July 26th, 27th, & 28th, at 6:30pm
Bret Mantyk/THE FUTURE
Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Bret Mantyk moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1999. He has performed with the dance company Jordana Che Tobacks POON at PS122, and choreographer Chih-Chun Hwang at Warren Space and Piano’s. Performance artist collaborations include PRAXIS in “Forget Me Not, A New Economy Mass” at PS122; Clairinda Mac Low in “Salvage/Salvation” at the Queens Botanical Garden and Abigail Levine at the 3rd Ward.
Bret has performed solo works as THE FUTURE in various outdoor spaces including the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival as well as the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, the Brecht Forum, Unfinished Works series at The Tank NYC and Habana Outpost.
July 26th, 27th, & 28th, at 6:30pm
Christine Coleman
Christine Coleman has been choreographing since 1997. In Milwaukee, WI, where she is originally from, was a company member/choreographer in Wild Space Dance Company (1999-2001) and Foothold Dance/Performance Company (1999-2000). She moved to New York in 2001 and her recent choreography is a fusion of Modern Dance, Butoh, and Stop Motion. Christine had collaborated with action painter, Naoki Iwakawa in 2005. They performed at the Gallery/Performance space CAVE. She has presented her work in outdoor festivals 2005 H.O.W.L festival in NY and 2004 SWEAT Outdoors in Hoboken, NJ. She also has presented her work at Dancespace (now known as Dance New Amsterdam), Bridge for Dance, One Arm Red, SWEAT, and at SPACE Performance Mix. Since 2001, Coleman studied the Butoh form through workshops with Tanya Calamoneri, Corinna Brown, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Akira Kasai, SU-EN, Atsushi Takenouchi, Hiroko Tamano, Yumiko Yoshioko, Shinichi Mono Koga-Ink Boat, Kan Katsura, Ko Murobushi, and Minako Seki.
She recently joined Tanya Calamoneri’s Company-SO.GO.NO in 2005. She is also a company member of Anemone Dance Theater (2004 -present), Corinna Brown (Hiller) – Dean Street FOO Dance (2002-present) and Chris Ferris and Dancers (2001-present). Christine toured with Corinna Brown (Hiller) – Dean Street FOO Dance in 2002 for the San Francisco Butoh Festival.
July 26th, 27th, & 28th, at 6:30pm
Kelly Hayes/RedShift Dance
Kelley Hayes, who has been called a “subtle frenzy” by The Martha’s Vineyard Times and a “flaming poppy” by the The New York Times is co-Artistic Director, with collaborator Katy Orthwein, of RedShift Dance. She grew up outside of Chicago, Illinois, and earned a BFA in Dance from the University of Iowa in 1997.
Kelly’s choreography has been presented by Dance New Amsterdam, Evon Arts, Soundance, Mulberry St. Theatre, the Limon Institute, the Yard, Peridance, p(art)ies and Chashama, as well as at venues in Chicago, Atlanta and Athens, Georgia. Her solo Slip is currently in the repertoires of Zoetic Dance (Atlanta) and Midwest Dance Collective (Chicago). Kelly has also created two commissioned works for Midwest Dance Collective: on and on and on and on, and Barbie-Q. Her choreography for theater includes: As You Like It for the Stonington Opera House in Maine (director: Jeffrey Frace) and Measure for Measure for blessed unrest in New York (director: Jessica Burr)
Kelly currently dances with Carrie Ahern, Dixie Fun Dance Theatre, and Jody Sperling Time Lapse Dance. She has also recently performed in the cast of Connii’s Avant Garde Restaurant and with Kendall Cornell’s Soon To Be World Famous Clown Troupe. Past credits include Darrah Carr Dance, Sun Ho Kim and Dancers, Tony Silva Dance and Music, Chicago’s Zephyr Dance, City Ballet Theatre of Milwaukee and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company II. She also had the privilege of creating and performing at the Yard residency on Martha’s Vineyard in 2002.
In addition, Kelly teaches dance to students ages 2 1/2 to professional levels at Peridance, The Ailey School, and The Soundance Studio, The Stamford Performing Arts Center and through master classes nationally. She has taught master classes at Zoetic Dance, Brenau University, Agnes Scott College, Youth Dance Chicago, Art of Dance, and Applause National Talent Presentations.
Photo is by Steven Schreiber.
July 26th, 27th, & 28th, at 6:30pm
Stefanie Nelson Dance Group
Stefanie Nelson is the artistic director of Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, a contemporary dance company based in New York City. Internationally, the company has been presented in Toronto, Canada and throughout Italy in Florence, Genoa, Lucca, and Prato. Nationally, the company was recently broadcast on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America for its participation in the 2007 Mamapalooza festival; recent performances also include the Boston Cyberarts Festival and LaMama Moves! Other local venues include the 92nd St. Y, Bowery Ballroom, DTW, Debaun Auditorium, Fieldston School, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Hostos Cultural Center, Joe’s Pub, Jose Limon Institute, LaMama, NYU, Rockland Community College, Stella Adler Conservatory, University Settlement, Washington Square Church, Williamsburg Arts Nexus-WAX; and in Nashua, NH at the Academy of Movement.
Upcoming performances include the premiere of Out of Wonderland, (June 7 – 9, 2007) at Dance New Amsterdam where Stefanie is currently an artist-in-residence; the Solar One Festival (July 26-28 (happy to be green)), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (August 21), and The Yard (Sept. 13-15) where Stefanie will be in residence for a month this summer. Independent choreographic projects include The Fires, a rock musical, and a featured tango scene in Plan-B, a feature film starring Diane Keaton.
Stefanie’s choreography won a first place award at northeast choreography competition, DTI, and she was the subject of an in-depth, live radio interview for www.ciut.fm at the University of Toronto. Her essay about her solo EMERGE, was recently published in Italy in Paolo Ruffini’s most recent book, ‘Resti di Scena’. The company has received numerous awards and distinctions and has taught workshops throughout New York, New Hampshire and Italy. Stefanie currently teaches Creative Movement to toddlers in Harlem at the Morningside Gardens Community Center.
July 26th, 27th, & 28th, at 6:30pm
Andrea Gise
Andrea Gise and her talented group of dancers have performed together in venues such as Spoke the Hub, The Hatch Presenting Series, Fertile Ground at GreenSpace, WAXworks at Triskelion Arts, and twice on DTW’s main stage as part of The Lab in Composition Series, as well as the College Partnership Program. They are all happy to be helping to raise solar power awareness.
Photo by Travis Doucette
July 26th, 27th, & 28th, at 6:30pm
Paloma McGregor
As a former journalist, Paloma McGregorês choreography often explores the intersection of dance and text. A collaborator by nature and practice, she has created dances with artists in a range of disciplines, including four-time National Slam Poetry champion Patricia Smith, who wrote the poem that accompanies her newest work, “34 Prayers Before Passing.” This ensemble work captures the emotional devastation of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It is an elegy to a culture tied to the life, breath and resilience of its people. The piece evokes images of prayer and struggle, wrote the Washington Post, “poignantly suggesting that despite their anger and disillusionment, some people never lost their faith or hope for survival.” In addition to creating her own work, Paloma is a dancer with Urban Bush Women and teaches workshops on merging dance and text.
Photo by Elizabeth Malby.
August 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, at 6:30pm
Tanya Calamoneri Company/SoGoNo
Tanya Calamoneri (Artistic Director, Company SoGoNo) combines contemporary dance, Japanese Butoh, and Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater. She has danced since the age of 4, and began choreographing her own work in 1997, via the collective violent dwarf. Based in San Francisco from 1996-2003, she was a founding faculty member of the Experimental Performance Institute at New College of CA. She attended Moving On Center School for Participatory Arts and Research from 1996-7 (directed by Martha Eddy and Carol Swann), danced for Kim Epifano/Epiphany Productions (98-00), and danced for Jess Curtis (99), among other contemporary choreographers. She was a member of the Butoh-based company inkBoat from 2000-2003, touring to Germany and within the Western U.S., with artistic director Shinichi Momo Koga. Since 2000, she has studied Butoh intensively under Minako Seki, Ko Murobushi, Carlotta Ikeda, Shinichi Koga, Yuko Kaseki, Takuya Muramatsu of Dairakurakan, Su-En, and others. In 2005, she completed her MA from NYU’s Gallatin School, focusing on Butoh dance. Tanya is a co-director of the arts service organization, The Field, in New York City. More info at www.sogono.org!
Photo by Ryan Jensen.
August 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, at 6:30pm
Catey Ott Dance Collective
Catey Ott performed, choreographed and taught dance in NYC for nine years, where she danced for Heidi Latsky, Allyson Green, Sean Curran, Soundance Repertory Company, and others. Her work was produced at Danspace Project in 2003 and 2007 and has been seen at WAX, BAX, DUMBO Dance Festival, 92nd Street Y, Dance Now, DRA, and in Chicago and Milwaukee.
In 2006, she received her Master’s Degree in Dance from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and started her company, the Catey Ott Dance Collective in 2005. Ott’s work is both physical and pensive, bringing emotional yet abstract images from her imagination into movement. Once again residing in New York, she is gearing up for an exciting new year of choreographing and performing!
August 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, at 6:30pm
Lauren Hale Dance
Lauren Hale Dance (LHD) has been existence since 2004, when company founder Lauren Hale graduated from the Master of Fine Arts Program in Dance at NYUÕS Tisch School of the Arts. Since then, the company has performed in venues and festivals all over New York City and the boroughs, and has held residencies at colleges, high schools, and dance companies along the East Coast. LHD is also a part of ThisThat Dance Collective along with two other companies, Jessica Gaynor Dance and Aimee Rials and Dancers. Collectively, ThisThat has produced and presented two full-length concerts, In Relation in 2006 at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio and Abstract Sense in 2005 at Triskelion Arts. Most recently, LHD presented a new work, Naomi and Ruth, at the Museum of Biblical Art. Lauren Hale Dance is happy supported by the Field.
Photo by Steven Schreiber
August 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, at 6:30pm
Hettie Barnhill
Hettie Vyrine Barnhill is a 2006 Honors Graduate of Columbia College Chicago. She has worked with numerous choreographers internationally and received many awards including the Young Artist Scholarship (American Dance Festival), The Wiesman Grant for her Choreographic piece “Homegrown” and chosen to perform at the “Kennedy Center” in Washington DC.
Her Regional credits include; Aida, Guys & Dolls, Meet Me in St. Louis, and Camelot with the St. Louis Muny Opera and Vagina Monologues with the Parkwest Theater. Other credits include; Comedy at Second City Chicago, Dance Chicago, Black Label Movement in Minnesota MN, Fashion Week in New York City, and Arrojo Creative studio in Lisbon Portugal. Hettie, just finish shooting a music video with upcoming music artist Kenna. She is grateful for this opportunity with Solar One, and thanks her mother, family and friends for their everlasting love and support. Peace!
August 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, at 6:30pm
Emily Harper Dance
Emily Harper Dance is dedicated to the creation of dances that explore various types of human behavior through personal interactions. We present the audience with work that is emotionally engaging and intense, and welcome viewers into enchanted, dark and textured worlds the dancers create with both intimately beautiful and physical fresh movement.
Choreographer Emily Harper approaches each dance as an opportunity to create an idiosyncratic world with her dancers. She uses her artist’s diverse kinetics and strengths and pushes them into finding genuine sensation based movement. Harper approaches each dance as a collaboration with her artists, giving them imagery and tasks to investigate that they explore alone and with one another. The collaborative process allows the unearthing of honest movement.
Our mission is to create dances that push the audience through visual journeys and not only invite them to become aware of all their perceptive senses, but ask them to question or grapple with the world around them.
August 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, at 6:30pm
Sahar Javedani/compani javedani
Originally from Southern California by way of Tehran, Iran, Sahar Javedani has been creating and performing dance theater works for the last seventeen years. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance, Theater, and French from Hollins University. Upon graduation, Sahar served for two years as Associate Faculty in World Dance at Mira Costa College in San Diego, CA and running the Encinitas Community Center as program coordinator and producer of county-wide performing arts events and festivals.
In January 2007, Sahar established her new collaborative, compani javedani, including a cast of fifteen dancers, and a diverse collective of world-renowned musicians and designers. Recent performances have included premieres at The Flea Theater and Abrons Arts Center. In May, she will be presenting a world premiere at the “Newsteps Series” at Mulberry Street Theater, followed by an evening length commission in November for the “Ear to the Ground Series” funded by the Jerome Foundation. Sahar continues to teach and re-invent her aesthetic by engaging in numerous creative residencies, workshops, and laboratories to further develop and focus her voice as an Iranian-American female choreographer.
Photo is by Steven Schreiber.
