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Tiffany Rhynard’s newly formed company, Big Action Performance Ensemble (Big APE) presentas a revised version of I’m Right, You’re Wrong, a piece premiered by the Dance Company of Middlebury in January 2008. The evening-length work includes interactive digital media by Marlon Barrios Solano, and asks “what is justified?” exploring the complexity and consequences of conflict. This production will include the return of recent alumni Adriane Medina ’08, Jamie Gutierrez ’07, and Louisa Irving ’07. Big APE will present new work at the Town Hall Theater in the spring as part of the company’s first touring season. Check out the website at http://www.bigapensemble.com for more details. Sponsored by the Dance Program with a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation.
Program
I’m Right You’re Wrong
Directed by Tiffany Rhynard and choreographed in collaboration with the dancers
Real-time Digital Media: Marlon Barrios Solano
Lighting Design: Jennifer Ponder
Dancers: James Gutierrez '07, Louisa Irving '07, Adriane Medina '08, Yina Ng '09, Simon Thomas-Train '09
Music: Mice Parade, Maryanne Amacher, Annie Gosfield, Kid Koala, Nancy Sinatra, Amanda Stewart, Claustrum
Text: “The Evening News” written by James Gutierrez '07; “Army Ants” written by Tom Waits, spoken and recorded by Michael Chorney
Biographies of Key Artistic Contributors
Tiffany Rhynard
Artistic Director, Big A.P.E.
Interlacing the parameters of activism and art, Tiffany Rhynard is a movement artist interested in the intersection between movement and image, specifically in dialogue with the study of human behavior. Rhynard made the transition to dance from visual art during her undergraduate tenure at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her BA in Dance. She holds an MFA in Choreography from the Ohio State University where she concentrated in digital video. She has taught at Peace College, North Carolina Governor’s School, Ohio State University, State University of New York at Potsdam, and as a guest artist at Dickinson College. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Middlebury College in Vermont.
As a performer, Rhynard has worked with various choreographers including Chavasse Dance and Performance Group, Brosseau Danceworks, X Factor, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Gerri Houlihan, and John Gamble Dance Theater. Her choreography has been presented extensively throughout North Carolina in addition to venues nationwide. Her video works have been screened at film/video festivals including the Dance for the Camera Film and Video Festival in Salt Lake City and Dancing for the Camera at the American Dance Festival. Recent video projects include the documentary Women Building Larger Lives, a film illuminating the strength and resiliency of incarcerated women in a vocational construction program at the state women’s prison in Windsor, Vermont.
Active in the collaborative process, Rhynard has worked with a variety of musicians, poets, visual artists, and animators. Recent projects include an environmental movement and sound installation with composer Lei Liang, and a biographical solo for Christal Brown in collaboration with writer and poet Karma Johnson. Recent video projects include the documentary Women Building Larger Lives created with local Vermont artist and activist, Kim Brittenham.
Marlon Barrios Solano
Real-time Digital Media Programmer and Designer
Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan independent dance/new media artist, teacher and researcher, based in USA since 1994 (New York City and Columbus, Ohio). He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology (Independent track: Dance improvisation, real-time multimedia and cognition) from The Ohio State University.
Since 2001, with dancer collaborator Kristin Hapke, he directs, performs, researches and designs improvisational performances and within digital real-time environments under the art/research project Unstablelandscape. Recently, he collaborated with the programmer and sound designer Patrick Delges (Belgium) on the development of interactive systems for improvisational dance and with the choreographer Bebe Miller (USA) on the real-time video design of her new work on DCDC Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (premiered in February 2005). He has been an artist in residence at The Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design, The Ohio State University, at STEIM (The Netherlands), and Swarthmore College (USA); participated in festivals and lectured internationally on improvisation, interactive media and perspectives on embodiment in Venezuela, Austria, Scotland, Great Britain, Poland, Estonia, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Greece and the USA. As a professional dancer in USA, he performed with New York choreographers Susan Marshall, Lynn Shapiro, Merian Soto, Dean Moos, Bill Young, among others, and with the musicians John Zorn, Philip Glass and Eric Friedlander.
Jennifer Ponder
Production Manager and Lighting Designer
Jennifer has been the Lighting Designer and Technical Director for the dance program at Middlebury College since 1997. She has designed lighting for theatre and dance in VT, NY, TX, VA, MA including Shadowland Theatre, SUNY New Paltz, Bennington College, the Yard, the Kennedy Center, the Dallas Theatre Center, Glimmerglass Opera, the American Dance Festival, Cuba, and various tiny theatres in NYC. She holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University.
Artistic Websites:
http://www.bigapensemble.com
http://www.dance-tech.net