Amelia
Reeber performs, choreographs, practices BodyTalk and spends time as
Velocity Dance
Centerʼs 2010 Choreographer in Residence. She has created many short
works that
reflect her interest in the narrative of the body in relationship with
time/space, landscape, and the human experience. In 2010, she
produced/performed an evening length solo, this is a forgery.
Amelia
has performed in four works by seminal American choreographer Deborah
Hay and toured
internationally during 2008-09. Reeberʼs solo, Peak and Draft, was
presented
with Mountain in the Northwest Artist Series at On the Boards and, while
traveling in Cambodia, Amelia had the opportunity to perform that work
for the
Khmer Arts Ensemble.
Amelia
has collaborated with and performed for a range of fantastic artists.
She was a
founding member of Foot In Mouth, a choreographer/composer collaboration
whose
work was presented as part of OtB’s Northwest Artist Series at in 2005.
Also in
2005, she toured Pat Graney Companyʼs The Vivian Girls.
She
has received support for her work from City of Seattle Office of Arts
&
Cultural Affairs, 4Culture, smART ventures, Artist Trust and more. She
was 2006
Artist Trust Fellowship recipient in choreography. In December 2009,
Amelia won
the Joyce Theaterʼs A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009 at On the Boards www.ameliareeber.com
Originally from North Carolina, Katie Faulkner received her MFA
in dance performance & choreography from Mills College in 2002.
Since graduating
from Mills, Faulkner has performed the works of Bill T. Jones, Randee
Paufve, Stephen Petronio, June Watanabe, Victoria Marks, Abigail Hosein,
Kim
Epifano and Ann Carlson. She has worked with several of these
choreographers as
a dancer with AXIS Dance Company, with whom she performed both locally
and
nationally from 2003-2007. She has enjoyed teaching students of all ages
and
abilities around the country and at institutions such as Santa Clara
University, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Marin Ballet, the University of
California, Berkeley, and she is currently on faculty at the University
of San
Francisco and Mills College.
Faulkner’s choreography and film work have been presented by the
Renaud-Wilson Dance
Festival, the WestWave Dance Festival, Hampshire College, Motion
Pictures, the
Julia Morgan Center for the Arts’ Dance IS Festival, the Oakland Dance
Festival, 8x8x8, ODC Theater and the Monterey Dance Festival. She has
been
commissioned to choreograph works for the Mills College Repertory
Company, Kate
Mitchell & Dancers, AXIS Dance Company, the University of
California, Berkeley,
the Erika Shuch Performance Project, and the University of San Francisco
Dance
Ensemble and has received support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation
and the
Theater Bay Area CA$H Grant. She has been awarded residencies with the
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the
Marin
Headlands, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and will
be in
residence at ODC Theater from 2009-2011. She was an Isadora Duncan Dance
Award
(Izzie) nominee in Visual Design with collaborators Benjamin Goldman and
JC
Earle for her 2008 trio, ‘The Dry Line’, and she received a Special
Izzie Award
with Benjamin Goldman for her 2008 dance film ‘LOOM’ . She was recently
nominated for an Izzie in the category of Music/Text/Sound for her
musical
performance in Manuelito Biag’s 2009 ‘Terra Incognita’. www.littleseismicdance.org
A dance/theater company based in Philadelphia, idiosynCrazy productions
with Artistic Director Jumatatu Poe pushes live performance to imaginative edges through exhaustive
exploration of movement, intimate interactions with audiences, and
engaging collaborations with theatrical designers. idiosynCrazy unites a
vibrant collection of diverse performers, journeying with audiences
into other worlds—to make more sense of this one.
