The Network Touring Exchange (NTE) is a pilot opportunity for our national Field Network Sites to build their capacity by working with other Field Network Sites. Represented by one dance/movement-based artist/Fieldwork Facilitator, a Fieldwork Site may travel to another Fieldwork site for 2-7 days to learn, share, collaborate and grow.
The Field is excited to announce the recipients of our first Network Touring Exchange!
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photo by Dave Rubin |
Amy Caron will travel from Salt Lake
City, UT, to Milkwaukee, WI, April 6 -12.
Amy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City. Her artistic versatility is informed by her
experience as a crossover athlete. A
high-level figure skater and gymnast at a young age, Amy later represented her
country in World Cup competition as an aerialist on the US Freestyle Ski Team. She holds her BFA in modern dance and also
studied animation and arts technology.
Her short dance films screened at Galapagos Art Space, American Dance
Festival, KMUTT School of Architecture and Design, and Macau Art Museum. The year 2006 marked a career turning point
when Performance Space 122 commissioned Waves of Mu—a complex
installation/performance work about the neurobiology of empathy created with
world-renowned scientist V.S. Ramachandran.
Through this rewarding venture into science, Amy grew as a social practice
artist, expanded the interdisciplinary nature of her work, and received a
Visiting Artist Grant from Duke University.
In 2012 Amy premiered Holotype, a large-scale biomorphic installation
for The Leonardo Museum. Inspired by her
rigorous study of algae and the challenge to translate the obscure organism’s
inscape, this ambitious multi-year project filled the museum’s vast
4,000-sq./ft. atrium. Andrew Andrew,
Culturebot, and Interior Design Magazine have covered Amy’s work. www.amycaron.com
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Ilana Silverstein
will be touring with her feminist punk rock dance band, Tia Nina, from
Washington DC to New York City on April 9-12.
Tia Nina was started by
Leah Curran Moon, MPA PhD (J Van Stone), Ilana Silverstein, MFA (Sammy Rain)
and Lisi Stoessel, MFA (Sticks) in 2011.
Tia Nina plays the festival circuit including Capital Fringe DC,
Asheville Fringe NC, the Festival of Subversive Ideas and Minds, College Park,
MD, as well as theaters like The Lang Theatre, DC, Single Carrot Theatre,
Baltimore, and Gesa Powerhouse Theatre, Walla Walla, WA. The band plays
non-traditional venues including SlutWalk DC on the National Mall and the Wonderland
Ballroom. Tia Nina’s community events include dance tailgating and feminist
parties for artists and scholars. Their shows are included on the syllabi for
Gender Studies courses, and the band has taught in the Dance and the Women’s
Studies departments at University of Maryland, George Washington University,
Whitman College and DeSales University.
Tia Nina recently received a Space Subsidy Grant Award from Dance Metro
DC, and works with celebrated composers Michael Moon and Eric Shimelonis,
performer Colleen Hutchings (Chymes Maloney), and costume designers Katy
Kincade and Deb Sivigny. By originating vivid, creative live performances of
punk rock modern dance, voice & stage art and live-form puppetry, Tia Nina
defines — unforgettably — the value of thinking critically about gender in
popular culture. www.tianinarocks.com
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Photo by Heather Grey |
Chrissy Nelson will be travelling from Boulder, CO, to Salt
Lake City, UT, April 21-24.
Chrissy is a dance artist,
physical therapist, and movement educator. She is adjunct faculty at
Metropolitan State University of Denver where she teaches Experiential Anatomy,
Somatics & Injury Prevention, as well as Pilates and various dance
techniques. Also adjunct faculty at CU-Boulder, Nelson teaches
Improvisation, and serves as the Co-Director of the Theater & Dance
Wellness Program. In addition to her teaching, Chrissy also directs The
Field | Boulder, collaborates frequently with sound and visual artists, has
performed original works in PA, NY and CO, and co-produces FRASS events (Front
Range Artist Salon Series). Chrissy's performance research involves the
vulnerability found in improvisation, both in movement and in the spoken
word. Most recently, Nelson was invited as an intensive teacher at CI
Iowa 2015, and was part of the teaching faculty at the Texas Dance
Improvisation Festival 2015. As a soon to be certified Movement
Fundamentals Practitioner, Nelson values CI as a foundation to the dance
artist’s practice, and incorporates its principles into all of her
movement-based teaching. Chrissy received her MFA in dance from the
University of Colorado-Boulder (2013), with a secondary emphasis in both
Somatics and Improvisation in Performance. She received her MPT from Ohio
University in 1998. https://chrissyln.wordpress.com/
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Read about their 2016 National Touring Exchange in Part 2 of this series.