MR Spring 2007 Festival: Reverence(Irreverence)

TEACHER BIOS
Neal Beasley was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2003-2007. He is a graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy and holds a BFA in dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. In his newfound freelance life, he is currently scheduled to work with choreographers Beth Gill, Eleanor Bauer, and Larry Keigwin. He has taught technique and repertory internationally for TBDC, as well as in the New York studios. He directed rehearsals for Ms. Brown's creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, both in its 2004 debut and the revival earlier this year. He is also directing the staging of Ms. Brown's featured performance installation in this year's Documenta Festival in Kassel, Germany. He has been a guest teacher at American Dance Festival, at NYU's Experimental Theater Wing, and is a regular guest faculty member at Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex in Jackson, Mississippi.

everything smaller is Jessica Jolly, David Schmidt, and Donnell Turner, who co-founded the collective in October 2002. Since then, they have performed in venues and events such as the Joyce SOHO, Studio 42's Starving Artist Ball, Movement Research's Improvisation is Hard, The Flea Theater's Dance Conversations, the DancenOw / NYC Festival, the Bodyblend series at Dixon Place, the Solar Powered Arts Festival, Dancespace Center's Wave of Humanity and their Elizabeth Pape Memorial Concert, the Williamsburg Free Festival, and the Brooklyn Dance Sampler. In addition to performing in the New York metro area, everything smaller has travelled to Arizona, New Jersey, North Carolina, Philadelphia, and Vermont, offering a variety of master classes, composition workshops, and performances. Presently everything smaller is creating and evening length work with their newest member, actor/dancer John Peery, to be premiered in Fall 2007 at Dance New Amsterdam.

Barbara Forbes teaches ballet and Awareness Through Movement® at Sarah Lawrence College and maintains a private Feldenkrais® practice in New York City. She was ballet mistress for The Joffrey Ballet for six years, as well as for Finis Jhung's Chamber Ballet USA, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and The New Orleans Ballet. Barbara was on the faculty of the school of the National Ballet of Canada for nine years and she has guest taught in the US and Sweden, as well as in Australia, where she was born.

Danielle Goldman has taught in the Dance Department at Barnard College and the Performance Studies Department at NYU. In the fall, she will begin as an assistant professor of dance history and theory at The New School. She's currently writing a book on improvisation, to be published by the University of Michigan Press. She also dances, most recently with DD Dorvillier, Anna Sperber, Michou Szabo, and Rachel Bernsen.

Peggy Gould has worked in dance and theater for 25 years with artists including Sara Rudner, Anneke Hansen, Patricia Hoffbauer & George Emilio Sanchez among many others. In addition to her performing career, Peggy has been a movement educator since 1990. She received an M.F.A. in Dance (NYU Tisch School of the Arts) and is a Teacher of Alexander Technique. Since 1996, Peggy has served as assistant to her mentor, Irene Dowd, renowned teacher of anatomy and neuromuscular training. Peggy has been a member of the faculty in the Dance Department at Sarah Lawrence College, under the direction of Sara Rudner since 1999, teaching Anatomy, Contemporary Practice and Graduate Seminar.

Eleanor Hullihan is from Winston-Salem, NC. She attended high school at NCSA and received a BFA in dance from NYU. Since graduating, Eleanor has performed with Eleanor Bauer, Beth Gill, Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Allen, Miguel Gutierrez and has been dancing with John Jasperse since 2003. She also choreographed for and appeared in a film by Cynthia Madansky. Eleanor makes music, dances, videos, songs and fantasy performance with Katy Pyle in their band, asubtout. Eleanor’s formative musical experiences happened backstage during operas, playing in orchestras and later in watching punk/hardcore shows at small music venues in North Carolina. She is very interested in the community surrounding music and live performance and is curious about the visceral affects of music on dance, dance on music.

Chris Lancaster [bio TBA]

Zeena Parkins [bio TBA]

Sara Rudner, a graduate of Barnard College, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She participated in the development and performance of Twyla Tharp’s modern dance repertory from 1965-1985. During this time she began to choreograph for a small group of dancers known as the Sara Rudner Performance Ensemble, conceiving and directing a series of dances that queried conventional time frames, spaces and occasions for dancing. Since 1985 Sara has continued to pursue her interest in choreography, improvisation and performing collaborating with like-minded colleagues including Dana Reitz, Russell Dumas, Christopher Janney, Jennifer Tipton, Rona Pondick, Robert Feintuch, Anastasia Lyras and Mikhail Baryshnikov among others. She received a Bessie in 1984 and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. At present, she is the director of dance at Sarah Lawrence College.

Lynn Sally is a performer, teacher, producer and writer whose work has been characterized as "post-modern burlesque." She teaches the History of American Burlesque in the Drama Department at New York University as well as conducts workshops and performs in clubs and theatres across the country. For the work she does on the stage and in the classroom, she has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition and WCTV's critically acclaimed Chronicle, as well as other documentaries.

Ann Liv Young [bio TBA]

Andros Zins-Browne began ballet at the Joffrey Ballet School at age 7. Growing up in New York City, he began choreographing in High School. In 2002, he graduated from Brown University in Art Semiotics and pursued his dance studies in Belgium at P.A.R.T.S. While at P.A.R.T.S., Andros made five pieces which have toured internationally in Europe. His graduation piece, Limewire*, put Andros on the map of young contemporary choreographers in Europe and continues to tour. In 2007 he co-created The Kansas City Shuffle, an audience-participatory performance based on the Black Market. In 2008 he will premiere Neverland, a piece performed by Michael Jackson impersonators.