AGUA TRIP

One cool evening in Clarksville, Tennessee in 2000, Bill Carrasco and Lindsey Boise decided to form AGUA TRIP. Two years later, they came to New York in search of new scenes and collaborations. Today, Bill and Lindsey have recorded and produced two LPs, Baseado (2001) and Breakfast Translations (2005), and one EP, Agua Trip (2003). They have performed together in contexts swinging from rowdy, dimly lit East Village basement-bars to festive rooftop-gardens and from red-velvety off-Broadway theatres to seductive Brooklyn boudoirs. They are co-creators of The Moveable Feast along with Kyla Barkin and Ginger Burden.

Bill Carrasco is a songwriter and a self-taught musician (guitar, piano, and saxophone). In France, he formed his first band in 1998 called Comfort Zone, a French-Brazilian-Mexican-American band. He has an M.A. in Latin American Literature and a Ph.D. in Semiotics. He is currently working at Barnard College.

Born and raised in a family of musicians, Lindsey Boise learned to play the trombone, the guitar, the bass, the mandolin, and just about everything else from Tennessee to Quebec. He was part of the ska-punk scene in Nashville, playing with The Digits and SuperSloth. He has a B.A. in French and German and currently works as a webmaster, tutor and musician.

Agua Trip is currently promoting their work in every possible venue, bending much of their strength of vision towards the use of their music in conjunction with visual media such as film, dance, video installations, animation and whatever is new. They are continuously composing, recording and performing new songs and they highly value cooperation and collaboration and invite other artists to inquire about the possibilities of working together (i.e. The Moveable Feast!).

They have performed at the Sneak Preview, the Midnight Snack, Pick Up Sticks and Accidental Wilderness.

www.aguatrip.com OR main@aguatrip.com

KYLA BARKIN

KYLA BARKIN (Dancer/Choreographer/Organizer) left for Granada, Spain from Tempe, Arizona in 1991. There she studied with "La Mariquilla" at the Academia de Ballet Flamenco. Upon return to the U.S., she first attended Arizona State University, then earned her BA in dance from UCLA. Kyla has been dancing with Janis Brenner & Dancers since 1993, with whom she has had the pleasure of touring to countries such as Indonesia, Russia, and Taiwan as well as teaching and setting works at various places including the Julliard School. In New York City, Kyla has performed with Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends (since 2003), The Doug Elkins Dance Company, Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Kun-Yang Lin, Naomi Goldberg, Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, Jon Zimmerman, Jenny Jacobsson, Stephen Koplowitz, and others. Her own work has also been presented across the U.S.. In New York City her choreography has been shown at The Merce Cunningham theatre, Dance space, and Dixon Place. She has been on the faculty of USDAN Center for Performing Arts and enjoys teaching classes, private lessons and workshops in modern technique and improvisation for adults and children internationally. Kyla is also a Fitness Professional and a Medical Exercise Specialist, a yoga teacher/therapist, has published both poetry and prose and has a demo CD as a singer/songwriter. Ms. Barkin is thrilled to be a part of The Moveable Feast!

She has choreographed for and performed at the Sneak Preview, the Midnight Snack, Pick Up Sticks and Accidental Wilderness.

You may contact Kyla at kybird48@aol.com

JANIS BRENNER

JANIS BRENNER is an award-winning dancer/choreographer/singer/teacher and is Artistic Director of Janis Brenner & Dancers in N.Y. She has toured in 30 countries and is recognized as a "singular performer" (Eye On Dance) with a multifaceted artistic range. Ms.Brenner's awards include a 1997 NY Dance and Performance Award (a "Bessie") for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Meredith Monk's work "The Politics of Quiet", a 1999 "Bessie" nomination for her performance in "Solo for Janis" choreographed by Richard Siegal, a 1996 Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography in L.A. for the collaborative work "Tom's Renaissance", a 1993 Leach Fellowship for Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts from Empire State College and a NY Dance On Camera Festival award (1986).

Ms. Brenner's work and company have been honored with numerous grants including nine from the Harkness Foundation for Dance (1991-00), the NY Foundation for the Arts (2002), the Asian Cultural Council (2001), the U.S. State Department (2000), The Fund for US Artists at International Festivals (2002), Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art (2000), Dance Magazine (1990), Meet The Composer ('91, '96), Vogelstein Foundation (1987), Manhattan Community Arts Fund ('96, '99, '01), Grand Marnier Foundation ('96, '98) and a commission for the interdisciplinary work, "The Memory of All That" from the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (1999). Her work has been commissioned/restaged on companies and colleges in Germany, Sweden, France, Taiwan, Indonesia and throughout the U.S., such as CloudGate 2 Company and Dance Forum Taipei (Taiwan), Ririe Woodbury Dance Company (Utah), Pacific Dance Ensemble (LA), Atrek Contemporary Dance (St. Louis), TanzForum (Cologne, Gr.), Balettakademien (Stockholm), University of Utah @ Salt Lake City (work chosen for the 1998 National American College Dance Festival at The Kennedy Center in Wash., D.C.), UCLA (7 works), California State University @ Long Beach, North Carolina School of the Arts, Hofstra, Adelphi and Roger Williams Universities, University of Illinois @ Champaign-Urbana, University of Massachusetts @ Amherst, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in NYC and many others. Her new version of "heartSTRINGS" for 18 dancers premiered at Juilliard in the Fall of 2004. She is a sought-after master teacher conducting workshops in technique, improvisation, composition, repertory and vocal work.

Ms, Brenner has also been performing with Meredith Monk and the Vocal Ensemble since 1990 (on ECM Records) and performs an acclaimed vocal suite from Monk's "Songs from the Hill" in concert. She and composer/vocalist Theo Bleckmann have recorded their work "Mars Cantata" available on CD from EARrelevant Music. She has been co-choreographer for Michael Moschen (1988-92: BAM's Next Wave Festival, US tours and PBS' Great Performances), a soloist with Annabelle Gamson's company (1984-87) performing historic repertory of Mary Wigman, Duncan and others, and a soloist with the Murray Louis Dance Company (1977-84) working with Rudolf Nureyev, Placido Domingo, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joseph Papp, Bat Sheva Dance Company in Israel and Alwin Nikolais. In 1998 Ms. Brenner had her first two memoir essays published by DanceView Magazine in Washington, DC. In 1997 BUZZ Magazine in LA wrote, "Dancer, choreographer, singer - Brenner is that rare contemporary performer who can do it all." She was on the Board of The Gender Project in NY, which seeks to empower women in dance, and is on the Advisory Board of The Yard in Chilmark, MA.

Since 2001, Brenner has traveled three times to Indonesia (Java and Bali), twice with the company, on a U.S. State Department "American Artists Abroad" grant to perform, teach and choreograph, and through the US Embassy in Jakarta. She has also toured twice to Senegal, West Africa through the US Embassy in Dakar and UNESCO to conduct workshops for a large, site-specific work and to help establish the ZOA theatre arts academy. Her on-going work for JB& D, A "Peace" For Women, premiered in September 2000 at Madison Square Garden for 5,600 people on the "Celebration for Peace" Concert in honor of the United Nations Millennium Summit Conference. The company's second collaboration with the UN occurred on November 10, 2004.

She choreographed for the Midnight Snack.

Visit her at jannisbrenner.com

ROBERTO CARRASCO

Roberto Carrasco (Emcee/Host) has a multi-faceted background as an operatic light-lyric/leggiero tenor, concert soloist, theater/musical theater performer, comic, and lifetime surfer and skateboarder. His singing career has taken him to opera houses and theaters across the USA and Eastern Europe. His credits include over 40 stage roles, 12 concert soloist positions, appearances on local and international television/radio broadcasts, and an original score for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. In addition, he has appeared under the baton and on stage with such noted artists as Placido Domingo (LA Opera), Kent Nagano (LA Opera, LA Philharmonic), Denyce Graves, Anthony Laciura, and Bobby McFerrin. Roberto holds a BM in Music Education from Chapman University, CA and did his Master's studies at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. He is excited to host the Moveable Feast and appear alongside the many talented artists participating in this event.

He has performed and MCed at the Sneak Preview, the Midnight Snack, Pick Up Sticks and Accidental Wilderness.

You can contact Roberto at recarrasco@hotmail.com
or www.classicalsinger.com/sites/index.php?user_id=81309

JIMMY "JUICE" DE PEÑA

His work was displayed at the Midnight Snack.

You can contact Jimmy at jjuice@hotmail.com

ISABEL GOTZKOWSKY

Isabel Gotzkowsky, originally from Germany, came to New York City and DNA (formerly Dance Space Center) in the summer of 1988 to pursue a career in dance. She has had the opportunity to study and perform with a variety mentors and choreographers, such as Laurie DeVito and Jennifer Muller. She joined the DNA Faculty in 1995 and formed Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends (IGaF) in 1998. Since its inception the company has performed Isabel's work in a variety of venues in New York, such as Joyce SoHo, The Kitchen, P.S. 122 and Dance Space Project as well as nationally in New Jersey, Massachusetts and California. Internationally, IGaF has been seen in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Africa. IGaF was awarded the prestigious company residency at The Yard in Chilmark, MA in 2001 and an artist residency at White Oak Plantation in Yulee, FL in 2004. Isabel has also served on the faculties at Montclair University, NJ, Dance Forum and Ballet Arts, NYC, and she continues to be an artist in residence at Dance Loft In Rorschach, Switzerland.

She has choreographed for the Midnight Snack, Pick Up Sticks and Accidental Wilderness.

You can contact Isabel at www.isabelgo.org

SHERAMY KEEGAN-TURCOTTE

Sheramy Keegan-Turcotte, originally from Massachusetts, graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance Performance from Shenandoah Conservatory and an AA in Dance from Dean College. She has performed with a variety of choreographers including Noemie Lafrance/SENS Production, Jana Hicks, Avila/Weeks Dance, Jane Franklin Dance, Cornfield Dance, Nina Buisson, Silver-Brown Dance, Ko-Ryo Dance Theater, and The Next Stage Project among others. She is currently working with Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends and Lexington Dance Collective. Sheramy also works as a Pilates instructor and dance researcher.

She performed at the Midnight Snack.

You can contact Sheramy at pilatesathome@verizon.net

ESTHER LEE KIM

I was born and raised in New Jersey. I moved to New York 6 years ago. I have been working as a designer since 2002 at W Magazine, Details Magazine, USA Weekend Magazine, Popular Science Magazine, Glamour Magazine and Country Home Magazine. Currently, I am working at Traditional Home Magazine as Senior Designer and have been doing so since July of 2005.

She designed and printed the programs for the Sneak Preview, the Midnight Snack, Pick Up Sticks and she printed and designed the flyers for all of those plus Accidental Wilderness.

I can be reached via e-mail at estherlkim@yahoo.com

ERIN LAUBENHEIMER

Erin participated in the Moveable Feast, Special Sneak Preview, where she exhibited a number of her paintings.

GIL NAVEH

Gil Naveh was born in Boston, MA, and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. He studied at the Rubin Music & Dance Academy, Jerusalem, before dancing with "Ido Tadmor Dance Company" and "Fresco Dance Group" in Tel Aviv. He had also worked with choreographers Emanuel Gat, Yosi Youngman, Shlomi Bitton, Rina Schonfeld and others.

He was manager and host of "Gevald, Gallina, Gevald!" a stand up drag show in Jerusalem, and is a professional make up artist. He also trained and was a teacher for ballet, point, jazz, folk and modern, at "Mehola - The Center of Dance in Jerusalem."

He was a news editor for YNET.CO.IL and for the Israel Defense Forces Radio internet broadcast.

Since he moved to NYC in September 2005, he had worked with Sasha Soreff Dance Theater and briefly with Les Ballets Trockadero Des Monte Carlo. This is his first season with Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends.

He performed at Pick Up Sticks.

CINDY SIBILSKY

Cindy Sibilsky is a sculptor/painter, actress, dancer, writer, and a believer and partaker in all forms are art including the art of living in this great city! She began sculpting with modeling clay at the age of 4 and has not stoped since then, moving on to various mediums and finding her niche. Much of her art is drawn from her own life experiences. She has had her works displayed in places around the city, but this is her first official show and she is very honored and thrilled to be a part of such a unique and powerful experience of art of all kinds!

She exhibited her work at Pick Up Sticks.

Email her at cindysonata@hotmail.com

SARAH SMITH

Sarah Smith was born and raised in Fort Worth, TX. After studying at various local dance studios and her public high school dance program she was invited to be a part of the Broaway Theatre Project in Tampa, FL where she was able to train and work with legends such as Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking, Gregory Hines, and Julie Andrews among others. She attended Texas Christian University and Graduated with a B.P.A. in Dance Performance from Oklahoma City University where her passion for Tap dance blossomed. While attending OCU she performed and toured with the American Spirit Dance Company. She moved to NYC in 2004 to persue a career in Musical Theatre. The highlight of her career as of yet is playing a dancing poinsettia among other christmas characters in Neil Goldberg's Christmas Dreams in Branson, MO. She is delighted to be creating and collaborating with others in The Moveable Feast.

She choreographed for and performed at Pick Up Sticks.

You can contact her at sarahdsmith@hotmail.com

THIS PRODUCTION

They produced an ambiant projection the Midnight Snack.

thisproduction@gmail.com

TONES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Jacob Gossett and James Guastaferro are two songwriters/performers that are in love with artistic creation. We have been exchanging musical ideas and collaborating for the past four years. In this time we formed the band Panacea and played out around New York City. We cut two studio demos and one live demo with this band. As of recently we have branched off and started a new two-man project that we hope will evolve into a full band (tentatively named Tones From The Underground). We are extremely excited to be participating in the Moveable Feast and are showcasing songs from our new project in these events.

They have performed at the Sneak Preview, the Midnight Snack, Pick Up Sticks and Accidental Wilderness.

Contact: tonesfromtheunderground@yahoo.com
myspace.com/tonesfromtheunderground

UNAVOIDABLE DELAY

Unavoidable Delay is a musical project of Kyla Barkin and Bill Carrasco. They have recorded one demo and continue to make music. See individual bios for more details.

They performed at Pick Up Sticks.

SANDRA VÁZQUEZ

Sandra Vázquez is a life long devotee of world mythologies and narratives if admittedly partial to the Greek anthology. She is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in Hispanic Studies and a passion for Archaeology, Literature and History. Traveling, cooking and friends are her sanctuaries. She is currently working on her first novel.

She read from her work at the Midnight Snack.

TED WEINBAUM

Ted Weinbaum grew up in Illinois and studied film at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He has been making short films off and on for several years. He works for an independent film distributor in NYC where he manages DVD production and also makes movie trailers.

He showed an ambiant series of images at the Sneak Preview and a short film at the Midnight Snack.