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[ bios ]ANJA HITZENBERGEREDWARD RATLIFF DAVID ZAMBRANO STRUDELMEDIA anja hitzenberger is a photographer whose work focuses on the body in motion. She has been photographing and collaborating with many of the major performers and choreographers in New York and Europe since 1993. Her work has been exhibited in both one-person and group shows in New York, Vienna, Salzburg and Rome. In 2000 she was commissioned to create "Movement Studies," an exhibition of new work shown at the SommerSzene Salzburg dance festival (Austria). Originally from Salzburg, she moved to New York City in 1990 and worked for several years for the Austrian artist Kiki Kogelnik. Hitzenberger studied at the International Center of Photography in New York and was a correspondent for tanz Affiche, the Austrian dance magazine. She has received numerous grants from the Austrian government, the city of Vienna, and the state of Salzburg. Her work has been published internationally, including in The New York Times, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, Ballet International/Tanz Aktuell, Dance Magazine, Surface, Nouvelle de Danse, Terrain: Danser, Danspace Project: 25 Years, Movement Research's Performance Journal, the Oxford University Press Dictionary of Dance, tanz Affiche, Deborah Hay's book My Body: The Buddhist, and was commissioned by Dance Ink. [ TOP OF PAGE ] edward ratliff is a New York City-based composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist. The music he creates is inspired by a wide range of sources, including kung fu movies, jazz, Vietnamese pop music, folk music from Europe and the Middle East, and free improvisation. He has received numerous commissions for dance and theater scores, and finds great pleasure collaborating with choreographers and directors. He is the recipient of several Meet the Composer Fund grants, as well as support from the American Music Center/Live Music for Dance, and received an Honorable Mention in the Jazz Composers Alliance/Julius Hemphill Composition Awards. Originally from Texas, he lives in New York City where he studied music at the Mannes College of Music and film at the New School for Social Research. He has performed his music at international festivals including the JVC Jazz Festival New York, SommerSzene Salzburg, Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, the Improvisation Festival/NY, Knitting Factory "What is Jazz?" Festival, and at theaters, clubs and other venues throughout New York City, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Whitney Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce Soho, the Kitchen, Performance Space 122, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, and Dancing in the Street's "Dances at Wave Hill." His music for dance has been heard at festivals across Europe and in Canada, and he has performed as an improvising musician with dancers internationally. His music is featured on the sountrack to "Barcelona in 48 Hours" (strudelmedia 008), "Wong Fei-Hong Meets Little Strudel" (strudelmedia 007), a CD with his band Rhapsodalia ("a great disc" Cadence Magazine), and on "The Joy of Being" (Knitting Factory Works). "Think Fiddler on the Roof meets The Good,the Bad and the Ugly and you may get a tiny grasp of what this music is all about." —The Vermont Review [ TOP OF PAGE ] david zambrano was born in Venezuela and now lives mainly in Amsterdam. In his work as a choreographer, improvisor and teacher he is committed to art as cultural exchange, and to developing the creative process in a "world without borders." His choreography and improvisations always feature performers from around the world. He sees improvisation as an art, and choreography as a way to further develop improvisation. He has performed and taught in more than 20 different countries, including in Europe, Asia and all of the Americas. As a performer he has appeared at such festivals as Festival Aix-en-Provence (France), Tanzwerkstatt Berlin (Germany), Tamperen International Theater Festival (Finland), Improvisation Festival/New York (USA), Primer Taller Internacional de Danza (Cuba) and Perifèrics (Spain). He has taught at Movement Research (USA), Theater School of Amsterdam and the School for New Dance Development (Holland), T-Junction and Tanzwochen Wien (Austria), Tanzfabrik Berlin and Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Germany), and has trained the companies of Rosas and Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium) among many others. He also developed and teaches his technique "Flying Low," which focuses on the dancer's relationship with the floor, earth and ground. He founded the "Festival de Danza Postmoderna" in Venezuela in 1989, and was its director through 1993. He is the recipient of many grants, awards and fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and the Joyce-Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. As a recognized artist of merit, he was granted special artist residency status by the Dutch government. "David Zambrano dances with the awareness and explosive agility of a creature that has no defenses except speed and wit..." —The Village Voice [ TOP OF PAGE ] strudelmedia was formed in 1999 by Anja Hitzenberger and Edward Ratliff as an outlet for the creation of their projects in photography, music, film and design. Strudelmedia is a BMI-associated music publisher, and released its first CD, "Wong Fei-Hong Meets Little Strudel," in June 2000. [ TOP OF PAGE ] |
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