Current Contributor Biographies
Rachel Carrico
Snaps, Clicks, Ticks, Tocks: Temporality and Fingertips
Rachel Carrico is a performer, teacher, and performance scholar in New York City. She holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, an M.A. in Secondary Education and a B.A. in English from Truman State University in Kirksville MO. Her notions of tempo-realities were recently reevaluated while performing the historic redoing of Alan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts during PERFORMA07 (November 2007). Another of Rachel’s articles, “Lakeviews: A Bus Tour as a Vehicle for Regrowth in New Orleans”, appears in a recent issue [53:1 (T197)] of The Drama Review.
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Erika DeFreitas
Deaths, Memorials, Births
Erika DeFreitas is a Scarborough based emerging artist whose practice is primarily conceptual. Through performance, public interventions, relational exchanges, and photographic documentation, she explores the influence of language, loss, and culture on the formation of identity. She has exhibited projects in artist-run centers in Canada and the United States. Erika is a recent graduate from the Masters of Visual Studies graduate program at the University of Toronto.
Website: www.erikadefreitas.com
Email: Erika DeFreitas
Simon Ellis
The Timed Body
Simon Ellis is a New Zealand born independent artist whose practice has included site-specific investigations, dance on screen, writing, digital outcomes, black box works, and installation. He has a practice-led PhD (investigating improvisation, remembering, documentation and liveness) and is currently the practice-led research fellow at the University of Northampton. He was recently commissioned to develop Gertrud for The Place Prize 2008, and later this year will also create a new screen project, Anamnesis. Previous choreographies include Full (2001), Lying (2002), Indelible (2003), Sleep. Wake. Dream (2004), Tight (2006), dad-project (2006), microflicks (2006), then/now (2007) and Them & Me (2008).
Website: www.skellis.net
Email: Simon Ellis
Nicole Eschen
Embodying the Past: Citing and Circulating Celebrity
Nicole Eschen is finishing her PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. Her dissertation, entitled “Performing the Past: Theatrical Revisions of Cold War Culture,” analyzes performances and plays that reimagine the 1940s and 1950s in order to both construct and critique contemporary U.S. identities.
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Michelle Lindenblatt
Ethnography of a PETA Protest: Looking Back by Keeping an Eye on the Future
Michelle Lindenblatt is currently a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at New York University where she is writing a thesis on the theatricality and performativity of the animal rights movement in the United States. Her interests include political performance and critical animal studies, in particular how animals and animal advocacy are culturally represented. She is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (2007).
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Hana van der Kolk
All at Once: Dancing The Ridge in New York City Parks
Hana van der Kolk is a Los Angeles-based artist. Her choreographic projects combine elements of conceptual practice with the techniques of postmodern choreographers such as Deborah Hay and take place in a wide range of sites, including the stage, studios and galleries, in writing, on film, and in outdoor, public spaces. The dispersal of these works, along with their highly collaborative nature, serves Hana's larger aim of overturning the fixed nature of a given dance by allowing for spontaneity and chance-occurrence within the predetermined aspects of the work. She recently collaborated on projects with Jesse Aron Green, My Barbarian, Robby Herbst, and Carolina San Juan. You can learn more about her May 2007 site-specific performance/participatory event at www.interimuses.org, and about the intensive practice-based, inter-disciplinary artist's residency that she will be directing in August 2008 at Sea and Space Explorations at www.genesisprojectla.org. Hana holds an MFA in choreography from UCLA.
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Email: Hana van der Kolk