(Year
established: 1999)
July
8-28, 2012
“Summer Stages offered a lovely mix of freedom to pursue my
own creative process, while also providing the energy and support of
a festival atmosphere.”
—Dorian Nuskind-Oder (Choreographers’ Project
Fellow ‘10)
“The set up at Summer Stages is ideal for creative work. We
have afternoon access to studio spaces to work on our own or we can
take advantage of daily dance classes available to us, but can use
our time in any way that serves our process. It is an ideal combination
of enough structure to push us, but enough freedom to allow us to each
have our own process at our own pace.
—Kelley Donovan & Dancers,
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Spot the blogs of our 2011 Choreographer Project Fellows!
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The Choreographers’ Project gives promising emerging choreographers
the opportunity to develop new work in a supportive environment. Fellows
select a cast of dancers from the Workshop and have access to rehearsal
space in the evenings and on weekends. Workshop faculty mentor the
fellows daily, and the weekly Choreographers’ Project Seminar
class provides an additional forum for feedback on developing work.
At the close of the three-week workshop, the fellows’ work is
presented in the Choreographers’ Project Showcase, a professionally
produced evening performance that is open to the public.
Fellowship awards include the following opportunities:
- Mentorship by workshop faculty and resident artists
- Access to all Summer Stages Dance classes and select performances
- The opportunity to bring one dancer/collaborator
- Studio space and rehearsal time with dancers drawn from the Workshop
- Weekly seminar classes that include informal showings of the new work, and culminate in a dialogue about the developing work with faculty and guest artists
- Open rehearsal and a fully produced public performance of work created during the residency
- Subsidy for housing and meals
Since the program’s inception thirteen years ago, fellows have
been drawn from the professional dance community or are graduates from
leading dance programs at colleges and universities, including Barnard,
Bennington, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton, Sarah
Lawrence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yale.
For more information on Choreographers’ Project fellowships,
call 978.402.2339
The 2012 Choreographer Project Fellows
Mariah Steele graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a major in Anthropology and minor in Dance, where she studied intensively with Ze’eva Cohen and Rebecca Lazier. She combined these two passions by studying traditional Kandyan dance in Sri Lanka for two months and writing her anthropology thesis about the experience. She went on to perform professionally in New York City in the companies of James Martin, Beth Soll, and Kelley Donovan. In 2008, she moved to Boston, where she has danced for Sokolow Now!, the Anna Sokolow archival company, Nell Breyer, and Sara Smith and currently performs with Rebecca Rice Dance. In December 2011, Mariah graduated with a Masters Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she studied non-profit management and conflict resolution, writing a thesis about using dance in peacebuilding. Mariah’s choreography has been presented at numerous venues in both the New York and Boston metropolitan areas including: MIT, Harvard University, the Boston Center for the Arts, Green Street Studios, City Center Studios in Manhattan, The Dance in Education Foundation at SUNY Purchase, White Wave’s John Ryan Theater in Brooklyn, Dance Theater Workshop and Princeton University. Currently, she is the founder and artistic director of Mariah Steele/Quicksilver Dance, based in Cambridge, MA, and teaches dance at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. For more information: www.quicksilverdance.com.
Teresa Fellion, Artistic Director of BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, is a choreographer, dancer, theater artist, writer, and educator. She has shown choreography at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Public Theater, University of Florida Dance Department, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Bryant Park SummerStage, ENTPE University (Lyon, France), Booking Dance Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), White Wave Cool NY, Dixon Place, DNA, NYU, BAAD!, Merce Cunningham, Naropa University, University of Maine, and with Phish, among others. Fellion has performed works by Lucinda Childs, Deganit Shemy, Liz Lerman, Twyla Tharp, M’Bewe Escobar, Rhapsody, Sarah Skaggs, and Martha Bowers, as well as comedy improv & theater productions nationally. She has enjoyed inventive collaborations with composers and lighting, video, set & costume designers, such as Trey Anastasio, Killick!, Chris Cathode, Ryan Lott, John Yannelli, Burke Brown, and Elena Comendador. She has taught languages, dance, yoga, and theater internationally in colleges, universities, community & senior centers, public schools, private studios, and conservatories.
Teresa Fellion was titled “Artistic Liaison between Cameroon & U.S.” by president Paul Biya for performing with dance companies such as National Ballet du Cameroun, percussion ensembles, and at The National Soccer Cup Finals. In 2012 she received a Window Award NEA Grant for a residency at Chashama to create an outdoor site-specific work. She was granted a residency at Mount Tremper Arts in 2011 and a Field FAR Space Grant in 2007. She was sole recipient of 2006 American Dance Guild Fellowship-Jacob’s Pillow’s Choreographers’ Lab. Fellion began college at Mount Holyoke College and then earned a BA in English, French, and Creative Writing, with a minor in Dance as a merit scholar graduate of NYU. She also completed an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College with a Bessie Schonberg Scholarship. She was a scholarship recipient at The Ailey School’s Certificate Program. Fellion’s work has been positively reviewed by sources such as NPR, NYTheatre.com, The Skinny Magazine, World Dance Reviews, Edinburgh Festivals Magazine, Edinburgh Spotlight, and Earth Press.
Annie Kloppenberg's current creative and theoretical research hinges on improvisation. She has presented papers examining spontaneity in the choreographic process at NYU (DAB), University of Wisconsin, Madison (WDAA), Stanford University (SDHS), and her article “Improvisation in Process: Post-Control Choreography” has been published in the Dance Chronicle. Annie teaches and performs nationally as a member of the improvisational company, Like You Mean It.
Recent choreographic commissions and residencies include The Boston Center for the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop’s Outer/Space, Dublin Arts Council with OhioDance and The Ohio State University, and the Taft School. Kloppenberg’s choreography has been shown at venues such as Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dance Space Center (now DNA), and Jennifer Muller/the Works, Green Street Studios’, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Rebound Dance Festival, Bates College, Colby College, FAB, MDF, Provincetown Dance Festival, and Exit Dance Theater/Boston Dance Alliance among others.
Annie has performed in works by Bebe Miller, Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig, Shani Collins, Rebecca Rice, Penny Campbell, Prometheus Dance, Cathy Young, Heidi Henderson, Karl Rogers, Meghan Sprenger, Annie Bessera, Ashley Thorndike, Elisha Clark-Halpin, Yen Fang Yu, and Katherine Ferrier as well as in repertory projects by Miller, David Dorfman, Tere O’Connor, and Gabe Masson. Annie has been deeply influenced by her improvisational studies with Bebe Miller, Kathleen Hermsdorf, Penny Campbell, Peter Schmitz, Nik Haffner (of The Forsythe Company), and The Architects (Michael Chorney, Lisa Gonzales, Katherine Ferrier, Jennifer Kayle, Pam Vail).
Annie is on faculty at Colby College, holds an MFA from The Ohio State University, and a BA from Middlebury College. She has received scholarships to the American Dance Festival and the Bates Dance Festival, where she has also worked in the residential life and teaching staff at the Young Dancers’ Workshop for several years. She has also attended the Work in the Performance of Improvisation Festival at Bennington College and the Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation workshop at Franklin & Marshall College.
In addition to making choreography, teaching, and performing, Annie teaches yoga and has worked in arts administration at the Wexner Center for the Arts, New York City Center and Dance Theater Workshop and now serves on the board of Green Street Studios. For more information, please visit www.anniekloppenberg.com.
