Initiated in the early 90s, this series focuses on emerging, up & coming contemporary dance choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles. Curated by Doug Post.

Featuring:
Amanda Hameline
Laurel Snyder
Will Brown
Alexandra Pinel

Amanda Hameline is a choreographer, producer, and arts administrator. She tells absurd stories through movement interwoven with text, props and other things. In 2012 she founded the interdisciplinary production company Amanda + James with James Danner. Amanda is also the Development Associate at the Martha Graham Dance Company, and a member of the arts advocacy group, the Dance/NYC Junior Committee. Before all this she interned at Gallim Dance for both the Executive Director, Max Hodges and Artistic Director, Andrea Miller, and graduated from Harvard College (2012).

Laurel Snyder is a Brooklyn-based a dancer, performer, maker, musician, singer, educator, mammal, woman, human. She received the majority of her physical training at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and various dance festivals throughout the USA and Europe. Laurel currently collaborates and performs with Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Kendra Portier’s BAND/Portier and her choreography has been shared at spaces such as the Tank, H.T. Chen’s Newsteps series, Triskelion Arts, White Wave, Greenspace, Center for Performance Research (CPR), Chez Bushwick, Deltebre Dansa (Spain) and Ponderosa (Germany).

Will Brown, Began his dance journey at The University Of Massachusetts where he earned a BFA in Dance. Since then he’s been performing and developing his artistic voice with the help of amazing choreographers such as; Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Garth Fagan, Meredith Rainey, Zane Booker, Abdel Salaam and Augusto Soledade.  He’s presented work in New York City through Mare Nostrum Elements, Philadelphia for Philly Fringe & Kun Yang Lin’s Inhale Series, Miami and Massachusetts.  He’s been featured at the Florida Dance Festival, IABD Conferences in Philadelphia & St. Louis and APAP in New York City.

Alexandra Pinel is a choreographer from Paris, France. Her dances have been showcased in DC at the Capitol Hill Arts Blackbox, in New York at DNA, Triskelion Arts, the House of Scandinavia, Dixon Place and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, in Santiago Chile, and on NPR Radio’s Blog for the anniversary of the Rite of Spring. She has choreographed music videos for Chinese band Re-TROS and Prince Rama. She is a Luther Rice Research Fellow and a MWDCC Award Recipient for innovation in dance. Alexandra works for luciana achugar and has recently performed in her work at JACK and New York Live Arts

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