bios

collaborators:

despina sophia stamos

Curriculum Vitae 2010

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

is a tattoo branded member of the Modern Dance Awareness Society.  She is also a member ofTerrain/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

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, 42^nd 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

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.

BIanca Falco
 Bianca's early experiences in Europe include performing for Murray
Louis and operating her own dance school. She has been awarded the
first prize in an international video dance competition sponsored by
RAI Italian national TV. Her works have been presented at many NYC and
European venues including Multimedia Events, La MaMa E.T.C., La MaMa
Umbria Italy, Dancenow Festival, Quebec and Mexico. Since performing
with Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, a low flying trapeze company, she has
searched for new ways to ‘hang and fly’ and learned ‘circus still
trapeze and aerial tissue’ skills. From 2000 to 2003, she co-directed
the New York City fledgling dance company, NuVoLe Dance Theatre. Her
works includes being the Co-choreographer for the Artscorporation’s
Acettes June 2009 under the Highline, NYC, presenting “intermezzo” at
LaMaMa Moves Dance Festival (spring 2007), dancing at the famous
Schauspielhaus Theater in Vienna in a Peter Fuxx-Pink Zebra-
production and performing and choreographing the video "Lailailá",
director Massimo Monacelli, Perugia, Italy.
Since 1994 Bianca choreographs for theater, film and videos.
The film "ALEX" won "Best Fiction Film" and "Best Cinematography" at
Cityvisions 2011!
Bianca's is happy to be part of the MDAS!
more info:website: http://www.biancafalco.com

Emily Peck

Emily Peck has contributed improvised and choreographed solo and group works for shared concerts and festivals throughout New England, most recently for the New England Dance Project in Maine in Spring 2009. She has presented evening-length works, Volition andLeveled:The Architecture of Things Half-Remembered, on both coasts and made her New York dancing debut with Scott Lyons & Company at the Waterfront Arts Festival in August 2009. She was a participant in the New Dance Alliance Artists in Residency Project at Earthdance in Western MA in 2007, and was a dancer with Blaze Dance Group, also of Western MA. She co-founded and directed GrupoFolklórico Palo Santo, a company performing traditional Afro-Cuban folkloric dance, in 2005. Emily completed her undergraduate degree through study at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, in the department of Folkloric Dance and is a certified Somatic and Developmental Movement Educator through the School for Body-Mind Centering. Emily currently directs The Falling Up Movement, a collaborative performance group presenting its first in-progress work this October.

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

yina ng

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Yina Ng currently studies and creates movement-based performances in New York City. Dance is her primary activity, but she also works as a graphic designer and video editor for various websites and her own artistic explorations, including several dance videos on her website. Since earning her BA from Middlebury College, Ng has worked with inspiring artists such as Faye Driscoll, Lindsey Drury, and David Hurwith, among others. She is a founding member of Tiffany Rhynard’s Vermont-based dance collective, Big Action Performance Ensemble (Big APE) in 2008 (www.bigapedance.com). Currently, she is working with David Hurwith and his improvisational ensemble on a structured improvisional performance opening in December, 2010. Experiences working with these diverse artists inspire Ng to create with multilayered emotional and physical complexity. Her previous choreography was shown at the highly selective American College Dance Festival National Gala 2008 at Barnard College, the Green Space Studios, and Movement Research’s Open Performance Series at Dance Theater Workshop. She recently received a commission from Manhattan Theater Source’s Estrogenius Dance Festival to create her new solo, Lust of war, my drug, opening at the Joyce Soho in Oct. For details, visit www.yinang.net

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