RESIDENCY: JUL 27 - OCT 9, 2020
PERFORMANCE: OCT 30 - NOV 1, 2020
FRIDAY, OCT 30: 6:30-8:30P PRIVATE
6:00P DOORS OPEN FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING OF JANESSA CLARK: COMMUNION
SATURDAY, OCT 31: 6:30-8:30P LIVE & ONLINE
6:00P DOORS OPEN FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING OF JANESSA CLARK: COMMUNION
SUNDAY, NOV 1: ONLINE
ORGANIZED BY
MARINA GLUCKMAN & MORGAN GRIFFIN
Art Cake is pleased to present its first dance series featuring performances by Eva Alt, Chelsea Bonosky & Adam Barruch, Janessa Clark, Ayano Elson, Catherine Kirk, Amy Gernux & Delaney McDonough, Morgan Griffin, and Marlon Taylor-Wiles. The 2020 inaugural series is organized by Marina Gluckman and Morgan Griffin.
Inspired and informed by the architecture of the space and each artist’s personal investigation at this moment in time, the ten dancers developed a solo or duet at Art Cake that will be presented side-by-side in a culminating performance October 30 - November 1.
The dance series will be filmed by award-winning commercial director Corydon Wagner.
EVA ALT is an independent dancer and dance scholar in New York. Her work in dance spans the principles of practice, choreography, teaching, writing, new media, and performance—and presents ballet as a vital social practice and tool for living a more beautiful life. Alt is one of the founding team members at beauty industry disruptor Glossier, where she led social media since the brand’s conception in 2014, and won two Webby Awards for Best Social.
Alt received her training from Boston Ballet School, School of American Ballet, Suzanne Farrell, Patricia McBride, and danced with the Boston Ballet company and BalletMet. She currently contributes a column on the intersection of dance and architecture to PIN-UP Magazine and has been featured in The New York Times, Into The Gloss, The New Jock and Teen Vogue.
Photo by Coco Baudelle
CHELSEA BONOSKY is from Rochester, New York, and studied under the mentorship of Timothy Draper, at The Draper Center for Dance Education. Bonosky attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and after graduating, she was an apprentice with Stephen Petronio, before joining the immersive production, Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), for over five years.
Bonosky has been creating, assisting, performing, and working administratively with Adam Barruch since their initial meeting at Springboard Danse Montreal in 2008. In 2016, they formed Anatomiae Occultii, where she acts as Associate Director. Bonosky is also a guest artist with Josh Beamish, Gabrielle Lamb, and Sarah Elgart, specializing in site-specific dance and film.
In 2017, Bonosky presented her first solo show at Gibney Dance. She collaborated with Adam Barruch, Pavel Zustiak, Gabrielle Lamb, and Mary Carter to create and perform in an evening of four solos. Her site-specific dance film, LUNA-based on her piece with Ms.Carter, was selected and screened at The ADF Movies by Movers Film Festival.
Bonosky is an invited member of the Margie Gillis Legacy Project and participates in Conflict-Transformation workshops hosted by Ms. Gillis, geared at the education of movement to transform. She sits as an Ambassador to The Free Body Project, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of dance and social justice; is a Teaching Artist with ASTEP; Artists Striving to End Poverty; and a Community Actionist with Gibney Dance. Bonosky is currently pursuing an M.A. in Social Work at the School of Social Service at Fordham University.
Photo by Justin Ervin
ADAM BARRUCH began his career as a young actor, performing professionally on Broadway and in film and television, working with prominent figures such as Tony Bennett, Jerry Herman and Susan Stroman. He later received dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts. After three years, he graduated early and was accepted into the dance department at The Juilliard School. As a dancer he has performed the works of Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Susan Marshall, Jose Limon, Daniele Dèsnoyers, and was a dancer with Sylvain Émard Danse in Montreal. He has also worked with The Margie Gillis Dance Foundation, performing and researching Conflict Transformation as part of The Legacy Project. Based in Brooklyn, Barruch currently creates and performs work with own company, Anatomiae Occultii.
In addition, he has created works for companies, including The Limón Company, Ailey II, Keigwin + Company, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, River North Dance Chicago, BalletX, Whim W'Him Seattle Contemporary Dance, Graham II, GroundWorks Dance Theater, Minnesota Dance Theatre, The Gibney Dance Company, 10 Hairy Legs, and Daniel Costa Dance—as well as for dance icons Margie Gillis and Miki Orihara. Barruch is also the developer of ‘Dynamic Sequencing,’ a movement practice designed to promote expansive range, healthful coordination and optimal awareness in motion. Barruch was the recipient of a 2014 Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences, which recognizes institutions and individuals for distinguished accomplishments and exceptional talent in the arts and sciences. He is currently working on a new physical theater production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Photo by Scott Shaw
JANESSA CLARK is a choreographer, filmmaker, and installation artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice combines dance, movement, video, and language to create socially-engaged art. She holds an MA in Performance Practices and Research from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and a BFA in Choreography from Arizona State University.
Clark has collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Tino Sehgal, Gina Gibney/Gibney Dance, Laura Peterson Choreography, and Noemie Lafrance Sens|Production among others. Recent highlights include a 2019 CEC ArtsLink Back Apartment Fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia; a 2018 EtM Artist Residency at Jamaica Center for Arts; and a 2018 Residency at THE CHURCH Artist Residency in Mt. Vision, NY. Currently she is the Croft’s Residency ‘Crojik’s Largesse’ recipient.
Photo by Maria Baranova-Suzuki
AYANO ELSON is an Okinawan-American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her choreography has been presented by the Chocolate Factory, Gibney Dance, Knockdown Center, Movement Research, and Roulette.
She has recently performed in works by Kim Brandt, Jessica Cook, Simone Forti, Kyli Kleven, Abigail Levine, and Haegue Yang at Danspace,
Issue Project Room, MCA Chicago, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Pioneer Works, Roulette, and the Shed. Elson has developed her work through artist residencies including: Gibney Dance Center’s Work Up, AUNTS at Mount Tremper Arts, and the Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow.
CATHERINE KIRK is a performing artist, teacher, social media manager, and marketing associate from Dallas, Texas. She cultivated a passion for dance at the Arts Magnet High School she attended before studying at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. In 2013, Catherine graduated from NYU with a B.F.A., gained her yoga certification through The Perri Institute for Mind and Body, and joined Kyle Abraham’s dance company, A.I.M, where she continues to perform and work as their Education and Marketing Associate.
Since then, Kirk has worked with Jasmine Hearn, UNA Productions, Helen Simoneau Dance, and Burr Johnson. Catherine sustains a teaching yoga practice, dabbles in photography, continues to dedicate her time off stage in arts administration, and lives in her artistic practice through her ancestry, her faith, and her hope to remain curious.
AMY GERNUX comes from Western MA; lives, performs, learns, works, thrifts, makes soap and the occasional garment in Brooklyn, NY; is very psyched to have worked with Jim Findlay, David Dorfman, Bebe Miller, and Third Rail Projects;
finds great joy in costume/makeup design, dried flowers, and wool; and has been a member of the feath3r theory, collaborating with Raja Feather Kelly and the company, since 2013.
Gernux and McDonough are developing a duet at Art Cake.
Photo by Thomas Dunn
DELANEY McDONOUGH is a producer/performer/who even knows anymore based in Brooklyn, NY. Delaney spent years as Production Manager for FRESH Festival (San Francisco, CA), Lion's Jaw Dance and Performance Festival (Cambridge, MA), and Performance Mix Festival (New York, NY).
Before Brooklyn, Delaney hosted hundreds of artists in rural Maine for residencies and performances at the Denmark Arts Center (Denmark, ME) and The Living Room (Portland, ME). Most recently, Delaney performed in Haegue Yang's Handles exhibit at the MoMA.
McDonough and Gernux are developing a duet at Art Cake.
Photo by Ellen Maynard
MORGAN GRIFFIN is a dancer and choreographer from Connecticut. She graduated Suma Cum Laude from Connecticut College in 2012 where she studied dance, English and U.S. government. She danced and performed with Adele Myers and Dancers in their tour of “Einstein’s Happiest Thought” as well as with bandPortier. She has also presented her own work across New York and Connecticut.
In 2017, Morgan moved to Italy for several years to pursue fashion and work in sales, marketing, and special projects. She has now returned to New York to pursue her M.A./ M.F.A. in dance and education at NYU Tisch and Steinhardt. She continues to create work and collaborate, combining her interests and expanding on the concepts of imagination, discovery, inspirations and curiosity.
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, MARLON TAYLOR-WILES studied classical ballet and modern dance at the Margo Marshall School of Ballet and Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Upon graduating, he received a full scholarship to the Boston Conservatory, where he studied under former Joffrey Ballet Master Luis Fuente. Wiles subsequently toured the world with the New York-based contemporary ballet company ArmitageGone! Dance, led by iconic choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Karole Armitage.
Over the course of five years at ArmitageGone! Dance, Wiles had the honor of collaborating with artists and designers, including Will Cotton, William Wegman, David Salle, and Issey Miyake. He performed at venues, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Joyce Theater, Teatro Elfo Puccini di Milano, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in a command performance for Prince Albert II. In 2012, Wiles was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch."
As a model, Wiles has appeared in Elle Italia and i-D Magazine alongside supermodels Dree Hemingway, Chanel Iman, Joan Smalls and was recently featured in Chobani's debut oat milk campaign. He has danced in music videos for Beyoncé and Madonna, and starred in the viral Evian commercial Baby and Me, which garnered a record-breaking 100 million views on YouTube within two months.
While studying dance at the Boston Conservatory, Marlon was hired as one of the original opening team members for Ralph Lauren's Rugby — which led to brand manager and strategist roles for Ralph Lauren's RRL as well as the pioneering Boston concept boutique Bodega.
In 2014, Wiles found Flying Under the Radar (FUTR), a creative consultancy that specializes in experiential direction, creative direction and performance art dance.
In 2019, Wiles became an adjunct professor at Hunter College Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program. He co-collaborated with the department chair Kathleen Isaac to create a course called Tech and Tech - Dance Technique and Technology.
Photo by Sam Gray
Due to COVID-19 regulations, there will be a very limited audience for the live performances on OCT 30 & OCT 31. A face mask must be worn to enter, and hand sanitizer will be provided. Guests' temperatures will be taken upon arrival. Visitors are required to observe physical distancing, keeping at least 6+ feet between you and other visitors at all times.
The full program will also be live-streamed and available to view online on OCT 31 & NOV 1.