Daniel Linehan

Photographer: Jason Somma

Danicel Linehan is a Brooklyn-based dance artist. He is originally from Olympia, WA, and he has danced for Miguel Gutierrez and other choreographers.  He often makes performance projects with his partner Michael Helland, and their collaborative work has been presented in New York, Philadelphia, and Montreal.  Daniel and Michael are currently collaborating with Caden Manson/Big Art Group on their performance project, SOS.  Daniel’s own work has been presented at Danspace Project, Joyce SoHo, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, and other venues in Seattle and New York.  His last project, the solo work Not About Everything, was presented by Dance Theater Workshop in November 2007. Daniel will be performing Not About Everything this June in Paris in the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales.  Daniel is a 2007-2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Aaron Draper

Aaron Draper grew up Breakdancing and competing in many sports in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a BA in Spanish with a minor in performing arts from the Univ. of Cal. at Davis, and an MFA in Dance from Mills College. In NY he has worked with Randy James Dance Works, Rhombus Dance, Hillary Easton and Julia Ritter. Aaron is a current member if NicholasLiechterDance and the Co-director of AnD Dance with Daniel Clifton. Mr. Draper performed for two years with the Ririe Woodbury Dance Co. in Salt Lake City, Utah. And in California he danced with Robert Moses, Bonnie Simoa and the Nexus Modern Dance Collective.

Faye Driscoll

Faye Driscoll choreographs rigorous dance works that edge into performance art and theater. She takes gesture and spasm to new levels of physicality in her raw, under-the-skin and often hysterical work. 837 Venice Boulevard is her newest creation and is slated to premiere in November 2008 at HERE Arts Center. A workshop sneak preview version of 837 Venice Boulevard will be performed in Port Townsend, WA at the Key City Playhouse in August 2008. Driscoll is currently an Artist-in-Residence at HERE Arts Center and an Artist Advisor/Curator at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange where she was an Artist-In-Residence 2005-2007. She has created original work on students at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City and the University of Maryland at College Park. She has been a substitute teacher at Sarah Lawrence, Yale and a regular guest artist teacher at Dance New Amsterdam.

Levi Gonzalez

Levi Gonzalez is a dance artist living in Brooklyn who has been making work in NYC since the year 2000. He began choreographing in collaboration with friend and fellow artist Luciana Achugar. Together they made three produced works (Unnamed Bone, Hit, and Worthless Limbs) and numerous improvisational performances which were presented by various NYC venues, including Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, PS122, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, and the Whitney Museum. Levi’s first independent choreographic effort, the whole world has suddenly disappeared, was presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in May of 2005. He has also been presented several times by Movement Research, Chez Bushwick, and the LIT Series at 100 Grand. His first evening length work, Clusterfuck, was presented by Dance Theater Workshop in Spring of 2007. This year, he  was commissioned to make a new work on the students of George Washington University in Washington, DC and will also be traveling to Denmark for a creative residency through Movement Research. Currently he is the recipient of an Outer/Space Residency through Dance Theater Workshop. He is also an artist member of the Board of Directors of Movement Research.

Michou Szabo

Michou Szabo studied piano at The Cleveland Institute of Music, film at New York University (BFA), and dance at SUNY Brockport (MFA) where he began his choreography. In New York, his work has been presented through Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, the 92nd Street Y and Dancenow/NYC/The Festival at Joyce Soho and Dance Theater Workshop. He presented work at the Merce Cunningham Studio in December 2004 in a shared program, returning in 2006 for a full evening of his own choreography. As a performer he has appeared in the revival of Meredith Monk’s Quarry at the Spoleto Festival, Susan Marshall’s Spectators at an Event at the Next Wave Festival, and with Brenda Angiel and Myriam Herve-Gil at the American Dance Festival. He was a member of Troika Ranch from 1997-2005, creating roles in 5 evening length works that utilized live interaction between performer and digital media.  In 2005 he performed with Kota Yamazaki Fluid Hug-Hug at the TBA Festival and continues to tour his work. He will perform with Ping Chong at La MaMa in May 2008. He started The Mill in 2006 to develop his own work.

Ray Roy

Ray Roy, Noopur Singha
Photo: frame of video recording shot by Charlotte Gibbons

Ray Roy, Director/Designer/Dancer: Ray Roy is a multimedia artist specializing in video and live performance.  A member of the Baltimore based art collective, Wham City (Best in Baltimore '06, City Paper), and New York art-team, Eagle Ager, Ray gets off on creating in collaborative projects.  Roy graduated from the New Media program at SUNY Purchase college, where he met may of his favorite artists/current friends.  Roy was also introduced to Neil Greenberg at Purchase College, and soon after enrolling in Neil's advanced improvisation classes, Roy became the Video Coordinator for Partial View, Neil Greenberg's multimedia collaboration with Zeena Parkins and John Jesurun.  Ray frequently works with John Jesurun as his technical director, most recently on Jesurun's Philoktetes at SoHo Rep, and on the first ever restaging of Harry Partch's experimental opera, Delusion of the Fury, at the Japan Society last December.  Roy has collaborated as a video artist with various international choreographers, video designed for Mary Fulham's Trophy Wife at La MaMa, and will soon be guest curating the front page of the popular video website, YouTube, selecting all the featured videos on the front page, though he is still in negotiations with staff editors at YouTube, having met difficulty getting them to feature material of a more experimental nature.  The opportunity was afforded to Ray when he uploaded a video to YouTube that featured him stripping out of his clothes and dancing with an enormous hamster, it was featured and has been viewed over 2.7 million times.

Heather Olson

Heather Olson (choreographer, dancer) received her BFA at the North Carolina School of the Arts and has been dancing and choreographing in New York since 1997.  Her work has been presented at various downtown venues including Dance Theater Workshop, DanspaceProject, La Mama etc., P.S. 122, Catch!, GorillaFest and LIT at 100 Grand, and Movement Research at Judson Church. As a performer, she has been a longtime member of both Tere O’Connor Dance (since 1997) and Yanira Castro + Company (since 2000) and has toured extensively with both companies throughout the U.S. and internationally.  Heather has also has the pleasure of dancing in New York with Jennifer Allen, Ivy Baldwin, Ashley Smith (Red Dive), and Levi Gonzales among others.