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David ZambranoAnja Hitzenberger
Edward Ratliff
Michaël Attias
Illya Azaroff
Sam Bardfeld
Chloë Z Brown
Sean Conly
Yousif Sheronick
Mat Voorter
David Zambrano (choreographer/dancer) was born in Venezuela, lived in New York City for 15 years and now lives in Amsterdam. His work as a choreographer has been presented all over the world with works including: Mandraking, David Zambrano Invites.... ACME, Ballroom, Proyecto: Z, Cane/on de Diente, Bolinga, Sabana, Fetiche and Para Carman. He has appeared at such festivals as Festival Aix-en-Provence, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Tamperen International Theater Festival, Improvisation Festival/New York, Primer Taller Internacional de Danza and Periferics. He founded Festival de Danza Postmoderna in Venezuela in 1989 and was its director through 1993. Zambrano developed and teaches his technique Flying Low, which focuses on the dancer's relationship with the floor, earth and ground.
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Anja Hitzenberger (photography/film) 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, including David Zambrano, John Jasperse, Neil Greenberg, ChameckiLerner, Bebe Miller, Eiko & Koma, Merce Cunningham, Jennifer Monson, Mia Lawrence and Meg Stuart. She collaborated with Yves Musard on his architecturally-aware site-specific dance works and with Susan Braham on the creation and performance of a dance piece using live photography. Originally from Salzburg, she moved to New York City and studied at the International Center of Photography in New York and was a correspondent for TanzAffiche, the Austrian dance magazine. In the 1990s, she was the resident photographer of Movement Research, documenting the emerging and established choreographers presented in the Judson Memorial Church series.
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Edward Ratliff (composer/film/accordion) is a New York City-based composer, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, cornet, trombone, euphonium and accordion). Originally from Texas, he studied music at the Mannes College of Music and film at the New School for Social Research. He has performed his music at the JVC Jazz Festival New York, Sommer Szene Salzburg, Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, the Improvisation Festival/NY, Knitting Factory "What is Jazz?" Festival, and at venues throughout New York City including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Whitney Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce Soho, P.S. 122, Danspace at St. Mark's Church and Dancing in the Street's Dances at Wave Hill. His music for dance has been heard throughout New York City and across Europe. His latest CD, the soundtrack to Barcelona in 48 Hours, is now available at www.strudelmedia.com.
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Michaël Attias (baritone saxophone) has been active as a saxophonist and composer in NYC since 1994. Born in Haifa, Israel in 1968, he had a Parisian childhood, Moroccan parents, and a Midwestern adolescence. He's performed and recorded with such musicians as Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Mark Helias, and Herb Robertson. Current projects include his Sextet, his trio Renku, Shuffle Boil (a quartet dedicated to the music of Thelonious Monk), and Music of Battle. He collaborates regularly with theater and dance and is very happy to be working on another project with Edward Ratliff.
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Illya Azaroff (installation design) is an award-winning artist and architect who has worked in dance, design and architecture. As Director of design and co-founder of the Design Collective Studio, an architecture and design studio based in lower Manhattan, he regularly collaborates with artists, choreographers and architects on a wide variety of projects. Some of Mr. Azaroff's earlier New York installations include collaborations with visual artist Piotr Uklanski at MoMA, Patricia Nanon, John Evans, Guta Hedewig, Mark Jarecke and most recently with Heather Harrington. Mr. Azaroff's work has been written about in The New York Times, Village Voice, Dance Fax Magazine, Architext and appears in the book Living Large in Small Spaces.
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Sam Bardfeld (violin) is a member of the Jazz Passengers and has recorded and/or performed with Bruce Springsteen, John Zorn, the String Trio of New York, D.D. Jackson, Harvie Swartz, Philip Johnston, John Cale, Johnny Pacheco, Deborah Harry, Jimmy Bosch, the Mahavishnu Project, and numerous others. His debut CD, "Taxidermy" (CIMP195), received four stars from Downbeat and was voted "One of The Ten Best Jazz Albums of 2000" by critics at Coda and Cadence magazines. Sam is also the author of a critically acclaimed instructional book Latin Violin: How to Play Salsa, Charanga and Latin Jazz Violin (Gerard & Sarzin, 2001).
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Chloë Z Brown (lighting design) is currently the Production Manager and resident lighting designer at DTW. Previous to her work at DTW, she travelled the world, lighting things up along the way. Some of the artists she has traveled with include David Dorfman, Liz Lerman, Susan Marshall, Dan Froot, Lisa Race, Bebe Miller, Mary Pottenger, Michael Moschen and Merce Cunningham. She loves her work.
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Sean Conly (bass) arrived in the Big Apple in 1994, somewhat like his ancestors, with a car full of possessions and a few dollars in his pocket. Since then he has gone on to tour the world and/or record with such artists as Gregory Tardy, Freddie Hubbard, Regina Carter, Ray Barretto, Charles Blenzig, Michael Franks, Tom Harrell, Andrew Hill, Nicholas Payton, Cedar Walton, Stefon Harris, James Moody, Mike Stern, Rick Margitza, Tony Malaby and many others. Residing in Harlem overlooking Central Park, Sean continues to write, perform and work on his musical evolution.
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Yousif Sheronick (percussion) appears internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative artist with world-renowned groups and artists including Philip Glass, Glen Velez, Foday Musa Suso, Simon Shaheen, Ethos Percussion Group, Henry Threadgill, Paul Winter Consort, New York City Ballet, Battery Dance Company and Music from China. He has performed in prestigious venues and festivals across the world. Encompassing a wide range of styles including world, jazz, rock, and chamber music, Mr. Sheronick specializes in percussion instruments from around the globe. Distinguished collaborators have included Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Sonny Fortune, David Krakauer and Steve Gorn.
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Mat Voorter (dancer) was born in the Netherlands and studied at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie. He found his dance master in David Zambrano, with whom he intensively studied Zambrano's Flying Low technique and improvisation. He has participated in several of Zambrano's projects, including Proyecto: Z, Ballroom, and Mandraking, both dancing and creating the costumes. In addition, he conceived the dance-talk-show David Zambrano Invites... and created the set design for the series. Mat has danced in works of Zoo/Thomas Hauert, Mark Tompkins, Mal Pelo, Michelle Anne de Mey, Gonnie Heggen, Anders Christiansen, and Katharina Brown among others, and made a duet with Dutch vocalist/songwriter Julia P. He teaches David Zambrano's "Flying Low" technique and improvisation in schools, companies and festivals throughout Europe.
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