COLLABORATORS

Dancers

Ruth Bronwen (dancer)
originally from the Boston area, received her early training and performance experience with the Boston Ballet. Among many dedicated and wonderful teachers, Marcus Schulkind at Green Street Studios has been an indefatigable guide and mentor. Her movement practices include yoga and chi-kung based on the methods of Jesse Winder and gyrotonics® with Lisa Pari. Recent performances include "Midnight" in Ten's the Limit (2005), "Rollin'" in Schulkind's Solos-Restored and Late Models, "Hallelujah" in Critical Moves curated by Alissa Cardone, and most recently "a space carved out" in this season's Shared Choreographer's Concert (co-produced with Emily Estes) at the Dance Complex . A graduate of UMASS Boston with a B.A. in English and Dance, Ruth currently lives in Cambridge and divides her time between dance and digital graphics/web design.

Pape N’Diaye (dancer)
is a master dancer, instructor and choreographer from Senegal, West Africa and has toured throughout Africa and around the world. Since 1989, he has danced with numerous world-renowned companies from Senegal and the US, including Manhattan Dance School (1989-1994), Forêt Sacrée (1992-1994), Cinquihme Dimension (1994-1996), Compagnie Jant-Bi (1996-1997 and 2001-2003), the Ballet National L’Aliguère du Senegal (1997-2002), Ballet Sinomew (2000-2003), Akhra: The Dancing Grounds (2005), and he is now a member of Kinodance Company (2006). He has extensive training in all styles of traditional West African dance as well as in contemporary dance forms. A dynamic teacher, Pape N’Diaye is responsible for training many noted sabar dancers in Senegal, and he is known in the US for teaching high-spirted djembe, kutiro, and sabar dance classes.

DeAnna Pellecchia (dancer)
is a dancer/aerialist, educator and choreographer committed to creating inter-disciplinary, multi-media dance performances via collaborative process. The Boston Globe has called DeAnna “intense…a committed and daring performer”. The Boston Herald has described her as, “stunning…one of the area’s finest artists…” DeAnna is co-founder/choreographer of Kairos Dance Theater as well as a founding member, Rehearsal Director and Assistant Choreographer for Bennett Dance Company. She is currently performing with LOSTWAX and Paula Josa-Jones/ Performance Works. In the past, DeAnna performed with Nicola Hawkins Company, Akhra: the Dancing Grounds and Ipswich Moving Company. DeAnna’s movement training extends beyond traditional dance technique to include stilt walking, horse handling, Tae Kwon Do, Capoeira, Wushu spear, and various forms of aerial dance. She received a BA in Dance Performance with a dual minor in Business Management and Latin from Roger Williams University. Ms. Pellecchia has taught dance and/or made original works at universities and institutions throughout New England including Boston Conservatory and Boston Ballet, among others; she resides on the dance faculty at Boston University and The Cambridge School of Weston. DeAnna is also a practicing ACE-certified personal trainer. She would like to thank Kinodance Company for this opportunity to share the stage with such an array of incredibly brilliant artists. Links: www.deannapellecchia.com

Harriett Jastremsky (dancer, choreographer)
collaborates with artists to make dance performance pieces, and has received funding for performance works from the Massachusetts Cultural Council administered by Northampton Arts Council (2000, 2001, 2004). She has received a Harkness Choreographers' Space Grant at Purchase College and a residency through The Field at Workspace for Choreographers, Sperryville, West Virginia. She was a company member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works 1997-2002, and is a regular guest with DeFacto Dance, New York. She has been presented by Mobius, Boston; A.P.E. Movement Arts Series at Thornes, Northampton, MA; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; DropDance, Boise, ID. She has been commissioned by Balance Dance Company, Boise, ID; HawleyMartin Dance, Northampton, MA; and Dance Generators, Northampton, MA.

Musicians/Composers
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Roger Miller (composer)
Mr. Miller was born in 1952, grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and began studying piano at age 6. A teenager during the turbulent '60's, when he sites witnessing Jimi Hendrix in a small club with only 100 people in attendance as a turning point. He's been composing music since 1969, formally studing composition at California Institute of the Arts and piano at the University of Michigan, as well as being actively involved with free jazz improvisation. He moved to Boston in 1978 (studying to become a piano technician), and shortly co-formed Mission of Burma on guitar and voice, the post-punk band that made his music known. He continued playing keyboards and other instruments during and after Burma, resulting in over 40 CDs under his band leadership. He has performed at the Lincoln Center and Town Hall in New York; The I.C.A. and M.F.A. in Boston; and in theatres and festivals all over the US and Europe, Canada and Mexico. Currently, he plays keyboard for the internationally acclaimed silent film accompanying ensemble The Alloy Orchestra; plays guitar and sings for the reincarnation of Mission of Burma; plays keyboards and sings for The Binary System. He has composed numerous soundtracks for cutting edge TV commercials and documentaries, and teaches guitar lessons out of his home.

Jessica Rylan (sound artist & electronic musician)
lives and performs in the Boston area, where she grew up. The main focus of her work to date has been the design and construction modular synthesizers which use analog electronic circuits to create a diversity of sounds. She uses her synthesizers in installations at galleries and also in her high-energy, live musical performances. She has created sound installations for such places as the LIST Gallery for Visual Arts at MIT, the Boston Center for Contemporary Art, Bard College, the Berwick Research Institute and the Massachusetts College of Art. Rylan has an MFA in electronic music from Bard College, Avondale-on-Hudson, New York and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. Links: http://www.irfp.net/

Anton Batagov (composer/pianist)
one of the most influential Russian composers and performers, born October 10, 1965 in Moscow, studied with Anna Kantor at the Gnessin School (piano) and with Tatiana Nikolayeva at the Moscow Conservatory (piano and composition). Prize-winner at four competitions: Concertino-Prague (1981), the All-Soviet Piano Competition (1985), the Tchaikovsky Competition (1986) and the Sydney International Piano Competition (1988). Performances in Russia, most European countries and the U.S.A. Links: http://www.batagov.com/

Andy Bergman (sound design)
is a composer, arranger, andclarinetist/multi-instrumentalist with performance credits including the Philadelphia Folk Festival 2006, the New Repertory Theatre, First Night Boston 2005/2006, ImprovBoston, and CRASHarts Ten's The Limit for which he performed an original score with Oneon Dance. He is currently co-producing a new world music album with the Guy Mendilow Band. -- http://music.kellysgreen.com/

Chris Brokaw (guitarist)
was born and raised in and around new york city. after attending oberlin college, he moved to boston, where he continues to reside in 1990, he began recording and performing internationally with CODEINE, with whom he played drums and guitar on 2 records for SUB-POP. in 1992, he left that band to pursue songwriting, singing and guitar playing with COME, who recorded four albums for MATADOR and toured internationally over the course of 10 years. since 2002, chris has recorded four solo albums: the instrumental "RED CITIES" (ATAVISTIC/KIMCHEE/12XU, 2002), the solo acoustic "WANDERING AS WATER"(NORMAL, 2004), the film score "I WAS BORN, BUT" (ATAVISTIC/12XU, 2004), and the rock/vocal "INCREDIBLE LOVE" (12XU/ROCK ACTION/ACUARELA, 2005). he has also performed on over 2 dozen other recordings, performing as a member of the following bands: THE WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, THE NEW YEAR, PULLMAN, CONSONANT, and THE EMPTY HOUSE COOPERATIVE; as a guest on recordings by COBRA VERDE, MANTA RAY, ROSA CHANTSWELL, KARATE, and VIA TANIA; and as an accompanist to recordings and performances by STEVE WYNN, EVAN DANDO, THALIA ZEDEK, ALAN LICHT, TARA JANE O'NEIL, crime writer GEORGE PELECANOS, and RHYS CHATHAM.

Seth Barger (sound design)

Costume Design
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Laura Coulter (costumes)
has designed and built theatre and dance costumes for the Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, Boston Arts Academy, the Huntington Theatre and the American Stage Festival in Milford, NH. She has a BFA in textile design from Rhode Island School of Design.

Jodi Leo (costumes)

Anna-Alisa Belous (costumes)

Production
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Robin Hessman (producer, filmmaker, photographer)
is a producer and documentary filmmaker. She received her graduate degree in film directing from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, Russia. During her years in Russia, Robin worked for the Children’s Television Workshop as the on-site Producer of “Ulitsa Sezam”, the original Russian language “Sesame Street”. Since returning to the US in 1999, she has produced films for PBS and The History Channel that have aired in over 14 countries – including “Tupperware!” and the PBS biography of Julia Child. Robin has also curated programs on Soviet Cinema for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is currently directing and producing "Russia’s Pepsi Generation", a documentary about the last Generation of Soviet children to grow up behind the Iron Curtain. Robin is an Associate of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and collaborates on a variety of projects in Russian and the former Soviet republics.

Harut Kbeyan (line producer)

Melik Karapetyan (producer, filmmaker) is founder of ART-FILM LLC a private company that has a goal to revitalize Armenian cinema and promote contemporary Armenian film production in the international market. ART-FILM collaborates with major stakeholders to introduce classic films and other non-commercial audiovisual products provide free access to audiovisual information to wider audiences, as well as to organize regular public screenings for informational and educational purposes.  Since 2002, ART-FILM has organized numerous public events in partnership with British Council, Goethe Institute, Open Society Institute, American University of Armenia, a number of foreign embassies, Armenian Society for Cultural Exchange (AOKC), Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists (AFCCJ), the Noreon Arts Resource Center and other foreign and local institutions.

Mkrtich Malkhasyan (cinematographer)

We have also had the pleasure of working on set building with Bryan Long and Michael D. Andelman, sound with Doug Mckenzie, photography with Asa Chibas and film documentation with Jeff Silva, Bill Anderson and Michael Richardson. Many thanks to Peter Stankiewicz for his early feedback and artistic support.

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