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Dana Salisbury choreographer and multidisciplinary artist |
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BARK! BARK Unseen Dances Unseen Dance Unseen Dance Unseen Dance Unseen and Seen Dance Unseen Dance (9-20-09) Unseen Dance (9-10-09) |
CJ Holm (Dancer) started studying human movement potential as a small child on roller skates. The impulse led her to modern dance class in high school in DC, a dance degree from Hampshire College, and eventually to New York. Recent projects include disrupting public space with Joshua Bisset and Laura Quattrochi’s Shua Group, rethinking privacy in Nancy Bannon’s The Pod Project, and unleashing her inner animal in Phillipa Kaye’s Humorphous. Her choreography has been seen in NYC at Dixon Place, Galapagos, and Spoke the Hub; in DC at Dance Place, Gunston Theater, and Joy of Motion; and at ACDF New England at Boston University and Smith College. Mari Meade Montoya (Dancer), a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, started Mari Meade Dance Collective (MMDC) in 2009 after receiving the Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center Institute. MMDC has performed in NYC at Clark Theatre at Lincoln Center, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dumbo Dance Fest, The Tank, Green Space, The Rover, and, in NC, at the Asheville Fringe Festival. The company received a Brooklyn Arts Council grant for their next project, a full evening at St. Cecilia's. EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (Dancer) grew up dancing in Brooklyn. She has studied primarily West African dance and various forms of modern dance, but she has also explored flamenco, ballet, Dunham technique, Afro-Haitian dance, Afro-Cuban dance, and step. She graduated from Bard College in 2008, where she double majored in dance and religion, eventually combining her two fields of study by researching the consciousness-altering properties of movement in various religious traditions. Her choreography has been performed at Triskelion Arts and Judson Memorial Church. She currently dances with choreographer Jessie Phillips-Fein, and sings in the band SCHOOL, a project of Monroe Street. Past Performers and Guest Artists Noah Baen (Environmental Artist) An environmental artist, Baen’s site-specific installations, mostly ephemeral, draw on the beauty, life force and metaphorical potential of overlooked, wild and weedy plant life and places. He constructed Forage Table for Dana Salisbury’s Dark Dining Project Season at Amherst College in 2008. Recent projects have included installations at Poet’s House and Chashama Third Avenue in New York. His work is included in the collections of the Smith College Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art and can also be seen in the 59th Street subway concourse and several NYC community gardens and schoolyards. Jackie Dodd (Dancer) graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in dance and anthropology. She has worked as a choreographer and movement teacher with underprivileged youth, Parksinson’s Disease patients, and ex-convicts, as well as with trained modern dancers Recent and ongoing projects include Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art, Nature, and Dance's StrataSpore (a platform for collective knowledge about mushrooms). Her work has been shown at various locations in St. Louis and at the White Wave Dumbo Dance Festival in Brooklyn. Breanna Gribble (Dancer) began her dance training at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, Gribble continued dancing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX where she received a B.F.A. in Dance Performance. Now based in New York City, she is the Associate Artistic Director of Mari Meade Dance Collective. She also dances with Calince Dance, Angelo Dance Project, and Jin-Ju Song-Begin’s project based work. Ashley Handel (Dancer) began studying dance at the age of 8 in her hometown of La Quinta, CA. She grew up with a predominantly commercial dance background, specializing in tap, jazz, and ballet dance, as well as musical theatre. She received her BFA in dance and choreography from the California Institute of the Arts in 2010. It was here that she found a love and curiosity for modern dance, improvised dance, and the intellectualization of movement. She completed a 3- month exchange program at London Contemporary Dance School in fall of 2009, focusing on Release Technique and Choreographic Studies while there. Currently she is an apprentice with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and finishing a project with Emily Faulkner/Wind-Up Dances. Daisy Jopling (Violin) Born in London, now living in NYC, Joping spent 12 years living in Vienna and touring the world with the creative string trio Triology with whom she recorded four CDS, two with BMG RCA Victor. www.triology.cc. She played solo a concerto in the Royal Albert Hall in London at the age of 14 and before 30,000 people at the opening of the Vienna Festival in May 2005. She participated in writing music for many films, including two in Hollywood, Spanglish and The Road to El Dorado, and has written the music for a NYC puppet show. She has just released her first solo album, Key to the Classics with producer Bojan Dugic. In Spring 2010, she will be playing at Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space. www.daisyjopling.com Tzu-Ying Lee (Dancer) is originally from Taipei, Taiwan. She has a BFA from National Taiwan University of the Arts, and holds an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Art. She joined Taipei Ballet Dance Company in 2001 and Century Contemporary Dance Company from 2004 to 2006. Since moving to New York in 2007, she has performed in works by Deborah Jowitt, Susan Marshall,James Martin, Laura Peterson, Joshua Monton, Racheal Lincoln, Patricia Noworol, and Yin Yue. As a choreographer, Tzu-Ying Lee has presented her works in NYU Tisch's Second Avenue Dance Company from 2008 to 2009. Faye Minli Lim (Dancer) is a native of Singapore, where she began dancing and experimenting with martial arts at a young age. She continues her movement explorations in New York City independently and with Ephemerui (Benjamin Rasmussen), Patricia Noworol Dance and colectivodoszeta (Carlos Cruz-Velazquez). Past projects include performances with Cheng-Chieh Yu, Kristen Schifferdecker, Yin Yue, Tina Croll and Tammy L. Wong. Her choreography has most recently been presented at the Solar 1 Dance Series and Los Angeles Movement Arts. Faye holds a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA and an M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Alyssa Lynes (Dancer) began dancing in Boston where she studied Simonson Jazz, Jazz Tap, Musical Theater, Modern, and Ballet. She pursued modern, choreography, improvisation, and contact improvisation at Sarah Lawrence College where she received her BA in Dance and Spanish. She has since studied yoga and salsa. She has a MS in Childhood Education with a certification in bilingual education from Bank Street College and taught elementary in the NY public schools. She is a member of White Folks Soul by Any Dance Necessary, a dancecompany that explores the incompatibility of wholeness and the race construct for white people. Barbara Ann Michaels (Dancer) is a devotee of the interactive arts, from dance to clown to improv comedy to street theater. She has studied contact improv, mime, physical theater and improvisational dance and theater with master teachers around the world. She has an MFA in performance art from Massachusetts College of Art, and a BA in media and culture from Brown University. She was most recently seen the New York Clown Theatre Festival rocking out as a clown with a collapsible rake in her show "Rake and Roll." Stephan Moore (Electronic Sound) is a composer, performer, audio artist, sound designer and curator based in Brooklyn and Providence. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvised solo performances, sound installation works, scores and sound designs for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past decade. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught workshops and numerous college-level courses in composition, programming, sound art and electronic music. He curates the annual Floating Points Festival at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, where he also serves on the Art Advisory Board. From late 2004 to mid-2010, he performed over 250 concerts with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serving as their sound engineer and music coordinator, and as a touring musician. www.oddnoise.com Andrew Nemr (Tap Dancer) Mentored by Gregory Hines and Artistic Director and lead dancer of CPD PLUS (Cats Paying Dues), Nemr was recently awarded an NEA Masterpieces: Dance Initiative Grant. An experienced soloist, performances include A Great Night in Harlem at the Apollo Theatre, NY, in support of the Jazz Foundation of America, Harry Connick Jr.’s Only You Tour at Proctors Theatre, Schenectedy, NY., the featured tap dancer with the Duke Ellington Orchestra presenting Duke Ellington: The Sacred Concerts, featured tapdancer with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. and with the legendary Les Paul at his 93rd Birthday Show at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Andrew was a founding member and dance captain of Savion Glover’s TiDii and has performed as part of the dance collective World Soul with Brian Green. Andrew also co-founded, along with Gregory Hines, the Tap Legacy (TM) Foundation, Inc., which aims to build a cultural center in New York City dedicated to tap dance. Andrew is a card-carrying member of the original Copasetics, Inc., holds a BFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts, and is certified in Active-Isolated Flexibility by the Wharton Performance Group. Andrew is on the faculty of Steps on Broadway, NYC. www.andrewnemr.com Noa Sagie (Dancer) is from Kfar Bialik, Israel. She is a graduate of the Reut School of the Arts and the Haia Tzur School for Contemporary Dance. After her studies she was recruited to and served in the Israeli Defense Force. She moved to NYC to attend the Alvin Ailey School, where she received the LCU Foundation Scholarship. Sagie has danced with Gabrielle Lansner & Company, Bernier Dance Company, Jerboa Dance Company, I-Danse, SHIR Dance and more, performing in venues such as LMCC Sitelines, COOL NY Festival, Henry Street Settlement, Hudson Guild Theater and the Tribeca Film Festival. She showcased her own work at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, DUMBO Dance Festival, American Dance Guild Festival and most recently at the 13th annual NY International Fringe Festival. Ashni Sunder (Dancer) Sunder studied at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, New York University, Dance New Amsterdam, and West African song and dance at various gyms in Harlem. She has performed with Melinda Lee, DanceTheater Etc, LoveSpaceMusic- Alter-Native Movement, POW and Monstah Black! She is a core member of DUNDERBELLY. Meagan Woods (Dancer) graduated from Rutgers University with a BFA in Dance, and earned the Margery J. Turner Award for choreography. She has worked with John Evans and Dancers, Insurgo Stage Project, and Glitterati. Her choreography has been shown at George Street Playhouse, Matheny School through Arts Access, American College Dance Festival, and NJPAC. She is also the originator and choreographer of Dance Within the Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Meagan is a board member for Dance New Jersey, and a costume designer and arts administrator for Nimbus Dance Works. |