ECOLOGICAL CITY PERFORMANCE BIOS 2018
LYNN NEUMAN-ARTICHOKE DANCE COMPANY: Lynn Neuman is the Artistic Director of Artichoke Dance Company founded in 1995. Artichoke has held seventeen New York seasons and toured nationally and internationally. Since 2005, the company has been presented at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, PS122, 92nd Street Y, Dixon Place, American Theatre of Actors, University Settlement and Symphony Space, as well as at festivals including Fringe NYC, Dance/Now NYC, DUMBO Arts Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Since 2010 their work has focused on environmental issues and included large scale upcycling projects rooted in community involvement and education. artichokedance.org
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VANGELINE THEATER, Butoh Dance Theater Director to develop a performance work for a waterfront site exploring water pollution, sea-level rise and climate impacts on the waterfront. Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh. She is the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century and the founder of the New York Butoh Institute. Vangeline’s socially conscious performances tie together butoh and activism. Her performances have dealt with subjects as varied as feminism, climate change, war and perceptions of gender. Her works have been presented in New York at Joyce SoHo, White Wave, the New Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, and PS122 with awards from Puffin Foundation, Japan Foundation, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Council on the Arts, and Asian American Arts Alliance. She is the founder of the 10-year running, award-winning program “Dream a Dream Project”, which brings Butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York City. http://www.vangeline.com
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THE NEW YORK CITY STREET PLAYERS create site-specific theatrical happenings to confront the urban landscape. We believe that theater is a VOICE, not a PLACE, and so should be performed OUTDOORS and for FREE. The company, which is directed by Brooklyn-based urbanist Drew Vanderburg, always welcomes new participants from any and all walks of life. http://www.thepoemroom.com/
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NOT FOG is an interdisciplinary project that brings together musicians, dancers, actors, designers, visual artists, and programmers, and creates collaborative work that addresses issues of air pollution and highlights individual characteristics of the performers, building an intimate yet distant, comforting yet suffocating environment for the audience.
Lemon Guo (director and composer), Jing Li (costume design), Mengtai Zhang (visual projection)
Vocal and movement ensemble: Anna Lublina, Anna Slate, Amélie Gaulier, Leigh Akin
http://lemonguomusic.com/
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JODY SPERLING – TIMELAPSE DANCE, Choreographer/Dancer will develop a visual performance work exploring the river, waterfront redevelopment and their green infrastructure projects addressing water quality, water-filtration, oyster planting, wetlands and grey-water recycling. Jody Sperling is a dancer/choreographer and Founder/Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance. She has created more than 40 works and has performed and taught in the US, Bahrain, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Scotland and north of the Arctic Circle. In 2014, Sperling participated in a polar science mission to the Arctic as the first-ever choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker. During the expedition, she danced on the polar ice cap and made the award-winning dance film Ice Flow. She holds an MA in Performance Studies (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) and a BA in Dance and Italian (Wesleyan University). http://timelapsedance.com/about/jody-sperling
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LYNN NEEDLE – ART OF MOTION ENSEMBLE, Founder/Artistic Director of Art of Motion is a former Soloist in the Nikolais Dance Theatre. A recipient of the Dance Magazine ACDFA National Award for choreography, Lynn has performed and taught internationally, worked in documentary film and enjoys teaching dance, yoga and collaborating with artists. Her work with dance partner, Kent Lindemer has resulted in a recent sold out evening of modern dance and theatre. Also performing is Kent Lindemer, M.F.A. is an Emmy Award winning performer and former principal dancer and collaborative choreographer with Pilobolus Dance Theatre,1989-2000. He founded Integrative Somatics in 2000, providing therapeutic Bodywork, Yoga and Dance training nationally and internationally. His collaborations with Lynn Needle explore the complex worlds of relationship, nature and myth. Dance “Shakti” Performed by Art of Motion Ensemble, www.artofmotion.org