SPLIT BILL # 39
featuring…
Andrea Ward
Hunter Sturgis
MARCH 30 & 31, 2023
Runtime: 50 minutes including intermission
Hunter Sturgis
HUMANS ARE SUCH EASY PREY
Creation, Direction and Performance
Hunter Sturgis
Sound Design
Storm Hartley
Dramaturgy
Catherine Correa
Costume
Allison Dyke
Publicity Photographer
Michael Pérez
Hunter Sturgis is a queer dance artist, filmmaker, and Pilates teacher from south Texas currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Hunter creates to subvert and challenge oppressive power structures that have taken root systemically, historically, and thusly, corporeally. He uses the power of disruption to open up new spaces where there is deep, uncharted territory of the heart.
Special thank you to Timothy Westbrook, Triskelion Arts, Rachel Mckinstry. LeeLee Oluwatoyosi. Kelsey Rondeau & Hard/Femme Dances
Instagram:@mercury___007
Venmo: @Hunter-Sturgis
I am officially a full time freelance teaching artist! In other words, I was let go from my job this past Wednesday.
If you want me to keep doing what I’m doing, smash that venmo!
If YOU want to do what I’m doing please get in touch about private dance and Pilates lessons.
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Andrea Ward
Deep Pull
Direction & Choreography:
Andrea Ward
Performers:
Andrea Ward
Naomi Gwynn
Music:
“Branco” by Divan Gattamorta
“Sun Zither” by Laraaji
Andrea Ward is a contemporary choreographer and musician merging music and dance as one expression of healing consciousness. Based in NYC with her band “Speaking Vine,” Andrea creates performances with the intention of opening spaciousness of the mind and nervous system, and centering the heart in its truth.
Andrea has created choreography and led workshops in the U.S. and Europe. In recent years she’s led a 6-week choreographic lab in Madrid Spain for DANZA180. She also taught for Dance Italia in Lucca, Italy. In 2021, she'd taught in Paris at the Studio Harmonic and lived in London teaching at The Hub Studios. She also performed her work in Amsterdam at Henny Jurriëns Studio, and in Italy as part of the Mediterraneo Dance Festival.
As a musician, Andrea writes nature-inspired vocals in harmony with instruments such as the kalimba, steel tongue drum, wooden tongue drum, and mbira. She creates her music video choreography underwater. You can find her next music performance at Rockwood Music Hall May 7th.
Naomi Gwynn is a dance artist and cultural worker based between Montreal, Quebec and New York City. Naomi has participated in numerous performances and showcased choreographic work across Ottawa, Montreal, New York City, Israel, and Europe. In 2019 she completed the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s International Dance Journey Program in Northern Israel, and in 2019-2020 she was a member of Cobos Mika’s Junior company in Palamos, Spain. Her formal dance training includes work with Rubberband Dance Group, Margie Gillis, Trip the Light Fantastic, Julia Adam Dance, Rena Butler, Gilbert T Small II, and Sidra Bell Dance New York. Naomi is currently completing a 4-month training with Gibney Dance Company under the Artistic Direction of Alexandra Wells, as a part of their first ever PRO pilot cohort. She is also an ongoing collaborator and dancer for Bulbe Collective and Brittney Canda.
Special Thank You to: Triskelion Arts & Rachel Mckinstry, Naomi Gwynn, Dave Pelletier, My Parents, Tara Ward, Brad Ward, Emily Knieriem, Dan Santiago, Dino Pappas, Sean Kramer, Joan Frosch, Elizabeth Johnson, Isa Garcia-Rose, Ric Rose, and Lenny Rosenblum.
Instagram: @andrea__ward
Venmo: @andreacward
Stage Manager
Cameron Barnett is a multi-faceted artist with interests in choreography, direction, dramatic writing, sound design, and performance. He frequently designs sound for his own dance-theater work, and has previously created sound for Boy Friday (You Always Do This to Me, PLUSH), Selene Carter (“Indiana Puts her Trust in Thought,” “Flags in the Middle of Nowhere”), and others. Website: cameronjbarnett.com
Lighting Designer and Director of Production
Anna Wotring, a 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
Trisk Presents is brought to you in part by:
We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.
