Crossing Boundaries Featuring Selma Trevino, Martha Lavery, Simon Thomas-Train & Caitlin Scholl, Rachel Thorne Germond, Jenny Davies

About This Show

New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe.

About the Artists

Martha Lavery (Choreographer/Director) is a recent graduate of Hofstra University with a BA in Dance. She aims to merge dance with acting/improvisation/humor to allow for honest, relatable storytelling. Her work can be seen next at Sans Limites Spring Season and Emerging Artist Theatre’s New Works Series in June.

Rachel Thorne Germond has been making dances since 1990. She is a graduate of Cornell University where she studied modern dance while obtaining degrees in Fine Art and Comparative Literature. In 2000, she achieved an MFA in dance and choreography at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana where she was a Fellow.  She has presented her choreography in New York City at such venues as the Joyce Soho, 92nd St. Y, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, Movement Research at Judson Church, WAX, Chashama, The Merce Cunningham Studio, HERE, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Dixon Place


Selma Treviño
is a performer/choreographer/director and co-founder of Corporeal Arts Incorporated.  Selma develops works based on the Corporeal Mime technique in the field of dance and theater as well as for academic research in the field of Performance Studies. Selma teaches at her own Pilates and Yoga studio in Maspeth which is also home for her artistic company Corporeal Arts Incorporated. She had her work performed at: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Lincon Center, Dixon Place, HERE, Center for Performance Research – CPR in New York and in venues in California, Brazil, France and Canada.

Jenefer Davies received an MFA in Choreography and Performance from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a MALS and BA in Dance Performance from Hollins University. Her choreography and performance work has toured to Spain, Greece, Scotland and throughout the U.S. Davies founded contemporary modern dance company, Progeny Dance, which has performed at Green Space, The Ailey Citigroup Theatre and The Center of Performance Research. Davies has been published in the International Planetarian Magazine, the World Congress on Dance, the Nu Delta Alpha Journal and the Athens (Greece) Institute for Research in the Arts Consortium. She serves on the Editorial and Reviewer’s Board of the Athens Journal of Humanities and the Arts. Davies is the Associate Professor of Dance at Washington and Lee University and Artistic Director of the W&L Repertory Dance Company.

Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students / seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
1 hour

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Credits

Top Left Photo Credit
Stephan Delas Heras

Bottom Left Photo Credit
Melissa Stewart

Bottom Right Photo Credit
Kevin Remington

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