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Who We Are
Co-DirectorsMAYRA MORALESMayra Morales, Mexican artist, teacher, arts ambassador and researcher, has been teaching at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla since 2005. She currently is a dance professor in the BA Dance program and from August 2006 to July 2008 she was the Program's Coordinator. She has recently begun working in DEPA, an imaginary company for the Arts Development in Mexico. Mayra studied dance from childhood in Puebla City and Mexico City. Pursuing her career she traveled frequently to Monterrey, Xalapa, Guadalajara, San Luis Potosí, Canada, Russia, USA, Portugal and London, where she discovered Contemporary Dance. With a Scholarship of Excellence in Humanities, she earned her BA in Dance at UDLAP in 2002, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She won an honorific mention in the 'best performer' contest during San Luis Potosi's Dance Festival 2001. She lived, studied and worked in London from 2003 to 2005, where she earned her MA in European Dance-Theatre Practices at LABAN, supported by an award from the National Fund for the Arts and Culture, Mexico, 2003. Since 1999 she has been working as a performer and collaborating with national and international choreographers creating and co-creating dance and interdisciplinary pieces. Her work constantly questions the nature of artistic practice and investigates installation, performance art, site-specific and Dance-Theatre methodologies. Since 2004 she has described herself as a "Non-Disciplinary Artist," by which she means that she makes use of any possible medium to facilitate the rigorous search for answers to questions concerning Thought, Life and the Human Condition. In doing so, she hopes to avoid the categorization of processes and results. International activities include the following: 2005-- Participated in "The Dancer's Project" at The Place, London Activities in Mexico: At UDLAP she has taught courses in Performance and Ensemble, History and Theory of Dance, Choreography, Contemporary Dance Technique, Repertory, Body Conditioning, Movement for Actors, Seminar in Dance and Phenomenology, Seminar in Dance-Theatre and Theory of Performance Studies. She also teaches the following classes: Introduction to Dance and Tendencies and Problems of Today's Dance. http://udladanza.wordpress.com/ Ray Eliot Schwartz Ray Schwartz is a movement artist and activist who has spent the last 26 years committed to consciously developing an experiential understanding of the body. He is interested in supporting people in attuning themselves towards a greater clarity of intention in technical and improvisational dancing, as well as in the practices of everyday life. Since 1999, he has represented the integration of Somatic Movement Education and Dance practice on multiple occasions as a member of the faculties of the American Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival, MELT, the Movement Research educational intensive located in NYC, SFADI, and the Colorado College Summer Dance Festival. He has also taught, performed and conducted research extensively in the U.S, Europe and Asia. His training includes high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts and a BFA in Dance from Virginia Commonwealth University. Additional study includes certification as Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering, Certification in the Feldenkrais Method, training in Zero-Balancing, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, and Traditional Thai Massage. Schwartz, as well, has maintained a practice of working with individuals over the same span of time. When his work with individuals has been a primary focus, it often takes the shape of bodyworker in residence at dance festivals, or in intensive periods of work with clients referred to him by the Instituto de Psicologia Profunda in Mexico City.
While studying for the MFA at the University of Texas at Austin, he balanced academic research with a commitment to service and activism within the Austin, Texas arts scene. He directed Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theater, taught classes in dance, movement, and body-work, researched the aesthetic and pedagogical implications evoked by the integration of somatic movement education and contemporary dance forms among other activities(
Currently Schwartz is serving as the Coordinator of the Licenciatura en Danza en la Universidad De Las Americas Puebla in Cholula/Puebla, Mexico.
As part ofhis work there, he initiated and co-directs Performática: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporánea y Artes de Movimiento. This congress gathers together an international cadre of practicing dancers, choreographers, theorists, and teachers of contemporary dance and related movement arts. They convene workshops, roundtable discussions and performances with the goal of facilitating international and intercultural exchange of dance practices, knowledge, theory, and culture as related to discourse of bodily movement, expression, and philosophy. He is also a research associate with the Center for Body Mind Movement, and has been an invited guest lecturer at the Institute for Kinesthetic Education in Durham, North Carolina.
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In 1999, he graduated as an Electronical Engineer with a major in Communication from UDLA. He then went on in 2004, to receive his MBA, at the same institution, specializing in Services Marketing.
He is currently UDLA's Head of the Scenic Arts Lab. Since 2003, he has been appointed as Technical Director of UDLA Danza, UDLA Ballet, Teatro UDLA, Opera UDLA, Performática and the Sunny Savoy Company. He has participated in national and international festivals such as:
He has also collaborated as sound engineer with rock bands. From 1995-2000 he worked as technician within the Events Department at UDLA, which produces around 400 cultural events per year. Since 2003 he has been teaching Scenic Production at the university, focusing on montage, set design and lightning design for theatre, dance and performance pieces. He also works as advisor for future graduates. His lightning designs have granted him awards, such as Mayra Morales' De la A a la Z, within 2007's Festival Poesía en Movimiento. His first performance, Eclipse, was first shown at Performática 2007. Selection Committee 2012Diana Beltran studied a BA in Dance at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla.. Miguel Angel Guzmán, was born in Puebla, Mexico and graduated from Universidad de las Américas Puebla, with a degree in both Theatre and Dance. He has been part of festivals such as: ImPulsTanz in Austria, Mains d'Oeuvres in France, IF ONLY in Ireland, Performática in Mexico, Stoff Fringe Festival in Sweden, American Dance Festival in the USA. Miguel has collaborated with the following choreographers and directors: Deborah Hay, in Scotland and New York; Robin Poitras & Benoît Lachambre, and Chris Haring & David Wampach in Vienna; Claudio Valdés Kuri, in Mexico City; Mayra Morales in Puebla and Montréal; Zap McConnell in Virginia; Paulina Rucarba in Paris; Ray Schwartz in Puebla; Jason Akira Somma and Larissa Velez-Jackson both in New York; and with filmmakers Tong Watanayaem in Basel, Switzerland and Benjamin Cantu in Berlin, Germany. He is the recipient of numerous grants from the National Council for Culture and Arts in Mexico. He is currently dancing in the works of Michael Bodel in Vermont, Camilo Godoy and Coco Karol in New York City.
Presenting Artist/Contributor BiosA | B | C | D | E | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | W | Z AEmily Athena AbrahamsBorn and raised in Pennsylvania, Emily Abrahams earned her BFA in Contemporary Dance from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 2004. She went on to perform with Stephen Pelton Dance Theatre, PPARDance, Charles Moulton and La Femme Panache in San Francisco. After moving to Los Angeles to pursue Budokon and a fitness career, Emily headed north to Ashland, OR where she danced for four seasons with Dancing People Company. Her most recent projects have been dancing with Karl Frost/Body Research in Davis, CA and Seraphim Dance Theatre in Ashland. Marjolayne AugerMarjolayne Auger is from Montreal, Canada. She graduated from Conservatoire Lassalle in communications and theatre. She pursued professional theatre and then decided to focus on dance. Her BA is in Arts from UQAM, majoring in dance. Meanwhile she was studying she started to teach argentine tango and to perform for argentine tango orchestras which whom she toured. She adapted as well a version of Romeo and Juliet for the tango orchestra, Flores de Nácar. She is also a certified Hatha Yoga teacher and Reiki practitionner. She had the chance to tour in Mexico in the multidisciplinary project Los Angeles de la calle and dance for Danza Corpus in Cuba. She was introduced to Indian dances, Kathak and Baratha Natyam dancing for Manijeh Ali and Aparna Sindhoor. In 2006, she produces her own dance show, Saudade, where she proposed a fusion between tango and argentine folklore movement and contemporary dance. In New York, she has performed work by Jose Limòn, Sue Bernard, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and Geraldine Cardiel at the Limon Institute. She performed as well for Laura Shapiro, Diego Funes, Yuki Hasegawa. She presented “Que le vent l’emporte” at the New York Fringe festival 2010. She recently choreographed for a children theatre show Rikki Tikki Tavi performed by Miles Square theatre and is looking forward towards to do a master in theatre direction. Rodrigo AngoitiaHe is the founder and director of Estudio 28 since 1997. He made his first piece with the group Danza Luthor in 1991. He has conducted interdisciplinary works such as as Into Sleep seconds ... in 2004.
BLauren BealeLauren is a performing artist, choreographer, contemplative teacher, yoga instructor and active mama. She finds strength through spontaneous acts of improvisation, raw, uninhibited movement of energy and the bringing together of artistic voices. Currently a MFA in Dance candidate at The University of Colorado-Boulder with emphasis in somatic based teaching, interdisciplinary performance art and performance studies, Lauren is the student of Michelle Ellsworth, Onye Ozuzu, Gabriel Masson, Gesel Mason and Mark McCoin. Lauren has performed nationally and internationally with Colorado based companies Helander Dance Theater, 3rd Law Dance/Theatre, David Capps/Dances, Interweave Dance Theater, Kim Olson/Sweet Edge and artists Jerri Davis and Len Barron, as well as New York City companies Curt Haworth and Dancers, Ellis Wood Dance and Peter Sciscioli. Lauren co-created the duet performance company Two Peas in a Pod with Jessica Hendricks. Her interdisciplinary performance Funeral For Yesterday, co-created with Jimmy Lusero was produced by the Boulder International Fringe Festival and her newest solo, Reconciled, was selected to perform at NeXus in Boulder and D.U.M.B.O. in NYC. Darío Bernal-VillegasDarío Bernal-Villegas is a drummer, composer and improviser, originally from Mexico City, trained in Mexico and London. Improvisation is an essential part of his job as a music creator, manifested both in his openly improvised pieces and his compositions. He seeks to create an intense and creative interaction between musicians and the score, fostering the conditions for a fruitful dialogue between performer and composer.He has been a key player in the improvised Mexican music scene and has collaborated with musicians such as Raúl Tudón (Tambuco Percussion Group, Mexico), Wade Matthews, Thanos Chysakis, Wilfrido Terrazas, Sebastian Lexer, Artur M. vidal, Alexander Bruck, amongst others. He is currently working with Generación Espontánea, a collective of Mexican improvisers called Rolling Eye Free Jazz Trio and the composer Tom Corona in his group The Coming Burguers. In October 201 his first solo album "A Distant Drum" is released with Netlabel Audiion Records. This album presents a series of improvised drum, erizo drum, objects, and radio pieces. With an English signature, Aural Terrains has recorded four albums along with European improvisers: Palimpsesto, Instant-cascade-distant, ENANTIO_ΔΡOMIA y ΠΑΡΑΛΛΑΞΙΣ / PARALLAXIS. Along with the Mexican improviser, Ramón del Buey, he coordinates "The Marvellous Transatlantic Improvisation Project", a long distance improvisation experiment with 12 other Mexican and European improvisers. Erika BrashDancer, choreographer and teacher, Erika Rodriguez Zayareth Brash was born in Tehuacán, Puebla. She now Lives in Mexico City She owns a degree in Dance from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, winning the “Beca de excelencia Jenkins” scholarship to support her studies; she graduated in 2011. Both her academic and professional training has been under the guidance of teachers and choreographers such as Sunny Savoy, Mayra Morales, Ray Eliot Schwartz, Pedro Beiro and Bertha Gomez, John Mead, Holly Williams, Luis Villanueva, Zap McConnell, Jessie Zarrit, Heather Maloney, Jason Akira Soma, Kristen Johansen, Ruben Ornelas, Domenica Lopez, Leilani Maciel and José Zamora. As a dancer, she has participated in national and international festivals such as the Encuentros Nacionales de Centros de Formación in Mexico City, member of the UDLA Danza Company from 2005 to 2011. Se has participated in Performática: Foro Internacional de Danza Contemporánea y Artes en Movimiento in Puebla (emissions 2008.2009 and s2011) among others. She studied Art Installation and a Diploma in Dance and Installation provided by the Centro de Formación y Producción Coreográfica del Estado de Morelos in August 2010 and Installation Areas with Jose Luis Cortes Santander. She is interested in circus arts as well. She is currently working in the area of art education as a ballet, contemporary dance, and fitness teacher, and producing independent projects. Nick BrysonNick Bryson trained at The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Leeds) 94-97, The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam) 98-00 and The University of Limerick 05-06 where he obtained a Masters with First Class Honours in Contemporary Dance Performance. He is currently and for the last 4 years been Co-Artistic Director of Legitimate Bodies Dance Company with Cristina Goletti. Nick also has huge experience of dance, choreography and mixed media improvisation including with dance companies Daghdha (Limerick), Rebus (Cork) and Factotum (Belfast). With Damian Punch he has created the celebrated "Hanging in There" which toured Europe as an Aerowaves production in 2009. In Mexico he has toured with Legitimate Bodies with the trio "Touching Distance" as well as a number of solos including last year's "A Study in Absence/A Study in Presence" which was warmly received at Performatica 2011. CAna Paula CamargoShe studies music at the Conservatory of Roses and in the Music Faculty at Universidad Veracruzana, she also studied at the Center for Choreographic Investigation - INBA.
As a performer, she participated in Surge Gente and Ratos Libres, directed by Mark Zemelman and Camille Renarhd (2008), also in Eternos Peregrinos by Oscar Velásquez (2008).
Her video, Fuera de lugar, was selected for ‘Escrita Na Paisagem’ Videoperformance Showing in évora, Portugal on 2010 and in Direct Action on 2011 in Berlin. She also participated in ‘La Casa de Cristal’ with her dance film Descomponer showed on March, 2011 in Madrid. Denisse Cárdenas LanderosDenisse Cárdenas Landeros was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, México. She grew up in México City where she began her dance and artistic studies at an early age. In 2003 she moved to Cholula, Puebla to study dance and in 2008 graduated from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla. Her dance background has been defined by ballet (Cuban style), the Humphrey-Limón technique and philosophy, Release technique, Body Mind Centering and Improvisation. She has performed with several groups and companies based in México City and Puebla such as CODACO, Cava-Parker Dance, Sunny Savoy Dance Company, Colectivo 2Z, Malva Danza, Dharma Danza, among others. Denisse has been awarded with several grants: from FONCA, CONACULTA, the American Dance Festival, the Limón Institute in NYC, the Centro de Investigación y Estudio de Técnicas y Lenguajes Corporales in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Los Talleres in México City. Constantly questioning the concept of identity, the relationship between individuals and their interaction within a specific context to construct and renew their traditions; the boundaries between art and life; and dance improvisation as a process that constantly redefines the self, she has created two site specific projects: Museo de Experiencias: Yo, el otro y la redefinición, presented in 2007 in an abandoned house with a diverse group of non dancers, and Ofrenda en Movimiento, that year after year since 2008 celebrates the mexican tradition of Day of the Dead in the botanical garden of San Andrés, Cholula. Recently she created Colectivo Mano de Tierra arte+ambiente with her colleague Lourdes Roth, a dance association that promotes dance education out of the formal educational systems; and an environmental, sustainable and interdisciplinary approach to dance. Carolina Cortés ZepedaPerformer, teacher, and investigador. She holds a degree in acting by the School of Theater Art (INBA), a degree in Choreography by the National School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, and a masters in Scenic Arts (the research line in multimedia scenes) by the Universidad Autónoma del Carmen (UNACAR). She has taken theatre workshops with Richard Schechner, Pino di Buduo, Pol Pelletier, Etelvino Vázquez, Josef Nadj; contemporary dance workshops with Alan Danielson, Lutz Forster, Valentina Pavéz y Rodrigo Fernández and Butoh with Ko Murobushi, Natsu Nakayima. Multimedia workshops with Jaime Munárriz (Spain), Brisa MP (Chile), Silvina Szperling and Mariela Yeregui (Argentina).
She has presented her scenic proposal in different festivals in a national and international level such as: Festival del Desierto in San Luís Potosí (2006), III Festival de Danza, Carmen (2006-2007-2008), Festival de Danza y Performance y Festival Tecnoescena (2008), in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10º Festival Internacional de Teatro, Campeche 2008, XIV Festival Internacional de Danza en Paisajes Urbanos (2009) La Habana, Cuba, IV Encuentro Internacional Mujer Creadora 2010, Ruta de la Plata, España. She presented her dance film Ser de Angustia
Currently, she is a faculty member at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas and she is responsible for the acting classes and their elements of body expression. Diana CrumDiana Crum is interested in dance as a daily practice and as a method of research and dialogue. She earned an MFA in Dance from Hollins University and a BA in Dance from Columbia College, Columbia University. Her choreography has been presented in New York by the 92nd St Y, chashama, CPR (Center for Performance Research), DNA (Dance New Amsterdam), Dancenow/NYC, Dixon Place and Barnard College. Other performance venues include im_flieger (Vienna, Austria), Ballet de Lorraine (Nancy, France), American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), and Eyedrum (Atlanta, GA). Support, awards and fellowships include an iLab Residency from iLand, a MCAF grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a Choreographer’s Project Fellowship from Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy. She is interested in education and enjoys teaching. She is currently Adjunct Faculty at University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA). She also works part-time at Movement Research and for Miguel Gutierrez. DJosh DaleIn his third year at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, Dale studies Music Theater and Dance. Focusing on Experiential Anatomy, Body-Mind Centering, and Bartenieff Fundamental Principles hopes to gain strength in dance, theater, and vocal performance by stressing the importance of a well integrated body. Other chorographical influences include Rudolf Laban, Doris Humphrey, Merce Cunningham, and Paul Taylor. Dale’s connections with music and dance have brought up many questions in regards to rhythm and its application to movement vocabulary that creates phrases with dance.Errin DelperdangErrin Delperdang is an independent choreographer and performer based in Austin, TX. Since graduating from the University of Texas in 2003 her work has been presented by Movement Research, Chashama, AUNTS and Catch in NYC and Co-Lab, Big Range, Julia Dzubinski, Dance Carousel and Ready, Set, Go! in Austin, TX. She was invited to perform her latest project, The Solo Solo in Stralsund, Germany at Skizzenfest, an international sketch festival in the summer of 2011. In addition to creating work, Errin’s performance experiences include collaborating with democratic dance company Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theater, and performing with Chaddick Dance Theater, Ellen Bartel, Stacy Grossfield, Christine Shallenberg, Martha Williams and Odonata Dance Project. She is interested in making work that reflects the inner landscape vs. the outer reflection, both in individuals and in groups. She loves the idea that if one of those forces becomes out of balance implosion or explosion is inevitable. Sven DoehnerSven Doenher PhD, MFA, is originally from Mexico City. He holds an MFA by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in Clinical Psychology by the Newport University. He worked for a year in he department of Psychiatric Emergencies in Parkland Memorial Hospital un (Dallas, Texas) and studied Jungian and Archetypical Psychology (Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture & C.G. Jung Institute-Boston). He is now in the Body Mind Movement School. In his quest for opening psychic spaces and restoring the physical, emotional and mental movement in oneself, he includes different listening, movement, and vocal experiences in his work with the images of dreams and everyday life. Sven has guided workshops, courses and training programs since 1981, in Mexico, Europe and North and South America, integrating Deep Psychology and healing practices of indigenous spirituality in innovative ways.Kevin DockeryKevin began studying dance after years of martial arts experience and intensive explorations of movement in the natural world in 2001, at which point he also started to explore modern dance and Contact improvisation in Nevada County CA. He since studied dance compulsively and got a dance degree at Humboldt State University after attending Sonoma State University and San Francisco State University. He performed with Scott Wells and Dancers, Jess Curtis / Gravity, and Karl Frost and Body Research. His main movement interests include somatics and somatic based explorations especially Feldenkrais, which he has been studying for six years and is certified in; and the exploration of self and self in relationship to other – environment, nature and the man made and human worlds. Lindsey Ann DruryI am a dance maker and performance artist originally from Seattle. I have lived in New York City since 2008. My dances are something to contend with, and are electrified by the attempts of performers to problem-solve in the moment. I create movement structures and specific spatial pathways, I rant and rave about how everything is supposed to be, and in the end, I ask that my performers find a way to seek their own autonomy and their full humanity in relationship to everything I have created. I have studied dance and performance art in India, Thailand, Mexico, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Turkey, and toured my work to festivals in Vienna and Budapest. In 2009, I started an in-home residency program to provide free housing for visiting artists who don’t have the resources to pay for housing while completing projects here. I host 1 artist at a time, engaging each artist in a collaborative project. Artists who have made use of this program include: Amapola Prada (Peru), Maria Nurmela (Finland), Julia Klaring and Paula Pfoser (Austria), Paola Marugan Ricart (Spain), Sarah Ibanez O'Donnell (UK), Martin Lanz Landazuri (Mexico), Katelyn Hales and Molly Beardmore (USA), among others. In 2006, I received a scholarship to study and perform with MacArthur Awardee Guillermo Gomez-Pena in Oaxaca, where we addressed the intense political protests in the region. In 2007-2008, I was a Graduate Research Fellow from the University of Utah, and traveled and engaged with dancers throughout Balkan Europe, addressing their experiences with social and political displacement. During the 2011-2012, I am a resident artist at Gibney Dance Center, where I will develop my first NYC evening-length work for the Cunningham Studio in February of 2012. This work will be the last production housed at the Cunningham Studio before it closes. Over the last three years I have created dances for Danspace, Movement Research, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dance New Amsterdam, The Chocolate Factory, the SITE Festival, Chen Dance Center, Superfront Brooklyn, as a part of Panoply Lab's Performance Art conferences, among others. EEn Dos PiesWe are a group of contemporary dance students at the Universidad Veracruzana seeking collective professional development of avant-garde stage proposals; with the concern to finding an independent style working working with our own ideas. The idea of working as a group is a way to enrich and empower the movement of each member, bringing together the features and capabilities of each individual, and therefore achieve quality work. Prácticas Escénicas of the Universidad Veracruzana. In October 2011 presented the play "Florentina" in a series of interventions Tequisistlan, Edo. De Méx, due to the fact that the framework of the celebrations of this population was considered appropriate for the context of the piece. In this same population they shoot a dance film with the same name.
GRachel Thorne GermondRachel Thorne Germond has presented her work in New York City at such venues as the Joyce Soho, Movement Research at Judson Church, WAX, Chashama, The Merce Cunningham Studio, Dixon Place, amongst others and in Chicago since 2000, primarily at Links Hall, but also in performances with the Girlie Q Variety Hour, the Chicago Kings, and in festivals such as the Feast of Fools, Full Circle Festival, the Spareroom, the Around the Coyote Festival, Looptopia!, and Estrogen Festival. Ms. Germond is a graduate of Cornell University (1986) where she studied modern dance while obtaining degrees in Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. She achieved an MFA in dance and choreography (2000) at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana where she was a Fellow. Her training includes intensive study of Klein/Mahler technique with Barbara Mahler and with such notable teachers as Mary Anthony, Anna Sokolow, Pedro Alejandro, Tere O'Connor, and Nancy Topf. In 2003, 2005, and 2006 she was the recipient of the city of Chicago's CAAP grant, and she was an artist-in- residence through C.A.P.E. at Roberto Clemente High School from 2004-2007. Since 2004 Rachel has taught dance as arts integration in the Chicago Public Schools through CAPE and in 2009 -10 for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's MAP programming. In 2004 she formed her Chicago-based pick up company, RTG Dance. The company is on hiatus until 2012. Ms. Germond is temporarily relocated to Norfolk, VA where she is teaching as Adjunct Faculty at Old Dominion University. Tania GalindoDancer and Choreographer, she holds a degree in Latin American Studies at UNAM. She has been dedicated to Performing Arts for 20 years. "Serpiente" her Butoh dance solo that she performs and directs has been presented in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru. Countries for which she has given workshops. Recipient of the Artistic Residence Scholarship Mexico/Colombia. FONCA 201: Ministry of Culture of Colombia with the piece "Con la lengua en el cuerpo" YO MEXICO Scholarship to celebrate the centenary of the Mexican Revolution 2010. She worked in costume coordination for the celebration of the bicentennial of the Mexican independence, 2010. Some of the festivals where she has participated: Vive Latino 2010, 2011, Cumbre Tajín 2006, 2009, 20011,, IV Encuentro de las Artes Escénicas 2009, Festival Internacional Cervantino with Studio Festi (Italia) HAmanda HampAmanda Hamp teaches, dances, choreographs and writes. She is an assistant professor of dance at Luther College in Decorah, IA, and is a certified teacher of Open Source Forms, a physical practice that gently cultivates awareness of our selves, enhancing technical skill and deepening one’s personal or creative process. The solo she’s performing at Performatica is part of a larger project, Loss, the Great Escape and Other Memories, which has been supported by two H. George and Jutta F. Anderson Awards from Luther College. Her degrees are from Luther College (B.A), the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance (Professional Diploma in Dance Studies), and the University of Iowa (M.F.A). Samuel HansonSamuel Hanson is a dancer and video artist based in the Salt Lake City, UT. As a performer, he has worked for Ashley Anderson, Neta Pulvermacher, Yve Laris Cohen, Lindsey Drury, Paula Pfoser and others. His work has been seen throughout the western United States, Florida and New York City. He has also been recently been writing dance criticism for the loveDANCEmore performance journal (loveDANCEmore.org). He holds a BA in Performance and Media from the University of Utah. Maré HieronimusMaré Hieronimus is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary dance artist, performer and teacher whose work weaves together her interests in movement, light, sound, poetry/story, and perceptual awareness. Often working as a solo performer, and drawing from her interests in archetype, memory, and dreams, she creates abstract and psychic landscapes using the body in motion as the primary impulse.Her choreographic and improvisational performance experiments have been presented both indoor and outdoor, in proscenium, gallery and site-specific settings. Working in NYC since 2005, she has been presented at venues including Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, MonkeyTown, White Wave Rising Festival, COOLNY and DUMBO Dance Festivals, Solar One Powered Festival, The 92nd Street Y, Dance Conversations at The Flea, The Reverb Festival, The American Dance Guild Festivals, The Chocolate Factory, Long Island University, and Les Petit Versailles Gardens. Her work has been presented regionally in such venues as Dance Place (Washington DC), The Goose Route Dance Festival (West Virginia), Villa Julie College (Maryland), Washington College (Maryland), AS220 (Rhode Island) and at The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY). As a performer, she is also currently working with site-specific Choreographer Noemie Lafrance/sensproduction. She is a featured dancer in Lafrance’s dance for film Eyes/Nose/Mouth, as well as her site-specific work HOME. She most recently was seen in Lafrance’s The White Box Project at The Black and White Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, September 2011. She received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. She is also a Certified Movement Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and teaches Yoga and Dance at Long Island University and Queensborough Community College.IGermaine IngramGermaine Ingram is a tap dancer and vocal improviser. Her teacher, mentor, and performance partner for more than 25 years was legendary Philadelphia hoofer LaVaughn Robinson (1927-2008).In addition to her work with Robinson, she has created choreography for national tap companies, performed as a solo artist, and collaborated and performed with noted jazz composers, including Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Dave Burrell, and Bobby Zankel. Two recent projects interpreted writings of novelist/poet John A. Williams. She is currently developing a multi-media performance piece with composer/saxophonist Zankel reflecting on the practice of slavery at the President’s House----the nation’s first white house----during the tenure of President George Washington. She studies vocal improvisation and has performed with Rhiannon, an internationally recognized improvisational singer and teacher. She was named a 2010 Pew Fellow in the Arts. A former civil rights and trial lawyer, law professor, and school district executive officer, she serves on several boards of non-profit organizations dedicated to education reform and supporting arts and culture and arts education. LDiana LaraDiana Lara is a dancer, choreographer and somatic educator from Honduras. She studied a specialty in choreography in the Centro de Investigacion Coreografica del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico. In 1996 she won a scholarship to study in the Investigacion Somatica y Artes Participativas program offered by Moving-on-Center in Oakland, California. From 2010 to 2011, Diana had the fortune to study with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, founder of the Body Mind Centering School and got her certification form the Desarrollo del Movimiento y Yoga program. She now lives in San Francisco Bay Area where she has collaborated with Bonner Odell, Liz Buobon, and Vitali Kononov and her work has been presented in NohSpace, Dance Mission Theater, Eight Street Studio, Counterpulse and The Garage. Diana is a professor in Purple Moon Dance Project where she teaches dance using somatic techniques to women whom are rehabilitating from drug abuse and domestic violence. She also teaches somatic techniques workshops for dancers. She attended Medical school and has a graduate degree in Sciences with an emphasis in Population and Health by the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana.Janice Lancaster LarsenJanice Lancaster Larsen is a freelance dancer and choreographer making dances on film and immersive performance environments. Her projects are a nexus for collaboration, research, and the generation of work that expands how and where dance is shared. She is inspired by dance's power to both commune with the unknown and serve as a cultural artifact revealing performative perceptual modes. She has received commissions through the 2011 Omi International Dance Collective (Omi, NY), the 2007 Bessie Schönberg Choreographic Residency on the Yard (Chilmark, MA), the Hubbard Street 2 Dance Company (Chicago, IL), the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center (Asheville, NC), and many through co-founding VIA Dance Collaborative (New York, NY). Her work has been presented in New York City at Dance New Amsterdam, The Ailey Citigroup Theatre, Galapagos Art Space's FRAMEWORKS Film Series, Joyce Soho Presents, Dixon Place's Underexposed Series, Movement Research's Open Performance, One Arm Red, and elsewhere: The American Dance Festival Draftworks and MFA Concert (Durham, NC), the Chisenhale Dance Space's TV Dinners Festival (London), WUK Association for the Creation of Open Culture and Workshop Houses (Vienna), CCN-Ballet de Lorraine (Nancy, France), Performática (Puebla/Cholula, Mexico); The Fulton Opera House (Lancaster, PA), The McCallum Theatre (Palm Desert, CA); The Casa Hoffman (Curitiba, Brazil); and The Honolulu Theatre for Youth (Honolulu, HI). While continuing to make and share her own work, she has had the pleasure of dancing as a guest soloist for Shen Wei Dance Arts, as well as with Danielle Russo, Lauri Stalling's glo ATL, Rodger Belman, Abby Chan, Satoshi Haga, Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group, and VIA Dance Collaborative. She has developed and performed improvisational work with Renee Archibald, Miguel Gutierrez, KJ Holmes, Ray Eliot Schwartz, and many ad hoc performance groups. Janice has taught and staged works at the Roger Williams University in RI, the University of NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and the State University of NY in Fredonia. She teaches contemporary technique, improvisation, composition, and yoga. Her classes celebrate each dancing person as a unique constellation of possible movement styles and meanings, emphasizing clarity of choice and freedom for abandon. She is thorough in her warm-up and modalities for making connections, and has in-depth experience with postural work, strength training, and movement awareness. She thanks her teachers, colleagues, and many inspirations while receiving a BFA in Dance from the University of NC School of the Arts (2001), MFA in Dance on fellowship from Hollins University/American Dance Festival (2010), Relax and Renew® Restorative Yoga certification (2011), Hatha yoga certification from the Asheville Yoga Center (2003), and is grateful for summers attending the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and Doug Varone and Dancers Workshop on scholarship. MSharon MansurSharon Mansur is a Washington, DC area based experimental contemporary dance artist integrating movement and visual elements within a performative experience, frequently investigating questions concerning identity, presence and perception. Her choreography, improvisations, site-specific and performance/installation projects have been presented at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC), Dance Place (DC), the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (MD), the Washington, DC International Improvisation Festival, Dartington International Improvisation Festival (UK), Teatro de Danza (Argentina), Dixon Place (NYC), DanceNow Downtown Dance Festival (NYC), Movement Research at Judson Church (NYC), Goose Route Dance Festival (WV), the Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival (MI), Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, as well as in galleries, living rooms, storefronts, city corners, rivers and fields in various urban and rural communities. She has also had the honor of performing in dances by the BodyCartography Project, David Dorfman, Sara Rudner and David Roussève, among others. Sharon’s creative work has been supported by the Maryland State Arts Council, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the John F. Kennedy Center Local Dance Commissioning Project, University of Maryland Creative and Performing Arts Award, and the Bossak-Heilbron Foundation. Over the course of the last ten years, Sharon has had the pleasure of collaborating with dance artist Maré Hieronimus in several projects including Hieronimus’ spark/ridge/perch/till (2006) as well as Mansur’s Still Life (2001), trajectory altered slightly (2003), here/there (2009), and (re)semblance (2011). Sharon is currently an Assistant Professor of dance in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland. She holds an M.F.A. in Dance from George Mason University, a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College, and is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CMA).Zap McConnellZap McConnell is an educator and avid investigator, drawn to collaborative art forms and work that brings awareness and action to bear on sustainable ways to live amongst the world as people create it as we all live within the natural world. She draws, dances, makes dances and spends a lot of time in Mexico. Calli MicaleCalli Micale, an undergraduate at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa of the United States, is a double major in theatre/dance and religion. Calli grew up in Neenah, Wisconsin, where she studied traditional dance forms such as: ballet, tap, and jazz, later focusing exclusively on ballet. Luther College, however, changed her perception and understanding of dance by taking an anatomical, somatic approach to learning movement. Calli continues to work with the department, performing in faculty directed pieces and choreographing her own short works for peers. She now attempts to explore the relationship between spirituality and the body, integrating the disciplines of dance and religion. James MorrowJames Morrow was the founder and artistic director of Instruments of Movement. A native of Chicago, he has worked with Chicago based companies: The Joel Hall Dancers, Deeply Rooted Productions, Ascension/The Kirby Reed Project, Ken Von Heidecke’s Festival Ballet, Larry Long’s Civic Ballet, Culture Shock Chicago, Concert Dance, Inc., Mordine and Co., Hedwig Dances, The Tyego Dance Project, Impetus Dance Chicago, MOMENTA, Nick Cave of The Art Institute of Chicago, New York’s: Helen Pickett, nicholasleichterdance, Gina Kohler/ Dream Factories, Tami Stronach Dance, Tessa Chandler, Margaret Morrison, Wendell Cooper, Yozmit, DeeLite, DJ Kotchy, Boston's: Tommy DeFrantz/ Slippage, Bahama’s: The Baha Men, Toronto’s: Gerry Trentham/ Pounds Per Square Inch Theatre, Michigan’s: Kalamazoo Ballet, Berlin's: Tino Sehgal, Durham's: Ellen Hemphill/ Archipelago Theater, Jim Havercamp, Alex Maness and Minnesota’s: Sesame Street Live. His choreography can be seen on companies throughout the U.S. and Internationally, most recently in Vienna, Mumbai, Krasnoyarsk, and New Brighton. James was on Faculty at the American Dance Festival (summer 2010). He just received his MFA in dance from Hollins University/ The American Dance Festival where he received a fellowship. He is currently on faculty at Episcopal High School and Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida. Beatriz NavarroProfessional dancer and contemporary dance teacher. She performed her contemporary dance studies at the National School of Classic and Contemporary Dance (INBA) and the National Center for the Arts (CAN). As a dancer, she has had the opportunity to dance with several Mexican choreographers such as: Marco Antonio Silva, Cecilia Lugo, Gregorio Trejo, Martín Orozco, Javier Romero, Roberto Robles, Luz Ureña, Leticia Alvarado, Rodolfo and Saúl Maya. And international choreographers such as: Rogelio López, Bill de Young and Marilén Iglesias Breuke. Through teaching and through the movement laboratory that she created with Ana Paula Camargo, she investigates he relationship between somatic techniques and body training, to develop a method that breaks into the body-mind connection, therefore liberating the imaginative and creative aspect of individuals. She explores movement as a language, capable to communicate a discourse of its own, based in rhythm, time, shape, energy and the connections it develops on both the inside and the outside, an inhabited body. Ruben T. OrnelasRuben T. Ornelas, also know as Xoloitzcuintli (shoh-loh-eets-kweent-lee) the hairless Mexican dog of Xicano Contemporary Dance, is an independent choreographer whose works have been performed in Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, and Uganda. His dances spring from the intersection of contemporary dance, movement improvisation, performance art, and popular culture. The style of his work varies from piece to piece and has included ritualistic, narrative, and abstract works. Themes have included the interconnectedness of humans and nature, Latino religious/cultural practices, and satire of pop culture icons. He has been a Fulbright scholar to Guatemala and Mexico and was recently an artist-in-residence at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. "Barrio Poems" was developed while in residency at the NHCC.PRose Pasquarello/inFluxdanceOriginally founded in 2004, inFluxdance is a contemporary dance theatre collective comprised of artists interested in exploring and creating accessible works without boundaries. The five main principles guiding our artistic processes include Interdisciplinary Vision, Collaboration, Accessibility, Communication and Outreach. Combining these elements we aim to inspire social change in our communities through the more traditional audience found at our live performances and the community audience in our outreach programs. Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, the Founder and Artistic Director of inFluxdance, is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and somatic body practitioner. Rose holds a BFA in Dance from Emerson College and an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts. In addition, she is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and Bartenieff Practitioner (CLMA). Rose’s choreography is influenced by her experience in Contact Improvisation, her love of being off-vertical and her exploration of LMA theory. Rose has been extremely active in each of the communities she has lived and worked in. These include San Francisco, Boston, Central Virginia and Los Angeles. Her full-length work has been featured in Boston, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco and other cities across the US. She has been selected for residency and performance projects including the Green Street Performance Works Project, Sugar Space Artist in Residence and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 2009 Choreographers Lab where she received the 2009 Emerging Artist Award. As part of inFluxdance, Rose was nominated for the Most Innovative Choreography Award at the Montreal Fringe Festival 2011 for her work with inFluxdance. She is known for her collaborative work integrating dance, theatre and media. Her choreography has been shown on the Fringe Festival Circuit where the company was voted Best in Festival at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2007 and 2008. She has danced with many contemporary companies and contact improvisation projects. For the past 5 years Rose served as the Head of Dance at the University of Virginia.Mariana PapaquiA native and current resident of the State of Puebla. En 2004 she starts a Bachelor degree in Classical and Modern Dance, she is currently a performer in the Faculty of Arts at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She has attended several seminars and workshops in projection based on classical and modern dance. Also she has been involved in movement workshops and laboratories with teachers such as: Cecilia Lugo, Claudia Lavista, Antonio Salinas, Michael Douglas, Alexander Schuartz, Octavio Seivy, Federico Castro, Rip Parker, among others. With a Diploma of Dance and Installation - Scenic Transdisciplinary creation in August 2011, she has participated as a guest dancer for different setups and seasons in dance companies such as: Operatro, Ballet Center under the direction of Nicki Blanco, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Compañía de Artes Circenses Rodara with aerial dance. She has been involved in interdisciplinary proposals with musicians and artists in the state.She participated in Festival México Itinerante de VideoDanza Agite y Sirva with the piece: “Con Aliento Indefinido” by Mariana, in co-production with Cinearte Puebla Audioconfigurado. Currently, she is a Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance teacher in the Arts Education Workshops at the Complejo Cultural Universitario (CCU). She directs Escena Rota. Contemporary Dance.
RCecilia Ivón Raigosa BonillaCecilia Raigosa began with her dance studies when she was 8 years old, she continued in the Academia de la Danza Mexicana. She successfully finished her BA on July 2011. Amira Ramírez SalgadoAmira Ramírez Salgado was born in Mexico and holds a B.F.A in Dance from the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla. From 2009-2010 she was awarded with a FOESCAP scholarship from the Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Puebla. Her choreographic and videographic work has been presented in festivals such as STOFF Fringe Festival in Stockholm, Sweden in august of 2011, Festival Internacional de Puebla on that same year, Performática : Foro de danza Contemporánea y Artes en Movimiento on 2010, Agite y Sirva: Festival Internacional de Video-Danza on 2010 and 2011, and Festival de Video Danza Movimiento Colombia 2010, amongst others.
She participated on the summer intensive on Gaga Technique with the director Ohad Naharin and the company Batsheva Dance Co, in the city of Tel-Aviv, Israel during July, 2011. She also participated on the Tanz im August Festival in Berlin, Germany. Danielle RussoDanielle Russo is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. As founder and artistic director of Danielle Russo Dance Company, her choreography has been presented throughout New York City by organizations and venues such as the American Dance Guild, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Chez Buschwick, Dance Conversations @ The Flea, Dance New Amsterdam, dancenOw/NYC, DUMBO Dance Festival, Green Space, HERE Arts Center, H.T. Chen Dance Center, New York University's Atlas Theater, The Tank, Triskelion Arts Center, Wave Rising Series, Williamsburg Art neXus, and elsewhere at the American Dance Festival (North Carolina, United States), C.N.N. - Ballet de Lorraine (Nancy, France), Danscentrum Jette (Brussels, Belgium), The Yard (Massachusetts, United States) and WUK's Im_flieger (Vienna, Austria). In 2007, Russo was collaborative director and producer of the evening length dance theater Natural Dissection and the emerging artist initiative New Groundings Dance Project. In 2008 - 2009, she was a contributing choreographer in the Bessie Schoenberg Alumni Workshop at New York University and an Artist in Residence at dancenOw/NYC Silo. Russo served on faculty at Hollins University in 2010 and the American College Dance Festival Association’s Northeast Conference at Muhlenberg College in 2011. Outside of her own research endeavors, Russo performed original work by Carrie Brown, Ashley Browne, Jenn Freeman, Rochelle Guardado, James Martin, Tere O'Connor and Gus Solomons, Jr.. She is recipient of a BFA in Dance and a BA in Anthropology from New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), and a MFA in Dance from Hollins University/American Dance Festival where she attended on fellowship. To compliment her studio practice, Russo is a certified Pilates mat and equipment instructor.
SSophie SchapiroSophie Schapiro began her dance training in her hometown of Keene, New Hampshire, and continued studying dance and choreography at Connecticut College, American Dance Festival, and Barnard College. She holds a BA in Anthropology and Dance from Barnard College. Sophie’s dances are inspired by her relatives, childhood, growing old, the idea of memory, the city, the wilderness, and the places people call home. In addition to her life as a dancer and choreographer, Sophie has recently worked as a nanny, outdoor educator, and waitress. She is a co-artistic director of ReGroup Dance, a New England-based dance company she founded in 2010 with choreographers Paula Aarons and Meg Weeks. Rachael L. ShawRachael L. Shaw is a graduate student and Graduate Assistant at the University of Utah Department of Modern Dance. In pursuit of her Masters of Fine Arts, she is studying choreography, pedagogy, technique, and dance theory. Under the guidance of Ellen Bromberg, she is also pursuing a certificate in Screendance, studying film production and theory as well as, editing, and photography. Rachael also studied with Peggy Hackney and Janice Meaden in the Integrated Movement Studies program, receiving her certification (CLMA) in Laban Movement Analysis in 2010. She is currently dancing professionally for inFluxdance, as well as working on a documentary for the company. Before returning to graduate school, Shaw danced professionally with many companies, including Ground Zero Dance Company, Miki Liszt Dance Company, and Starr Foster Dance Group. In 2006, Rachael co-founded and choreographed for R Squared Dance Company. Her live work has been shown at the University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, Sugar Space in Salt Lake City, UT, LiveArts in Charlottesville, VA, and at Performatica in Puebla, Mexico. Her dance for camera work has been shown at the University of Utah and selected for dance dance (a screendance festival screened in conjuction with Sundance) in Salt Lake City. David SilvaHolds a Masters in Cultural Politics and Cultural Management, 2011. He has studied in several workshops such as: NAPP Technique (coNtact, suPport, imPulse), Scenery, Direction, Dance Film, Choreographic Composition in Alternate Spaces, Acting for Dancers, Lighting for Theatre and Dance, Music for Choreography, Improv. Workshops and Contemporary Techniques, Release Technique, Limon Technique, Physical Theatre, Contact Improv, Ballet, and Graham. Studies in pantomime: Body Technique, Pantomime Technique, The Personal Comedian, Decrouxe Technique. He has taught dance, theatre, body expression for dance and physical theatre in places such as: Compañía de danza Codanza Holguín, Cuba (april 2011); Escuela de Artes Manuel Muñoz Cedeño in Bayamo, Cuba (2011 and 2010); Compañía Antonine Artuad; Performatica (2008 and 2009), Compañía de Teatro Alas, Escuela de Artes Manuel Cedeño, both in Bayamo Cuba (2009 and 2006); Frente de Danza Independiente in Quito, Ecuador (2005); and several other institutions in the state of Puebla. He is currently teaching physical theatre to high school students in the Universidad Iberoamericana. His most important participations as director, choreographer, dancer, and actor are: 2º Festival Internacional de Teatro Héctor Azar, 2011; 2ª Muestra Independiente de Teatro, Puebla, 2011. Tour in Cuba in the cities of Hoguín, Manzanillo, and Bayamo, April 15- May 4 in Cuba; ImpreVisto Festival dance festival in open spaces in Bayamo, Cuba (April 2011), azuLacero, directed choreographic video instalallation, La Manga dance and video in the Festival Internacional de Puebla 2009, Temporada del Taller Permanente de Creación Coreográfica, XXIII Premio INBA-UAM, Festival Internacional de Oaxaca 2003, amongst others. Some of his most important choreographic works are: Sueños Rotos (piece selected for the Festival Internacional de Teatro Héctor Azar, 2011); Detrás del Escenario (FOESCAP 2010 scholarship, audience engagement); Lazos Rotos, Herejes Danza Interdisciplinaria, Fonca 2005 scholarship; Grupo de Producción Teatral in Buap; Fame, The Musical, Antonine Artuad, Theatre Company; XXIII premio INBA- UAM. He is currently developing a co-production with the theatre company Agrupación Teatral Alas in Bayamo, Cuba.Leah SteinOriginally from the Hudson Valley New York, Leah Stein had been living and making dances in Philadelphia since 1987. She has created dances on site and on stage in Indonesia, Canada, Poland, Romania, Japan and Scotland. A sensitive and unique performer immersed in improvisation as a tool and expression, her work has been performed nationally in galleries, theaters, museums, outdoor sites, across the country. She founded the Leah Stein Dance Company in 2001 and in 2004 established a program for annual local on site performance projects called “On Site Philadelphia”. In 2007 she collaborated on a film documenting the making of GATE, a seminal site work at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia. She has been awarded grants from Dance Advance, the Leeway Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts including three Fellowships in Choreography. She has been in residence at Yellow Springs Art Institute, the American Dance Festival and Djerassi Resident Artist Program in California where she received an honorary award for her work “Barn Dance”. In 2001, Stein was awarded a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland for In Situ created for the extraordinary DanceBase building in Edinburg, Scotland. Stein has collaborated with dancer/choreographers Sean Feldman, Roko Kawai, Germaine Ingram and Gus Solomons jr, sculptors Jeanne Jaffe and Edward Dormer, poet Josie Foo, and composers/musicians David Lang, Pauline Oliveros with whom she is in the process of publishing a manual for singers and dancers working together with voice and movement. Stein currently teaches at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges. Lou SturmGerman dancer and choreographer. Since January 2006 has lived in Xalapa, Veracruz. She has presented her works of dance theater, choreography, improvisation and performance and “site-specific"(in situ) installation in Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, India and Mexico. She has collaborated as a performer / choreographer with Nir de Volff (Amsterdam / Berlin), Julie Bougard (Brussels), Nusch Werchowski, Nathalie Renard and Pascale Gille.
She has been recipient of a scholarship from PARTS (Brussels) in 2000 for "Summer Studios." She has 12 years of experience in the field of teaching Contemporary Dance, Release Technique, Choreographic Composition, Contact Improvisation, Video-dance and Yoga. She is the founder and director of the company "TEMPESDANZA Danza Contemporánea."
TSara TolosaSara holds a BA in Contemporary Dance by the University of Sonora and is currently a member of Danza UV “Compañía en Movimiento” directed by David Barrón and Esther Landa. She joined the University of Sonora to the Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance on 2003, and since then she has been interested in different courses with different national and international teachers in techniques such as Classical, Limon, Release, Graham, Contact, Acting, Butoh Dance, Lighting, African Dance, Choreography, etc. For three years she has danced in “The Nutcraker” directed by Adriana Castaños. She has been a participant in festivals such as Son/a Movimiento (Sonora), Un desierto para la danza (Sonora), Intercrea (Morelia), IV Festival Internacional Danza Extrema (Xalapa), Muestra Internacional Danza Oaxaca, Festival “Emilio Carballido” (Córdoba, Veracruz), Festival Internacional Abril y Danzar (Xalapa) Festival de las Artes (La Habana, Cuba), Encuentro de las Artes Escénicas FONCA-CONCACULTA within the Festival Internacional Cervantino in the city of Guanajuato. She has been recipient of the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes in Sonora 2008-2009 with the Project “Afrodanza para todos” giving art workshops to kids and Young adults. As a choreographer she was 2nd place in the Concurso Nacional de Composición Coreográfica Xalapa 2008 with the piece “Zovoksss” and 1st place in the XV Concurso Regional de Coreografías 2009 in Hermosillo, Sonora with the piece “Ágatoff”. Her last works involve three solos: “Oil Channel #7” in the Festival Andanzas in Xalapa, Veracruz, “Nymápulla…o!!” and “Zsonaam”, premiered in Costa Rica in the Graciela Moreno Choreographer’s Festival.Triciclo FilmsPaola de la Concha and Ximena Monroy formed Triciclo films together, a festival dedicated to dance film. Paola is an architect and Ximena studied communications. Both of them have parallel contemporary dance studies during their professional careers. Ximena Monroy is the creator of this Mexican dance film festival which has had three previous editions. Paola joined the production team for this last edition and together they hosed the Foro Latinoamericano deVideo danza in Puebla, 2011. Their works “Subte”, “El intervalo”, “Las tunas: retrato de un pueblo” have been displayed in Puebla, Mexicalli, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Shanghái and Lisbon. They won the National Experimental Video and Dance Film award in the Close Up Festival in Vallarta. WJeff WallaceJeff Wallace is based in Indiana, USA. His primary influences are Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Physical Theater, his training as a percussionist, and his daily life. He has taught and performed at universities, festivals, and performance venues across the US, Europe, and the Nordic countries. He has numerous US and international performances of contemporary dance works by Sally Wallace, and has performed improvisationally at venues as varied as Buffalo, NY's Baird Recital Hall, Indiana art galleries, Finnish market squares, Tokyo's "Club M" and Morishita Studios, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Jin-Wen YuJin-Wen Yu, EdD & MFA, currently a professor in the UW-Madison Dance Department, has created, performed, directed, and produced more than 100 works for the stage in the Americas and Asia, including 40 commissioned works for professionals and institutes. Dr. Yu has also presented, performed, and taught at dance festivals both nationally and internationally. In 1999, he founded the Madison-based Jin-Wen Yu Dance. The company has performed throughout the US and internationally. Dr. Yu has received numerous grants, honors, commissions, residencies, and awards such as the Outstanding Dance Artist Award from Taiwan, Wisconsin Arts Board Choreographer Award, the first Madison CitiARTS Commission Signature Grant, Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, Chinese Information and Culture Center in New York. In 2004, he received the Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts. Dr. Yu was invited to perform at UNESCO in Paris for the Celebration Concert of the 2005 International Dance Day. His works and performances have been praised in The Boston Globe, LA Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Chicago Reader, and Chicago Tribune. He currently serves as president of World Dance Alliance-Americas.
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