CHLOE LONDON
UNSTABLE SKY

RUNTIME: 50 minutes with no intermission.


Photo by Bob London Photography | boblondon.com

Choreography by Chloe London, in collaboration with the performers

Performers
Tim Bendernagel
Miranda Lawson
Chloe London
Mia Martelli
Maddy Sher

Sound composed by Ryan Wolfe, featuring Tree Palmedo on trumpets

Lighting Design by Anna Wotring

Costume Design by Leanne Budreau and Chloe London

Dramaturgy by Alexander Davis

In this work, London investigates the idea of repurposing material from her past dances. A process that began as five individual solos slowly developed into a group piece exploring what happens when both new and previously-performed movements and concepts are put into the same space, combined, built upon, and transformed. The cast represents collaborators that have worked with London for almost a decade to those that are entering her process for the first time.

This dance is performed by Tim Bendernagel, Miranda Lawson, Chloe London, Mia Martelli, and Maddy Sher with original sound composed by Ryan Wolfe.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

CHLOE LONDON is a choreographer and performer from New York City. She has an MFA in Performance & Choreography from Smith College. Her work has been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, School of Contemporary Dance and Thought, and Battery Park Dance Festival. She was a 2022 ARC Artist in Residence at A.P.E. Gallery (Northampton, MA) and a 2023 Artist in Residence at Bearnstow (Mount Vernon, ME). She has performed with Vanessa Anspaugh, Alex Davis, Gabrielle Revlock, among others. She currently dances for Barbie Diewald, Maddy Sher, and works collaboratively with Angie Hauser. This past March 2025, Chloe performed with Bebe Miller Company in "Vespers, Reimagined" at Danspace Project. She is thrilled to be a Trisk Presents commissioned artist in their Spring 2025 season.
chloelondon.com | chloelondondance@gmail.com | @chloelondondance

TIM BENDERNAGEL grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he continues to live and dance. Most recently, he has collaborated with the choreographers Donna Uchizono, Stacy Spence, Chloe London, Ryan McNamara, Maya Lee Parritz, Sharleen Chidiac, and John Jasperse, among others. Tim began his dance training at Dancewave in Park Slope, Brooklyn under the direction of Diane Jacobowitz. He then went on to graduate with a BFA from The Ohio State University in 2017. When he's not dancing, Tim works as a landscape gardener for Gay Gardens in The Pines on Fire Island.

MIRANDA LAWSON (she/her) is a performer, choreographer and educator based in the Greater Boston area. She received her BA in Dance and Psychology from Mount Holyoke College in 2022, where she was recognized with awards in choreographic excellence and leadership through social justice work. She has performed in works by Stefanie Batten Bland, Shura Baryshnikov, Shakia Barron, Chloe London, and Jenna Riegel. She regularly performs with Urbanity Dance and Phunk Phenomenon Urban Dance Theater in addition to making and performing in her own choreography. Her own work has been presented at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton MA), the Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge MA), Tufts University (Medford MA), and The American College Dance Association Conference (Middlebury VT). Miranda was a mentee of MIDDAY Movement’s BIPOC Professional Dancer Mentorship program from 2022-23, an Urbanity X resident in 2022, the recipient of Mass Cultural Council’s Pandemic Relief Grant and the Somerville Artists Fellowship both in 2023.
mirandalawsondance.com

MIA MARTELLI is a Brooklyn-based artist working in dance, poetry, and video. Her performances have been presented by PAGEANT, The Brick Theater, New Dance Alliance, and AUNTS. She has created site-specific, multi-media works on Rockaway Beach and on Governors Island. Her videos and poems have been screened by MONO NO AWARE, GRRL Haus Cinema, Red Hook Community Cinema, Millennium Film Workshop, SplashLand Magazine, and Skurt Cobain Zine. Mia has been an artist in residence with the West Harlem Art Fund, New Dance Alliance, and The Monira Foundation. She’s received additional support for her work from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and at Louis Place. Mia was a 2023 Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Performer for her work with Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, and also has performed for Chloe London, Jessie Young, and Julie Mayo.
miamartelli.com

MADELYN SHER is a dance and theater artist, choreographer, and native New Yorker. She has performed at Court Square Theater, BRIC, Knockdown Center, Theater for the New City, Danspace Project, JACK, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, in backyards, galleries, warehouses, a kitchen, and at the end of a pier. As a dancer Maddy has worked with Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser, Duane Lee Holland, evan ray suzuki, REDi Dance Company, Olive Prince, and others. As an actor, she was a recurring guest star on a TV show called The Baker and the Beauty, a romantic comedy that premiered on ABC in 2020 and became the number one show on Netflix in 2021. She produces a site-specific outdoor dance festival called Groundswell Series, hosting dance performances in public parks and playgrounds in Brooklyn during the summer. Currently Maddy dances with Chloe London, Nami Yamamoto, and Vangeline Theater, collaborates with composer Leo Hardman-Hill, and makes her own work. She has an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College.
madelynsher.com

RYAN WOLFE is a songwriter, singer, composer, and instrumentalist from Portland, OR. Since graduating from the University of Michigan he has lived in NYC where he plays for dance for Hofstra University, Princeton University, Mark Morris Dance Group, the Limon Launch Program, and Cunningham Trust, among other places. He has performed and collaborated with choreographers and dance companies such as Rebecca Lazier, Jordan Lloyd, Julia Antinozzi, Alice Liddell and Dancers, Grounded View, CNDC/Angers, The Lovelies, and Colin Stilwell, and Chloe London.

TREE PALMEDO is a Brooklyn-based musician and songwriter. As a trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, he has performed and toured with acclaimed indie music projects like Fleet Foxes, Sloppy Jane, The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, and Ben Zaidi. Additionally, he is active in the NYC jazz and experimental music scenes and has composed for theater, podcasts, and dance. His band Peaceful Faces has released 2 albums and a third is due in mid-2025.

ALEXANDER DAVIS (He/Him) is a Boston-based choreographer, fiber artist, and performer focused on subverting expectations and amplifying queer narratives. His work spans contemporary dance, theatre, and visual arts, engaging audiences with humor, physicality, and storytelling. Alex has collaborated with notable organizations like Boston Lyric Opera, Global Arts Live, and Improv Asylum. He was a company member of Urbanity Dance (2015–2019) and assisted choreographer Monica Bill Barnes on Little Women (2019). A City of Boston Artist Fellow, Alex’s work has been supported by The Studios at Mass MoCA, The Boston Foundation, and NEFA. He earned his MFA from Smith College in 2023.
www.alexanderdavis.dance

ANNA WOTRING is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists, whether they're starting to explore an idea or deep in research. Trisk serves as a home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a wide range of dance artists and organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Annie Heath, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Jennifer Nugent, Lauren Horn, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, slowdanger, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is deeply grateful and honored to be working, imagining, and making magic with the Trisk team and community.

This work is made possible through support from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Rehearsal Week program, NEFA's New England Dance Fund, and the Smith College Dance Department & Costume Department. This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Thank you to my incredible collaborators, the wonderful Triskelion Arts team, my parents Robert London and Leanne Budreau for their artistic input, and thank YOU for supporting this run and coming to “Unstable Sky.”


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.


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