. WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY

DAVID DORFMAN, a native Chicagoan, is the recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He has also been honored with four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, an American Choreographer's Award, the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard, and a New York Dance & Performance Award ("Bessie") for David Dorfman Dance's community-based project Familiar Movements (The Family Project). Dorfman's choreography has been produced in New York City at venues ranging from the BAM Next Wave Festival to The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, The Duke on 42nd Street, Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church, P.S. 122, and Dancing in the Streets. His work has been commissioned widely in the U.S. and in Europe, most recently by Bedlam Dance Company (London), d9 Dance Collective (Seattle), and the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia for the musical Green Violin, for which he won a 2003 Barrymore Award for best choreography. An avid fan of collaboration and collective processes, Dorfman is pleased to tour an evening of solos and duets, Live Sax Acts, with friend and collaborator Dan Froot, and a half-evening duet, Menne Awn Frauen, created with longtime colleague and friend Stuart Pimsler. Dorfman has been a guest artist at numerous institutions across the country and abroad, most recently at Illinois Wesleyan University, Rutgers University, and Knox College. As a performer, he toured internationally with Kei Takei's Moving Earth and Susan Marshall & Co. Dorfman holds a BS in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA degree in dance from Connecticut College, where he joined the faculty in the fall of 2004 and is currently William Meredith Associate Professor of Dance and department chair. Dorfman would like to thank long-time mentors Martha Myers and Daniel Nagrin for taking a chance and rescuing him from counting leisure suits in St. Louis, his mom Jeanette for inspiring him to dance to heal, his dad Oscar for teaching him the magic of a good joke, and Lisa Race and Samson Race Dorfman for collaborating with him on a very wonderful new version of The Family Project.

LINDSAY MACKAY ASHMUN (performer) is a dancer, performer and teacher based in New York City. In 1998, Lindsay began her research in somatic education and dance-making as a mode of political activism at Moving On Center in Oakland, CA, under the guidance of Carol Swann, Martha Eddy PhD, and Bill McCully. She has toured internationally in the companies of Kim Olson and Cara Reeser from 2000-2004. Lindsay is a graduate of Naropa University where she studied contemplative arts and performance with Barbara Dilley. Residing in NYC since 2004, Lindsay has performed with Wil Swanson Danceworks, Jeremy Laverdure/besto perfecto, and made her BAM debut as Amelia Earhart in Lost Objects under the direction of filmmaker Francois Girard. In addition to David Dorfman’s underground, Lindsay is currently working on new projects with GERALDCASELDANCE and Heather McArdle / BLUEPRINTVIOLATION. Lindsay is honored to be a new member of David Dorfman Dance and is, as always, thankful for the heart-full presence of the family of performers on stage with her tonight and her family watching from the audience.

PATRICK FERRERI (performer) began dancing at a very young age when, in addition to entertaining himself and his family, he discovered how useful the form could be in expressing emotions as it helped to expedite his potty training experience. Since his early explorations, Patrick has been lucky enough to receive support and inspiration from such teaching artists as Maryann Irwin, Pamela Pietro, Nancy Stark Smith, Douglas Nielson, Kay Cummings, Jaclynn Villamil, and many more. He has had the opportunity to perform with Keigwin + Company, the jULIAN BARNETT project, Clare Byrne Dance, Gerald Casel Dance, Skybetter and Associates, and is looking forward to future stints with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance. Patrick wishes to send his love and gratitude long distance to his aunt and grandmother, as well as short distance to his mother for her unwavering support.

HEATHER McARDLE (performer/costume designer) is a native Californian who began her movement career with gymnastics. She graduated from Cal State University at Long Beach with a BFA in dance. Her most influential mentors include Keith Johnson, Jacques Heim and, most notably, Bella Lewitzky. Heather joined the professional world of dance with the hyper physical dance troupe, Diavolo Dance Theater, and spent five years traveling around the world with Bill Young and Dancers. She has been working for David Dorfman for the past three years. Heather is on faculty at Dance New Amsterdam and teaches residencies in New York City and around the country. She has been presenting her own solo choreographic works at loft showings in Manhattan and various Brooklyn spaces. She and other artists recently formed the troupe Blueprintviolation (You can guess by the name what that’s about!) www.blueprintviolation.org. In addition to performing, Heather is the costume designer for underground, as she is for her own company and most of the companies she is involved with. Performing at BAM is a long time dream. A big thanks to David, company members, and all of the people I do and don’t know who put themselves on the front line daily for social issues that concern us all … THANK YOU for making this an extra special evening!

JENNIFER NUGENT (performer) is a performer, teacher, and choreographer. She has been a member of David Dorfman Dance since 1998, and received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for her performing in the company. She has danced with and for Martha Clarke, Shen Wei, Lisa Race, Nina Winthrop, Yin Mei, and Daniel Lepkoff. Originally from Miami, Florida, Jennifer has danced with Gerri Houlihan & Dancers, Mary Street Dance Theatre, and Barbara Sloan- Duo Da Da Dance Theater. She has taught and performed her own work at universities and festivals throughout the United States, Korea, and Vietnam. She is currently co-artistic director of Nugent+Matteson Dance with Paul Matteson.

MOLLY POERSTEL (performer) graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University on a Dean of the Arts Scholarship for Dance and Choreography. She has been inspired by and fortunate to study with and perform in projects by Jeanine Durning, David Grenke, Barbara Grubel and Mark Jarecke. This is Molly's first project with David Dorfman Dance and she is thankful to work with such a generous group. Molly is also a certified yoga teacher and teaches both locally and internationally.

JOSEPH POULSON (performer) is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa and relocated to New York City in 1999. He is currently working and performing with Susan Marshall Company, Creach/Co., Bill Young and Dancers, Jeanine Durning and, since 2001, with David Dorfman Dance. He has also worked with many other choreographers in NYC including Alexandra Beller, Gerald Casel, Lar Lubovitch, Mark Morris, Melinda Ring and Peter Schmitz, to all of whom he is very thankful.

KARL ROGERS (performer) is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He defected to the Midwest, where he graduated with a degree in Educational Studies and Theatre from Knox College, and then trained at the Dance Center–Columbia College in Chicago, simultaneously serving as its Academic Program Coordinator. He completed an MFA in Choreography from the Ohio State University in 2003, where in addition to teaching technique, improvisation, and dance/theatre history, he was the first artist to receive the University’s top award, a Presidential Fellowship. Karl now lives in New York City where he continues to make his own work and dance for others—Terry Creach, Sara Sweet Rabidoux’s Hoi Polloi, and David Dorfman.

FRANCIS STANSKY (performer), originally from Worcester, Massachusetts and a graduate of Connecticut College, resides and survives in NYC. He has been able to learn from, teach to, and collaborate with many great choreographers, dancers, artists, and everyday people of the city. He is currently working with Jeremy Nelson of FULL FAT DANCE and began collaborating with David Dorfman Dance in 2004. He continues to thrive on the struggle of dance and life, while enjoying his experiences on and off stage with this amazing group of people. He thanks them for sharing themselves with him throughout the process.

WHITNEY TUCKER (performer), from southern Illinois, graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in dance education from Arizona State University. She is grateful to have explored movement as a public school teacher, the creator and facilitator of a healing arts program for women recovering from prostitution, and a social dance enthusiast. Her choreography has been presented at the Bates Dance Festival, at Conduit, Inc. and in the Ten Tiny Dances series, both in Portland, Oregon, as well as at the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival. She is so thankful to have performed in the works of Nita Little, Jon Lefan, Michael Foley, and various other thought-provoking friends and colleagues. When not intentionally investigating movement, Whitney is likely asking a stranger a personal question, singing along with her ukulele, or cutting hair. Whitney continues to be inspired by and grateful for the cast, collaborators, and creators of underground. Sincere gratitude to all family and friends who urged me onward and into this!

SARAH YOUNG (apprentice/understudy/performer) received her BFA at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a minor in international arts. Through her studies, she received a Ford Foundation Fellowship and traveled to Zimbabwe to study indigenous dance and perform for Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Culture. In 2002, Sarah founded Flying Art, an international exchange of art among children, creating links between youth throughout the USA and worldwide. While in NYC, she has performed in Stephan Koplowitz’s Grand Step Project, on board with Ann Robideau and Alexx Shilling, with Fresh Blood Productions, RedShift Dance, and continues to perform with the Treehouse Shakers, bringing folktales to children through storytelling and dance. She feels fortunate to have been a part of this process that has revealed vulnerability and strength by caring enough to ask.

ALEX TIMBERS (co-director) is an OBIE Award-winning director and the Artistic Director of New York-based theater company Les Freres Corbusier. Last month, he directed the NY Premiere of the Evangelical haunted house, Hell House, at St. Ann’s Warehouse. His urban planning fantasia, Boozy, which he wrote in addition to directing, was named one of the “Ten Best of 2005” by the New York Daily News and Time Out New York. He received two 2005 Backstage West GARLAND Awards for the twice-extended Los Angeles production of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant in an addition to an OBIE for the New York premiere. Alex is the recipient of a Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship at Williamstown Theatre Festival, a Drama League Directing Fellowship, an EST/Sloan commission, and is a former President of the Yale Dramat. Later this month, a new production of the Scientology Pageant will open at New York Theatre Workshop.

CAMERON ANDERSON (set designer) Recent credits include Massacre (The LAByrinth Theater Co.), Heddatron (Les Freres Corbusier), The Barber of Seville (The Opera Theatre of St. Louis), Maria Padilla (The Minnesota Opera), Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap Opera), Cosi fan Tutte (Seattle Opera), The Consul (Opera Boston), La Bohème (The San Francisco Opera Center), Susannah and Romeo et Juliette (Festival Opera), Dead City, Anna Bella Eema and Belly (New Georges), Much Ado About Nothing and Martha Mitchell Speaks (Shakespeare and Company), Earthquake Chica and Marge (SPF), References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot and Measure for Measure, (Garson Theatre Company), Scapin and The Importance of Being Earnest (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Dartmouth College). Upcoming projects include The Village Singer and Lord Byron’s Love Letter (The Manhattan School of Music). www.cameronanderson.net.

JONATHAN BEPLER (composer) has been doing music and sound in collaborative settings for many years. Recent projects include a mobile soundtrack for rural Japan, live surround-sound karaoke performances in NY and Europe, multi-channel sound installations at P.S. 1 and elsewhere, and a musique concrete porno score. He has worked often with choreographers including Sasha Waltz, Wendy Perron, Jennifer Lacey, Susan Rethorst, Jennifer Monson, KJ Holmes, DD Dorvillier, and Scotty Heron. He has composed the music for the Cremaster films in a ten-year collaboration with artist Matthew Barney. He won a 2005 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for his score for John Jasperse's California. Current projects include a commission by Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, an opera/film in Greece with artist Eve Sussman, and a multi-room collaboration with Sasha Waltz in Berlin. He lives in Brooklyn with wife Nathalie and baby Jolie.

JANE COX (lighting designer) Collaborations with David Dorfman include designs for Older Testaments, Subverse and To Lie Tenderly. Other dance collaborations include many designs for Doug Varone, Eliot Feld and Monica Bill Barnes. Recent theatre in New York includes: Dame Edna – Back with a Vengeance (Broadway); designs for Brooklyn Academy of Music; Playwrights Horizons; Signature Theatre; New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre. Regional theatre includes: Guthrie Theatre; CenterStage; Arena Stage; McCarter Theatre; National Theatre, London; Project Theatre, Dublin. Music designs include Bang on a Can, Gotham Chamber Opera and Minnesota Opera. Jane was the recipient of an NEA/TCG grant 2001-2003. She received an MFA from New York University.

BART FASBENDER (sound designer, composer) NY credits: Hell House at St. Ann's Warehouse; Heddatron; Boozy... (Les Freres Corbusier); Bhutan; Huck and Holden; Slag Heap; Women on Fire (Cherry Lane Theatre); Arabian Night; Terrorism; Sakharam Binder; Trust (The Play Company); Hitting the Wall; Barrio Grrrl; Honor and the River (Summer Play Festival); All This Intimacy; Swimming In the Shallows; Spanish Girl (Second Stage); India Awaiting (The Beckett); Top Girls (Fordham University); Our Lady of 121st Street; Suddenly Last Summer (Juilliard); 24 Hour Plays - The Musical. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; New York Stage and Film; Barrington Stage; Virginia Premiere Theatre; The Northeast Theatre; American Dance Festival; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

JACOB PINHOLSTER (media designer) Jake spends most of his time in Phoenix, AZ where he is the new professor of media design at Arizona State University. Last year he was nominated for a Hewes Design Award for his work on the Les Freres Corbusier production of Boozy. Other projects include: HeddaTRON (Les Freres Corbusier), Current Nobody (La Jolla Playhouse), My Renaissance Faire Lady (Ontological-Hysteric), Voyage of the Carcass (Greenwich Street).

JULIE BALLARD (lighting supervisor, assistant media designer) is thrilled to be a part of David Dorfman Dance. She is inspired by David and all of the dancers and designers. She is a freelance lighting, sound and media designer in Chicago, as well as full time staff and adjunct faculty for the Dance Center of Columbia College. Ms. Ballard received her M.F.A at the University of Florida. She thanks her mother for all of her support. www.overlaplighting.com

TRICIA TOLIVER (production manager) is currently the Production Stage Manager for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, and has also worked with such dance companies as Doug Varone and Dancers, Donald Byrd/The Group, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Susan Marshall, and Complexions. Her other credits include production managing for the National Ballet of Cuba, Netherlands Dance Theatre II, City Center Theater and NJPAC. She has also designed lights for a variety of projects in dance and theater. She has a B.A. in dance from UCLA and an M.F.A. in dance from the University of Washington and danced with Donald Byrd/The Group from 1987-1991.

SYDNEY SKYBETTER (project director) is a management and technology consultant for performing arts organizations. He provides low-cost, high-efficiency management and administrative solutions, with an emphasis in artist advocacy and infrastructure development. His clients include DancenOw NYC, David Dorfman Dance, Battleworks Dance Company, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation, among others. He is on the board of directors of Zia Artists and Keigwin + Company, and is a member of Dance/USA. www.skybetter.org.