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Thanks for visiting my website. I am a contemporary dance maker working specifically with improvisation, intermedia and Butoh. My
approach is heavily influenced by researches in Japan where
since 1999 I have been training and performing in the Butoh lineage first with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm) and since 2001 with Akira Kasai.
My curiosity in movement extends into other art forms engaging me in collaborative processes that destabilize, sparking unexpected visions to create new ways of seeing and
experiencing dance. My projects have included
improvisational performances with live musicians, solo & group choreographies,
dance film and have recently concentrated on Kinodance
Company which creates live intermedia performance works seamlessly integrating film, light, sound and kinetic sets. I see my work in dance and my explorations
in intermedia performance forms as a path towards possibility in seeing
and feeling movement and its potential for empowerment and change.
I
have had the great pleasure to collaborate and/or perform with musicians:
Seth Barger, Bobby McFerrin, Tatsuya Nakatani, Chris Brokaw, Mike Bullock,
Jonathan Vincent, Masakatsu Takagi, Geoff Farina; choreographers: Akira
Kasai, Paula Josa-Jones, Norah Chipaumire (Urban Bush Women), Brenda
Divelbliss, Nicola Hawkins, Sara Sweet-Rabideux, Christine Bennett,
Wendy Jehlen; visual artists: Jodi Buonanno & Dedalus Wainwright;
and my creative soulmate, the filmmaker & curator Alla Kovgan.
biographic
information
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1996
B.A. in English Literature, minor in History, Boston University
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1997-1998
Nicola Hawkins Dance Company (Boston, MA)
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1998-2002
Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, tours in "Antigone's
Dream"
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summer
1999 travels to Japan, participates in ArtCamp99 and study with
Min Tanaka, Body Weather Workshop (Hakushu, Japan)
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fall
1999 establishes the Outside Art Collective with friends in
Boston, stages a series of performances with Dillon Paul in
public sites around the city of Boston
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winter
2001 returns to Body Weather Farm for Dancers Workshop with
Min Tanaka
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summer
2001 meets Akira Kasai, Theatre Artaud, San Francisco
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fall
2001 creates "Body Tales for the New Millennium" an
intermedia performance of body/light/sound/construction with
Alla Kovgan, Dedalus Wainwright and Seth Barger produced by
Mobius Experimental Arts Space, Boston MA
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2002
Mass Cultural Council Choreography Grant Finalist winner
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winter
2003 Ghent, Belgium, collaborates on Landing 1 with Belgian
dancer Petra Vermeersch at the Small House for Radical Art
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2003
receives a M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University
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summer
2003 performs in Akira Kasai’s “Nobody Eve”
(Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan)
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2004 awarded an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship for 3 months
of collaboration and dance research in Japan
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Nov
2004 performs in “Wonder Girl” with Yoshito Ohno
and Naoka Uemura
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2004
establishes Kinodance Company,
an intermedia performance collaborative with Alla Kovgan and
Dedalus Wainwright in Boston, MA
- 2005 co-curates
and produces the conference and event series Ideas in Motion:
Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology for the Boston
CyberArts Festival 2005 (www.bostoncyberarts.org/conf/iim)
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