WHERE WE GATHER
Friday, March 8, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 9, 7:30 pm
Centennial Performing Arts Studios
Presented by Animata Arts in partnership with the Metro Parks Dance Division
Supported by Friends of Metro Dance and the Tennessee Arts Commission
As You Are Under a Smile
Choreography: Emma Morrison in collaboration with dancers
Dancers: Becca Hoback, McKay House, Phylicia Roybal, Spencer Grady
Concept Development: Anthony Principe
Special Thanks: Lenin Fernandez
Music: “Rausch 1” by GAS; “Lavender Girl” by Jarboe; “Blume” by Anita Lane;
“Entrance March” by Mushio Funazawa
Who You Are To Me
Choreography: The dancers, Composition by Sandy Perez
Performers: Holly Cannon-Hesse, Lisa Valeri, Pegah Kadivar-Chernowitz, Autumn Wegner,
Marcela De La Vega Luna, Layne Porter, Corrie Jones (Musician)
Music: “Farewell to Tarwathie” by Judy Collins; “All Shook Up” by Elvis Presley;
“Cuatro Vidas” by Eydie Gorme and Los Panchos; “The Lady Is a Tramp” by Frank Sinatra;
“Love Me Tender” by Elvis Presley; “Take Me Home (Medley)” by Corrie Jones (live);
“Coming Back to You” by Sylvan Esso
Special Thanks: For sharing their stories and support in this process: Thea Jones Ortega Brown,
Delaine Kylynn, Amber Manning-Givens, Cassie, Jessica Gaby, Bria Evans
For additional advice and moral support: Erin Law, All the Animata artists for their feedback,
Ashlyn Hall, Brendan Pinkett
In honor of the people they were beyond the role they filled, and the people we were and have had to grow into with or without them.
~INTERMISSION~
I need to remember.
Choreographed and danced by Amanda Reichert
Music: Thomas Newman, Luc Ferrari
help up, help down
Choreography: Hayden Hubner
Performed by Dogs Eat Wind: Milena Borgonovo, Deborah Congedo, Hannah McCarthy, and Hayden Hubner
Original Score: “Isn't it strange to be in this room right now while outside...” by Jess Awh and Isaac Q. Horton
Friday, March 8, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 9, 7:30 pm
Centennial Performing Arts Studios
Presented by Animata Arts in partnership with the Metro Parks Dance Division
Supported by Friends of Metro Dance and the Tennessee Arts Commission
As You Are Under a Smile
Choreography: Emma Morrison in collaboration with dancers
Dancers: Becca Hoback, McKay House, Phylicia Roybal, Spencer Grady
Concept Development: Anthony Principe
Special Thanks: Lenin Fernandez
Music: “Rausch 1” by GAS; “Lavender Girl” by Jarboe; “Blume” by Anita Lane;
“Entrance March” by Mushio Funazawa
Who You Are To Me
Choreography: The dancers, Composition by Sandy Perez
Performers: Holly Cannon-Hesse, Lisa Valeri, Pegah Kadivar-Chernowitz, Autumn Wegner,
Marcela De La Vega Luna, Layne Porter, Corrie Jones (Musician)
Music: “Farewell to Tarwathie” by Judy Collins; “All Shook Up” by Elvis Presley;
“Cuatro Vidas” by Eydie Gorme and Los Panchos; “The Lady Is a Tramp” by Frank Sinatra;
“Love Me Tender” by Elvis Presley; “Take Me Home (Medley)” by Corrie Jones (live);
“Coming Back to You” by Sylvan Esso
Special Thanks: For sharing their stories and support in this process: Thea Jones Ortega Brown,
Delaine Kylynn, Amber Manning-Givens, Cassie, Jessica Gaby, Bria Evans
For additional advice and moral support: Erin Law, All the Animata artists for their feedback,
Ashlyn Hall, Brendan Pinkett
In honor of the people they were beyond the role they filled, and the people we were and have had to grow into with or without them.
~INTERMISSION~
I need to remember.
Choreographed and danced by Amanda Reichert
Music: Thomas Newman, Luc Ferrari
help up, help down
Choreography: Hayden Hubner
Performed by Dogs Eat Wind: Milena Borgonovo, Deborah Congedo, Hannah McCarthy, and Hayden Hubner
Original Score: “Isn't it strange to be in this room right now while outside...” by Jess Awh and Isaac Q. Horton
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
EMMA MORRISON is a Nashville based freelance mover, performer and maker. She has worked with choreographers such as Roy Assaf, Yin Yue, Brian Arias, Rosie Herrera and more. Emma's primary creative focus is centered around how to support and grow the local Nashville dance scene. She has collaborated with local collectives such as Asia Pyron’s PYDANCE, and Lenin Fernandez in his creation and development of "i have only been present with the illusion". Emma was the rehearsal director and a performer in David Flores’ production of Prism, performed at OZ Arts Nashville in 2021. She is one of the founding members of Nashville dance company New Dialect, as a performer, collaborator, rehearsal assistant to the artistic director, and community and company class teacher. She is also one of the founding members of Garage Collective, a site specific and improvisation-based project in Nashville, TN.
SANDY PEREZ is a multidisciplinary movement artist who focuses on telling the stories of her community and ancestors through themes of her work and the textures of expression. She is the proud daughter of first generation immigrants who has found a home in dance. She is a principal dancer for DancEast Collective, the Artist role in Found Movement Group's Carte Blanche, and involved with Project Awake's touring school program. She is also involved in many of Nashville's dance pockets to include the salsa and bachata scene, the studio hip hop community, and enjoys taking beginner Tap.
AMANDA REICHERT is a freelance dancer and choreographer originally from Lawrence, KS. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University, where she was awarded the Donna Cucunato Award for outstanding contribution to dance. In 2014 she moved to New York City, where she worked with Mike Esperanza, Suku Dance Lab, Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup, and MersihaMesihovic/CircuitDebris, among additional collaborations with freelance artists throughout New York City and Nashville. She credits them with both the brief and deep influence they’ve left on her own creative process. She has had the pleasure of presenting work for the Young Choreographer’s Festival at Symphony Space and Center for Performance Research in NYC, the Kindling Arts Festival and The Barbershop Theater in Nashville, TN, at Festival Nómada in El Salvador, and b12 Dance Festival in Berlin. She moved to Nashville, TN at the beginning of 2019 to focus on developing her own ideas as a dance maker, and currently teaches contemporary dance to students at Franklin School of Performing Arts. She is a recipient of the Metro THRIVE program funding for a new project that premiered in June 2023, and is also a co-founding member of the garage collective, a Nashville based improvisation group. Photo: Tiffany Bessire.
DOGS EAT WIND is a young collective of artists from Italy and the southern United States born in the Winter of 2023. Our debut piece entitled help up, help down, grapples with the way we distribute care. We seek to describe shared experiences through means of the specific, using our personal histories, memories, dreams, and archives to create a new world on stage built from personal artifacts and experiences. The current interest of Dogs Eat Wind is to consider and question relationships in the context of space and place.
EMMA MORRISON is a Nashville based freelance mover, performer and maker. She has worked with choreographers such as Roy Assaf, Yin Yue, Brian Arias, Rosie Herrera and more. Emma's primary creative focus is centered around how to support and grow the local Nashville dance scene. She has collaborated with local collectives such as Asia Pyron’s PYDANCE, and Lenin Fernandez in his creation and development of "i have only been present with the illusion". Emma was the rehearsal director and a performer in David Flores’ production of Prism, performed at OZ Arts Nashville in 2021. She is one of the founding members of Nashville dance company New Dialect, as a performer, collaborator, rehearsal assistant to the artistic director, and community and company class teacher. She is also one of the founding members of Garage Collective, a site specific and improvisation-based project in Nashville, TN.
SANDY PEREZ is a multidisciplinary movement artist who focuses on telling the stories of her community and ancestors through themes of her work and the textures of expression. She is the proud daughter of first generation immigrants who has found a home in dance. She is a principal dancer for DancEast Collective, the Artist role in Found Movement Group's Carte Blanche, and involved with Project Awake's touring school program. She is also involved in many of Nashville's dance pockets to include the salsa and bachata scene, the studio hip hop community, and enjoys taking beginner Tap.
AMANDA REICHERT is a freelance dancer and choreographer originally from Lawrence, KS. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University, where she was awarded the Donna Cucunato Award for outstanding contribution to dance. In 2014 she moved to New York City, where she worked with Mike Esperanza, Suku Dance Lab, Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup, and MersihaMesihovic/CircuitDebris, among additional collaborations with freelance artists throughout New York City and Nashville. She credits them with both the brief and deep influence they’ve left on her own creative process. She has had the pleasure of presenting work for the Young Choreographer’s Festival at Symphony Space and Center for Performance Research in NYC, the Kindling Arts Festival and The Barbershop Theater in Nashville, TN, at Festival Nómada in El Salvador, and b12 Dance Festival in Berlin. She moved to Nashville, TN at the beginning of 2019 to focus on developing her own ideas as a dance maker, and currently teaches contemporary dance to students at Franklin School of Performing Arts. She is a recipient of the Metro THRIVE program funding for a new project that premiered in June 2023, and is also a co-founding member of the garage collective, a Nashville based improvisation group. Photo: Tiffany Bessire.
DOGS EAT WIND is a young collective of artists from Italy and the southern United States born in the Winter of 2023. Our debut piece entitled help up, help down, grapples with the way we distribute care. We seek to describe shared experiences through means of the specific, using our personal histories, memories, dreams, and archives to create a new world on stage built from personal artifacts and experiences. The current interest of Dogs Eat Wind is to consider and question relationships in the context of space and place.