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The Uptown Performance Series showcases the heart of the dance scene and contemporary culture in NYC, with exuberant eclecticism. Choreographers and performers consistently bring passion, verve and sensuality to the forefront in their works in this venue.
 
The third event of our 2007-2008 season offers powerful and evocative works by talented and versatile companies. These innovative choreographers bring their physical voices to the Bridge for Dance for an exciting dance event.
 

|FEATURED ARTISTS|

amiti perry/æmp:dance
Clarity in Motion
Meg Hebert Dance
T.Lion Dance/BodyStories
Xodus Dance Collective

æmp:dance, Bridge for Dance Company.in.Residence
      
Amiti Perry,  |Artistic Director/choreographer| a native Texan received her BA in Dance from the University of North Texas. She has produced, choreographed and performed original works consistently since 1998. She co-founded DIP|dance in person with collaborator Coco Loupe, performed as a guest artist with Rachel Lampert and Dancers and for four years she performed, taught, assisted and designed nationally and internationally with Skip Costa/CORE movement Project-NYC. Amiti took a three-year hiatus from NYC during which she received her MFA in Choreography from the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. At OSU she studied under and was mentored by Bebe Miller and Dave Covey. She performed works by Miller and worked extensively with CoCo Loupe, Michael Estanich, Blake Beckham, Esther m Palmer, and composer David Mourneau. Since her return to New York, she has been creating and presenting new works with her company, æmp:dance, as well as performing with ellen stokes shadle/DANCEWORKS.

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clarity in motion

Karen Nerkowski is originally from Connecticut and earned her BA in Dance Performance and Elementary Education at Roger Williams University.  She has been teaching and choreographing in the Tri-state area for 10 years.  In August, her new dance company, Clarity in Motion was born.  Clarity in Motion has participated in the Uptown Performance Series and benefit performances for Dancers Responding to Aids in New York and Connecticut.  Karen is most proud of the show she co-directed and choreographed this past summer held at Bridge For Dance titled “Falling Awake”, a choreographer’s showcase.

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Meg Hebert Dance

MEG HEBERT holds a BFA in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. In March of 2007, she founded Meg Hebert Dance as Artistic Director. Her role in this company of movers and collaborators is, 'organizer.' Meg is the puzzle solver for the creation of dancer-generated movements. She was the 2006 recipient of the Marjorie Turner Choreography Prize for Artistic Excellence. Her work has been shown at Dance New Amsterdam Works-In-Progress 2005 and DUMBO 2007. She has also performed for John Evans and Dancers. Meg always introduces herself as Megan, yet, prefers to be called meg considerably. She is a current New Jersey resident and life long, "Live Free or Die" New Hampshirian.

http://meghebertdance.org/

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T.Lion Dance/BodyStories

TERESA FELLION has performed, choreographed, and taught throughout the United States and in Africa. Teresa has been titled the “Artistic Liaison between Cameroon and the United States” by Cameroonian president Paul Biya. While in Africa, she danced with Ballet National du Cameroun, Francois Bartoulo, Nyanga Danse, and at The National Soccer Cup Finals. Performing highlights in New York include dancing with M’Bewe Escobar, Roxanna Young, Tracie Stanfield, Rhapsody James, Dance Theater Etcetera, Ellen Stokes Shadle, Skip Costa COREmovement Project, Alicia House, and the New York Dance Collective. Teresa has been in a myriad of theater productions in New York, New England, and The Midwest such as “The Fiddler on the Roof,” “Anything Goes,” “The Music Man,” “The Vagina Monologues,” and “Catholic School Girls.”

Ms. Fellion has also presented her own work as Artistic Director of T. Lion Dance/ BodyStories at such venues as Jacob’s Pillow, The University of Florida Gainesville Department of Dance, The Ailey School, Pace University, Barnard College, The International Day Festival, Dance New Amsterdam, New York University, The Field, The Puffin Room, and Phish’s Coventry Festival.

As Artistic Director of T. Lion Dance/ BodyStories, she recently choreographed a full-length contemporary ballet performed by The University of Florida Department of Dance and she is currently preparing works for the “Out-Music Festival.” In addition, Teresa will also be choreographing for upcoming concerts with Trey Anastasio, former leader of the band, Phish.

Teresa Fellion has taught at such establishments as The Ailey School, Pace University, The Women’s Project at Barnard College, New York University, Dance Theater Etcetera, Carl Sebok Productions, Cape Ballet Inc., and City Center’s City Lights Youth Theater Company.  She is Artistic and Executive Director of interCATaction/Children’s Adaptive Theater; a dance-theater company that performs dance-theater pieces and conducts artistic and educational workshops for youth programs, public venues, and public schools.

Ms. Fellion has also taught in many private and public language programs for students with learning disabilities and behavioral disorders.  She has taught French, Creative Writing, and Dance at Concordia Language Villages’ French Immersion Program.  Ms. Fellion received the Williams College Book Award for Excellence in English and she has published several poems and newspaper articles.  She has also done freelance writing for The Cape Cod Times, the Jacob’s Pillow Newsletter, and other local news sources..

Teresa Fellion is the sole recipient of the 2006 American Dance Guild Fellowship for Jacob’s Pillow’s Choreographers’ Lab. She is a merit scholar graduate of New York University where she studied English, French, Creative Writing, and Dance. Ms. Fellion also attended The Ailey School’s 3-Year Certificate Program as a partial scholarship student where she extensively trained in dance, theater, and voice. You can also see Teresa onstage at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and the P.I.T. Theater performing comedy improvisation.  She has been training and performing improvisation for the past two years.

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Xodus Dance Collective

Originally from Toronto, Karen began her training as a dance major in the Claude Watson Arts Program. While continuing her training at the Toronto Dance Theatre and the Randolph Dance Theatre, she received her Bachelor’s degree from Ryerson University. She then moved to New York to further her studies at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.

Karen has worked with such companies as Earl Mosley’s Diversity in Dance, the Mantis Dance Project, Canboulay Dance Theatre, and had the honor of working with such choreographers as Ronald K. Brown, Earl Mosley and Tony winner Hinton Battle. Currently she is a faculty member at Steps on Broadway, New Dance Group and Ballet Hispanico and has had the opportunity to guest teach across the U.S. and abroad, including Canada, Mexico, Bolivia and Italy. Karen is also the choreographer of Deante Dance, a series of modern dance based fitness videos, and Street Fusion an instructional street jazz and hip hop DVD. www.karengayle.com

the company

The xodus dance collective is a magnet of dancers drawn together to fuse several voices into one body. An eclectic blend of techniques and styles, the xodus dance collective seeks to merge varying forms of movement into one unified language. Established in New York City in 2006, the collective merges dancers of diverse experiences and backgrounds. Artistic director Karen Gayle’s ‘slice of life’ choreographic approach explores both unique and common perspectives of life.

the work

About The Waiting Room:
The Waiting Room takes place in two locations: Physically; in the emergency waiting room of a public hospital. Mentally; in the minds of 8 individuals caught at a turning point in their lives. The Waiting Room takes a look at the similarities and oppositions of being in control and having no control, the struggle between patience and restlessness and the battle to gain control of life’s most invaluable entity: time. Set to the music of Tom Tykwer’s beautiful score from The Princess and the Warrior and Carter Burwell’s striking theme from Blood Simple, The Waiting Room is a juxtaposition of physical and mental restlessness.