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BIG DANCE THEATER (ChoreographerS) Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar founded Big Dance Theater with Molly Hickok in 1991. The company and its directors have been honored with a BESSIE in 2002, an OBIE in 2000, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, the first annual Jacobs Pillow Creativity Award for Choreography in 2007, and NYFA Fellowships in 2000 and 2005. They have created 15 pieces for the company, touring the work both nationally and internationally to such venues as The Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art/ Chicago, The American Dance Festival, The Spoleto Festival USA, On the Boards/Seattle, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Yerba Buena/San Francisco, and UCLA, Live!, as well as international festivals and venues in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Tbilisi, Brazil and Germany. In New York City, their work has been presented at many venues but most often at Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Classic Stage Company, and the Guggenheim Works & Process Series. Their next Big Dance show will premiere in Lyon, France at Les Subsistances and in NYC at FIAF/Alliance Francaise. It is a choreographic adaptation of an Agnes Varda film from 1961 entitled Comme Toujours Here I Stand. |
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EDWAARD LIANG (Choreographer) was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He was raised in Marin County, CA, and began his ballet training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Mr. Liang entered the School of American Ballet. He joined New York City Ballet in the spring of 1993, and that same year he was a medal winner at the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition and the Mae L. Wien Award. He was promoted to Soloist in 1998. Mr. Liang danced with NYCB until 2001, when he joined the Broadway cast of Fosse, performing a leading principle role. In 2002 Mr. Liang became a member of the acclaimed Nederlands DansTheater 1, where he danced, choreographed and staged ballets. After returning from Holland, Mr. Liang returned to NYCB until 2007. Mr. Liang has also performed as a Guest Artist with various companies like the Norwegian National Ballet, Morphoses and Complexions. Mr. Liang is now a freelance choreographer and dancer. Edwaard Liang has choreographed a number of works. Starting with Nederlands Dans Theater 1 workshop, FLIGHT OF ANGELS, which has since been staged for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Configurations. Mr. Liang was invited to do a piece for the 2004 New York Choreographic Institute. Mr. Liang’s DISTANT CRIES, danced by NYCB Principal Dancers Peter Boal and Wendy Whelan, was premiered to rave reviews from the New York Times for the Joyce Theatre, New York City Ballet Gala, and in City Center. Edwaard Liang has since choreographed various ballets for companies and projects such as NYCB, San Francisco Ballet, Shanghai Ballet, Washington Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Hubbard Street 2, Guggenheim’s Works and Process, and Morphoses the Wheeldon Company, Cedar Lake Dance. Mr. Liang was named one of the “TOP 25 to Watch” for 2006 by Dance Magazine, winner of the 2006 National Choreographic Competition, a part of the 2007 National Choreographers Initiative, and nominated for a Golden Mask Award in Russia. Mr. Liang was featured in the NYCB Workout book and its accompanying video and Richard Corman’s book of photographs Glory. Mr. Liang’s television appearances include the nationally televised PBS Great Performances broadcast Dance in America: From Broadway: Fosse which has subsequently been made into a DVD. |
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STACY MATTHEW SPENCE (Choreographer) is an independent choreographer, dancer, and teacher living in New York City. He graduated with an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and went on to dance with several New York choreographers and artists including Polly Motley, Molly Davies and Phyllis Lamhut. Stacy joined The Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1997, performing nationally and internationally with the company until 2006. He continues to work with the company, leading classes, workshops and lectures focused on Trisha Brown’s repertory, and he has participated in the restaging of several of her works, among them Trisha Brown’s production of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo. Stacy directed the restaging of several Trisha Brown repertory works, including Set and Reset/Reset, 5 Part Weather Invention, Canto/Pianto, and sections of Newark at London Contemporary Dance School’s EDge, the University of Southern Florida, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France. In 2006, Stacy’s own work I wanted to be close to you was commissioned by EDge at London Contemporary Dance School, followed by Adjusted Space for the University of New Mexico in 2007. Stacy also continues to teach internationally as well as locally, most recently at Tisch School of the Arts and Movement Research. |
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ROSALYNDE LEBLANC (Dancer) received her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase (1994), and has since been dancing professionally in NY. She was a member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1993-1999) and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (1999-2002). She has also danced with The Metropolitan Opera and at the Salzburg Festival in Joachim Schloemer’s, Irrfahrten. She can be seen in the dance documentaries, Free to Dance, StillHere, and Dancing in the Light; and in Burt Barr’s short film, Roz. Currently Ms. LeBlanc is on faculty at Long Island University and continues her work with Bill T. Jones in the restaging of his pieces at universities around the country. |
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ROBBIE COOK (Dancer) is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer and teacher whose work has been seen in NYC at The 92nd Street Y, The Flea, Club La MaMa, Tonic 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, 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 and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and has danced for Keith Thompson, Margaret Jenkins, Deborah Hay (Solo Performance Commissioning Project/2001 & 2007) and Jan Erkert among many others. 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. |
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PETER BRANDENHOFF (Dancer) was born in Denmark and he just ended a 14 year career with San Francisco Ballet. He trained at The Royal Danish Ballet. He performed with the Royal Danish Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Boston Ballet, South African Ballet Theatre and in various festivals and theaters throughout the world. He has worked with choreographers John Neumeier, Val Caniparoli, Julia Adam, Redha, Mark Morris, David Bintley and James Kudelka to name a few. Peter has enjoyed dancing in the widest range of repertoire as possible, dancing everything from modern to character roles. He is currently performing with the San Francisco Opera and will be teaching and dancing throughout the Bay Area. |
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ELIZABETH DEMENT (Dancer) was born in Ukiah, California where she began her training with Mary Knight of the Mendocino Ballet Company. She also studied at the Marin Ballet School. After dancing professionally with Riverside Ballet Theatre, she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School, under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy. She has enjoyed performing with the Limon Dance Company, Christine Dakin and Scott Rink. She has been a member of Neo Labos Dancetheatre, Mark Jareske and Dancers, Peridance Ensemble, Take Dance, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and Liz Gerring Dance. Elizabeth is proud of her collaboration with Victoria Anderson which led to the creation and performance of Debbie’s Debbie. She has been working closely with Patrick Corbin for the past five years and is now creating a solo piece for his company. She is a certified yoga instructor and a student at the Shambhala Center for meditation. |
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MIGUEL ANAYA (Dancer) began his training in Brownsville, Texas at the Bellas Artes Academy. He has received scholarships from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, the Joffrey Ballet School and the Alvin Ailey School. He was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1996- 2001 and the White Oak Dance Project from 2001- 2003. He has also worked with Sean Curran, Zvi Gotheiner, Diversity of Dance and Physual. He was the assistant choreographer for the the Tony Award winning musical Spring Awakening. |
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Aaron Mattocks (Dancer) a Pennsylvania native and Sarah Lawrence College alumnus, began dancing with Christopher Williams in 1998, and has since appeared with him in Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins (P.S. 122), Trapeze (Bard SummerScape Festival), and The Golden Legend (Danspace Project, La MaMa E.T.C., Dance Theater Workshop). For choreographer Kathy Westwater, he premiered Dark Matter (D.T.W.), Macho (92nd Street Y), Booty Object (Danspace Project) and PARK (Judson Church). He collaborates with Ursula Eagly, who created Aaron Mattocks in 2009 (Dance New Amsterdam, New Museum). Theater work with director Michael Levinton includes Balabustas! (HERE Arts Center) and Eugene O′Neill′s Thirst (The Chocolate Factory), both for Target Margin Theater. He recently assisted director/choreographer Mark Morris on the staging of Stravinsky's Renard for the Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center. He joined OtherShore in May 2009 for a commission by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar. |
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CORNELIUS DUFALLO (violinist/composer) Heralded by The New York Times as one of the “new faces of new music,” violinist/composer Cornelius Dufallo has quickly risen to the forefront of the American contemporary music scene. He is currently director of the creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks; since 2005 he has also been a performer/composer member of the world-renowned amplified string quartet known as ETHEL. His ongoing commitment to cutting edge musical innovation has produced collaborations with many of today’s most compelling performers and composers. His own music has been performed by ETHEL, the Flux Quartet, the Cutting Edge Ensemble, Ne(x)tworks, and pianist Jenny Lin. Dufallo has recorded for Koch International Classics, Mode Records, Cantaloupe, and Tzadick, and his own compositions can be heard on Cantaloupe and Koch International Classics. Music for Electric Violin is a study in intermittence, repetition and abstraction. The opening music (based on the upper harmonic partials) descends slowly from the violin’s highest register, passing through three variant phases before returning to the musical stratosphere. This piece is inspired by the purity and inherent musicality of Stacy Spence’s choreography. Some material is derived from my earlier Suite for Electric Violin, but has been reworked for this new piece. It is a great pleasure to write music for the masterful artists of OTHERSHORE. |
Erik Wagner (Dancer) Tei Blow (Sound Designer) Mark Kostabi (Painter) Eli Orling (Sound Designer) Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) Jack Warren (Set Designer) Jean Yu (Costume Designer) |
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| Photography: Tiffany Walling McGarity and John McGarity (www.wallingmcgarity.com) Costumes: Jean Yu Website design: Ramon Tejada |
