DANCEPATHEATRE/SARA DRAPER - "Beyond the Molting Season" Created and Performed by Sara Draper, Natasha Manley, Lindsey Sarah Thompson, Neil Ellis Orts Original music by Natasha Manley Music: James Newton Howard, CocoRosie, The Books, Ergo Phizmiz and his Orchestra Recorded Voice: Neil Ellis Orts Text adapted from Hans Christian Anderson (trans. Benjamin W. Wells) Original Texts: Sara Draper, Natasha Manley, Lindsey Sarah Thompson Fusing dance with story, word and voice and focusing on authentic personal life stories is what Sara Draper of the interdisciplinary Dancepatheatre is all about. For her current work, an experiment she has wanted to do for a long time, she will be letting go of some personal artistic control where all performers are also creative collaborators of the work; everyone will move and everyone will vocalize on a theme of journeys and transformation.
	LINDSEY SARAH THOMPSON - "tethered to" Choreography by Lindsey Sarah with contributions from fellow performer, Kristen Frankiewicz Sound score: Mikhail Gantvarg, The Books, Ergo Phizmiz, LSarah's home recordings Tech gurus: Louie Saletan and Jeremy Choate Lindsey explores the concept of the public vs. private experience of disease and how the sharing, understanding, and investment in the experiences of each and the other affects the dynamics of the healthcare discussion.
	ROBERTA CORTES - "...but why am I not there?" Choreography and Performance: Roberta Cortes Music credit: Hometown Glory by Adele Drawing from her own personal experiences, Roberta creates a solo work exploring the idea of belonging to a certain place and how that shapes who we are.
	DANIEL ADAME - "Touch Base Spring Action" music: Daniel Adame costumes: Daniel Adame choreography: Daniel Adame performers: Daniel Adame and Shanon Adams It's soft and hard and happens in different lights: Daniel Adame's "Touch Base Spring Action," has rhythm and rock take form in a counterbalance of sexy and bland.
	ALEX SOARES - "I Am.Not This Person" Choreography and Performance: Alex Soares Sound Score: Miranda July, Pejk Malinovski Text: Miranda July Alex Soares explores how much of imagination is in your reality and examines the relationship between the should and the want, expectation and fulfillment, the kid and the adult. Forming a landscape through the lens of a short story by Miranda July, this work embarks in a dream of economical movement being challenged by complete lack of restraint and wonders what happens in our heads while we sleep, when we dream.
	ROSIE TRUMP - "50 things I wanted but didn’t get" Choreographer: Rosie Trump in collaboration with the dancers Performers: Laura E. Gutierrez, Lydia Hance, Raquel Kahn, Lindsey Sarah Thompson, Rosie Trump Music credit: The Dead Weather Rosie Trump has an impulse to tell you private things about herself onstage. In her newest work she will be taking the personal risk of revealing the less than flattering, the failure, the underside to a captive audience.
	ROSALYN NASKY - "Poet's Love" Choreography: Rosalyn Nasky Baritone: Brian Pettey Music: Robert Schumann Dance, gesture music and sculptural design all come together in Rosalyn Nasky's newest work, a darkly humorous performance of a classical song cycle sung in German with a pianist, opera singer and a dancer. Rosalyn Nasky aims to fascinate and inspire through raw assimilations of movement, music, and sculptural design.

BIOS

DANIEL ADAME was born in Houston and moved away shortly thereafter. Living in New Orleans, he began climbing magnolia and oak trees when he was very young. He went on to study martial arts when he was in high school and by the time he had earned a BFA in sculpture from the University of Houston, he was dancing with Suchu. He has displayed his work, both visual and performance, in various venues throughout the Houston area, including Diverseworks, Lawndale Art Center, Barnevelder, and the Jewish Community Center.

ROBERTA CORTES was born and raised in Brazil and received her classical ballet training there. She has been in numerous dance performances both in Brazil and the United States where she had the opportunity to work with independent choreographers and dance companies such as Psophonia Dance Company, Sandra Organ Dance Company, Vault and Hope Stone Dance. She has an Associates Degree in Arts from Houston Community College, where she received the Heinen Scholarship for the Performing Arts in 2005. She also teaches ballet at Memorial Dance Center and modern and creative movement at Hope Stone.

SARA DRAPER is the Founding Artistic Director of Dancepatheatre and choreographer of over fifty works. She was awarded the 1995-1996 Cultural Arts Council of Houston’s Creative Artist Award, a 2006-2007 Performing Arts Residency from Diverse Works, and a Houston Arts Alliance Fellowship. Her work with Dancepatheatre has been awarded three HAA Project Grants. Her works have been presented by the Jewish Community Center Dance Month, Big Range Dance Festival at the Barnevelder, in A Weekend of Texas Contemporary Dance at the Miller Outdoor Theatre, and by Houston International Festival including an HIF commission. Outside of Houston, she has performed her works in Chicago, Atlanta, Louisiana, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She has worked on a bi-national choreographic project in Merida, Mexico and has performed her choreography in Bourges, France.
Sara’s choreography has modern dance roots and embraces her background in classical ballet, post-modern, musical theater, and world dance. Her BA in anthropology from the University of Houston reflects her interest in cultural issues that inform her works. She often writes text for her works, some of which is published in the 2001 Women’s Works Collaborative Project anthology. She has collaborated with composers and poets on over twenty works.
Ms. Draper’s thirty years teaching dance include adjunct positions at University of Houston, San Jacinto College, and Houston Community College. To assist performers in interdisciplinary works, she developed Vocal Dance Technique and Stage Movement for Classical Singers. Ms. Draper currently serves as Guest Movement Instructor at Houston Grand Opera Studio and she teaches dance in the community including tap to adults.

ROSALYN NASKY is Austin, TX based choreographer and movement artist.  She received her B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Marymount Manhattan College in 2007.  After returning to Austin, she immediately immersed herself in local performance, creating dances for local ReadySetGo! productions, PILOT (Ft Worth), Dance Carousel, Big Range Austin, and Austin Works in Progress.  She has twice been nominated for Austin's best dancer by the Austin Critic's Table Awards, most recently for the performance of her evening-length solo, Temple.  Rosalyn is thrilled to be a part in Big Range 2011.

ALEX SOARES is a dancer, performance artist, and overall curious person who likes to attempt impossible things. Born and raised in Bahia, Brazil, Alex moved to Houston to study Psychology and Creative Writing at the University of Houston, graduating in 2006. Fascinated by the arts from a young age, Alex performed as an actor with Passagem and Nauau Theatre troupes before he discovered dance and what dancers can do (!!) He’s since cultivated a passion for movement and is influenced by native Brazilian rhythms as well as by the clicks, clacks and thumps in his head. Alex is a member of Frame Dance Productions and Suchu Dance in Houston, Texas.

LINDSEY THOMPSON began dancing as a child with her mom, Janet Thompson, and Paula Evelo, a close second. She has continued to ever since. Lindsey performed with the University of Houston Ensemble for two years. During that time, she was awarded Choreographer of the year 2002 and received the Outstanding Dancer Award 2003. Her choreography has been performed for the Gala at the American College Dance Festival, the UH faculty concert, and the Big Range Dance Festival. Lindsey joined Suchu Dance in the fall of 2004 and tends to find a way to support that habit. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Media from University of Houston. In her own artmaking Lindsey seeks to establish significant and complimentary roles of visual art and performance. Concepts are explored through a variety of media to hone in on a vocabulary which best articulates the prevailing ideas. LSarah.com

ROSIE TRUMP is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, performer, educator and the artistic director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance.  With a hybrid artistic practice, Trump’s work navigates the creative fusion between dance and media.   Her work examines subject matter such as representations of femininity, domesticity, identity and intimacy.  She is the Assistant Director of the Rice University dance program and the Artistic Director of the Rice University Dance Theater.  Trump holds a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University and a MFA in Experimental Dance Choreography from the University of California, Riverside. Her choreography and dance film have been presented throughout the Northeastern United States, Los Angeles and Houston areas. www.rosietrump.org