© Photo by Kerrie Welsh
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Laurie Berg hails from St. Louis, MO. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance in 2002. After dancing in Tucson with the NewARTiculations dance company, Laurie moved to Brooklyn. Since moving toNYC, she has worked with This That Dance Collective, Siri Peterson, Murray Spalding, the SHUA Group, Keigwin and Co., Juliette Mapp, and Jenny Owen Youngs. In 2006, she founded the Free Radical Collective, along with other dancers, musicians, visual artists, and an architect. She has presented her own work at various venues through the Free Radical Collective, as well as at the 60x60 Festival, the Black Box at 440, the Woodster, and at AUNTS. She is currently working on the Human Diorama Project, an art/dance installation piece, with Liliana Dirks-Goodman. In addition to dancing, Laurie also enjoys late night crafts involving plastic animals and X-acto knives, but never at the same time. She has two turtles named Sam and Ella. Ella's the boy.
Deborah Black holds a BFA with honors in dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a second major in Art History. She has danced with Susan Rethorst, Young Soon Kim White Wave Dance Company, Naomi Goldberg-Haas, Lorelei Bayne, L Minh Tam, Breezy Berryman, Jenny Pommiss, and the Anna Sokolow's Players Project. She is currently rehearsing a solo commissioned from Deborah Hay as part of the Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn, Scotland. Deborah has taught master classes in the dance departments of James Madison University and the University of South Florida. At these universities she assisted Lorelei Bayne as choreographer and rehearsal director. Deborah has Lorelei's New York dance group. Her choreography has been produced in Berlin and many venues in New York.
Cindy Chung Camins is a dance artist based in New York. Born in Taiwan and raised in Southern California, she graduated from UCLA with BAs in World Arts and Cultures and International Development Studies. Cindy has had the pleasure of working with Victoria Marks, Milka Djordjevich/Team Djordjevich, tompricedance, Mariangela Lopez/Accidental Movement Theater, among others, performing in venues in New York City such as Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research at Judson Church, NY City Center and Danspace Project. She has toured with Parijat Desai Dance Company performing in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, and Chennai, India. Cindy is also a certified Pilates instructor.
Robbie Cook is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer and teacher whose work has been seen in NYC at Dumbo Dance Festival, Tonic, 92nd Street Y, The Flea, Club La MaMa and BRIC studio (Danspace Project), all over Chicago at venues including The Dance Center of Columbia College, Athenaeum Theater and Links Hall; as well as nationally at Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska and at Wellspring in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He received a Finalist Grant from the Illinois Arts Council for choreography in 2001. Robbie is currently dancing for Liz Gerring (NYC) and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (D.C.) and has danced for Keith Thompson (NYC), Margaret Jenkins (San Francisco), Deborah Hay (Solo Performance Commissioning Project/2001 & 2007) and Jan Erkert (Chicago). He has taught dance at Bennington College, Long Island University and master classes at UCLA and ADF. He earned a BFA in Visual Art from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Dance from Bennington College.
Alison D'Amato is a choreographer and performer working in New York City, having recently completed an MA in European Dance Theater Practice from the Laban Centre in London (2006). From 2002-2005 she lived and worked in Philadelphia, dancing for a range of local choreographers and companies such as Nichole Canuso Dance Company and Headlong Dance Theater. Since 2003, Alison has been a co-director of Dead Genius Productions, a dance/theater collective that has presented work at Chashama, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the nEW Festival (Philadelphia), the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and Haverford College. Alison has presented her own choreography at several venues in Philadelphia and internationally at the Laban Centre and The International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival Bytom, Poland. In 2007, she'll present new work at Dixon Place and the Open Performance series at Movement Research. Since moving to New York, Alison has also been dancing for Sasha Welsh and De Facto Dance, writing for The Dance Insider, and working in the administrative office of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
Erin Jelacic moved to New York in the fall of 2006 after receiving her B.A from DeSales University under the supervision of Vincent Brousseau, Tim Cowart, and Trinette Singleton. Upon her arrival to the city she began working as Production Assistant for Tamar Rogoff's P.S. 122 show Edith&Jenny, featuring Claire Danes and Ariel Flavin. Shortly after Edith&Jenny she began working for the Tiffany Mill's Company as an intern in addition to volunteering for choreographers Bill Young and Colleen Thomas. She also had her first NY performance this past summer as an ensemble dancer in "Quirks" shown at HERE Performance Art Center.
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, and now dances and lives in New York. She received her BFA in dance from Temple University, and has also studied Capoeira Angola with Mestre Valmir in Salvador, Brazil. She has worked with various artists and companies in Philadelphia and in NY such as Marianela Boan's Boan Danz Action, Leah Stein Dance Company, Yelena Gluzman's Science Project, Noemi Segarra, Darla Stanley, Megan Mazarick, Melanie Stewart, Merian Soto, Nicole Bindler, Charles Anderson and more. Her own choreography has been and will be shown in various venues in Philadelphia and New York.
Originally from St.Petersburg, Florida, Cynthia St.Clair spent her formative years studying dance at The Pinellas County Center for the Arts, Academy of Ballet Arts, The Juilliard School, and The American Dance Festival. In May of 2004, Cynthia graduated Summa Cum Laude from Temple University with a BFA in Modern Dance and Choreography. She has enjoyed the opportunity to perform and work professionally with Paule Turner's COURT, Charles O. Anderson's Dance Theatre X, Darla Stanley Dance, Philip Grosser, and Sasha Welsh, among others. She has presented her own choreography at the d.u.m.b.o. Dance Festival, The Far Space, and Movement Research's Open Performance Series at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City, as well as at various venues throughout the east coast of the United States. When she's not in rehearsal, Cynthia can be found teaching dance and yoga to people of all ages, working as a labor-support doula, and traveling the world.
Kerrie Welsh is a multi-media artist working in digital video, new media, and installation. She is committed to collaborative investigations that explore the body in media-space or use media in live space. Formally, she is interested in deconstructing (and reconstructing) cinematic conventions: rethinking genre, mixing mediums, practicing alternative production paradigms. Her most recent work is both abstract and autobiographical, tracing feelings of family though the body. She is drawn towards questions of aging, of what it means to be alive as an individual woman or man in any particular moment out of these streams of moments that make up culture. Kerrie completed her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeÕs experimental film program and earned her MA in Women's Studies from Ohio State. Both her degrees have been fully funded through teaching assistantships. Her BFA is in film production from NYUÕs Tisch school, where she taught for several years before beginning her graduate study. Her work has been seen in festivals, galleries, and other venues throughout North America.
Composer/producer J Why performs on bass clarinet, drum set and electronics. The recent album "Urban Shocker" that J created in collaboration with Julz A is music consisting entirely of sounds recorded on the streets, in the parks and subways of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Recent projects include: compositions contributed to the score for Amir Bar-Lev's Sundance Festival hit documentary "My Kid Could Paint That"; original score for the dance video short "Fist City, directed by Anna Brady Nuse and Sasha Welsh; and producer for the albums "Not the Same" by the Benny Lackner Trio; and "Squeeze Rock" by Julz A. Email jwhy@speakeasy.net.