Alissa Cardone
"Wonder Girl" (2004)
Alla Kovgan
photo by Robin Hessman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dedalus Wainwright
photo by Robin Hessman

 

 

 

Ingrid Schatz
photo by Robin Hessman

ARTISTS

Alissa Cardone (choreographer, dancer)
is an interdisciplinary movement artist. She has performed, taught and toured nationally and internationally in Russia, Armenia, Belgium, France and Japan where trainings with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm), and research & performance engagements with 'Nijinski of Butoh' Akira Kasai were galvanizing. A core member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works (1998-2003), she has worked with Ann Carlson, Elaine Summers, Yoshito Ohno, Nora Chipaumire, and others. Her dance making, curating and mentorship initiatives have garnered support from institutions including Asian Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, Open Society Institute and New England Foundation for the Arts. An MFA candidate in UCLA's Department of World Arts & Cultures, she is recipient of the Elaine Krown-Klein Fine Arts Scholarship and the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Performing Arts Award (2009-10). (http://www.criticalmoves.com/)

Alla Kovgan (filmmaker)
is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at the Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Melbourne, Durban, Oberhausen, Clemont-Ferrand, MOMA, Louvre, Centre Pompidou, PBS (US), ZDF (Germany) and numerous others. Alla's most recent film NORA (2008), her collaboration with the British filmmaker David Hinton, is an art film – a poetic biography of the Zimbabwean choreographer Nora Chipaumire. NORA has been an official selection of over 80 festivals, received 23 awards and will be broadcast on PBS in 2010. The two latest documentaries, which Alla co-directed and edited, an Emmy-nominated "Traces of the Trade" (2007) and “My perestroika” (2009) premiered at Sundance and on P.O.V. (PBS). Since 1999, Alla has been involved into interdisciplinary collaborations – creating intermedia performances (with KINODANCE Company), dance films and documentaries about dance such as “Movement (R)evolution Africa” (with Joan Frosch). Alla's projects have been supported by Open Society Institute, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Bank of America Celebrity Series, among others. Since 2000, she has taught and curated dance film and avant-garde cinema worldwide as the Programmer of St. Petersburg Dance Film Festival KINODANCE (Russia) and as a co-Curator of Balagan Film Series (Boston). In 2009, Alla was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and a Brother Thomas Fellowship for artists working at a high level of excellence and creativity. (http://www.movementrevolutionafrica.com/nora/ http://www.tracesofthetrade.org, http://www.kinodance.com/russia/)

Dedalus Wainwright (screen & set designer)
is a visual artist working in sculpture, set design, and multimedia collaborations in the realms of installation, public art, performance, dance, film and theatre. In addition to being a full-time set designer for Kinodance company, Dedalus' recent projects include: master-minding and participating in the art expedition with the New England Expeditionary Alliance (2008 Bumpkin Island Artist residency in Boston Harbor); collaborating with Kathy Couch on a kinetic set design for restaging Trisha Brown’s “Set/Reset/Reset" (Hampshire, Amherst and Smith Colleges, 2006); co-curating an exhibition “These are Textiles?” for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston showcasing technological innovations in textile form, application and function (2006); coordinating a group of teen visual arts curators at the Cloud Foundation (2006); collaborating with Anna Shapiro on “A Very Brief Industrial History of Somerville” a painted public mural in Somerville, MA, (2005). Dedalus holds a BA in Studio Arts from Hampshire College and maintains a studio at Sculptors Workshop in Allston, MA.

Ingrid Schatz (choreographer/dancer)
is a Boston-based dancer and choreographer. She received her BFA in dance from the University of Massachusetts in 1997 and has made a career of pushing the boundaries of dance and in the process has studied aerial dance, horse handling, stilt walking, Authentic Movement. Ms. Schatz currently collaborates with visual artist Michael Dowling and dancer/choreographer DeAnna Pellecchia with whom she founded Kairos Dance Theater and has collaborated/worked with Bennett Dance Company, Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, Caitlin Corbett Dance Company, Joyce Lim, Ernesto Pujol, Jin-Wen Yu and others. Ms. Schatz a principal dancer and rehearsal director for Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works with whom she has toured, taught, collaborated and choreographed throughout the US and in France and Russia. She has been called "...strong, dramatically intense..." by the Chicago Sun-Times and "...a committed and superbly skilled dancer..." by the Boston Globe. .

Kathy Couch (lighting designer)
is a freelance lighting, scenic and costume designer, having designed for over 350 performances in New York, Boston, Armenia, Russia, Greece and throughout New England. She has worked with a variety of directors and choreographers including Wendy Woodson, Kinodance, Talvin Wilks, Kate Rigg, Kathy Randels, Yanira Castro, Mollye Maxner, Fay Simpson, David Hurwith, Kelly Parsley, Immediate Theater, Ko Theatre Works, and Universes. Kathy is currently involved in numerous collaborations, namely with Chimeara Physical Theater, and Serious Play Theater Ensemble. Kathy has worked extensively with New WORLD Theater, developing their summer intern program and designing for both their regular and summer seasons. She has been a board member for the A.P.E. galleries and performance space (Northampton, MA) since 2003 and is currently working to create a plan for sustaining the arts community in Northampton, MA. Kathy is a Visiting Lecturer in Lighting Design at Amherst College.