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Kirstie Simson has been a continuous explosion in the contemporary dance scene, bringing audiences into contact with the vitality of pure creation in moment after moment of virtuoso improvisation. Called "a force of nature" by the New York Times, she is an award-winning dancer and teacher who has "immeasurably enriched and expanded the boundaries of New Dance" according to Time Out Magazine, London. Simson’s eternal subject is freedom, as she dares to go beyond the boundaries of form and structure to create movement out of the rhythm of life itself. She has collaborated with many different dancers and musicians, including Julyen Hamilton, Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, Katie Duck, Pauline de Groot, Andrew Harwood, Peter Jones etc. |
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Darrell Jones has performed in the United States and abroad with a variety
of choreographers and companies such as Bebe Miller, Urban Bush Women, Ronald K.
Brown, Min Tanaka, Ralph Lemon and KOKUMA Dance Theater. Along with performing,
Darrell continues to choreograph and teach. He has collaborated with other choreographers;
Kirstie Simson, Angie Hauser, Jeremy Wade, Lisa Gonzales, Paige Cunningham and writer,
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, musicians; Jessie Mano, Brian Schuler, DJ Franco De Leon, and
designer, Mawish Syed, in dance films, documentations and interactive multimedia
installations. In addition to his collaborative work Darrell has also choreographed
and produced group projects; “third swan from the end” (2007) and “Whiff of Anarachy”
commissioned by Chicago based dance company, The Seldoms (2009). Darrell is presently
a full-time, tenure-track faculty member at The Dance Center of Columbia College
in Chicago. His classes are informed by his training and studies in a variety of
contemporary dance techniques and traditional dance forms. He has taught workshops
and master classes in dance technique, improvisational processes and the voguing
aesthetic throughout the United States and in other countries such as South Africa,
UK and South Korea. He will be rehearsing and touring two separate projects with
Cross Performance/Ralph Lemon and Bebe Miller Company in 2010-2011.
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