FORTITUDE PERFORMANCES & EVENTS Exquisite Frame Saturday, April 10th at 6:30pm EST Created by Britta Joy Peterson in partnership with Dance Place and Olivia Weber Co-Curated by Britta Joy Peterson and Katherine Lopes Zukeri PROGRAM ORDER The Lung Choregraphed by: Tori Youn & Jonathan Hsu Filmed by: Hamza Bakkach Edited by: Jonathan Hsu Music: The Lung by Hiatus Kaiyote IGOR Created and performed by: Stephen Lyons II Music: EARFQUAKE by Tyler, The Creator, I THINK by Tyler, The Creator, RUNNING OUT OF TIME by Tyler, The Creator, A BOY IS A GUN by Tyler, The Creator, ARE WE STILL FRIENDS? by Tyler, The Creator Is A Thousand Times Enough Created and performed by: Greg David Filmed and Edited by: Jimmy V. Page Assisted by: Saidovna Kamara Music by: Dyani and Aad Aalberts Restoration Restoration Hard Tear, an implication Choreography and performance by: Heart Stück Bernie/Sarah Beth Oppenheim Film by: Oliver Mertz Special Guest Appearance by: Belmondo Raziel Mertz Music by: Tigran Hamasyan, Yma Sumac, Weyes Blood, Battles ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

GREG DAVID (he/they), Is A Thousand Times Enough, is a movement artist based in the DMV area. The work and movement they enjoy making has always gone hand in hand with human emotion and experience and aims to capture that essence in motion. David joined Culture Shock Washington DC® in 2012 and became the Artistic Director for their 2015 and 2016 seasons where, nationally and internationally, they presented stage works and taught workshops. They have been so grateful to work with other DMV-based movement artists like Project ChArma, Haus of Bambi, and PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER. These experiences allowed them to understand how the art and freedom of dance can truly change a life.

JONATHAN HSU (he/him), The Lung, has a BA in Dance and BS in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland College Park. Currently dancing with Orange Grove Dance, he has also performed with Rennie Harris Puremovement, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, Project ChArma, and Culture Shock DC. He also has extensive experience teaching hip hop in the DMV community and draws on his background in both street/club forms and modern to create a unique curriculum and pedagogy. Along with dance performance and teaching Jonathan is also interested in the intersection of dance and media through photography, videography, and projection design and used all of those skills as the digital content and social media manager at Dance Place from 2017-2020, and created a YouTube channel called “Dance Tech with JHsu” with the goal of helping dancers become more proficient in the digital space.

STEPHEN LYONS II (he/him), IGOR, is a DMV-based dancer, choreographer, and director. He began his dance journey with Aberdeen Dance Company in high school. Since then he has trained in hip hop dance styles with Phunktions Hip Hop Dance Company and Culture Shock DC. Stephen is now in his third year as Artistic Director of Culture Shock DC and works to enrich, educate, and entertain his community through dance. He was selected by Dance Place for the 2020 New Releases Choreographer’s Showcase. He was also a recipient of a Vital Signs Mini-Grant from UMD to create a project that affirms black lives. Stephen currently studies Theatre and Dance at the University of Maryland.

OLIVER MERTZ (he/him), Restoration Restoration Hard Tear, an implication, believes comics can change the world, along with excellent video production, graphic design, DC post-punk music, and all the humor (as long as it’s his, and you’re laughing at it). Depending on the hour of the day, he is a comic book creator, a self-trained troubadour, or a freelance video producer and designer for non-profits, arts organizations, and dance company Heart Stück Bernie. He lives in Silver Spring, MD with his modern dance teaching artist wife, his two kids, a television shamelessly placed over the fireplace, and lots of construction paper things. ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES (cont.)

SARAH BETH OPPENHEIM/HEART STÜCK BERNIE (she/her), Restoration Restoration Hard Tear, an implication, likes to use scraps, abandoned tools, and painters tape to cut and paste curious inquisitions into everything from pelvis- motored bedroom choreography to burritos. She believes in deepest plie to bend traditions, antiracist pedagogy to bend academia, and dance as an everything salve. She has a love/love/exasperate relationship with a many-jobbed lifestyle, but enjoys every opportunity to make, teach, and engage in the DMV dance world. She forced her children and husband into this quarantine project, but they probably secretly loved it, and she looks forward to many more artistic procedurals and paper extravaganza reckonings as a family. sarahbethoppenheim.com Instagram: @heartstuckbernie

Raised in the midwest, creatively pressure-cooked in the southwest, liberated by the pacific northwest, and cracked open by the wild west, BRITTA JOY PETERSON (she/her), Creator and Co-Curator, is an award winning east-coast creative based in Washington, DC. Recent works have been seen at the Sibu Heritage Center—Sarawak, Malaysia, Performance Mix 33—New York City, NY, Sonic Immersive Media Lab— London, UK, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts—Washington, DC. She is humbled to be supported in process through recent residencies with the Yale School of Drama and the Iron Factory. BJP is currently in process with several multi-year research projects, concert dance, and theatre choreographies. She regularly teaches Practical Supply and Base Groove within the DMV and around the country. BJP is an Artist in Residence at Dance Place, Professorial Lecturer at American University, and holds a MFA in Dance from Arizona State University. @brittajoypeterson

OLIVIA WEBER (she/her), Associate Producer, is a DC-based creative innovator, researcher, and producer. Olivia’s work has been presented through the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center (Washington, DC) and University of Maryland (College Park, MD) with funding from the AU Center for Innovation’s Entrepreneurship Incubator and Eagle Endowment Fund. Her current research investigates how sustainable digital infrastructure can be leveraged to radicalize resources in the arts. Olivia is the Founder of Dancespace, a digital platform connecting dance professionals with workspace, and the Associate Producer of Britta Joy Peterson, a DC-based choreographer and 2020-2022 Artist in Residence at Dance Place. During the hours of 9am-5pm, Olivia is a Cloud Strategist at Amazon Web Services. She holds a BS in Business Administration (Honors), with a specialization in Digital Innovation, and Dance, summa cum laude, from American University. @oliviajweber ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES (cont.)

TORI YOUN (she/her), The Lung, is a DMV native who started her dance journey in 2014 during college. In 2015, she moved on to be co-founder and operations director of the NoVA-based choreography team Hyperspace Command Force. She also founded the free monthly workshops series hosted at George Mason University called Spam Musubi Workshops to provide an accessible platform for dancers of choreography and street dance backgrounds within the DMV dance community. From 2018-2020, Tori led the house dance crew Highjackers to sow the seeds of love for house dance in the DMV area. Currently, Tori’s main focuses are in house dance, waacking, hip hop, and West African dance. She enjoys battling, teaching, and organizing for the street dance scene.

KATHERINE LOPES ZUKERI (she/her), Co-Curator, is a DC metro area based movement artist, dedicated to exploring and uplifting intuitive movement informed by lived experience and highlighting street dance vocabulary and expression, both in performance and dance education. Katherine is an Alumnus of Culture Shock DC, local crew TeamWeGonMakeIt and George Mason’s Urbanknowlogy 101. Since 2017, Katherine has been the artistic and program director for Born 2 Dance Studio’s street dance based program: Urban Theory and Movement. As a creator and performer, Katherine has choreographed and appeared in work for stage performances, live virtual performances, music videos, music festivals, and showcases. Most recently, she was the choreographer for the play JOY, presented by the Arlington VA based Synetic Theater. As a perennial student of her craft, Katherine continues to deepen her connection to movement through taking classes, community engagement, collaborative projects, and pursuing learning opportunities whenever possible. Katherine is a warrior of light and conduit of love. @katboom

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