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Choreographers Project Meet the 2007-8 residents of our Choreographers Project! Devynn Emory
Native Philadelphian Devynn Emory has become known for her quirky movement, her elaborate costumes, and creation of extreme environments. Emory graduated from Philadelphia's University of the Arts with a B.F.A. in dance. After graduation she went to Ghana, West Africa, to dance with the Kunsun Ensemble. She has been seen in works of the White Oak Dance Project, Paule Turner's COURT, PIMA, Headlong Dance Theater, and Kate Watson-Wallace. Her work BEAST was highly profiled at the 2007 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Emory is a 2003 New Edge Mix recipient, 2006 Independence Foundation Fellowship recipient, and resident choreographer at Susan Hess Modern Dance. Her work has been seen in the Live Arts festival and at The Place in London, among other locations. She is also a massage therapist and is currently exploring her passion for dance film. email: lefteyed@hotmail.com Olive Prince
A celebrated choreographer, dancer, and educator, Olive Prince produces pieces using a distinctive mix of movement, technology, and pedagogy. Her choreographic work specializes in contemporary modern techniques, studying the relationship between improvisation and composition, and utilizing technology to create experimental video, sound scores, and multimedia works. Originally from Rochester, N.Y., she completed an M.F.A. in Dance at Temple University in 2005. Her dance and video works have earned numerous accolades, including the American College Dance Festival/Dance Magazine Award Nominee for Outstanding Student Performer, the Temple University Emerging Choreographer Award, and a grant from the experimental Television Center. Since 2000, Prince has worked with, among others, Group Motion, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Merian Soto, Oscar Araiz, Myra Bazell, and Silvana Cardell. Her work has been featured at the National American College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center, the International Contemporary Dance Conference, and New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix at The Joyce SoHo (New York City). In Fall 2007, Prince curated LIFT, a dance festival dedicated to Temple University’s adjunct faculty. In 2008 she will teach at Temple University, Drexel University, Rowan University, and Stockton College and be featured as a 2008-9 artist in Philadelphia's nEW Festival. email: oliveprincedance@gmail.com
Meredith Rainey
Meredith Rainey, former soloist with Pennsylvania Ballet, began dancing at age 15 in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale In 1987, he was asked to join the newly formed Pennsylvania-Milwaukee Ballet, remaining with the Pennsylvania Ballet when the collaboration ended. He was also a demi-soloist with the Dance Theatre of Harlem for a short time in 1997. Rainey has performed throughout Europe and the United States. His repertoire includes many principal and soloist roles in the works of George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, Jose Limon, John Butler, John Cranko, and William Forsythe, and he has premiered original works by Christopher D’Amboise, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Jean Grand-Maitre, Dwight Rhoden, Ib Anderson, and Matthew Neenan, among others. Recipient of the 1995 and 2002 PA Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant for Choreography, the 2001 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist as Catalyst Grant, and the 2002 Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, as well as a 2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts Finalist, Rainey has been commissioned to create work for Pennsylvania Ballet, Delaware Ballet, Hubbard Street 2, Phrenic New Ballet, Ballet X, and Philadanco for their 25th Anniversary celebration. His work has been performed at many festivals throughout North and South America, including Jacob’s Pillow, Miami International Ballet Festival, and the International Ballet Festival of Ecuador. email: raineysmac@verizon.net
Kate Watson-Wallace (Kate WaWa) creates site-based performances that re-imagine everyday spaces. Her work choreographs spectator as well as performer, taking audiences on intimate journeys through movement installations that allow audiences to meet the human body up close. She has collaborated with video artist Ricardo Rivera for five years, creating four original site-specific performances in a warehouse (superluminous), a machine shop (The Mentalist), a nightclub (Gone), a row home (House), and a car (Car). Both House and Car are part of a trilogy of performance installations called "American Spaces" that bring dance, video, and sound installation to our everyday spaces. Watson-Wallace's dancing, choreography, and study have taken her throughout France, Italy, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, and across the United States. Her work has been presented by DanceBoom! at the Wilma Theater, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the New Dance Alliance at The Joyce SoHo (New York City), the Walt Whitman Arts Center (Camden, N.J.), and the Painted Bride Arts Center. She has studied movement, theater, and performance with Bebe Miller, Doug Varone, Tere O'Connor, Hellmut Gothschild, Carol Brown (UK), and Satores (Bulgaria). Her work has been supported by the PA Council on the Arts, the Independence Foundation, Dance Advance, and the University of Pennsylvania, and in 2007, she won the distinguished Pew Fellowship for the Arts for her choreography. As a dancer, she performs regularly with Headlong Dance Theater and SCRAP Performance Group and has also worked with Jane Comfort and Company, Carol Brown (UK), and Nichole Canuso, among others. Watson-Wallace has been a teaching artist for the past four years for Curtain Call Creations, an after-school arts education program. |
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