Chew the Fat! @ the StudioSeries

ARTIST BIO:

Ali Fischer, a native Kentuckian, has been dancing for the last 16 years. In 1995, after receiving a B.A. in fine arts from the University of South Florida, Ali’s dance career began in Salt Lake City, UT where she worked with Repertory Dance Theater. Since then, she has worked for numerous choreographers across the country such as Nancy McCaleb, Allyson Green, John Malashock, Stephen Brown, The Lower Left Collective, Lynne Wimmer, Lindsey and Jason Dietz Marchant, Elsa Valbuena, Eun Jung Choi, and Jamie Jewett. Ali currently resides in Queens, New York where along with making dance, she also is a professional of the healing arts using massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, and yoga to complete her movement practice.

Curt Haworth is an expatriate Californian who lived in New York City for twenty years before moving to Philadelphia in 2009. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz and a MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  He has an eclectic movement background ranging from athletics to modern dance and release techniques, to yoga, contact improvisation and ballet.  His work has been shown in Philadelphia at: the Annenberg Center, The Painted Bride. The CEC, and various Fringe venues; and in NYC at: The Danspace Project, LA MAMA, DNA, Symphony Space, Movement Research at the Judson Church, IFNY, Dixon Place, PS122, Metamorphosis, DanceNow, New Dance Alliance; as well as at: Rockland Community College, Bennington College July Program, and Tanecne Divadlo in Bratislava, Slovakia. He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence in 2001-2002.  Curt performed with Lisa Race’s Race Dance from 1993-2000, and toured internationally with David Dorfman Dance from 1990 to 2002, while creating over 15 original roles.  He has taught regularly at Movement Research and DNA (formerly Dance Space Center) in NYC. He has taught and set work as a guest artist throughout the United States and Europe and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

In highschool, Gregory Holt learned how to build human towers and has been experimenting in movement ever since. With a strong interest in research and shared authorship, he has collaborated with many provisional, virtual, and conceptual groups. He does on-going work with Green Chair Dance Group, in residence at Mascher Space Co-op.

Bronwen MacArthur danced as a freelance artist with New York and Copenhagen (Denmark) based companies including those of Bill Young, Donna Uchizono and Tim Feldmann, among others. Bronwen formed MacArthur Dance Project in 2007 and her choreography has been performed in NY, New England, Russia and France.  MDP is featured in a documentary titled “Coming to Grips” produced and directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Lori Petchers which was recently presented at the Hartford International Film Festival and Dance New Amsterdam in NY.  MDP and its collaborative work have been supported by the LEF Foundation, NEFA’s Regional Dance Development Initiative, the New Haven Mayor’s Community Arts Grant, Vermont Performance Lab and the Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Project.  Bronwen has served as guest instructor at Connecticut College and co-taught, with Emily Coates and Joseph Roach, in the Theater Studies department at Yale University.  Bronwen moved to Philadelphia last summer.

J. Makary’s first dance film debuted at the American Dance Festival in 2006. Since then, she has developed projects influenced in equal measure by video art, classic and experimental cinema, and contemporary dance. Her work has been exhibited at NEXUS/foundation for today’s art, the Slought Foundation, and I-House in Philadelphia, and Zodiak Center for New Dance in Helsinki, Finland, among others. As part of her artist-in-residence appointment with Landmarks Exhibitions: Contemporary Projects, J. recently shot “Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe,” an experimental 16mm film featuring two dancers and two actors. The film and a sculptural installation are on view at Powel House, an 18th-century mansion in Philadelphia, until April 4, 2010.

Oscar J. Molina: 2008 – 2010 Graduate Film Student at Columbia University and Temple University.  2007 – 2008 Curator and Director, No Borders International Film Festival, Medellín, Colombia.  2004 to 2006. Director and Curator. Film Program, Centro Colombo Americano in Medellín,  a Colombia and U. S. Binational Center. And during the same time, Director and Editor, Kinetoscopio journal, longest-running cultural publication in the history of the country and the only journal dedicated to film and film making in Colombia.  1998 – 2004. Director, producer and screenwriter for documentaries and cultural, educational, informational, and institutional films for regional and national TV stations, Secretary of Education of Antioquia, University of Antioquia, Colombian Ministry of Culture, Mayor’s Office of Bogotá,  Human Rights Colombian Office, and Bogotá’s Archive, among others.  Some of his films has been selected and awarded by La Habana Latin American Film Festival, Cuba; the Audiovisual Products International Festival, FIPATEL, France; Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, the top journalism award in Colombia; Mexican Human Rights Festival (Contra el Silencio todas las Voces); Bogotá Film Festival, Bogotá; Cartagena International Film Festival, Cartagena de Indias; Rosario Film Festival, Rosario, Argentina; Latin American Documentary Festival, Mexico City; Next Frame Student Film Festival, among others.

Guillermo Ortega Tanus is the co-director of Da·Da·Dance Project, a duet repertory company which has been presented at many International venues and Festivals, performing works by Elise Knudson, Helena Franzén, Gerald Casel, Eun Jung Choi and himself since 2008.  As a choreographer, he strives to invent original movement vocabularies for each dance he makes. He often combines theatricality with visual metaphors. Apart from Da·Da·Dance Project, he has presented solos at Dixon Place, Newsteps Series, Merce Cunningham Studio, and Tlacochimaco in New York, and Foro Experimental, Fuego Nuevo, Los Talleres de Coyoacán, La Casa de Las Bombas in Mexico.  Currently he is a resident artist at nEW festival and a recipient of the “National Fund for the Culture and the Arts, Student Scholarship”. www.guillermoortega.net

OVER-NITE SENSATION: January 10, 2010

Photo: Alan Kolc

January 10, 8PM

OVER-NITE SENSATION – Winter Edition

hosted by Bowerbird

Plays and Players Theater

1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia PA

Eun Jung will be improvising with Alban Bailly at this event. Other artists will include:

Leah Stein / Toshi Makihara

Michele Tantoco / Carlos Santiago

Melisa Putz / Jesse Kudler

Meg Foley / Chris Forsyth + one more

nEW Festival Artist-in-Residence: January 4-10

Photo Credit: Bill H.

Guillermo will continue developing …eb oT during the residency this time. Also he will start a new project, Family Portrait. Please come join us at Meet the Artist/See the Work series on Sunday, January 10 from 4 to 7.

January 10, 4-7PM
Meet the Artists/ See the Work
University of the Arts, Terra Building, Studio 405
211 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia

Three performances at Joyce SoHo!

This summer, we have been rehearsing in North Carolina, gearing up for our Joyce SoHo season. We are very excited about presenting Butter and Fly: Intends to Walk and we cannot wait to share our experience with you! Hope you can come to join us!

When is it and Where is Joyce SoHo?

July 30 – August 1, 2009
Butter and Fly: Intends to Walk
Company Season at Joyce SoHo
You can purchase tickets by calling 212-352-3101 or by clicking HERE
155 Mercer Street (Houston/Prince) New York, NY MAP

Numero Uno

Photo Credit: Steven Schreiber

(1 min. structured improvisation)

41) Numero Uno Jane Wang Da·Da·Dance Project
60 x 60 Dance at Galapagos Art Space

16 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
United States

60×60 Project 60×60 Dance returns to Galapagos to pair 60 composers with choreographers to create 60 dances for an electrifying one-hour multimedia performance 60×60 Dance is a multimedia extravaganza creating 60 dances with the works of 60 composers for a thrilling one-hour surfing of today’s music and dance scenes.
http://www.voxnovus.com/60×60/

About the composer
Jane Wang was born in the United Kingdom and is somewhat relieved (but not proud) to be a dual citizen. She started composing in her early thirties after working as a software engineer at companies that have since disappeared. She enjoys composing/improvising for multimedia performances and her recent obsession is Moving Sound which seeks to blur the line between movement and sound. Numero Uno is my reaction to being an ugly American. This piece was constructed using manipulations of found audio clips and recorded material layered with precanned loops. Any distortion experienced is intentional.

X Festival Internacional de Danza Avant Garde

Note: Due to Swine Flu, the festival was canceled and our tour was postponed to 2010.  We will be performing on May 7-8, 2009.  Also we will be teaching a workshop from May 7-9 at the festival.  More details will be posted in this Spring.  Stay tuned.

nEW Winter Classes 2009

We will be teaching Community classes at nEW Festival on Thursday, January 8. There will be other artists teaching at nEW Festival during the week of Jan. 5. For the complete schedule and more detailed info, click here. More information about nEW Festival, click here.

9-10 Guillermo Ortega Tanus
10-11:30 Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez

Uarts Terra Building, 4th Floor
211 S. Broad St, Philadelphia, PA

Residency at LPAC

We received LAB 101 space grant from LaGuardia Performing Arts Center for the month of December 2008 in order to develop Tiny Voices, choreographed by Helena Franzén (from Sweden), set to original music by Jukka Rintamäki (from Finland). We had a sneak preview show on the 22nd of December with invited artists, including Alban Bailly, Andrew Drury, Daniel F. Levin, Takako. Click here to read more info

December 22 at 6:30PM
Little Theater, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Long Island City, NY 11101