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Molly Rabinowitz|LiquidGrip
For over a decade, Molly Rabinowitz has been choreographing in New York City. Her company, LiquidGrip, was embraced by the dance community during its first season at Performance Space 122 in 1998. Since then, the company has had extensive performance engagements at venues worldwide including Dance Theatre Workshop (NYC), St. Mark's Church (NYC), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), Joyce Soho (NYC), The New Performance Gallery (San Francisco), Performance Mix (Philadelphia), Moveable Beast Dance Festival (Chicago), the Greenwich Dance Agency (London) and has toured Portugal three times including Festivals in Tomar and Porto.
Molly Rabinowitz creates dance of intense physicality, emphasizing flow, inversion, and momentum. The choreography is humorous, theatrical, and requires high-endurance from its accomplished performers. Visually, the work is captivating. The company's unique dances might involve a large soft white armchair or 100 silk flowers complete with aromatherapy. Recent creations include video installations that set the tone by giving a background to their characters.
Molly Rabinowitz|LiquidGrip is renowned for its complex partnering. The dancers often use each other as springboards to defy gravity. The pieces are structured to highlight the evolution of a partnering dynamic from passive/active roles to a more balanced equality. The work explores themes of struggle, competition, and the relationship between discipline and freedom. The work also takes a uniquely female perspective on dance, often playing with gender roles.
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Molly Rabinowitz has been choreographing in NYC for over a decade. Her company, Molly Rabinowitz|LiquidGrip, has performed in numerous venues throughout the US and internationally. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research and the recipient of two space grants at the 92nd St.Y.
Molly Rabinowitz is an AmSat certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (a major influence in her work) and has had a private teaching practice for the past thirteen years. In addition, Molly Rabinowitz has extensive teaching experience as a guest artist in both contemporary dance and the Alexander Technique. Recent teaching engagements include the State School for Modern Dance in Copenhagen, the Holborn Center for New Dance and the Greenwich Dance Agency in London, NYU's Performance Studies program, Bennington College, and Wesleyan University. She currently trains Alexander Technique teachers at Balance Arts, and teaches Yoga and the AT at Sloane Kettering's Integrative Medicine Center. Molly has taught dance and choreography at St. Ann's School in Brooklyn for over a decade.
A graduate of Wesleyan University (BA) with high honors in dance, Molly Rabinowitz is currently completing an MFA in Dance at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
“Molly Rabinowitz embodies that wondrous quality which distinguishes a dancer from an athlete. She has the remarkable ability to completely surrender her deliciously supple body to the curves and rhythms of movement, thereby kinesthetically communicating the phenomenal joy of frolicking freely within the forms of space.”
Lisa Jo Sagolla (Backstage Magazine)
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dancers
Karl Anderson has danced with Joe Goode and Stephanie Skura among many others. His own company, SLAMFEST, has performed in numerous venues in the US. Karl is a certified facilitator of the Skinner Releasing technique. He has been dancing with Molly since 1998.
Wendy Blum’s eccentric dances for Blum Dance Theatre have been presented since 1990 throughout New York City and in L.A., Philadelphia, CT, MA, Canada, and Italy. She is a Lincoln Center Teaching Artist. A graduate of Wesleyan University and NYU's Performance Studies, she has written on dance for the New York Times and other publications. She has been dancing with Molly since they met at Wesleyan University in 1986.
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Elizabeth Johnson attended North Carolina School of the Arts, holds a B.F.A. in Dance from George Mason University, and an M.F.A. in Performance and Choreography from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her choreography has been presented in New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Louisville, New Haven, CT, the Krannert Center for the Arts in Urbana, and was selected for Gala performance at the American College Dance Festival. Ms. Johnson also dances with David Parker and The Bang Group and Sara Hook Dances. She has taught at the University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Milwaukee campuses, and has conducted guest residencies at Texas Christian University, the Youth Performing Arts High School in Louisville, KY, and Wildspace Dance Company (Milwaukee). She is also the artistic director of her own company, Your Mother Dances.
Erika Kinetz has danced with Sarah Michelson and Yanira Castro among others. She also writes for the New York Times. She has been dancing with Molly since 1993.
Catey Ott recieved her dance MFA in 2006 and BFA in 1995 from UW-Milwaukee. She is the artistic director of Catey Ott Dance Collective based in NYC. She has danced for Heidi Latsky, Allyson Green, Sean Curran, Bill Young, Soundance, Gotham Group Dance, and Carrie Ahern. Her work has been performed at City/Dans at Danspace Project in 2003 and 2007, as well as at WAX, DUMBO, BAX, DNA, 92nd ST. Y, The Flea, Hatch, Solar One, and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors.
Rick Michalek was one of the leading dancers for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company for seven years. He also performed in Italy for Louis Falco, and with the North Carolina Dance Theatre under the artistic direction of Robert Lindgren. He has been dancing for Molly since 2000.
Carmelita Naval has performed her own madcap adventures in NYC at DTW's Fresh Tracks, Phat Tuesdays, and Chashama. She is a graduate of NYU's experimental theatre school. She has danced with Molly since 2002.
Erin Reck has performed in the work of many choreographers including David Newman and Jody Oberfelder. She also directs her own dance company, Torque Dance. She has danced with Molly since 2000.
Heather Waldon-Arnold has danced with Boston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance, and the Sean Curran company for whom she is the Associate Artistic director.
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composer
Justen Mullens' music has been performed in New York Jazz clubs such as Birdland, the Knitting Factory, Kavehaus, Detour, the Cutting Room, and the Savoy, as well as concert halls and performance spaces including BAM, University Settlement, the Nuyurican Poet's Cafe, Chashama, and Dixon Place. He has been commissioned to write in styles varying from chamber music to 'post-modern' jazz. In addition to recording his own work with the Justin Mullens Quintettte and the Delphian Jazz Orchestra, his writing has been featured on albums with the Dimitri Guravitch Quintet, the Los Medanos Jazz ensemble, and Ethan Eubanks. His new CD was recently released by Fresh Sounds and is available online and at J&R Music and Tower Records.
costume designer
Naoko Nagata started her first career as a biochemist in Japan before establishing herself as a premiere costume designer in NYC. Nagata’s first costume was created in 1998 for Jeanine Durning’s Dissolveat DTW. Since then, Nagata has been creating costumes for a diverse group of choreographers and dancers including David Dorfman Dance, Bebe Miller, David Neumann, Liz Lerman, Doug Elkins, Zvi Gotheiner, Nina Winthrope, Wendy Blum, Karl Anderson, Ellis Wood, and many many others.
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