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from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

Abby Bender in Gutterball, May 2007

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

Elissa Kammer in Monsters & Mirrors, 2003

Mandana Mofidi, Melissa SanFiorenzo and TraDon Turner in Gutterball, May 2007

Marissa Schoenfeld and Tommy Wilkinson in ZOO, 2006

Abby Bender in Gutterball, May 2007

Katie Federowicz in Gutterball, May 2007

Hilary Maia Grubb in ZOO, 2006

Daneille DiCamillo & Bathsheba Squires in Gutterball, May 2007

Some flying from Joyous, a circus, 2003

Katie O'Neill in Gutterball, May 2007

Sara Edwards, Abby Bender, Katie O'Neill, Christi Mueller, TraDon Turner, Josie Carbone, Julia Peck & Kenneth Lang in Gutterball, May 2007

Carlo Fiorletta, Kate Kaminski & Janessa Olsen in ZOO, May 2006

TraDon Turner in Gutterball, May 2007

Stacey Menchel in Septic Crisis, 2003

Josie Carbone & Emily Taradash in Gutterball, May 2007

Janessa Olsen in Gutterball, May 2007

from Gutterball, 2007

Katie O'Neil in ZOO, 2006

Adam Pollock & Erin Galligan in Flash Dance, 2003

Sherry Greenspan & Jason Jones in Flash Dance, 2003

Alayna Miller in the March, 2005 revision of Piqued, London, Ontario. Photo by Mr. Miller with the London Free Press.

Abby Bender, Sarah Gullo & Jason Jones in Joyous, a circus 2003

Abby Bender in Serenade, 2003

Anne Palmer, Sarah Gullo, Marcelle Hopkins, Lisa Kasimow & Maureen McLaughlin in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Chelsea Knight, Estee Pierce, Mary Ester Malloy, Cesarina Santana, John Grauwiler and Eric Hoffman, getting pretty for 3 Piece Suit/e, 2001.

Mike Allen & Miya Signor

Alex Greenshields, Elissa Kammer & Adam Pollock

Post-Piqued rehearsal/stilting practice with Alexis Iammarino, Anna Luckey, Abby Bender & Bonnie Alexander, Built on Stilts, 2002

Alex Greenshields & Maureen McLaughlin in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Megan Demarkis, Marissa Schoenfeld, Molly Dickerson, Saori Tsukada & Mike Allen in Flash Dance, 2003

Miya Signor, Mike Allan, Elissa Kammer in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Brigitte Griswold in Flash Dance, 2003

Aisha Dacosta, Layla Childs, Anna Luckey, Sonya Robbins, Elissa Kammer, Zoe Wolff, Jen Cooke & Craig Peterson in Mostly Heroes, 1999. Photo by Matt Porter

Miya Signor & Mike Allen

Ty Baldwin & Jason Jones in Flash Dance

Elissa Kammer & Jason Jones

Marcelle Hopkins & Lisa Kasimow in Joyous, a Circus, 2003

Jason Jones, Elissa Kammer & Adam Pollock in Flash Dance, 2003

Megan Demarkis in Flash Dance, 2003

The big chicken in Flash Dance, 2003

Kate Kaminski and Lena Lewellyn in Flash Dance, 2003

Stacey Menchel & Jessie Bohl in Septic Crisis, 2003

Molly Dickerson, Adam Pollock and Sandi Berman in Flash Dance, 2003

Elissa Kammer in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Marissa Schoenfeld in Septic Crisis

From Bedtime Poems, 2003

Alex Greenshields, Anne Palmer, Jason Jones, Sarah Gullo, Miya Signor & Elissa Kammer in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Marcelle Hopkins, Lisa Kasimow, Maureen McLaughlin, Jason Jones & Miya Signor in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Elissa Kammer in Septic Crisis, 2003

Jen Pearcy & Erin Galligan in Septic Crisis, 2003

Anne Palmer in Joyous, a Circus, 2003

Megan Demarkis in Flash Dance,, 2003

Abby Bender in Serenade 2003

Jen Pearcy, enjoying a post performance beer, 2003

Ty Baldwin, Sherry Greenspan, Saori Tsukada and Jason Jones in Joyous a Circus, 2003

Jen Pearcey in Joyous a Circus, 2003/

Abby Bender in Joyous a Circus, 2003

Mike Allen and Miya Signor in Joyous a Circus, 2003

Miya Signor, Sarah Gullo and Lisa Kasimow in Joyous a Circus, 2003

Saori Tsukada in Joyous a Circus, from Monsters and Mirrors, 2003

Choreography by Abby Bender. Photos by Willy Somma, Sam Polcer, Javier Oddo and Brian Aldous

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

Schmantze Theatre's Turkey (a dramtization), 2009. Photo by Sam Polcer

Justin Francavilla in Zerosum, 2008

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

from Schmantze Theatre's Turkey, May 2009

Sara Edwards and Shelley Pinard in Zerosum, 2008

audience survey from Zerosum, '08

Zerosum, 2008

Julia Peck in Zerosum, 2008

Sarah Edwards and Shelley Pinard in Zerosum, 2008

Katie Federowicz, Sarah Seely and Tradon Turner in Zerosum, 2008

Marisa Gruneberg in Zerosum, 2008

Sarah Edwards, Katie Federowicz and Shelley Pinard in Zerosum, 2008

Sheba Squires in Zerosum, 2008

Abby Bender in Zerosum, 2008

Zerosum, 2008

Marisa Gruneberg and Tradon Turner in Zerosum, 2008

Jonathan Ciccarelli and Tradon Turner in Zerosum, 2008

Jonathan Ciccarelli, Shelley Pinard and Sarah Edwards in Zerosum, 2008

Marisa Gruneberg & Abby Bender in Zerosum, 2008

Natasha Ross in Zerosum, 2008

From Gutterball, 2007

Janessa Olsen and Marcelle Hopkins in Gutterball, May 2007

Zerosum, 2008

Sheba Squires, Katie O'Neill, and Reshma Patel in Zerosum, 2008

Tradon Turner in Zerosum, 2008

Abby Bender, Kate Kaminski, Sarah Seely, Jonathan Ciccarelli, and Justin Francavilla in Zerosum, 2008

Abby Bender in Zerosum, 2008

Kenneth Lang & TraDon Turner in ?Gutterball, May 2007

From Dig Deep, 2004

From Dig Deep, 2004

Katie Federowicz and an unidentified special guest in Gutterball, May 2007

Josie Carbone in Gutterball, May 2007

Ken Lang, Tommy Wilkinson, Adam Davidson, Katie Federowicz, Natasha Ross, Julia Peck, Sara Edwards, Danielle DiCamillo, & Reshma Patel in Gutterball, May 2007

From Dig Deep, 2004

Kate Kaminski, Katie Federowicz, Pickles & Tommy Wilkinson in Gutterball, May 2007

From Gutterball, 2007

Marisa Gruneberg in ZOO, 2006

Adam Davidson and Kenneth Lang in Gutterball, May 2007,

Mandana Mofidi and Reshma Patel in ?Gutterball, May 2007

Katie Federowica & Tommy Wilkinson in Gutterball, May 2007

Jessica Seeman in "ZOO" " 2006

Kenneth Lang in Gutterball, May 2007

Christi Mueller in Gutterball, May 2007

from ZOO, 2006

Kenneth Lang, Tommy Wilkinson, Kate Kaminski & Katie Federowicz in Gutterball, 2007

from Dig Deep, 2004

from Dig Deep, 2004

Cristiano Veracosa in ZOO, May 2006

from ZOO, 2006

Tommy Wilkinson, Hilary Grubb, from ZOO, 2006

yes, this is a dance, The Yard, Martha's Vineyard, MA, 2006

Abby Bender and Saori Tsukada displaying variations on a theme from Monsters & Mirrors, 2003

Danielle Loustau-Williams, Alexis Cohn, Zoe Schieber, Sara Edwards, Lyz Merida, and Jeong-min Michelle Lee in Septic Crisis, at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard, 2006

Jackie Moynahan and Hilary Grubb in ZOO, 2006

You kind of had to be there...Ab's butt makes another scene in ZOO, 2006.


Janessa Olsen in the grass and Danielle Loustau-Williams; and Grunedog's butt in ZOO, 2006

Megan Demarkis, Crystal Willis, Mike Andrews, Patricia Dominguez, Ken Lang, Britt Lamoreau, Lauri Beritta, Richard Harrington, Hilary Grubb, Josie Carbone and Aki Shidara in 2004's Dig Deep

Marissa Schoenfeld in ZOO, May 2006

ZOO, 2006

Tommy Wilkinson and Josie Carbone in ZOO, 2006

Alayna Miller, Haley Higdon, Katie Fitzgerald and Paige Henry in Piqued, March, 2005, University of Western Ontario's Dance Company, London, Ontario

Carlo Fiorletta fantasizes as Danielle Loustau-Williams and Marisa Gruneberg perform in 2004's Dig Deep


Septic Crisis Surcharge from Monsters & Mirrors, heavy at play, 2003

Dig Deep, 2004

Richard Harrington and Ned Young attempt to embody the Nicholas Brothers while Lauri Berritta and Hilary Grubb take on Jerry the Mouse and Gene Kelly in 2004's Dig Deep

Adam Pollock and Erin Galligan in Flash Dance, 2003

From 3 Piece Suit/e, 2001

Anne Palmer and Sarah Gullo in Monsters & Mirrors, 2003

Lena Lewellyn & Brigitte Griswold in Flash Dance

Mike Allen and Miya Signor in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Abby Bender, Anne Palmer, Sarah Gullo, Jason Jones, Miya Signor and Elissa Kammer from Joyous, a circus, 2003


John Grauwiler, Elissa Kammer, Eric Hoffman, Layla Childs & Sonya Robbins in 3 Piece Suit/e, 2001

Cary Baker, Alex Greenshields, Anna Luckey, Dusan Tynek, Sonya Robbins and Elissa Kammer rehearsing 3 Piece Suit/e back at Bard in 1994.

Miya Signor, Abby Bender & Elissa Kammer in Joyous, a Circus, 2003

Erin Galligan, Adam Pollock, Elissa Kammer and Ty Baldwin in Flash Dance, 2003

Anne Palmer and Sarah Gullo in Joyous a Circus from Monsters and Mirros, 2003.

Elissa Kammer & Anna Luckey in Flash Dance, 2002.

Marissa Schoenfeld, Megan Demarikis, Elissa Kammer & Sherry Greenspan in Flash Dance, 2003.

Jen Pearcy, Abby Bender & Saori Tsukada in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Anne Palmer, Jason Jone, Lisa Kasimow & Alex Greenshields in Joyous, a Circus, 2003

Abby Bender in Joyous, a Circus, 2003

Marissa Schoenfeld & Abby Bender in Flash Dance, 2003

Abby Bender, Elissa Kammer, Lisa Kasimow, Anne Palmer & Mike Allen in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Erin Galligan, Elissa Kammer, Saori Tsukada, Adam Pollock, Sherry Greenspan and Jason Jones in Flash Dance, 2003.

Miya Signor & Mike Allan in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Jessie Bohl, Erin Galligan & Nicolle Bradford in Septic Crisis, 2003

Brigitte Griswold & Kate Kaminski in Flash Dance, 2003

Abby Bender, young & old, in Bedtime Poems, 2003

Abby Bender & Anne Palmer in Joyous, a circus, 2003

Jason Jones, Elissa Kammer, Saori Tsukada & Sherry Greenspan in Flash Dance, 2003

The Joyous, a circus crew, 2003

Josie Carbone & Molly Dickerson in Flash Dance, 2003

Sherry Greenspan & Jason Jones in Flash Dance, 2003

Nicolle Bradford and Jen Pearcey in Septic Crisis Surcharge, 2003

Anne Palmer and Sarah Gullo in Joyous, a Circus, 2003

3 Piece Suit/e from KSD's collective show, SWARM, 2001

Jessie Bohl, Marissa Schoenfeld, Erin Galligan, Nicolle Bradford and Elissa Kammer in Septic Crisis Surcharge from Monsters & Mirrors, 2003

Adam Pollock, Molly Dickerson, Jason Jones, Erin Galligan, Megan Demarkis, Marissa Schoenfeld, Brigitte Griswold, Sherry Greenspan in Flash Dance, 2003

From Flash Dance, 2002

Saori Tsukada, Jason Jones and Adam Pollock in Flash Dance, 2003.

Alex Greenshields in Joyous a Circus, 2003

Ty Baldwin as Jennifer Beals in film, Bedtime Poems, 2003