EloyDanza

Entre Las Grietax/ Between the Cracks

Eloy teaches ballet technique, choreography, partnering, and screen-dance and is from Mexicó City. Received a choreographers’ fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Boise Arts Council, as well as a Lifetime Career Fellowship by the Idaho Commission of the Arts. This year he received an Artist Project Grant from Iowa Arts Council. His choreography has been presented at the Bolshoi Theatre, Finnish National Opera House, Conservatoire de Paris – Cité de la Musique, Alvin Ailey Studios Citigroup Theater, DiCapo Opera Theater NYC, Teatro Nacional de Panamá, Ballet Real de Costa Rica. His films have been invited to festivals in Mexico, USA, Stockholm, and Cuba. Eloy trained at La Escuela Nacional de Danza in Mexicó, Royal Academy of Dance UK, Boston Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet in New York.  He performed with Joffrey II, Washington Ballet, Compañía Nacional de Danza Mexicó, Ballet Royal de Wallonie, Mainz Stattheater, Hagen Stattheater, Ballet de Monterey, Eugene Ballet, and Ballet Idaho. He is also the Director/Founder of the International ScreenDance Festival, Co-Director of the Iowa Dance Festival.  

 © Eloy Barragán

Light-Print

Jesse Obremski (he/him), a native New Yorker, Japanese-American, graduated from LaGuardia High School and The Juilliard School with additional development at The School at Jacob’s Pillow with multiple years at The Ailey School, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, and Springboard Danse Montréal.

Obremski has his award-winning choreography presented nationally and internationally. Obremski is the Founder and Artistic Director of Obremski/Works, which notably had its debut at Lincoln Center through The Dance Films Associations presented by HBO. Obremski also has had his work performed by Gibney Company, BYU Contemporary Dance Theater, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, MOVE|NYC|, Sacred Heart University, and various others, and in the United States, Malaysia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Prague. Obremski served on the Executive Committee of the Junior Committee for Dance/NYC (2021-2022) and, after four years of being on the Board, now serves as Associate Executive Director of Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance.

Obremski/Works

© Vanessa Gonzalez-Bunster

changmu center

Shining Light

Kim Mae-ja, who founded the Changmu Dance Company in 1976, is considered a key figure in Korean creative dance. She is known for her creative works that successfully blended traditional dance with modern touches. In 1992 she founded the Changmu arts center and The Post theater, a uniquely multi-faceted center in Korea, a specific choreographic space publishes " Momm" (the body) Monthly Review, manages the Changmu dance company and programs shows throughout the season.

Many reviews indicated that the dance performances by Kim Mae-ja and the Changmu Dance Company, and, in a wider context, the subdued beauty of the Korean dance, elegance, oriental spirit, and most of all, the universal agreement on the essence of dance itself. 

© Kim Jung Man

A.L.A.H.

Mess

ALAH was born out of the artistic partnership between musician-composer Lily Desmond and dancer-choreographer Alejandro Aristizábal. This US-Colombian duo was born in 2017 when Desmond sought to bring dance into the DIY music scene in New York City. Their current body of work is forceful, lyrical and raw; and is centered on themes surrounding mental health and the journey to self acceptance. Using dance as a focal point for narrative development of character-driven stories, both Desmond and Aristizabal want to invite the audience to the personal and emotional world of the artists through shared lived experiences, using the body as a shared vehicle and sound as the immersion. They strive to create an experience where dance and music, dancers and the singer, become inextricable.

Photo by Connor T. WillI van and Lily Desmond

Hyonok Kim Dance Arts

Weeping Water

Hyonok Kim Dance Arts was founded in 1996. The company performed in 24 countries including New York, Seoul, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo. The company also created films that were awarded and selected at various international Film festivals. Among them, Brooklyn Film Festival, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Best Experimental Award,  International New York Film Festival Best Experimental, New York Movie Awards Best Experimental, Los Angeles Experimental Film Festival Best Short, Dance on Camera Gold Award, Paris Movie Award, Canada Shorts-Canadian & International Short Film Festival Award, Berlin Film Festival, Cinedans Dance Screen Amsterdam,  Jumping Frames Dance Video Festival Hong Kong, Moving Image Film Festival, Teruel International Video Competition Grand Prix.

The company’s work has been broadcasted by Canal + TV (France), TF1 (France), Kanal 4 (Germany), ABC (Australia), the Shanghai National TV (China), KBS (Korean National TV), SBS (Korea), MBC(Korea), VPRO-TV (Netherlands), and No TV & Movies (USA).

©  Andre D. Kim 

Buglisi Dance Theatre

Moss Anthology: Variation #5

The award-winning Buglisi Dance Theatre, recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grants for its 2021/22 creative work, is acclaimed for multi-cultural, socially-relevant dances on the human condition that reveal the heroic spirit, strengths and vulnerabilities of humanity. Founded in 1993 by Bessie Award Special Citation Honoree/Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi, and Terese Capucilli, Christine Dakin and Donlin Foreman, former Principal Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Co., BDT performs NYCseasons at The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, Ailey Citigroup Theater, and, in June 2022, The Chelsea Factory; tours across the U.S. from Jacob’s Pillow to the Vail International Dance Festival; and abroad in Australia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Israel, and Italy. Since 2011, BDT performs the Table of Silence Project 9/11, a multi-cultural performance ritual for peace at Lincoln Center, seen via live streaming 235 countries/territories. buglisidance.org | tableofsilence.org

© Terese Capucilli BuglisiDanceTheatre

Refuge (excerpt) Sanctuary section

"iyouuswe II"

 © Steven Pisano