Julie Rachel Spodek is an emerging dancer and performer. She was born into her current body on February 15th, 1964. She continues to be profoundly moved, awed and fascinated, wonderfully and horribly surprised, completely perplexed and confounded, continually and unceasingly confronted by the infinite enigmas, the painful and delightful challenges, the infinite equations and struggles, as well as the wonderful magical experience and sense of being in and of, and most certainly beyond a human body.
Matthew de Leon
Matthew de Leon was born in New York, raised on Governor’s Island, and currently lives in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the University of Connecticut, and his MFA from Parsons the New School. In videos, performances, and drawings he conjures a cast of misfit characters into a realm of narrative and visual structures influenced by MTV music videos, Dutch paintings, and Disney movies. These characters are manifestations of interior feelings that spark a fire of imagination somewhere in the space between tragic and funny, reality and fantasy, the lovely and the bittersweet. www.matthewdeleon.com
Seyhan Musaoglu
Seyhan Musaoglu is a multi-media artist whose work spans the fields of live performance, sound art, film and video, and 2-D media. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources ranging from science fiction imagery, to fashion, to choreography, interpretive and ritual, her work investigates the gap between sound production and music composition, contemporary feminist theory, and the history of avant-garde filmmaking as well as performance art history and movement. She performs in experimental sound and noise collaborations as well as her own performance works. Seyhan holds an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. Some of the venues her work has … Continued
Hiram Pines
Hiram Pines is a monologuist, writer and creator of movement-based theater. His solo show, “The Day The Universe Came Closer,” toured in the summer of 2006 and his most recent ensemble-based production, “Not My Problem,” premiered in the New York Fringe Festival in 2010. These are some of Hiram’s favorite things: theology, poetry, punctuation, cat naps, naps with cats, leaping, thinking, sighing, birds.