Moriah Evans. Movement Research @ Judson Church 6.11.12 .

choreography & performance by Moriah Evans & Sarah Beth Percival
costumes by Evelyn Donnelly

This project was made possible from the following: invitation from Association RA de MA ré and Theatre de l’Usine in Geneva, Switzerland; The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation and the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund; Dance New Amsterdam’s off-hours space residency program.

Moriah Evans’ (choreographer & performer) choreographic work has been presented at Danspace Project, DAP at the Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, AUNTS, BAX, DNA, THROW at The Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, CalIT2, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, and Theatre de l’Usine.  She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal and has been involved with the publication since 2009. During her 2011-2013 artist residency at Movement Research, she initiated The Bureau for the Future of Choreography which as been in residence at the New Museum as well as the James A. Farley Post Office. She has worked on projects with choreographers Sarah Michelson, Trajal Harrell, Boris Charmatz, Elie Hay, the Swedish choreographic collective INPEX and the artist Tino Sehgal. She was a danceWEBber (2009) at ImPulsTanz in Vienna. From 2007-2008, she was a Mary Elvira Stevens fellow during which time she traveled doing choreographic research for a year of residencies in Rio de Janeiro, Dakar, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Brussels. She is a 2014 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room.

Sarah Beth Percival (choreographer & performer) is originally from Ellicott City, Maryland. She received her B.F.A. in contemporary dance from North Carolina School of the Arts. Sarah was awarded a Semans Art Fund grant to study in France and Austria in 2004, and was a 2008 Impulstanz DanceWEB Europe scholarship recipient. She attended P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels and graduated from the first cycle in 2008. Since living in New York, Sarah has worked with choreographers Maria Hassabi, Heather Kravas, Milka Djordjevich, and Kota Yamazaki.  Moriah and Sarah met on a patch of grass in Brussels in 2008.

Evelyn Donnelly (costumes) is a multimedia artist who deals with play and the body. Her objects, videos, and performances have been featured at the Hammer Museum, LACE, Banff Center for the Arts, and Kling og Bang. In addition to her solo works, she collaborates as a member of The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, creating projects at The New Museum, and American Realness 2013. This summer her video installation, Magic Show will be on view at Eastern Edge Gallery in Newfoundland Canada. Residencies include: Banff Center for the Arts: Soiree Retreat, Anderson Ranch, and Vermont Studio Center. She holds a MFA from UCSD, and a BA from Bard College.

 

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House of Dance Teaser from Performance Space 122 on Vimeo.

Writer & Director Tina Satter
Composer & Sound Designer Chris Giarmo
Performers Jess Barbagallo, Jim Fletcher, Elizabeth DeMent, Paul Pontrelli
Set Designer Andreea Mincic
Lighting Designer Zack Tinkelman
Choreographer Hannah Heller
Costume Designer Enver Chakartash
Stage Manager Randi Rivera
Associate Producer Lindsay Hockaday

Tina Satter is a Brooklyn-based writer and director who makes plays, performances, videos, and music. She is Artistic Director of the theater company Half Straddle founded in 2008 and awarded an Obie grant in 2013. Her recent critically acclaimed show, House of Dance, about a transgender tap student, opened in October 2013 commissioned by Richard Maxwell’s New York City Players and named a New York Times Critics Pick. Her play, Seagull (Thinking of you), a feminist re-working of Chekhov’s Seagull, premiered at PS122’s 2013 COIL Festival following residencies at MASS MoCA, New Museum, and Abrons Art Center. It tours to France and Croatia in fall 2013 and spring 2014. Her play In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL was named a Top 10 Show of 2011 by PAPER Magazine, among other honors, and FAMILY was named a Top 10 show of 2009 by Time Out New York. Her work has been curated into seasons at The Kitchen, PS122, Incubator Arts Project, the Bushwick Starr, Prelude Festival, and Ice Factory Festival. Her play Away Uniform had its European premiere at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal in October 2013. Tina was named a “2011 Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch” by Time Out New York, was a 2013 Kitchen L.A.B. resident, and featured director at Culture Project’s 2011 Women Center Stage Festival. She has been a guest artist and teacher at Princeton University, Reed College, and Fordham University. Tina attended Mac Wellman’s graduate playwriting program at Brooklyn College and received a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Reed College. Upcoming commissions include The Kitchen (January 2015 premiere), Soho Rep, and a Wooster Group Performing Garage Artist Residency. Her first book of plays will be published by 53rd State Press in January 2014.

“Far more than your standard-issue play…, House of Dance uses dance to reflect and define the idiosyncrasy and all-too-human haplessness of those who perform it.” – The New York Times’ Critics Pick

Ishmael Houston-Jones and Emily Wexler: 13 Loves Songs dot dot dot from Marin Media Lab on Vimeo.

created and performed by Ishmael Houston-Jones & Emily Wexler
some text sections were originally part of For the Love of Dave Dick by Emily Wexler and Some Reasons Why Your Anus is not like Everest by Ishmael Houston-Jones

Ishmael Houston-Jones (choreographer/performer) is a Choreographer, Author, Performer, and Teacher.  His improvised dance and text work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. In 1984 Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie Award” for their Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders. In 2011 he won a “Bessie Award” for the reimagining of THEM, his 1986 collaboration with composer Chris Cochrane and author Dennis Cooper. THEM was ptrsented at AmReal 2011 and consequently toured to France, The Netherlands, Germany, and Los Angeles.

Emily Wexler (choreographer/performer) has worked as an artist based in Brooklyn since 2004. She has performed alongside many incredible artists including Rebecca Brooks, Kim Brandt, Karinne Keithley Syers, Yvonne Meier, Ryan McNamara, Jen McGinn, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Ann Liv Young. Her work has been seen in venues and settings throughout the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, she was honored with a Bessie nomination for her performance in Yvonne Meier’s “Mad Heidi “.  She is also working with Niall Jones on a performance movement called Raw Sugar which is interested with disturbing the already disturbed.  She holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University and teaches Dance History/Theory/Criticism and Performance Labs at The University of the Arts.

Natalie Robin (lighting design) is a NYC-based lighting designer of theater, opera, dance, music and performance art. She is the associate producer of American Realness; a founding company member of Polybe + Seats; and an Associate Artist of Target Margin Theater. She is also an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Undergraduate Drama. Natalie is the winner of the Apollo Lighting 2011 Standing O Award and was chosen as a 2008 Young Designer to Watch by Live Design Magazine.  Natalie is a contributing writer to Live Design Magazine and Stage Directions. Natalie also tours as a lighting supervisor and production manager, for artists including Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. BA: Columbia. MFA: NYU/Tisch  www.natalierobinlighting.com/

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Polly Pocket by Jillian Peña
created and performed by Alexandra Albrecht, Andrew Champlin, and Kyli Kleven
costumes by Reid Bartelme
lighting by Joe Levasseur

Jillian Peña is a dance and video artist primarily concerned with confusion and desire between self and other. Her work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, pop media, and spirituality. She has been presented internationally, including at The Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop and The Kitchen in New York, Akademie der Kunste Berlin, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, International Festival of Contemporary Art Slovenia, and the Tate Modern London. Jillian was a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar during which she was awarded an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a fellowship recipient, and a Practice-based MPhil in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has her BA in Dance and Feminist Art from Hollins University. Her video work is distributed by Video Data Bank. She is a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a 2009 DanceWeb Fellow at Impulstanz in Vienna, a 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Archauz in Århus, Denmark, a 2011 Artist-in-Residence at the National Dance Center of Bucharest, Romania, and a 2011-2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

Alexandra Albrecht (performer) currently and consistently collaborates with Jillian Peña, Hilary Easton and The Dance Cartel. She has had the pleasure of working with Natalie Green, Liz Glynn and Eunhee Lee, among others, since earning her BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She curated at The Tank from 2009-2012 and was a dancer for The Yard’s Bessie Schoenberg Choreographic Residency in 2007. She also works as a private chef and performs puppet shows for babies. Many thanks to The Baltimore School for the Arts for planting ballet roots in her body.

Andrew Champlin (performer) started dancing at the age of four in Portland, Oregon. He trained at the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre and the School of American Ballet before studying at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, where he earned a B.A. in performance theory and dance. Andrew has had the pleasure of working with so many incredible artists, including Pam Tanowitz, Christopher Williams, Chase Granoff, David Parker, Brynjar Åbel Bandlien, Michou Szabo, Christiana Axelson, Burr Johnson, Macklin Kowal, Todd Williams, David Gordon, Megan Kendzior and Miguel Gutierrez. Many thanks to Alex Albrecht for her encouragement, my parents for their endless love and support, and, of course, to my idol, Jillian Peña.

Kyli Kleven (performer) grew up in Alaska. She studied ballet at Anchorage Classical Ballet and The Virginia School of the Arts, and studied dance and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a DanceWEB scholar at Impulstanz Dance Festival in 2008, a Reuss Fellow in 2009, and winner of the Vannie L. Sheiry Award for Performance. She has danced in the work of Jennifer Allen, Deke Weaver, Jennifer Monson, Tere O’connor, Kirstie Simson, Milka Djorjevich, Moriah Evans, and Jen Rosenblit. Her collaborative work with Steve May, Caitlin Marz, and Tess Dworman has been seen at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson church, and at the Center for Performance Research. She will be performing in Tess Dworman’s next piece at New York Live Arts January 28-February 1st.

Reid Bartelme (costumes) 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, Burr Johnson, Jillian Peña, Juliana May, Michelle Boulé  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.

Joe Levasseur (lighting design) has collaborated with many dance and performance artists including: John Jasperse, Rose Anne Spradlin, Sarah Michelson, David Dorfman, Jodi Melnick, Beth Gill, Maria Hassabi, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lee Saar the Company, Anna Sperber, Megan Sprenger, and Christopher Williams. He has received two Bessie awards for his design work, including one with Big Dance Theater for Comme Toujours Here I Stand. In 2009 his Drop Clock installation was featured in the lobby of Dance Theater Workshop (New York Live Arts). In 2010 he showed a collection of original paintings at Performance Space 122. Ongoing projects include lighting work for Jennifer Monson, Wendy Whelan, and Palissimo.  www.joelevasseur.com

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choreography & performance by Michelle Boulé
sound design by Carmine Covelli in collaboration with Michelle Boulé, includes ‘Hazel’ by Junior Boys; ‘Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)’ by Chic; ‘Love Come Down’ by Evelyn Champagne
text & costumes by Michelle Boulé
lighting design by Natalie Robin
choreographic advisor Levi Gonzalez

Thank you to my family, Carmine, Natalie, Levi, and Ben Pryor and the whole Realness team.  Many thanks also to my Leadership Circle, Kickstarter donors, and all the inspiring art-makers and partakers who have made and continue to make this work possible.

Michelle Boulé (choreographer, performer) is a choreographer, performer, teacher and BodyTalk practitioner based in New York.  Her work has been shown at ISSUE Project Room (Emerging Artist Commission), Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Dance and Process at The Kitchen, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research Festival, and Food for Thought at Danspace Project.  She is currently continuing work on a trio that was recently shown at Movement Research at Judson Church and at ‘Come Together: Surviving Sandy’ at Industry City presented by Danspace Project.  Her collaborative duo with composer/cellist Okkyung Lee was featured in ISSUE Project Room’s 10^th Anniversary Season last fall and will be performed in 2014 in send + receive: a festival of sound in Winnipeg, Canada.  Boulé has been a choreographic assistant and performance coach for Deborah Hay solo adaptations, including an adaptation presented by El Auditorio in Tenerife, Spain.  Her work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants 2013 and Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant 2012. She is a 2012-14 NY Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and was a 2010 artist-in-residence at DanceHouse in Dublin, Ireland and at SKITE in Caen, France.  In 2002, she was a DanceWeb scholarship recipient at Impulstanz in Vienna.

As a performer, she has collaborated with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People since 2001, receiving a ‘Bessie’ for her performance as James Dean and collaboration in the creation of Last Meadow.  Other artists she has worked with include John Jasperse, John Scott, Deborah Hay, (William Forsythe commission If I Sing to You), David Wampach, Donna Uchizono, Neal Medlyn, Christine Elmo, Neal Beasley, Beth Gill, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Doug Varone (Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Opera Colorado), Gabriel Masson, and playwright/director Rosie Goldensohn.  She is part of the teaching faculty at The New School and at Movement Research in New York.  She has also been faculty at Hollins University and the University of Illinois, as well as a guest teacher at other dance institutions in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.  www.michelleboule.com

Carmine Covelli (sound design) is a performer, musician and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He is a frequent performance collaborator with Adrienne Truscott, depict him on his horse, they will use the highways, Genesis, no!, HA: A Solo and Neal Medlyn, In The Air Tonight, Her’s A Queen, Brave New Girl, Wicked Clown Love; and can be seen playing the drums for Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments once a month at Joe’s Pub. His band, The Julie Ruin, will be touring Australia, US and Europe in 2014, after releasing their first full-length album this past September [thejulieruin.com].

This is his first time working with the wonderful Michelle Boulé and the process was incredibly satisfying and fun. Vive la dance!

Levi Gonzalez (choreographic advisor) is a NYC based dance artist whose work has been presented locally and internationally since 2001. He was a 2010-12 BAX Artist in Residence, and received a NYFA Choreography Fellowship in 2006. He collaborates regularly with luciana achugar, and has performed in the works of Donna Uchizono, John Jasperse, Juliette Mapp, ChameckiLerner, Daria Faïn, and Michael Laub, among others. Levi was a founding editor of Critical Correspondence, an online publication of Movement Research. He currently serves as Artistic Advisor for New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks Residency program, and as Programming Advisor for Movement Research, where he also teaches regularly.

Natalie Robin (lighting design) is a NYC-based lighting designer of theater, opera, dance, music and performance art. She is the associate producer of American Realness; a founding company member of Polybe + Seats; and an Associate Artist of Target Margin Theater. She is also an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Undergraduate Drama. Natalie is the winner of the Apollo Lighting 2011 Standing O Award and was chosen as a 2008 Young Designer to Watch by Live Design Magazine.  Natalie is a contributing writer to Live Design Magazine and Stage Directions. Natalie also tours as a lighting supervisor and production manager, for artists including Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. BA: Columbia. MFA: NYU/Tisch  www.natalierobinlighting.com/

“When Ms. Boulé is onstage, it’s hard to take your eyes off of her…”
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times, Published May 23, 2013

“Ms. Boulé…is one of her generation’s many strong examples of the dancer as artist.”
Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times, Published November 23, 2012

“Michelle Boulé’s opening to Wonder–her solo, commissioned by Issue Project Room and premiered in the Gallim Dance Studio at Clinton Hill’s Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew–could be remembered as this dance season’s most stunning and certainly most courageous adventure.”
By Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody, Published May 31, 2013

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COMING SOON!

Michelle Boulé (choreographer, performer) is a choreographer, performer, teacher and BodyTalk practitioner based in New York.  Her work has been shown at ISSUE Project Room (Emerging Artist Commission), Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Dance and Process at The Kitchen, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research Festival, and Food for Thought at Danspace Project.  She is currently continuing work on a trio that was recently shown at Movement Research at Judson Church and at ‘Come Together: Surviving Sandy’ at Industry City presented by Danspace Project.  Her collaborative duo with composer/cellist Okkyung Lee was featured in ISSUE Project Room’s 10^th Anniversary Season last fall and will be performed in 2014 in send + receive: a festival of sound in Winnipeg, Canada.  Boulé has been a choreographic assistant and performance coach for Deborah Hay solo adaptations, including an adaptation presented by El Auditorio in Tenerife, Spain.  Her work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants 2013 and Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant 2012. She is a 2012-14 NY Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and was a 2010 artist-in-residence at DanceHouse in Dublin, Ireland and at SKITE in Caen, France.  In 2002, she was a DanceWeb scholarship recipient at Impulstanz in Vienna.

As a performer, she has collaborated with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People since 2001, receiving a ‘Bessie’ for her performance as James Dean and collaboration in the creation of Last Meadow.  Other artists she has worked with include John Jasperse, John Scott, Deborah Hay, (William Forsythe commission If I Sing to You), David Wampach, Donna Uchizono, Neal Medlyn, Christine Elmo, Neal Beasley, Beth Gill, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Doug Varone (Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Opera Colorado), Gabriel Masson, and playwright/director Rosie Goldensohn.  She is part of the teaching faculty at The New School and at Movement Research in New York.  She has also been faculty at Hollins University and the University of Illinois, as well as a guest teacher at other dance institutions in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.  www.michelleboule.com

Carmine Covelli (sound design) is a performer, musician and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He is a frequent performance collaborator with Adrienne Truscott, depict him on his horse, they will use the highways, Genesis, no!, HA: A Solo and Neal Medlyn, In The Air Tonight, Her’s A Queen, Brave New Girl, Wicked Clown Love; and can be seen playing the drums for Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments once a month at Joe’s Pub. His band, The Julie Ruin, will be touring Australia, US and Europe in 2014, after releasing their first full-length album this past September [thejulieruin.com].

This is his first time working with the wonderful Michelle Boulé and the process was incredibly satisfying and fun. Vive la dance!

Levi Gonzalez (choreographic advisor) is a NYC based dance artist whose work has been presented locally and internationally since 2001. He was a 2010-12 BAX Artist in Residence, and received a NYFA Choreography Fellowship in 2006. He collaborates regularly with luciana achugar, and has performed in the works of Donna Uchizono, John Jasperse, Juliette Mapp, ChameckiLerner, Daria Faïn, and Michael Laub, among others. Levi was a founding editor of Critical Correspondence, an online publication of Movement Research. He currently serves as Artistic Advisor for New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks Residency program, and as Programming Advisor for Movement Research, where he also teaches regularly.

Natalie Robin (lighting design) is a NYC-based lighting designer of theater, opera, dance, music and performance art. She is the associate producer of American Realness; a founding company member of Polybe + Seats; and an Associate Artist of Target Margin Theater. She is also an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Undergraduate Drama. Natalie is the winner of the Apollo Lighting 2011 Standing O Award and was chosen as a 2008 Young Designer to Watch by Live Design Magazine.  Natalie is a contributing writer to Live Design Magazine and Stage Directions. Natalie also tours as a lighting supervisor and production manager, for artists including Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. BA: Columbia. MFA: NYU/Tisch  www.natalierobinlighting.com/

“When Ms. Boulé is onstage, it’s hard to take your eyes off of her…”
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times, Published May 23, 2013

“Ms. Boulé…is one of her generation’s many strong examples of the dancer as artist.”
Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times, Published November 23, 2012

“Michelle Boulé’s opening to Wonder–her solo, commissioned by Issue Project Room and premiered in the Gallim Dance Studio at Clinton Hill’s Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew–could be remembered as this dance season’s most stunning and certainly most courageous adventure.”
By Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody, Published May 31, 2013

COMING SOON!

Neal Medlyn (creator & performer) is a performance artist best known for his series of pop star-inspired performance pieces, presented in New York and on tour throughout the U.S. and Europe. Previous works in the series are Neal Medlyn’s Lionel Richie Opera (the Apocalypse Lounge), Coming in the Air Tonight (Galapagos Art Space), Unpronounceable Symbol (PS 122), …Her’s a Queen (Dance Theater Workshop), Brave New Girl (The Chocolate Factory) and Wicked Clown Love (The Kitchen). Along with the above venues, Medlyn’s work has been seen at the New Museum for Contemporary Art (The Neal Medlyn Experience Live, a faithful reenactment of a Beyoncè concert DVD), the Andy Warhol Museum, Joe’s Pub, the TBA Festival, the Fusebox Festival and Duckie (UK). He has collaborated with a wide range of other artists, including Karen Finley (George & Martha) and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys (Neal & Bridget Are F**king and Adam is Watching at Le Poisson Rouge), Kathleen Hanna and others. He was a co-creator and co-host of Our Hit Parade, the popular monthly show at Joe’s Pub, which was named among the top cabaret shows in New York for three years. He was active in the dance community as a dancer and a Bessie Award-winning sound designer, working with artists Miguel Gutierrez, Adrienne Truscott and David Neumann, among others, and as a co-curator of and performer in WHY WON’T YOU LET ME BE GREAT an evening of dance works built around Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak album. He is also in the process of becoming a rapper named Champagne Jerry and his shows as Champagne Jerry have played at BAM and Joe’s Pub. He is also releasing music once a month via his website, www.champagnejerry.com.

Fawn Krieger (sculptor) is a NY-based sculptress, whose multi-genre works are informed by and shaped from collaboration, movement practices, anti-materialism, primal memory, utopian excavations, and embodiment.  Her sets and sculptures have been supported by, among others, Art in General, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Soloway Gallery, and The Kitchen. www.fawnkrieger.com

Michelle Boulé (choreographer, performer) is a choreographer, performer, teacher and BodyTalk practitioner based in New York.  Her work has been shown at ISSUE Project Room (Emerging Artist Commission), Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Dance and Process at The Kitchen, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research Festival, and Food for Thought at Danspace Project.  She is currently continuing work on a trio that was recently shown at Movement Research at Judson Church and at ‘Come Together: Surviving Sandy’ at Industry City presented by Danspace Project.  Her collaborative duo with composer/cellist Okkyung Lee was featured in ISSUE Project Room’s 10^th Anniversary Season last fall and will be performed in 2014 in send + receive: a festival of sound in Winnipeg, Canada.  Boulé has been a choreographic assistant and performance coach for Deborah Hay solo adaptations, including an adaptation presented by El Auditorio in Tenerife, Spain.  Her work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants 2013 and Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant 2012. She is a 2012-14 NY Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and was a 2010 artist-in-residence at DanceHouse in Dublin, Ireland and at SKITE in Caen, France.  In 2002, she was a DanceWeb scholarship recipient at Impulstanz in Vienna.

As a performer, she has collaborated with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People since 2001, receiving a ‘Bessie’ for her performance as James Dean and collaboration in the creation of Last Meadow.  Other artists she has worked with include John Jasperse, John Scott, Deborah Hay, (William Forsythe commission If I Sing to You), David Wampach, Donna Uchizono, Neal Medlyn, Christine Elmo, Neal Beasley, Beth Gill, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Doug Varone (Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Opera Colorado), Gabriel Masson, and playwright/director Rosie Goldensohn.  She is part of the teaching faculty at The New School and at Movement Research in New York.  She has also been faculty at Hollins University and the University of Illinois, as well as a guest teacher at other dance institutions in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.  www.michelleboule.com

Carmine Covelli (sound design) is a performer, musician and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He is a frequent performance collaborator with Adrienne Truscott, depict him on his horse, they will use the highways, Genesis, no!, HA: A Solo and Neal Medlyn, In The Air Tonight, Her’s A Queen, Brave New Girl, Wicked Clown Love; and can be seen playing the drums for Bridget Everett and The Tender Moments once a month at Joe’s Pub. His band, The Julie Ruin, will be touring Australia, US and Europe in 2014, after releasing their first full-length album this past September [thejulieruin.com].

This is his first time working with the wonderful Michelle Boulé and the process was incredibly satisfying and fun. Vive la dance!

Levi Gonzalez (choreographic advisor) is a NYC based dance artist whose work has been presented locally and internationally since 2001. He was a 2010-12 BAX Artist in Residence, and received a NYFA Choreography Fellowship in 2006. He collaborates regularly with luciana achugar, and has performed in the works of Donna Uchizono, John Jasperse, Juliette Mapp, ChameckiLerner, Daria Faïn, and Michael Laub, among others. Levi was a founding editor of Critical Correspondence, an online publication of Movement Research. He currently serves as Artistic Advisor for New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks Residency program, and as Programming Advisor for Movement Research, where he also teaches regularly.

Natalie Robin (lighting design) is a NYC-based lighting designer of theater, opera, dance, music and performance art. She is the associate producer of American Realness; a founding company member of Polybe + Seats; and an Associate Artist of Target Margin Theater. She is also an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Undergraduate Drama. Natalie is the winner of the Apollo Lighting 2011 Standing O Award and was chosen as a 2008 Young Designer to Watch by Live Design Magazine.  Natalie is a contributing writer to Live Design Magazine and Stage Directions. Natalie also tours as a lighting supervisor and production manager, for artists including Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. BA: Columbia. MFA: NYU/Tisch  www.natalierobinlighting.com/

“When Ms. Boulé is onstage, it’s hard to take your eyes off of her…”
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times, Published May 23, 2013

“Ms. Boulé…is one of her generation’s many strong examples of the dancer as artist.”
Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times, Published November 23, 2012

“Michelle Boulé’s opening to Wonder–her solo, commissioned by Issue Project Room and premiered in the Gallim Dance Studio at Clinton Hill’s Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew–could be remembered as this dance season’s most stunning and certainly most courageous adventure.”
By Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody, Published May 31, 2013

COMING SOON!