Jody Oberfelder Projects Artists

Current Collaborating Artists

‘AND THEN, NOW’

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:

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.

Recent Collaborating Artists

Interdisciplinary Collaborators

Rube G. — The Consequence of Action

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