Artists — Jody Oberfelder Projects

Jody Oberfelder Projects Artists

Michael Greenberg

Michael Greenberg is a dancer and choreographer from New York City. He began his training at the Ailey School in 2004 and went on to study dance at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. At LaGuardia, Michael worked with many choreographers, mentors and teachers including Gregory Sinacori, Pedro Ruiz and Bryan Arias. Upon graduating from LaGuardia High School he received the Presidents Award for exemplary student in dance as well as the Eleo Pomare scholarship in Choreography. Michael received his BFA from NYU Tisch in 2017 and has worked with choreographers including Karole Armitage, Stephanie Batten Bland, Sean Curran, Ori Flomin, Larry Keigwin, Loni Landon, and Crystal Pite. He also attended NYU's study abroad program at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) as well as other summer programs with The Ailey School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Gaga Tel Aviv. Since his graduation, Michael has performed with Loni Landon Dance Projects, Nicole Von Arx and Guests, Kinesis Project Dance Theater, Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, Obremski/Works and White Wave Dance company. He has been choreographing professionally since 2018 and is the founder of N E 1 4 Dance. In 2019 Michael joined the First National Tour of Fiddler on the Roof with choreography by Hofesh Shechter. Michael then joined NW Dance Project in Portland in spring 2023 and performed original works by Joseph Hernandez and Ihsan Rustem. He is currently freelancing in New York City.

ANDREA FARLEY-SHIMOTA

Originally from Minnesota, Andrea Farley Shimota’s dance journey began at Summit Dance Shoppe and Hopkins Dance Studio. She graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Purchase, earning a BFA in Dance and a BA in Sociology. After graduation, Andrea quickly joined the cast of PunchDrunk's "Sleep No More" in New York City. Concurrently, her freelance career has been highlighted by performances at New York Fashion Week for Shannon Gillen, an immersive event at the Plaza Hotel for their anniversary celebration, as the primary dancer in a music video for Latin Emmy award winner Silvana Estrada, and for Alexandra Waierstall at Dia:Beacon. Her collaborative work extends to projects with artists such as Marla Phelan, Kevin Pajarillaga/CJ Johnson, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, and Hannah Garner's 2nd Best Dance Company. Currently, Andrea is engaged in rehearsals with Assaf Salhov as well as with Jody Oberfelder Projects.

Caleb patterson

Caleb is a dance artist based in New York City. He has performed works by several notable choreographers such as Nathan Trice, Rena Butler and Patrick O’Brien during his education at The Joffrey Ballet School in 2014. Alongside being seen in HBO’s Random Acts Of Flyness led by Domani Pompey, he has worked with artists Maleek Washington, Em Greenwell, Kayla Farrish and more. He has performed works by MATHETA dance, LaneCoArts, Spark Movement Collective, MORISATO, Kar’mel Small, Javier Padilla, Dolly Sfeir, Nicole Fuentes, and Beatriz Castro. Caleb collaborates closely with artists Michelle Thompson Ulerich and Johnny Butler, and has presented his own work at Arts On Site, TADA! Youth Theater, Bridge For Dance, The Visionary, and other selected commissions. He has performed in Battery Dance Festival, MATHETA’s Speak Through Movement at Judson Church, Palm Desert Choreography Festival, PAGEANT, Mare Nostrum Element’s Emerging Choreographer Series, Dance Gallery Festival, CUNY Dance Initiative and others.

MARIAH ANTON-ARTERS

Mariah Anton-Arters is a New York based freelance dance artist who graduated in 2019 from UNC School of the Arts with a BFA in contemporary dance. Prior to her attendance there, she trained in formal disciplines under Jo-Ann Hertzman. Mariah has been privileged to perform a wide range of works including pieces by Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Martha Graham, and more. Mariah frequently works with the Merce Cunningham Trust, while also working with Liz Gerring, Cornfield Dance, Dance Heginbotham, Christopher Williams Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, Daniel Gwirtzman and The Moving Architects, among others.

Dramaturg:

Rebekah Morin is an artist whose roots in concert dance have branched into site work, film, and immersive and interactive theater. She performed and taught extensively with Jody Oberfelder Projects from 2002-2011 and The Equus Projects from 2007-2012. Since 2010, she has been collaborating in multiple capacities with Third Rail Projects. Recent and upcoming projects include Dead Letter No. 9, produced by ROLL THE BONES Theater Co. and a new interactive work for young audiences TRP. Ms. Morin is certified to teach vinyasa and anusara yoga and to practice thai massage, and is trained in Natural Horsemanship. She has a BA in Dance from Connecticut College.

COSTUME DESIGNEr:

Katrin Schnabl is an artist, designer, and educator. Her designs for dance include the Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, John Jaspers, Doug Elkins, Jennifer Monson, and many others. Trained as a dancer, Schnabl moved from Frankfurt, Germany to New York, where she honed her skills both on stage, and off, by creating costumes for dance artists. She shifted towards fashion, and worked with renowned designers, including Jil Sander and Carolina Herrera before launching an independent fashion label Miche. Kimsa, followed by her eponymous line. Since relocating to Chicago, where she serves as the chair of the fashion department at the School of the Art Institute, Schnabl fluidly shifts between creating sophisticated garments that move sensuously on the body, and spatial installations that profoundly shift the relation with the body. Through these sensory and kinetic experiences she is forging new intersections and audiences for her project based practice

Musician:

Tine Kindermann is a visual artist and musician from Berlin, Germany, who has been living and working in New York City since 1993. As a musician, Tine has collaborated with Iggy Pop, The Klezmatics, Marc Ribot and countless other musicians.
Her recording of German folk songs, “schamlos schön” (shamelessly beautiful), was nominated for the German World Music Award.
She is currently working on a musical theater piece based on the life of French painter Suzanne Valadon.
Tine Kindermann’s work focuses on the narrative and strives to evoke strong feelings in the viewer and listener, emphasizing empathy with the human condition.
A figurative artist working in various media, her work, which includes miniature tableaux and dioramas, video and painting, has been shown at Stephen Romano Gallery, the Governors Island Art Fair, RePop, Mark Miller Gallery and other galleries in New York City, as well as Neurotitan Gallery and Gallery Kurt im Hirsch in Berlin. Tine has also co-curated exhibitions for Yiddish New York, an annual cultural festival in NYC.

Recent Collaborating Artists

Justin lynch

Justin Lynch is from Kingston, Jamaica. In addition to his work with Jody Oberfelder, he has worked with the Bang Group, Molissa Fenley, the Merce Cunningham Trust, the Metropolitan Opera, Elisa Monte, Christopher Williams, and many others. Since 2015 he has also collaborated regularly with Third Rail Projects, performing in and co-creating several of its productions. Justin studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London and Boston University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in music before earning a law degree at Columbia University. He leads a double life as a lawyer for creative artists. (Photo: Berette Macaulay)

The Glass clouds ensemble -

Raina Arnett, Noemie Chemali, Marisa Karchin

The Glass Clouds Ensemble is a New York-based chamber music collective that performs new and canonical repertoire in interactive concerts to support local environmental activism. Through immersive partnerships with adventurous composers and community organizations, we present a unique concert experience where audiences can engage with uplifting grassroots efforts. And Then Now features violinist Raina Arnett, Violist…………...and soprano Marisa Karchin. This season, the ensemble partners with composting org Earth Matter NY, with concerts at the Tenri Cultural Institute, James Cohan Gallery, and on Governors Island. In their inaugural 2022 season, the GCE commissioned and premiered a concert of new works at the James Cohan Gallery in New York City in collaboration with Monica Ibacache of Beyond Organic Design. The Glass Clouds Ensemble has been invited to artist residencies at Yellow Barn, the Avaloch Farm Music Institute, and the Banff Centre, and has performed with Music for Food and the Brooklyn New Music Collective. They have recorded improvisations for multimedia podcast Spark Sputter & Die for Wharf Cat Records, and were featured on a panel discussion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago titled “Creative Catalysts: Performance Art Reacting to the Climate Crisis.” The Glass Clouds Ensemble is a first prize winner of the 2023 AVIMC competition, and has received grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Chamber Music America.

Glass Clouds Ensemble

‘AND THEN, NOW’

Costume Designer:

Harriet Jung and Reid Bartelme met in 2009 while pursuing fashion design degrees at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. They started designing collaboratively in 2011 and have focused their practice primarily on costuming dance. They frequently design costumes for works by Justin Peck, Pam Tanowitz and Kyle Abraham. They have devised costume centric performances for commissions from the Museum of Art and Design and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. In 2023 they made their Broadway design debut with Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. There design for Illinoise will move from The Armory to Broadway this spring. Reid and Harriet have completed research fellowships at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. They continue designing costumes and sets for dance productions around the world while expanding the scope of their practice outside the theater.

corey ‘crane’ randle

Corey ‘Crane’ Randle is a Performing Artist, based in New York City. He currently works as Company Manager over two NYC Professional Dance Companies. He is a Freelance Performing Artist, and travels Nationwide to choreograph dance. He has been invited to choreograph and perform several times; most recently by the 'Pioneers Go East Collective' in NYC. Crane has also been the Guest Performer for the South Carolina Cultural Council. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, from Marymount Manhattan College, where he performed works from some of the World’s most notable choreographers. He uses all that he has learned, & experienced, to spread his love of movement and art! Crane believes that expression and movement are the bridge between the physical, mental and spiritual bodies; and uses his unique movement style, and artistic lens to intricately fuze movement with the human experience.

ASHLEY MERKER

Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Ashley Merker began her dance training at an early age. She earned her BFA from The Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase in 2017. While at Purchase she performed works by Kimberly Bartosik, Hannah Garner, Aszure Barton, Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, Adam Barruch and Doug Varone. She also studied at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Australia where she performed work by Rhianon Newton. Shortly after graduation she was invited to join Buglisi Dance Theatre under the direction of Jacqulyn Buglisi. Following that, she performed with Doug Varone and Dancers as a guest artist in the revival of Lady in the Dark at New York City Center. Ashley recently joined Italian choreographer and Artistic Director of Art Garage, Emma Cianchi for a creative residency and performance at Jacob’s Pillow.

Rohan Dhupar - Munich cast

Rohan Dhupar (he/him) is a dance and theatre artist originally from what is colonially known as Toronto, Canada, now based in London, UK. He maintains practices in performance, directing, choreography and producing, and straddles the worlds of contemporary dance and musical theatre while working internationally across North America and Europe. He has collaborated with and performed works by esteemed choreographers such as Colin Connor, Jody Oberfelder, Alexander Whitley, Santee Smith, and Deborah Lundmark, and is an Associate Artist with contemporary dance-theatre company Frog in Hand. Recent credits as choreographer include Venus & Adonis (Theatre Oculus) and Chicago (Cawthra Productions), and as assistant director include White Muscle Daddy (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) and The Pelican (NAMT Festival of New Musicals). He received the Alan Lund Scholarship for Choreography (Charlottetown Festival) and the MARTY Award for Emerging Dance Artist (Mississauga Arts Council). Rohan produces for Theatre Oculus in Toronto and Ricochet Theatre in London. He is a proud Sheridan College musical theatre and Queen's University arts management alum, and is currently working towards his MFA in transdisciplinary creative practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. His overall practice focuses on civic engagement, anti-oppressive practices, and decentralizing power in creative and institutional processes.

Kate Page - Munich cast

Kate Page is a London based dance artist, performer, and creator working in contemporary dance. She is originally from Washington, D.C. and graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a Bachelor of Science in Dance and Kinesiology and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Drama. She is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Kate has performed as a company member with DC Contemporary Dance Theatre, Deviated Theatre, Dance Ethos, Aras Dance, and various other credits for stage and film. Kate’s creative practice investigates the intersection of walking and dancing, how this meeting place promotes community building, collective care, and dynamic engagement with place, space, and body.

Andrew Sanger - munich cast

Andrew graduated with a BS in Dance Honors Summa Cum Laude from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in 2015. He then moved to London, UK and completed a MA in Dance Anthropology with Distinction at Roehampton University. He has performed works by Biba Bell, Dwight Rhoden, and Doug Varone and now performs with Jody Oberfelder Projects in the USA, UK, and Germany. He’s presented choreography at the VFD, Omved Gardens, and Roehampton University in London, and as part of 'Dance and Nature Project' in Tenerife. He is currently a Lecturer in Dance at Roehampton University and a PhD researcher at University College London in Anthropology under the supervision of Jerome Lewis and Helene Nevue-Kringelbach. His research combines ethnography, performance, queerness, and ecology both embodied and inscribed.

Vanessa Knouse - Munich cast

Vanessa Knouse is a dancer and teacher in New York City. Originally, from Santa Fe NM, Vanessa trained at the School of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet before earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Vanessa has performed work with the Merce Cunningham Trust, Cornfield Dance, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co. Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Kimberly Bartosik/Daela, Garnet Henderson, Susan Marshall and Company, Jody Oberfelder Projects and Ian Spencer Bell.

Grace Yi-Li Tong

Grace Yi-Li Tong (she/her) is a joyful Chinese-American performance artist and choreographer from Seattle, WA. In 2021, Grace graduated summa cum laude from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She has recently been in process with Luis Lara Malvacias, Monica Bill Barnes, and Patricia Hoffbauer. As a choreographer, she has presented work at Art Cake Dance Series II, Arts on Site, NYU Tisch Summer High School, Laguardia Performing Arts Center with the Emerging Choreographer Series 2022, and The Craft NY: Governor’s Island. Other credits include film collaborations with Tod’s Shoes, Yayi Chen, and designers Tatiana Kahvegian and Camila Dely.

Paulina Meneses

Paulina Meneses is originally from Las Vegas, NV where she began her dance training at Inspire Dance Company and Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. In 2018, she graduated magna cum laude with a BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase. During her time in college, she performed works by Shannon Gillen, Kimberly Bartosik, Xan Burley, Alexandra Beller, and Trisha Brown. After moving to New York City upon graduation, Paulina had the pleasure of working with Doug Varone, Dylan Crossman, and Hannah Garner’s 2nd Best Dance Company among others. She also assisted Kyle Abraham on his premiere New York City Ballet piece “The Runaway”. Paulina currently collaborates and dances for Peter Stathas Dance, MeenMoves, Periapsis Music & Dance, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, and Jody Oberfelder Projects.

Interdisciplinary Collaborators

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Costume Designer:

CLAIRE FLEURY manipulates fabric and other, unconventional materials into multidimensional, colorful garments that are an invitation to move, play, and dance. CF moved to New York City from Amsterdam in 2011, and started designing ready - to - wear as well as costumes and fashion for nightlife performers and dance companies. Her first three collections were sold at Patricia Field, the eponymous shop of the famed Sex and the City stylist. Fleury has created fashion shows for Fashion Week Brooklyn, The Phluid Project, DapperQ at the Brooklyn Museum, for VERS BK, for Alex Stadler’s ‘Gone and Forever’: a ceremonial procession honoring AIDS victims in Philadelphia, at Tic Tac Art Centre in Bruxelles, and for the 40th anniversary of Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks.

She created costumes for Susanne Bartsch, Afrofuturist musical artists The Illustrious Blacks, former Warhol superstar and political poet, Penny Arcade, Laurie Anderson, David Zambrano (Brussels), Yoshiko Chuma, and drag queens Rify Royalty, Merrie Cherry and Elemenopé, among others. She designed dance costumes for Antonio Ramos, Kathy Westwater, Judith Sanchez Ruìz and the Trisha Brown Dance Company and many others. Her ready-to-wear fashion work has been published in Vogue Italia, Paper Magazine, Schön Magazine, Lucy’s Magazine, New York Times, Art Papers and many other publications. Claire Fleury’s studio is committed to a sustainable practice of using at least 80% of industry surplus fabrics and trims, as well as maintaining a no overstock policy as to reduce waste.

Composer:

Sir Frank London is a Grammy-award winning trumpeter-composer and co-founder of the Klezmatics. His Yiddish-Cuban opera Hatuey Memory of Fire (with Elise Thoron) premiered in Havana and at Montclair’s Peak Performances. He composed the poetry/dance/video/music work Salomé: Woman of Valor (with Adeena Karasick) which performed internationally. He has made over 40 recordings of his own music, most recently Ghetto Songs (Venice & Beyond); Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars’ Rooftop Concert; the Klezmatics’ Letters to Afar; and the score for Salomé: Woman of Valor. During the 2020 pandemic, Frank composed & created a number of music video collaborations with artists including poets Adeena Karasick & davida singer, painters Ting Yih & Richard Kenigsman, dancers Chrystal Serrano & Jody Oberfelder; and a series of his Klezmer Trumpet Duets. Frank has co-created, composed, performed and music directed countless projects, including Carnegie Hall’s From Shtetl to Stage; Weill in New York at Dessau’s Kurt Weill Festival; the klezmer trumpet concerto Freylekhs for Trumpet & Orchestra in New York’s Central Park; the spectacle In Dreams Begin Responsibilities for the New York Public Library; From Moses to Mostel, (the history of Jews told through musical theater) starring Steve Martin at NY’s Town Hall; the folk-opera A Night In The Old Marketplace (with Alex Aron and Glen Berger), Green Violin (with Elise Thoron & Rebecca Taichman), Davenen for Pilobolus Dance Theater; 1001 Voices: Symphony for a New America (with Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer); music for Tony Kushner’s A Dybbuk, John Sayles' The Brother From Another Planet, Karin Coonrod’s Merchant of Venice and the Czech-American Marionette Theater¹s Golem. He leads Glass House Orchestra, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars, Shekhina Big Band, Sharabi with Deep Singh, Ahava Raba with Yanky Lemmer & Michael Winograd, and Vilde mekhaye with Eleanor Reissa. He has worked with John Zorn, Karen O, Itzhak Perlman, Pink Floyd, LL Cool J, Mel Tormé, Lester Bowie, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5; is on over 500 CDs and was featured on Sex And The City. London was Artistic Director of KlezKanada, and was knighted by Hungary for his work advancing Jewish and multicultural Hungarian music and culture.

COMPOSERS

Missy Mazzoli, Grammy-nominated composer, was recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). In 2018 she made history when she became one of the two first women (along with composer Jeanine Tesori) to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. That year she was also nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Classical Composition” for her work Vespers for Violin, recorded by violinist Olivia De Prato. Mazzoli is the Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and her music has been performed all over the world by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, pianist Emanuel Ax, Opera Philadelphia, Scottish Opera, LA Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Fringe Opera, the Detroit Symphony, the LA Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, JACK Quartet, cellist Maya Beiser, violinist Jennifer Koh, pianist Kathleen Supové, Dublin’s Crash Ensemble, the Sydney Symphony and many others. Mazzoli has received considerable acclaim for her operatic compositions. Her third opera, Proving Up, written with longtime collaborator Royce Vavrek, was commissioned by Washington National Opera, Opera Omaha and New York’s Miller Theatre. . The upcoming season includes performances of her opera Breaking the Waves at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Adelaide Festival and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Mazzoli is an active TV and film composer, and recently wrote and performed music for the fictional character Thomas Pembridge on the Amazon TV show Mozart in the Jungle. Missy is the recipient of a 2019 Grammy nomination, the 2017 Music Critics Association of America Inaugural Award for Best Opera, the 2018 Godard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, four ASCAP Young Composer Awards, a Fulbright Grant to The Netherlands, the Detroit Symphony’s Elaine Lebenbom Award, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, and the Barlow Endowment. She has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ucross, VCCA, the Blue Mountain Center and the Hermitage.

Daniel Wohl is a Paris born composer and producer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His fascination with all types of sounds drives him to create Pieces that "blur the line between electronic and acoustic instrumentation and seemingly melt both elements into a greater organic whole." (WNYC) He collaborates with ensembles, artists, filmmakers and choreographers, bringing to life his vision for new music that connects the endless sonic possibilities to today's world with his classical compositional background. He has been called one of his generations's "imaginative, skillful creators (New York Times.) Recent and upcoming projects include a new string quartet with electronics commissioned by the German Festival Donaueschinger Musiktage for the Calder Quartet, a new work for MoMA PS 1 featuring Caroline Saw (Roomful of Teeth) and Olga Bell (Dirty Projectors) a commission by Bang on a Can All-Stars through their People's Commissioning Fund: a score for the surrealist indie film Elixir (a 2015 Berlinale selections)" He has created a ballet score commissioned by Georgia Tech's Sonic Generator Ensemble: (Cycles.) His New Amsterdam Records debut with Corps Exquis garnered widespread critical acclaim and was coded best album of 2013 by WNYC New Sounds listeners and was included in NPR Music's top 100 Songs of 2013.

Sean Hagerty is a composer, violinist, and sound designer specializing in immersive theater. He designed the previous iterations of The Brain Piece from 2015-17 at Dixon Place (NYC), Dance Place (Washington DC), Gallus Theater (Frankfurt, Germany), and Nod (Prague), as well as Jody Oberfelder''s 4 Chambers (A@R). Other work includes original music and sound for Ghost Light (LCT3), Then She Fell (Kingsland Ward), Sweet and Lucky (DCPA), The Grand Paradise, Roadside Attraction (World Financial Center), Hit the Body Alarm (Performing Garage), Around the World in 80 Days (Davenport Theater), and The Anthem (Lynn Redgrave Theater). www.seanhagerty.com

Angelica Negron composer and multi-instrumentalist, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1981 and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Interested in creating intricate, yet simple narratives that evoke intangible moments in time, she writes for accordions, toys and electronics as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras. Her music has been described as "willfully idiosyncratic and contemplative" (WQXR/Q2) and "mesmerizing and affecting" (Feast of Music) while the New York Times noted her "capacity to surprise" and her "quirky approach to scoring". She was recently selected y Q2 and NPR listeners as part of "The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40" and Flavorpill as one o the "10 Young Female Composers You Should Know".

Elizabeth Hart is a New York-based musician and dancer. She is the bassist and original member of Psychic Ills, with whom she tours internationally and in the US. Psychic Ills released their 5th studio album in June 2016. Hart recently began a new musical adventure called Tierra del Fuego with her husband and Argentinian producer, Ivan Diaz Mathe. Hart is currently performing Simone Fort’s ‘Dance Constructions’ at MoMA this fall within the Judson Dance Theatre: The Work Is Never Done exhibition. She also has been in the process of creating a series of site-specific dance solos where the terrain and environment assist in the choreography. Hart was a member of the dance/music collective SKINT and has often collaborated with former alum Jessie Gold as 'Hart of Gold’. Hart has worked with various artists, dancers and choreographers throughout her career including; Rebecca Brooks, Caitlin Cook, Sam Falls, Naomi Fisher, Dara Friedman, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe. She was one of seventeen performers cast in Maria Hassabi's 'Plastic' which had a month-long run at MoMA and received a Bessie award for Outstanding Production 2016. Hart has performed in museums, theaters, galleries, music venues and festivals worldwide; MoMA (NY), the Kitchen (NY), Dancespace Project (NY), Judson Church (NY), Basilica Hudson (NY), Wadsworth Atheneum (CT), MOCA (Miami, FL.), Ballroom Marfa (TX), CAPC (Bordeaux, FR.), La Route Du Rock (FR), Best Kept Secret Festival (NL), Paredes de Coura (PT), Plisskën (GR), Festival Fiis (CH), Futuro Festival (MX), Le Guess Who? (NL).

COSTUME DESIGNErs

Katrin Schnabl is a designer, artist, and educator. Trained as a dancer, Schnabl moved to New York from her native Germany, where she honed her skills on stage as well as behind the scenes creating costumes for numerous downtown dance artists. She shifted towards fashion, and after graduating with a BFA with honors from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She free-lanced for renowned designers, including Jil Sander and Carolina Herrera before launching an independent fashion label Miche.Kimsa, followed by her eponymous designer collection. Since relocating to Chicago Katrin Schnabl has further evolved her sophisticated garments that move sensuously on the body, as well as created spatial installations that profoundly shift the relation with the body. In collaboration with artists rooted in Chicago’s cultural, artistic and design world she has forged new intersections and audiences; experiences which have given rise to her current project-based practise.

VIDEO DESIGNER

Eric Siegel l is a veteran television/film director, art director, and production/scenic designer who for over 30 years has provided creative and technical leadership to the world’s most prestigious program producers, including the ABC, CBS, PBS, HBO and MSG television networks. His work as a director, art director, and production/scenic designer has been recognized with 11 Emmy awards, the Dupont Columbia Award, the Peabody Award, a Christopher Award, the Cine Golden Eagle, and over 25 Broadcast Designers Association awards.

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Kathy Kaufmann, a New York City native, she is pleased to be working with Jody and her company once again. She is a resident designer at Danspace Project at St. Marks Church and also teaches lighting design at Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Kaufmann is a two time Bessie recipient and was nominated for her work on Rebecca Davis's Bloost Windku in 2015. She designs regularly for Michelle Dorrance (Dorrance Dance), Joanna Kotze, The Bang Group, Mariana Valencia, Rebecca Stenn, Ephrat Asherie Dance and Mina Nishamura. Most recent projects include designs for Dorrance Dance at City Center, Ephrat Asherie Dance at the Joyce, Tendayi Kuumba, Jasmine Heard and Tatyana Tenenbaum at Danspace.

NEUROSCIENCE COLLABORATORs

Weiji Ma is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University. He grew up in Groningen, the Netherlands, where he obtained his Ph.D. in physics. This was followed by postdoctoral research in neuroscience and psychology at Caltech and the University of Rochester, with an emphasis on computational models. His laboratory investigates how the human brain deals with uncertain information in visual perception, multisensory perception, working memory, and decision-making. He teaches courses on perceptual illusions and on mathematical models of brain function. Wei Ji has been a consultant for The Brain Piece since 2014, appeared in Dance of the Neurons, and continues to be mesmerized by the translation of cerebral concepts into motion and emotion.

Cecilia Fontanesi is an Italian dancer, PhD candidate in Neuroscience at CUNY, Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) at LIMS®, and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). She currently collaborates with IDACO Italian Dance Connection, Jody Oberfelder Projects, and Parcon NYC. She combines performative practice with research in neuroscience, and clinical work as a dance/movement therapist, crossing the boundaries between dance, movement, neuroscience, and biology. Cecilia is investigating the effects of dance in Parkinson’s, as well as working with people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

SET DESIGNER

Juergen Riehm, FAIA, received his Diploma in Architecture from Fachhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz in Tier, Germany (1977). In 1980 Juergen returned to his architectural education at Stadeschule, Academy of Fine Arts, Frankfurt A.M. He moved to New York in 1983 and became a founding member of 1100 Architect, PC. His belief in architecture as an all-encompassing art form, capable of effecting and portraying all facets of life and nature through and honest and timeless architectural expression, became one of 1100's guiding principles. He is currently a member of the teaching faculty at Parsons School of Design. In addition, Juergen has collaborated on numerous performance projects including Art on the Beach, Creative Time, and set designs for the Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects. He has been awarded several visual arts grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and an Artist's Fellowship grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

SOUND DESIGNER

Almeda Beynon is a New York based sound designer for musicals, plays, and alternative performance work. Her recent sound design work includes: Gretchen Mertching is Dead (Ensemble Studio Theatre), 99 Histories (The New School), and Madame Ovary (Jody Oberfelder Projects). Almeda had worked in many of the New York City theatres as designer, associate designer, and sound/video supervisor. In addition to live performance projects, she is also a full time audiobook producer for Harper Collins Publishing. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University. For more information, please visit www.almedabeynon.com.

PROP DESIGNER

Lexy Ho-Tai is an interdisciplinary artist who is interested in the intersection between art making and making the world a better place. Her work spans a range of mediums, often exploring social themes through humor, play, and interaction. She is passionate about arts and accessibility, and she has most recently been exploring public art, performance, and workshops. She has worked as a teaching artist for a variety of organizations, including the Children's Museum of the Arts and Groundswell. In 2015, she co-created Accessible Art, an adaptive art program for disabled youth in the South Bronx. She believes that everybody is an artist, and gets immense joy from bringing art to people who would not normally seek it or have access to it. She has a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School for Design, where she is currently an adjunct Professor. She has been an artist-in-resident at the Watermill Center, a Van Lier Fellow at the MAD Museum, and is currently an artist-in-resident at The Flux Factory, a community art space in Queens. She is based in New York City, though she spends most of her time up in the clouds...

DRAMATURG

Peter Sampel is a dramaturg based in Munich, Germany. He and JOP collaborated on Walking to Present and Life Traveler, which was postponed from the Dance Munich Festival 2021 and will be featured in 2023 in their next festival