Ellis Wood
Dance
Bricoleur means someone who invents his or her own strategies for using existing materials in a creative, resourceful, and original way. In a kind of meditative state, this new work will explore all avenues of creating a dance work with what is at hand. The dancers will use chosen materials placed on the stage to create a world that suits their own personal needs and desires for living, discovering something about themselves along the way. The work will be highly technical, physical, with an intense dramatic edge. Movement will prevail, with a strong theatrical expression of each performers own journey. Costumes will be by Naoko Nagata, live and recorded music by Yael Acher, and set design by Ed Rawlings.
Ellis Wood is the Founding and Artistic Director of Ellis Wood Dance. She choreographs and teaches at universities both nationally and abroad. Wood was nominated for a 2006 United States Artists Fellowship and was awarded a 2006 Joyce SoHo Residency. She received a 2002 NYFA Fellowship in choreography, and was one of ten choreographers in NYC nominated for the Emerging Choreographer Award given by the Downtown Arts Festival in collaboration with the Colbert Foundation.