TRISK PRESENTS
JULIA ANTINOZZI

THE SUITE

Choreography by Julia Antinozzi
in collaboration with the dancers
Music by Ryan Wolfe
Costumes by Sonya Gadet-Molansky
Lighting by Connor Sale and Anna Wotring

SIENNA BLAW DASOL KIM KELSEY SAULNIER PAULINA MENESES

Theme
Company

La Sonnambula
DASOL KIM, KELSEY SAULNIER

First Variation
Company

La Tarantella
SIENNA BLAW, PAULINA MENESES

Second Variation
Company

JULIA ANTINOZZI is a choreographer and dance artist.

Her work has been presented at Triskelion Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, and PAGEANT in NYC, nationally in Seattle (CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work) and Salt Lake City, and featured in various online publications. Most recently, she received the 2023-2024 Trisk Fellowship from Triskelion Arts, and was selected to be a 2023-2024 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Performance & Residency artist. Julia has also held artist residencies at The Floor on Atlantic, New Dance Alliance and Motive Brooklyn.

As a performer and collaborator, Julia has worked with Phoebe Berglund, Boy Friday, Juli Brandano, The Creature, Barbie Diewald, Ayano Elson, Amelia Koper Heintzelman, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Shane Larson, Anna Sperber, and performed in repertory by Merce Cunningham and Bebe Miller.

Julia graduated from Smith College cum laude with a BA in Dance and a minor in Astronomy.

SIENNA BLAW (they/them) is a queer dance artist from Austin, TX. Since graduating from SUNY Purchase in 2017 Sienna has performed the works of Pam Tanowitz Dance, Merce Cunningham, Doug Varone, and Hannah Garner’s 2nd Best Dance Company, and they have performed Contact Improvisation scores at MoMa and Park Avenue Armory. Sienna is a co-founder of A-Y/dancers, and a collaborator with BIRDHOUSE, POGO Dance Projects, and Julia Antinozzi. Sienna is an authorized teacher of Cunningham Technique™️ through the Merce Cunningham Trust. They most recently performed in Punchdrunk’s award-winning immersive theater production of Sleep No More.

DASOL KIM is a dancer and movement director residing in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Cheonan, South Korea and moved to the United States at age 7. Dasol received a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she performed works by Crystal Pite, Pamela Pietro, Madboots Dance, and Sonya Tayeh. In addition to Julia Antinozzi, she has performed and collaborated with artists including Chuck Wilt, Akira Uchida, and Teresa toogie Barcelo. Dasol's most recent works as a performer and movement director were featured in Vogue Portugal and Nowness.

PAULINA MENESES (she/they) is a Filipinx-American dancer, choreographer’s assistant, and arts administrator hailing from Las Vegas, NV. She graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance and minor in Arts Management. During their time in college, they performed works by Kimberly Bartosik, Shannon Gillen, Xan Burley, Sue Bernhard, Alexandra Beller, and Trisha Brown. Now based in New York City, she has worked with esteemed artists including Doug Varone and Dancers, Dylan Crossman, Hannah Garner’s 2nd Best Dance Company, and Kyle Abraham on his New York City Ballet premiere, "The Runaway." In addition to Julia Antinozzi, Paulina currently collaborates and dances for MeenMoves, Peter Stathas, Marie Paspe, and Johnnie Cruise Mercer.

KELSEY SAULNIER (she/her) is a Brooklyn based dance artist, choreographer, and movement instructor. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. Throughout her time in the Five College Dance Department, she performed works by Bebe Miller, Bill T. Jones, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Kinsun Chan, Chris Aiken, Leslie Frye-Maietta and more, and was a selected artist for the American College Dance Association National Gala toward the end of her time at UMass Amherst. Since graduating, Kelsey has worked with Boston Moving Arts Productions under the direction of Jenna Pollack, Prometheus Dance, Korhan Basaran, Boston Dance Theater, BODY | HOUSE, and is currently a performing collaborator with Julia Antinozzi. She is not only a mover, but a maker, and has presented original works at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, 92nd Street Y, Triskelion Arts, Green Space, the Somerville Armory and more.

SONYA GADET-MOLANSKY is a performer, costume artist, and filmmaker. Their work explores uncovering the surreal in the day to day and remolding past wounds into the fruit of current pleasures. Sonya’s work has been featured at :iidrr Art Gallery, Triskelion Arts, Pageant, BYB studio, Millennium Film Gallery, Boden International Film Festival, and the Redan Gallery in Sweden. They live and work in New York City and have a chihuahua named Mary.

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, The Martha Graham School, Limon Company, and Cunningham Trust, among other places. He has performed and collaborated with choreographers and dance companies such as Jordan Lloyd, Rebecca Lazier, Alice Liddell and Dancers, Grounded View, CNDC/Angers, The Lovelies, Colin Stilwell, and Chloe London.

CONNOR SALE is a New York based lighting designer and the Resident Lighting Designer at Triskelion Arts. Recent projects include The Living Room Project (PSNY), The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds (Triskelion Arts), Helen (La Mama), Julia Antinozzi’s double bill (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), Earth Temple (with Nocturnal Medicine at SMUSH Gallery), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He tours internationally with the Akram Khan Company and with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells and École des Sables is producing. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight.

ANNA WOTRING(Director of Production)
Anna, 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 Bachelor of Fine Arts 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 be working and imagining with the Trisk team.

Thank you Rachel, Juliette, Melissa, and Larry.
Thank you Wade, Madeline, Hannah, Janet, Kimberly, Tess, Aubrey, Shane, Artie, and Suzzanne.
Thank you Sonya, Ryan, Anna, Connor and Miriam.
Thank you Paulina, Kelsey, Dasol and Sienna.
This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

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.