photo credit: Steven Schrediber

 

"sharply focused, levered in the place between play and tension... superb dancer... complex architecture... non-stop interesting.... extremely creative"
Tom Patrick, Dance Insider

"a powerful, courageous performance"
Elanine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Most Original"
Ann Marie Welsh, The San Diego Union

"curiously quirky, playful vocabulary"
Elise Knudson, OFFOFFOFF.com

"it comes quirky movement… done in a nonchalant manner which exaggerates the comedy of it."
Julie Fotheringham, iDanz.net

"compelling performance, keeping our attention riveted to them straight to the end."
Jessica Gonthier, Eye on the Arts

"Under the premises of absurdity, unreality and dream, the stories were framed in dialogues and repetitive scenes."
Jonathan Lomelí, Mural.com


 


July 17, 2010
Performance at EXPERIMENTOS, Mexico City, Mexico






Course: July 12 - July 24, 2010
Performance: July 17-18 & 24, 2010
Teaching and performance at La Cantera, Mexico City, Mexico






July 30 - August 1, 2009
Company Season at Joyce SoHo
PRESS COVERAGE
The New York Times
iDanz
Eye on the Arts
OFFOFFOFF.com



June 15 - July 24, 2009
Teaching at NC Governor's School West, Winston-Salem, NC
Click here to visit GSW dance blog site!




Ploy (2009)
@ La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2009



BluePrint at the Experimental Theater of Jalisco
Guadalajara, Mexico on October 21






Residency at nEW Festival: June 2-20

The nEW festival is a “dance-driven and artist fueled” program that supports choreographic research and development by providing choreographers and dancers with daily class, rehearsal space, studio showings and performances in an atmosphere that encourages collaboration, process, risk-taking, peer response, and community investment at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.


LABORAME
- Teaching in Mexico City and Guadalajara, April 2008

For more info, http://www.movimientoescenico.com
Press Release (Sala de Prensa) - www.conaculta.gob.mx

CURSO: Componer/Descomponer
imágenes físicas y perspectivas en el proceso coreográfico


La meta de esta clase es dar herramientas que sirvan a los alumnos para aprender y analizar como llegar a crear una coreografía. Partiendo de una idea sencilla y frases de movimiento, la coreografía se vuelve compleja a medida que pasa por diferentes procesos, como son: manipulación, descomposición, fragmentación, mezcla, repetición, cambios de ritmo, calidades de movimiento, visualización de la escena y uso de voz.

La clase empieza con varios ejercicios de grupo. Posteriormente, cada participante tiene tiempo para trabajar individualmente en sus propias coreografías con tareas que apoyen sus conceptos. Cada participante mostrará su trabajo con el fin de recibir comentarios y retroalimentación de la clase.



DEGENERATE

In the summer of 2006, I had a chance to work with a Japanese Video Artist, Takako who created this piece, Degenerate.



Da·Da·Dance Project

[DADA: Artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.]

With the seed of inspiration of Dada movement, Da·Da·Dance Project was founded in 2007 by Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez (Artistic Director) and Guillermo Ortega Tanus (Choreographer) in New York City. We explore unconventional ways to approach physical movement with its dramatic theatricality as a reaction to the "sterile and stagnating" dance that oftentimes becomes inaccessible to the general public. We not only create pure physicality in our aesthetics, but We also often devote all things absurd and bizarre, which seemly relate to our contemporary society where all arts forms are merging, mixing, degenerating, and losing their definitions and identities.

Drawing from a wealth of experiences in theater, music, poetry, multi-media, visual/commercial art, various dance styles from "traditional" to "cutting-edge" to "street dance" to "improvisation", we continuously seek to find a language that speaks, communicates and delivers uniquely expressive vocabulary, to reveal our eccentricity. Our themes frequently include aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behavior and intelligence, with the curious mixture of comic and the tragic inherent.
http://www.dadadanceproject.org