Presents 2021 Faculty Concert FEATURING Quilan "Cue" Arnold Robbie Cook Leah Cox Ori Flomin Erica Gionfriddo & Eliot Gray Fisher Monique Haley Jessie Young Sunday, July 11, 2021 at 7:00pm Ori Flomin The Ocean on my fourth floor Created and Performed by Ori Flomin Original Music Composed by Mal Stein Filmed by Ori Flomin & Rosane Chamecki Edited by Ori Flomin Special Thanks Rosane Chamecki Cari Ann Shim Sham Jane Gabriels Mal Stein Monique Haley Soul Power South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) SCDT Artistic Director Kia Smith Erica Gionfriddo & Eliot Gray Fisher i-we (excerpt) Movement Director Erica Gionfriddo Director of Photography and Editor Eliot Gray Fisher Producer Matthew Hinsley Dance Artist Oddalys Salcido Costume Designer Laura Gonzalez Sound Designer Travis Marcum Music Composer Joseph V. Williams II Music Recorder and Mixer Todd Waldron Guitarist Issac Bustos Violinist Jennifer Choi Cellist Louis-Marie Fardet Guitarist Alejandro Montiel Clarinetist Håkan Rosengren Leah Cox Herding Wildlife Performance, Text, Video, and Editing by Leah Cox Cameo Appearances by Jude and Lana Bursey Robbie Cook Orbits: Escape Velocity 2 Choreography Seán Curran Dancer Robbie Cook Videography Evan Copeland Editing & Sound Design JHsu media Filmed on location in Ramapo, New York Jessie Young smoke not fog Choreography & Sound Design by Jessie Young Quilan "Cue" Arnold What I Wish You Knew Written by David R. Voice Over Phillip Attmore Original Music YNOT Cinematography/Editing Kyrsten Arnold ABOUT THE ARTISTS QUILAN “CUE” ARNOLD (MFA) is a dance professional based out of Brooklyn, New York. He has been a member of companies such as Camille A. Brown and Dancers (NY), Rennie Harris Puremovement (PA), Abby Z and the New Utility (NY), and Enzo Celli Vivo Ballet (NY). Quilan’s most recent choreographic work, Searching for a True Move: A Kinesthetic American English Experience, was virtually presented at Western Washington University (WA) in 2020 and Brigham-Young University (UT) in 2021. Quilan is the co-founder of the Street/Club Dance podcast, “The Good Foot Podcast,” executive director of the Street/Club Dance documentary, “Build’N Shop,” which is partially funded by the 2018 Ohio State Dance Preservation Grant, and co-founder of the online battle event, “Dominate from a Distance.” As an educator Quilan currently serves as a faculty member at Hunter College (NY), Marymount Manhattan College (NY), and Towson University (MD). Additionally, Quilan hosts an online Hip-Hop course, “Get Groovy.” ROBBIE COOK is a Brooklyn-based dance artist working as an Assistant Professor of Dance at Hofstra University in New York; during the summer he has taught at the American Dance Festival since 2012 and Bates Dance Festival from 2011 to 2018. He has been lucky enough to perform the works of various choreographers over the years: Seán Curran, James Gregg, Guanglei Hui, Teena Marie Custer, Michel Kouakou, Rosie Herrera, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Keith Thompson, Edwaard Liang, Laurel Jenkins, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Stacy Spence, Liz Lerman, Douglas Dunn, Nancy Garcia, Liz Gerring, Margaret Jenkins, Jan Erkert, and Deborah Hay. Robbie holds an MFA in Dance from Bennington College and a BFA in Visual Art from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first love of movement began with the study of various martial arts and continues in his study of tai chi; he also continues to practice and teach yoga and pilates. LEAH COX is dean of the American Dance Festival and an associate professor of dance at the University of Texas at Austin. Cox is a frequent adjudicator for the American College Dance Association, served on the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award Committee from 2015 to 2018, and was a master teacher for YoungArts. She worked with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2001 to 2014. Cox began as a company dancer and became the company’s first education director. She developed the company’s educational materials, annual workshops, and highly successful educational licensing program. Her work as education director was featured in the documentary about Bill T. Jones, A Good Man, which aired on PBS nationwide. Cox has been the subject of a cover story feature in Dance Teacher magazine and is regularly sought out by professional publications and organizations for her expertise. ORI FLOMIN has been dancing, living, surviving, and thriving in NYC since 1989. He holds an MFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. His choreography has been presented in many venues around NYC and internationally in Europe, Israel, Japan, and Australia. He has taught dance, Yoga, and Shiatsu massage with prestigious festivals and schools across Europe, Asia, and Australia in addition to colleges around NYC: PARTS, Impulstanz, London Contemporary School, Sasha Waltz, Circuit Est, SUNY Purchase, NYU, Movement Research, Gibney, among others. He’s performed in the works of acclaimed choreographers Stephen Petronio, Maria Hassabi, Neil Greenberg, and Molissa Fenley to name a few. Since the Covid-19 shutdown he has presented some dance films online and has been teaching ongoing Yoga classes virtually and developed his Do-It-yourself Shiatsu practice to help participants find healing through self-massage during these stressful times. He continues to explore, create, study, and teach the intelligence of our being. www.Oriflomin.com ERICA GIONFRIDDO (ARCOS co-director) is a dance artist, educator, and somatic researcher who believes in the intelligent body each of us occupies. They are co-founder of ARCOS, whose ongoing inquiry probes the confluence of technology and humanity through rigorous interdisciplinary experimentation. Erica’s extensive experience as a GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® trainer guides their pedagogical methodology, which they bring to their capacity as Assistant Professor of Practice in Dance at the University of Texas at Austin and as a national teaching artist. Erica holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Shenandoah Conservatory and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University. ELIOT GRAY FISHER (ARCOS co-director) is an interdisciplinary artist working in technology and performance. As co-director of ARCOS, he creates interactive video, audio, music, and text, as well as performing. Eliot brings his perspective as a bridge between analog and digital technologies to his diverse artistic practice, which has included composing music for film, theater, and dance, creating narrative and experimental video and animation, building interactive new media installations, writing and directing original theater, and teaching in various settings. He has a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. MONIQUE HALEY, Assistant Professor of Dance and African American & African Studies at Western Michigan University, holds an MFA in Dance (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and a BFA in Jazz Dance Performance (University of the Arts). As a choreographer, dance educator, and performer, she honors nine years with the former River North Dance Chicago (RNDC) jazz company. She has performed in musical theater in Chicago and throughout the country. Haley is a 3Arts awardee (2012) for her choreography and dedication to dance in the Chicagoland area and is currently the Adult Artist Awardee (2021) for the black album. mixtape., a project created by Golden Globe award-winning actress, playwright, and activist Regina Taylor for Haley's choreographic work, Culture Loop, in collaboration with the Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre (CRDT), Chicago, where she also resides as the resident choreographer for the company. Ms. Haley has choreographed for companies RNDC, CRDT, DanceWorks Chicago, and Muntu African Dance, to name a few, and creates dance works for national and regional collegiate programs. Monique is the Diasporic Encounter Method (DEM) creator, which centers African cultural values and rituals in jazz dance pedagogy. DEM is a foundational teaching tool built to inspire an authentic ethos and connection between dancers and their daily jazz practice. Monique's book chapter on this scholarly work, "Cultivating African Diasporic Ethos and Cultural Values in Contemporary Jazz Dance," features in Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the 21st Century, by editors Lindsay Guarino, Carlos Jones, and Wendy Oliver. Debut, January 2022. JESSIE YOUNG is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, and teacher originally from Port Angeles, WA. Young crafts choreography as a poetic provocation, viewing dance as a form that must constantly redefine itself in relation to shifting sensorial, emotional, political, and cultural circumstances. She choreographically directs conditions of exploration that render themselves as dances, collages, photographs, sound scores, and pedagogical structures. The felt sense of her body in relationship to landscapes, imagery, and poetic associations drives Young’s work forward. Her aesthetic is informed by her upbringing in the Pacific Northwest, by the foggy collisions between familial loss and magical thinking that she experienced there. In this way, her work is oceanic, but not about the ocean; the work is of, rather than about, this geography. Young’s artistic practice is embolded by feminist tradition and its engagement with the grotesque and deeply personal. She has been an artist in residence at New York Live Arts (Fresh Tracks), Brooklyn Studios for Dance (NY), The Floor on Atlantic (NY), and Centrum (WA). As a performer, she has had the pleasure of working with Abby Z and the