Dorothy O'shea Overbey

Dorothy O’Shea Overbey

1507 East 14th Street,, Austin, TX, 78702

rednightfallproductions.com dorothyoshea.com

Current/Ongoing Projects, 2020

CRONE - THE VIRTUAL REALITY FILM, 2017-2020 Producer, Writer, Director, Choreographer. Crone is a hybrid: part dance film, part fashion film, part music film that uses orchestral music, visual art and dance to tell a story of transformation. Fueled by a desire to help dance, music, and all performing arts reach new audiences, Crone will be shot with 360 degree capture technology to create a Virtual Reality film. A cross-media project, Crone will also be made as a traditional film for release to festival and theaters, and a live-performance version of the work was presented by University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance in November 2017. Crone received grant support from the City of Austin Cultural Funding Division.

CRONE TEASER/TRAILER Producer, Production Designer, Writer, Director, Choreographer. In collaboration with composer Sam Lipman and Emmy-winning Producer Whitney Rowlett. Teaser/trailer to raise funds for the upcoming ﬁlm.

Choreography/Production/Performance History

VIRTUAL COLOR FIELD - FILM COLLABORATION WITH AUSTIN CAMERATA, RELEASED APRIL 30, 2020 Film Producer. A collaboration between Red Nightfall Productions and Austin Camerata featuring five string musicians and five dancers filming their collaborations while quarantined during the time of COVID-19. Dancers hailing from a diverse range of dance traditions (Heels Technique, Tap Dance, Contemporary Ballet, Modern Dance, Dance Theatre) interpret the music of Johann Sebastian Bach while exploring themes of connection in a time of social distancing.

VENTANA BALLET SPRING 2020 SEASON - LEAP - FEBRUARY 2020, FIRST STREET STUDIO THEATER, AUSTIN TEXAS Artistic Advisor and Choreographer, setting new works and performing with Ventana Ballet.

THE WATCHMAKER’S SONG - AN INTERACTIVE REIMAGINING OF THE NUTCRACKER - NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM, DECEMBER 2019. Choreographer, Dancer, Director, Co-Producer. A collaboration between Red Nightfall Productions and Ventana Ballet featuring Duke Ellington’s iconic re-imagining of Tchaikovsky’s score offered an immersive, interactive, culturally responsible interpretation of The Nutcracker. Performed to sold-out audiences, this was the second year of a production designed to become an Austin tradition, with concept and execution ever-evolving. Austin Chronicle Review here: bit.ly/Watchmaker2019

CHOREOGRAPHER - SINFONIA - AND CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DANCE REPERTORY THEATRE’S ‘FALL FOR DANCE’, B. IDEN PAYNE THEATER, DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - NOVEMBER 2019 Choreographer, Producer, Sinfonia, the revision and expansion of the 2018 ballet set to Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Opus 110 (orchestration of the 8th String Quartet). Sinfonia honors the life and legacy of composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who, like countless artists throughout history, pursued his life’s work in the context of a socially, politically, psychologically oppressive environment. Nine dancers shared the stage with nine string musicians, interacting and intertwining in a meditation on the journey from oppression and isolation to community and freedom. Projection Design by Jesse Easdon and costuming by Court Rogers. Link to review here: http://bit.ly/FFD19Chronicle

VENTANA BALLET - ALL HALLOW’S EVE PERFORMANCE ‘UNDEAD’ OCTOBER 2019 Making concert dance accessible to all audiences, Ventana Ballet presents ballet and other forms of dance at the Spider House in Austin, TX.

FACULTY PRODUCER - COHEN NEW WORKS FESTIVAL - APRIL 2019 A biennial festival and the largest collegiate showcase of its kind, the Cohen New Works Festival 2019 showcased 38 original, student-produced works in ﬁve days on the University of Texas campus. The Festival exists as an incubator for innovative and original forms of theatre, dance, music, ﬁlm, design, visual art, architecture and a wide variety of alternative mediums.

APRÈS UN RÊVE - BALLET FOR ‘DISRUPT’ - VENTANA BALLET, MARCH 2019 A collaboration with pianist and composer Kamila Swerdloff and cellist Daniel Kopp, this exploration of alternate realities and states of being is set to the music of French composer Gabriel Fauré. Review here: http://bit.ly/VentanaDisrupt

INVENTION IN THREE PARTS - VIRTUAL REALITY MOTION-CAPTURE FILM - AND CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - FALL FOR DANCE, B. IDEN PAYNE THEATRE, NOVEMBER 2018 Choreographer, Director, Co-Producer with UT Radio-Television-Film faculty Deepak Chetty. In collaboration with UT3D, this ﬁlm created with motion-capture data from BFA Dance students premiered alongside a live dance performance. The ﬁlm was also shown in Virtual Reality as an installation using Oculus Rift VR headsets.

SHOSTAKOVICH 8TH STRING QUARTET - UNTITLED NEW DANCE WORK WITH 16 MUSICIANS, ROLLINS THEATER, MAY 2018 Choreographer, Dancer, Co-Producer. In collaboration with Butler Music School chamber group Austin Camerata, this new work for 5 dancers and 16-piece conductor-less chamber orchestra premiered at The Rollins Theater at Austin’s Long Center for the Performing Arts. With dancers and musicians sharing the stage and relating physically, this work explores the life of Dmitri Shostakovich and his conﬂict with the mid-20th century Soviet state. Review here: http://bit.ly/CamerataShosty

CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DANCE REPERTORY THEATRE’S ‘FALL FOR DANCE’, B. IDEN PAYNE THEATER, DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - NOVEMBER 2017 In addition to Artistic Director production duties: choreographed, designed sets, and coordinated live 23-piece orchestra for the premiere of the one-act narrative ballet Crone with original score by Resident Composer Samuel Lipman. Fall for Dance was selected by the Austin Chronicle as ‘Robert Faires' Top 10 Dance and Classical Treasures of 2017’ (https:// www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2017-12-29/robert-faires-top-10-dance-and-classical-treasures- of-2017/). Austin Chronicle review: https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2017-11-17/ut- dance-repertory-theatres-fall-for-dance/

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR - RED NIGHTFALL PRODUCTIONS - 2017 Founded in 2017, Red Nightfall Productions produces ﬁlms and live productions that are ambitious, imaginative, soulful, and technologically forward. rednightfallproductions.com

CRONE - THE CONCERT, MARCH 17TH, 2017 Producer. Live performance of the original score for the ﬁlm Crone. Received with a standing ovation at Bates Recital Hall on March 17th, 2017, the score for 25-piece orchestra was composed by Sam Lipman, MM in Composition at the Butler School of Music. The concert was accompanied by an exhibit of costume renderings from the ﬁlm, designed by Aaron Kubacak, MFA in Costume Design. Storyboards by BFA in Design Collin Sees, Department of Art and Art History. Crone is a collaboration of artist of the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas.

COLOR FIELD - 5 SOLO WORKS FOR MUSICIAN AND DANCER BASED ON THE WORKS OF ELLSWORTH KELLY, APRIL-MAY 2017 Producer, Dancer, Choreographer. A series of solo Bach pieces played by string instruments and solo dancers, exploring physical and emotional relationships on stage together. A collaboration with Butler School of Music’s chamber group Austin Camerata, and BFA students, alumni, and faculty. Costumes by MFA Aaron Kubacak. Performed at the Blanton Museum, Rotunda of the Texas State Capitol Building, and Imagine Art Gallery, Austin, Texas.

STRING CIRCLE (DANCER, CHOREOGRAPHER, PRODUCER) - 2016 - BATES RECITAL HALL, BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, SXSW 2016 A collaboration involving Butler Music School’s Cordova [String] Quartet, dancers from the Department of Theatre and Dance, MFAs in Dance, Integrated Media and Set/Costume Design, and students from the Department of Radio-Television-Film: a performance of dance, music, and making of a documentary ﬁlm premiered as ‘pop-up’ performances in public spaces during the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Festival 2016, and at The Blanton Museum of Art. Music by Kenji Bunch.

CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, GUEST PERFORMING ARTIST WITH DANCE REPERTORY THEATRE’S ‘FALL FOR DANCE’, B. IDEN PAYNE THEATER, DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - NOVEMBER 2015 Choreographed and performed in Prelude Variation, a solo work to Evgeny Kissin’s recording of Chopin Prelude #15 ‘Raindrop’ - an exploration of risk-taking and engagement with darkness. In collaboration with UT MFA candidate lighting designer Chian-Ann Lu. Dancer in guest artist and veteran of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, La La La Human Steps, and Ballets du Grand Theatre du Geneve Manuel Vignoulle’s world premiere, Maximizing the Audience.

CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER, FIRST STREET STUDIO ‘FALL FOR DANCE’ FESTIVAL, SEPTEMBER 2015 World Premiere of Prelude Variation and public premiere of the short ﬁlm Prelude.

WRITER, DIRECTOR, ‘PRELUDE’ - A SHORT NARRATIVE FILM, AUGUST 2015 A first film-making effort and experiment with a hybrid genre - a mix of silent film and dance. This film is a 7 minute narrative film without dialogue, set to Chopin’s Prelude #15 for Piano. It is similar to silent film in that there is no dialogue and it is filmed in black and white - and, like a ballet, the narrative elements of the plot are ‘choreographed’ to occur in specific places in the score.

DANCER, DANCES PATRELLE; NEW YORK, NEW YORK — 2008-2014 Francis Patrelle, Artistic Director; Soloist and Principal Roles in Is That All There Is, a ballet set to the music of Peggy Lee, Murder at The Masque, based on the life and work of Edgar Allen Poe; and Gilbert and Sullivan: The Ballet!.

DANCER, COLLECTIVE BODY DANCE LAB; NEW YORK, NEW YORK — 2009-2011 Brian Carey Chung, Artistic Director; Principal Roles in For the Time That This Dream Endures and other works by Brian Carey Chung

DANCER, LOTT DANCE; NEW YORK, NEW YORK - 2011 Jennifer Lott, Artistic Director; Principal and Soloist Roles in works by Jennifer Lott

DANCER, JOHN-MARK OWEN PRESENTS; NEW YORK, NEW YORK - 2008 John-Mark Owen, Artistic Director; Principal, Canzonette, John-Mark Owen, music by Claudio Monteverdi

DANCER, FUGATE/BAHIRI BALLET NEW YORK; NEW YORK, NEW YORK - 2004-2006 Judith Fugate and Medhi Bahiri, Artistic Directors Soloist and Principal roles in: Who Cares?, George Balanchine; now and again, Jodie Gates; Quartet 2, Alan Hineline; Romeo and Juliet in Mantua, Davis Robertson. Understudy in Orange, Stanton Welch

GUEST ARTIST, GREATER LANSING BALLET COMPANY; LANSING, MICHIGAN - 2005-2011 ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’ in The Nutcracker; Barbara Banasikovski-Smith, Artistic Director

GUEST ARTIST, FORT WAYNE BALLET; FORT WAYNE, INDIANA - 2005 ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’ in The Nutcracker; Karen Gibbons-Brown, Artistic Director

DANCER, CALIFORNIA BALLET; SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - 2003 Maxine Mahon, Artistic Director; Soloist Roles in Paquita, among other works

GUEST ARTIST, ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET; ASPEN, COLORADO- 2003 Tom Mossbrucker and Jean-Phillipe Malaty, Artistic Directors; Soloist and Corps de Ballet roles in The Nutcracker

DANCER, BALLET NOUVEAU COLORADO; DENVER, COLORADO - 2002-2004 Marie Arts, Artistic Director; Principal Roles in works by Robert Scher-Macherndl, David Taylor and others

DANCER, DAVID TAYLOR DANCE THEATER; DENVER, COLORADO - 2000-2004 David Taylor, Director.

DANCER, COLORADO BALLET; DENVER, COLORADO - 1999-200 Martin Fredmann, Artistic Director; Corps de Ballet roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Who Cares?, George Balanchine, and Nutcracker with Colorado Ballet. Danced Soloist Roles with Colorado Ballet II, Including ‘First Violin’ Soloist Concerto Barocco, George Balanchine.

CHOREOGRAPHER, COLORADO BALLET II; DENVER, COLORADO - 1999-2000 The contemporary ballet pas de deux in the style of Argentine Tango Les Joueurs was performed by Colorado Ballet II in Spring of2000.

DANCER, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY MEADOWS ENSEMBLE; DALLAS, TEXAS - 1995-1999 Principal Roles: ‘Raymonda’ in Raymonda, set by Jeremy Blanton of American Ballet Theater; ‘Prelude’ variation in Les Sylphides, set by Valerie Taylor of The Royal Ballet; Principal, Soiree Musicale, Antony Tudor; ‘Echo’ (Principal) in Alas!, the story of Narcissus and Echo, Mel Tomlinson; Soloist, Oklahoma ‘Dream Sequence’, Agnes De Mille; Principal, Fandango, Antony Tudor, set by Dr. Shelley Berg

CHOREOGRAPHER, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY MEADOWS ENSEMBLE; DALLAS, TEXAS - 1995-1999 While a student at SMU, choreographic works were performed at the Dance Division’s Brown Bag Dance Series performances: free performances of student choreography in the lobby of the Meadows School of the Arts Building. Musical selections included Prokoﬁev, Claude Bolling, Astor Piazzola. A tango piece entitled Les Joueurs was chosen to be performed at The Meadows School Commencement Ceremony in 1999.

Directing/Teaching Employment History

PARTNER - FIRST STREET STUDIO - SAVING EAST AUSTIN DANCE SPACE FROM ECONOMIC DISPLACEMENT Formed and led a partnership to negotiate lease renewal, organize community support, renew mission statement and values, form new corporation to support Austin’s independent artists. Applied for and received grant funding from the City of Austin’s Creative Space Assistance Program.

ARTISTIC ADVISOR, CHOREOGRAPHER, DANCER, VENTANA BALLET; AUSTIN, TEXAS - 2018-PRESENT Artistic Advisor, Co-Producer, Choreographer and Dancer at Ventana Ballet, Austin’s newest contemporary ballet company. Founded by AJ Garcia-Rameau. ventanaballet.com

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE; AUSTIN, TEXAS - 2014-PRESENT Teaching Ballet, Pointe, Partnering, Repertoire, Gyrokinesis® classes to BFA Dance students at the Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Co-Artistic Director of Dance Repertory Theatre Fall For Dance 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019. Producer of the Cohen New Works Festival in 2019. Guest performer and Co Artistic Director in Fall For Dance, 2015.

BALLET TEACHER, AUSTIN COMMUNITY BALLET; AUSTIN, TEXAS - 2013-PRESENT Teaching/leading ballet classes as part of a collective of professional dancers in the Austin area founded by Magdalena Riley and myself.

BALLET MISTRESS, CO-DIRECTOR, JOHN-MARK OWEN PRESENTS ‘REQUIEM’; NEW YORK, NY - 2012 Directed rehearsals, assisted with production, taught company class for the production of Requiem, a world premiere ballet choreographed by John-Mark Owen, presented at the Manhattan Movement Arts Center in September 2012.

FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT® TEACHER, MERCE CUNNINGHAM STUDIO; NEW YORK, NY - 2011-2012 Carol Teitelbaum, Faculty Chair. Taught Feldenkrais classes as part of the curriculum of the Cunningham School.

FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT® TEACHER, NEW YORK CITY PARKS DEPARTMENT; NEW YORK, NY - 2011-2012 Taught free Feldenkrais classes to the New York Community as a part of the New York City Parks Department’s ‘Shape Up NYC’ program.

FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT® TEACHER, THE FELDENKRAIS INSTITUTE; NEW YORK, NY - 2011-2012 Sheryl Field, Marek Wyszynski, David Zemach-Bersin, Founders.

GYROTONIC®, GYROKINESIS®, PILATES TEACHER, YOGA MOVES; NEW YORK, NY - 2004-2007 Lisa DelSignore, Director.

PRESENTER, POLESTAR LIFE INTERNATIONAL PILATES CONFERENCE; MIAMI, FLORIDA - 2003-2004 Presented Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis,® taught classes at the conference alongside Angela Crowley, LMT NMT GCFP.

GYROTONIC®, GYROKINESIS®, PILATES TEACHER, THE PHOENIX CENTER FOR HEALTH EXCELLENCE; DENVER, COLORADO - 2000-2004 Angela Crowley, Founder and Director.

DANCE TEACHER, PUBLIC SCHOOL OUTREACH, COLORADO BALLET; DENVER, COLORADO - 2000-2001 Taught dance to at-risk children in Denver public schools as part of an outreach program run by Colorado Ballet

Education Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance, cum laude, 1999; Shelley Berg, Dance Department Chair

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, cum laude, 1999 High School: St. Stephens Episcopal School, Austin, Texas

Dance Education Teachers and Inﬂuences:

New York, New York:

David Howard, Gelsey Kirkland, Zvi Gottheiner, Christine Wright, Madame Darvash, Francis Patrelle, Fabrice Herrault, Nancy Bielski

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas:

Shelley Berg, Karen Kriete, Myra Woodruff, Jeremy Blanton, Bob Beard, Nathan Montoya, Patty Delaney, Ethel Winter, Valerie Taylor

Austin, Texas:

Lambros Lambrou, Stanley Hall, Leon Danielian, Stephen Mills, Toni Bravo, Lynn Grossman, Sondra Lomax, Michelle Martin, Barbara Carson

Additional Dance training:

Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, Choreography Workshop, 1999

American Repertory Ballet Summer Intensive 1998; Septime Webre, Artistic Director

North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Intensive, 1995

Dance Aspen Summer Intensive, 1992-1994; Violette Verdy, instructor

Nutmeg Ballet Summer Intensive, 1991

Experience in Graham, Horton, Limon, Cunningham, and Jazz dance techniques

Film and Theater Credits

Director, Writer, Choreographer, Prelude - a short ﬁlm documenting a dancer’s personal growth through a harrowing audition process; 2015

Dancer in Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, Director; 2010

‘Lisa,’ Principal, New York Fairy Tale, Octavio Mac Niven, Director, 2011

Ballet Dancer in Goodbye To Me, Troy Warwell, Director, 2012 ‘Anna’ in Sphinx, a play by Don Nigro; CityShow at Shetler Studios Theater 54, New York, New York; Christopher Romero Wilson, Director

Commercials include: Grey Goose, ESPN, Papa Johns, Motorola Droid®

SAG Eligible, AFTRA Must-Join

Professional Qualiﬁcations Registered Yoga Teacher 200 Hour, Practice Yoga, Austin, Texas, July 2018.

Level One Foundation Training, Atlantic Theater School, New York, New York; Jordan Lage, Jennifer Rau, Instructors

Certiﬁed Trainer of Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® since 2000

Certiﬁed Polestar Pilates Trainer since 2000

Guild Certiﬁed Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® since 2011

Teacher-Artist Training Certiﬁcation, National Dance Institute, New York, New York; Jacques D’Amboise, Founder and Artistic Director

Skills Classical Piano; trained by Dr. Amanda Vick Lethco, Professor Emeritus of Piano Pedagogy, University of Texas at Austin

Teleprompter/On Camera Commercial Technique

Film Acting

Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Pilates, Yoga, The Feldenkrais Method®

References

Dr. Shelley Berg, Professor and Former Chair of the Division of Dance, Southern Methodist University; [email protected]; 214.768.2951

Patty Harrington Delaney, Associate Professor and Chair of Dance, Southern Methodist University; [email protected] 214.768.3872

Francis Patrelle, Director, Dance Patrelle; [email protected] (718) 757-8834 John-Mark Owen, Director, John-Mark Owen Presents; [email protected] (478) 284-5239 www.johnmarkowen.com

Brian Carey Chung, Director, Collective Body Dance Lab, Assistant Professor of Dance, Northern Illinois University; [email protected] (917) 434-6586

Jamal Story, dancer, published author; [email protected] (347) 739-6631 www.jamalstory.com