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Ellen Robbins Dances by Very Young Choreographers JAN 27 & 28, 2024
Springtime choreographed and performed by Maisy Rosen music by François-Joseph Gossec Whilst You Were Sleeping choreographed and performed by Mathilda Freedman music by Alexander Scriabin Two Worlds choreographed and performed by Edith Barber music by Edvard Grieg Live in the Present choreographed and performed by Lottie Harrison music by Ennio Morricone Category 5 choreographed and performed by Ulysse Seferidis music by Claude Bolling, text by Ulysse Seferidis
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Short and Suite choreographed and performed by the soloists music by Chick Corea Found and Lost…………..Romy Kim Spikes and Curves……..Hazel Ryan Night Hunt………………...June Magro ¡Vamos! ........................Maeve Baldwin Lesson taught by Ellen Robbins; performed by members of the audience music by Vladimir Ussachevsky Can’t Stop! choreographed and performed by Agnes Khoury music by Kenji Bunch An Artist’s Workshop choreographed and performed by Alice Harris music by Antonín Dvořák Tides choreographed and performed by Yuna Clark music by Philip Glass Plight choreographed and performed by Alexandra Scully music by James Blake
Puhl choreographed and performed by Zia Sharma music by Tanishk Bagchi Lavish choreographed and performed by Evan Werner music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Review choreographed and performed by the cast music by Philip Glass Director: Ellen Robbins Lighting Designer: Serena Wong Assitant Technical Director: Tricia Navigato Lighting Manager: Leo Janks Audio & Video Manager: James Bennet Light Board Operator: Ryan Clark Sound Board Operator: Patrick Calhoun Deck Hand: Emily Kluger Stage Manager: Jacob Wexler Stagehands: Krista Jansen, Henrietta Hamilton, Anna Wheeler Director of Producing: Kyle Maude Producer: Hannah Emerson Production Manager: Chanel Pinnock Assistants to Ellen Robbins: Krista Jansen, Lou Sydel Title Announcers: Evie Fox, Agnes Miner The posters for “Lesson”, “Short and Suite” and “Review” are by George Deem. All other posters are by the choreographers.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Ellen Robbins teaches dance for children in SoHo. She was the resident dance educator at Dance Theater Workshop for 34 years. She is a recipient of the 1993 Arts in Education Round Table Award and a 1986 Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) for her work with children. In May of 2015, she was the honoree of La MaMa Moves Gala. Ms. Robbins is a consultant to choreographers working with children, and presents an intensive teachers’ course, Growing a Dancer, for the 92nd Street Y’s Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) program. She has also taught dance education at Sarah Lawrence College and as a guest lecturer around the country and abroad. She has been on the faculties of the 92nd Street Y, the Bennington College July Program, and ArtsConnection, a performance arts project for public school children, and has directed the Young Dancers School at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. In the summer of 2001, Dances By Very
Young Choreographers (Ellen Robbins’ students ages 8-18) was produced at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the Doris Duke Theater. Ms. Robbins is known for her repertory of group dances, choreographed in collaboration with children. For more information, see: ellenrobbinsdance.com serena wong (Lighting Designer) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance. Her designs have been seen at Lincoln Center, Fall For Dance at City Center, Danspace, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others in the US and abroadincluding, oddly enough, a Celebrity cruise ship. Most recently she has designed for choreographers LaTasha Barnes, Gemma Bond, Caleb Teicher, Leonardo Sandoval, and Bill T. Jones. She enjoys biking, baking, and pottery.
GLOSSARY Choreographer (khor-ee-ah-gra-fer) n. a person who composes dance Choreography (khor-ee-ah-gra-fee) n. the arrangement of movement to form a composition, usually a dance Lavish (lav-ish)adj.luxurious, lush, extravagant, generous Phul (pooul) n. flower, bloom Plight (plahyt) n. an unfortunate or unfavorable situation or condition
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Ellen Robbins Dances by Very Young Choreographers Alumni Concert JAN 27, 2024
Romp choreographed by Krista Jansen performed by Marina Chan, Maia Sage Ermansons, Krista Jansen, Amelia Dawe Sanders, Rakhel Shapiro, Lou Sydel music: Mozart Morningtide choreographed and performed by Chanda Cragnotti music: Tōru Takemitsu Portrait in Blue choreographed and performed by Lou Sydel music: Dewayne L. Blackwell, BBC sound library Mask by Lou Sydel with direction from The Accademia dell’Arte Rhumba choreographed and performed by Maia Sage Ermansons and Brook Metcalfe, guest artist music: Don Henley, Don Felder, Glenn Frey cloud monitor 3 choreographed and performed by Saskia Globig music: Judee Sill, Brigde Chaimbeule, My Bloody Valentine video and field recordings: Saskia Globig
A Presence Of choreographed by Amelia Dawe Sanders performed by Marina Chan, Chanda Cragnotti, Krista Jansen, Amelia Dawe Sanders, Rakhel Shapiro, Lou Sydel music: Badema, text: Amelia Dawes Sanders Passed choreographed and performed by Maia Sage Ermansons In Memory of Hoax music: Blonds INTERMISSON Light Meditation choreographed by Lina Azalea Dahbour performed by Maddie Leonard-Rose and Sayer Mansfield, guest artists music: Matt Luczak costumes and props: Lina Azalea Dahbour video art: Lina Azalea Dahbour (editing, performance, costume) and David Schell (filming, TouchDesigner effects). Note: Video art is comprised of edited and layered footage of the choreographer dancing in a light costume designed by her; filmed with a multi-camera setup and live TouchDesigner effects at Greenkill Gallery by David Schell. WARNING: This performance may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Light Meditation was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2023-24, supported by SHS Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive. Special thank you to Kristen and Frank at Groundworks for generously
providing residencies for this work to be developed. You can learn about Groundworks and their wonderful mission on Instagram @groundworks.space Thank you to Raising Hope Ulster County for additional financial support.
Director: Ellen Robbins Lighting Designer: Serena Wong Assitant Technical Director: Tricia Navigato Lighting Manager: Leo Janks Audio & Video Manager: James Bennet Light Board Operator: Ryan Clark Sound Board Operator: Patrick Calhoun Deck Hand: Emily Kluger Stage Manager: Jacob Wexler Stagehands: Krista Jansen, Fae Leonard Mann, Alexandra Scully, Zia Sharma Director of Producing: Kyle Maude Producer: Hannah Emerson Production Manager: Chanel Pinnock Assistants to Ellen Robbins: Krista Jansen, Lou Sydel
FUNDING Thanks to the Distracted Globe Foundation, Joan T. Racho-Jansen, Nancy Stevens, Tracey Sydel, and the NYLA staff. And thank you (!) to all who contributed to the fund that supports our work.* *Donations: Ellen Robbins is a sponsored artist of The Field. You can help to support Dances by Very Young Choreographers by making a tax deductible contribution online at www.thefield.org. Select Ellen Robbins’ name from the list of artists. The Field is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501 (c) (3) organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions to artists through The Field are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field contact: The Field, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 906, NYC, NY 10038, (212) 691-6969, fax: (212) 255-2053. A copy of The Field’s latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271
BIOGRAPHIES
Ellen Robbins teaches dance for children in SoHo. She was the resident dance educator at Dance Theater Workshop for 34 years. She is a recipient of the 1993 Arts in Education Round Table Award and a 1986 Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) for her work with children. In May of 2015, she was the honoree of La MaMa Moves Gala. Ms. Robbins is a consultant to choreographers working with children, and presents an intensive teachers’ course, Growing a Dancer, for the 92nd Street Y’s Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) program. She has also taught dance education at Sarah Lawrence College and as a guest lecturer around the country and abroad. She has been on the faculties of the 92nd Street Y, the Bennington College July Program, and ArtsConnection, a performance arts project for public school children, and has directed the Young Dancers School at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. In the summer of 2001, Dances By Very Young Choreographers (Ellen Robbins’ students ages 8-18) was produced at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the Doris Duke Theater. Ms. Robbins is known for her repertory of group dances, choreographed in collaboration with children.
For more information, see: ellenrobbinsdance.com serena wong (Lighting Designer) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance. Her designs have been seen at Lincoln Center, Fall For Dance at City Center, Danspace, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others in the US and abroadincluding, oddly enough, a Celebrity cruise ship. Most recently she has designed for choreographers LaTasha Barnes, Gemma Bond, Caleb Teicher, Leonardo Sandoval, and Bill T. Jones. She enjoys biking, baking, and pottery. Marina Rebecca Chan is a Brooklyn-based performer and playwright, with a soft-spot for musical theater and a commitment to advancing Asian representation. A Columbia graduate, with a drama degree, Marina went on to conceive and produce the Asian Americans in Theatre: Art and Activism panel series at Asia Society and Barnard College. Marina’s plays have been developed and performed as staged readings, including at The Braid and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. Professional NYC performing credits include: A Black and White Cookie (The Tank), A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx (Chain Theatre), Ellen Robbins’
Dance Concerts (Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts) and Il Re Pastore (Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival). Last year, Marina attended the British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford Shakespeare program, followed by her friend’s wedding in India, where she performed in Bollywood dances— the thrill of a lifetime! Having studied with Ellen from ages 5-11, Marina is delighted to now be a regular member of Ellen’s alumni group! marinachan.com Chanda Cragnotti studied dance since she was 6 years old, and started dancing with Ellen a year later. She freelanced in NYC for many years and danced with Dances Patrelle, Catherine Gallant-Dances by Isadora, and the Isadora Duncan Dance Company. She now studies environmental science and journalism at The New School. Accolades include best choreography for her pieces Lament, and A Journey through Blue at the Vienna International Ballet Competition in Missoula, Montana. Lina Azalea Dahbour is an interdisciplinary artist and event producer based in the Hudson Valley and New York City. She specializes in multimedia movement performance and dance event creation. Her work
has been presented at New York Live Arts, ROSEKILL, Glasshouse Project, Rockaway Art Week/ The Locker Room, Green Kill, Trans-Pecos, Groundswell Series, Terrain Exhibitions, The Lace Mill, North Node Kingston, and DIY venues across the Northeast. She is a 2023 Franklin Furnace FUND Recipient for her work with Light Meditations. She is the 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room. She produces BADDANCE, a dance event series she founded in 2017, that upholds the merit of confounding, obscene, strange, and very bad dance works, and co-produces Momenta, a monthly dance and performance art event series in residence at Trans-Pecos. You can look at her work on linaazalea.com. Maia Sage Ermansons is a native New Yorker with a zigzagging journey through The City’s dance and theater scenes. As an Ellen Robbins loyalist ages 5 through 18, Maia was given opportunities to perform her own choreography at Jacob’s Pillow, Chez Bushwick, St Mark’s Church, and more. She joined the Martha Graham Youth Company performing at the Joyce Theater and Tavern on the Green and was highlighted in Noémie Lafrance’s site specific piece, Agora, in the McCarren Park Pool. In 5th grade Maia participated in Pierre Dulane’s
Dancing Classrooms program and developed a deep love for Ballroom. She was showcased at Irving Plaza’s night of swing, later joined Piel Canella’s junior Salsa company, but eventually landed on Competitive Latin Ballroom. Maia attended the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS), LaGuardia High School for drama, and The Maggie Flanigan Meisner Drama School. She premiered off-broadway in a series of short plays written and directed by the since disgraced playwright Israel Horovitz. To return to Ellen’s program is a joy and honor; this has always been where the magic happens. Matt Luczak is a Hudson Valley based drummer and noise artist. He focuses on tape looping, harsh noise, and free jazz. He produces Buddyfest, an annual noise festival in Kingston, NY that raises funds for animal charities. He operated My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, a DIY venue in New Paltz, NY from 2013 to 2019 that produced over one hundred shows. He has toured the country performing at shows and festivals such as the International Noise Conference, Midwest Harshfest and End Tymes. You can buy his music at Love Earth Music, Crass Lips Records, Orb Tapes, Alrealon Musique and various DIY labels, stream his music at mattluczak.bandcamp.
com, or watch his work on his YouTube channel youtube.com/@ superacidhead. Saskia Globig danced with Ellen in 2014 and 2015. She now works in video, performance, sculpture, and book arts with an eye for uncovering material-cultural histories and the magic of the everyday. She was in residency at Headlong Performance Institute in 2019 and a member of the filmmaking collective Lino Kino in Philadelphia until 2022, where she also taught contemporary dance and somatic healing workshops. She is grateful to have learned from Peggy Peloquin, Leslie Partridge-Sachs, and Kathy Wildberger, as well as Gibney visiting artists and members of the Graham, Shen Wei, and Batsheva companies. Globig’s collaborations have been hosted by Artspace New Haven, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Icebox, AUTOMAT Gallery, HOT BED, MAAS, Fidget Space, the Bok Building, and the Washington Avenue Pier. She looks forward to further deepening her practice with others as she completes her MFA in graphic design at the Yale School of Art next year. Krista Jansen is a dancer and choreographer born, raised and based in New York City. She is one half of the duet company Jansen
& Holm, where she performs and choreographs alongside CJ Holm. Her own choreography has been performed at Dixon Place, STUFFED! at Movement Research, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the 92nd Street Y, Triskelion Arts, the Flea, and for an award-winning film with director Bat-Sheva Guez. Krista is currently performing with the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, and was an original cast member and Assistant Rehearsal Director for the critically acclaimed Doug Elkins & Friends’ Fraulein Maria. She also choreographs for the theater department at Beacon High School. Krista started dancing with Ellen at the age of five, and has never left — she continues as a teaching assistant in Ellen’s classes.
in the mountains lends her a view of the dancing body that centers curiosity and trust. She knows that the magic is there and cultivates a dedicated improvisation practice that supports all she does, in the studio and beyond. Madeleine holds a BFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. @madslenro
Sayer Mansfield is a movement artist, choreographer, and actor who spent the past decade touring the world performing with Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Montreal) and Pilobolus Dance Theater (NYC). She holds a BFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts NYU, a BA from Trinity Laban (UK) and studied at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria). Sayer works extensively across mediums including film, kristajansen.wordpress.com is a television, and print - most notably great place to sign her mailing list, as a principal dancer in Little look at dance-y pictures, and stay Women directed by Greta Gerwig. updated on her performances. Sayer has deep love for teaching and has been an adjunct faculty Maddie Leonard-Rose (she/her) member and guest artist at Jacob’s lives as a dance artist, postpartum Pillow, Phillips Academy Andover, doula, educator and improviser. She Roger Williams University, Harvard collaborates with choreographers, and Yale. After a decade of dancing filmmakers, and families with professional contemporary transitioning to parenthood. A companies, she is committed to native Brooklynite, she longs for the exploration of independent the mountains. Since 2020 she creation. Sayer co-produced has backpacked over 5,000 miles, and choreographed Blue Hour all the way across this country, (an evening-length mixed bill) in twice. Her work as a doula and August 2022. She was an artist in experience walking long months residence at ART CAKE (Brooklyn,
NY) as part of their Fall Dance Series, premiering a solo work titled new skin. In August of 2023, Sayer presented her original work Jane & Fiona at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Sayer is currently working as a freelance artist based between the Hudson Valley, New York City and Montreal. Brooke Diamond Metcalfe was born and raised in Anchorage Alaska where he began his journey as a dancer at age 5. Brook is an award-winning NY-based dancer, competitor and private instructor with an affinity for International Latin Ballroom and American Smooth. Over the years Brook has trained with world renowned coaches and, in 2010, he was granted a scholarship at the Joffrey School of Ballet relocating him to NYC where he remained to continue his dance career. Brook works with students of all ages and all levels ranging from professionals focused on furthering their competition resume, to novices interested in building a foundation leading them onto the competitive floor under Brook’s guidance. Amelia Dawe Sanders (pronouns: zie/zir) has studied with Ellen Robbins since 2011 and has been a teaching assistant for Ellen. Zie has presented zir choreography at New York Live Arts, 92Y, Mary Anthony’s
Studio, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Norte Maar’s Dance at Socrates, and Montclair State University. Amelia graduated summa cum laude with a Dance BFA from Montclair State University, where zie performed work by Emmanuèle Phuon, Maxine Steinman, Kathleen Kelley, Jody Sperling, Abby Zbikowski, and Jessica DiMauro. Zie has performed with Emmanuele Phuon at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Dartmouth College, and Fairfield University. Zie has performed works by Isadora Duncan with Loretta Thomas, Catherine Gallant, and Lori Belilove at venues including Jacob’s Pillow and St. Mark’s Church. Amelia was a founding member of the Paul Taylor Teen Ensemble under the direction of Raegan Wood, performing at venues including The Joyce Theater and Symphony Space. David Schell is an artist who runs Green Kill, a multi-use space for writers, performers, and visual artists located in Kingston, New York. You can read more about Green Kill at greenkill.substack. com Rakhel Shapiro danced with Ellen Robbins from ages 5 to 18, and is so happy to be back with Ellen now, in her 30s! Thanks to Ellen, dance has been a steady companion throughout Rakhel’s life, from living
room dance parties, to Ecstatic Dance, to studying modern, ballet, and dance improvisation at Vassar College. Rakhel is currently a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at Long Island University - Brooklyn, and a creator and meditation facilitator at Madrona Meditation. Rakhel incorporates somatic work extensively in both her work as a soon-to-be psychologist and as a meditation facilitator, and thanks Ellen for planting the seeds of this nourishing lifelong relationship with the body. Lou Sydel is a choreographer whose work draws from the study of gesture as well as experiences of transness, imagining dance as a living journal for a body moving towards new directions. Past work has been shown at New York Live Arts with Ellen Robbins, Dixon Place, Stella Adler Center for the Arts, WestFest Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, Celebration Barn, La MaMa Puppet Slam, PortFringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Bowdoin College, Accademia dell’Arte, Sokolow Theater / Dance Ensemble, Norte Maar Dance at Socrates, and the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lou is currently in the Artistic Leadership Circle for NYC’s first ever Physical Theater festival, PhysFest. A million thanks to Ellen for teaching me how to develop my choreographic voice! Find more at lousydel.com.
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