6th Annual
Wave Rising Series

Danielle Russo Dance Company (Brooklyn, NY)

a world where alarm clocks ring in the morning

a world where alarm clocks ring in the morning is a new work tackling the body split of being in time versus being on time. It is a physical deliberation of muscle memory versus photographic memory, repetition versus rendition, duration versus distortion, endurance versus exhaustion. We will confront the extremities of our bodies' capacities and push aside the blinders strapped to the mind's eye. Choreographer Danielle Russo has been presented throughout New York City by organizations and venues such as the American Dance Guild, Chez Buschwick, Dance Conversations @ The Flea, Dance New Amsterdam, dancenOw/NYC RAW, DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, Green Space, HERE Arts Center, H.T. Chen Dance Center, The Tank, Triskelion Arts Center, Williamsburg Art nexus, and elsewhere at the American Dance Festival (MFA Thesis Concert; Durham, North Carolina), C.N.N. -Ballet de Lorraine (Nancy, France), Danscentrum Jette (Brussels, Belgium), The Yard (Martha's Vineyard) and WUK's Im_flieger (Vienna, Austria). Russo was a participating choreographer in the Bessie Schoenberg Alumni Workshop at New York University and an Artist in Residence at dancenOw/NYC Silo 2008-2009. She is recipient of a BFA in Dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Dance from Hollins University/American Dance Festival where she attended on fellowship. (www.daniellerussodancecompany.com)

Rachel Erdos (Tel Aviv, Israel)

why we tell

Rachel grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She obtained a first class Honours degree in dance and then a Masters degree specializing in choreography from The Laban Centre, London. Since 2002 she has been working as an independent choreographer based mostly in Tel Aviv, Israel. Rachel has been invited to show her work around the world including Denmark, Slovakia, England and The U.S.  Rachel won first prize in the AICC International choreography competition in Aarhus, Denmark in 2008 and in 2009 won City Dance Ensemble's commissioning project, Washington DC. Her work has been shown in some of the most prestigious venues including The Kennedy Centre, Washington and the Royal Opera House London.
'why we tell'  was created when Rachel was artists in residence in Cork, Ireland in 2010. She also participated in an important residency project in Johannesburg, South Africa.

why we tell began as an investigation of Christopher Booker's opus 'The Seven Basic Plots, why we tell stories'. Booker hypothesizes that there exist seven essential story-lines from which all films, books, poems and tales are derived.   During our journey through the seven themes, a new story emerged, that of an intimate relationship between a man and a woman.

Nellie Rainwater/Rainwater Dances (Brooklyn, NY)

You've been misled, love

Rainwater Dances is a contemporary modern dance company based in Brooklyn, NY. Founded by Nellie Rainwater in 2010, the choreography often unearths the complexities of human connection with moments of transformation, peculiarity, or whimsy; qualities the dancers embody with rich physicality and nuanced energy.  Recent performance venues include Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, CPR-Center for Performance Research, WestFest Dance Festival at the Cunningham Theater, Take Root at Green Space, DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, COOL NEW YORK DANCE FESTIVAL, Triskelion Arts, and a self-produced show at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Nellie Rainwater holds a B.A. in Dance and English from St. Olaf College and an M.F.A. in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. Inspired by the choreographer's month-long visit to Wales 10 years ago during a coming-of-age moment, You've been misled, love explores fantasy, humor, folklore, and nostalgia. The dancers delve into memories of a time past and create a new movement language that combines past & present.

Claudia Anata Hubiak/The Anata Project (New York, NY)

Waltz With Me Ruby

Claudia Anata Hubiak spent her young life as a competitive gymnast in Boulder, Colorado where she was a two-time Colorado State Champion in 1995 and 1996. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of California at Santa Barbara where she studied under Christopher Pilafian, Nancy Colahan and Jerry Pearson. Upon graduation Claudia relocated to San Francisco where she co-founded Vispo Dance, a collective of six Santa Barbara graduates committed to creating visually evocative and athletic movement in The Bay Area. While in San Francisco she also performed with ABD Productions and Dance Ceres. Claudia holds an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU where she performed works by Kay Cummings, Gus Solomons Jr., Patricia Hoffbauer and Trisha Brown (Floor of the Forest presented at The Whitney Museum in 2010). Claudia's work has been presented at The Cowell Theater, Theater Artaud and Dance Mission Theater (SF). This summer you can find her work at LaMama's Ellen Stewart Theater, Joe's Pub, The DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL and The WAVE RISING SERIES at WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTiOVpS4HHA

Leonora Lee Dance (San Francisco, CA)

Reflections

The mission of Lenora Lee Dance is to give artistic voice to the experiences of Asian Americans through interdisciplinary dance theater works.

Lenora Lee (artistic director, choreographer, dancer) is a native San Franciscan and has been creating and performing work since 1998.  For the last 13 years she has been an integral part of the San Francisco and New York Asian American contemporary dance and creative music communities.  She has directed, choreographed, and produced her own works performing nationally and internationally.  www.LenoraLeeDance.com
Lenora's projects have been sponsored by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC), Mulberry Street Theater's Ear to the Ground commissioning with generous support from the Jerome Foundation, CounterPULSE Artist Residency Commissioning Program, Lighting Artist in Dance Award, a program of Dancers' Group, CA$H, a grants program administered by Theatre Bay Area in partnership with Dancers' Group, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Performing Arts Assistance Program, Asian Improv aRts, Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and by Generous Individuals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMswthBctew

Tomomi Imai

Salome

Tomomi Imai began choreographing with Dance Troupe Sho in Japan under the
directorship of Sho Endo, an actor and lighting designer, whose approach was to highlight
every element. This is evident in Ms Imai's careful choice and expressive use of everything she brings to the stage.Ms Imai started Tomomi Imai and Dancers and joined the Sun Arts project. Her compositions, such as "Portrait", "Snow Seen", "Sunshine Shower" with its disturbing theme of fatal enchantment, and a dance inspired by Kenji Miyazawa's poignant poem "Eiketsuno Asa", were performed in distinguished venues and won prizes. In 2001 Ms. Imai moved to New York. In 2004 she worked with pianist Bob Sardo for her own composition, "Transformation", which opened a door to another dimension. "Night Tide", "Medusa" with a long length of rope, the celebrated "Medusa II" with a penlight, and "Abyss" followed. Salome, as the closest interpretation of Wilde's play, movingly staged in the wordless medium of dance, rendering it in a fluid yet well articulated series of carefully composed movements...stripped of all references to the play's incidents and focused entirely on the internal drama of Salome's passion.

Patricia Noworol Dance PND (New York, NY)

PND new work

Since its conception in 2008, PND has presented works in numerous New York City venues including Manhattan Movement Arts Center, Ailey Citigroup Theatre, Duo Theater, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the HATCH, FAR Space, Atlas Theater, Dance Now Festival, American Dance Guild Festival, the Gala Benefit & Festival Performances at Dumbo Dance Festival, La MaMa Moves Dance Festival and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters 2010. In May 2008, the company presented Delirium, its first evening length production that was met with critical and audience acclaim. In 2009, PND received funding from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs to produce their second evening length production, Circuits; premiering August 23, 2009 in the New York International Fringe Festival. Moreover, Noworol won Excellence Award for the Outstanding Choreography for Circuits, out of over 200 shows.  In the 2009-10 seasons the company has been represented by Pentacle; NYC Agency for the performing Arts as well as residence throughout the year at the Bessie Alumni Workshop in Manhattan.PND has garnered extraordinary international media attention - from being featured on European TV to radio interviews and glowing press in Europe and the USA. In 2010 the company was invited from the RUHR 2010.European Capital of Culture to perform "Circuits"in significant theaters in Germany that ware met with excellent critical and audience acclaim.
For more information please visit www.PNDance.com

Jennifer Archibald/Arch Dance Company

The Uncomfortable Truth

Artistic Director of Arch Dance Company, graduated from the Alvin Ailey School and Maggie Flannigan School of Meisner Technique. ADC has performed at John F Kennedy Center, Aaron Davis Hall, The Duke on 42nd Street, Miami's Colony Theater, MTV, Judson Memorial Church, Jacob's Pillow and The Phillip's Center. She has choreographed for the NBA New York Knick's, Ailey School, and worked with Shaggy and Audrey Tautou as a movement specialist. Jennifer teaches at Dance New Amsterdam, Bates Dance Festival and Florida Dance Festival and has taught in France, Mexico, Sweden, Russia, Ecuador, Slovenia, and China. Her artist residencies include USF, University of Illinois, Goucher College, Bates College, Virginia Commonwealth and CAP 21 at NYU. She is a recipient of the "Talk of The Arts" award from the University of South Florida.
The Uncomfortable Truth was made possible by a National Performance Network Grant. The Uncomfortable truth aims to inspire women with the courage to break free from the chains of limiting belief patterns and societal or religious conditioning that have traditionally kept women suppressed and unable to see their true beauty and power. www.jenniferarchibald.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwjRADH7a0A

Allison Jones

HYPOMANIAC!

Allison Jones, an L.A. native, is a freelance contemporary dancer and choreographer based in New York City. Allison received her B.F.A. in Dance Cum Laude from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY in 2008. She has worked with many notable cutting-edge contemporary choreographers including Andrea Miller, Barak Marshall, Lauri Stallings and Loni Landon, and has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, BODYTRAFFIC Dance Company (L.A.) and Yin Yue Dance Company. Allison is currently dancing in The Met's production of Don Giovanni.

As a choreographer, Allison has presented her work at the Shanghai Expo in China, Symphony Space, DTW, Ailey Citigroup Theater, DUMBO Dance Festival, WestFest Dance Festival and others. Her unique, quirky style of movement focuses on creating unconventional movement pathways for the body, resulting in choreography that is simultaneously nuanced, strange, uninhibited and raw, with explosive power and a touch of delicateness. Allison Jones Dance is a pickup group of talented movers and shakers who have a statement to make with their bodies in space and are not afraid of being heard!

HYPOMANIAC!, created for the 2011 WAVE RISING SERIES, is an abstract, stark and yet deeply personal examination of mania and its various states of manifestation in the human mind; how it affects relationships; and what happens when not managed efficiently. The dynamic cast of five will pull you in and take you for a ride through the barely-navigable pathways of the subconscious psyche.

Johannes Weiland

newyou

Johannes Wieland received his early dance training under Ellys Gregor in Berlin, the ballet academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, with John Neumeier at the Hamburg State Opera and the Amsterdam School of the Arts where he earned his BFA. His dance career took him back to Germany, the State Theatre of Brunswick, Germany, followed by the Berlin State Opera. Here he worked with numerous guest choreographers, among them Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart. He then joined the Béjart Ballet Lausanne as a principle dancer and also toured extensively with the company. Ready for a radical change, Wieland next moved to New York City, where he was awarded a scholarship to the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, earning his MFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography in 2002. His company, johannes wieland, was founded that same year and debuted with his original work tomorrow at the Joyce SoHo theater. Praised as 'a spectacular exploration of relationships', by Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times, this was one in the body of the startlingly powerful, terse strange pieces Wieland began creating for his company, prompting Dance Magazine to cite him as one of the 25 to Watch, 2003. 
In addition to heading his own company, Wieland is artistic director and choreographer of the resident dance company of the State Theater of Kassel in Germany. He was also associate artistic director of Paradigm in New York and is a guest choreographer and teacher in schools and companies in Europe and North America. He is a permanent resident of the United States and divides his time between New York and Germany.

Yin Yue (New York, NY)

Shadow Journal

Yin Yue was born in Shanghai, China. She studied Chinese classical dance and Chinese ethnic dance at Shanghai Dance School from 1995 to 2001 and contemporary modern dance in Shanghai Normal University from 2001 to 2005. Yin has appeared in Festivals throughout China and was ranked in the 2005 top ten dancers in the National Contemporary Dance Competition, held in Yunnan. In 2008, Yin Yue graduated from New York University, Tisch School of The Arts with MFA in dance. Yin Yue performed for Doug Elkins & Friends, Ivy Baldwin, Curt Haworth, Christopher Williams, Debroah Jowitt,, Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, BARKIN/SELISSEN PROJECT, Malcolm Low Formal Structure and Urban Dance Collective.Yin Yue was a finalist and grant recipient in The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: New York City, which was presented by The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.Yin has performed and presented works in Joyce SoHo Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, American Dance Guild, Dancenow[NYC] Fesvial at DTW, Food For Thoughts at St. Marks Church, DUMBO DANCE Festival, Cool New York Festival, La MaMa Moves New York International, FAB festival at DMAC-DUO Theater.
Shadow Journal is a work that explores the search for (and sometimes fear of) connection, exposing the human struggle of being internal versus external. The piece features grounded, dynamic movement that teeters on the edge of composure and wildness.

Nicole Smith/project:Smith

murmured & Pretty polly

project:Smith, circa 2009,  interfaces the complexities of the dancers' sensitive physicality with their hearts' emotional instabilities in murmured. Commenting on the social networking epidemic, Pandora's faceBox, touches on the parallelism of female archetypal tragedies with the subconscious messaging in our net-existence. Both were sponsored by the American Music Center's 2011 Live Music for Dance Grant, made possible by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
Nicole Smith, artistic director of project:Smith moves deeply into the pyscho-physical landscapes of her dances and stands on the edges of reality with each of her dancers in a collaborative process. They have inspired reviews such as "a dark-haired beauty... with a resilience that helps viewers feel the movement within themselves... fascinating" -Star Ledger, "incredible texture and depth" -Art for Sanity; "strongest presentation of the evening... story, gesture, humor, and strong partnership" -Edinburgh Spotlight; "seamless and immersive... an impressive collaboration and a beautiful thing" -offoffoff.com 

http://www.youtube.com/nicolesmithdance#p/a/f/0/tMZUwdjK5Zs

DA DA DANCE PROJECT (Philadelphia, PA)

Prey and Predator & Q & A

A duet repertory company inspired by the Dada movement, Da Da Dance Project was founded by Eun Jung Choi and Guillermo Ortega Tanus in New York City. In the SPIRIT of Dadaism, we challenge conventional notions of art making with travesty, absurdity, and physical authenticity; we constantly question aesthetic ideals. Drawing from a wealth of experiences in theater, music, poetry, multi-media, visual/commercial art, various dance styles from "traditional" to "cutting- edge" to "street dance" to "improvisation", we continuously seek to deliver a uniquely expressive vocabulary that communicates to people and reveals our eccentricity. The themes that we like to explore frequently include aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behavior and intelligence, with a curious mixture of the comic and tragic. Using the diverse cultural and ethnic composition of our group, we seek to promote education, social awareness of current global interests and issues, and diversity through the expression of art.

Amos Pinhasi (New York, NY)

Mediterraneo

Amos Pinhasi was born in Israel where he performed and choreographed for Tamar Jerusalem Dance Company. In new York he has presented his own work since 1985 and has been produced by DTW, DIA, Joyce Soho, Dancenow,The 40Up Project and Danspace Project.He Has toured his solo work in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Israel. He teaches dance improvisation and Yoga internationally.

Daniela Hoff Dance Company (Brooklyn, NY)

Shadowlands

Founded in 2005 the brooklyn based Daniela Hoff Dance Company has presented work at different venues including DancenOw/NYC, Flea Theater, Solar One, Triskelion Arts, Newsteps, RAW Material at DNA, APAP, Mulberry Street Theater, 92nd Street Y, Clark Studio Theater/ Lincoln Center, Joyce Soho, DTW and others.

The company has been on numerous residencies supported by Dancenow/NYC/Silo, has received a space grant at Triskelion Arts and has been featured on public TV several times.

Daniela Hoff Dance Company creates work, that is inspired by emotional drive, inner conflicts, as well as by the physical extreme. It invents and explores raw, elemental movements, minimal, organic and awkward, and finds the beauty and necessity in it.

Inspired by a visit in the Holocaust Museum in Berlin, Daniela Hoff explores in the "Shadowlands" different layers of fear.

What is fear?

What are we afraid of?

Why?

Please check www.danielahoff.com.

Joanna Rosenthal/Same Planet Different World Dance Theater (Chicago, IL)

It is What it IS

Same Planet Different World Dance Theater (SPDW) was founded in 1997 in what began as a one-weekend showcase among friends at Links Hall. Over the last 13 years, SPDW has grown into a strong professional presence in the Chicago dance community and has built a reputation for work that is evocative, entertaining and engaging. SPDW has received critical acclaim for its varied repertory and powerful performers.  SPDW presents the choreography of artists from across the country, both seasoned veterans as well as up-and-coming innovators, with styles that range from classical to post-modern dance. The diverse spectrum of work can range from humorous satire to high-octane virtuosity, but never ceases to delight audiences with performances that are dynamic and inspiring. 

The company self-produces two shows a year and participates in festivals throughout the Chicago area and beyond. SPDW has performed in Indiana, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Minnesota.  SPDW was listed as one of the best dance performances of 2008 by New City Chicago and was featured In HMS's Chicago Dance Project, which aired on Chicago PBS, Channel 11 in 2005.  

Among its other activities beyond festivals and self-produced shows, SPDW is responsible for the Guest Artist Project, a program which commissions new choreographic work. SPDW also conducts a  High School Performance Series, open company classes for the professional dance community and performs for Urban Gateways.

YJK Dance Project (Seoul, Korea)

Meetingyou

After completing her Graduate studies at Ewha Women's University, Yun Jung Kim received her degree from the Arheim Art School in Dance Choreography. Yun Jung Kim has had various experiences with world class choreographers and dance companies, and after founding the YJK Dance Project in 2000 she was selected for the Young Choreographer Foreign Scholarship by kunststiftung NRW and received training in the Suzuki method and Viewpoints at Skidmore College in New York. She has been invited to present her choreography at various festivals around the world and has received reviews from critics for her unique narratives and characters. Moreover, she is a choreographer that freely employs gestures, expressions, sounds and dramatic movements. Leinenlos, a collaborative Danz Hus project between Arts Council Korea and the provincial government of Germany, received the Art Award in 2006. Seoul Arts Center and Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) selection Beckett's Room received the Dance Art Award in 2007. Yun Jung Kim's dynamic choreography works, which break up the various genres and combine them into a dance of new language, include Woolf and Moonwalk, created in collaboration with SPAF, and continues forth with this year's new production The Last Wall. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZFmucYOGU

Mana Kawamura/Kawamura the 3rd (Brooklyn, NY)

Pandora

Kawamura the 3rd is a New York based modern dance company established in 2008 by choreographer Mana Kawamura. The company has been performing in many venues and festivals including DanceNow[NYC]Festival, Performance Mix Festival, NewSteps,  The chocolate factory, Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, and 92nd Y among others. Recent commission includes Dance New Amsterdam (2011 February), and STREB( 2011 March).

I created "Pandora" during my residency at Dance New Amsterdam.This piece is inspired by the famous myth "Pandora's Box. "Some have told me it shows my training in Germany, and takes  atanztheater approach to the myth about the dangers of curiosity.

"Pandora" was created, in part, during a 2010-2011 A.I.R. Residency at Dance New Amsterdam(DNA), which included free rehearsal space, production, and marketing support

Yannis Adoniou/KUNST-STOFF

The moment you stood still...#5

Born in Athens Greece, Yannis Adoniou, a Goldie Award winning dancer is the founder and the Artistic director of the critically acclaimed San Francisco based dance company, KUNST-STOFF. A renowned choreographer and a master teacher he choreographs and conducts classes/workshops across the United States and Europe. In 2010 Adoniou founded KUNST-STOFF arts a studio/art space located in down town San Francisco that is designed to host performing and visual artists from around the globe. www.kunst-stoff.org

KINEMATIK DANCE THEATER (Long Island City, NY)

Perfect Prototype

Founded by artistic director Svea Schneider in 2010, KINEMATIK DANCE THEATER provides visually stimulating and provocative choreography that pushes the boundaries of traditional representations of urban and contemporary dance. KINEMATIK fuses elements of urban vernacular dance such as Hip Hop, House, Breaking and Vogue with contemporary modern dance. Through a synthesis of artistic elements such as movement, visual imagery and the unusual use of props, dance artistry merges with entertainment. KINEMATIK reconstructs the conventional, addressing common social stereotypes to engage its audience to rethink existing notions about urban and popular culture. Our company aims to vitalize the concert dance world with a fresh new perspective on the conceptual street dance movement. KINEMATIK's choreography "System Malfunction" was selected as a TOP 10 Finalist in the international choreography contest "Global Dance Contest" by the renowned Sadlers Well's Theater in London. KINEMATIK has performed at the "New York Jazz Choreography Project (NYC), Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theatre (NYC), WestFest Dance Festival. Performance Project @ University Settlement (NYC), Highline Ballroom (NYC), Merce Cunningham Studio (NYC), Jerry Leibovitz Theater for the Performing Arts (NYC), Danspace at the St. Marks Church (NYC), Manhattan Movement Arts Center (NYC), Hudson Guild Theater (NYC), B.B. Kings (NYC), Choreographers Canvas (NYC) and Carnival Choreographers Ball (NYC).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBfvFrsT9tU

Chang Yoo Kyung Dance Company (Daegu, Korea)

2011 Stop & Breath

Yoo-Kyung Chang, born in Daegu, Korea, graduated from Kyungbook women's highschool and majored in Dance at Kyunghee University (B.A,M.A,Ph.D) She has been doing her research under the guidance of Prof. Myung-Hwa Kwon and Baek-Bong Kim. She was awarded "The Performance of Award" at the 16th Seoul Dance Festival for "Soo Ro Ga" in 1994, the Grand Prize at the third Daegu Dance Festival in 1993, and the 8th Kum Bok Cultural Foundation in 1992. In 2010, she was awarded the Korea Grand Prize for dance at Dance Association of Korea. She is currently a professor of Dance at the department of Music & Performing Arts at Keimyung University and registered as a human cultural asset of Salpoori dance. Her major works are drum dance, Nongae (a Korean Keisang with lofty ideals), Chung Hae Jae (a dance extolling Bo-go Jang, a historical sea explorer and merchant during the Shilla dynasty in Korean history), Sol(Pine tree), Wind, for Dance that Links Mt. Baekdoo to Mt. Halla, Sooroga (a dance dedicated to a noble ancient lady named Soo Ro), and Daybreak (standind in the wilderness). She has also performed abroad in Spain, Denmark, USA, Japan, Nepal, Mexico, China, Portugal Germany, and Kazakhstan.

DOUBLE VISION/Pauline Jennings (Stowe, VT)

Duplexity & Hysteretic Trio

DOUBLE VISION creates experimental performances for dance, music, and video that embody the changing landscape of contemporary culture. Led by Sean Clute and Pauline Jennings, DOUBLE VISION has presented work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, and the Merce Cunningham Studio. Internationally, DOUBLE VISION has performed at the Museumsquartier Wien (Vienna), Institut Intermédií (Prague), and CST Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (Zurich). This summer, the company is embarking upon a 6-week European tour that includes performances at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (Greece), ProARTS International Choreography Festival (Brno), Moving House Foundation / Florian Workshop (Budapest), and OZU (Italy). DOUBLE VISION is proud to be presenting two works in the 2011 Wave Rising Series. Duplexity is a solo inspired by the idea that single message may be sent simultaneously in two directions. The piece divides, subdivides and redivides the dancer's focus between multiple physical, mental and psychological units that operate independently of one another. Hysteretic Trio evokes an abstract dreamscape rich in complex shapes, relationships and points of meditation. Fleeting patterns dissolve into autonomous polyrhythms and intersecting lines as three dancers leap, twist, strike and resist rest.

Caterina Ogar Dance Company (New York, NY)

Luce/Eternal Return & Red Earth

Caterina Ogar Dance Company was born in 2006 even before the Italian dancer and choreographer Caterina Ogar officially founded it in the year 2009. From the southern region of Calabria in Italy, Caterina felt the desire to express her artistic voice. During her professional training at the Martha Graham School, between rehearsals and performances with The Martha Graham Dance Company, Caterina would choreograph for herself and present her work in student performances, the Graham II NY Season in 2008 and other venues. After 3 years of hard work she created an ensemble of 11 dancers, a singer and a violin virtuoso. The members of CODC hail from different countries and have diverse artistic backgrounds. The company's choreographic themes range from spiritual and religious issues to more abstract and autobiographical matters. Each one is very different from the other, but they carry the same leitmotiv: "Give life to my imagination through passion in movement and love for dance". The performances at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center on July 11th and 12th, 2010 represented the Caterina Ogar Dance Company's official debut season. .

Lyndsey Vader/Treeline Dance Works

Unearthed Moments

Treeline Dance Works is a New York City and Chicago based modern dance performance co-op under the direction of choreographers Jenny Showalter and Lyndsey Vader. It is the mission of TreelineDW to honor the creative voices and artistic input of its multiple collaborators through joint investment in movement research. With an emphasis on an open feedback forum, this collaborative entity entangles juxtapositions in movement, intermingling the quirky with the athletic, the subtle with the explosive, and the personal with the universal. TreelineDW creates kinetically charged works that are rooted in the wellspring of deeply intimate memories, thoughts and encounters.

Unearthed Moments is a chronicle of World War II stories scribed in the personal memoir and verbal recollection of an ordinary hero. The work questions how to dance written, verbal, and bodily histories, while simultaneously recognizing that the act of creating forms its own history in the present. Retrace the steps in a living space where memories of devastation, brotherhood, aggression and romance surface in the exchange of human experience close enough to see/hear/feel/taste/touch.