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2015 - Irondale
Feature-Length Independent Choreography
2015
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Jin Ju Song-Begin
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Mana Hashimoto
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Feature-Length Independent Choreography
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special thanks
FLICfest Advisory Board:
Sanae Robinson Guerin
Joshua Hoffman
Evan Rose
The FLICfest 2014 Selection Panel:
Kyle Abraham
Sarah Maxwell
Catherine Peila
Bill Young
Car2go
Melanie Maclean
Terry Greiss, Maria Knapp, Nick Brown, and all of the fantastic folks
at Irondale
Feature-Length Independent Choreography
2015 performance schedule
week one:
week two:
Thursday, January 22, 7:30 pm
Andre M Zachary
Renegade Performance Project
The Inscription Project
Thursday, January 29, 7:30 pm
John J Zullo
RawMovement
The Architecture of Proximity
Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm
Jin Ju Song-Begin
Da-On Dance
NEVEREND
Thursday, January 29, 9:00 pm
Mana Hashimoto
Stories of the Blind-Light,
Shadow and Wind
Friday, January 23, 7:30 pm
Nicole Wolcott
PaperPieces
Friday, January 30, 7:30 pm
Jin Ju Song-Begin
Da-On Dance
NEVEREND
Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm
Mana Hashimoto
Stories of the Blind-Light,
Shadow and Wind
Friday, January 30, 9:00 pm
CatScratch Theatre
Kiri no Jiku (In the In-between)
Saturday, January 24, 7:30 pm
John J Zullo
RawMovement
The Architecture of Proximity
Saturday, January 31, 7:30 pm
Andre M Zachary
Renegade Performance Project
The Inscription Project
Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm
CatScratch Theatre
Kiri no Jiku (In the In-between)
Saturday, January 31, 9:00 pm
Nicole Wolcott
PaperPieces
CatScratch Theatre
Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm
& Friday, January 30, 9:00 pm
Kiri no Jiku (In the In-between)
CST has been performed on stages and in non-traditional places such as the Staten
Island Ferry, in front of the New York City Stock Exchange, the Kennedy Center’s
Millennium Stage and Chateau Cazals in southeastern France. She holds a BFA in
Dance from Stephens College and an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch. In 2010, Jeramy
founded FLICfest, now in its fifth year as a production of Irondale Center. Jeramy
serves as its Artistic Director. Since 2004, Jeramy has worked closely with Kaoru
Ikeda. The two are currently Co-Directors of CatScratch Theatre.
Choreography and performance: Kaoru Ikeda and Jeramy Zimmerman
Lighting Design: Tim Cryan
Costume Design: David Quinn
Music: Gavin Bryars
biographies
TIM CRYAN (Lighting Designer) has had the opportunity to collaborate with a variety
of artists through organizations such as the Berkshire Fringe, Danspace Project,
FLICfest, LaMaMa etc, and Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy. He is an
adjunct faculty member of the Dance Department at Long Island University (Brooklyn
Campus) and a guest artist at Providence College. He is the resident lighting
designer for Fusionworks Dance Company, as well as Fiasco Theatre. MFA: NYU
Tisch School of the Arts. Portfolio: http://timcryan.net
KAORU IKEDA (Choreographer/performer) graduated from NYU Tisch School of the
Arts, MFA in Dance. She has trained, performed, choreographed and taught in dance
ranging from classical ballet to Butoh to modern dance. Her work has taken her to
the US, Japan, South Korea and Mexico; where she was an artist in residence and
toured, and choreographed a commission work for Vinculación, with Los Talleres
de Coyoacán. Her choreographic works have been reviewed as “ perfectly realized
dance” (offoffoffdance, 2005), and “moving poetry” (Eyes on Arts, 2012).” Since
2014, she has been Co-Director of CatScratch Theatre. http://kaoruikeda.digi2.jp/
DAVID QUINN (Costume Designer) is equally adept at designing for dance, theatre,
circus, TV, film and the red carpet. Quinn is a favorite of both Burlesque Queens and
Brides. His costumes for dance have received critical acclaim for over twenty years.
Dance View Times says Quinn “is cutting and draping and coloring the most beautiful
dance costumes to be found in New York.” Quinn moved his studio, Quinndustry, to
Bushwick this past fall. He is happy to now be “Made-in-Brooklyn.”
JERAMY ZIMMERMAN (Chroeographer/performer) is a founder and Co-Director of
CatScratch Theatre, and the founder and Artistic Director of FLICfest. Her work for
Da-On Dance
Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm
& Friday, January 30, 7:30 pm
NEVEREND
Choreographer: Jin Ju Song-Begin
Composer/Sound designer: Jerome Begin
Lighting designer: Nick Brown
Performers: Emily Bock, Esmé Boyce, Giulia Carotenuto, Taylor Drury,
Amanda Hinchey, Hoyoung Shin, Gawon Yu, JinJu Song Begin, Jerome Begin
Texts: Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Hide & Seek by Douglas Dunn
biographies
JIN JU SONG-BEGIN is a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher from Seoul,
Korea, whose work has been presented internationally in Korea, Japan and the U.S.
Since permanently moving to New York in 2010, her work has been shown in many
venues in NYC, including the REVERB Dance festival, Danspace at St. Marks Church,
Movement Research at Judson Church, 92Y and Dixon Place. In 2012, Jin Ju
founded her dance company, Da-On Dance. 2013 saw the premiere of Da-On Dance
performing Song-Begin’s evening-length work, THIRST. Jin Ju is currently dancing
with Douglas Dunn & Dancers and the Sean Curran Company, as well as several
other choreographers in the city. www.daondance.com
JEROME BEGIN has composed many scores for dance and theatre, concert works,
installation and film. Equally at home in the classical, experimental, theatrical and
pop worlds, he has always been drawn to collaboration. Dance score commissions
include works for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Brian Brooks Moving
Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Juilliard School, KEIGWIN +
COMPANY, Gallim Dance, Sean Curran Company, and many others. Look for a new
album this year from Tranimal — Jerome’s band with cellist Chris Lancaster. www.
jeromebegin.com
EMILY BOCK These days, Emily Bock pretends to live in New York City. Some days
she wears rings and some days she don’t. Sometime she dance slow. Sometimes
she dance quick.
ESME BOYCE is a NYC based dancer and choreographer and a graduate of
The Juilliard School. Esmé is the artistic director of Esmé Boyce Dance and a
company member with Da-On Dance, Janis Brenner & Dancers, Catherine Tharin
Choreography and has performed with Yara Travieso, Charlotte Bydwell, Dana Katz,
Carlye Eckert, Douglas Dunn, Marta Renzi and Cori Kresge.
GIULIA CAROTENUTO is a NYC-based dance artist hailing originally from Rome, Italy.
She has danced with artists including Douglas Dunn, Mark Dendy, Monica Bill Banes
& Company, and Palissimo by Pavel Zustiak. Giulia is currently a member of the
Faye Driscoll Group and can also be seen in Third Rail Projects critically acclaimed
production Then She Fell.
TAYLOR DRURY, a native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, studied dance in The Royal
Winnipeg Ballet School’s professional division before moving to New York to earn her
BFA in Dance from Juilliard. During her training she had the pleasure of performing
works by Aszure Barton, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Hofesh Schechter, Twyla
Tharp, Martha Graham and Marie Chouinard. Drury looks forward to joining the cast
of Sleep No More for their 2015 season.
AMANDA HINCHEY attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
She has danced with H.T Chen & Dancers, and WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim
Dance Company with whom she has toured internationally to Korea. She is one of
the recipients of William R. Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in
Education.
HOYOUNG SHIN was born in Korea. she graduated from Korea National University of
Arts. She danced in Alvin Ailey school scholarship student, Limon school and Leesaar
The company, Da-On Dance Company. (2013-2015)
GAWON YOO is a dancer from Korea. She graduated from the Gwangju Arts High
School, Kyunghee University and earned Master’s degree at KHU Graduated school.
She was a member of the Seoul Dance Theater. She participated in diverse festival and
workshops, both in and out of Korea from early on. After Gawon moved to New York in
2014, she has participated in works with numerous choreographers to this day.
Mana Hashimoto
Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm
& Thursday, January 29, 9:00 pm
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Stories of the Blind-Light, Shadow and Wind
Choreographed and performance: Mana Hashimoto
Sound design: Omar Zubair
Music: Abandoned sight by Jun Miyake; Flesh for Eve by Jun Miyake; “Can’t
help Falling in Love” by Elvis Presley
Lighting design: Carrie Wood
biographies
MANA HASHIMOTO is a blind dancer and choreographer based in New York City,
originally from Tokyo, Japan. After she lost her sight completely due to undiagnosed
optic nerve atrophy in her adulthood, her life work is devoted to merge blindness
and dance. In her choreography, she seeks to explore the experience of a visually
impaired person who desires to creates artistically by using richness of sounds,
smell and touch. She is also a founder of Dance Without Sight, a multi-sensory
dance workshops and performance productions.
CARRIE WOOD is a NYC-based lighting designer. She has designed for many
wonderful artists including Karen Sherman, Melanie Maar, luciana achugar, Reggie
Wilson, Walter Dundervill, Sarah Michelson, Michael Lluberes, Luke Murphy, Katy
Pyle, and many more! In 2009 she joined Merce Cunningham Dance Company as
the assistant production manager for their final Legacy Tour. She then production
managed MCDC’s final performance at the Park Avenue Armory. Carrie continues
to work for the Merce Cunningham Trust as the Production Supervisor of Licensing.
Carrie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
OMAR ZUBAIR — utilizing the skills developed and continually honed through art
practice, scientific experimentation, and trans-ethnographic participation — has
been focusing on expanding the scope of reality by creating a process of bringing
back artifacts from the dream place, catalyzing the growth of new sensory organs
via confocal synesthetic, and building place times & languages from which multi-
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Renegade Performance Group
Thursday, January 22, 7:30 pm
& Saturday, January 31, 7:30 pm
The Inscription Project
Choreographer: Renegade Performance Group/André M. Zachery
Music: Mos Def, C R O W N S (Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste), Flying Lotus
Sound Designer: André M. Zachery
Sound Mixer: Jessie Nelson
Multimedia Projections: André M. Zachery
Costume Designer: Joy Havens
Lighting Designer: Nick Brown
Visual Artist: Aaron Lazansky-Olivas (Spaze Craft)
Photographer: Rachel Neville
RENEGADE PERFORMANCE GROUP was founded in Brooklyn 2007 as a platform
to engage a new generation of audiences to performance, media, and culture. The
company was formed as an artistic outlet to foster dialogue compelled by the human
experience. Since the company’s inception, RPG has performed throughout NYC,
domestically, and internationally.
biographies
ANDRE M. ZACHARY (°1981, Chicago, United States) is a Brooklyn-based artist
who creates performances and media art. He received his BFA from the Ailey/
Fordham program in 2005, and an MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts
from Brooklyn College in 2014. He also trained at the Dance Theatre of Harlem,
LINES Ballet, and Jacobs Pillow. As the Artistic Director of Renegade Performance
Group he has presented work throughout NYC, Florida A & M University, Florida
State University, LIFT (Atlanta), The Ruth Page Theater and DuSable Museum
(Chicago); and internationally as part of the Cistermusíca Festival 2012 in Portugal.
His works have also received favorable reviews from Jennifer Dunning (New York
Times) and Walter Rutledge (Harlem World Press). He has performed with Elisa Monte
Dance Company, Miller-Rothlein (MIRO), Nathan Trice/RITUALS, CeDeCe (Portugal),
Compagnie THOR (Belgium), Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland), and the National
Tour of AIDA. As an interdisciplinary collaborator, he has led classes and workshops
throughout the country and around the world in Mexico City, Brussels, Belgium, and
Edinburgh, Scotland. Most recently, Zachery initiated the AFROFUTURISM Series
under RPG where the first new work was developed in the 2014 CUNY Dance
Initiative at Brooklyn College. The work will premiere in the 2015 FLICfest at the
Irondale Center in Brooklyn. Zachery will also present work in 2015 E-Moves at
Harlem Stage with RPG, and will be a part of the collective Wildcat! as they present
work commissioned by JACK performance space in Brooklyn in June 2015.
JEREMY TOUSSAINT-BAPTISTE (Music) is a multidisciplinary performer,
conceptualizer, and laborer, working in Brooklyn, New York and Toronto, Ontario. His
work is a constant re-evaluation and complication of the Black body’s relationship
to environments and the various agencies which inhabit them. He frequently
collaborates with musicians, designers, videographer, and choreographer, under
the name CROWNS. His works have been featured by Arts East New York (with
choreographer André M. Zachary), Assembly New York (with videographer Nicole Van
Straatum), at Toronto’s HarbourFront Festival (with musician Brendan Philip), and on
Dazed Digital. Most recently, he has focused on investigating precarity in labor and
its social implications, as an independent corporate art department laborer. He is
currently a 2014 M.F.A. candidate in Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive
Media Arts program.
JOY HAVENS (Costumes) has assumed many roles in the worlds of costume
and dance. Joy’s costume designs have been seen at Danspace Project at St.
Mark’s Church (Jordan Fuchs), Roulette (Elke Rindfleisch/Sarah Weber-Gallo), Mile
Square Theatre (Sarah Weber-Gallo), Mark Morris Dance Center (Sarah Edgar), The
Hague, Netherlands (Caroline Copeland) and Brooklyn Bridge Park (André Zachery/
Renegade Performance Group). She styled the music video Rubikon for the band
Rags + Ribbons directed by Corydon Wagner. Wardrobe credits include: American
Genius (wardrobe supervisor) a period mini-series for TV (currently in postproduction), the Mark Morris Dance Group (assistant wardrobe supervisor), Ballet
Hispanico (seamstress, wardrobe assistant), American Ballet Theatre (dresser) and
the Metropolitan Opera (dresser). As a seamstress she has constructed costumes
for designers Pilar Limosner (Richard Move, Rioult Dance NY, Victoria’s Secret
Fashion Show); Charles Atlas (Douglass Dunn); James Hall (Merce Cunningham
Dance Company); Deanna Berg Designs (Armitage Gone! Dance, Aszure Barton
& Artists, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Benjamin Millepied); and David Quinn (Merce
Cunningham Dance Company, Broadway productions of Young Frankenstein and
Billy Elliot, performers Julie Atlas Muz and Dirty Martini). She has also spent many
hours hand appliquéing wallpaper for Erin Wilson Quilts. In addition to her work
in costume design and wardrobe, Joy is also a professional dancer. Performance
highlights include: Orfeo ed Euridice directed by Mark Morris at the Metropolitan
Opera, presented on The Met: Live in HD series and seen on Great Performances
on PBS, Dreamland Follies with Michael Arenella’s Dreamland Orchestra at the Jazz
Age Lawn Party, Already Seen presented in the inaugural Filament Festival at EMPAC
(Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) with Miller-Rothlein (MIRO), a ninecity tour of India with Thresh (Preeti Vasudevan), and appearing with the New York
Baroque Dance Company at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Joy’s own
choreography has been presented in Ohio and in NYC. Joy is also on the faculty of
the Mark Morris Dance Center and has taught at Bennington College in Vermont.
AARON LAZANSKY-OLIVAS, aka Spaze Crafte One (SC1) (Visual Artist) is a multidisciplined Artist, Educator, Cultural Producer and Chief Creative Director of Soh Nup
Industries NYC. The name Spaze Crafte One comes from an old graf fiti tag from
1986, “SC1”. As a visual artist as well as an other-worldly DJ / Producer, he dubbed
himself the “crafter of spaze”. For the past 10 years Spaze Crafte One has been
providing innovative urban arts, culture, and media literacy programming to young
people & educators on both coasts. SC1 founded “Elevated Urban Arts & Education”
in 1996 and ran the first Urban Arts & Media in-school program in the U.S @ Robert
F. Wagner Secondary School of Arts & Technology. As an active Visual Artist, Spaze
Crafte One has shown works at: Southern Exposure Gallery (SF), Culture Cache
Gallery (SF), The Lab 101 (LA), “Stepping from the Shadows” and “PHENOMENA” 2
national Graf fiti/Urban Art Group shows at the Independent Media Center (Seattle
Wa.), “Pindemonium” group show @ MadameEDGAR Gallery (Montreal), StayGold
Gallery (bklyn), Elevated Urban Arts (NY), Method Lab / Magic Propaganda Mill (bklyn),
RocketWorld Gallery (SF), APT (NY) & New York University Bronfman Gallery (NY).
RACHEL NEVILLE (Photographer) is a a dance and fitness photographer. She works
with dancers, dance companies and fitness professionals to create rock star images
that stand out, get jobs, sell more tickets, and increase client rosters.
SARAH CHIEN (Performer) is a dancer, improviser and traveller. Besides RPG, she
has worked with Emily Faulkner, Sydnie L Mosley Dances and Jody Sperling/Time
Lapse Dance. An alumna of Barnard College, she also trained and performed in Quito,
Ecuador. In 2013 she founded Floor Friends, a network of dancers and teachers
interested in highly acrobatic, physical floorwork.
STEPH LEE: A Strategist, Performer, and Cultivator. She recently quit a career with an
investment bank to recommit to dancing. She is currently working on the intersection
of physical performance and technology, cultivating presence, handstands, and
www.bermuda.nyc. Grateful to be dancing with RPG and making art in NYC!
CANDACE THOMPSON (Performer), a Trinidad and Tobago native, is a dance artist,
choreographer and fitness professional. Her training began at La Danse Caraibe in
ballet and modern and continued at Adelphi University’s Dance Department. She
has gone on to work in Modern, Contemporary, Ballet, Caribbean and Diasporic
Dance and Soca. She currently performs with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, Areytos
Performance Works, Elle NYTT and in her own solo performance work, CanDance
ContempoCaribe. Candace looks forward to adding to the dance landscape in
the U.S. and the Caribbean, and deepening her mastery in performance. www.
candacedancefitness.com
NEHEMOYIA YOUNG is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and cultural artivist.
She has worked with T.Lang Dance, Liberation Dance Theatre, Love Making Dances,
violinist duo Chargaux, and is currently performing with DNA Comedy Collective and
Renegade Performance Group. Nehemoyia joined SLMDances in 2014.
Nicole Wolcott
Friday, January 23, 7:30 pm
& Saturday, January 31, 9:00 pm
PaperPieces
Choreography & Performance: Nicole Wolcott
Sound Design: Omar Zubair
Music: Numerous compositions by Omar Zubair, “Scene IV” composition and
performance by Michael Galasso “Comptine d’un autre ete” composition by
Yann Tiersen, J8b!t remix “Zou bisou bisou” composition by Bill Shepard, Alan
Tew and Michel Rivgauche, performance by Jessica Paré “October 2012 Dior
Runway” by DJ Moda Vita
Lighting Design: Carrie Wood
Thank you to the following people for their guidance and inspiration: Omar Zubair
(perspective, bright-siding tendencies, collaboration and patience), Kate Martel
(spiral movement inspiration, hand holder and my dance crush), Brian Brooks (rigor
guide and coach), Larry Keigwin (enthusiasm, approval and the lizard entrance),
Whitney Jacobs (support, coaching and model advisement), Mary Ellen Carafice
(hand holding and generally helping make it happen), David Parker (encouraging me
to be honest and earnest), Monica Burton (for guidance and friendship), my many
friends who came into the previews to give feedback (Juliana May, Luke Miller,
Darrin Wright), and my family Jie and Laurel for loving me despite it all.
This work was made possible by a generous donation from the Vapnek Family
Foundation, the Chez Bushwick Artist-in-Residence program and the support of the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts Department of Dance.
And by the generosity of the following people: Nicolle Ament, Monica Burton,
Ashley Browne, Geneva and Shane Campbell, Nikki Chalas, Jacqui Adams Crockett,
Nicholas Croft, Tonya Easbey, Aubrey Franchell, Pat Cunningham, Lindsay Gilmour,
Barb Grusing , Larry Keigwin, Elizabeth Nalley, Amy O’Leary, David Parker, Neil Pirie,
Christa Pottenger, Robin Staff, Karin Schall, Gus Solomons Jr., Andrew T Warman,
Natalie Wedeking and Tim Laum, James Wolcott, Susan and Keith Wolcott. A special
thank you to the New York Times and Amy O’Leary (journalist extraordinaire) for her
crucial donation of hundreds of newspapers to help develop this work.
biographies
NICOLE WOLCOTT is a choreographer, teacher and movement artist originally from
Montana and now rooted in Brooklyn. She has performed and collaborated with
dance companies, rock bands and video artists around the country for twenty-one
years. In 2003, Nicole co-founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY with her friend Larry
Keigwin and was the Associate Artistic Director and a featured dancer for nine years.
Now they enjoy working together on independent projects, most recently Nicole was
his Associate Choreographer on the Broadway production of If/Then starring Idina
Menzel, which opened at the Richard Rogers Theater in New York City on March
30th. In addition to dancing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY, other highlights of her career
include performing at the Metropolitan Opera House under the direction of Mark
Dendy; working with site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance; being a featured
dancer in Doug Elkin’s original “Fraulein Maria;” appearing in music videos and
concerts with the art rock phenomenon FischerSpooner; and being a featured dancer
in Across the Universe, an Oscar-nominated film by director Julie Taymor. She is a
passionate teacher and was featured in DANCE TEACHER Magazine. She devotes
much of her time to sharing the JOD (Joy of Dance) with as many people as she can
as a guest artist and resident teacher in studios and universities around the country.
A pet project for Nicole is directing the KEIGWIN + COMPANY Summer Intensive at
The Juilliard School each year.
CARRIE WOOD is a NYC-based lighting designer. She has designed for many
wonderful artists including Karen Sherman, Melanie Maar, luciana achugar, Reggie
Wilson, Walter Dundervill, Sarah Michelson, Michael Lluberes, Luke Murphy, Katy
Pyle, and many more! In 2009 she joined Merce Cunningham Dance Company as
the assistant production manager for their final Legacy Tour. She then production
managed MCDC’s final performance at the Park Avenue Armory. Carrie continues
to work for the Merce Cunningham Trust as the Production Supervisor of Licensing.
Carrie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
OMAR ZUBAIR—utilizing the skills developed and continually honed through art
practice, scientific experimentation, and trans-ethnographic participation—has been
focusing on expanding the scope of reality by creating a process of bringing back
artifacts from the dream place, catalysing the growth of new sensory organs via
confocal synaesthetics, and building placetimes & languages from which multi-species
groups can come together into temporary superorganisms. He has created sound for
the Wooster Group, Lady Gaga, French perfume commercials, movie trailers, spiritual
gatherings..and has been travelling the country for a number of years developing a new
national anthem.
Zullo/RawMovement
Saturday, January 24, 7:30 pm
& Thursday, January 29, 7:30 pm
The Architecture of Proximity
Movement Architect: John J Zullo & Performers
Composer/Sound Design: David Engelhard
Lighting Design: John J Zullo
Clothing: Performers
Performers: Jake Deibert, Bong Dizon, Tracy Dunbar, Jillian Sawyer, Audrey
Rachelle Stanley
Guest Performers: Tushrik Fredericks, Liz Little, Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone,
Lillian Stamey, Kat Sullivan
biographies
JOHN ZULLO is originally from the Bronx, New York and currently resides in NYC. He
graduated from American University in 1996 with a B.A. in Anthropology and 1999
with an M.A. in Dance. Zullo/ RawMovement presented the Memory Suite evening of
works at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June 2014 where it was
a Boston Globe pick if the week. Zullo/RM presented its 2013 season at Danspace
Project at St. Mark’s church as part of the Dance:Access series. The evening of works,
the Memory Suite, included “this Exquisite diversion/mysterious Skin” (2013), “ALL
what THIS do HAS you HAPPENED see? BEFORE” (2012), & project Xiii (2013). Zullo/
RawMovement was presented for a sold out run at the LaMaMa Moves! Festival 2013
and invited to perform in the Dumbo Dance Festival 2013.
DAVID ENGELHARD A New York saxophonist and composer with southern roots,
David Engelhard grew up in Atlanta, GA, and currently lives in Brooklyn. As a
saxophonist, David has performed and toured with the GRAMMY-Award winning Zac
Brown Band, Gregg Allman, John Mayer, Grace Potter, Scott Weiland, and others. As
a composer David has been composing music in a variety of styles including works
with John Zullo at LaMama Theater. David performed a solo composition at the
UN honoring the life and passing of the great Nigerian novelest and humanitarian,
Chicua Achebe. He currently leads a band called Soft Sirens.
JAKE DEIBERT recently graduated with honors from Montclair State University. Since
graduation Jake has worked with 360 dance company, Mazzini Dance Collective, Von
Howard Project, and Life Dance Company.
BONG DIZON graduated from California State University, Hayward with a BA in
Theatre Arts Dance Option. He has danced with Amalgamate Dance Company, Six
Degrees Dance Company, HT Chen Dance Company, The Physical Plant, Kennedy
Dancers, Michelle DuVall Dance Collective and Zullo/RawMovement. Bong would like
to thank the company for this amazing endeavor. #LTC #REAL
TRACY DUNBAR graduated with honors, Magna Cum Laude, from Montclair State
University with a BFA in Dance Performance. Since graduation Tracy has worked with
Freespace Dance, Earl Mosley’s Life Dance Company, and the Von Howard Project.
He is excited to be performing with Zullo/RawMovement.
JILLIAN SAWYER Originally from Kent, CT graduated from SUNY Purchase with a
BFA in Dance & Choreography. After graduating Miss Sawyer joined Raw Movement,
Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre and Jennifer Muller/The Works. She is honored to
be dancing with RawMovement and the intellectual process along with athletic
physicality makes John’s work a welcome challenge. She loves to dance everyday.
AUDREY RACHELLE STANLEY Audrey attended the Nutmeg Conservatory and
graduated salutatorian. She studied at the Netherlands Dance Theater and Hubbard
Street Dance Chicago and danced professionally with Ballet Tucson, Nashville Ballet,
and Winifred Haun & Dancers among others. Currently she dances for Zullo//Raw
Movement, BodyStories:Teresa Fellion Dance, Eunoia and creates her own work.
Guest Performers
TUSHRIK FREDERICKS Originally from South Africa (Johannesburg), currently in
New York City in his final semester in the peridance certificate program which he
graduates from in June 2015.
LIZ LITTLE Liz was raised in Endicott, NY and began her training at Ballet Arts Theatre
as well as Briansky Saratoga Ballet, Pittsburg Ballet Theatre, The Radio City Rockettes,
and New York Dance International under Kazuko Hirabayashi. She graduated from
The Ailey School’s Certificate Program and performed with their Student Performance
Group. She now freelances in New York.
NICOLE LOEFFLER-GLADSTONE is a dance artist and editor located NYC. She
most recently had the pleasure of performing with ChrisMastersDance and is
currently working with Rosie DeAngelo. Nicole is also a co-founder of The Bunker
performance series.
LILLIAN STAMEY is a NY based performer and choreographer. She has had the
amazing opportunity to dance with some innovative choreographers and has also
produced her own work. Lillian has a passion for teaching dance to young children
and would like to send a huge thanks to John Zullo and the company for this
opportunity.
KAT SULLIVAN is a graduate of Skidmore College where she majored in dance and
computer science. Taking this unusual pairing, she is now a masters candidate at
NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Prior to starting her masters, she
freelanced with a variety of companies in Boston including Jasmine Dancers and
Cambridge Dance Company.
Irondale Ensemble at the Irondale Center
Dead End (2013)
The wine for the cafe is donated by Big Nose Full Body,
a proud sponsor of Irondale.
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1599: Hamlet
(2015)
