SPLIT BILL #38

featuring…

JULIA ANTINOZZI
JENDAYA DASH

DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2022

SHOW ORDER:
JENDAYA DASH
-intermission-
JULIA ANTINOZZI

RUNTIME:
70 MIN with intermission

JENDAYA DASH
For All That You Are

There will be a brief pause during this piece. Don’t go anywhere!

Artistic Direction and Choreography
Jendaya Dash

Music Director and Video Editor
Tristan Daley (Digital T)

Sound Mixing
Jordan Daley

Staging and Movement Direction
Kim Grier Martinez

Lighting Designer and Technical and Production Manager
Anna Wotring

Jendaya Dash is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has been a company member with Rod Rodgers Dance Company since 2014 under the artistic direction of Kim Grier-Martinez. She has worked with various choreographers such as Nathan Trice, Stephen Agisilaou of Vertical Lines, and Mee Jung of iKada Contemporary Dance Company to name a few. She’s also worked as a model/dancer for fashion brands such as Totokaelo x Issey Miyake, Puma, and Adidas. Jendaya has appeared in music videos for Roxiny, Dana Levinson, DEC3, Mazzi & S.O.U.L. Purpose, and Kashaka. In addition to her performance career Jendaya works as a freelance photographer. She has choreographed 2 original ballets thus far (“Dimensions Within” and “The Gathering”), along with various independent music videos and short dance films.

Digital T is an artist that has been creating music for 15 years and directing films for more than 10 years. His music has been featured on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and he has performed in venues throughout New York. He has created music videos, documentaries and fiction films which have screened at festivals across America and won awards – including the Saatchi & Saatchi Film Award at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival.

Kim Grier-Martinez, Artistic Director of the Rod Rodgers Dance Company is a performance artist, master teacher, educator, choreographer, and arts activist. Her choreography lives in the repertoire of Rod Rodgers Dance Company, Middle Collegiate Church and their CBS Special, the Kenmin Koryu Center in Kagoshima, Japan; Sea Island African American Heritage Festival in St. Simons Georgia, and the original production of the Dark Star From Harlem, to name a few. As an arts educator, facilitator and one of the developers, her work continues with GIVE. She is also a teaching artist for ArtsConnection, 92NY and is the director and founder of the Rod Rodgers Youth Program.

Thank you to all of my loved ones who took the time out to listen to me this last year and allowed me the space to be who I am unapologetically. Your questions, your advice, your understanding didn't always feel great but was absolutely necessary for me to start settling into the woman I am, not the woman I 'think' I should be. Thank you for staying by my side.

JULIA ANTINOZZI
But, Soft

Choreography
Julia Antinozzi

Performers
Sienna Blaw
Alexandra Doyle
Paulina Meneses
Kelsey Saulnier

Costumes
Sonya Gadet-Molansky

Music
Tonstartssbandht
Decker D’Alesio
The Caretaker

Lighting Designer and Technical and Production Manager
Anna Wotring

Julia Antinozzi is a choreographer and dance artist. Her work has been presented at Triskelion Arts, Jack Crystal Theater, Arts on Site, Spoke the Hub in NYC, nationally at CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work in Seattle and Queer Spectra Arts in Salt Lake City, internationally at GAME Streetmekka in Copenhagen DK, and featured in online publications Apricity Press, Synkroniciti Magazine and Residual Believers. She was an Artist in Residence at The Floor and a Satellite Artist at New Dance Alliance. Julia currently works with Phoebe Berglund, ChristinaNoel & The Creature and Boy Friday, has performed with Juli Brandano, Javier Padilla, Shayla-Vie Jenkins and in repertory by Merce Cunningham and Bebe Miller. She graduated cum laude from Smith College with a BA in Dance and Astronomy, and holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School.

Sienna Blaw is a queer dance artist from Austin, TX who finds a deep interest in improvisotory and collaborative dance practices and processes. Since graduating from SUNY Purchase in 2017 Sienna has performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance in their “New Work For Goldberg Variations”, and in repertory of Merce Cunningham, Doug Varone, and Hannah Garner’s 2nd Best Dance Company. They have performed Contact Improvisation scores at MoMa, and Park Avenue Armory. Sienna is a co-founder of A-Y/dancers, a collaborator with BIRDHOUSE, directed by Raven White, and a collaborator with POGO Dance Projects, directed by Emily Kessler.

Alexandra Doyle is a dance artist and teacher originally from the deep boot of Louisiana. She has lived and grown in New York since 2015 and has appeared in work dancing with/for Emily Schoen, Doug Gillespie, Bryan Strimpel, Julia Antinozzi, ChristinaNoel Reaves, and Kelly Ashton Todd. Alexandra’s own work has been presented through the Louisiana Arts Council, Oregon Fringe Festival, and Chez Bushwick. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona. When not dancing, Alexandra is trying to learn one thing or another in a wide-ranging scope of interest.

Kelsey Saulnier is a Brooklyn based dance artist and choreographer. She has studied under the direction of Leslie Frye-Maietta, Jennifer Nugent, Paul Matteson, Chris Aiken, Jenna Pollock, David Dorfman and more. She has worked as a dancer at Boston Moving Arts Productions, Prometheus Dance, Boston Dance Theater, and is currently a performing collaborator with BODY | HOUSE as well as Julia Antinozzi. She is not only a mover, but a maker, and has presented original solo works at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, 92nd Street Y, Triskelion Arts, Balance Arts Center, the Somerville Armory and more.

Paulina Meneses is originally from Las Vegas, NV where she began her dance training at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. In 2018, she graduated with a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase. During her time in college, she performed works by Shannon Gillen, Kimberly Bartosik, Xan Burley, Alexandra Beller, and Trisha Brown. After moving to New York City upon graduation, Paulina had the pleasure of working with Doug Varone, Dylan Crossman, and Hannah Garner among others. She also assisted Kyle Abraham on his New York City Ballet piece “The Runaway”. Paulina is currently working with Johnnie Cruise Mercer, MeenMoves, Jody Oberfelder, and Julia Antinozzi. Sonya Gadet-Molansky is a visual and performing artist based in New York City. Her work explores uncovering the surreal in everyday life, as well as turning past wounds into fruit. Her main medium at the moment is textiles and costumes. Her work has been featured at the NCAD gallery in Dublin and the Redan Gallery in Sweden. Last November she participated in a dance based residency at La Boucherie in Mingé, France with Yoshiko Chuma and 3 other talented artists. Currently, she is creating soft sculptural handbags inspired by lingerie and is open to custom commissions of all kinds.

Special thank you to Kayhl, Edwin & Andy, Theo, Shayla-vie, Nicole, Rachel, Hannah, Anna, Sonya, and my dancers.

Anna Wotring (Lighting Designer and Technical and Production Manager), Pittsburgh native, is a community minded dance artist, designer and production stage manager committed to the practice of collaborative leadership. She currently works with Annie Heath, Lauren Horn, Jennifer Nugent and slowdanger as a technical design consultant, dancer, and production stage manager. Wotring obtained her BFA in Dance, at the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a multitude of dance organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Monica Bill Barnes and Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is beyond excited to begin working and imagining with the Trisk team. @annaissupercool

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