Artists & Projects Directory
Dean Moss/Gametophyte Inc.
KACIE CHANG
Kacie Chang has worked with Dean Moss for the past 15 years and was Rehearsal
Assistant for Nameless forest. She has taught performance workshops at Yale University,
Elm City Dance Collective, Dancing Dialogue, and Florida State
University. Her
choreography has been presented in New
York by Dances for Wave Hill, New Steps, and BAX. As
a performer, she has danced with Risa Jaroslow, Poppo and the Gogo Boys, Nai-Ni
Chen, Wendy Blum, the Butoh Rockettes and Richard Move.
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 grew up in an Army family that moved about in the southern
states. He is a 2006 Circle in the Square Theater
School graduate. He
has performed, written or sound designed for various original works, with
friends, at The Chocolate Factory, Chashama, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The
Public Theater, The Players Theater, Brick Theater, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
His band, Holy Spirits, records and performs in NYC and around the US.
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
DJ McDonald 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. He has
appeared with the dance companies of Andrew DeGroat, Jeanie Hutchins, Yoshiko
Chuma, Pina Bausch, David Dorfman, and Mikhail Baryshnikov (White Oak). He now
writes and hosts culture commentary on the blog "City Of Glass" and at Culturebot.
SARI NORDMAN
Sari Nordman is originally from Finland. She makes dances
and most recently has performed her work at AUNTS, the Bronx Academy of Arts and
Dance!, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Columbia University, Danspace Project, Dixon Place
and Movement Research at the Judson Church. She has worked as
a dancer with choreographers Tymberly Canale, Douglas Dunn, Naomi Goldberg Haas,
Dean Moss, Robin Rapoport, Susan Rethorst and Melinda Ring. She is a recipient
of American Scandinavian Society's cultural grant. She holds an M.F.A. degree in
modern dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.