Artists & Projects Directory

• Cie Heddy Maalem
• Dan Hurlin
• David Roussève/REALITY
• Emio Greco|PC
• Gregory Maqoma
• Kassys
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph
• Ralph Lemon
• Rha Goddess
• The America Project
• Yasuko Yokoshi

David Roussève/REALITY

Ashley Hunt (Visual Design)
Ashley Hunt is a visual artist and writer who works with video, mapping and installation to engage the thought and ideas of social movements, modes of learning and public discourse. His primary work of the past eight years has been the development of The Corrections Documentary Project (www.correctionsproject.com), which deals with the contemporary growth of prisons their growing centrality to today's economic restructuring and politics of race. Hunt's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as numerous grassroots and community based venues throughout the U.S. He is currently a fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and lives in Los Angeles where he teaches at the University of California at Irvine.

David Ferri (Lighting Design)
David Ferri has worked with prominent choreographers such as Pina Bausch, Shen Wei, Doug Varone, Jane Comfort, Eiko and Koma, Yin Mei and Ballet Preljocaj. He has been the Production Manager for the prestigious American Dance Festival since 1996, training upcoming designers in America. Recipient of 1987-1988 BESSIE Award for his design of Doug Varone's Straits and the 2000-2001 BESSIE Award for Sustained Achievement in Lighting Design. Mr. Ferri is the resident Lighting Designer - Technical Director for The Vassar College Dance Department, Mr. Ferri was also resident lighting designer and technical director at PS 122 from 1985-1991. Mr. Ferri lives in New York between his travels and projects.

Peter Melville (Set and Prop Design)
Peter Melville is a visual artist working in combined media production and design for performance. His visual artwork has been exhibited and collected in Canada, Japan, United States, and Germany. In 1980-85 he was a company member (Performer/TD/Design Associate/Film Curator) of the DIA Art Foundations Robert Whitman Theatre Project, an experimental theater group based in NYC.  Noted exhibitions and performance tours include Blam, Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-64, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984; and  -60-80  attitudes/concepts/images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1982. Melville has been a Resident lighting Designer for the Whitney Museum of American Arts Performance Series, and was the faculty TD at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Performing Arts Institute, 1985-2001. Melville's designs for dance have been seen in works by Doug Varone, Lance Gries, the Wooster Group, Marianne Kim, Cheng-Chieh Yu, and David Rousseve.  He is the Production Director & Resident Designer for Yu Dance Theater in LA.  Recent lecturing includes the Gaungzhou Art Academy and the ATV Gaungdong Performing Arts Academy in China as well as currently with UCLA's Department of Worlds Arts and Cultures, and Crossroads School in Santa Monica.  Recent LA area artist residencies have been with the LA Department of Cultural Affairs, the SMARTS Program, The HeArt Project, and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.

David Karagianis (Sound Design)
David Karagianis, composer, sound designer, and musician is the Music Director of Loyola Marymount University's Department of Theater and Dance. David's eclectic range and interests span film, dance, concert recital, theater and multi-media performance genres as well as classical, experimental, electronica, jazz, world, rock, pop and ambient stylistic boundaries. Information about recordings, projects and workshops by David may be found at www.sounddance.net.

Marianne M. Kim (Assistant Director)
Marianne M. Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working in performance and video art. Her most recent projects include Disorientalism with New York media artist Katherine Behar and Security System V.1-5 with Chicago performance artist Joseph Ravens. The most recent presentations include Zendai MoMA in Shanghai, Total Museum in Seoul, Collision Symposium at the University of Victoria, MAN.In.FEST International Experimental Theatre Festival in Romania, DeBalie Center for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam and D.U.M.B.O Arts Festival. Independently, Marianne has directed theatre for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and the ARGE Kultur House in Austria. Her video work has been screened at festivals, galleries, and performance spaces in Portugal, Atlanta, New York City, Anchorage, Salzburg, Moscow, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Ontario, Cluj-Napoca and throughout the Midwest. Marianne has been a guest artist for Yu Dance Theatre, Simone Forti, Joe Goode, Johannes Birringer, Richard Maxwell, Deborah Hay, and Katsura Kan. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Jacob K. Javits Foundation, and several grants from the Chicago Artists Assistance Grants, Durfee Foundation and NEA/Dance USA to create new work. She received Chicago’s Ruth Page Award for Choreography and Performance in 1999 and was nominated for a 2002 Lester Horton Award. She is currently an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance Department. www.mariannekim.com

Leah Piehl (Costume Design)
Theater and Dance credits include Yes is a Long Time (Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles), Miss Julie (Sledgehammer Theater, San Diego), Robots vs. Fake Robots (Powerhouse Theater, Santa Monica), Floyd on the Floor, (Performa Commission, Judson Memorial Church, NYC), The Boomerang Kid (Powerhouse), Big Death and Little Death (The Road Theater, LA), New Plays Festival w/Naomi Iizuka (UCSB), The Best Man (East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre, LA), No Mercy (24th Street Theatre, LA), Michele Vinaver’s 911 (REDCAT, Frictions Festival Dijon, Théatre National de la Colline, Paris), Erik Ehn’s Medusachrist (REDCAT) and Bull Spears (La Tea Theater, NYC). Music video credits include Killola, Frankie Valli, Rocco DeLuca and the Burden, Black Light Burns, Giant Drag, Mitchell Schaffer and Skopic. Film and Television credits include The Macabre World of Lavender Williams, Buzzkill, Hobos, and the pilot Mullercize It! with Thomas Lennon & R. Ben Garant of Reno 911. Leah has a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Theater from CalArts.