Mark O'Maley, Lighting Designer
A native of Cape Ann, MA - Mark O'Maley (Lighting Designer) is a newly Vermont based artist and educator who works with light in many different forms. His theatrical designs have been seen in London's West End, off-Broadway in New York City, at regional theaters throughout the United States, and at festivals in Italy, the United Kingdom and Colombia. Mark has served on the faculty of West Chester & Arcadia Universities, and has been a guest artist at Concord Academy, Millsaps College, Harvard University, and Germantown Academy among others. Mark received his bachelor’s degree from the University Without Walls program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is currently a candidate for his Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. His recent collaboration with Liz Staruch & Victoria Zolnoski, “The Camera Betrays You” received four awards at the 2011 American College Dance Festival and was selected for the Northeast Gala performance at Muhlenberg College. He firmly remains a dyed-in-the-wool Boston Red Sox fan. www.markomaley.com
Amy Lepage
Amy LePage-Hansen studied dance in her younger years and throughout college while obtaining a studio arts and education degree. She took her first contact improvisation workshop just before moving to San Francisco…and fell in love with it! She sought out the contact improvisation dance community while there and has continued to experiment with this form ever since. After a move back east and raising two children, she's thrilled to be dancing again. She is currently dancing with Double Vision and working with Hannah Dennison on choreographic development for a site specific dance piece, “Dear Pina,” honoring the late Pina Bausch. Performances scheduled for June 2012. Amy’s a yoga teacher as well and her love of movement influences her adult and children’s classes.
Big APE/Tiffany Rhynard
Interlacing the parameters of activism and art, Tiffany Rhynard is a movement artist exploring the intersection between movement and image, specifically in dialogue with the study of human behavior. Rhynard established Big APE in 2008 to create a container for her adventures in movement and video. She made the transition to dance from visual art during her undergraduate tenure at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her BA in Dance. She holds an MFA in Choreography from the Ohio State University. She has taught at Peace College, North Carolina Governor’s School, Ohio State University, and State University of New York at Potsdam, and is currently Artist in Residence at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. As a performer, Rhynard has worked with various choreographers including Chavasse Dance and Performance Group, Brosseau Danceworks, X Factor, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Gerri Houlihan, and John Gamble Dance Theater. Her choreography has been presented extensively in venues nationwide and internationally at Hotel Pupik in Scheifling, Austria. Her video works have been screened at film/video festivals including the Dance for the Camera Film and Video Festival in Salt Lake City and Dancing for the Cameraat the American Dance Festival. She recently premiered the documentary Little House in the Big House, at the Vermont International Film Festival (VIFF). The film illuminates the strength and resiliency of incarcerated women in a vocational construction program at the state women’s prison in Vermont.
Candace Fugazy
Candace Fugazy grew up in a dance studio in Philadelphia studying ballet and tap with her mother who is a former Radio City Rockette and professional ballet dancer. Upon moving to Vermont at the age of 19 she re-discovered dance at Goddard College where she studied Modern and Contact Improvisation. A few years later she was lucky to find the Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio in Montpelier where she continues to take multiple classes in Modern and Jazz
Clare Byrne
Clare Byrne is a dancer, choreographer, writer, aspiring musician. She has choreographed and performed in many spaces and venues including Dixon Place, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Danspace Project, Dance New Amsterdam in New York City and UVM and The Flynn Center in Vermont. Her ongoing online dances can be found at: http://clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/. She's proud to be a part of this benefit performance with a wonderful group of artists.
Double Vision
Double Vision - Photo by Anne Peattie. L-R: Wendy Marinaccio, Tiffany Barbarash, Blaine Bookey
DOUBLE VISION [double-vision.biz] creates experimental performances for dance, music, and video that embody the changing landscape of contemporary culture. Led by Sean Clute and Pauline Jennings, the company has distinguished itself both nationally and internationally. The company has presented work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Macworld Artists Salons, and the Merce Cunningham Studio. Internationally, DOUBLE VISION has performed at the Museumsquartier Wien (Vienna), Primo Piano LivinGallery (Lecce), Pécsi Tudományegyetem Művészeti Kar (Péc), Institut Intermédií (Prague), Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (Kefolonia, Greece), ProARTS International Choreography Platform (Brno), and CST Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology + Tanz Akademie Zürich (Zurich). The company has also conducted residencies and lectured throughout the U.S. at the University of California at Berkeley, Mills College, Arizona State Univ., Univ. of New Mexico, Univ. of Arizona, California State Univ., Univ. of Maine and the College of Santa Fe. This fall, DOUBLE VISION is presenting two dance works in New York City as part of the DUMBO Festival and Wave Rising Series.
Hanna Satterlee
Hanna Satterlee was born and raised in Vermont, and has spent the last 17 years traveling the world to study various dance and movement forms, along the East Coast (VT, ME, MA, NYC), West Coast (CA), in Ghana and in Brazil. She attended Goucher College in Maryland, and left with a double BA in Dance and Psychology with a Dance Therapy concentration. She later attended Laughing Lotus Yoga School in San Francisco, and is now a teacher of their graceful style of Vinyassa Yoga. She has returned to Vermont to act as Director of Professional Programming at The Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio in Montpelier. In addition, she is the Artistic Director of Teen Jazz, a modern teen touring dance company there. Satterlee is a company member of Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute’s Double Vision and Tiffany Rhynard’s BIG APE, and also makes her own work with others. She is currently a choreographic partner for “Dear Pina,” a large scale dance project dedicated to the late Pina Bausch (performances June 2012).
Heather Bryce Labor
Photo by Serra Shiflett
Heather Bryce Labor is interested in the intersection of emotion and creativity. Before moving to Vermont in 2008, She founded and directed her own dance company, Bryce Dance, in the Boston area. Heather is a two time recipient (Fall ’06 & Spring ‘07) of The Emerging Artist Award for Choreography through Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA. In 2004, she graduated from Marlboro College (VT) with a BA in Dance and Psychology with a focus on Dance/Movement Therapy. Heather has shown work at various venues including; Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn, NY), The Hooker-Dunham Theatre & Gallery (VT), The Graham Avenue Fiesta (Brooklyn, NY), The Dance Complex (MA), Green Street Studios (MA), Riverside Theater Works (MA), Marlboro College (VT). Heather has had the pleasure of dancing for many talented choreographers and companies including; Kelley Donovan & Dancers, Beat Tree Dance, Marianne Harkless, and Kee Chin. Heather is working on completiing her MA in Education at Goddard College.
Joy Madden
Joy Madden has been creating riveting dance theater works for over a decade. She co-founded The Moving Laboratory, an award winning choreographers’ collective, in Boston, MA in 2001. Her choreography has been produced throughout New England and in Edinburgh, Scotland. Awards include the Tap Water Award for Best Dance Performance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland; The Emerging Artist Award, Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA; The New Art Space Assistance (NASA) Grant, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT; and The Johnnie Walker Keep Walking Fund Grant. Since moving to Vermont in 2007 her work has been presented by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT; Juddertone, Boston, MA; Spotlight On Dance, South Burlington, VT; Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio, Montpelier, VT; and Leap of Faith Dance Theatre, Middlebury, VT. She is currently the Fall/Winter Artist-in-Residence at Burlington Dances in Burlington, VT where she will present her work-in-progress "The Giant in the Washing Machine" in January, 2012.
Kiera Sauter
Kiera Sauter is a twenty-one year old from Peacham, VT. Kiera is an alumnus of Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio’s Teen Jazz and a current member of the teaching faculty at CD&FS. She has been teaching at CD&FS for four years, as well as various other studios in VT and NH. Kiera studied Choreography and Arts Administration at Goucher College in Maryland and is currently finishing her undergraduate studies in health and movement here at Goddard College.
Lucille Dyer
Lucille Dyer: Life so far has been a cross-hatch of teaching and choreography, stage production and design, touring and multi-media performance for numerous theatrical events, festivals, and dance companies. She most recently founded Burlington Dances, an incubator for studies in non-verbal literacy, International dance and whole person health and wellness, and is currently developing her series Invisible Dances: If you don't know what is missing you don't know what to look for.
Paul Besaw
Paul Besaw, independent choreographer, has a primary interest in the development of original dance/theatre works. With collaboration as a vital goal, he often works in a setting that includes composers, designers, theatre-makers, and visual artists. He is the founder and co-artistic coordinator of The Solo Workshop, a multidisciplinary group of artists exploring the solo mode and premiering new evenings of performance. He is also a founding member of The Agnes Table, a performance collective devoted to original, collaboratively devised theatre projects. He has performed in works by Sally Bomer, Clare Byrne, John Gamble, Kayvon Pourazar, Tiffany Rhynard, and Jan Van Dyke, among others. Paul holds a BA in theatre from Keene State College, and an MFA in dance from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Currently, Paul serves as associate professor of dance at The University of Vermont, where he coordinates the dance program.
Rosemary Leach
Rosemary Leach studied at CD and FS during her teen years and performed in Vermont and New Hampshire with the first Teen Jazz group under the direction of Lorraine Neal. That experience culminated with a tour of the Soviet Union in 1987. Rosemary went on to receive her B.A. in Dance and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. After graduating, she performed with the Orts Theater of Dance in Tuscon, Arizona, and as a member of the Montana Transport Company in Missoula. She has taught dance to children, teens, college students, and adults in Vermont, Maine, Washington, Montana, and California. For the past 14 years, Rosemary has been on the faculty of the Bates Dance Festival Youth Arts Program, a dance, music, and theater project designed to reach and teach children of central Maine who would not otherwise have the opportunity or exposure to the performing arts. In 2006, Rosemary also became certified in the Power Pilates Mat technique. Rose's teaching, dancing, and performing skills are surpassed only by her infectious energy and warm, generous nature.
Willow Wonder
Willow received her BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase and the London Contemporary School of Dance. After graduation she resided in NYC and performed and choreographed. In 2000 she moved up to VT and since 2004 has been teaching and performing with the Moving Light School of Dance. In 2010 she started the Montpelier Movement Collective with a handful of other local dancers committed to creating dance and enriching the VT dance world. Since May 2011, Willow has been dancing with Double Vision, a multi media dance company directed by Pauline Jennings and Sean Clute.