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"Mature, commanding artists" - New York Times In December of 2007, fellow dancers Sonja Kostich and Brandi Norton decided to start a dance company. Overnight, they created OtherShore, a dancer-led company in New York City that brought together directors, dancers, composers and visual artists in order to develop and broaden their artistry. With an invitation to be the first artists-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center to be fully produced through its presentation series, combined with immense support and enthusiasm from fellow artists, they premiered their company in the fall of 2008 with sold out performances at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Bringing together a core group of dancers with uncountable amounts of professional experience in the major national dance companies, both contemporary and ballet, enabled them to initiate projects stemming from their own artistic interests. This tenet in dance is almost unknown, as artistic ideas and the producing of them, tends to be initiated by choreographers. Dancer initiated projects are unique in their viewpoints. To continue to mine the special perspective that dancers bring to dance/theater work remains at the core of OtherShore. |
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| SONJA KOSTICH (Co-Director, Dancer) was born in Korea and raised in Minnesota where she received her early dance training at Minnesota Dance Theatre under the direction of Loyce Houlton. She also performed in numerous productions at The Children’s Theatre and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. At fifteen, she moved to New York City where she continued her dance studies at New York City Ballet’s School of American Ballet and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s ABT/School of Classical Ballet. At seventeen, she was asked by Mikhail Baryshnikov to join American Ballet Theatre. She continued her professional dance career at San Francisco Ballet, Zurich Ballet, and Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. As a freelance artist she has most notably worked with Peter Sellars and Mark Morris, as a principal dancer in John Adams’ Nixon in China (English National Opera), Mozart's Idomeneo (Glyndebourne) and in Sellars' Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex/Symphony of Psalms for Esa Pekka Salonen's final concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Disney Hall). Her choreography credits include Sung Rno's play Masks for the Miryang Performing Arts Festival in Korea. Sonja is a certified ballet teacher by American Ballet Theatre and has taught at ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in the Children’s Division, ABT's Young Dancer Summer Program, Mark Morris Dance Center, Dance New Amsterdam and Peridance in New York and at Harvard College. She is also a certified Kundalini yoga teacher. Sonja has contributed writing to Dance Magazine and Dance Spirit magazine and has worked as an assistant to the dance editor at Time Out New York magazine. Sonja dedicates this company to her mother and father.
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| BRANDI NORTON(Co-Director, Dancer) was born in Kotzebue, Alaska and grew up in Fairbanks. She studied ballet with Norman Shelburne until she went to The Juilliard School, where she earned her B.F.A. in dance in 1996. During this time she also trained at The Alvin Ailey and Paul Taylor schools as a scholarship student. She joined the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1997 and enjoyed a fulfilling career there until 2006. She was involved in the creation of eight new choreographies with Ms. Brown, including El Trilogy, PRESENT TENSE and Winterreise. She then took part in the Jerwood Bank Project with the Siobhan Davies Dance Company in London. She has since been on faculty at the Stella Adler School of Acting and Moving East, London. Ms. Norton has set the work of Trisha Brown all over the world, most recently at Documenta 12. Ms. Norton and Ms. Kostich were invited, as the co-directors of the new dance company OtherShore, to be the first artists-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center to be fully produced through its presentation series. Brandi is proud to be working with Ms. Kostich as founding directors of OtherShore. | |
LISA HAHN (Board of Directors) is president of Arts Horizon International. She received her B.A. from Princeton University where she majored in Classical Archaeology, a program she initiated that bridged the Art History and Classics Departments. Lisa attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece where she worked on her thesis and traveled extensively. Her thesis topic was: "The Cult of Aesclepius at Epidaurus." Lisa attended New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for an M.A. degree. Her major was "Performance Studies", a department formed to address critical writing issues in the performing and visual arts. She had the opportunity to study acting and directing with Joseph Chaikin, founder of The Open Theatre, and playwriting with Jean Claude van Itallie. In December 1993, Lisa participated as a speaker at The Salzburg Seminar in Austria in a session called "The Arts in the World Economy." This has been published as a book by the University Press of New England and features Lisa's essay in the company of the other contributors Jane Alexander, George Soros, and John Brademas. Lisa spends time during the summer helping her mother run a performing arts center called Windhover in Rockport, Mass., 40 miles north of Boston. |
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| DARIN BASSIN (Board of Directors), Legal Counsel, CBS Television Network | |
| ALISON GIFFORD (Board of Directors), Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs at Comcast Entertainment Group | |
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