Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone is a Brooklyn-based artist and graduate of Hampshire College. Her dance writing can be found in Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and The Dance Enthusiast. She has written about music and social activism for Chamber Music Magazine and has reviewed fiction for The Jewish Book Council. She is the director of Undertow Dance, and is a performer with Sophie Sotsky's TYKE Dance.
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Nicole's diverse training has led her to perform in a video installation for artist Elise Rasmussen's Fragments of an Imagined Place, a music video for artist Allies For Everyone and Project Aether, a motion capture animation project spearheaded by choreographer Kat Sullivan, which debuted at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. Her dance film Self...(ish), created with filmmaker and long-time collaborator Carl Elsaesser, was selected to be screened at Otion Front Studio in Brooklyn, NY.
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Between 2011–2013, Nicole lived in Chicago, IL, where she worked with Reneé Murray of Matter of Reaction Movement Project, and choreographers Ashley Derran, Kalin Morrow, Jen Cobb and Ariella Fried. Her choreography I too have felt this sensation was performed at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts and her dance film You Will See You Are Surrounded, created with Elsaesser, was screened at the Hairpin Center for Arts and the Hyde Park Art Center.
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After Nicole moved to New York, she had the privilege of performing in the works of ChrisMastersDance, John Zullo/RAW Movement, Rosie DeAngelo and Audrey Stanley. Undertow Dance has been presented by Triskelion Arts Split Bill, Take Root at Green Space, Outlet Dance Project's Day of Dance, The Hoover Dam Collective, and CreateArt at Gallim's rehearsal studio in Brooklyn.
Currently, Nicole is pursuing her Pilates teaching certification through Core Pilates. She works as a stage hand at Gibney Dance and serves as the Communication Director for Clowns Without Borders, an international non-profit dedicated to offering levity and play as emotional and mental healthcare for children living through crisis.
Nicole is particularly interested in climate-change induced migration and environmental justice, and in dismantling capitalism.
Callie Frey is currently a dance artist based out of Alexandria, VA, and began her dance journey twenty years ago in Denver, Colorado with strong foundations in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and modern. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago, with honors, in May 2012, and received a Bachelor of Arts, concentrating in Choreography and Performance. Callie has presented her choreography, Finding My Seat, at the American College Dance Festival in Madison, Wisconsin; Untitled Seven at The Dance Center Columbia College; The Phases of W at Peridance Capezio Center in New York City; and The Images I Stored Away at The Bunker Presents: The Rooms In You at Livestream Public in Brooklyn, New York. Callie has also worked closely with dance artist Maureen Gonzales, collaborating on numerous dance projects. Their duet Contemplative Exchange was selected for D49 Dance Festival in Chicago, IL, and the piece The Knot That Settles In was performed at Dance Shelter in collaboration with Chicago Moving Company.
She has had the privilege to work with numerous choreographers such as, Alex Ketely (The Foundry), Summer Lee Rhatigan (San Francisco Conservatory of Dance), Paige Cunningham-Caldera, Jennifer Archibald (Arch Dance), Margi Cole (DanceCOLEtive), Michel Rodriguez, Peter Carpentar, and Taisha Paggett. Callie interned with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in their education department, where she developed her strong love for art administration and upon her relocation to NYC she became the School Coordinator for Peridance Capezio Center in New York City. She continues to create, and immerse herself within the arts community, where ever she may be.
Callie Frey
Founder
Nicole L-G
Founder - Producer
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