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despina sophia stamos
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is a dancer/choreographer living and working in NYC since 1989. Her work has been presented through out New York City at such venues as Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, PS1,as well as internationally in Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Puerto Rico.
Her interest in site-specific work has been developing since 1998 when she was invited to be a participating artist in Julie Atlas Muz’ 24 Hours on the Staten Island Ferry. Since then, she has performed and organized events in a plethora of locations including Times Square, the NYC subways, piers, parks, bathrooms and gardens.
As a dancer she has worked with various companies and choreographers including Chen and Dancers, Hikari Baba and Dancers, Anahi Galante Dance Theater and the National Caravan Theater, Felix Ruckert, Zendora Dance Theater, Aspassia Yaga and Wendy Osserman Dance Theater.
Stamos has also curated various dance events including Deli Dances in Times Square, Dancehouse at Workhouse Theater, 21 Suffragettes at Galapagos and Oasis.
She is currently dancing with Blum Dance Theater, Vanessa Walters, the Daisy Spurs, Time Lapse Dance, and the MDC . Stamos is founding member of the Modern Dance Awareness Society.
storme sundberg
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is a tattoo branded member of the Modern Dance Awareness Society. She is also a member of Terrain/Rebecca Lazier, Stephan Koplowitz’s Task Force, and Jordan Fuchs. She dances with Wendy Blum, Scott Lyons, and Peter Scicoli and is looking forward to performing with Christopher Williams next spring. Her choreography has been presented by Joyce Soho, Lincoln Center Out-of Doors, BRIC Theater, Movement Research, and WOW. Storme teaches modern dance at the 92nd St Y/Harkness Center for Dance. Storme recently became an official New Yorker and an official yoga teacher.
wen-shuan yang
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grew up in Taiwan. Started dancing when she was 9 years old.
As a performer, Yang is currently a member of O Vertigo in Montreal, Canada.. She has also performed with Zvi Dance, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Larry Keigwin, Abby Chan, Erica Essner, Peter Sciscioli, Todd Williams, and H.T. Chen, Mark Haim, Houlihan & Dancers among others. She has appeared as the soloist in a chamber opera, “Silver River”, as part of Lincoln Center Festival and will also appear in the new Metropolitan Opera production, “The First Emperor” December 2006. Yang will soon appear in her film debut “Across the Universe” choreographed by Daniel Ezralow and directed by Julie Taymor releasing 2007.
Yang has been collaborating with Despina Stamos in creating works and performance projects since 1997 for many formal and alternative venues. The work transforms the environment through the images created utilizing the varying architectures of the spaces and actively engaging the audience. This interaction allows the audience to influence and shape the final production with the performers. Their works have appeared at P.S. 1/MOMA, Dance Theater Workshop, the La Mama Annex, Performing Space 122, Joyce Soho, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Culture Project, The German Consulate, Stoneham Theater in Massachusetts, The Howl Festival, Raw Space, The Velvet Lounge, Smack Melon Gallery, Sky Plot at Smack Melon Gallery and four week European tour, the German Consulate in NYC, Deli Dances and Oasis at Chashama Theater, Galapagos, The Frying Pan, the Upper Manhattan Arts Project, Surf Reality, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Spannwerk in Berline, Boudoir Bar, TIXE, a 24 hour performance on a Staten Island Ferry, Thompson Square Park, Bryant Park, Battery Park, 42nd Street Subway Station, Subtonic, Volume, Air Space, Altman Building, inside of a man-operated elevator, and many New York warehouse arts events… Most recently they had taught a one-week performance workshop and created a large scaled site specific performance at an abandoned school in Luquilo, Puerto Rico. Yang had also collaborated with Peter Fuchs on a multi-media web-cast performance, Pink Vibe, on Franklin Street Subway Station at New York City and an experimental performance project at Shauspielhaus in Vienna.
Jill Woodward is a filmmaker, journalist, & editor. Clients include TIME.com, Greenpeace, & Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She worked for 16 years at CNN where she shared two Emmy awards. Among her independent projects is a dance documentary about the experience of immigration in Greece, “passTRESpass”. She edited the full-length documentary “Trail of Feathers: The Missile Dick Chicks Take on America”. She collaborates with the New York-based modern dance awareness society both as performer and filmmaker, and also has danced with Abigail Levine, Jeramy Zimmerman, and the Hungry March Band.
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abigail levine
abigail levine
has made dances for subway stations, swimming pools, airports, office buildings, gardens, and theaters in New York, Washington DC, Havana, Cuba, Caracas, Venezuela and Taipei, Taiwan. She has danced with choreographers including Jennifer Monson, Clarinda Mac Low, Alan Good, Pat Catterson, Pele Bauch, Despina Stamos, Marianela Boan, the Superamas, and the Denishawn Repertory Dancers. Levine’s work has included choreography for Lorin Maazel’s production of the Turn of the Screw at the Kennedy Center, the Escenario Urbano Festival in Caracas, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, the Festival of Dance in Urban Landscapes in Havana and the Taipei Fringe Festival, as well as for Dixon Place, the DanceNow/NYC Festival, 3rd Ward Gallery, the French Institute and a production of Genet’s the Maids in New York City.
More information: www.abigaillevine.com
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