seen and heard at www.danielkontzdesign.com
Conceived by: Liz Staruch & Mark O'Maley
Choreographed by: Liz Staruch (In collaboration with the cast)
Dancers: Anna Karas, Megan Mazarick, Donnell Oakley, Liz Staruch
Photographer: Victoria Zolnoski
Production Designer: Mark O'Maley
Editor & Additional Photographer: Daniel Kontz
Music by: Gabriel Prokofiev, DJ Yoda, Heritage Orchestra, Phantogram
3b.
Liz Staruch (Choreographer, Dancer) works in both the dance and musical theatre programs as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at West Chester University. Her concert and dance film work has been presented in Philadelphia and New York City in addition to North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia in the US, and England and Poland. Among her WCU musical theatre credits are The Rocky Horror Show and Godspell (director/choreographer), She Loves Me, Cabaret, The Pajama Game, and Assassins (choreographer). Her musical theatre choreography has earned several awards from Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, including a national commendation for WCU’s production of Hair!. Staruch was elected to the ACDA National Board of Directors, representing the Northeast region and is currently serving as chair of the fundraising committee. She was previously on faculty at DeSales University, Elon University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her M.F.A. in Dance/Choreography.
Mark O'Maley (Instigator, Production Designer) is an instigator of space, bodies, and ideas whose work has been produced throughout the United States, Europe, and South America - including off-Broadway and the West End - with such people and places as The Orchard Project, Danny Hoch, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fusebox Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Ravenna Teatro, Walnut Street Theatre, Joyce Theater, Boston Center for the Arts, David Dorfman, River North Chicago Dance, Daniel Nagrin, Rennie Harris Puremovement, La MaMa E.T.C., Chris Akien, Headlong Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, Nichole Canuso Dance, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Brighton Festival, New Paradise Laboratories, Delaware Theatre Company, Sadler’s Wells, P.S. 122, Ohio Theatre/Ice Factory Festival and Dance Chicago. O’Maley has served on the faculties of the University of Colorado Boulder, Franklin Pierce University, and Arcadia University. Currently he serves on faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in the Dance Department, and is the production manager & designer for Rennie Harris’ Grass Roots Project as well as the Vermont Governor’s Institute on the Arts. He received his BA from the University Without Walls program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.
Victoria Patrick Zolnoski (Photographer) has been an Associate Professor of Photography at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont since 1987. She received her MFAIA from Goddard College in 2013. Her thesis, "Re-Enchantment of the Self", continues the philosophical explorations of Morris Berman, Suzi Gablik and Owen Barfield. As a self-taught horticulturist, she tends a two-acre garden that serves as her summer studio, a place to reinterpret and expand the photographic vision of Julia Margaret Cameron. Her video, "Sacred Life", was a 2012 selection for the VI SÃO CARLOS VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL in Brazil. Victoria’s art can be seen at victoriazolnoski.com or beautyshaman.com.
Daniel Kontz (Editor, Additional Photographer) is a Multimedia Designer from London, England, based in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from West Chester University in 2011 with a B.A. in Theatre Arts, the JP Adler Award for Excellence in Theatre, and the Maverick Award for Excellence in Theatre. He designs sound and projections for theatrical productions in Philadelphia, include productions with The National Constitution Center, InterAct Theatre Company, Simpatico Theatre Project, Azuka Theatre, Plays & Players, The Renegade Company, and Matchbox Theatre. He is the Art Director for Revolution Shakespeare and was a member of Azuka Theatre's inaugural "New Professionals" series. Outside of Philadelphia, his work has been seen and heard in the VI São Carlos Videodance Festival in Brazil, Columbia University's New Plays Now Festival, the NYC Fringe Festival, The Left Out Festival, and the American College Dance Festival. His work can be seen and heard at www.danielkontzdesign.com
PROGRAM C: Thursday & Sunday (Thurs, 8:30-9:30/ Sun 4:30-5:30)
ACHES (Chester, VA)
Directed by Torian Ugworji,
Choreographed by Annielile Gavino-Kollman & Torian Ugworji,
Composed by MY DARLING FURY (unreleased song - Aches),
Dancers, Annielilie Gavino-Kollman (lead), Nikolai Mckenzie(lead), Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Olivia Kaminski, Amanda Whelcher,
Edited by Torian Ugworji,
Special Thanks to MY DARLING FURY
My Darling Fury is an indie pop band based in Richmond, VA. They artfully incorporate technology in a genre that is not traditionally electronic. The band has a touch of a symphonic and operatic flare. Musically, their sound is noted for its contrast of dreamy soundscapes and post-rock passages.
Torian Ugworji: Director/Choreographer
Diving into the concept of man vs. society, Torian Ugworji creates work based on the examination of human interaction or its absence. Torian uses video to capture collaborative performances by means of monologues, movement and stillness. Torian’s films address performance as a call to action, and the video format is to broadcast this call. Presenting metaphysical obstacles, his work explores topics such as identity and rebirth through the actions and words of his performers.
Annielilie Gavino-Kollman: Choreographer
Annielille Gavino-Kollman is a native of the Philippines; started dance at a local ballet school ( Nila Gonzalez ) focused on the R.A.D. syllabus. She trained with Ballet Philippines, Philippine Ballet Theater and was the youngest dancer of a jazz company, Powerdance. While in NYC, Annie assisted Milton Myers, a master teacher in the Horton technique, performed with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater ( Memoria ), Rod Rodgers Dance Company, Nina Buisson, Earl Moseley, Matthew Rushing, Freddie Moore and many others. Professionally, Annie danced for Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble ( Denver, CO ) and Dallas Black Dance Theater ( Dallas, TX ). In the beginning of 2014, she started her project based dance company, Malayaworks. Her choreography has been seen in Dance Place ( DC ) , Pregones Theater ( NYC ) Joel Hall ( Chicago ), Appomattox Governor's School for the Arts and Malayaworks local productions at Dogtown Dance Theatre. (Richmond).
More info: www.tserendipity.com
Directed by Torian Ugworji,
Choreographed by Annielile Gavino-Kollman & Torian Ugworji,
Composed by MY DARLING FURY (unreleased song - Aches),
Dancers, Annielilie Gavino-Kollman (lead), Nikolai Mckenzie(lead), Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Olivia Kaminski, Amanda Whelcher,
Edited by Torian Ugworji,
Special Thanks to MY DARLING FURY
My Darling Fury is an indie pop band based in Richmond, VA. They artfully incorporate technology in a genre that is not traditionally electronic. The band has a touch of a symphonic and operatic flare. Musically, their sound is noted for its contrast of dreamy soundscapes and post-rock passages.
Torian Ugworji: Director/Choreographer
Diving into the concept of man vs. society, Torian Ugworji creates work based on the examination of human interaction or its absence. Torian uses video to capture collaborative performances by means of monologues, movement and stillness. Torian’s films address performance as a call to action, and the video format is to broadcast this call. Presenting metaphysical obstacles, his work explores topics such as identity and rebirth through the actions and words of his performers.
Annielilie Gavino-Kollman: Choreographer
Annielille Gavino-Kollman is a native of the Philippines; started dance at a local ballet school ( Nila Gonzalez ) focused on the R.A.D. syllabus. She trained with Ballet Philippines, Philippine Ballet Theater and was the youngest dancer of a jazz company, Powerdance. While in NYC, Annie assisted Milton Myers, a master teacher in the Horton technique, performed with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater ( Memoria ), Rod Rodgers Dance Company, Nina Buisson, Earl Moseley, Matthew Rushing, Freddie Moore and many others. Professionally, Annie danced for Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble ( Denver, CO ) and Dallas Black Dance Theater ( Dallas, TX ). In the beginning of 2014, she started her project based dance company, Malayaworks. Her choreography has been seen in Dance Place ( DC ) , Pregones Theater ( NYC ) Joel Hall ( Chicago ), Appomattox Governor's School for the Arts and Malayaworks local productions at Dogtown Dance Theatre. (Richmond).
More info: www.tserendipity.com
le passage du temps (The Passing of Time) (Greensboro, NC)
Director: Jen Guy Metcalf
Choreographer: Jen Guy Metcalf
Composer: Philip G. Anderson
Dancers: Heather Leffler, Allister Dahlberg, Allynne Noelle, Alex Castillo, Gianna Jigarhan, Dan Collins
Editor: Ben Stringfellow
Costume Designer: Karl Green
Camera Operators: J McMerty, Tyler Diamond, Brian Szymanski
Produced with Funding from The Faculty Research and Development Summer Fellowship, Elon University, Elon in LA
Jen Guy Metcalf (Director, Choreographer) holds a B.F.A. in Dance with a concentration in Ballet from Point Park University and an M.F.A. in Dance Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She performed with Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, Jacksonville Ballet Theatre, Greensboro Ballet, Playhouse Dance Company, The Kearns Dance Project, and for many independent choreographers. Jen is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Elon University where she teaches Ballet, Pointe and Dance for the Camera. She is the founder of TERRANOVA Dance Theatre in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her choreography and dance films have been presented in Europe, Canada and the US.
J McMerty (Cinematographer) holds a B.A., Elon University and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He serves as the director of the Elon in Los Angeles program and is based out of Hollywood. J teaches Advanced Production courses in LA, as well as freelances as a videographer, photographer and editor. He is a coordinator of, Elon@Sundance, a program for students to study and attend the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, during the Elon University winter term. J produces international social cause documentaries, as well as film and video productions in the narrative and experimental genres.
Director: Jen Guy Metcalf
Choreographer: Jen Guy Metcalf
Composer: Philip G. Anderson
Dancers: Heather Leffler, Allister Dahlberg, Allynne Noelle, Alex Castillo, Gianna Jigarhan, Dan Collins
Editor: Ben Stringfellow
Costume Designer: Karl Green
Camera Operators: J McMerty, Tyler Diamond, Brian Szymanski
Produced with Funding from The Faculty Research and Development Summer Fellowship, Elon University, Elon in LA
Jen Guy Metcalf (Director, Choreographer) holds a B.F.A. in Dance with a concentration in Ballet from Point Park University and an M.F.A. in Dance Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She performed with Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, Jacksonville Ballet Theatre, Greensboro Ballet, Playhouse Dance Company, The Kearns Dance Project, and for many independent choreographers. Jen is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Elon University where she teaches Ballet, Pointe and Dance for the Camera. She is the founder of TERRANOVA Dance Theatre in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her choreography and dance films have been presented in Europe, Canada and the US.
J McMerty (Cinematographer) holds a B.A., Elon University and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He serves as the director of the Elon in Los Angeles program and is based out of Hollywood. J teaches Advanced Production courses in LA, as well as freelances as a videographer, photographer and editor. He is a coordinator of, Elon@Sundance, a program for students to study and attend the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, during the Elon University winter term. J produces international social cause documentaries, as well as film and video productions in the narrative and experimental genres.
Divergent REMIX (Philadelphia, PA)
Film created/conceived: Nora Gibson
Graphics: TGesh, Nora Gibson
Music: Moby
Dancers: Emma Cohen, Dana Nichols
Nora Gibson is an American, female choreographer evolving ballet for the 21st century. Gibson is interested in the beauty of the natural world, as evidenced in mathematics and science, and in working across disciplines to fully realize ballet's aesthetic and reach for all modern thinkers. Gibson trained at Baltimore School for the Arts, Chautauqua, and NCSA, and earned a BFA from Tisch, at NYU. In addition to performing with ballet and modern companies in MD, D.C., and NY, Gibson was selected to work from 2010-2013 with Lucinda Childs to perform various iconic 70s works as a part of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage's virtual reconstruction project. Gibson was awarded an Artist Residency with the nEW Festival in Philadelphia (2009-10), the CEC New Edge Residency (2009-10), the Ellen Forman Memorial Award (2011), and the PHL/Poland Artist Exchange Residency (2012). Gibson’s choreography has been presented by New Dance Alliance at Joyce SOHO, at Dance Place in Washington DC, and by Philadelphia Dance Projects. Her choreography was featured in Transfixion Films’ Dark White, presented at the 2015 Triskellion Dance Film Lab in Brooklyn, NY. Gibson’s work has received consistent critical acclaim, heralded by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "spellbinding" and "the most authoritative work in Philadelphia. . ." In 2014, Gibson was in residence at Lafayette College to create a ballet in collaboration with mathematician Derek Smith, and commissioned for a new ballet by Georgian Court University in Fall 2015. Gibson is also a teacher, and has taught ballet and composition in the US and abroad,including Temple University, University of the Arts, the Zawirowania Festival, and many other institutions. For complete information, please visit http://noragibsoncontemporaryballet.com
Film created/conceived: Nora Gibson
Graphics: TGesh, Nora Gibson
Music: Moby
Dancers: Emma Cohen, Dana Nichols
Nora Gibson is an American, female choreographer evolving ballet for the 21st century. Gibson is interested in the beauty of the natural world, as evidenced in mathematics and science, and in working across disciplines to fully realize ballet's aesthetic and reach for all modern thinkers. Gibson trained at Baltimore School for the Arts, Chautauqua, and NCSA, and earned a BFA from Tisch, at NYU. In addition to performing with ballet and modern companies in MD, D.C., and NY, Gibson was selected to work from 2010-2013 with Lucinda Childs to perform various iconic 70s works as a part of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage's virtual reconstruction project. Gibson was awarded an Artist Residency with the nEW Festival in Philadelphia (2009-10), the CEC New Edge Residency (2009-10), the Ellen Forman Memorial Award (2011), and the PHL/Poland Artist Exchange Residency (2012). Gibson’s choreography has been presented by New Dance Alliance at Joyce SOHO, at Dance Place in Washington DC, and by Philadelphia Dance Projects. Her choreography was featured in Transfixion Films’ Dark White, presented at the 2015 Triskellion Dance Film Lab in Brooklyn, NY. Gibson’s work has received consistent critical acclaim, heralded by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "spellbinding" and "the most authoritative work in Philadelphia. . ." In 2014, Gibson was in residence at Lafayette College to create a ballet in collaboration with mathematician Derek Smith, and commissioned for a new ballet by Georgian Court University in Fall 2015. Gibson is also a teacher, and has taught ballet and composition in the US and abroad,including Temple University, University of the Arts, the Zawirowania Festival, and many other institutions. For complete information, please visit http://noragibsoncontemporaryballet.com
Nightmares (Athens, GR)
Director:
Konstantinos Fourkiotis
Choreographer,concept:
Fenia Apostolou
Dramaturgy:
Christos Polymenakos
Music:
Hrisanthos Hristodoulou
Photography:
Claudio Bolivar
Editing:
Petros Nousias
Performers:
Panayotis Argyropoulos, Roula
Koutroubeli, Spiros Bertsatos, Katerina Skiada
Communication Officer: Haralabos Bertsatos
Production:VideoDance-Internationa Thessaloniki Film Festival and Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre Greece
Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre is a contemporary dancetheatre company based in Athens working in the field of contemporary dance, physical theatre and performing arts. Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre was formed in 2002 and has been led since by Fenia Apostolou, choreographer and artistic director. Her originally developed approach in kinesiology and her contemporary choreographic style are inspired by what the company's name (Touchstone translated in English) implies for the creativity process of the choreographic practice. Human relations pass through a purification process of emotion, so that the physical expression of emotion reflecting on the choreographic work to appear both revealing and genuine. The company has produced 5 full-length contemporary dance dramas (Songs of Wax, Death of the Maiden, Chair's Tragedy, Miss Julie & The Three Musketeers), four physical theatre plays (Blonde for Life, The Pelican, Other Side & BELLEΛΕΝ-Helen's of Troy "eternal" Tragedy) which have toured nationally and internationally (Quinzena de Danca Almada - International Contemporary Dance Festival in Portugal, ProART Festival in Prague, the 9th Black Box International Theatre and Dance Festival, MOT International Theatre Festival & 13th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival) with great success, and two award-winning dance videos (Nightmares, Pelican Dance) which have toured in many national and international video dance festivals (Thessaloniki Film Festival, Dance on Camera Festival, Festival Internazionale Di Videodanza, Oxford International Festival of Films, Dance Camera West Film Festival, Festival de Videodanza de Buenos Aires, Film Festival of Cyprus, Breaking8-Find Festival Internazionale Nuova Danza,2nd Greensboro Dance Film Festival, Loikka Dance Film Festival ScreenDance Dance Film Festival, Dance Film Festival UK & 9th São Carlos Videodance Festival). Fenia was a member of the choreographic group of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in 2004. Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre received funding from the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2007 for the "Miss Julie" production which was held under the auspices of the Swedish Embassy. Fenia Apostolou is a member of the Association of the Greek Choreographers and the International Council of Dance UNESCO. Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre's production "The Pelican", opus 4 of August Strindberg's chamber plays was held again under the auspices of the Swedish Embassy. "Other Side" production by Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre, directed by Fenia Apostolou was presented in the 9th Black Box International Theatre and Dance Festival-2015 in Plovdiv in Bulgaria and in MOT International Theatre Festival in Skopje in FYROM. BELLEΛΕΝ - Helen's of Troy "eternal" Tragedy, performed by Fenia Apostolou was presented in the 13th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival in Yerevan, Armenia.
More info: www.lydialithosdancetheatre.com
Director:
Konstantinos Fourkiotis
Choreographer,concept:
Fenia Apostolou
Dramaturgy:
Christos Polymenakos
Music:
Hrisanthos Hristodoulou
Photography:
Claudio Bolivar
Editing:
Petros Nousias
Performers:
Panayotis Argyropoulos, Roula
Koutroubeli, Spiros Bertsatos, Katerina Skiada
Communication Officer: Haralabos Bertsatos
Production:VideoDance-Internationa Thessaloniki Film Festival and Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre Greece
Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre is a contemporary dancetheatre company based in Athens working in the field of contemporary dance, physical theatre and performing arts. Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre was formed in 2002 and has been led since by Fenia Apostolou, choreographer and artistic director. Her originally developed approach in kinesiology and her contemporary choreographic style are inspired by what the company's name (Touchstone translated in English) implies for the creativity process of the choreographic practice. Human relations pass through a purification process of emotion, so that the physical expression of emotion reflecting on the choreographic work to appear both revealing and genuine. The company has produced 5 full-length contemporary dance dramas (Songs of Wax, Death of the Maiden, Chair's Tragedy, Miss Julie & The Three Musketeers), four physical theatre plays (Blonde for Life, The Pelican, Other Side & BELLEΛΕΝ-Helen's of Troy "eternal" Tragedy) which have toured nationally and internationally (Quinzena de Danca Almada - International Contemporary Dance Festival in Portugal, ProART Festival in Prague, the 9th Black Box International Theatre and Dance Festival, MOT International Theatre Festival & 13th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival) with great success, and two award-winning dance videos (Nightmares, Pelican Dance) which have toured in many national and international video dance festivals (Thessaloniki Film Festival, Dance on Camera Festival, Festival Internazionale Di Videodanza, Oxford International Festival of Films, Dance Camera West Film Festival, Festival de Videodanza de Buenos Aires, Film Festival of Cyprus, Breaking8-Find Festival Internazionale Nuova Danza,2nd Greensboro Dance Film Festival, Loikka Dance Film Festival ScreenDance Dance Film Festival, Dance Film Festival UK & 9th São Carlos Videodance Festival). Fenia was a member of the choreographic group of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in 2004. Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre received funding from the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2007 for the "Miss Julie" production which was held under the auspices of the Swedish Embassy. Fenia Apostolou is a member of the Association of the Greek Choreographers and the International Council of Dance UNESCO. Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre's production "The Pelican", opus 4 of August Strindberg's chamber plays was held again under the auspices of the Swedish Embassy. "Other Side" production by Lydia Lithos Dancetheatre, directed by Fenia Apostolou was presented in the 9th Black Box International Theatre and Dance Festival-2015 in Plovdiv in Bulgaria and in MOT International Theatre Festival in Skopje in FYROM. BELLEΛΕΝ - Helen's of Troy "eternal" Tragedy, performed by Fenia Apostolou was presented in the 13th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival in Yerevan, Armenia.
More info: www.lydialithosdancetheatre.com
Skeleton Skin (Philadelphia, PA)
filmed and edited by Jorge Cousineau
Choreographed and Performed by Niki Cousineau
Music by Rosie Langabeer and Jorge Cousineau
Niki Cousineau is a Philadelphia based choreographer, dancer and co-director of Subcircle. She is a 2007 Pew Fellow and was a Choreographic Fellow at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography in 2012. As a choreographer Niki often works on Arden Theater Company’s musical productions and as a performer she has danced with headlong dance theater and nichole canuso dance company among others. Subcircle's dance film HERE was presented at the Michener Museum as part of the exhibit Lucid Dreaming. Skeleton Skin was commissioned by the national dance film platform: Dances Made to Order.
Jorge Cousineau was born in Dresden, Germany. In 1997 he moved to Philadelphia to work as a theater designer and has since created sets, lights, sound and video, most notably with Denver Center Theatre, Humana Festival, Arden Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, 1812 Productions and New Paradise Laboratories. He is a recipient of two Independence Foundation Fellowship grants and was awarded the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist. He has received several Barrymore Awards as well as a Lortel Award for his sound design on the production of Opus in NYC. Jorge was awarded the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2011.
Rosie Langabeer was raised in a country mostly populated by sheep (New Zealand). But, throughout childhood and, more notably, since 2002 she has been composing music mostly for human beings. A two time Barrymore award winner, Langabeer specializes in experimental processes in composition and performance. She splits her time between New Zealand and the USA, where she has become embroiled in Philadelphia’s dance and theater scenes, creating new works with Pig Iron Theatre Company, BalletX, Subcircle Dance Theater, No Face Performance Group and is 50 percent of the Philadelphia band Totally Super Pregnant. Learn more: www.rosielangabeer.com.
filmed and edited by Jorge Cousineau
Choreographed and Performed by Niki Cousineau
Music by Rosie Langabeer and Jorge Cousineau
Niki Cousineau is a Philadelphia based choreographer, dancer and co-director of Subcircle. She is a 2007 Pew Fellow and was a Choreographic Fellow at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography in 2012. As a choreographer Niki often works on Arden Theater Company’s musical productions and as a performer she has danced with headlong dance theater and nichole canuso dance company among others. Subcircle's dance film HERE was presented at the Michener Museum as part of the exhibit Lucid Dreaming. Skeleton Skin was commissioned by the national dance film platform: Dances Made to Order.
Jorge Cousineau was born in Dresden, Germany. In 1997 he moved to Philadelphia to work as a theater designer and has since created sets, lights, sound and video, most notably with Denver Center Theatre, Humana Festival, Arden Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, 1812 Productions and New Paradise Laboratories. He is a recipient of two Independence Foundation Fellowship grants and was awarded the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist. He has received several Barrymore Awards as well as a Lortel Award for his sound design on the production of Opus in NYC. Jorge was awarded the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2011.
Rosie Langabeer was raised in a country mostly populated by sheep (New Zealand). But, throughout childhood and, more notably, since 2002 she has been composing music mostly for human beings. A two time Barrymore award winner, Langabeer specializes in experimental processes in composition and performance. She splits her time between New Zealand and the USA, where she has become embroiled in Philadelphia’s dance and theater scenes, creating new works with Pig Iron Theatre Company, BalletX, Subcircle Dance Theater, No Face Performance Group and is 50 percent of the Philadelphia band Totally Super Pregnant. Learn more: www.rosielangabeer.com.
I wanted to know the walls, and for them to know me (Philadelphia, PA)
Director/Dancer: Catie Leasca
Film editor: Catie Leasca
Composer/musicians: Tim Motzer and Ursula Rucker
Videography: Martha Salem-Leasca
Originally from Massachusetts, Catie Leasca has danced across the country and abroad. She was a trainee at the Joffrey Ballet School and has received additional training from San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and Bates Dance Festival. Catie currently lives in Philadelphia and is a junior at The University of the Arts.
Director/Dancer: Catie Leasca
Film editor: Catie Leasca
Composer/musicians: Tim Motzer and Ursula Rucker
Videography: Martha Salem-Leasca
Originally from Massachusetts, Catie Leasca has danced across the country and abroad. She was a trainee at the Joffrey Ballet School and has received additional training from San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and Bates Dance Festival. Catie currently lives in Philadelphia and is a junior at The University of the Arts.
Beyond the Frames (Tehran, IRAN)
Conceived directed and choreographed by Tanin Torabi
Cinematographer and director assistant: Faran Pirjamali
Edit : Anis Eshraghi
Dance Artists:
Tanin Torabi
Mahsa Akbarabadi
Salah Torabi
Erfan Fanaeian
Music:
Kurdish Lullaby (Scheherzad)
Beganegan (Peyman Yazdanian)
Djivan Gasparyan (kele Lao)
Faran Pirjamali was born in 1990 in Isfahan, Iran. He started studying graphic design in 2007 after changing his studies from mathematics major. He then graduated from Isfahan Fine Arts school in 2010. Pirjamali currently studies Sociology and works as a freelance photographer in Iran.
Mahsa Akbarabadi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1999. She started dancing as a hobby when she was 10 year old. In 2012, she started training classical and contemporary ballet under Tanin Torabi in Iran. Since then, she found a different meaning for dance and ballet and it became a major part of her life and as a result, in 2015, she danced in a short film by Tanin Torabi called "Beyond the Frames". She is determined to continue her passion in dance, however, there are many the restrictions for dancers in Iran after Iran's revolution.
Tanin Torabi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1992. She currently works as a freelance dancer, choreographer, and teacher there. Tanin’s interest in dance began at the young age of four, but because there were no dance schools in Iran, she had no opportunity to truly pursue her passion. She spent years searching everywhere for more information about the dance world and to try to find someone to learn from. Studying Sociology, she decided to investigate more about humanity and to portray moral and spiritual concepts through dance. In 2013 she attended, Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance, an online course taught by Stephan Koplowitz. She has since decided to dedicate the rest of her life to training dancers and choreographing site-specific dances in Iran. In 2014 she directed " Immensity" and "Beyond the Frames" in 2015. Both short dance films have been screened in many festivals across the U.S and Europe. Torabi would like to share this art form and the concepts she conveys in her works with the people of her country and the world.
Photo by Faran Pirjamali.
Conceived directed and choreographed by Tanin Torabi
Cinematographer and director assistant: Faran Pirjamali
Edit : Anis Eshraghi
Dance Artists:
Tanin Torabi
Mahsa Akbarabadi
Salah Torabi
Erfan Fanaeian
Music:
Kurdish Lullaby (Scheherzad)
Beganegan (Peyman Yazdanian)
Djivan Gasparyan (kele Lao)
Faran Pirjamali was born in 1990 in Isfahan, Iran. He started studying graphic design in 2007 after changing his studies from mathematics major. He then graduated from Isfahan Fine Arts school in 2010. Pirjamali currently studies Sociology and works as a freelance photographer in Iran.
Mahsa Akbarabadi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1999. She started dancing as a hobby when she was 10 year old. In 2012, she started training classical and contemporary ballet under Tanin Torabi in Iran. Since then, she found a different meaning for dance and ballet and it became a major part of her life and as a result, in 2015, she danced in a short film by Tanin Torabi called "Beyond the Frames". She is determined to continue her passion in dance, however, there are many the restrictions for dancers in Iran after Iran's revolution.
Tanin Torabi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1992. She currently works as a freelance dancer, choreographer, and teacher there. Tanin’s interest in dance began at the young age of four, but because there were no dance schools in Iran, she had no opportunity to truly pursue her passion. She spent years searching everywhere for more information about the dance world and to try to find someone to learn from. Studying Sociology, she decided to investigate more about humanity and to portray moral and spiritual concepts through dance. In 2013 she attended, Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance, an online course taught by Stephan Koplowitz. She has since decided to dedicate the rest of her life to training dancers and choreographing site-specific dances in Iran. In 2014 she directed " Immensity" and "Beyond the Frames" in 2015. Both short dance films have been screened in many festivals across the U.S and Europe. Torabi would like to share this art form and the concepts she conveys in her works with the people of her country and the world.
Photo by Faran Pirjamali.
of Stones and Water (Santa Barbara, CA)
Directed and Produced by: Tonia Shimin
Cinematography and Editing: Catherine Bennett
Concept and Choreography: Tonia Shimin
Dancer and Improvisation: Sean Nederlof
Music Composed by: Gianna Abondolo
Cello & Percussion: Gianna Abondolo
Bansuri Flute Improvisation: Mindia Devi Klein
Costume: Tonia Shimin
Special thanks to: Steven Eakin, Penny Frank, Carol Geer, Eva Menkin, Albert Reid, Dianne Vapnek and Lisa Stratton, Director of Ecosystem Management for Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, CCBER, University of California Santa Barbara. Filmed on Site at The Labyrinth, University of California Santa Barbara and in Santa Barbara. Art Without Limits Fiscal Sponsor. Copyright 2014 Tonia Shimin
As a dancer Tonia Shimin has performed with The Martha Graham Company in Primitive Mysteries and has toured throughout the USA, Europe and the Mid East with the Jose Limon Company, Pearl Lang Company, and as a soloist with Anna Sokolow Anthony Dance Theater and Repertory West Dance Company. She has created works for Santa Barbara Dance Theater, The Dance Division of The University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Dance Alliance, and the VUS Company in Prague, The Czech Republic and a solo for Nancy Colahan, former dancer with Mikhail Baryshnikov taught extensively in the United States and in Mexico, Israel, France and The Czech Republic. Currently she is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship and an Individual Artist Award from The County of Santa Barbara Arts Fund among others. Since 1994 she has been producing award winning dance films, including a Cine Golden Eagle Award for her first film Passage and Honorable Mention Awards for Passage and Who Called Me To This Dance? In 2004 her documentary, Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance premiered at The Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, New York to a standing ovation and has since been screened nationally and internationally, receiving a Certificate of Recognition for and contribution to the field of screendance, Film and Video Dance, American Dance Festival, Duke University, North Carolina. Tonia received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance. Her most recent films are Of Time and the Spirit, for the acclaimed dancer Nancy Colahan and Of Stones and Water.
Catherine Bennett was born in London and obtained her degree in fine art in Australia. She turned her artist film festivals in the USA and film installations at seven of The Santa Barbara International Film Festivals.
Sean Nederlof was born and raised in San Francisco. He achieved his Bachelor Of Fine Arts in dance at UCSB, where he trained extensively in ballet and modern dance technique. During the summer of 2012, Sean collaborated with UCSB professor Michael Morgan on a project that gave troubled youths an artistic outlet and a means to express themselves through their performance of The Odyssey. He also volunteered his time as part of a student hip hop group to spread the love of dance through a free weekly hip hop workshop. Sean received the Alice Condodina Award for Performance in 2013 and is currently dancing with H.T. Chen Company in New York.
Gianna Abondolo, cellist, leads a dynamic career performing regularly as soloist, chamber musician, improviser, and composer. Top prizewinner of the1988 Young Musician Debut Competition, she gave her New York solo debut performance in 1991 at Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she started playing the cello at age eight and subsequently began concertizing, including at the age of 15 a performance of Vivaldi concerto with Yo LA. Times wrote, Degree from the Juilliard School, she won a position with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Esa Pekka Salonen, with whom she played for four years. She has played in numerous festivals including Marlboro, Tanglewood, Steamboat Springs, Santa.Clara Univ. New Music Fest., Other Minds SF, the Santa Barbara Academy of the West, and in Italy at the Accademia Chigiana and the Festivale Positano. Ms. Abondolo resides in the San Francisco Bay Area where she has played with the Adorno Ensemble, Quartet San Francisco, SF Contemporary Music Players, and as principal cellist of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the SF Chamber Orchestra, and the Berkeley Akademie. Among the noteworthy composers she has worked with include Joan Tower, John Adams, Esa Pekka Salonen, Lou Harrison, Gabriela Frank, Karen Tanaka, and Alex Shapiro. As a composer herself, her compositional style blends ethnic influences with western classical tradition. Recently she just finished writing the musical score for the film Of Stones and Water, directed by Tonia Shimin. She has been commissioned to write for various individual artists as well as by dance companies, The Perks and Santa Barbara Dance Theater. Her compositions have been performed at the Cunningham Space in N.Y. City, Jacob's Pillow, the Oakland Dance Festival, UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, Mills College, Old First Concerts in San Francisco, the Santa Clara University New Music Festival, Music at the Mission San José, Cal State LA, Strings Showcase in Berkeley, and by the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra. Of her recordings, her CD KALW. Gianna is a former lecturer of UC Berkeley and is on the faculty of Mills College in Oakland, California.
Directed and Produced by: Tonia Shimin
Cinematography and Editing: Catherine Bennett
Concept and Choreography: Tonia Shimin
Dancer and Improvisation: Sean Nederlof
Music Composed by: Gianna Abondolo
Cello & Percussion: Gianna Abondolo
Bansuri Flute Improvisation: Mindia Devi Klein
Costume: Tonia Shimin
Special thanks to: Steven Eakin, Penny Frank, Carol Geer, Eva Menkin, Albert Reid, Dianne Vapnek and Lisa Stratton, Director of Ecosystem Management for Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, CCBER, University of California Santa Barbara. Filmed on Site at The Labyrinth, University of California Santa Barbara and in Santa Barbara. Art Without Limits Fiscal Sponsor. Copyright 2014 Tonia Shimin
As a dancer Tonia Shimin has performed with The Martha Graham Company in Primitive Mysteries and has toured throughout the USA, Europe and the Mid East with the Jose Limon Company, Pearl Lang Company, and as a soloist with Anna Sokolow Anthony Dance Theater and Repertory West Dance Company. She has created works for Santa Barbara Dance Theater, The Dance Division of The University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Dance Alliance, and the VUS Company in Prague, The Czech Republic and a solo for Nancy Colahan, former dancer with Mikhail Baryshnikov taught extensively in the United States and in Mexico, Israel, France and The Czech Republic. Currently she is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship and an Individual Artist Award from The County of Santa Barbara Arts Fund among others. Since 1994 she has been producing award winning dance films, including a Cine Golden Eagle Award for her first film Passage and Honorable Mention Awards for Passage and Who Called Me To This Dance? In 2004 her documentary, Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance premiered at The Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, New York to a standing ovation and has since been screened nationally and internationally, receiving a Certificate of Recognition for and contribution to the field of screendance, Film and Video Dance, American Dance Festival, Duke University, North Carolina. Tonia received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance. Her most recent films are Of Time and the Spirit, for the acclaimed dancer Nancy Colahan and Of Stones and Water.
Catherine Bennett was born in London and obtained her degree in fine art in Australia. She turned her artist film festivals in the USA and film installations at seven of The Santa Barbara International Film Festivals.
Sean Nederlof was born and raised in San Francisco. He achieved his Bachelor Of Fine Arts in dance at UCSB, where he trained extensively in ballet and modern dance technique. During the summer of 2012, Sean collaborated with UCSB professor Michael Morgan on a project that gave troubled youths an artistic outlet and a means to express themselves through their performance of The Odyssey. He also volunteered his time as part of a student hip hop group to spread the love of dance through a free weekly hip hop workshop. Sean received the Alice Condodina Award for Performance in 2013 and is currently dancing with H.T. Chen Company in New York.
Gianna Abondolo, cellist, leads a dynamic career performing regularly as soloist, chamber musician, improviser, and composer. Top prizewinner of the1988 Young Musician Debut Competition, she gave her New York solo debut performance in 1991 at Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she started playing the cello at age eight and subsequently began concertizing, including at the age of 15 a performance of Vivaldi concerto with Yo LA. Times wrote, Degree from the Juilliard School, she won a position with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Esa Pekka Salonen, with whom she played for four years. She has played in numerous festivals including Marlboro, Tanglewood, Steamboat Springs, Santa.Clara Univ. New Music Fest., Other Minds SF, the Santa Barbara Academy of the West, and in Italy at the Accademia Chigiana and the Festivale Positano. Ms. Abondolo resides in the San Francisco Bay Area where she has played with the Adorno Ensemble, Quartet San Francisco, SF Contemporary Music Players, and as principal cellist of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the SF Chamber Orchestra, and the Berkeley Akademie. Among the noteworthy composers she has worked with include Joan Tower, John Adams, Esa Pekka Salonen, Lou Harrison, Gabriela Frank, Karen Tanaka, and Alex Shapiro. As a composer herself, her compositional style blends ethnic influences with western classical tradition. Recently she just finished writing the musical score for the film Of Stones and Water, directed by Tonia Shimin. She has been commissioned to write for various individual artists as well as by dance companies, The Perks and Santa Barbara Dance Theater. Her compositions have been performed at the Cunningham Space in N.Y. City, Jacob's Pillow, the Oakland Dance Festival, UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, Mills College, Old First Concerts in San Francisco, the Santa Clara University New Music Festival, Music at the Mission San José, Cal State LA, Strings Showcase in Berkeley, and by the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra. Of her recordings, her CD KALW. Gianna is a former lecturer of UC Berkeley and is on the faculty of Mills College in Oakland, California.
Subways: 5 Variations on a Theme by Rilke (Montreal, CA)
Producer/Director/Cinematographer: Daniel Conrad
Choreographer: Crystal Pite
Principal Dancers: Emily Molnar, Crystal Pite, Jay Gower Taylor, Helena Arenbergerovà, Jurij Kolva, Mary-Louise Albert, Petr Opavský, Adela Hajkovà, Igor Kolva, Nataša Kolvovà, Jarek Cemerek, Andrea Miltner
Editing: Michael Brockington, Manfred Becker
Music: Sal Ferreras
Sound: Amos Hertzman
Filmed in the vast, exquisite subways of Prague, Subways is based on a poem (Der Panther) by Rilke, about a Panther in a cage in the Jardin des plantes, Paris. Using Czech and Canadian dancers, the film conjures up a little world of humans trapped underground, organizing and reorganizingin response to being trapped. They think they are free because they can walk from one side of their underground prison to the other.
Produced in association with The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Film Board of Canada, & the Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit; in association with The Saskatchewan Communications Network, Cineworks, & theHamber Foundation.
Screenings: Montréal Festival des films du monde, Golden Prague (Dagmar & Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize), Palm Springs Int'l, Toronto Moving Pictures (NOW Audience Choice Award), Denver Int'l, San Francisco Film Arts, Valladolid Int'l. Broadcast: CBC, ZDF, & TVE (Spain)
Rhodopsin Productions is a small Canadian production company specializing in documentaries and dance films.
http://www.rhodopsin.ca/about_en.html
Rhodopsin’s films have screened at numerous festivals, including the Locarno International, Montréal World, London International, Hamburg Kurzfilm, Valladolid International, Odense, Seattle International (Best of Fest Shorts Special Screening), Bilbao, New York Dance on Camera (2 Silver Awards), Aix, Berlin Zebra, Golden Prague (Dagmar & Vaclav Havel Prize), Dance Camera West, Toronto Moving Pictures (Audience Choice Award), Palm Springs Shorts, IDFA Market, Denver International, OxDox (Oxford, UK), Vancouver International, and San Francisco Film Arts. Broadcasters include U.S. Public Television (PBS), the CBC, ZDF (Germany), CFCF, SCN, TVE (Spain), Ovation, ARTV, Knowledge Network, and Bravo. They have screened at the Portland Art Museum's series: Icons, Rebels and Visionaries; and been purchased by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Producer/Director/Cinematographer: Daniel Conrad
Choreographer: Crystal Pite
Principal Dancers: Emily Molnar, Crystal Pite, Jay Gower Taylor, Helena Arenbergerovà, Jurij Kolva, Mary-Louise Albert, Petr Opavský, Adela Hajkovà, Igor Kolva, Nataša Kolvovà, Jarek Cemerek, Andrea Miltner
Editing: Michael Brockington, Manfred Becker
Music: Sal Ferreras
Sound: Amos Hertzman
Filmed in the vast, exquisite subways of Prague, Subways is based on a poem (Der Panther) by Rilke, about a Panther in a cage in the Jardin des plantes, Paris. Using Czech and Canadian dancers, the film conjures up a little world of humans trapped underground, organizing and reorganizingin response to being trapped. They think they are free because they can walk from one side of their underground prison to the other.
Produced in association with The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Film Board of Canada, & the Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit; in association with The Saskatchewan Communications Network, Cineworks, & theHamber Foundation.
Screenings: Montréal Festival des films du monde, Golden Prague (Dagmar & Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize), Palm Springs Int'l, Toronto Moving Pictures (NOW Audience Choice Award), Denver Int'l, San Francisco Film Arts, Valladolid Int'l. Broadcast: CBC, ZDF, & TVE (Spain)
Rhodopsin Productions is a small Canadian production company specializing in documentaries and dance films.
http://www.rhodopsin.ca/about_en.html
Rhodopsin’s films have screened at numerous festivals, including the Locarno International, Montréal World, London International, Hamburg Kurzfilm, Valladolid International, Odense, Seattle International (Best of Fest Shorts Special Screening), Bilbao, New York Dance on Camera (2 Silver Awards), Aix, Berlin Zebra, Golden Prague (Dagmar & Vaclav Havel Prize), Dance Camera West, Toronto Moving Pictures (Audience Choice Award), Palm Springs Shorts, IDFA Market, Denver International, OxDox (Oxford, UK), Vancouver International, and San Francisco Film Arts. Broadcasters include U.S. Public Television (PBS), the CBC, ZDF (Germany), CFCF, SCN, TVE (Spain), Ovation, ARTV, Knowledge Network, and Bravo. They have screened at the Portland Art Museum's series: Icons, Rebels and Visionaries; and been purchased by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
NGCB presents the 2016 Philadelphia Screendance Festival
Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater, February 16-21, 2016
We are thrilled to present, in its first year, the Philadelphia Screendance Festival! This festival will take place over six days in the newly renovated Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater, a 110-seat black box theater in the Olde City section of Philadelphia.
What we're looking for:
Videos 3 - 12 minutes in length that feature movement in any genre that was created/captured specifically for the medium of film/video. (No documentaries or documentation of performances.) We want videos that are cinematically engaging, where the camera is used as a choreographic tool.
To apply for the 2016 Philadelphia Screendance Festival: click here: [Applications are now closed. Please check back for the 2017 Festival.]
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2015.
Selected applicants will be notified by October 1st.
Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater, February 16-21, 2016
We are thrilled to present, in its first year, the Philadelphia Screendance Festival! This festival will take place over six days in the newly renovated Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater, a 110-seat black box theater in the Olde City section of Philadelphia.
What we're looking for:
Videos 3 - 12 minutes in length that feature movement in any genre that was created/captured specifically for the medium of film/video. (No documentaries or documentation of performances.) We want videos that are cinematically engaging, where the camera is used as a choreographic tool.
To apply for the 2016 Philadelphia Screendance Festival: click here: [Applications are now closed. Please check back for the 2017 Festival.]
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2015.
Selected applicants will be notified by October 1st.