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Feature-Length Independent Feature-Length Independent Choreography 2015 2015

Andre M Zachary Jin Ju Song-Begin Nicole Wolcott Mana Hashimoto John J Zullo/Raw Movement CatScratch Theatre

Feature-Length Independent Choreography

Cover photos: Melanie MacLean January 22-24, January 30-31 The IrondaleIrondale Center • Fort Greene,Gr reene,eeene, BrooklynBrooklyn Feature-Length Independent Choreography Feature-Length Independent Choreography

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   Feature-Length Independent Choreography       2015 performance schedule   week one: week two:

Thursday, January 22, 7:30 pm Thursday, January 29, 7:30 pm  Andre M Zachary John J Zullo  Renegade Performance Project RawMovement         The Inscription Project The Architecture of Proximity    Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm Thursday, January 29, 9:00 pm   Jin Ju Song-Begin Mana Hashimoto  Da-On Stories of the Blind-Light, NEVEREND Shadow and Wind

 Friday, January 23, 7:30 pm Friday, January 30, 7:30 pm Nicole Wolcott Jin Ju Song-Begin  PaperPieces Da-On Dance    NEVEREND Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm  Mana Hashimoto Friday, January 30, 9:00 pm   Stories of the Blind-Light, CatScratch Theatre  Shadow and Wind Kiri no Jiku (In the In-between)

 Saturday, January 24, 7:30 pm Saturday, January 31, 7:30 pm       John J Zullo Andre M Zachary  RawMovement Renegade Performance Project The Architecture of Proximity The Inscription Project            Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm Saturday, January 31, 9:00 pm            CatScratch Theatre Nicole Wolcott   Kiri no Jiku (In the In-between) PaperPieces  CatScratch Theatre CST has been performed on stages and in non-traditional places such as the Staten Island Ferry, in front of the New York City Stock Exchange, the Kennedy Center’s Saturday, January 24, 9:00 pm Millennium Stage and Chateau Cazals in southeastern France. She holds a BFA in & Friday, January 30, 9:00 pm Dance from Stephens College and an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch. In 2010, Jeramy founded FLICfest, now in its fifth year as a production of Irondale Center. Jeramy serves as its Artistic Director. Since 2004, Jeramy has worked closely with Kaoru Kiri no Jiku (In the In-between) Ikeda. The two are currently Co-Directors of CatScratch Theatre.

Choreography and performance: Kaoru Ikeda and Jeramy Zimmerman Lighting Design: Tim Cryan Costume Design: David Quinn Music: Gavin Bryars

biographies TIM CRYAN (Lighting Designer) has had the opportunity to collaborate with a variety of artists through organizations such as the Berkshire Fringe, Danspace Project, FLICfest, LaMaMa etc, and Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Dance Department at Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus) and a guest artist at Providence College. He is the resident lighting designer for Fusionworks Dance Company, as well as Fiasco Theatre. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Portfolio: http://timcryan.net KAORU IKEDA (Choreographer/performer) graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, MFA in Dance. She has trained, performed, choreographed and taught in dance ranging from classical to Butoh to . Her work has taken her to the US, Japan, South Korea and Mexico; where she was an artist in residence and toured, and choreographed a commission work for Vinculación, with Los Talleres de Coyoacán. Her choreographic works have been reviewed as “ perfectly realized     dance” (offoffoffdance, 2005), and “moving poetry” (Eyes on Arts, 2012).” Since 2014, she has been Co-Director of CatScratch Theatre. http://kaoruikeda.digi2.jp/    DAVID QUINN (Costume Designer) is equally adept at designing for dance, theatre,  circus, TV, film and the red carpet. Quinn is a favorite of both Burlesque Queens and    Brides. His costumes for dance have received critical acclaim for over twenty years.  Dance View Times says Quinn “is cutting and draping and coloring the most beautiful  dance costumes to be found in New York.” Quinn moved his studio, Quinndustry, to  Bushwick this past fall. He is happy to now be “Made-in-Brooklyn.”  JERAMY ZIMMERMAN (Chroeographer/performer) is a founder and Co-Director of  CatScratch Theatre, and the founder and Artistic Director of FLICfest. Her work for  Da-On Dance ESME BOYCE is a NYC based dancer and choreographer and a graduate of The Juilliard School. Esmé is the artistic director of Esmé Boyce Dance and a Thursday, January 22, 9:00 pm company member with Da-On Dance, Janis Brenner & Dancers, Catherine Tharin & Friday, January 30, 7:30 pm Choreography and has performed with Yara Travieso, Charlotte Bydwell, Dana Katz, Carlye Eckert, Douglas Dunn, Marta Renzi and Cori Kresge. NEVEREND GIULIA CAROTENUTO is a NYC-based dance artist hailing originally from Rome, Italy. She has danced with artists including Douglas Dunn, Mark Dendy, Monica Bill Banes Choreographer: Jin Ju Song-Begin & Company, and Palissimo by Pavel Zustiak. Giulia is currently a member of the Faye Driscoll Group and can also be seen in Third Rail Projects critically acclaimed Composer/Sound designer: Jerome Begin production Then She Fell. Lighting designer: Nick Brown TAYLOR DRURY, a native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, studied dance in The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School’s professional division before moving to New York to earn her Performers: Emily Bock, Esmé Boyce, Giulia Carotenuto, Taylor Drury, BFA in Dance from Juilliard. During her training she had the pleasure of performing Amanda Hinchey, Hoyoung Shin, Gawon Yu, JinJu Song Begin, Jerome Begin works by Aszure Barton, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Hofesh Schechter, Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham and Marie Chouinard. Drury looks forward to joining the cast Texts: Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Hide & Seek by Douglas Dunn of Sleep No More for their 2015 season.

biographies AMANDA HINCHEY attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She has danced with H.T Chen & Dancers, and WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim JIN JU SONG-BEGIN is a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher from Seoul, Dance Company with whom she has toured internationally to Korea. She is one of Korea, whose work has been presented internationally in Korea, Japan and the U.S. the recipients of William R. Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Since permanently moving to New York in 2010, her work has been shown in many Education. venues in NYC, including the REVERB Dance festival, Danspace at St. Marks Church, Movement Research at Judson Church, 92Y and Dixon Place. In 2012, Jin Ju HOYOUNG SHIN was born in Korea. she graduated from Korea National University of founded her dance company, Da-On Dance. 2013 saw the premiere of Da-On Dance Arts. She danced in Alvin Ailey school scholarship student, Limon school and Leesaar performing Song-Begin’s evening-length work, THIRST. Jin Ju is currently dancing The company, Da-On Dance Company. (2013-2015) with Douglas Dunn & Dancers and the Sean Curran Company, as well as several other choreographers in the city. www.daondance.com GAWON YOO is a dancer from Korea. She graduated from the Gwangju Arts High School, Kyunghee University and earned Master’s degree at KHU Graduated school. JEROME BEGIN has composed many scores for dance and theatre, concert works, She was a member of the Seoul Dance Theater. She participated in diverse festival and installation and film. Equally at home in the classical, experimental, theatrical and workshops, both in and out of Korea from early on. After Gawon moved to New York in pop worlds, he has always been drawn to collaboration. Dance score commissions 2014, she has participated in works with numerous choreographers to this day. include works for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Hubbard Chicago, The Juilliard School, KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Gallim Dance, Sean Curran Company, and many others. Look for a new album this year from Tranimal — Jerome’s band with cellist Chris Lancaster. www. jeromebegin.com EMILY BOCK These days, Emily Bock pretends to live in New York City. Some days she wears rings and some days she don’t. Sometime she dance slow. Sometimes she dance quick. Mana Hashimoto species groups can come together into temporary super organisms. He has created Wor the sound f the Wor ooster Group, Lady GaGaga,ga, French per fume commercials, movie Friday, January 23, 9:00 pm trailers, spiritual gagatherings.therings. And has been travel ling the country for a number of & Thursday, January 29, 9:00 pm years developing a new nanationaltional anthem.

Stories of the Blind-Light, Shadow and Wind

Choreographed and performance: Mana Hashimoto Sound design: Omar Zubair Music: Abandoned sight by Jun Miyake; Flesh for Eve by Jun Miyake; “Can’t help Falling in Love” by Elvis Presley Lighting design: Carrie Wood

biographies MANA HASHIMOTO is a blind dancer and choreographer based in New York City, TAKE IT. DRIVE IT. LEAVE IT. originally from Tokyo, Japan. After she lost her sight completely due to undiagnosed optic nerve atrophy in her adulthood, her life work is devoted to merge blindness FForor a a limited limited time, time, get get a discounted FREE membership $15 membership + 30 minutes + 30 mins of ofdrive drivdrive etime! time and dance. In her choreography, she seeks to explore the experience of a visually impaired person who desires to creates artistically by using richness of sounds, PROMOPROMO CODE: CODE: FLICFEST1530 BKLYN smell and touch. She is also a founder of Dance Without Sight, a multi-sensory dance workshops and performance productions.

CARRIE WOOD is a NYC-based lighting designer. She has designed for many wonderful artists including Karen Sherman, Melanie Maar, luciana achugar, Reggie Wilson, Walter Dundervill, Sarah Michelson, Michael Lluberes, Luke Murphy, Katy Pyle, and many more! In 2009 she joined Merce Cunningham Dance Company as the assistant production manager for their final Legacy Tour. She then production managed MCDC’s final performance at the Park Avenue Armory. Carrie continues to work for the Merce Cunningham Trust as the Production Supervisor of Licensing. Carrie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Register today at Brooklyn.car2go.com! OMAR ZUBAIR — utilizing the skills developed and continually honed through art practice, scientific experimentation, and trans-ethnographic participation — has car2goar2go BrBrooklynooklyn @car2goBklyncar2goBklyn been focusing on expanding the scope of reality by creating a process of bringing back artifacts from the dream place, catalyzing the growth of new sensory organs via confocal synesthetic, and building place times & languages from which multi- tiH e Brht BrBroooo tlk setaehyn ecr ine n a cae r2r2 o — sg ugi tn !yaodp Renegade Performance Group Times) and Walter Rutledge (Harlem World Press). He has performed with Elisa Monte Dance Company, Miller-Rothlein (MIRO), Nathan Trice/RITUALS, CeDeCe (Portugal), Thursday, January 22, 7:30 pm Compagnie THOR (Belgium), Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland), and the National & Saturday, January 31, 7:30 pm Tour of AIDA. As an interdisciplinary collaborator, he has led classes and workshops throughout the country and around the world in Mexico City, Brussels, Belgium, and Edinburgh, Scotland. Most recently, Zachery initiated the AFROFUTURISM Series The Inscription Project under RPG where the first new work was developed in the 2014 CUNY Dance Initiative at Brooklyn College. The work will premiere in the 2015 FLICfest at the Choreographer: Renegade Performance Group/André M. Zachery Irondale Center in Brooklyn. Zachery will also present work in 2015 E-Moves at Harlem Stage with RPG, and will be a part of the collective Wildcat! as they present Music: Mos Def, C R O W N S (Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste), Flying Lotus work commissioned by JACK performance space in Brooklyn in June 2015. Sound Designer: André M. Zachery JEREMY TOUSSAINT-BAPTISTE (Music) is a multidisciplinary performer, conceptualizer, and laborer, working in Brooklyn, New York and Toronto, Ontario. His Sound Mixer: Jessie Nelson work is a constant re-evaluation and complication of the Black body’s relationship Multimedia Projections: André M. Zachery to environments and the various agencies which inhabit them. He frequently collaborates with musicians, designers, videographer, and choreographer, under Costume Designer: Joy Havens the name CROWNS. His works have been featured by Arts East New York (with choreographer André M. Zachary), Assembly New York (with videographer Nicole Van Lighting Designer: Nick Brown Straatum), at Toronto’s HarbourFront Festival (with musician Brendan Philip), and on Dazed Digital. Most recently, he has focused on investigating precarity in labor and Visual Artist: Aaron Lazansky-Olivas (Spaze Craft) its social implications, as an independent corporate art department laborer. He is currently a 2014 M.F.A. candidate in Brooklyn College’s Performance and Interactive Photographer: Rachel Neville Media Arts program. RENEGADE PERFORMANCE GROUP was founded in Brooklyn 2007 as a platform JOY HAVENS (Costumes) has assumed many roles in the worlds of costume to engage a new generation of audiences to performance, media, and culture. The and dance. Joy’s costume designs have been seen at Danspace Project at St. company was formed as an artistic outlet to foster dialogue compelled by the human Mark’s Church (Jordan Fuchs), Roulette (Elke Rindfleisch/Sarah Weber-Gallo), Mile experience. Since the company’s inception, RPG has performed throughout NYC, Square Theatre (Sarah Weber-Gallo), Mark Morris Dance Center (Sarah Edgar), The domestically, and internationally. Hague, Netherlands (Caroline Copeland) and Brooklyn Bridge Park (André Zachery/ Renegade Performance Group). She styled the music video Rubikon for the band biographies Rags + Ribbons directed by Corydon Wagner. Wardrobe credits include: American Genius (wardrobe supervisor) a period mini-series for TV (currently in post- ANDRE M. ZACHARY (°1981, Chicago, United States) is a Brooklyn-based artist production), the Mark Morris Dance Group (assistant wardrobe supervisor), Ballet who creates performances and media art. He received his BFA from the Ailey/ Hispanico (seamstress, wardrobe assistant), American Ballet Theatre (dresser) and Fordham program in 2005, and an MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts the Metropolitan Opera (dresser). As a seamstress she has constructed costumes from Brooklyn College in 2014. He also trained at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, for designers Pilar Limosner (Richard Move, Rioult Dance NY, Victoria’s Secret LINES Ballet, and Jacobs Pillow. As the Artistic Director of Renegade Performance Fashion Show); Charles Atlas (Douglass Dunn); James Hall (Merce Cunningham Group he has presented work throughout NYC, Florida A & M University, Florida Dance Company); Deanna Berg Designs (Armitage Gone! Dance, Aszure Barton State University, LIFT (Atlanta), The Ruth Page Theater and DuSable Museum & Artists, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Benjamin Millepied); and David Quinn (Merce (Chicago); and internationally as part of the Cistermusíca Festival 2012 in Portugal. Cunningham Dance Company, Broadway productions of Young Frankenstein and His works have also received favorable reviews from Jennifer Dunning (New York Billy Elliot, performers Julie Atlas Muz and Dirty Martini). She has also spent many hours hand appliquéing wallpaper for Erin Wilson Quilts. In addition to her work CANDACE THOMPSON (Performer), a Trinidad and Tobago native, is a dance artist, in costume design and wardrobe, Joy is also a professional dancer. Performance choreographer and fitness professional. Her training began at La Danse Caraibe in highlights include: Orfeo ed Euridice directed by Mark Morris at the Metropolitan ballet and modern and continued at Adelphi University’s Dance Department. She Opera, presented on The Met: Live in HD series and seen on Great Performances has gone on to work in Modern, Contemporary, Ballet, Caribbean and Diasporic on PBS, Dreamland Follies with Michael Arenella’s Dreamland Orchestra at the Jazz Dance and Soca. She currently performs with Sydnie L. Mosley , Areytos Age Lawn Party, Already Seen presented in the inaugural Filament Festival at EMPAC Performance Works, Elle NYTT and in her own solo performance work, CanDance (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) with Miller-Rothlein (MIRO), a nine- ContempoCaribe. Candace looks forward to adding to the dance landscape in city tour of India with Thresh (Preeti Vasudevan), and appearing with the New York the U.S. and the Caribbean, and deepening her mastery in performance. www. Baroque Dance Company at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Joy’s own candacedancefitness.com choreography has been presented in Ohio and in NYC. Joy is also on the faculty of the Mark Morris Dance Center and has taught at Bennington College in Vermont. NEHEMOYIA YOUNG is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and cultural artivist. She has worked with T.Lang Dance, Liberation Dance Theatre, Love Making Dances, AARON LAZANSKY-OLIVAS, aka Spaze Crafte One (SC1) (Visual Artist) is a multi- violinist duo Chargaux, and is currently performing with DNA Comedy Collective and disciplined Artist, Educator, Cultural Producer and Chief Creative Director of Soh Nup Renegade Performance Group. Nehemoyia joined SLMDances in 2014. Industries NYC. The name Spaze Crafte One comes from an old graf fiti tag from 1986, “SC1”. As a visual artist as well as an other-worldly DJ / Producer, he dubbed himself the “crafter of spaze”. For the past 10 years Spaze Crafte One has been providing innovative urban arts, culture, and media literacy programming to young people & educators on both coasts. SC1 founded “Elevated Urban Arts & Education” in 1996 and ran the first Urban Arts & Media in-school program in the U.S @ Robert F. Wagner Secondary School of Arts & Technology. As an active Visual Artist, Spaze Crafte One has shown works at: Southern Exposure Gallery (SF), Culture Cache Gallery (SF), The Lab 101 (LA), “Stepping from the Shadows” and “PHENOMENA” 2 national Graf fiti/Urban Art Group shows at the Independent Media Center (Seattle Wa.), “Pindemonium” group show @ MadameEDGAR Gallery (Montreal), StayGold Gallery (bklyn), Elevated Urban Arts (NY), Method Lab / Magic Propaganda Mill (bklyn), RocketWorld Gallery (SF), APT (NY) & New York University Bronfman Gallery (NY). RACHEL NEVILLE (Photographer) is a a dance and fitness photographer. She works with dancers, dance companies and fitness professionals to create rock star images that stand out, get jobs, sell more tickets, and increase client rosters. SARAH CHIEN (Performer) is a dancer, improviser and traveller. Besides RPG, she has worked with Emily Faulkner, Sydnie L Mosley Dances and Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance. An alumna of Barnard College, she also trained and performed in Quito, Ecuador. In 2013 she founded Floor Friends, a network of dancers and teachers interested in highly acrobatic, physical floorwork. STEPH LEE: A Strategist, Performer, and Cultivator. She recently quit a career with an investment bank to recommit to dancing. She is currently working on the intersection of physical performance and technology, cultivating presence, handstands, and www.bermuda.nyc. Grateful to be dancing with RPG and making art in NYC! Nicole Wolcott biographies NICOLE WOLCOTT is a choreographer, teacher and movement artist originally from Friday, January 23, 7:30 pm Montana and now rooted in Brooklyn. She has performed and collaborated with & Saturday, January 31, 9:00 pm dance companies, rock bands and video artists around the country for twenty-one years. In 2003, Nicole co-founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY with her friend Larry Keigwin and was the Associate Artistic Director and a featured dancer for nine years. PaperPieces Now they enjoy working together on independent projects, most recently Nicole was his Associate Choreographer on the Broadway production of If/Then starring Idina Choreography & Performance: Nicole Wolcott Menzel, which opened at the Richard Rogers Theater in New York City on March Sound Design: Omar Zubair 30th. In addition to dancing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY, other highlights of her career include performing at the Metropolitan Opera House under the direction of Mark Music: Numerous compositions by Omar Zubair, “Scene IV” composition and Dendy; working with site-specific choreographer Noemie Lafrance; being a featured performance by Michael Galasso “Comptine d’un autre ete” composition by dancer in Doug Elkin’s original “Fraulein Maria;” appearing in music videos and Yann Tiersen, J8b!t remix “Zou bisou bisou” composition by Bill Shepard, Alan concerts with the art rock phenomenon FischerSpooner; and being a featured dancer Tew and Michel Rivgauche, performance by Jessica Paré “October 2012 Dior in Across the Universe, an Oscar-nominated film by director Julie Taymor. She is a passionate teacher and was featured in DANCE TEACHER Magazine. She devotes Runway” by DJ Moda Vita much of her time to sharing the JOD (Joy of Dance) with as many people as she can Lighting Design: Carrie Wood as a guest artist and resident teacher in studios and universities around the country. A pet project for Nicole is directing the KEIGWIN + COMPANY Summer Intensive at The Juilliard School each year. Thank you to the following people for their guidance and inspiration: Omar Zubair (perspective, bright-siding tendencies, collaboration and patience), Kate Martel CARRIE WOOD is a NYC-based lighting designer. She has designed for many (spiral movement inspiration, hand holder and my dance crush), Brian Brooks (rigor wonderful artists including Karen Sherman, Melanie Maar, luciana achugar, Reggie guide and coach), Larry Keigwin (enthusiasm, approval and the lizard entrance), Wilson, Walter Dundervill, Sarah Michelson, Michael Lluberes, Luke Murphy, Katy Whitney Jacobs (support, coaching and model advisement), Mary Ellen Carafice Pyle, and many more! In 2009 she joined Merce Cunningham Dance Company as (hand holding and generally helping make it happen), David Parker (encouraging me the assistant production manager for their final Legacy Tour. She then production to be honest and earnest), Monica Burton (for guidance and friendship), my many managed MCDC’s final performance at the Park Avenue Armory. Carrie continues friends who came into the previews to give feedback (Juliana May, Luke Miller, to work for the Merce Cunningham Trust as the Production Supervisor of Licensing. Darrin Wright), and my family Jie and Laurel for loving me despite it all. Carrie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. OMAR ZUBAIR—utilizing the skills developed and continually honed through art This work was made possible by a generous donation from the Vapnek Family practice, scientific experimentation, and trans-ethnographic participation—has been Foundation, the Chez Bushwick Artist-in-Residence program and the support of the focusing on expanding the scope of reality by creating a process of bringing back University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts Department of Dance. artifacts from the dream place, catalysing the growth of new sensory organs via And by the generosity of the following people: Nicolle Ament, Monica Burton, confocal synaesthetics, and building placetimes & languages from which multi-species Ashley Browne, Geneva and Shane Campbell, Nikki Chalas, Jacqui Adams Crockett, groups can come together into temporary superorganisms. He has created sound for Nicholas Croft, Tonya Easbey, Aubrey Franchell, Pat Cunningham, Lindsay Gilmour, the Wooster Group, Lady Gaga, French perfume commercials, movie trailers, spiritual Barb Grusing , Larry Keigwin, Elizabeth Nalley, Amy O’Leary, David Parker, Neil Pirie, gatherings..and has been travelling the country for a number of years developing a new Christa Pottenger, Robin Staff, Karin Schall, Gus Solomons Jr., Andrew T Warman, national anthem. Natalie Wedeking and Tim Laum, James Wolcott, Susan and Keith Wolcott. A special thank you to the New York Times and Amy O’Leary (journalist extraordinaire) for her crucial donation of hundreds of newspapers to help develop this work.

Zullo/RawMovement JAKE DEIBERT recently graduated with honors from Montclair State University. Since graduation Jake has worked with 360 dance company, Mazzini Dance Collective, Von Saturday, January 24, 7:30 pm Howard Project, and Life Dance Company. & Thursday, January 29, 7:30 pm BONG DIZON graduated from California State University, Hayward with a BA in Theatre Arts Dance Option. He has danced with Amalgamate Dance Company, Six The Architecture of Proximity Degrees Dance Company, HT Chen Dance Company, The Physical Plant, Kennedy Dancers, Michelle DuVall Dance Collective and Zullo/RawMovement. Bong would like Movement Architect: John J Zullo & Performers to thank the company for this amazing endeavor. #LTC #REAL TRACY DUNBAR Composer/Sound Design: David Engelhard graduated with honors, Magna Cum Laude, from Montclair State University with a BFA in Dance Performance. Since graduation Tracy has worked with Lighting Design: John J Zullo Freespace Dance, Earl Mosley’s Life Dance Company, and the Von Howard Project. He is excited to be performing with Zullo/RawMovement. Clothing: Performers JILLIAN SAWYER Originally from Kent, CT graduated from SUNY Purchase with a Performers: Jake Deibert, Bong Dizon, Tracy Dunbar, Jillian Sawyer, Audrey BFA in Dance & Choreography. After graduating Miss Sawyer joined Raw Movement, Rachelle Stanley Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre and Jennifer Muller/The Works. She is honored to be dancing with RawMovement and the intellectual process along with athletic Guest Performers: Tushrik Fredericks, Liz Little, Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, physicality makes John’s work a welcome challenge. She loves to dance everyday. Lillian Stamey, Kat Sullivan AUDREY RACHELLE STANLEY Audrey attended the Nutmeg Conservatory and biographies graduated salutatorian. She studied at the Netherlands Dance Theater and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and danced professionally with Ballet Tucson, Nashville Ballet, JOHN ZULLO is originally from the Bronx, New York and currently resides in NYC. He and Winifred Haun & Dancers among others. Currently she dances for Zullo//Raw graduated from American University in 1996 with a B.A. in Anthropology and 1999 Movement, BodyStories:Teresa Fellion Dance, Eunoia and creates her own work. with an M.A. in Dance. Zullo/ RawMovement presented the Memory Suite evening of works at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts in June 2014 where it was Guest Performers a Boston Globe pick if the week. Zullo/RM presented its 2013 season at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s church as part of the Dance:Access series. The evening of works, TUSHRIK FREDERICKS Originally from South Africa (Johannesburg), currently in the Memory Suite, included “this Exquisite diversion/mysterious Skin” (2013), “ALL New York City in his final semester in the peridance certificate program which he what THIS do HAS you HAPPENED see? BEFORE” (2012), & project Xiii (2013). Zullo/ graduates from in June 2015. RawMovement was presented for a sold out run at the LaMaMa Moves! Festival 2013 LIZ LITTLE Liz was raised in Endicott, NY and began her training at Ballet Arts Theatre and invited to perform in the Dumbo Dance Festival 2013. as well as Briansky Saratoga Ballet, Pittsburg Ballet Theatre, The Radio City Rockettes, DAVID ENGELHARD A New York saxophonist and composer with southern roots, and New York Dance International under Kazuko Hirabayashi. She graduated from David Engelhard grew up in Atlanta, GA, and currently lives in Brooklyn. As a The Ailey School’s Certificate Program and performed with their Student Performance saxophonist, David has performed and toured with the GRAMMY-Award winning Zac Group. She now freelances in New York. Brown Band, Gregg Allman, John Mayer, Grace Potter, Scott Weiland, and others. As NICOLE LOEFFLER-GLADSTONE is a dance artist and editor located NYC. She a composer David has been composing music in a variety of styles including works most recently had the pleasure of performing with ChrisMastersDance and is with John Zullo at LaMama Theater. David performed a solo composition at the currently working with Rosie DeAngelo. Nicole is also a co-founder of The Bunker UN honoring the life and passing of the great Nigerian novelest and humanitarian, performance series. Chicua Achebe. He currently leads a band called Soft Sirens. LILLIAN STAMEY is a NY based performer and choreographer. She has had the amazing opportunity to dance with some innovative choreographers and has also produced her own work. Lillian has a passion for teaching dance to young children and would like to send a huge thanks to John Zullo and the company for this opportunity. KAT SULLIVAN is a graduate of Skidmore College where she majored in dance and computer science. Taking this unusual pairing, she is now a masters candidate at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Prior to starting her masters, she freelanced with a variety of companies in Boston including Jasmine Dancers and Cambridge Dance Company.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                                                             

                                                  Irondale Ensemble at the Irondale Center

Dead End (2013)

The wine for the cafe is donated by Big Nose Full Body, a proud sponsor of Irondale. Big Nose Full Body

382 Seventh Ave (between 11th and 12th streets) Brooklyn, NY 11215 Phone and Fax: (718) 369-4030 E-mail: [email protected]

Irondale entrusts all our costumes to Bridge Cleaners, a proud sponsor of Irondale. Bridge Cleaners & Tailors 204 Livingston Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Phone: (718) 625-1438 www.bridgecleaners.com

1599: Hamlet (2015)