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Founder + Artistic Director, Alexandra Taylor received her MFA from the University of Oregon Department of Dance in 2010. While at UO, she also held a teaching fellowship in modern, jazz, ballet, tap, improvisation, hip hop and kinesiology. Alex’s research focuses were separated into two different scopes - Composition and Dance Science. She continues her studies and compositional experiments in open collaboration methods with her company and seeks other artists who value the same ideals of community collaboration. Alex also continues her love for dance science through injury prevention and recovery by working with the remarkable Sports Medicine based doctors at Duke Chiropractic.
Alex is also a founding member of the transnational dance collective, TRANSForm Dance Collective – a group of dance artists whose lives intersected at the University of Oregon and annually holds teaching residencies at Universities, studios, or local arts centers and fully produces evening length dance concerts open to and involving the community.
Always looking for other ways to create, Alex frequently finds a way to meet up with her beloved dance photographer, Ari Denison, to explore new projects in both still photography and videography.
Alex’s work has been seen in multiple venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, NY, as well as in Oregon, Michigan, California, North Carolina and Minnesota. She has also taught in various locations around the U.S. including New York, Oregon, California, North Carolina, Minnesota and Michigan. She has performed in works by Alexandra Beller, Esther m Palmer, SINedoche Dance Company, Valerie Ifill, Ann Thomas Moffett, and Erin Cairns Cella.
Collaborating Artists
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Ari Denison is an artist and photographer based in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally from Oregon, Ari began photographing dance while working as an intern with Eugene Ballet Company photographer, Cliff Coles in 1995. Since then Ari has worked and collaborated with a number of professional dance companies and numerous dancers and choreographers around the United States. Always working to find a balance between a background in photojournalism, and formal training in studio art and drawing, Ari’s work walks a line between narrative, documentary and illustrative photographic aesthetic. Paris | Tango is Ari’s first project collaborating with dancers in Europe.
Ari has a bound portfolio of images entitled STUDIO SESSIONS: Collaborations with Dancers available on blurb.com. Images from the Paris | Tango show will be bound in another Blurb portfolio and will be available by late August, 2012.
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| Photo: Shannon Knight |
Celie Erickson, a lover of movement and all things creative, was born and raised in Hamilton, Montana where, at a very young age, her love for dance was sparked by her mom, a dance teacher. Her earlier years were spent performing for River Street Dance Theater and eventually teaching for River Street during high school and college. Celie has a B.A. in dance from the University of Oregon. While at the U of O, she performed in the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company for two seasons. Celie has had the pleasure of performing work by many wonderful choreographers such as Gabriel Masson, Susan Marshall, Angela Banchero-Kelleher, Nicole Bradley-Browning, Alexandra Taylor and Shannon Mockli. Celie has been happily exploring New York City since relocating in 2011.
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| Photo: Shannon Knight |
David C. Horton, composer, performer, and dancer, is a native of Southern California. He earned his B.M. in Composition and Keyboard Studies at Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), and a M.M. in Composition (emphasis in dance collaboration) from the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR).
David has performed with several prominent Pacific Northwest ensembles and programs, including PLU's Choir of the West, the Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium in Eugene, Oregon, and has been a featured artist with Busking Theatre Company in Eugene, Oregon, (Alex)andra Taylor Dance in New York City, New York, and the TRANSForm Dance Collective.
David’s compositions cover an expansive scope of instrumentation, from solo and chamber music to symphonic compositions and electronic music. David has composed for and collaborated with professional musicians, choreographers, and ensembles. His music has been described as, “an immense gathering of emotions; highly diverse, textural, ethereal, vibrant, and powerful.” As a dancer, David strives to incorporate dynamic and gestural energy in both composition and performance. David is currently living, dancing, collaborating, and performing in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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| Photo: Peter Hurley |
Valerie Miller grew up dancing in Alexandra Taylor's mother's studio in Michigan and grew up some more while dancing at Barnard College. She has studied performance at Syracuse U., Indiana U., American Musical Theatre of San Jose, NYU Tisch (Dublin), and Studio 5 (Brooklyn & Bali). In New York, she has had the privilege of dancing with Donlin Foreman, Kimberly Bartosik, Candace Tabbs, Kyle Abraham, Jon Kinzel, and Larry Keigwin. Valerie can be seen dancing in a space suit on Nickelodeon's "Team Umizoomi."
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| Photo: Michael Brinkerhoff |
Michelle Friend began her dance training in her hometown of Walnut Creek, California and graduated from the University of Oregon with a BA in Dance. Michelle has performed in works by Walter Kennedy, Brad Garner, Shannon Mockli, Holly Johnston, Helen Pickett, and currently apprentices for Bryn Cohn and Artists. Michelle began working with Alex while at the U of O and is excited to be continuing to work together since her recent move to NYC!
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Alyssa Caliendo
Erin Cairns Cella
Julie Goldberg
Sarah Lehman
Joanna Nobbe
Rachel Slaughter
Julia Vickers
Past Dancers with ATD
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Emily Leonard
So we go there, where nothing is waiting, Part I (2011)
In the Kitchen (2011)
With Bated Breath (2010)
After Hours in the Parlour Room (2011, 2009)
