Jack Ferver: Night Light Bright Light from Marin Media Lab on Vimeo.

Choreographed and Written by Jack Ferver
Performed by Jack Ferver and Reid Bartelme
Costumes by Reid Bartelme

Jack Ferver is a New York–based choreographer, writer, performer, and teacher. His work has been presented in New York City at The Kitchen; The French Institute Alliance Française, as part of Crossing the Line; PS122; the New Museum; the Museum of Arts and Design, as part of Performa 11; Danspace Project; Abrons Arts Center; and Dixon Place; at Bard College at The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; in Boston at the Institute of Contemporary Art; in Houston at Diverse Works; and in France at Théâtre de Vanves. Shorter and solo works have been presented at MoMA PS1, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Dance New Amsterdam, La MaMa E.T.C., the Culture Project, and NP Gallery (all New York City). His work has been written about in the New York Times, Financial Times, New Yorker, ArtForum, Modern Painters, Time Out New York, New York Post, Boston Globe, and Dance Magazine. As an actor he has appeared in numerous film, television, and theater projects. He currently teaches at New York University, and has taught at Bard College, SUNY Purchase, and has set choreography at The Juilliard School. For more information, go to www.jackferver.org.

Reid Bartelme began his professional life as a dancer. He worked for Ballet companies
throughout North America and Canada, and later in his career worked for modern dance
companies in New York including Shen Wei Dance Arts and the Lar Lubovitch Dance
Company. He has also performed in works by Jack Ferver, Liz Santoro, Burr Johnson,
Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, and Kyle Abraham. He went on to graduate from
the fashion design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology and began working as
a freelance costume designer. He has designed costumes most notably for Christopher
Wheeldon, Lar Lubovitch, Pam Tanowitz, Jillian Peña and Liz Santoro. This is
Bartelme’s sixth work with Ferver. In collaboration with designer Harriet Jung, Bartelme
has designed costumes for the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Pacific
Northwest Ballet, Justin Peck, Marcelo Gomes, Jodi Melnick, and Kyle Abraham.

2015- luciana achugar excerpts from luciana achugar on Vimeo.

luciana achugar was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and upon graduating from Cal Arts in 1995, she moved to New York City. After dancing with several influential choreographers including Jeremy Nelson, Will Swanson, Maria Hassabi, Chameckilerner and John Jasperse, and collaborating closely with Levi Gonzalez, achugar has emerged as a choreographic force of her own.

Since 2002, she has created eight independent works, for which she has garnered two BESSIE Awards: the first in 2006 for her first evening-length piece Exhausting Love at Danspace Project and more recently in 2010 for PURO DESEO – a piece that was also chosen as one of TimeOUT NY’s Best of Dance for 2010. Her work has been presented by most venues showing contemporary dance in NYC including The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Danspace Project, The Chocolate Factory and Abrons Arts Center as well as at the CANADA Gallery; in Cambridge, MA at the Green Street Studios; in Minneapolis, MN at the Walker Art Center; in Los Angeles at ShowBoxLA and in numerous theaters in Uruguay.

achugar was a 2010 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grantee and one of Dance Magazine’s 2011 “25 to Watch.” Her work has received support and recognition from several foundations including the New York Foundation for the Arts; the Jerome Foundation; the Multi-Arts Production Fund; The Field Dance Fund; NEFA; a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2009 President’s Award and a Brooklyn Arts Exchange “Passing it on” Artist Award from Tere O’Connor. Her most recent achievements include being named as a 2013 Creative Capital Grantee, received a prestigious 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and was nominated for a 2014 BAX Artist Award and a 2014 and 2015 Alpert Award.

Jennifer Kjos is originally from South Florida where she began performing ballet and flamenco. She currently resides in Brooklyn and Big Indian, NY. Jennifer has danced for RoseAnne Spradlin, Walter Dundervill, chameckilerner, Heather Kravas, and is currently in process with Caitlin Cook. Her lengthy working relationship with Achugar spans several years and has enabled her to deepen her persistent love and practice of improvisation. Lately Jennifer seeks inspiration in the early work of Phil Collen, Joe Elliot and also Herbert Ross. Thank you many times over
to Luciana for opportunities past and present.

Gillian Walsh is a dance artist from Brooklyn, NY. She is invested her own choreographic research and has had the pleasure of working with luciana achugar, Laurie Berg, Neal Medlyn, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Adrienne Truscott among others

Rebecca Wender has danced for many wonderful artists, including Alexandra Beller, Martha Clarke, Juliette Mapp, Jennifer Monson, Parker Pracjek, RoseAnne Spradlin and others, and was a featured dancer in John Turturro’s film Romance and Cigarettes. In addition to working with luciana, Rebecca currently works with Antonio Ramosand Sarah White-Ayon, is a massage therapist, sometime arts administrator, and Managing Editor of the Movement Research Performance Journal.Deepest thanks and appreciation to luciana and everyone for this beautiful experience.

Molly Lieber lives in New York and dances for Neil Greenberg, Maria Hassabi, Juliette Mapp, and Melinda Ring. She has been working with Eleanor Smith since 2006, and their dances were commissioned by PS122 (for COIL 2015), Roulette in Brooklyn, Danspace Project (Judson Now Platform), and The Chocolate Factory Theater.

Nikima Jagudajev, a dance artist. Working to alter perception and find an acceptance within the unknown. She has shared her work with a small portion of New York City and will continue to expand and infiltrate, forever fighting for feminist politics. Currently working with esteemed artists including luciana achugar, Marina Abramovic and Gillian Walsh. Take class with her through classclassclass, or read her words in BOMB Magazine’s online publication.

Oren Barnoy is thrilled to be working with luciana achugar along with this wonderful community/cast. Barnoy has shown dance choreography at La MaMa Experimental Theater, PS1 MoMA, The Kitchen, Danspace Projects, Joyce Soho, Potsdam Film School, Dixon Place, and New Dance Alliance – Performance Mix Festival. Barnoy was a Studio Series artist in residence at New York Live Arts in 2011 and in 2012/2013 an artist in residence at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. His instillation work has been presented by Art Basel, Miami. Barnoy released a reggaeton album on Koch Records and was a featured Dj at the Ultra Music Festival in 2007 and 2008. Barnoy has had the honor to dance for DD Dorvillier, Sarah Michelson, Heather Kravas, and the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. As a teaching artist he has worked for Movement Research Dance Makers program as well as being a guest artist with the Daniel Gwirtzman dance company, teaching creative dance in the New York City public schools and summer programs. Barnoy received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts.

Marýa Wethers is a dancer and arts manager based in NYC since 1997. As a dancer, she has worked with luciana achugar, Deborah Hay, Daria Faïn, Faye Driscoll and Yanira Castro. Her own work has been supported by The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Movement Research, BAAD, The Yard, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA). In her role as arts manager, Marýa is the Managing Director & Producer of company nora chipaumire and a Producing Consultant for international projects in Eastern/Central Europe and Africa.

Laurel Atwell has been dancing and making dance in New York since 2008, most recently presenting her own work at Dixon Place as well as carting an inflatablecouch around town in collaboration with Tess Dworman.Laurel is a student of qi gong with Melanie Maar and
frequently works with Gordon Landenberger,Kirstan Clifford, and Aya Sato (with whom she has recently started an interview project).

Elliott Jenetopulos works in design and production of dance and performance, and as a collaborator on Sarah Maxfield’s Nonlinear Lineage, an artist-driven archive of experimental dance and performance. As a lighting designer, Elliott has worked with Jen Rosenblit, Anna Sperber, Marissa Perel, luciana achugar, Lorene Bouboushian, Ursula Eagly, niv Acosta, Tess Dworman and others

Michael Mahalchick was born in Pottsville, PA and lives/works in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Frieze, Art Review, and The New York Times, among others. In 2010, he received a BESSIE Award for his work in luciana achugar’s PURO DESEO, and has also worked with Jeremy Wade, Yve Laris Cohen, Larissa Velez Jackson, Discoteca Flaming Star, and the Hotel Savant and Science Project theater companies. In March 2014, he will be opening an exhibition of new work at Louis B. James Gallery (NYC). His work is currently represented by CANADA (NYC).

It was an experience of another time with other bodies, it was an experience of a space that held all the bodies and it was also a mass revolt. (…) It was our task to be in this together, to allow ourselves to overcome, and to surrender to sensation.”
By Marisa Perel, drunken boat, Published May 6, 2014

“Vagina Punk and Hippie Apocalypse”
By Eva Yaa Ansantewaa, InfiniteBody, Published April 3, 2014

“No work, I believe, stirred up and vexed people’s sense of duty more than luciana achugar’s The Pleasure Project”
By Chris Sharp, Movement Research, Published October 10, 2014

“It was an enlightening kinesthetic experience described best by achugar: ‘To be more in the flesh is liberating. Question this idea of the soul being caged in the body and you may reach an ecstatic, transcendent experience.’ ”
By Elena Light, Culturebot, Published September 23, 2014

Jeremy Wade: Death Asshole Rave Video from Marin Media Lab on Vimeo.

Directed and performed by Jeremy Wade
Written by Ezra Green in collaboration with Jeremy Wade
Video: Liz Rosenfeld
Sound: Mika Risiko
Costume: Minttu Vesala
Lights: Andreas Harder
Artistic Advisor: Thomas Schaupp + Jared Gradinger
Production: björn & björn

Special thanks to Zodiak Helsinki, Tomi Paasonen, Fritz Welch, Gerard Reyes, Alessio Castellacci, Tanz Haus Zurich as well as the West Germany aka Stephan and Grinni.

Jeremy Wade premiered his first evening length work titled “Glory” in February of 2006, for which he received a New York Bessie Award. Since then he has been living in Berlin, working closely with the Hebbel Theater. In 2013 Wade served as Guest Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich and embarked on a new collaboration titled “Dark Material” with sculptor Monika Grzymala and Musician Jamie Stewart aka Xiu Xiu. In February of 2014 Wade created “Together Forever” a three hour group experience / participatory project. He will premiere the new solo “Death Asshole Rave Video” at the American Realness, NYC in 2015 and shortly there after he will work on a new project centered on utopian critique titled “Drawn Onward” in collaboration with young Sci-Fi writer John Eric Jordan.

Ezra Green is a poet from New York who is currently based in Berlin. He has made several collections of poetry, including most recently “Book of Vanishing” (The Quiet American Publishing Co.) and “Berlin Threshold Poems” (Kopierladen Presse). He has worked with a number of choreographers as dramaturge and writer, including Marysia Zimpel, Martin Hansen, Meg Stuart and Jeremy Wade. He is currently working on his first short film, “Helpless”, with George Lewis Jr.

Thomas Schaupp, Berlin, laboratory scientist by profession, is now about to finish his master-studies in dance-theory at Freie Universität Berlin. He works as dramaturge, artistic collaborator and artist’s assistant for choreographers such as Kat Válastur, An Kaler, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdottir & Angela Schubot. He is resident critic for the season 2014/2015 at ada Studio Berlin. Based on his research he was invited with lecture-presentations and workshops to several conferences and festivals around Europe and Canada.

Jared Gradinger is living in Berlin since 2002. Since 2009, he has been developing work and teaching with Angela Schubot. Together they have created a cycle of 5 full length works which are touring internationally. Their topic is the debordering of the body. He is a founding member of Constanza Macras/ Dorky Park. In 2006, he began his ongoing collaboration with Pictoplasma, creating stage works and interventions for their festivals and exhibitions. In 2008, he began his curatorial relationship with Les Grandes Traversées in Bordeuax; creating his 3 part festival “How Do You Are” for the region. In 2008, he also started his long time work relation with Jeremy Wade. Jared is a core member of “Social Muscle Club”.

Liz Rosenfeld (born1979, New York, NY) is a Berlin-based artist working in performance, film and video. Rosenfeld is part of the Berlin based film production collective NowMomentNow, and is also one of the founding members of the food- performance group Foodgasm. She has collaborated with Swedish Feminist Film Director Marit Östberg and the Swedish electro-pop band, ‘The Knife’. Her work has been screened and performed internationally at venues including the Tate Modern, Hayward Gallery, C/O Gallery, Kunsthaus Dresden, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theater, British Film Institute, Victoria & Albert Museum, Hammer Museum, The Kitchen and Rivington Place. Rosenfeld has most recently collaborated on a performance piece with director and performer Jeremy Wade, and presented one of the opening performances at the Donau Festival in Austria. She has been profiled in publications such as: Camera Obscura, Art Review, Little Joe, and Missy Magazine. She gained a BA in New Media and received her MFA from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 followed by a Masters in Performance Studies from Tisch School of The Arts at New York University in 2007.

Mika Risiko is a Berlin based musician, producer and performer. Her work spans film scores, theatre projects and art as well as creating the soundtrack for short clips, like for the well-known Berlin party Gegen. Her current music projects are Ziúr and Crime, with which she’s played throughout the city and beyond, including support for Peaches and Austra. Apart from that, she’s been cast in a Swedish theatre performance, Wild Minds by Marcus Lindeen, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

Minttu Vesala is a stylist based in Helsinki working in the fields of performance, fashion and advertising throughout Scandinavia. She worked for several years as a fashion buyer for the Finnish multi-label store Helsinki10 creating a dark avant-garde mix of Rick Owens, Ann Demeulemeester, Haider Ackermann, Maison Martin Margiela and the Scandinavian new wave. Minttu has styled high profile advertisement campaigns for brands such as Finlandia Vodka, Nokia and Marimekko. She has collaborated with photographers on different exhibitions, designed costumes for contemporary dance performances and worked as production designer on several short films. Minttu is fascinated and empowered by nightlife, witchcraft and the endless darkness of North.

“Composed of movement, sound and words, this combination of lecture-performance and concert knocks you out but does not fit into categories.”
By Maria Säkö, Helsingin Sanomat, Published September 23, 2014

Created by Miguel Gutierrez
Performed by Miguel Gutierrez, Michelle Boulé, Ben Pryor and Sean Donovan
Lights by Lenore Doxsee
Music by MG, Jaime Fenelly, Pee in My Face with Surgery (Jaime Fenelly & Fritz Welch), Chris Forsyth, Neal Medlyn, Ryoji Ikeda, KC and the Sunshine Band
Sound Production/Assistance by Leo Martin
Projection design by MG & Leo Martin
Production Management by Sarah Lurie
Costume Consulting by Ásta Hostetter
Costume Construction by Dusty Childers

PreyYtrailer2 from michelle ellsworth on Vimeo.

Conceived, Created, and Performed: Michelle Ellsworth
Web Designer and Programmer: Satchel Spencer
Lighting designer: Ryan Seelig
Set and Props: Priscilla Cohan
Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome was commissioned by MCA Denver’s Feminism + Co.

Priscilla Cohan received her Bachelor of Fine Art from University of Colorado in Studio Ceramics. Her work in the theater includes performances in Richard Goulis’ Block, and as a puppet in Jainie Geisers’ Evidence of Floods, House of Birds by George Peters and Melanie Walker, and in The Adventures of Zimmo!, a 5 DVD for children. Her contributions to stage sets include, Hey, Stop That! written and directed by Thalia Field, The Rise and Fall of Pirate Jenny by Ethelyn Friend and Gifts from Unknown Islands by Mark McCoin.

Michelle Ellsworth makes solo performance/video work, websites, and drawings. She is a 2013 Creative Capital and New England Foundation for the Arts’ NDP Grantee and a 2011 United States Artists Knight Fellow. Ellsworth’s work has been commissioned by: On The Boards, Danspace Project, the National Performance Network, Diverseworks, and Dance Theater Workshop. She has performed and taught at Brown University, Columbia College, Naropa University, The University of Costa Rica, and in Ireland. Her drawings and spreadsheets have been published in CHAIN and her screen dances have been seen around Europe and throughout the U.S. michelleellsworth.com

Ryan Seelig’s Lighting Design credits include: Clytigation dir. Michelle Ellsworth(On The Boards), Early Shaker Spirituals(The Wooster Group), You For Me For You(Ma-Yi Theater Company), MTV’s The Music Experiment: Of Monsters and Men(Angel Orensanz Center). Losing Tom Pecinka (Morgan Gould and Friends), and Dog Eat Dog (Morgan Gould and Friends).
Other: Lighting Supervisor for The Wooster Group and the International tour of Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show.
Education: BA from Fordham University at Lincoln Center

Satchel Spencer is video maker, web programmer, photographer, and traceur. His work has been performed at On The Boards, Brown University, Juilliard, the New School, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and Dance Theatre Workshop.

“Andrew Dinwiddie and Michelle Ellsworth have scrutinized the act of transformation in two virtuosic solos.”
By Gia Kourlas, The New York Times, Published May 26, 2012

“Tifprabap.org exists online and not just as the title of Michelle Ellsworth’s completely, winningly ridiculous new solo.”
By Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times, Published April 19, 2008

“[A] lark that’s half science and half pure hilarity.”
By Susan Froyd, Westword, Published March 9, 2011

Choreographed by Tere O’Connor
Performed by Cynthia Oliver, David Thomson
Music Collage created by O’Connor
Excerpts from Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, Pierr Dervaux , Choeurs du Theatre National de L’Opera de Paris; Liquid Liquid; Manson family opera, John Moran
Costumes by Susan Becker
Lighting Design by Michael O’Connor

Tere O’Connor is Artistic Director of Tere O’Connor Dance. He has created over 40 works for his company and toured these throughout the US, Europe, South America and Canada. He has created numerous commissioned works for other dance companies, including the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project and solo works for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jean Butler. O’Connor received a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, and a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow among numerous other grants and awards. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project, The MAP Fund, and many others. He has received three “BESSIES”, New York Dance and Performance Awards. In October 2014, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An articulate and provocative educator, O’Connor has taught at festivals and universities around the globe for 25 years. He is a Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he lives for one semester each year. O’Connor is an active participant in the New York dance community mentoring young artists, teaching, writing, and volunteering in various capacities. BLEED, premiered at BAM’s Next Wave festival in Dec 2013 and continues on a tour in the United States with fall/winter stops at On the Boards in Seattle, The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and a week of encore performances of BLEED at Danspace Project in New York City. O’Connor is presenting two works at the American Realness Festival, Sister and undersweet.

Cynthia Oliver grew up in the US Virgin Islands. She has danced with many companies including the David Gordon/Pick Up Performance Company, Ronald Kevin Brown/EVIDENCE, and Bebe Miller. In the black avant garde theatre world, she has performed in numerous works including plays by Laurie Carlos and Ntozake Shange. Her own work, a mélange of dance, theatre and the spoken word, incorporates the textures of Caribbean performance with African, and American sensibilities. Named “Outstanding Young Choreographer” by reviewer Frank Werner in German Magazine Ballet Tanz early in her career, Cynthia has since received numerous grants and awards including a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie), two Illinois Arts Council Choreography Fellowships, a Creative Capital award, a Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production grant, a CalArts Alpert Award nomination, and a University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is Professor of Dance. Cynthia holds a PhD in performance studies from New York University and is the author of Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean. She is thrilled and honored to be dancing with Tere.

David Thomson has worked as a collaborative artist in the fields of music, dance, theater and performance with such artists as Mel Wong, Jane Comfort, Bebe Miller (’83-’86; ’03-’06), Remy Charlip, Trisha Brown (‘87-‘93), Susan Rethorst, David Roussève, Ralph Lemon (‘99-present), Muna Tseng, Sekou Sundiata, Meg Stuart, Dean Moss/Layla Ali, Alain Buffard, Deborah Hay, and Marina Abramovic,́ among many others. He was a founding member of the Drama Desk nominated a capella performance group, Hot Mouth. His own work has been presented by The Kitchen, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Roulette, and Movement Research at Judson Church. Thomson has been Artist-in-Residence at Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Gibney Dance Center, and at LMCC Governors Island. Thomson was honored with a Bessie for Sustained Achievement (2001) and as part of the creative team for Bebe Miller’s Landing/Place (2006). He is a 2012 USA Ford Fellow, a 2013 NYFA Fellow in Choreography and a 2014 MacDowell Fellow. Thomson has served on the faculties of NYU/Experimental Theater Wing, Sarah Lawrence, The New School and Movement Research. An ongoing advocate for dance and the empowerment of artists, he was one of the founding members of Dancer’s Forum and has served on the boards of Bebe Miller/Gotham Dance, Dance Theater Workshop and currently New York Live Arts. He holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from SUNY Purchase. Thank you Tere for this beautiful opportunity!

Michael O’Connor (Lighting Designer) Has been working with Tere for over fifteen years. His recent work in dance includes: Oxbow (BAM), Blue Room (NYLA), The Turn (City Center), Hurry (Danspace and PAC Dublin), In and Out (Danspace), Noctu (Irish Rep). His recent work in theater includes: Douglas Carter Beane’s Fairycakes (Lester Martin), While Chasing the Fantastic (AADA), Last Days of Cleopatra (Urban Stages), Mary Poppins (Forestburgh Playhouse), Morgan James CD Release (Le Poisson Rouge), The Tunnel Play (Kraine Theater), Beauty of the Father (AADA), The Morons (Cell Theater), Fruits Unheard Of (Chashama), Who’s Your Daddy? (Irish Rep), Red Valley (New 45th Street), Next to Normal (CAP 21), A Celebration of Harold Pinter (Irish Rep), American Clock (AADA), Jimmy Titanic (Drilling Company), Lend Me A Tenor (Gallery Players), Moonfleece (45th Street Theater), Oliver (David F. Clune Center), Snapshot Plays (Theatre 54), Spring Awakening (AADA). Michael is the resident Lighting Designer for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC and Tere O’Connor Dance.

Susan Becker works as a designer, artist and educator in the field of fashion and dress. Since graduating from Rhode Island School of Design she has designed for traditional and experimental settings, from the fashion industry to collaborations on stage, film, and site-specific projects. In addition to her design work, Susan has also taught courses on fashion and dress for RISD and is currently a lecturer at the University of Illinois. Her solo work centers around explorations of the social psychology of dress and culture.

Choreographed by Tere O’Connor
Performed by Michael Ingle and Silas Riener
Lighting Design Michael O’Connor

Music Excerpts from Atys, Jean-Baptiste Lully (Composer), William Christie (Conductor), Les Arts Florissants (Orchestra)

Tere O’Connor is Artistic Director of Tere O’Connor Dance. He has created over 40 works for his company and toured these throughout the US, Europe, South America and Canada. He has created numerous commissioned works for other dance companies, including the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project and solo works for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jean Butler. O’Connor received a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, and a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow among numerous other grants and awards. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project, The MAP Fund, and many others. He has received three “BESSIES”, New York Dance and Performance Awards. In October 2014, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An articulate and provocative educator, O’Connor has taught at festivals and universities around the globe for 25 years. He is a Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he lives for one semester each year. O’Connor is an active participant in the New York dance community mentoring young artists, teaching, writing, and volunteering in various capacities. BLEED, premiered at BAM’s Next Wave festival in Dec 2013 and continues on a tour in the United States with fall/winter stops at On the Boards in Seattle, The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and a week of encore performances of BLEED at Danspace Project in New York City. O’Connor is presenting two works at the American Realness Festival in Sister and undersweet.

Michael Ingle is a choreographer and performing artist based in New York City. His work has been presented at numerous venues in New York and nationally. As a performer, Michael has worked with with Hilary Easton + Company, Tere O’Connor Dance, Laura Peterson Choreography, Deganit Shemy & Company, Megan Sprenger/mvworks, Makiko Tamura/small apple co., Christopher Williams Dances and Miriam Wolf, among others.

Silas Riener grew up in Washington DC. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature and certificates in Creative Writing and Dance, with a focus on linguistics. As a dancer he has worked with Chantal Yzermans, Takehiro Ueyama, Christopher Williams, Jonah Bokaer, Kota Yamazaki, and Rebecca Lazier. He was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from November 2007 until its closure at the end of 2011, and received a 2012 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for his performance in Cunningham’s Split Sides. While performing with MCDC, Riener completed his MFA in Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (2008). Since 2010, he has collaborated with poet Anne Carson and choreographer Rashaun Mitchell, with whom he continues to develop new projects. He has taught workshops and technique classes at Concord Academy SummerStages and throughout Turkey at several universities; he has taught in the Dance Program at Princeton University and Barnard College. He was the movement designer for the architecture and design firm the Harrison Atelier in 2012 and choreographed the site-specific performance/installations Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and VEAL at The Invisible Dog Art Center. His own work has also been seen at Danspace Project, at CATCH and as part of LMCC’s River to River Festival. Along with Rashaun Mitchell he was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2013, and is a member of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program. He is a 2014 City Center Choreographic Fellow. Silas will create a new solo work for himself gthat woll premire in NYC in the fall if 2013

Michael O’Connor (Lighting Designer) Has been working with Tere for over fifteen years. His recent work in dance includes: Oxbow (BAM), Blue Room (NYLA), The Turn (City Center), Hurry (Danspace and PAC Dublin), In and Out (Danspace), Noctu (Irish Rep). His recent work in theater includes: Douglas Carter Beane’s Fairycakes (Lester Martin), While Chasing the Fantastic (AADA), Last Days of Cleopatra (Urban Stages), Mary Poppins (Forestburgh Playhouse), Morgan James CD Release (Le Poisson Rouge), The Tunnel Play (Kraine Theater), Beauty of the Father (AADA), The Morons (Cell Theater), Fruits Unheard Of (Chashama), Who’s Your Daddy? (Irish Rep), Red Valley (New 45th Street), Next to Normal (CAP 21), A Celebration of Harold Pinter (Irish Rep), American Clock (AADA), Jimmy Titanic (Drilling Company), Lend Me A Tenor (Gallery Players), Moonfleece (45th Street Theater), Oliver (David F. Clune Center), Snapshot Plays (Theatre 54), Spring Awakening (AADA). Michael is the resident Lighting Designer for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC and Tere O’Connor Dance.

Relative Collider (excerpts) from Liz Santoro on Vimeo.

Relative Collider by Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard
with Cynthia Koppe, Liz Santoro, and Stephen Thompson
Sound by Brendan Dougherty
Lighting by Madeline Best
Costumes by Reid Bartelme
Administration by Fanny Lacour

Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard have been in close collaboration over the past five years. Liz began her dance training at Boston Ballet School and with Marcus Schulkind. She then went on to study neuroscience at Harvard University where she received a Bachelor’s degree. She has worked with choreographers such as Alexandra Bachzetsis, Jack Ferver, Philipp Gehmacher, Trajal Harrell, Heather Kravas, David Wampach and Ann Liv Young. After completing a Master’s degree in applied mathematics at Ensimag in Grenoble and beginning a career in finance as a quantitative analyst, Pierre resigned in 2005 to begin working in theater. He has subsequently been exploring the field successively as a technician, an assistant lighting designer, a props manager, a stage manager, an assistant director, and a director. He recently worked at LIMSI (CNRS Laboratory) on topics related to Statistical Machine Translation during the completion of  a Masters at the Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 in Natural Language Processing. Their work has been presented by Danspace Project at St Marks Church, The Museum of Arts and Design, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Théâtre de Vanves, L’Atelier de Paris – Carolyn Carlson, Centre Pompidou Metz, Festival Actoral, Entre Cour et Jardins, and Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. It has received support from The Jerome Foundation, FUSED (French US Exchange in Dance), and DRAC Ile-de-France. A recent collaboration, Watch It, was awarded a 2013 New York Dance and Performance, Bessie, Award in the category of Outstanding Production for a work at the forefront of contemporary dance.

Born in Singapore, Cynthia Koppe is a New York-based dancer and performer. In addition to collaborating closely with Liz Santoro since 2010, Cynthia is also a member of Shen Wei Dance Arts.

Stephen Thompson is a performance artist, dancer, choreographer, researcher and pedagogue originally from Calgary, Alberta. His introduction to movement and perform­ing was through competitive figure skater where he competed at the 1998 Canadian Olympic Trials. He received a Bachelor of Kinesiology (art and science of movement) minor in Contemporary Dance from the University of Calgary. Stephen has worked as an interpreter, collaborator and co-choreographer with numerous companies and art­ists including Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Nicole Mion, Foundation Jean- Pierre Per­rault, Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Production LAPS (Martin Bélanger), Par B.L.eux (Benoit Lachambre), Lee Su-Feh, DANS.KIAS, Fabrice Lambert, Fabrice Ramalingom, Dick Wong, and Antonija Livingstone and Jennifer Lacey. Recent collaborations include participating in Un Gout Exquis, an inquiry into queer esthetics for the 2014 Montpel­lier Festival Danse with Fabrice Ramalingom, performing in Trajal Harrell’s 2012 Bessie award winning Twenty Looks or Paris is burning at the Judson Church, dancing with Fabrice Lambert in Solaire presented by Theatre De la Ville. He also collaborates with various visual artists including Xavier Veilhan, Kendell Geers and Laurent Goldring. Ste­phen received a Paula Citron award for the “best of 2011” for his Etude: Arms (gauche/droit).

Reid Bartelme began his professional life as a dancer.  He worked for Ballet companies throughout North America and Canada,  and later in his career worked for modern dance companies in New York including Shen Wei Dance Arts and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.  He has also performed in works by Jack Ferver, Liz Santoro, Burr Johnson, Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, Kyle Abraham and Ryan McNamara.  He went on to graduate from the fashion design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology and began working as a freelance costume designer.  Reid has designed costumes most notably for Christopher Wheeldon, Lar Lubovitch, Gwen Welliver,   Pontus Lidberg, Jack Ferver, Pam Tanowitz, Burr Johnson, Jillian Peña, Juliana May, Michelle Boulé, Joanna Kotze,  and Liz Santoro.  In collaboration with designer Harriet Jung, Reid has designed costumes for the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Justin Peck, Marcelo Gomes, Andrea Miller, Emery Lecrone and Mauro Bigonzetti.

Madeline Best (lighting design / technical direction), designs dances, lighting and video and is the production manager at The Chocolate Factory. Best graduated from Ben­nington College, grew up in Durham NC and currently lives in Long Island City, Queens. She has designed lights for Neal Medlyn, Heather Kravas, Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Keely Garfield, Milka Djordjevick, Aki Sasamoto, Beth Gill (Bessie award win­ning), RoseAnne Spradlin, Luciana Achugar’s PURO DESEO (Bessie award winning), and more. Performance experience includes work on The Chocolate Factory Theater’s Resident Projects Selective Memory and HotBox with Brian Rogers; multiple projects with Lauren Petty/Shaun Irons and with Choreographer Juliana May/MayDance.

Brendan Dougherty (sound) was born and studied in Philadelphia and has lived in Berlin since 2002 working as composer and performer of improvised, electronic and pop music. His work with theater and dance has led to collaborations with Jeremy Wade, An Kaler and Meg Stuart. As a composer and sound designer he has created music for multimedia installations, games and television. Dougherty is a founding member of Idiot Switch and Charrd. Other musical collaborators include his Kim 9 Cascene (KGB trio), Tony Buck (Project Transmit), Lukas Ligeti, Jochen Arbeit and Billy Bang. He has released albums on Utech Records, Scrapple Records, Aural Terrains and Shoebill music.

“…invites the gaze to indulge in detail…stimulates many parts of the mind: the part that wants to solve equations, crack codes, as much as the part that prefers not to have any answers”.
By Siobhan Burke, The New York Times, Published May 20, 2014

“…meticulously combines postmodern deconstructionism, raw emotion, and depth of meaning: a stupefying parabola in which the choreography releases, after nearly an hour of mechanical and extremely synchronized movement, a vision of liberated humanity, aspiring to represent what distinguishes it”.
By Etienne Leterrier-Grimal, Le Matricule des Anges, Published September 24, 2014

“…imposes a system both extremely written yet equally very open that allows a meaning that produces relationship, a meaning that has no end”.
By Charlotte Imbault, Mouvement, Published March 27, 2014