Michael Bodel
Michael Bodel is a choreographer, performer and dance writer whose current interests include alphabetically: affordances, Bread and Puppet Theater, dance film, embodied cognition, pageantry, place, religion, Ralph Lemon, scent, semiot- ics, smuggling and speech. Michael developes dance in the frosty hills of Putney Vermont. He is the founder and curator of the briefly dormant FRAMEWORKS dance film series, and his new website on dance ideas and action launches this Summer at www.movemargin.org
Rachel Cohen
Rachel Cohen has been choreographing and performing in NewYork City since 1997, and created Racoco Productions in 2003. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Performance as Communication, a self-designed major; she studied dance and choreography with Claire Mallardi. Ms. Cohen currently studies action theater with Ruth Zaporah and Cassie Terman and ballet with Carolyn Lord; other influential teachers include Mary Anthony and Bertram Ross (modern dance), Heather Cornell (tap), Rafael Bianciotto (mask and clown), Patricia Cross (ballet), and Joanne Conroy and Olga Baigas (jazz). She has performed with Olek, Julie Atlas Muz, SHUA Group, Ariane Anthony + … Continued
Elke Luyten
Elke Luyten, originally from Belgium, lives and works in New York City. In 2010, Luyten re-performed several of Abramović’s pieces at the exhibition “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” at the MoMA. She is currently performing in Robert Wilson’s “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović”, which has toured internationally since 2011. Luyten’s own work has been presented by the RED- CAT in Los Angeles, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Hooyong Performing Art Centre in South Korea, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and Dance New Amsterdam in New York. Her most recent collaboration with Kira Alker called … Continued