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A.
Apostol grew up in California, graduated
from The Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance, and
was a principal performer with the Stanley Love
Performance Group for many, many years. A. performed
Glen's work last in James Hall's "Operation
BLISS" in 1997 and is quite happy, amused and
thrilled to be doing so again, with such a great group
of STARS.
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| Eric
Bounds is thrilled to be involved in this,
his first event with Glen Rumsey Dance Project.
Eric received a BFA in dance from NYU Tisch Dance
in 2003, at which point he decided to take a break
from dancing to persue a career in the Drag Arts.
In the years since, he has created a persona (Ericka
Toure Aviance) who has become a nightlife icon
and has recently released songs recorded with Johny
McGovern and tranny rap supergroup La'Mady.
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| Raquel
Cion has performed extensively in NYC as
well as in Paris and the former Soviet Union. As a
founding member of San Francisco's theatre company
The Fifth Floor, she received a Dramalogue
Award and a Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award.
For the past few years she was seen at Fez as the
chanteuse Cou-Cou Bijoux in the vaudeville
burlesque show, The Va Va Voom Room. Raquel
is a graduate of New York University's Experimental
Theater Wing, Tisch School of the Arts and is now
working towards a master's degree in library and information
studies. Go figure! |
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Jean
Freebury is happy to be performing again
with Glen Rumsey. She received her dance training
at Alberta Ballet School, London Contemporary Dance
School and North Carolina School of the Arts. She
was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
from 1992-2003 and has been a faculty member of the
school since 1996. Recently she has performed with
Makram Hamdan (2004), Glen Rumsey (2005), Elke Rindfleisch
(2006) and is an active member of Magnetic Laboratorium
- an interdisciplinary group directed by visual artist
Marisela La Grave. She continues her dance studies
with Christine Wright.
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Makram
Hamdan (Beirut, Lebanon 1966) is a Choreographer,
Dancer and Landscape Designer. The officially launched
Makram Hamdan Dance Company (mhdc) will have
its first residency at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center
www.watermillcenter.org
for the creation of a new evening length work, titled
"Double Quartet". Hamdan has been choreographing
independently since 1998, touring in Lebanon and France,
and appearing in Philadelphia and New York's Joyce
Soho. Since 2002, Hamdan has been choreographer and
rehearsal director to Robert Wilson for "AIDA",
"Alcest", "Carmen", "NDT
III", "Tulips and Dancers and Space",
and has been a participating artist at the Watermill
Center since 1999. Prior to moving to New York in
2001, Hamdan principally danced with Andy Degroat,
Cie Red Notes, Jean Claude Gallotta,
CCN de Grenoble, Robert Wilson,
and intermittently with Bouvier/Obadia, Johnathan
Apple, and Douglas Becker. Hamdan is
also a core member of Magnetic Laboratorium
since 2001 and dancer with the Glen Rumsey Dance
Project since 2005. He is a California Institute
of the Arts Alumni, attended London Contemporary Dance
School on scholarship, and was recipient of an honorary
degree from the Centre National de La danse, in Paris
France.
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Andy
Jordan - costume assistant/props
Artist and designer Andy Jordan is happy to be involved
again with Glen on a project. Andy met the Glen
Rumsey crew during Glen's last project, "ignored
in my heaven", when he was assisting designer
David Quinn. Andy continues to work with David Quinn
on various adventures as well as with the Izquierdo
Studio, while pursuing various freelance gigs
and personal projects in art, fashion and performance.
Andy received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy
of Art and his BFA from the Columbus College of
Art and Design.
www.andyjordan.net
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Katherine
Nauman began her dance training in Madison,
Wisconsin. After high school, acceptance into the
Joffrey Ballet School brought her to New York City.
Katherine received scholarships from Ballet Hispanico,
STEPS Studio, and the Ailey School, where she earned
a Certificate of Dance with a concentration in the
Horton technique. New York performance credits include:
founding member and soloist with Maffei Dance
Company 1997-2003, Stanley Love Performance
Group 1999-2002, and bopi's black sheep/dances
by kraig patterson 2003-present. Katherine has
performed as a guest artist with Kanopy Dance
Company, Madison, WI and Ballet Creole,
Toronto, Ontario. She worked as teaching and choreographic
assistant to Milton Myers and has been on
faculty at STEPS Studio, the Dance Studio of Park
Slope and the Connecticut Ballet Centre. Katherine
has performed and taught at festivals around the world
including: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), Jacob's
Pillow (MA), Internationale Tanz-Wochen Wien (Austria)
and Vortex Jazz Congress (Moscow, Russia).
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Banu
Ogan was born in Ankara, Turkey and grew
up in Bloomington, Indiana where she studied ballet
with Lila Higgins and won a National Society
of Arts and Letters Career Award in Dance. In 1991,
Banu graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Biology
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance
Company from 1993 to 2000 and originated roles
in ten new works. Since leaving the company, she has
performed in pieces by former Cunningham dancers Foofwa
d'Imobilite and Ashley Chen and she
has also danced with The Seldoms, a Chicago-based
dance company directed by Carrie Hanson.
Banu has been a faculty member of the Merce Cunningham
Dance Studio since 1998 and has also taught technique
class and repertory workshops in Spain, Switzerland,
Italy, Japan, Brazil and Turkey. She has staged Cunningham's
work for the Royal Swedish Ballet (CRWDSPCR,
1993), for students at New World School for the Arts
in Miami, Florida (INLETS 2, 1983), for ATON/Dino
Verga Danza in Rome, Italy (CROSS CURRENTS, 1964)
and for students at Columbia College, Chicago, (MinEvent,
2003). She spent 2004-05 as a full-time faculty lecturer
at Columbia College and returned to Illinois for a
short stint in October to stage a Cunningham MinEvent
on students at the University of Illinois. Banu
also teaches part-time at the Juilliard School.
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Native of Greensboro, NC., Glen Rumsey
graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts
in 1992. He was a principal member of the Merce
Cunningham Dance Company from 1993-1999. He has
also performed with Pam Tanowitz, Stanley
Love, Mark Morris, Sarah Michelson,
and Todd Williams. As a choreographer, Mr.
Rumsey has shown work at Dixon Place, Danspace Project's
St. Mark's Church, P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Dance Theater
Workshop, as well as various public spaces around
the city. After he premiered the Glen Rumsey Dance
Project in "...ignored in my heaven"
at Location One, Jennifer Dunning from The New York
Times wrote, "It is a world complete unto itself,
with its own crazy logic and dazzlingly imaginative
designs...". And Gia Kourlas from Time Out New
York called it "a fantastical suite of dances
in which Rumsey's vivid imagination is brought to
life with the help of 15 wonderful performers...".
In late summer of 2006, Mr. Rumsey was the recipient
of the Dance Theater Workshop Residency Program. He
has been creating, directing and choreographing a
project, which will be presented at Danspace Project
in late June of 2007. He also has an award-winning
alter ego named Shasta
Cola, who does her share of performing
around the world, daring to go where no man has gone
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| Lisa
Boudreau was born in Ontario, Canada and
trained at the Royal Winnapeg Ballet. Since moving
to New York, she has worked with Milton Meyers
and Mafata Dance Company. She became a member
of the CDF Repertory understudy group and
joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
in July 1994. In 2001, Lisa made her film debut in
Mikel Rouse's feature "Funding". |
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| Alexander
Gish received his MFA from NYU's Tisch School
of the Arts and currently dances with Brian Brooks
Moving Company, Keigwin/CO, and Fionna
Marcotty. He has taught at universities and festivals
throughout the U.S., most recently, as a two year
full time Visiting Lecturer at The University of Maryland,
College Park. His own choreography has been performed
throughout New York and the DC area. Alexander is
a Yoga Alliance certified instructor of ISHTA yoga. |
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Linda
Martini is an artist. There. I said it. Many
people said it couldn't be done: teachers, peers,
family, but here I am on the stage more than once
a year and I write performer on my tax forms. I think
that qualifies. In fact, because I chose an illegitimate
artform as my tool to create (burlesque, under the
name Dirty Martini), I've been on the stage
more than most performing artists that I know with
the exception of Broadway showfolk perhaps. I suppose
the reason that I mention this is that Glen asked
me to do something other than burlesque and I generally
do whatever Glen wants me to do. This time, my knee
injury is better and Glen wants me to dance...alot...dance
like I danced for Stanley Love Performance Group.
Dancing isn't easy. I mean it's not easy to execute,
but mostly I mean it's not easy to be a dancer these
days. I have no place to rehearse and if I'm lucky
I take class with Janet Panetta a couple
times a week. I'm not looking for sympathy. These
are the facts and it's been this way since I moved
here to be a dancer in the early 90's. Critics are
just now facing the fact that this is so. So, that
having been said, I am very thankful to be dancing
with all of these fantastic artists. Other facts about
me are: I graduated from Purchase College, and I've
also performed with Julie Atlas Muz, Gabriel
Kroos, Pink Inc., Penny Arcade,
Karen Finley and Chris Tanner.
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Cheryl
Therrien
Training: BFA SUNY Purchase
Professional career: Irish modern dance theater, Dublin
2004-present. Merce Cunningham 1993-2003.
Sarah Michelson 2001 & 1993.
Teaching: Cunningham studio, The Place (London), Stanford
University, Mills College (Oakland, CA), Lyon Opera
Ballet, Centre National de la Danse (Lyon), Random
Dance Co. (London)
Staging: "Changing Steps" for the students
of Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) Sept./Oct. 2005
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As
a performer, Ede Thurrell has created
many roles for bopi's black sheep/dances by kraig
patterson since 1998, and is well known for her
work with Stanley Love Performance Group
1995-2002. She has choreographed events for Sysco
Systems and Asphalt Green and a French television
commercial directed by Michel Gondry. Her
work has been presented in New York at Barnard College,
Fresh Produce, Welcome Back to Brooklyn, and Kids'
Café Festivals, on VH1's "RuPaul Show",
and in Paris and Copenhagen. She has been commissioned
numerous times to create repertory for the Creative
Arts Studio, Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for
the Performing Arts, and Kanopy Dance Company
of Madison, Wisconsin where she is also a regular
guest performer. In 2004 she produced and performed
in a critically acclaimed evening of solo works at
the Flamboyan Theater in New York City. "Ede
Thurrell's best moments are itty-bitty star bursts.
She obviously relishes surface glitter but also integrity
of form and precise timing." Village Voice Feb.
2004
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