BOOMERANG is a fearlessly physical, poetically-nuanced dance and performance project created in 2012 by co-directors Matty Davis and Kora Radella with founding member Adrian Galvin. Recognizing the body as an evolving repository for both physical and psychological life, boomerang sifts through and siphons from the rich, eclectic histories that constitute the personhoods of the people with whom they work. Guided and provoked by Radella’s gifts for idiosyncratic movement invention, unpredictable phrasing, and choreographic skills, boomerang creates unfailingly committed, physically intense, vulnerable explorations of how human histories might be sensitively layered, distorted, and recontextualized so as to yield new movement vocabularies and articulate the complex breadth of intra- and interpersonal relationships. They have been referred to as the “punk Mozarts of dance.”

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Vanessa Walters originally hails from Baltimore where she began dancing in high school at the Peabody Institute. She then came to NYC, got her BFA at NYU’s Tisch of the Arts, and has lived here ever since. Since 2001, Walters has been the lead choreographer of Fischerspooner, a performance group known for combining pop entertainment with a high art sensibility.  The most recent Fischerspooner show, “Between Worlds”, was created in collaboration with the Wooster Group. She has choreographed, staged, and performed in Fischerspooner shows and music videos, for both music and concert venues and non-proscenium, interactive gallery shows. Her work with Fischerspooner has appeared at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City’s Deitch Projects, MOCA in Los Angeles, and the Pompidou Center in Paris as well as TV appearances on Top of the Pops, The Jimmy Kimmel show, and The Carson Daly Show. Walters has also choreographed music videos for Zola Jesus, AVAN LAVA, CREEP, Blank Dogs, Department of Eagles, Cyndi Lauper, Kings of Leon, Jamie Lidell/Nintendo, as well as live events for Mercedes Benz, Juicy Couture, House of Diehl, and Narcissister, among others.

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Angier Performance Works are dance theater and site specific works, performed installations, and walking performance pieces created by D. Chase Angier in collaboration with other artists. Intuitively driven and visually inspired, each performance is distilled down to the core essentials and shaped into minimal and specific choreography. The work mixes movement with other art forms through her collaboration with dynamic creative artists in the Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Theater. Angier Performance Works have been performed internationally and nationally in theaters, galleries, and visually inspired sites.

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Alexandra Beller/Dances is an ensemble of highly skilled dancer/actors working on the edge between dance and theater. Rich with personal revelations, performances attempt to move, stimulate, impassion and incite the audience. Ripe with metaphor, abstracted narrative and controversial ideas, the dances traffic through the dangerous territory of homophobia, sexism, and emotional isolationism. The company seeks to intersect distinctions between races, nationalities, sexual orientations and political affiliations through a series of artistic collisions. The creations are a truly unique hybrid form, where speaking and moving are essential forces in the creation of meaning. Dances often pay homage to great writers and fertile landscapes of words are often used to create a sense of place, time and relationship. Movement is a key to the startling, idiosyncratic and mysterious information that resides in the body. The process is highly collaborative and focuses on bringing as many artistic models to the table as possible in an attempt to create original imagery, sound and structure. Humor, irony, satire and pathos are interchangeable in the drive towards meaning. Education, performance, discussion and community involvement are all pathways taken towards audience and community partnerships.

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