Grace Courvoisier
Grace Courvoisier, a native of Las Vegas, NV, is a performance maker and choreographer based in Los Angeles. After studying the Vaganova technique with Nevada Ballet Theatre, under the artistic direction of Bruce Steivel, she went on to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She had the opportunity to work with/perform the works of choreographers Tere O'Connor, Kirstie Simpson, Jennifer Monson, and Catherine Cabeen. Grace was also selected to perform in the reconstruction of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's D-Man In The Waters for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008.
Her company GC&DC, founded in September 2012, aims to excavate a woman's vulnerability and vulgarity through voice and movement by engaging the audience's intellectual landscape. Her repertory includes Good Morning, Arcadia which was commissioned as a brand new choreographic work for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and won the Wanda M. Nettl Prize both in 2010 and 2011 for choreographic achievement. Grace's works have been performed at The Wild Project for The Current Sessions (Vol. IV & Vol. III, Issue I), Symphony Space, Center for Performance Research, The Secret Theater, Invisible Dog, Judson Church through Movement Research, and Chen Dance Center.
When Grace is not making work, she's reading Victorian British Literature, watching "I Love Lucy," photographing complicated feminine emotions, editing video for Dance Pulp Magazine, and relaxing with her two tuxedo kittens, who are all dressed up with nowhere to go.
AnA Collaborations
Audrey Rachelle and Alex Jenkins co-founded AnA Collaborations in March of 2015 upon discovering their shared passion for honest risk-taking in creation and performance. Since then, AnA has partnered with artists in numerous mediums including film, music, literature, and set design to create visceral, accessible and moving experiences for performers and audiences alike. AnA's work has been presented by The CURRENT SESSIONS, The Bunker Presents, Dixon Place, NARS Foundation, LiveStream Public, RIKER STUDIO, and Gibney Dance Center.
Audrey and Alex each trained classically before shifting their focus to contemporary, experimental work. Audrey attended the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts where she received the Dona Neri Award and graduated salutatorian. Following this, she studied with Nederlands Dans Theater and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Alex was a member of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Ensemble from 2007-2009. They have both performed with BodyStories:Teresa Fellion Dance, Eunoia Dance, and the Equus Projects//Onsite NYC.
Individually, Audrey has been performed with Nashville Ballet, Ballet Tucson, and Zullo//Raw Movement and has been featured in films by Wired Elephant Studios and Bill Hayward. Alex was a founding member of Kara Davis’ San Francisco-based project agora, has toured internationally and is the recipient of an Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Performance.
Rosie DeAngelo
Rosie DeAngelo began her dance training in Atlanta before relocating to Tampa, Florida, where she received her BFA from the University of South Florida. Through USF, she performed works by Michael Foley, Jennifer Archibald, Rosie Herrera and Ben Munisteri. She also completed two years at The Florida State University School of Dance. As a scholarship student at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine, Rosie has had the privilege of performing repertory by Doug Varone, Larry Keigwin, and international artists Claudia Lavista and Omar Carrum. She also trained with Colleen Thomas, Daniel Madoff, Wilfred Romani and Maggie Boogart in Paris, where she presented her choreography at Micadanses. Since moving to New York City, Rosie has performed with KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Megan Bascom & Dancers, and ChrisMastersDance. She is currently a member of Dante Brown|Warehouse Dance. She also teaches yoga in Manhattan and Astoria.
Hannah Jean Hildreth
Hannah Jean Hildreth is a performer, choreographer, fitness instructor and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She grew up around Boston, Massachusetts and attended Hampshire College where she created her own major in Dance and Performance Studies with a minor in Critical Theory and Gender Studies. Since 2012 Hannah has lived in Boston, Chicago, and NYC. She has worked with local dance companies and as a freelance dancer, and she has performed in parks, clubs, stages, cages, studios and museums. She has been featured on The Today Show as an instructor for 305 Fitness, where she teaches exhilarating and hilarious dance-fitness classes. Her work can be nostalgic, cheeky, brutish and strange. She is motivated by observations of the world; looking at details, the personal, the small stories, feelings and nuanced moments, she then works to flesh out the bigger picture. This leaves work that feels fluid, personal, and chaotic, threading a mess of technique, stark imagery and theatrical gesture.
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Katherine G. Moore
Katherine G. Moore is an New York-based freelance dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She has choreographed collaborative work throughout NYC in venues such as Dixon Place, Dumbo Dance Festival, Green Space Blooms, Red Bean Studios' Fete de l'Hurricane,Legros Cultural Arts: Women in Dance, Movement Research, and the Amalgamate Artist Series. In addition to making her own work, Katherine has danced for Dances for a Variable Population, Caitlin Trainor, Luke Miller, Jenny Rocha, and Teresa Fellion in theaters around New York City, as well as in public spaces and parks. She assists teaching Movement Speaks® workshops for seniors with Naomi Goldberg Haas, and she is a 200-hour certified Vinyasa yoga teacher through the Perri Institute for Mind and Body with TaraMarie Perri.
Katherine's dancing adventures have allowed her to perform at venues such as Jacob's Pillow, Judson Church, the Ailey Citigroup Theater, La Mama's Ellen Stewart Theater, Greenspace, HERE, Location One, The Flea, and the Riverside Theater. She has worked for the Joyce Theater, the American Dance Festival, and she currently works at DANY Studios. Katherine is also a contributing journalist for Dance Informa and blogger for Mind Body Brew. In addition to receiving her BA in Dance from Hope College and continuing to train with dance artists throughout NYC, Katherine has studied at SUMAC with Susan Marshall and Company, MELT, American Dance Festival, the Centre de Danse du Marais in Paris, France, and White Mountain Dance Festival. She is originally from central Indiana.
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Audrey Rachelle Stanley and Alex Jenkins, choreographers
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Shannon Pollak is a multi-media artist based in Los Angeles who explores the production of sculpture and video within installation. Heavily influenced by psychodramatic and mythopoetic experimental film of the 1950's and 70's, she combines her own sympathies of such work with personal introspection of ritual and multi-dimensional realities. Her installations carry a surrealist theatricality, as the remnants of her narrative videos appear staged, perplexing viewers with riddles as to how such remnants came to be. Believing the visions of dream to have equal relevance to that of the physical world, Pollak recreates these dream moments that play with parallels between continuity and repetition, challenging the viewer to question their sense of time and place.
Shannon Pollak
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Anna Zellweger is an artist and designer from Cambridge, Massachusetts,
who works primarily in metal and wood. She studied at Hampshire College, where her senior thesis included pieces of sculpture, furniture, jewelry,
and clothing. She resides in Brooklyn and works in the studio of
artist Barry X. Ball.
Anna Zellweger
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EmmaGrace Skove-Epes
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EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, a Brooklyn-based performer and choreographer, is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (MFA ’15) and Bard College (BA ’08). She has danced with Edisa Weeks,Jon Kinzel, Jodi Melnick, Sondra Loring, Jesse Philips-Fein, and Nadia Tykulsker, among others. Her choreography has been presented at venues including AUNTS, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Center for Performance Research, New York Live Arts, and Roulette. EmmaGrace, alongside collaborator Jonathan Gonzalez, is a recipient of a 2015-16 Fresh Tracks residency at New York Live Arts. She has formerly been a space grant recipient at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Gowanus Arts.
Sophie Sotsky
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Sophie Sotsky's TYKE DANCE is a Brooklyn-based dance company. Sewing exertion, exhaustion, effort and error into the language of dance technique, we aspire to present movement that neither relies on classical notions of technique and virtuosity nor relinquishes the primacy of physical ordeal in dance performance.
Lillian Stamey
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Lillian Stamey is the co-founder and director of 96b, a dance collective that harnesses elements of surrealist movement, absurd humor, and dance theater. She is drawn to experiences of the human condition and seeks to reveal the emotional body within her work. As an artist, Lillian practices a holistic approach to movement and strives to expose honesty.
