Continually Healing
Featuring LEIMAY Fellows and Guest Artists
Teresa Fellion
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2021: OUTSIGHT
“Continually Healing continues research from a choreographic series I began in 2018 with my work reeling -> healing, which advances my aesthetic and content-driven inquiry of trauma, inaction, and eventual reconciliation; it emboldens audiences to embrace feelings of frustration to discover new channels for healing and growth.”
Documentation
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Continually Healing continues research from a choreographic series I began in 2018 with my work reeling → healing, which advances my aesthetic and content-driven inquiry of trauma, inaction, and eventual reconciliation. Research for the Healing Series continued in 2019 with Inwood Erases Hate With Love, a site specific development of this work, and in 2020 with my dance film Healing Currently Downloading. Continually Healing focuses on the events of 2020/2021 including the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, the stop AAPI hate movement, and climate change. While I do not hold a racially marginalized identity, my work reflects allyship. The involvement of racially diverse company dancers, their voices, and their stories based on their lived experiences, are crucial to this work while providing a platform for uplifting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices, not replacing them. My work emboldens audiences to embrace feelings of frustration to discover new channels for healing and growth.
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2021.7000.2Year Created
2021Date Recorded
20210902Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Toyota East Children's Learning Garden603 East 11th St, NYC
Created and performed by Teresa Fellion
with Nicole Kadar and Charly Wenzel
Teresa Fellion (she/they) founded BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance in 2011, after working as an independent choreographer since 2004. Teresa was named Artistic Liaison between Cameroon & the U.S. by President Paul Biya, while performing with National Ballet du Cameroun and at the National Soccer Cup Finals. She has performed for Lucinda Childs, Sarah Skaggs, Kimberly Young, M’Bewe Escobar, Skip
Costa, and Martha Bowers, and she has performed works by Twyla Tharp, Deganit Shemy, Liz Lerman, and Megan Boyd, among others. Teresa completed a Dance MFA from Sarah Lawrence under the Bessie Schonberg Scholarship, a Certificate from the Ailey School on scholarship, and a BA in French & English Literature with a minor in dance from NYU as a Merit Scholar. Since 2005, Fellion has employed dance,
live music, and theater with social justice at scores of NYC schools, organizations and professional performances as director of InterCATaction/Children’s Adaptive Theater and BodyStories: TFD, as Teaching Artist for DreamYard, Marquis, Women’s Project, CWP.
@bodystories_tfd
Nicole Kadar (collaborator) (she/her/hers) graduated with Honors in Dance from Skidmore College and holds an MA in Dance Education from Hunter College’s Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program. Nicole has worked with choreographers Robert Battle, Camille A. Brown, Nicole Corea, Teresa Fellion, Ruben Graciani, Erica Pujic, Jenny Rocha, Tamara Saari and Melissa Riker as well as directors Samantha Shay of Hopelandic Theatre Co. and Greg Taubman of Extant Arts Co. She freelances as a dancer, educator and choreographer. Nicole teaches at the The Ailey School, Ailey’s Arts In Education and Community Programs, RIOULT’s Dance Center and Fancy Feet. Nicole’s dances have been presented at Triskelion Art’s, the Ailey Studios, the Kaye Theater, Jennifer Muller’s Hatch Series, and the Queensboro
Dance Festival. In 2018 she created NK&D / a movement company – a company that focuses on bringing accessible dance to diverse audiences.
nicolekadar.com
Charly Wenzel (collaborator) is an award winning choreographer whose work has been presented in her native Germany, as well as at Dixon Place, Judson Church, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, The Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Steps on Broadway, The Secret Theater, Connecticut College and many other venues in and around New York. She choreographed and danced for several recording artists for live shows and for music videos. Charly received multiple awards for her dance films “Global Tides” and “Licht”, which have been screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. Charly was the Rehearsal Director and Associate Artistic Director of Naganuma Dance and she worked as the Rehearsal Director for Shadow Box Theater. Charly danced at the Bavarian State Opera in Germany and performed with
Naganuma Dance, Keila Cordova Dances,Regina Nejman & Company, Earl Mosley/Diversity of Dance, Erick Montes (Bill T. Jones), Bodystories: Teresa Fellion Dance, LolaLola Dance Theater,Eddie Stockton, Morningside Opera, Hydroflo Movement Company, Soul Movement and others. She is currently a performer in Third Rail Project’s Bessie award winning show “Then She Fell”. She is thrilled to be working
with all the incredibly talented artists of Bodystories: Teresa Fellion Dance!
Photos by Shige Moriya
OUTSIGHT is presented in partnership with New York Restoration Project and and Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company/SHARING THE STAGE.
LEIMAY works and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya Artistic and General Co-Directors
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