Broken Spaces
Music: Nicholas Chase
Dance: Germaul Barnes



notes:
"Broken Spaces is a left over scrap from a dance piece commissioned by choreographer Nazorine Paglia. I have since searched for a context in which to put it, but over time, this miniature composition has taken on an identity that defies further development or association with other materials. Dubbed by LA Weekly as an 'Eye/Ear Explorer,' Nicholas Chase earned his MFA in Composition/New Media /Integrated Media studying with Morton Subotnick, and Bunita Marcus. Chase additionally studied Arabic Classical Music with Ziad Bunni of the Aleppo Conserveratory in Syria. Germaul Barnes - director and founder of Viewsic Expressions, a New York non-profit dance organization that presents multi-media dance performances, art exhibitions and educational residencies. He attended The University of the Arts of Philadelphia. For nine years he was principle dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, where he received the 2003 New York Dance and Performance Award-The Bessies. Dancers: Germaul Barnes & Ayman Kasem."

Altered Reversal
Music: Sean Luciw
Dance: Amiti Perry



notes:
"Altered Reversal combines the altered jazz chord arpeggios with reversed chaos. Sean Luciw is liberated from analog by digital, and liberated from digital by analog. Amiti Perry received her BFA in Dance from the University of North Texas (’98); MFA in Choreography from The Ohio State University (’06). She is Artistic Director of æmp:dance; co-director of the Uptown Performance Series at Bridge for Dance; performs with ESS/DanceWorks and seen performance. She is currently collaborating with composer David Morneau on an evening-length work A/Break: premiering Fall 2009. Dancers: Amy Campell, Stephanie Fagen, Sarah Lehman, Amiti Perry"

Briin
Music: Christian Alequin
Dance: Veronica Carnero



notes:
"Briin uses a single sample derived from a female alto voice singing the solfege Do. Christian Alequin is a sophomore Music Merchandising student at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. He plays trumpet in an urban Latin musical group entitled, Urban Soul, which plays in Chicago. Veronica Carnero is a California native and living as a Brooklyn-based dance artist. She is a graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her solo improvisation work has been a focal point thus far and she hopes to receive a Fulbright to study post-modern dance in Chile."

Ballad
Music: Robert Allaire
Dance: Marisa Jane Gruneberg



notes:
"Ballad is nothing more than an epic tale of daring, romance, adventure, personal discovery, danger, intrigue, death, familial estrangement, political turmoil, war, famine, national reconciliation, ecological disaster, and true love. Robert Allaire is a composer of chamber, media, and electroacoustic music. Robert has composed for films, animations, and video games. Allaire enjoys composing 8-bit dance music and playing accordion in a Santa Clarita based folk duo. Marisa Gruneberg has been making dance with her company, Brooklyn-based white road Dance Media, for six years now. This 60x60 piece, performed by Miranda Lyon, is new movement from the beginnings of our new work, "I Love the 90s!!" which will perform this evening-length cabaret piece, produced by Triskelion Arts, March 19-22. Dancer: Miranda Lyon"

Spring8
Music: Prent Rodgers
Dance: Elana B Cohen



notes:
"Spring8 is for bassoon, dry spring, and wet springs. It was realized using a Csound sample based instrument. The dry and wet springs are electro acoustic instruments made in the 1970's. The dry spring is made from sitka spruce with an assortment of objects glued to the surface, with a contact microphone to pick up the sounds. The wet springs are made with piano wire twisted into a variety of shapes, with magnetic pickups. Prent Rodgers studied music and composition at Bennington College and earned a Masters at University of California, San Diego in Composition, where he worked with Pauline Oliveros and Bert Turetzky. His early explorations into instrument building lead to a life-long fascination with microtonal music."

Doubtful Mix
Music: Alejandro Guerro
Dance: Lynn Marie Ruse



notes:
"Doubtful mix was done by Alejandro Guerrero with the collaboration of his brother Arturo Guerrero Alejandro Guerrero was born in Mexico city and grew up there, until he came to Ann Arbor to study performing arts technology at University of Michigan. FREEFALL is a low-tech, high-concept dance-theater company headed by Artistic Co-Directors Lynn Brown and Lynn Marie Ruse and based in NYC. FREEFALL rigorously crafts a unique hybrid, equal parts dance, theater, and music. Gritty partnering and physical abandon in intimate spaces are layered with dark humor, spoken text and physical narratives. Dancers: Lynn Brown and Lynn Marie Ruse"

Flea Circus
Music: Alex Shapiro
Dance: Jessica Desmond and Samantha MacIvor



notes:
"Life is short. Fleas are short. This piece is short. Three terrific Los Angeles musicians of moderate height make these performing insects dance for you: clarinetist Berkeley Price, violinist Nancy Roth, and pianist Deon Nielsen Price. Step right up! A trio awaits to amuse you with their amazing antics! No fleas were harmed in the making of this music. A resident of Washington state's San Juan Island, Alex Shapiro aligns note after note with the hope that a few of them might sound good next to each other. Jessica Desmond graduated from Hunter College with a BA in Dance/Media Studies. She continues to create dance works with various artists. Co-Founder of Fertile Ground Performance series at Micro Museum. Performance experience: Ron K. Brown, Sally Silvers, Sondra Loring, Tere O'Connor and Twyla Tharp.?

Pretty and raw manifesto
Music: Milicia Paranosic
Dance: Michelle Manitone



notes:
"I am working out of a new aesthetic movement which I have coined 'Pretty and Raw'. Tracks are 30 seconds to 3 minutes long based on a singular theme. They are produced with ease of instinct and meant to be easily digestible by the listener and are typically composed in one sitting.”

A native of Belgrade (Serbia), one of the of music critic’s Kyle Gann's “Favorite Women Composers of All Time”, award-winning composer Milica Paranosic, lives in New York and is active as a composer, sound designer, conceptual artist, multimedia artist, music educator, and producer. Michelle Mantione is a native New Yorker who's first passion is dance. She developed her own degree in Physically Integrated Dance through the CUNY Baccalaureate Program; studying at Hunter College a wide range of dance from ballet and modern to salsa, West African and folk dance. Other genre of arts she is currently involved with is: acting apprentice with Visible Theatre, and film & media assistant with the Disabilities Network of New York City/Manhattan
Neighborhood Network. Ms. Mantione is a firm supporter of the Tri-Union effort of the I AM PWD Campaign (Inclusion in the Arts & Media of People with Disabilities), and is currently choreographing work for public spaces that aims to blur the line of the performer vs. the audience member; there will be an open rehearsal of this work in mid-January 2009."

As timbre goes by
Music: Gilberto Assis Rosa
Dance: Jessica Bonenfant



notes:
"As timbre goes by, electroacoustic work based in the material constant transformation. Gilberto Assis Rosa works professionally as a Music Producer, Music Teacher, Composer and Arranger. He finished his Master Degree at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in São Paulo/Brazil based in a research about the Composer Edgard Varèse. Recently he has worked mainly in collaboration with choreographers and taking part of international contemporary music festivals as a composer. Odonata Dance Project is a multimedia dance theatre company under the direction of Jessica Bonenfant. Odonata has been seen outdoors, through windows, on film, in a kitchen and a reflecting pool, as well as onstage at numerous venues. Their newest work Tethered previews December 6th at Micro Museum in Brooklyn. Dancer: Kate Thompson"

Latin Sequence
Music: Jeff Pfaumbaum
Dance: Emily Bufferd



notes:
"The text, attributed to Horace, is: Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur and translates into: “What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke's on you.” Jeff Pflaumbaum can best be described as a rock & roll composer; his music a melding of contemporary and traditional styles. Emily Bufferd is an accomplished dancer/choreographer. As the artistic director of BEings, a newly founded company, her work has been presented at venues such as Steps on Broadway and Dance New Amsterdam, and can also be seen around the country for private studios. BEings appeared in September's issue of Dancer Magazine and can be found on DancerUniverse.com as a featured blog. Dancers: Claire Page, Elise Sievert, Jessica Chou, Missy
Wujek, Molly Weitz, Philip Northington, and Stacey Perkinson."

Elle est si belle
Music: Adam Di Angelo
Dance: Yin Yue



notes:
"Elle est si belle is a piece for cello consort and vocal ensemble. It is extended from a song by Erik Satie. Gina Binetti sings. Adam Di Angelo was born in 1978. In the late 1990s, he formed the electronic pop group Fingernail through which he has collaborated with various artists including Bochum Welt, D'Arcangelo, Global Goon, Mark Clifford, and Kurt Ralske. Adam lives in New Jersey where he works as a composer and architect. Yin Yue was born in Shanghai, China. She studied Chinese classical dance, Chinese ethnic dance and modern dance. Yin has appeared in festivals throughout China. In 2008, Yin Yue graduated from New York University's Tisch School of The Arts with MFA in dance. Yin Yue danced for Debroah Jowitt, Christoper Williams, Ivy Baldwin, Curt Haworth and many other artists. She currently performs for Doug Elkins& Friends as well as White Wave Young Soon Kim Dance Company. Her choreographies have been invited to several dance festivals such as '08 DancenOw Festival at DTW, '08 Dumbo Dance Festival Festival and FAB Festival. She formed Yin Yue Dance Co. in 2008."

Musette Variation 60x60
Music: Thorsten Scheerer
Dance: Hettie Barnhill



notes:
"Musette Variation 60x60 features clarinetist Dorothea Herrmann and Marion Schaeuble on accordion. Thorsten Scheerer, Germany, born in 1972, composes and produces software enhanced contemporary music with duo Lilienweiss since 2003. Lilienweiss are Thorsten Scheerer (production) and Dorothea Herrmann (clarinet). Hettie Vyrine Barnhill, a graduate of Columbia
College Chicago and the Director of The Just Movement Collective, is currently with the Balance Dance Theater. Past Choreography includes; Solar one and The Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festivals, MTV, The Ailey School and Dance Chicago, She was awarded the Young Artist Scholarship (American Dance Festival), The Wiesman Grant for her Choreographic piece
‘Homegrown’ and chosen to perform at the “Kennedy Center” in Washington DC. Morning and Night is excerpt of Full length work Morning and Night, measuring the inner mental with outer space."

Voliffera
Music: Cyprian Li
Dance: Caron Eule



notes:
"Volifera is a person's inner feeling of resignation, a person who has had a long experience of the ups and downs of life. Cyprian Li, Chinese, was born and educated in Hong Kong, and worked for many years as a school teacher of Physics and Chemistry. Without formal music training, he started his pursuit of music in the eighties, experimenting and composing with the sounds of synthesizers and algorithmic and signal-processing software. Caron Eule received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. As the Director of C. Eule Dance, she has presented choreography at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, St. Mark's Church, Fire Island Festival 11, Dancing at the Crossroads in Times Square, the Elan Awards, WAX, the Cunninham Studio, the 92nd Street Y, Dance Space, the University Settlement, and at the McCallum Theatre in California."

Something Else for Now
Music: Anthony Arlotta - Reconsiderate
Dance: Jordan Marinov



notes:
"Casual and easy going—what else could describe Something Else For Now?? In this tasty morsel, we get a good sample of Reconsiderate's signature multi-layered binary/drone mixing style. Reconsiderate is what you get when you mix industrial rock with hip hop, and toss in elements of spoken word, breat beat, avant garde experimentalism and whole a bunch of other stuff that nobody has yet invented names for. Jordan Marinov is a dancer and choreographer from Pittsburgh, who fell in love with movement as a child. She is currently creating and performing a four part series entitled "Intimacies" by Jordan Marinov Dance in collaboration with photographer and film maker Bill Hayward. The series will culminate in an evening length live production which will be presented in conjunction with the film "Asphalt, Muscle and Bone." This one minute section is an excerpt of Intimacies Part:2 premiering in January 2009."

60x60
Music: William Francis
Dance: Deborah Black



notes:
"William Francis is an untrained composer/producer from London, UK who works on a wide range of styles varying from electronica to electro house to film score. Working under the guise 'Bill Eff', William primarily produces electronic dance music aimed squarely at the floor but is not afraid to stray from where he feels most comfortable. Deborah Black (BFA-NYU/Tisch, 2002) dances with Anneke Hanson, Susan Rethorst, Sasha Welsh, and maintains a daily practice of The Runner and I'll Crane For You, solos commissioned from Deborah Hay. Her adaptation of The Runner, her choreography, and a collaboration with Geneviève Grady have been produced in Germany, the UK, and New York."

S.0.1.
Music: Chris Barrett - Funf
Dance: Eun Jung and Guillermo - Da·Da·Dance Project



notes:
"Fünf are five multi-instrumentalists who, while regular performers with live bands, are proponents of using the recording studio as an instrument. As a result, Fünf compositions evolve as if they were live band pieces, dynamic and musical, taking many unexpected detours. Each piece begins as a “seed track” created by one member. It is then emailed to the next member. The next member adds new elements – acoustic/electronic instruments, samples – and sends it to the next member. A duet repertory company, Da•Da•Dance Project challenges conventional notions of art making with travesty, absurdity, and physical authenticity. We continuously seek to find a language that speaks, communicates and delivers uniquely expressive vocabulary, to reveal our eccentricity."

Hold Your Breath
Music: Louis Sellers
Dance: Kathleen Dyer/KDNY Dance



notes:
"Hold Your Breath, is a Trip-Hop sound exploration of lush tones. The music features 2 sections of holding your breath for 30-seconds. Louis Sellers is 21 year-old aspiring producer, engineer and musician. He has been collaborating and playing with bands since the young age of 13, and continues to take the UK by storm in his energetic, Alternative Rock band 'In Darklight'. Kathleen Dyer has had her works presented in many US venues including Dance Place in Washington, DC, the State Theater in Austin, TX and internationally at the fFida Festival in Toronto, Canada. Ms. Dyer received a BA in Dance from Florida State University and danced as a member of the Nikolais/Louis Dance Company prior to founding KDNY in 1997. Ms. Dyer has taught master classes in Washington, DC, Texas, Virginia, and Connecticut and has staged works on the Huntsville Ballet and Moving Current Dance Collective."

Tonight on 60x60
Music: David Morneau
Dance: Jeramy Zimmerman / Complete Cast



notes:
"Tonight on 60x60 was composed as a tribute to 60x60 and as a thank you to Robert Voisey who works so hard on the behalf of so many composers. The samples are taken from the first 60x60 CD and from a certain television news magazine show. David Morneau is a composer of an entirely undecided genre, a provider of exclusive unprecedented experiments. In his work he endeavors to explore ideas about our culture, issues concerning creativity, and even the very nature of music itself."

and die
Music: David French
Dance: Complete Cast

Endless Song
Music: Stan Link
Dance: Erick Montes

Barcarolla
Music: Liana Alexandra
Dance: Catey Ott

Pretty
Music: Katrina Wreede
Dance: Mary Cochran

On Simak Pond
Music: Robert Dick
Dance: Darrin Wright

The Indecisive Moment
Music: Mark Vernon
Dance: Jeramy Zimmerman

10 Etudes for Balloon; Number 4
Music: Aaron Drake
Dance: Rishuana Zumberg

Jonty's Acousmatic Tube Ride
Music: Samuel Pluta
Dance: Tara O'Con

Haiku 060215
Music: Annelie Nederberg
Dance: Mare Hieronimus

Skating Still
Music: Gina Biver
Dance: Amanda Stevenson

Apocalyptic Visions
Music: Nicole Kim
Dance: Christopher Williams, Jennifer Lafferty, Takemi Kitamura