Compagnie 7273 (Switzerland and France)
On Stage
Created by Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon, Compagnie 7273 has performed in many countries and venues such as Austria, Germany, South Korea, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, Switzerland, and France, to name a few. Initially conceived for the Swiss Platform Tanz, On Stage presents a choreographic language specifically influenced by the original part: a dance being held in a continuous flow, without dead time affect or gradation of emotion. In search of an unbridled form, of an explosion, the choreography is subjected to a high acceleration. A solo marked by movements of an extreme and constant intensity.

Other Shore (New York, NY)*
small earthquakes along the way
Sonja Kostich and Brandi Norton's OtherShore is a unique dance company that brings together dancers, choreographers, designers, composers and musicians of the highest caliber. Highly acclaimed from around the world, these artists have come together to share their diverse and vast experiences and inspire each other to create thought-provoking and engaging work. Sonja is a former member of American Ballet Theater, San Francisco Ballet, Zurich Ballet and the White Oak Dance Project. Brandi has danced with the Trisha Brown Company for nine years. The other dancers in the company hail from prestigious companies such as Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Patrick Corbin Dances, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, White Oak Dance Project, Limon Dance Company, San Francisco Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet.

Steinunn Ketilsdottir and Brian Gerke (Iceland)*
Crazy in Love with MR. PERFECT
Two young people, one male and one female, both in search of the perfect man discuss, obsess and confess their personal relationships in Crazy in love with MR.PERFECT. As a young culture obsessed by love, we relish the opportunity to discuss, examine, dissemble and reassemble any fictional or factual relationship with which we come into contact. We watch exquisite love stories, "not a chance in hell" romantic comedies, and less than likely "inspired by real events miracle" unions, and wait... For what? For it to happen to us? Crazy in love with MR.PERFECT premiered at the Icelandic Reykjavík Dance Festival in September 2007.

WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (Brooklyn, NY)*
SSOOT II
Since its inception in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company has appeared on principal stages both in the US and Far East, including the 1988 Summer Olympics World Dance Festival. During her 30-year choreographic career, Kim has created more than 47 works. In addition to works for her company, she has choreographed for City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong, Seoul Contemporary Dance Company, and the St. Gallen Dance Loft in Switzerland. She has conducted classes and workshops worldwide. Ms. Kim was chosen as an outstanding achievement artist for the documentary film Arirang: The Korean American Journey - A Centennial Celebration, directed by Tom Coffman, premiering in May, 2003 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and broadcast nationwide on PBS soon thereafter. In July of 2007, WHITE WAVE celebrated Young Soon Kim's 30th Anniversary Season at Dance Theater Workshop with the world premiere of SSOOT, featuring an original score by renowned Korean composers Ki Young Kim and Dae Soo Hahn with video design by Joel Cantor. Lisa Jo Sagolla wrote in Backstage that "SSOOT (a Korean word meaning 'fresh energy') is...an extremely well crafted, visually stunning, emotionally rich work...Young Soon Kim makes generic moderndance vocabulary serve a wide range of expressive functions."

Andrea Miller/ Gallim Dance (New York, NY)
Chanson
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Andrea Miller began her training in the Humphrey/Weidman technique with Ernestine Stodelle. Upon receiving her BFA from the Juillard School, Miller moved to Tel Aviv, Israel to join Ohad Naharin's, Ensemble Batsheva where she performed the work of Naharin throughout Israel, Europe and New York. Andrea has also had the privilege of performing with Cedar Lake, The Limon Dance Company and Buglisi Dance Theater. In 2006, Miller established Gallim Dance, a New York City based contemporary dance company. Andrea Miller/ Gallim Dance is the 2008 recipient of the Hubbard Street 2 Choreographic Competition, The Yard Choreographic Residency, The Stella Adler, and the MAD Artist in Residence.

Molissa Fenley and Dancers (New York, NY)*
Cosmati Variations 1, 2, and 3
Molissa Fenley and Dancers was founded in 1977 and, in the past 30 years of creating work, has been honored with two prestigious Bessie awards and Guggenheim Fellowship. Fenley's most notable work, State of Darkness, a solo set to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.a has been performed over 50 times in many venues around the world. Presently, Fenley is residing at the American Academy in Rome, Italy where she is creating new work. Most recent performances of her new work "Cosmati Variations" have been presented in Paris, France and Goteborg, Sweden.

PairDance Co. (London, England)
Silent Steps
Pair Dance was founded in 2005 by Harriet Macauley & Richard Leonard and is a performance, education and research company in London, England. Pair Dance has been presented across the United Kingdom as well as in Denmark, Turkey, and Spain. Created as part of Resolution! and supported by Artist Development & the Bonnie Bird Award, Silent Steps is a highly physical piece where dancers trace steps, tumbling and falling with laughter and giggles. This work delves into thoughts, memories and the internal dialogue between our inner and outer self.

johannes wieland (New York, NY)*
newyou
Employing an architecturally driven understanding of bodies, movement and space; probing deeply into the human psyche to create an abstract, metaphorically rich approach to performance art, Johannes Wieland has been cited as one of Dance Magazine's "Top 25 to Watch" . Johannes utilizes a rigorous developmental process to explore various situations of causality. He delves into the philosophical realm of lies and happiness with his new work, newyou. This multi-disciplinary performance reveals true happiness and its associated lies. As stated most recently by Deutsche Bühne, "Johannes Wieland's world is not a simple one nor an ideal one.

Alexandra Beller/Dances (Brooklyn, NY)*
What Comes After Happy
What comes after happy cracks open our cultural obsession with happiness. While other countries give deep value to the states of sadness, anger, passion and fear, we often whitewash our everyday lives to announce to the world and ourselves that we do not covet, that we are not filled with unrest, that we do not mourn. A fierce, ribald, often hilarious hybrid work that boldly fuses movement and text, the characters break through fear, humiliation and unrequited love in search of the ultimate end: happiness. Artistic Director, Alexandra Beller was a longtime member of the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, performing around the globe to critical acclaim. Her own works have been created and performed in Hong Kong, Cyprus, Korea, Russia, and throughout the United States.

Christopher Williams (New York, NY)*
The Portuguese Suites
Christopher Williams is a dance and puppet artist based in New York City. He is a graduate of both Sarah Lawrence College and the Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He has since danced with Tere O'Connor, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, John Kelly, Yoshiko Chuma, the Eliza Miller Dance Company, and Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN, among others. He has also performed in the award- winning puppet works of Basil Twist and Dan Hurlin. Mr. Williams has been honored with a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award and has been the recipient of grants from the Jim Henson Foundation and Foundation for the Contemporary Arts.

Ballet Noir (New York, NY)*
Epidemic, Compare/Contrast
Ballet Noir was founded in 2007 by co-artistic directors Corey Baker and Leyland Simmons. In the past year Corey and Leyland have led an outstanding collection of dance and music artists in noted performance venues such as the City Center, the Riverside Theater, E-Moves 9 Showcase at The Harlem Stage Gatehouse, The African Burial Ground Dedication Ceremony, Harlem School for the Arts Residency, Smoke Lillies Jade Arts Initiative, Joyce Soho, and Battery Parks Downtown Dance Festival. The mission of Ballet Noir is to feature artists of diverse cultural backgrounds in groundbreaking, innovative, and inspiring works that allow dance to be more accessible to the masses.

Byron Carr (New York, NY)
Outside Inside
Bryon Carr began his dance training at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. Under the direction of Pat Hon, Magali Messac, Wade Madsen, Mark Borscheldt and Deborah Wolff focusing primarily on ballet and Graham technique. As a dancer he has trained and performed throughout the U.S. and Europe and has worked with WHITE WAVE RISING Young Soon Kim Dance Company, Popo and GoGo Boys, The Martha Graham Ensemble, Chen and Dancers and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company. In 2002, he decided to explore his own choreographic voice and began showing his own work throughout New York City in venues such as Cool New York Dance Festival, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, well as, in Berlin, Germany, Seattle and Boston. His work has been reviewed by the Village Voice, the New York Times and Attitude Magazine has said " His emotional and technical range were apparent in this piece, he could be a fey juvenile Pee Wee Herman, a Stan Laurel clown, a Merce Cunningham style and a Jaques D'Amboise style dancer..."

Namjin Kim/ Dance Theater CHANG (Korea)*
Story of B
Namjin KIM established Dance Theater Chang in June 2006 with a goal to lead Korea's modern dance from abstraction to a more forward and realistic art form. His work inspires audiences worldwide using Korea's cultural heritage as well as Korean people's mind and spirit through his creative endeavors. Namjin KIM, one of the founders of Trust Dance Company in Korea, rebuilt his dance career in France since 1995. He started dancing for Cie Jacky Taffanel and became the first Korean dancer to join the National Dance Company(C. C. N. R. B.) / Catherine Diverres. A few years later, he moved to Belgium, the kingdom of contemporary dance, and also became the first Korean dancer as a member of the Les Ballets C de la B / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. He has performed with rave reviews all over Europe in France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Renowned dance critic Kim Chae Hyun (Korea) has said "through his national debut, Kim Nam Jin has introduced breaking down walls as an agenda. The language of violence, the goods of the human body."

Lee & Wang Dance (Los Angeles, CA)
Gale Winds & Turiya
The mission of Lee & Wang Dance is to give voice to the experiences of Asian Americans in contemporary society through dance. Within the work a very real and personal dimension of stories are told through theatrical narrative, dynamic movement that is a combination of gesture and physical dance, and live original music. "Gale Winds & Turiya" follows the journey of struggling to reconcile contradictory dialogue within and abandonment of composure to indulge in fantasy. It explores fleeting moments of connection, the inevitable separation, and the quiet subtext that resides in the space in between.

BODYART (New York, NY)
Sidewalk
BODYART entertains audiences with breathtaking physicality, striking imagery, and raw human experiences. Based in New York City, BODYART is a multi-media modern dance theatre company that continues to strive for a dialogue with the audience through performances, research, and teaching. Artistic Director Leslie Scott is known for making works for a company of diverse dancers that are pure, distinct and expressive. The work Scott creates juxtaposes the ever-shifting nature of our interactions through photographs, paintings, sound scores and movement. BODYART collaborates with composers, video artists and designers striving to create inspired multimedia shows that are provoking and entertaining. The company has performed at the Downtown Dance Festival, International Dance Festival, Aliey Citigroup Theater, Dallas Arts, Fort Worth Dance, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.

ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY/KarolaLuttringhaus (Wilmington, NC)
Untitled
Led by artistic director Karola Lüttringhaus, ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY is an interdisciplinary contemporary dance company originally from Berlin, Germany. Ms. Lüttringhaus creates athletic contemporary dance works, which seek to shape meaning from the rich array of emotional experience and reach audiences far beyond the realm of dance. The interdisciplinary nature of her works which often blend dance, athletics, theatre, film, technological applications, custom made apparatus, visual art and sculpture, reaches much beyond the traditional definitions of the field of dance creating startling and evocative psychological landscapes. Ms Lüttringhaus's work is fiercely physical, tracing the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlieshuman interaction and interpersonal relationships.

Corbin Dances (New York, NY)*
Sea of My Soul / Adele's Skirt
Created by one of Paul Taylor's favorite dancers, Patrick Corbin, CorbinDances goal is to embrace and integrate emerging artist's talents, while showcasing Mr. Corbins own dancing, choreography, rich tastes, and vast resources. Corbin's artistic vision for the company is of a movement think tank. A place where dancers can explore movement through improvisation. Recipent of a New York Performance Award "Bessie" for Sustained Acheivement with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Mr. Corbin has been described by Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times as having a "welcome physical power and desperate edge in his choreography that comes from his own eclectic impulses."

Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends (New York, NY)
The Fusion Project
Jack Anderson of the New York Times wrote: "There is nothing timid about Isabel Gotzkowsky's dances....she is not afraid to be theatrically assertive" and he describes the movement as "ferocious" and "visually striking". With The Fusion Project Gotzkowsky is working with continued collaborators the Basso Moderno Duo, two musicians who commission composers from all over the world to create short works of music for them. In selecting works that are very different in mood and character, Gotzkowsky is creating a suite of short dances using composers from Spain, Denmark, and Armenia.

Yayoi Kubota/ YAYOI K. (New York, NY)
Enjoy Every Encounter
Yayoi is a performer/ singer/ makeup artist and stylist. Born in Nara City, Japan, she is a graduate from Osaka University of Arts where she obtained a Degree in Music Studies. Shortly after, Yayoi received her certification in hair/ makeup and began working for the artist Japan in 2004. Yayoi has choreographed hip-hop music videos for many notable Japan artists such as the Southern Alll Stars and Suga Shikao, as well as for Coca Cola commercials. In 2006, Yayoi moved to New York to study modern dance with Nicole Wolcott and Keigwin & Company.

INSPIRIT DANCE/ Christal Brown (New York, NY)
Past Her Rites
INSPIRIT, a dance company, under the Artistic Direction of Christal Brown; was founded in 2000 to provide a forum for collaboration among emerging female artists and choreographers. Since its inception, the company has performed and taught in various venues along the East and West Coasts of the United States and Canada. These venues include the Joyce Soho, Aaron Davis Hall, BAAD, Kaatsbaan International Arts Center, Studio 303, The Huerbst Theater, and Dance Place. In addition to performing INSPIRIT also enjoys working with and in communities to foster an appreciation for the art of dance as well as illustrate a tangible use for the form in nurturing dialogue. The company's training module Liquid Strength has been taught in colleges, universities, and communities across the US. Whether on stage, in the studio, or in community INSPIRIT strives to live up to its name and infuse, encourage, and invigorate all with whom they come in contact.

*Invited guest companies