Artists & Projects Directory
Dean Moss/Gametophyte Inc.
KACIE CHANG
Kacie Chang received her BFA in Dance from Florida State University in 1991. She has danced with Risa Jaroslow, Poppo and the Gogo Boys, Nai-Ni Chen, Wendy Blum, the Butoh Rockettes and Richard Move. Kacie has been working with Dean Moss for over fifteen years. She is glad to be joining the cast of "Nameless forest", her sixth project with Dean, as his work reliably provides such enjoyable performance challenges. She hopes her experiences as a mother of two young boys can provide a valuable perspective.
ERIC CONROE
Eric Conroe is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and writer, educated in
Dance and Literature at Bennington College in Vermont. In addition to dancing
for Dean Moss in Nameless forest, he has also had the pleasure of working
with Julian Barnett and Susan Sgorbati. Recently, he has presented his
choreographic work in Queens (Green Space), Brooklyn (AUNTS Roadshow), many
times at Mascher Space (Philadelphia), and at the Marfa Theatre (Marfa, Texas).
His writing has appeared in The American Drivel Review, Poetic Diversity,
SILO, and elsewhere. This is his first project with Dean.
AARON HODGES
Aaron Hodges is an actor, musician and sound designer from the southern states. A 2006 Circle in the Square Theater School graduate, he has performed and
designed sound in original works at The Players Theater, The Chocolate Factory,
Chashama and, most recently, Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York City. His
band, Holy Spirits, is currently recording and performing around NYC.
PEDRO JIMENEZ
Pedro likes
farms flowers freedom and honesty. His expression has been increasingly driven
from some earlier expressions remembered such as neighborhood sports, playground
games, Man Hunt, water balloon fights, the Mickey Mouse Club, Living in South
Florida, Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King JR, Getting Arrested and Put into
Jail at age 16 for using his school Metro Card on a Non-School day, Aggressive
Inline Skating and from his Mother, Father, Sisters, Brothers, Friends, the
everyday and You. Pedro recently has worked with Beautiful people such as Arthur
Aviles, Claire Barratt, Noemie Lafrance, Mei-Yin Ng, Richard Rivera, Dean Moss,
and with Michael Leleux for a Dance Video Project responding to AIDS. He has
been involved with HIV & AIDS awareness, and as a teaching artist. Pedro
thanks god for Life and thanks those who live with their hearts, with Love -You
are a great inspiration to me! He believes and
is for "a World without Strangers" thank you Sungmyung Chun!
DJ McDONALD
As playwright, director and choreographer, DJ McDonald has been the creator of
three full-length music theater works. He has directed and/or choreographed
more than a dozen book musicals, a half dozen straight plays, and two operas;
served as co-producer, co-director and choreographer for 15 original dinner
theatre reviews 4 seasons of professional cabaret, and 2 seasons of stand-up
comedy. He headed his own professional modern dance and theater
company for 15 years and was one of seven American choreographers chosen by the
American Dance Festival to tour France, as part of the first Franco‑American
young choreographers exchange. In addition to performing with his own troupe, he
has appeared with the dance companies of Andrew DeGroat, Jeanie Hutchins,
Yoshiko Chuma, Pina Bausch, David Dorfman, and Mikhail Baryshnikov
(White Oak). He has taught dance to young people as a faculty member at the high
school and college level, and created or collaborated in several innovative
dance and theater projects in middle and elementary schools. Having contributed
as a writer for the Village Voice and other publications, he now hosts
and creates arts and culture commentary on the blog "City Of Glass" and at Culturebot.
SARI NORDMAN
Sari
Nordman has presented her choreography in the US and Finland since 1996. She is
currently choreographi
ng for a play that will receive its debut at the Columbia
University in February 2010. Working as a dancer with choreographers Douglas
Dunn, Dean Moss,
Susan Rethorst and Melinda Ring has been influential in shaping
her own work. She holds an M.F.A. degree in modern dance from NYU/Tisch School
of the Arts. www.myspace.com/sarinordman