Under Exposed Featuring Meg Broome & Zoe Galle, Kathleen Helm, Anna Long, and Maggie Segale & Matilda Sakamoto

About This Show

Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post.

Featuring Meg Broome & Zoë Galle, Kathleen Helm, Anna Long, and Maggie Segale & Matilda Sakamoto.

About the Artists

Meg Broome and Zoë Galle are Brooklyn based creative artists. Their collaboration was established in 2016 under the name Lîla Artists. Lîla Artists performed their piece Like a Lady at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance through Alexandra Beller’s Choreolab, at Gibney’s ShowDown, and Jennifer Muller’s presenting series HATCH. Both artist trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. The movement artists collaboration continues through dance film projects, performance and in the development of movement based practice emphasizing improvisation and experimentation. They are developing work that requires sensitivity and deep listening in it’s execution, exploring effort, biomechanics and intrapersonal relationships to invoke questions about the human/body on display. https://www.lilaartistsmove.com/

Kathleen Helm is a dance artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY.  With her company, Kathleen Helm & Dancers, she has been presented work at the 92Y, Triskelion Arts, Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, and Ailey Citigroup Theater. Her choreography has also been selected for various festivals throughout the U.S., including the American College Dance Festival Gala, Chicago Freelance Dance, and the SoCal Dance Invitational. Kathleen was recently chosen as one of ten choreographers to be mentored by Doug Varone and was named a 2015 Breaking Glass choreographer, a platform that recognizes emerging female choreographers.  She is a 2015 graduate of the M.F.A. in Dance program at CSU Long Beach.

Anna Long is a performer, choreographer, and certified Gaga teacher based in the United States. She was raised in Massachusetts and began her dance training with New England Dance Academy of Attleboro. She earned her degree in dance and biology at Skidmore College. She was accepted to the pilot Gaga Teachers Training program in 2011 in Tel Aviv, and trained under Ohad Naharin and members of Batsheva Dance Company. She has created works on Visceral Dance Chicago and for Loyola Marymount College and produced her own. Anna was one of the featured choreographers for Chicago’s Dance in the Parks 2016 as well as debuting “Triptych”, her first self produced show at Links Hall along collaborators Owen Scarlett and Belle Jessen in 2016. Most recently, Anna was a featured performer and choreographer for James Graham Dance Theater’s Dance Lovers in San Francisco in February 2017. Anna has hosted Gaga/choreography workshops in Boston, Paris, and Los Angeles and teaches ongoing Gaga classes in Chicago.

Magdalyn Segale is a dancer, artist and teacher, based in New York City with a focus on performing multi-disciplinary, collaborative work. She was born in New Jersey, and trained with Alexandra Wells and Nancy Turano. She graduated from The Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance in 2014. Magdalyn collaborates with electronic music producer Twig Twig, Zubin Hensler. She developed a movement class entitled Body Poem, encouraging listening to the poetry of each individual’s body. She teaches at Arts on Site, and Girl Party Brooklyn. She is featured in the next music video for Russian punk band Pussy Riot, with Roya Carreras. She additionally choreographed three music videos with filmmaker Charles Billot for Miles Francis. Magdalyn recently created and performed a solo installation at GBAgency in Paris with artist Cally Spooner following their work together at The New Museum in NYC in summer 2016. Magdalyn dances with Bryan Arias of Kidd Pivot, Zoe|Juniper at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Ballet Opéra Pantomime de Montréal, Jonah Bokaer Dance Projects, and filmmaker Sarah Outhwaite and the Center for Innovation in the Arts, utilizing interactive technology. Segale had the joy of performing the work of Pina Bausch, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, José Limón, Merce Cunningham

Matilda Sakamoto is a choreographer and dancer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Matilda received her BFA from Juilliard. She is currently freelance dancing and choreographing in the city. Matilda is also a visual artist and loves to meld these worlds together in her work. Matilda creates, choreographs, dances, does good things and always tries to be free.  

Tuesday, March 7 at 7:30pm

General Admission

$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Stu./Sen./idNYC

$12

Estimated Runtime
80 minutes

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