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Aurie Hsu. Aurie Hsu is intrigued by the unlimited possibilities of music and sound.
Her recent experiences include the debut of her viola/piano duo at Lincoln Center in New York City, studying Kongolese drumming,
creating sound pieces for choreography, and realizing sound design for installations. Aurie graduated in '97 from the
Oberlin Conservatory with a B.M. in Piano Peformance. In '99, she completed her M.F.A. in Piano Performance and Literature with
a scholarship from Mills College. In December of this year, she will complete an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media, also at Mills.
Her teachers include Joseph Schwartz, Julie Steinberg, and Pauline Oliveros. Aurie has collaborated with many choreographers (including
Nora Chipanmire, Zoe Maas, Paula Plessas, and Kerry Ring), creating specially commissioned scores for dance. She also accompanies
ballet classes, and studies Capoeira, West African Dance, and Tribal Belly Dance in the Bay Area.
Keith Moore. Keith Moore played air guitar to KISS albums for many years before picking up a real guitar when he was nine.
Since then he has studied music theory at College of Marin and the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he also earned a degree
in Film Studies. A chance discovery of an internet web site lead him to Ztar, a guitar-shaped instrument with touch pads instead of strings,
allowing a creative blend of synth textures in real time. Ms. Fenton discovered Groundwire and Keith's unique computer-influenced compositions at the
MP3.com site where a myriad of composers present their music to the global web communtity. Keith currently teaches private guitar lessons, rocks Bay Area
clubs with electronic funk-rock trio Groundwire (groundwire1.com), and is optioning his first screenplay.
David Fulp. Bio currently unavailable.
Charles Payne. Charles Payne creates in many disciplines of art. He writes, plays and records his own music when he has time away from his day job in the animation business.
He can be heard playing a concertina during the day while he walks to lunch, and he plays an abundance of instruments in his compositions, including xylophone, glockenspiel, rhumba box, ektar, recorder, accordian, and concertina.
His studio is packed with acoustic instruments of all shapes and sizes, from several continents. For almost two decades he has been involved in much of the Saturday morning cartoon business in L.A., drawing and designing for
familiar studios such as Nickelodeon, Hannah-Barbera, Marvel and Disney, to name a few. At the present time, Charles is the Layout Supervisor for Clifford The Big Red Dog, to be aired later this year on PBS.
David Haas. David Haas is known as A.L.A.C.D. (Alien Land X Communication Device).
He is a musician and composer. He has a diploma in music and composition and studied at the Berkeley School of Music in Boston MA.
He has been playing Jazz for several years in the Bay Area and performed with Bishop Norman Williams, one of the great Bebop Artists of our time.
Traveling and touring Europe has broadened his mind and musical abilities. He writes and arranges his own music and is
currently working on his own album and teaching music. David is married
to Nadja Haas and they have worked together on many projects since 1997.
Peter Lake Bellinger. Mr. Bellinger has been a
Bay Area composer for over twenty years. His roots are in theory study with
Henry Onderdonk and piano with Carlo Bussotti. Mr. Bellinger has created
numerous scores for theater, opera, dance and independent cinema and video
projects. His work has been presented by the New Performance Gallery, the
Gay and Lesbian Composers Society and the Golden Gate Mens Chorus. In 1999, Mr. Bellinger
became the resident composer for Landini Dance Company and wrote the score for LDC's "sleep/walk".
Thomas Day. Described as "an innovative spirit" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
Thomas Day has composed more than 40 works for a wide range of media, from chamber and orchestral music to live electronics
and sound installations. He received a B.M. from State University College at Buffalo in 1990 and a M.A. from Mills College in 1995.
His works have been performed throughout North America and Europe; recent works have been performed at Theater Artaud (SF),
The Delivery Room (SF), The Crucible Steel Gallery (SF), The Knitting Factory (NYC), MRMF Music Festival (St. Louis), the Spanish
Kitchen (LA), SoundCulture (SF; the largest sound art festival in US history), the East Bay Creative Music Festival (Oakland),
New Langton Arts (SF), Noe Valley Ministry (SF), Justic League (SF), and The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (Big Sur, CA). Thomas
has received funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, City of San Francisco Grants for the Arts Program, National
Endowment for the Arts, Metropolitan Life Foundation, ASCAP, California Arts Council, Los Angeles Music & Performing Arts Commission, Gap
Foundation, The Zellerbach Family Fund, and Meet the Composer/California. He has received awards for composition from New Langton Arts; Bay Area Award (1996), The Paul Merrit Henry Prize (1995),
The Rosekirk Award(1992-94), and will participate in the American Composers Forum Composer/Choreography Residency Program in 2000.
The composer has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Alvin Curran, Maryanne Amercher, Arto Lindsay, Miya Masaoka, and the 'Illbient' DJ collective Sound Lab (NYC). He also performs regularly
with his live electronic group Citizen Band. Recent audio releases include: Citizen Band (1998), Rev. 3 (1999) with Citizen Band, Toodoos 1998, If wine won't do it, Wife won't do (1999) with Caroliner, and
What is the difference between stripping and playing the violin? (1998) with The Miya Masaoka Orchestra.
Ben Kunin. Originally a classical guitarist with a modal approach to improvisation, Ben Kunin began formal training in North Indian classical
music at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA in 1983. He began sarod under Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in 1986, and tabla instruction under Pandit Swapon Chaudhury in 1987.
He has continued this training up to the present. Solo performances include yearly recitals at Ali Akbar College winter concert series from 1989 to the present. He presented solo recitals
at University of Oregon music department yearly from 1996 through 1999. He accompanied Mythili Kumar and the Abhinaya Dance Company in public performances in 1995 and 1996. He also
accompanied Kathak artist Anuradha Nag in performances in 1995 and in 1996 at the Ethnic Dance Festival in San Francisco. He is a member of the Ali Akbar College Orchestra since 1996 and
has been an assistant teacher at the college since 1991. He has participated in numerous lecture demonstrations and performancees of Hindustani music in public schools throughout the Bay Area and
universities including UC Davis and the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1999. He is also a veteran of studio recording work with various local artists and recently completed
production work of a solo CD which showcases original tunes or "dhuns" based on North Indian classical ragas.
Noah Georgeson. Noah has been studying music seriously since the age of 13
when he took up study of his primary instrument, the classical guitar. Upon graduating high school, Noah was
offered a sizable scholarship to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, but chose to study at
CSU Sacramento with renowned guitarist Richard Savino. In 1993 Noah won the Music in the Mountains
Young Musician's Competition, and from 1993 to the present Noah has been chosen to play in master classes
for some of the world's most celebrated guitarists, including Eliot Fisk, David Tanenbaum, and Pepe Romero,
and in 1998 was chosen as one of only fifteen guitarists from North America to perform in the semi-final
round of the Portland Guitar Competition. Noah has performed in many settings, including solo concerts and
recitals, performances with the C.S.U. Sacramento guitar ensemble, and as a member of the pit orchestra for several
productions of the Foothill Theatre Company. Noah has also studied composition and is currently working toward
a degree in electronic music at San Francisco State University. He has written many solo compositions, both for
guitar and other instruments, as well as pieces for ensembles of various size and make up, and has also collaborated
on compositions with Gyan Riley, the son of the famed composer Terry Riley.
Dan DeLima. Dan's passion for music inspired him to pick up a guitar in high school. Since then, he has performed everything from rock, latin, jazz,
folk, and progressive musical styles with various bands around the Bay Area. He is currently a member of Tyme Lapse, a classic rock band performing around the south bay. Over the
years, he has developed his own style of song writing and expanded his musical horizons, most recently exploring musical composition for modern dance. Dan has created several
original works and has collaborated with other musicians on various projects.
David Allen, Jr. Bio currently unavailable.
Christopher Keyes. Christopher received his electronic music training at the University of Michigan while studying composition. Christopher
has worked closely with Leyya Tawil, last year creating the score for Redoubtable Goddess, and also participating in performances of StopClowns.
Most recently he composed a score for Erica Essner Performance Co-op's Ravish 2000, performed at Cowell Theater in February of this year.
As an observer, performer and collaborator, Christopher's time in the Bay Area has helped him develop a greater interest and understanding of the dance world. Through
participation in regular rehearsals and interaction with other artists his music is able to naturally emerge from the choreography as it develops. Though he works entirely with
his electronic studio, Christopher uses organic sources for all of his work. This allows acoustic instruments, environmental recordings, and his own voice and body to become the
soundscape from which his music comes.
Lorien Fenton. Lorien Fenton. Ms. Fenton has choreographed over 30 original dances for Dance Outré productions and many for
other Bay Area dance and theater companies. Lorien grew up in Portland, Oregon and studied dance and/or performed
with the Oregon Festival Ballet, Portland Ballet, Cirque: a modern dance co. and with Portland State University. After
moving to Marin County in 1981 she studied dance at College of Marin and performed with several ballet and modern
groups throughout the Bay Area. Finding herself unhappy with the ballet based modern dance movement prevalent in
the Bay Area, she found her niche in 1985 when she joined the Earthly Modern Company; which style of movement was
based on Louis Falco and Martha Graham's movement but executed from a parallel and/or turned-in position. From 1986
- 1988 she became one of eight full time dancers and the managing director of Gaia Dance Theatre of Marin; formerly the
Earthly Modern Company. Deciding it was time to choreograph on a regular basis, she founded Dance Outré in the fall of 1988 -- directing,
choreographing and performing for the next 6 years. Dance Outré appeared numerous times in Bay Area productions of
choreographer's showcases including: Open Stage, Works in the Works, Theater Artaud Dance Marathon,
Centerspace, Footwork and others, as well as the Dance Outré annual Spring Season Concerts. In 1991 she co-produced a Dance Outré mini-tour to Ukiah, California with Berkeley performance artist Jim Beatty and
Wendy Blakely at the Ukiah Community Theater, and in 1994 did the same for a mini-tour to Portland, Oregon at the
Echo Theater with Berkeley performance artist Andrea Mock. Ms. Fenton has been a recipient of a Marin Arts
Council Community Arts Grant that funded the 1994 Dance Outré Outdoors series. This series of three outdoor
concerts were presented in conjunction with the Marin County Farmers Market. She also received a Marin Arts Council
Individual Artist Grant in Choreography for her dance entitled "I'll Worry About It Tomorrow." As the director of Dance Outré Ms. Fenton choreographed dances for the both the 1997 and the 1995 Marin County
Festival of Dance productions, and the 1996 Outdoor Dance Project, in Emeryville. Between 1989 and 1994 Lorien produced and
directed Dance Outré Spring Season Concerts. The 1993 and 1994 productions included a Saturday night performance
to raise funds for human service organizations. The '93 benefit was produced for the Hospice of Marin AIDS Program
and the 1994 event donations helped establish "New Beginnings," a Marin County homeless task force. Due to health issues Lorien has taken a choreographic break since 1998. Her new piece choreographed for this year's
21st Century Dance will be the first of three live performance pieces and one video dance production she has planned
for the year 2000. Lorien and Hilary are planning to present a co-company dance concert in June 2000 to present their
new works. This year Dance Outré received the Marin Arts Council Community Arts Grant to produce Marin's 21st Century Dance
Collaboration 2000 in collaboration with Zero Gravity Dance Theater.
Hilary Kretchmer Fulp. Hilary is the founder and
artistic director of Zero Gravity Dance Theater (ZGDT, organized in 1997) and
co-producer of Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration 2000. As a fifth generation Marinite whose ancestors arrived with the Anza party seven generations ago (to establish the Presidio),
Hilary is proud to have produced five large dance productions supporting Marin artists over the past six years.
She created the first Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration in 1999 with Lorien Fenton
of Dance Outre, a project designed to provide showcase opportunities for young choreographers and composers,
for which ZGDT received a community arts grant from the Marin Arts Council.
She was also the co-founder and co-producer of both the 1995 and 1997 Marin County Festival of
Dance productions in partnership with Cynthia Pepper of CPCollaborations, Inc., guiding the grantwriting and fundraising for those projects.
In 1994, Hilary received an M.A. in Interdisciplinary
Creative Arts from SFSU after four years of night classes and producing a full-length concert of her dances and audio-produced stories, and thanks all of the Marin dancers who contributed to making it a wonderful experience.
Hilary has worked at WebLink, Inc./CHAT Communication Services, Inc. as the
webmaster for WEBLINK.COM and it's associated domains since January of 1997, and as such she is responsible for client site design, development and programming, as well as system administration.
Spanning the past 10 years, she has served as Development Associate at Yosemite National Institutes, as a grantwriter for the Tamalpais Union High School District (garnering them 6 CAC AIR grants), as
Administrative Manager of Antenna Theater, and as Production Coordinator
at ROMA Design Group. Despite the responsibilities of working full time, Hilary has been an independent producer and choreographer for 20
years, creating multi-disciplinary works/concerts that premiered in NYC, LA, SF and Marin
County. Hilary is proud to have collaborated with talented artists and friends such as
Jamie Bishton, Buzz Halsing, Christine Murray, Cynthia Pepper, Andrea Snyder, David Torgerson, Allison Dufty and Deirdre Towers on her works
"SPILL," "LIGHT BLOOM," "GEOMETRY," "KNOW NO," "LOST TRACE HILARITAS," and "ON SECOND THOUGHT." Some of Hilary's most memorable moments were studying with celebrated teachers who made dance history, such as Sara Rudner,
Lucas Hoving, Gus Solomons, Bella Lewitsky, and Margaret Jenkins; dance classes at California Institute of the Arts (B.F.A. Dance 1984)
with ground-breaking and inspirational teachers Donald Byrd, Sandra Neels, Tina Yuan, Nicholas Gunn, Loretta Livingston, Larry Attaway, and the late Robecca Bobele;
and studying at The Cunningham School in NYC from 1984-86; and in San Francisco through the late '80s with the talented Ellie Klopp and Alonzo King, and for many years with Georgia Ortega.
Hilary has performed as a dancer for choreographers Lorien Fenton, Lucas Hoving,
Joan Lazarus, Carolyn Lord, Sandra Neels, Georgia Ortega, and Tina Yuan, among others,
but always found the most joy and satisfaction creating her own dances. She
has had the pleasure of teaching dance technique and composition as a guest
artist at UC Berkeley, Marin Ballet, Dance Theater Seven, and The Branson
School. She is the co-editor of her online arts magazine at cre8tivez.org, which interviews artists of all disciplines, a program of ZGDT. She has also performed multiple seasons as a choral, solo and ensemble vocalist for
The Mayflower Chorus, The Octurnals, The Marin Opera
Chorus, and The Katy Hatfield Singers. These days she spends any spare moment adoring her
beloved husband of one year, David, and their dogs Poco Loco, Jake and Irie Dog, Jr., the brightest lights in her life. Hilary would
like to thank all of her family, friends and fellow artists who have made these dance productions possible, either by
contributions, artistic collaboration, moral support or sheer determination.Selected Artists
Choreographer Katherine Davis and Composer Aurie Hsu
Katherine Davis. Katherine Davis landed in the
Bay Area three years ago with a B.A. in Dance from Scripps College ('93),
and a teaching certificate in The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning from
Performing Arts Physical Therapy/The Pilates Studio ('95). After a year of
graduate study at Mills College dance program, she left school to pursue a
career in performance, choreography and teaching. Since then, her choreography has been presented by
Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration, Dancer's Group Studio Theater's Local series, Santa Cruz
Dance Gallery, Dance Mission Theater, and ODC Theater's PILOT series. For the past two years, Katherine
has performed throughout California and in New York City with Kristen E. Williams' STRONG CURRENT Dance Company.
From '98-'99 she taught children's dance at Sunset Movement Arts in San Francisco. Also in '98, Katherine
opened a Pilates Studio from her home in Oakland, where she continues to teach (with a little help from her cat, Buster).
Choreographer Lorien Fenton and Composer Keith Moore
Lorien Fenton. See About the Producers
Choreographer Hilary Kretchmer Fulp and Composers Charles Payne and David Fulp
Hilary Kretchmer Fulp. See About the Producers
Choreographer Nadja Haas and Composer David Haas
Nadja Haas. Nadja is an installation and performance artist. She has exhibited and performed internationally. Recently,
she founded the Automatic Art Group, which showed work in public spaces like the Bart and at ATA, the ODC Theater, Dance Mission Theater and the Balazo Gallery in SF.
Her installation work has a highly individualized style and combines well with her performances. She sets a stage for a story to unfold. Nadja is a German native. She has received a
B.A. in Fine Arts at Kingston University in London, England (1993), and an M.A. in Fine Arts at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, England (1995). She went to the Place school of dance and
received a B.A. in Dance at the Chelsea and Kensington School of Dance. She has performed in east and west Europe and is now showing her work in the U.S.
Choreographer Joseph Anthony Landini and Composer Peter Lake Bellinger
Joseph Anthony Landini. Joseph Landini is the
founder of Landini Dance Company. He received his B.A. in Choreography from
the University of California, Irvine, under the tutelage of reknowned
choreographer, Donald McKayle. Joe danced for Bill T. Jones' production of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" at U.C.L.A. and was Mr. Jones' intern in New York. Upon
returning to the Bay Area, Joe helped direct the choreography program at
the San Francisco Institute of Choreography (now named the SF Dance Centre)
and co-founded the Pacific Dance Collective (1992-1996). He formed the
Landini Dance Company in 1996. Mr. Landini's work has been presented in Laguna Beach,
Marin and Sacramento, as well as Santa Fe, NM.
Choreographer Jodi Lomask and Composer Thomas Day
Jodi Lomask. The sixth child of a scientist and a visual artist, Jodi finds a
way to merge these contrasting worlds in her performance work. Capturing kudos at the age of three, she moved
on to a choreographic premiere six years later. The Royal Ballet Academy, Merce Cunningham Studio, Pilobolus Studio,
London Contemporary Dance School and the Rotterdam Dansacademie preface her cum laude graduation from the dance
conservatory at SUNY Purchase. With performance credits in the Purchase Dance Corps, NMH Performance Group, Erica Essner Performance Co-op,
and Kneejerk, Jodi now directs Capacitor, a group of interdisciplinary movement artists, founded to explore the fusion and explosion of varied artistic disciplines in dialogue with
audiences.
Choreographer Hillary Marsh and Composer Ben Kunin
Hillary Marsh. Hillary Marsh discovered Indian Dance in 1984 when she was struck by the
curiously beautiful image of Lord Shiva as Cosmic Dancer, in the basement of San
Francisco’s City Light’s Bookstore. She began her studies with the Kathak Master, Satya
Narayana Charka, and in 1985 was delivered into the hands of Mimi Janislawski and her
company, Natayana. Natayana, or "the Way of Dance" company and school has its roots
in the Tanjore style of Bharata Natyam through the lineage of T. Balasaraswati. Hillary’s
concerts with Natayana have included the Ethnic Dance Festival, the Old First Church
concert series, the Oakland Museum, and the opening of the Shiva Vishnu Temple in
Livermore. In 1989 Hillary traveled to India to study and research in the heart of Tamil
Nadu. She apprenticed with Smt. R. Rajendran, whose mother was a Deva Dasi (servant
of God) in the great Brihadishwara Temple in Tanjore. Upon returning to the United States,
Hillary founded the RasiKala School of Indian Dance in Portland, OR. Hillary has danced
for all age groups in diverse settings from nursing care facilities to punk rock clubs; from the
piazzas of Italy to the Greek acropolis; and from the ashrams of India to the Portland
Public Schools. RasiKala productions have included Deva Dasi (1996), Radha and
Krishna (1998), Madhurya Lila (1999), and Guru Shishya (2000). Hillary recently returned
to the Bay Area to continue to explore the many dimensions of sacred dance. Currently,
she offers classes in Marin and San Francisco.
Choreographer Amber McCall and Composer Noah Georgeson
Amber Megan McCall. Amber received her B.A. in
Dance Pedagogy from Butler University in 1998. Born and raised in the Bay
Area, she formally trained in classical ballet, modern and jazz. She also
studied choreography, composition and video dance during her internship at
The American Dance Festival. Ms. McCall has performed in such works as Swan
Lake, Copellia, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker as well as many
contemporary works. Recently, she premiered a new choreographic work titled In Your Absence
at Marin's 21st Century Dance Collaboration 1999. Currently, Amber teaches ballet and
creative movement at Marin Ballet.
Choreographer Sharon Sam and Composer Dan DeLima
Sharon Sam. Sharon first discovered her love for dance in college at U.C. Davis performing with the Nexus Modern Dance Collective.
She has been dancing and performing in the Bay Area (mostly south bay) for about 10 years now. About 5 years ago, Sharon and a group of friends founded High Release Dance.
High Release Dance is a collective. They choreograph and perform work at various dance venues throughout the year, and produce their own show bi-annually.
Choreographer Deborah Slater and Composer David Allen, Jr.
Deborah Slater. Deborah Slater, performer, director and choreographer, has worked for the Magic Theater, A Traveling Jewish Theater, SOON 3, Dell 'Arte, Theaterworks, the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir
and The Pickle Family Circus, to name a few. She is the co-founder of Circuit Network Management and founder and artistic director of Art of the Matter Performance Foundation, dedicated to the idea that art
and everyday life are not, in fact, separate events, but that Art is the human attempt to find meaning and sense in the chaos of the life experience. Selected collaborators include writer/performer Rinde Eckert, playwright/director Julie Hebert,
director David Ford, composer Bill Fontana and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Chris Beaver. She has choreographed for many solo performers including Bill Talen, Sara Felder, Deke Weaver, Zachary Barton, Maxine Wyman and Bob Davis. Deborah's original
work has been presented in the Exploration Series at the Japan American Theater in Los Angeles, the Out-of-Towners Series at Dance Theater Workshop in New York, the Going Places/New American Dance Series in San Francisco
and the Performa Festival of New Works in Seattle. Selected commissions include DIED SUDDENLY, written by Julie Hebert, for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's "Cocteau Centenary"; THE TRANSIT PROJECT, performed live on Seattle's buses,
for the Performa Festival in Seattle and I CAN DO THAT, live performance on exhibits, for the Exploratorium in S.F. Her work as a choreographer and performer in BURNING DREAMS, a contemporary opera, marked her third collaboration with composer Gina
Leishman and her sixth with co-director Julia Hebert (also co-librettist with Octavio Solls) and her first with co-director Sam Woodhouse of San Diego Repertory Theater. In 1996, Ms. Slater was selected for a five-week cultural exchange program in Taipei, Taiwan. She
completed '96 with a commission from the Exploratorium for a series called Public Viewing. In 1997, she choreographed the West Coast premier of ANOTHER MIDSUMMER NIGHT, a musical theater comedy directed by Robert Kelly of Theaterworks in Palo Alto. Ms. Slater was
a movement consultant for director Jayne Wenger on Brigihde Mullins' new play, TOPOGRAPHICAL EDEN, at the Magic Theater. In 1998, Deborah Slater Dance Theater developed "PASSING (as...) The Mathematics of Being" for showing at Theater Artaud. In 1999, the video of the same, was selected
for IX Festival Internazionale di videodanza: IL COREOGRAFO ELETTRONICO, in Naples, Italy. DSDT's latest evening length work, Forgiveness and Other True Fiction, premiered in a co-production by ODC Theater, AOTM and the CAC Rural and Urban Touring Program and was invited to perform
at the Working Woman's Festival 2000 in San Francisco. Ms. Slater is the recipient of 9 NEA Fellowships (including a prestigious two year fellowship) and Art of the Matter is funded in part by the CAC, the Zellerbach Famiy Fund, the Vanguard Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission,
Grants for the Arts and private donors. Her work has been nominated for two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. She has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts, the American College Dance Festival, San Francisco State University, California Institute of the Arts and Stanford. Deborah Slater
Dance Theater has been chosen for the 1999-2000 CAC Rural and Inner City Presenting Pilot Program as well as the Young Audiences Porgram in the San Francisco Schools. Ms. Slater was selected for the Selected National Roster, 'Artists for the Millenium,' Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, 1999-2000.
AOTM currently supports member projects Deborah Slater Dance Theater, a professional performing group; The Company She Keeps, a non-professional performing group; and Studio 210, a rehearsal, teaching and community venue.
Choreographer Leyya Tawil and Composer Christopher Keyes
Leyya Tawil. Leyya formed Etherealize in January 1999. Etherealize is an endeavor to
create dance which engages the imagination and reflects different stages of the human spirit. Leyya has presented choreography
around the Bay Area, including ODC Pilot 30, Dancers' Group Local Showcase, an evening length show, StopClowns, at Studio 210,
Women's Work at Venue 9, and at Temescal Arts Center's National Dance Week Salon 99 and Improv Fest 99. Her dances are creatively influenced by
the released, inverted, and momentum-driven style of post-modern dance, and reflect her studies of Vinyasa Yoga. Leyya has studied with
Kathleen Hermesdorf, Kim Epifano, Julie Kane, Evelyn Velez, Doug Varone and at the University of Michigan where she received her Bachelor of Dance
Arts in Choreography. Leyya currently performs with Erica Essner Performance Co-op, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, and Samantha Beers.
About the Producers
Lorien Fenton, Director, Dance Outre
Hilary Kretchmer Fulp , Director, Zero Gravity Dance Theater
