Sarah Gladwin Camp has a Bachelor of Arts in dance and linguistics from Swarthmore College and holds a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from Laban in London. She spent time in Australia training in capoeira, practicing yoga, and learning Taiko, and in Poland training extensively with Silesian Dance Theatre. In Europe she has participated in festivals in Lithuania, Slovakia, Finland, and Poland, and has performed with groups in Italy and England.
Since 2004, Sarah has been co-Artistic Director of Green Chair Dance Group, a uniquely collaborative dance-theatre company based in Philadelphia. In addition to choreographing and performing with Green Chair, Sarah dances for Workshop for Potential Movement, and is also a resident artist and administrative assistant at Mascher Space Co-op.
Sarah teaches dance, music, and tumbling to young kids, and recently launched ZoomDance, her own Action Adventure Story-Telling Dance Classes.
Artist Statement: Currently I'm seeking to develop a creative process of discovering the possibilities that erupt from sincere human interactions. I want to know what happens if you don't simply ignore the guy who bumps you in the elevator. I adore the precarious adventures between strangers, best friends, and new lovers. The woven intricacies of my dances allow the viewer to peer in to the secret cracks of the characters and join their journeys through a tender and vibrant world. I'd like to build landscapes that exist very clearly for both the characters and the audience, but in a fashion that allows them to dissolve and reform as scenarios shift. My curiosities towards choreography and devising are specifically concerned with investigating interaction and reaction between performers.
Nora Gibson’s early training included attending Baltimore School for the Arts, ballet residencies with Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, and Chautauqua. She studied improvisation with Daniel Lepkoff, Andrew Marcus, Andrew Harwood, Nancy Stark-Smith, and KJ Holmes. Nora has danced for PATH Dance Company, for Andrew Marcus Performance, ClancyWorks, and with Jeffrey Gunshol. She has performed her own work throughout NYC. Through Nora Gibson Performance Project, her work has appeared in Philadelphia, including through the Etc. Performance Series, Current Series, and in the 2008 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Nora holds a BFA from Tisch School of Dance at NYU where she performed in the works of Elisa Monte, Mark Morris, and others. She also holds a JD from PSU.
Artist Statement: I have been increasingly appreciating the medium of dance as a visual art. Beyond motion are the crystalline images I see throughout a piece, whether an abstract pattern or an image with a distinct literary association. These pictures open up doorways in my thoughts. Watching dance in this way is the same experience I have when reading a line of poetry that is highly imagistic. There are the words, and then there is the explosion of recognition when I see the picture. I want to make dance like the poet who detonates that vibrant picture in the mind. I want the viewer of my dances to experience the beauty of pattern, or to allow the images I embed in the piece to unlock their literary self, their thinking self, their feeling self.
Jen McGinn is an independent choreographer, teacher, and administrator currently located in Philadelphia. She received her B.A. from Hollins University in Dance and Arts Management in 2005 and continued on to receive her M.F.A. in Dance from HU in partnership with the ADF in 2006. She has worked with students at Booker High School Visual and Performing Arts Center, West Coast Civic Ballet, and the American Dance Festival Four Week School. Jen McGinn has recently shown/participated in work at paraphrase/NEXUS, the CEC Benefit Concert, Studio Series, SWAP/Meet: Last Chance for Romance (Philadelphia); Hollins University Fall Dance Gathering (Roanoke, VA);AUNTS, Body Blend, and Danspace Project: Academy Dances (NYC). In her spare time she enjoys solving logic problems.
Artist Statement: My work is symbolic logic. I use movement as a reference, as a signifier. I re—search the past to re-define, re-shape, re-present. I am interested in déjà vu and an unnamed specificity. Through repetition, simplicity, and humor-I investigate humanity (equality, deficiency, absurdity).
Dina-Verley Sabb-Mills holds a BFA in dance from the University of the Arts and will be finishing her Masters in Dance at Temple University. Dina has studied and worked with Patricia Scott-Hobbs, Shawn Lamere Williams, Dr. Yhema Mills, Dr. Kariamu Welsh, Wayne St. David, Faye Snow, Christopher Huggins, Eva Gholson, and Kota Yamazaki. Dina is currently an adjunct faculty member at Temple University. Dina's teaching credits also include DaCi International, The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, American College Dance Festival, Black College Dance Exchange, and Freedom Theatre. Dina is a working dance artist in the Philadelphia area and is a member of Kariamu & Company: Traditions and Charles O. Anderson's Dance Theatre x.
artistic statement: i am a woman of African descent. i am a dancer. i am a thinker. i am an activist. i don’t play. i undulate. i stomp. i wind. i clap. i dance for love. i dance for freedom. i dance to inspire. i dance to educate. i take the things i see in my head, neon beams of color, blurry images of swirling bodies, and chest thudding shudders of rhythmic accents and set them out for display, seamlessly. it is this process that i am consumed with, the delicate task of placing movement after movement into one intricate cutout of my mind. this cutout pictures shapes of bodies decorated with rich tones, textured arms and legs, dynamic rhythmic quality, sinuous transitions, and piercing intentionality.
Guillermo Ortega Tanus, a recipient of Performing Artist Fellowship 07-08 from National Foundation of Culture and Arts, Mexico (FONCA), has presented his solos and duets in both New York and Mexico City. He is co-director of Da·Da·Dance Project, a duet repertory company inspired by the Dada movement. As a performer, he has worked with many companies, including UX Onodanza, A Poc A Poc, Eterno Caracol, Risa Jaroslow and Dancers, Pick Up Performance Co. He has received grants from National Center for the Arts (CENART) 05-06, from IMJUVE 03-04, and support from National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA).
Artist Statement: As a dancer-choreographer, I continuously challenge to discover different ways to create movement and investigate deeply into the subject matters. My interests in music, poetry, theatre, performance and literature, has influenced me to explore the intersections between dance and the other arts such as video, photo, installation, collage Etc.. I like to play and ask myself questions to find momentary answers during the process even if they are not definitive answers. My inspiration often comes from the 20th century’s visual art, and human behaviors. Photo Credits: © Eric Bandiero
Abigail Zbikowski graduated from Temple University with a BFA in dance. She has worked with Philadelphia choreographers George Alley/Alley Ink, Megan Mazarick, and Ashley Suttlar. She has shown her work in the Fringe Festival, New Edge Mix, ACDFA and DUMBO Dance Festival 2008. Her work was also chosen to be performed at the National ACDFA Festival held at the Kennedy Center in D.C. where she was nominated for a dance magazine/ACDFA award for outstanding choreography. She is currently dancing with Charles O. Anderson/dance theatre X.
Artist Statement: To maintain a role as functioning individual in society we must maintain a safe distance from uncontained emotions. When the filtering out of grotesque thought becomes too much work the mind pushes the body to places it does not usually go. My work explores the tension of raw versus stylized thought and how it can be physically manifested in pedestrian activity and on stage.
