Travis Chamberlain is a director, producer, curator, video artist, and musician based in New York City. His piece HEAD VI + 2(X)IST was recently seen at Danspace as part of Food For Thought. A member of Lincoln Center Theater's Directors Lab, Chamberlain has helmed Becky Yamamoto's one-woman show OKAY (Ars Nova), the dance-pop spectacle Adira Amram is an American Idol (Ars Nova), and A Night of Songs by Kyle Jarrow (coming soon to 92nd Street Y-Tribeca on December 2). He has also written and directed original productions: Project C: Is This a Dream? (NY Fringe), Never Live Long in Cages (NY Fringe), plus a series of music-theater collaborations with playwright/composer Kyle Jarrow, including  Big Bang! (Collective: Unconscious), Realm of the Unreal (HERE Arts Center), and Hardboiled Happy Hour (Dixon Place). Chamberlain and Jarrow are also the founding members of the glam rock band The Fabulous Entourage.

Lindsay Clark was born in San Francisco, CA. She spent several years living on a boat with her family and attended ballet summer sessions for a very long time. She left home at 15 to dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts and continued on at SUNY Purchase. After touring around the world for a couple of years with Shen Wei Dance Arts, Lindsay went back for more school through the Hollins University/ADF Master’s Program.  She now dances for and with her beautiful friends and has hope.

 

Jack Ferver's work has been called by The New York Times, "...restless, visceral, and often painful... sympathetic as it is bitingly corrosive". Ferver recently premiered his new work A Movie Star Needs A Movie at The New Museum this past fall. He was the first choreographer to be presented at The New Museum with I Am Trying to Hear Myself in 2008, which was remounted at P.S. 122 this past summer. This past year he also premiered Death is Certain at Danspace Project. Death is Certain was workshopped in January of 2009, through the Dance Theater Workshop space grant, Studio Series. Ferver was also an artist in residence from 2008-2009 at Chez Bushwick, inaugurating their new series CAKE! In 2008 Ferver premiered MEAT: A Diptych, his second Mondo Cané! commission from Dixon Place. Other performances shown at Dixon Place were Ferver's first full length work When We Were Young And Filled With Fear (a Mondo Cané! commission) and Eshge Khoda va Sheitan or God and Satan Fucking (co-created with Matthew Rogers). Ferver's solo performance works include Why Can't Condi Sleep (BRIC and Makor), Cliterature and Camille vs. Karen (HERE, The Culture Project, BRIC, and The Oni Gallery), Bad Dating (The Oni Gallery), and The Ophelia Project (The Culture Project). As an actor, credits include Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central), Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation (Off-Broadway), and numerous other film and theatre projects. 

 

Sebastian Matthias works as a dancer and choreographer while obtaining a Masters degree in Dance Theory (Tanzwissenschaft) at the Freie Universität Berlin. The native German received his education at the Gymnasium Essen-Werden, Germany, and the Juilliard School (BFA 2004). Since 2004 he has danced with the Tanztheater Nürnberg under the direction of Daniela Kurz, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago under the direction of Jim Vincent and independent Choreographers in Germany and Switzerland where he appeared in works by Ohad Naharin, Jiri Kylian, Dominique Bagouet, Nacho Duato and Rui Horta among others. As a choreographer his works were presented in Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Peru, United States, Canada and he was awarded the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography in 2004. In 2008 he became Laureate of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes what enabels him to be artist in residence at Ladmmi for the fall semester of 2009 in Montreal. As a dance scholar he is currently writing his Master thesis on the body in Groove-oriented dance music.

The Troupe is a band of contemporaries who approach improvisation as a central practice of individual creative discipline. They have consistently and independently produced contemporary dance with a small group of associates in film, fashion, live media and photography. For each original piece, the artists devise improvisations and multi-disciplinary processes to investigate a wide array of intensities; virtuosity in the physical, pictorial, and sonic. These artistic exchanges and related innovations in training form the core of their work. The Troupe is a rotating cast of performers selected specifically for each piece by directors Michelle Mola and Zack Winokur. Each performer makes a substantial personal and artistic contribution to the work.

Larissa Velez received a BFA from the University of the Arts in 1998, where her senior thesis won the award for Best Choreography. From 2004-2006, Velez presented solo work at venues such as the Cutting Room, Joe’s Pub, People's Improv Theatre, Dixon Place, and Symphony Space. Velez has created works that fuse contemporary dance with multimedia theater since 2006. She premiered 15 Minute Wipes for Movement Research at Judson Church's "About Town" series in April of 2006. Velez performed her next work, a solo entitled Making Ends Meet at the SoloNova Arts Festival at PS122 in June, 2007, at the Brink Series at Dixon Place in October, 2007 and Food for Thought at Dancespace Project in December, 2007. Velez performed vocal compositions with artist Brian Belott at AUNTS dance performances, Canada Gallery, Chocolate Factory, the Swiss Institute, and the Milwaukee International Art Festival between 2007and 2008. In May 2007, Velez debuted her choreographic/musical collaboration with Hilary Clark Response time with help her out/take 357 at Dixon Place. They performed this collaboration again at Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks show in January 2009. In praising their work, Gia Kourlas of The New York Times noted the duo’s “fearless comic timing." In 2009, Velez was the recipient of a solo residency at Dance Theatre Workshop's Studio Series. For this performance, she created the full-length work Loving Overkill Via Satellite, a performance exploring her psyche in the form of a variety show that The New Yorker called "an amusing place to be."


image by Travis Chamberlain

 

 

 

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