2008-2009 Artists in Residence

Andrew Dinwiddie's choreography has been performed at Galapagos, P.S. 122, St. Anne's Warehouse, Ur, BAX, the Chocolate Factory, the Club at LaMama, Downstairs at the Ontological, the Red Humor Salon, Minneapolis' Bryant-Lake Bowl and WAX at University Settlement. He is a 2007-2009 Resident Artist at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, where he is making The Accursed Items, which will premiere at the Ontological Theater in September 2008. With Jeff Larson, he co-curates Catch, a bimonthly performance series that will destroy your mind with short works by emerging artists and downtown luminaries. Andrew is a performer with and the administrative director of David Neumann's advanced beginner group. He has also had the pleasure of performing for Big Dance Theater, Stacy Dawson, Nellie Tinder, Karinne Keithley, Sibyl Kempson, Jennie Marytai Liu, Ken Nintzel, Richard Maxwell, Linas Phillips, Kourtney Rutherford, Kate E. Ryan/13P, Jenny Seastone Stern and Chris Yon.

Abigail Browde is an actor, dancer, writer and director. Her performances have happened at the Catch! Series, WAX/The Bridge, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, Tricklock Performance Space, Red Humor Salon, Ephemeroptera, Jennifer Muller/The Works' Hatch Series, Minnesota Fringe (Encore Winner), Chicago's Single File Solo Performance Festival, and the Performance Project @ University Settlement. She is a core company member of Witness Relocation (In a Hall in the Palace of Pyrrhus, Dancing Vs. The Rat Experiment, The Passover Show, Bluebird, Thomas Lehman's Schreibstück), with whom she received a 2007 NY Innovative Theater Award. Abigail is the co-creator of (what happens to) Isabella Poudrador (www.IsabellaPoudrador.com), a web-based series of episodic films. She is also a contributor to SuperGroup, a performance group based in Minneapolis.

Abigail received her BFA from NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing and has studied performance with Goat Island Performance Group at the S chool of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently developing It's Hell in Here, a performance about a recluse, the secret service, and parallel universe science, for which she received a 2007 BAX Space Grant. She is also developing Josephine, a virtual house tour, which is being developed at the Performance Project @ University Settlement.

Sam Kim makes dances that draw attention to the margins of culture and behavior, creating space for vulnerability while courting danger. Since 2002, Sam has created a series of long works: "dumb dumb bunny" (The Kitchen, 2007), "Cult" (Dance Theater Workshop, 2007), "AVATAR" (Mulberry St Theater, 2006), "Nobody Understands Me" (Dance Theater Workshop, 2004), "Placid Baby" (Performance Space 122, 2003) and "Valentine" (Danspace Project at St. MarkÕs Church, 2002). SamÕs first work in progress of "Self Surgery," a crisp, diseased work about body panic, was recently seen at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Sam will also tour "AVATAR" to the Unknown Theater in Los Angeles, CA July 10-13, 2008. She has created several shorter works since 1997.

Sam's work has been presented and commissioned by venues such as Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122 and Danspace Project, in addition to other progressive venues such as Studio 303 (Montreal), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Galapagos Art and Performance Space and Movement Research among many others. Sam's work has been supported by awards from organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation/Multi Arts Production (MAP) Fund, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Movement Research, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange and the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Center. Sam was a 2004-05 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Victoria Libertore (aka Howling Vic) is performance artist, actress, playwright, improviser, curator, producer and teacher. She has performed her work throughout New York City (venues/companies such as PS122, terraNOVA Collective, Dixon Place, New Dance Alliance, HERE, Joyce SoHo, Joe's Pub, Six Figures and The Zipper Factory) as well as in Boston, DC, Montreal, Philadelphia, Provincetown and Toronto. Her work combines humor, sensuality and a touch of the inappropriate with a whole lot of heart. Her shows include The Should Dream, stalk(her), Camille: The Forgotten Artist and V-Ville. She has created this work in collaboration with Ryan Migge, Kimberly I. Kefgen, Sara Laudonia and Tony nominee Rebecca Feldman. She curates, produces and hosts her variety show Crones, Ducks & Babes.

Victoria has taught sold-out performance and burlesque workshops at BAX and Groove Mama Ink where she shares her original approach of using archetypal energy to create performance pieces. She has a BFA in Theatre Performance from Otterbein College. Her studies include Balinese mask with Per Brahe and Grotowski with Raïna von Waldenburg. Currently, she is working on two new solo shows: My Journey of Decay and Liza Recycles. She lives in Brooklyn where she also does intuitive readings. Learn more at www.howlingvic.com.

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Andrew Dinwiddie (photo: Karinne Keithley)
Abby Browde (photo: Michael Silverstone)
Sam Kim (photo: Ryan McNamara)
Victoria Libertore (photo: Stacie Joy)