8 in Show Curated by Sangeeta Yesley

About This Show

Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work.

Performing Companies

Above and Beyond Dance performing ‘More Windows, Less Darkness’
BEings dance/Emily Bufferd Performing ‘i think i am’
Catherine Messina & Meg Gourley performing ‘We Let Our Hair Down’
Chutzpah Dance performing ‘How Far We Go’
Hanna Q Dance Company performing ‘Andare’
Inclined Dance Project performing ‘How to Beat The Blahs…’
Jessica Michal performing ‘Exhaust Me’
Thomas/Ortiz Dance performing ‘Pacing’

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  • Above and Beyond Dance. Photo Credit: Andrew T. Foster

About the Choreographers

Above and Beyond Dance
Chriselle Tidrick
Chriselle Tidrick is a choreographer who has performed extensively as a dancer, aerialist, and stilt dancer throughout NYC, across the country, and internationally. Under the auspices of her company, Above and Beyond Dance, she has produced four seasons of circus-infused dance, has shared small-scale work throughout NYC, and has appeared at festivals including Dzul International Dance Festival, Detroit Dance City Festival, La MaMa Moves, and New York Aerial Dance Festival.

BEings dance
Emily Bufferd
Emily Bufferd’s concert choreography (BEings) has been presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, the 92nd St. Y, New York Moves, The Giving Tree Benefit Shows, The Showcase Series, The Choreographer’s Canvas, The Elan Summer Dance Festival, and Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, among others. Described as, “technically superb and amazingly emotive.” -Examiner.com, and “a display of versatility…” -The DancEnthusiast.

Catherine Messina & Meg Gourley
Catherine Messina and Meg Gourley met through the Atlanta dance community in 2018. They have performed together throughout the city of Atlanta, primarily for the company Kit Modus, and also created and ran the local Fall for Fall/Spring for Spring Dance Festival, highlighting over thirty local choreographers and dancers as well as musicians and visual artists. They began creating duets together in 2020 through Messina receiving a space grant through Dance Hub ATL from Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab and have performed them in Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, and Portugal.

Chutzpah Dance
Erica Isakower
Erica Isakower is the artistic director of Chutzpah Dance. She received her BFA in Dance from Hofstra University in 2019, and since then has presented her choreography professionally in NYC, Philadelphia, Utah, and New Jersey. Currently, she is also a company dancer with Roger Lee Arts and Equilibrium Dance Company. At Hofstra University, she had the opportunity to perform works by Larry Keigwin, Anita Feldman, Luiza Karnas, and José Limón.

Hanna Q Dance Company
Johanna LjungQvist-Brinson
Johanna ( Hanna Q ) graduated from The University of Dance & Circus, Stockholm, Sweden. She has taught, danced and choreographed in Europe and USA. She founded her   NYC based Hanna Q Dance Company 2013 and have performed her original works at Dixon Place, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Dance Festival, TADA!Theater, The Actors Fund Arts Center, Green Space, New York Live Arts, The Triskelion Arts, West End Theater and NY City Center.

Inclined Dance Project
Kristen Klein
Kristen Klein is a Brooklyn based choreographer, dancer, teacher, and pointe shoe fitter. She founded Inclined Dance Project, a collaborative all-female dance company, in 2009 and her choreographic works have been performed throughout New York, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Japan.

Jessica Michal
Jessica Michal is a professional dance artist based in the New York/New Jersey area. She earned her BFA in Dance Performance from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts in May 2021. Her current artistic endeavors focus on collaborative processes and interdisciplinary work that has led her to fulfill roles as director, producer, choreographer, and performer. Her work aims to expose the play between internal and external worlds and thus the physical and mental/emotional sides of humanity.

Thomas/Ortiz Dance
Ted Thomas
A native New Yorker who attended the High School for Performing Arts before receiving his B.F.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase. He went on to earn a Masters degree in dance and higher education from New York University. He danced with Ballet Hispanico, Elisa Monte, and the Murray Louis and Nikolais Companies prior to joining the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1996. While choreographing and continuing to perform with his own dance company Thomas/Ortiz Dance, Mr. Thomas was for two years Artist-in-Residence at Barnard College. He is currently Associate Director, choreographer and teacher at the New England Academy of Dance and New England Dance Theater in New Canaan, CT.


 

8 in Show is made possible, in part, with private funds from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature.

WEDS. JUNE 29, 2022
7:30 PM

General Admission
$17 in advance
$20 at the door

Students/Seniors/idNYC
$15 in advance
$17 at the door

Estimated Runtime
70 Minutes

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Credits

Photo Credits:

Peter Yesley (main header image)

 

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