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Chris Ferris & Dancers |
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photo: Matthew Murphy |
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photo: Margaret Fox |
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Kayla Laufer, dancer |
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Warren Kloner, artist |
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Warren Kloner, is a painter and sculptor who has lived in New York for many years. He holds a BFA in sculpture from S.U.N.Y. at Purchase and a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. Over the years he has shown his work in many group shows in such galleries as Jack Tilton and Paula Cooper, as well as having several solo shows at The Gallery Of Graphic Arts. His current work can be seen at WarrenKloner.com. He was a founding partner of “6 Foot 3 Design” a furniture design company.. Kloner has recently played slide guitar for improvisational dances by Ferris. He is pleased and honored to be working with Chris Ferris as a visual artist. |
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Kayla Laufer is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and technologist whose work explores the intersection of movement, sound, and code. She holds a BFA in Dance from Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory and an M.S. in Computer Science from Fordham University. In 2024, she was selected for the Jacob’s Pillow ChoreoTech Lab, where she integrated AI and AR into her choreographic practice. Kayla has performed with Chris Ferris & Dancers, Chutzpah Dance Company, Vivake Khamsingsavath, and more. She received the 2024 Eryc Taylor New Choreographer Grant and has presented work at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, Young Choreographers Festival, Bloom Emerging Artist Festival, and Koresh Artist Showcase. She is the co-founder of Melody in Motion, a collaborative project blending dance and live music. |
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Chris Ferris is the Artistic Director of Chris Ferris & Dancers. Translations in Fission premiered in Creative Performances’ Dance Bloc at Dixon Place on Nov. 2, 2024. We were presented by the Katonah Museum Artists’ Association in March 2024 as part of their Creative Minds Series. Chris Ferris & Dancers presented the full evening work Just In Time Dec. 9 & 10. 2023 at The Ailey Studios in NYC. Seasonal-Just in Time performed as a half evening work at Green Space Studio, Long Island City, NY in October 2022. Urban Pastoral was performed in Oct. of 2021 at Summit Rock, Central Park NYC with 10 dancers, live music by Human Time Machine and sculptural lights by Warren Kloner. Unquantifiable premiered at Roulette, Brooklyn NY on Feb. 17, 2019 receiving a Mertz Gilmore Foundation Late Stage Production Stipend. The REAL Suite was performed at Fast Forward, Dixon Place Sept. 2018. Chris Ferris & Dancers performed Rampaging Light and REAL Suite at Roulette, Brooklyn NY in Feb. 2018 and the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, NYC in March 2018. |
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Mackenzie is a NYC-based freelance artist, originally from Houston, Texas. They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College, and have trained around the country with Northwest Dance Project, OpenSpace Dance, Vim Vigor, and Sidra Bell Dance New York. Mackenzie has performed in original and restaged works by Cat Cogliandro, Chris Ferris, Michelle Thompson Ulerich, Jaime Drye, Joshua Manculich, Franco Nieto, Marcus Jarrell Willis, Martha Graham, Ihsan Rustem, and Rosalind Newman. They have had the pleasure of choreographing for the Klein Oak Dance program since 2019, and have also presented their work at Mind the Gap at MATCH Houston. They have also collaborated, choreographed and performed with musicians, Johnny Butler and Eganam Segbefia. |
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Chris Ferris, choreographer |
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Caleb is a dance artist based in New York City. He has performed works by several notable choreographers such as Nathan Trice, Rena Butler and Patrick O’Brien during his education at The Joffrey Ballet School in 2014. Alongside being seen in HBO’s Random Acts Of Flyness led by Domani Pompey, he has worked with artists Maleek Washington, Em Greenwell, Kayla Farrish and more. He has performed works by MATHETA dance, LaneCoArts, Spark Movement Collective, MORISATO, Kar’mel Small, Javier Padilla, Dolly Sfeir, Nicole Fuentes, and Beatriz Castro. Caleb collaborates closely with artists Michelle Thompson Ulerich and Johnny Butler, and has presented his own work at Arts On Site, TADA! Youth Theater, Bridge For Dance, The Visionary, and other selected commissions. He has performed in Battery Dance Festival, MATHETA’s Speak Through Movement at Judson Church, Palm Desert Choreography Festival, PAGEANT, Mare Nostrum Element’s Emerging Choreographer Series, Dance Gallery Festival, CUNY Dance Initiative and others. |
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Caleb Patterson, dancer |
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Isabella Deem is a modern and contemporary dance artist, choreographer, and educator based in New York City. She recently earned her B.A. in Dance with a minor in Entrepreneurship from James Madison University, where she performed works by Doug Varone, Kia Smith, Momar Ndiaye, and Matt Pardo, and was a member of the Virginia Repertory Dance Company. Isabella has trained at the Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Spectrum Intensive, DanceWorks Chicago’s Dance360, and the DOVA Winter Workshop under Doug Varone as a scholarship recipient. She is also a stage manager and lighting designer for dance, passionate about both performance and production. Isabella is dedicated to inspiring others to discover their authentic selves through dance. |
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Isabella Deem, dancer |
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Loren Kiyoshi Dempster uses a combination of cello, computer, electronics, songwriting, secondary instruments, composition, improvisation, and notated scores to create and perform music. He is deeply interested in the relationships between movement, space, and sound, and has created and performed music with many collaborators, including Harrison Atelier, BK Soul, Chris Ferris, Dahlia Nayar, projectLIMB, Trio Tritticali, Lower Left, and Margaret Paek. His compositions have been presented at The Stone, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Wesleyan College, and at Chez Bushwick, a 2007 Bessie Award winning performance arts space of which he was a founding member. He toured extensively with Merce Cunningham performing Interscape and Biped. Now based in Appleton, WI from Queens, NY, Dempster has taught as an Instructor of music at Lawrence University and as a guest artist at Renaissance High School for the Arts. He has performed in the Wisconsin area at Lawrence University, UW Milwaukee, UW Oshkosh/FoxCities, Kohler Arts Center, Artists Guild, the Draw, and the 602 Club. For more information: www.lorendempster.com |
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Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, composer/musician |
