Amy O'neal Is a Dancer, Performer, Choreographer, and Dance
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(music/dance/video) with musician/ BIOS composer Zeke Keeble, reating 6 evening Amy O’Neal is a dancer, performer, length works and several shorter works. She choreographer, and dance educator based teaches Contemporary Dance and Urban in Seattle, WA. For the last 15 years, she has Styles at Velocity Dance Center and House taught and performed throughout the US, at The Beacon: Massive Monkees studio in Japan and Mexico and choreographed for Seattle. She also teaches dance stage, commercials, rock shows, galleries, composition and improvisation for Seattle dance films and music videos. Her work is Theater Group’s Dance This program. an amalgam of her diverse movement and She holds a BFA from Cornish College of life experiences presenting social the Arts, and her dance writing has been commentary with dark humor and heavy published in Dance Magazine, City Arts beats. She is the recipient of numerous Magazine, and ArtDish Forum. grants including awards from Creative Capital, the National Performance As a founding member of CIRCLE OF Network, the National Dance Project, Mid FIRE, Alfredo Vergara aka “FREE” Atlantic Arts and the James W. Ray embodies the true essence of Project Venture Award through Artist Trust self-expression through movement. With and Frye Art Museum. Amy has been an over 15 years of experience deeply rooted artist-in-residence at Bates Dance Festival, in Breaking, he has gained the respect and Headlands Center for the Arts, the admiration of his peers and his community. US/Japan Choreographer’s Exchange, and He has participated in various dance events Velocity Dance Center. She is a and competitions locally and two-time Artist Trust Fellow, a DanceWEB internationally. From world famous Scholar, and two-time Stranger Genius breakdancing events such as Freestyle Awards nominee. She has worked Sessions (USA), Dance Delight (Japan), extensively with musician/comedian Reggie Red Bull: Lords of the Floor (USA), Juste Watts since 2002 both on stage and screen. Debut (France), and the International She choreographed his Comedy Central Battle of the Year (Germany), just to name produced “Fuck, Shit, Stack” video and a few. Internationally known for his toured nationally in his show charismatic style, Alfredo also starred in a Disinformation. She has created solo dvd “A Beautiful One Man Show”. commissioned pieces for Degenerate Art Alfredo’s knowledge and experience of Ensemble and Spectrum Dance Theater Breaking and other dance styles such as and collaborated with Savion Glover and Hip Hop, House Dancing, Freestyle and Daniel Bernard Roumain through Seattle the Brazilian martial arts/dance Capoeira, Theater Group. She has performed in the has allowed him to take part in judging work of Pat Graney, Scott/Powell competitions, discussion panels as well as Performance, and Mark Haim. From 2000 teaching workshops all over the world. to 2010, she was co-director of locust Brysen “Just Be” Angeles, a Madison Square Garden and Fashion founding member of the Massive Monkees Week to Dancing with the Stars. He has crew, started B-Boying in 1994. also lectured about the history of hip-hop Drawing early influence from legendary at Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and the Seattle crews, such as DVS, BOSS Crew University of Washington. and Rock Steady Crew of the 90s, Brysen and fellow crewmembers from A dance major studying at UW, Michael Untouchable Style Monkees would go on O’Neal Jr. is originally from Tacoma, to partner with M.A.S.S.I.V.E crew to form WA. Since becoming a dance major he has Massive Monkees in 1999. Both on and off performed with UW’s Chamber Dance the dance floor Brysen plays a key Company, in UW’s student choreographed leadership role in Massive Monkees. Some and run show Influx, the Dance Majors of his accomplishments include winning the Concert and for the Dance Programs 2004 B-Boy World Championships in Faculty Dance and Master of Fine Art London, innovating new dynamic Concerts. Michael believes to be the best choreography as a member of the Seattle dancer he can be he must train in all styles Sonics “Boom Squad”, performing for and get out of his comfort zone. He is a millions on MTV’s hit show “America’s member of Chapter1NE, The Beat Best Dance Crew”, and launching Massive Hippies and NoDef dance crews. He often Monkees own studio (The Beacon) where posts his choreography under the hundreds of students in Seattle come to username Choreomike on YouTube. This grow artistically. is Michael’s second time dancing for Amy and through Opposing Forces he hopes “Fever One” is a B-Boy and DJ origi- that the audience will come away with a nally from Seattle, WA who relocated to new perspective on Hip Hop. New York in 1997 and eventually joined the world famous Rock Steady Crew. He is MozesLateef is an artist who rhymes, most well known for his ‘gunzblazin’ style dances, draws, acts, models and films. which he developed while studying with his Lateef is an active member of Circle of mentors Icey Ice and Lil’ Lep of the New Fire Crew, which strives to build its com- York City Breakers. Inspired by a Poppin’ munity by using the crew’s skills to Battle in Seattle’s Central District and the maintain the B-Boy culture and carry out aggression he saw in breakin’, Fever One the responsibility of expressing positivity had become influenced by the in the process. Over the years Lateef and spirituality and competitiveness of dancing Circle of Fire Crew have performed and by the age of 10. Since then, Fever One competed internationally at the Korea Hip became a member of the world famous Hop Festival, Battle of the Year Germany, Rock Steady Crew which took his career Dance Delight Japan, and Juste Debut to new heights. He has performed in many France. In Seattle Lateef has performed prestigious venues from Lincoln Center to with Circle of Fire at the Seattle Center EMP Opening, The Paramount Theater, Amiya Brown received her BA in Drama and with Soul Shifters at The Moore with a minor in Dance from the University Theater. Mozes has taught workshops and of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, breakdance classes to disabled youth at Texas. At UIW she pursued acting, Camp Long, students at Spectrum Dance dancing, painting, and lighting design. Studio and a 2-week workshop with Folk After college, she worked as a performer, Life. His band, Global Heat, performs lighting designer, and theatre practitioner. locally at events around the city and won In 2010, she received her MFA in Hard Rock Café’s Rock Band Theatrical Lighting Design from the Uni- Competition. Recently, Lateef represented versity of Washington. Her career is com- Circle of Fire in the film Tribelution, which prised of collaborations with explores the evolution of Hip Hop. He is choreographers, theatre companies, and currently working on another album with musicians, as well as, solo visual art works. his rap group Dirty Scientifix. Northwest collaborators include zoe | juniper, Kate Wallich + YC, Amy O, Pat WD4D, Waylon Dungan, blasts the Graney, Catherine Cabeen, Kyle Loven, hinges off genre definitions with his Alice Gosti, Cornerstone Theatre inventive and eclectic style. Not only a Company, and Washington Ensemble knowledgeable producer but an Theatre. engaging performer as well, WD4D was named champion of Seattle’s 2010 Battle of the Mega-Mixes. When he is not pushing forward his unique beat-flipping sound, WD4D is supporting the musical community and promoting other artists who blend futuristic Hip Hop with electronic possibilities. This busy producer is also a resident at the weekly future beat and breakers party Stop Biting, one of the most forward-thinking nights of music in Seattle. With plenty of initiative and industry savvy to match his sharp production skills, WD4D is an unstoppable force that brings new music to light- and then sets it on fire! WD4D has shared stages w/ Girl Unit, Lunice, B. Bravo, Slugabed, Daedelus, Onra, Sweatson Klank, and countless other major influences..