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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 is also a founding partner of “6 Foot 3 Design” whose furniture designs can be seen at 6FT3.com. 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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Alli Bradley is a New York-based dance artist and choreographer. She received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Ohio University. Alli has danced in works choreographed by Ani Javian, Douglas Nielson, Leslie Dworkin, Nathan Andary, Chungxin Wei, Emily Barasch, and Chris Ferris. Additionally, Alli was a company member of Wild She Dances from 2017-2020. In addition to concert dance, she has also been featured in the music video “You Are” by Raia Was and “Agoraphobia” by Katherine Huggard. Currently, she is choreographing a dance theatre work with her co-collaborators, Olvia Cancelli and Daniel Neiden. |
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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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Kelly Ireland is from Slippery Rock, PA where she began her dance training at the age of 5. She attended high school at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School as a dance major and graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in dance and minor in hospitality. Kelly is a New York Riptide Dancer for the National Lacrosse League and can be seen dancing in promotional videos for Elly Shepley, creator of Sneaker Jazz®.. She recently joined the cast of Woof Woof the Shadow Pup as an apprentice which just premiered its first public performance in Connecticut. Kelly is also an experienced choreographer, dance educator, and arts administrator. She is currently an outreach teaching artist for Steffi Nossen School of Dance and has been a guest instructor at studios across the country including Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Nevada, and more. As a choreographer, her work has been presented at Florida State University, One Day Dance, and various regional and national dance competitions. Kelly is the former Content Marketing Manager for Ballet Hispánico and continues this work as a freelance marketer and administrator. |
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Kelly Ireland, 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 |
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photo: Eric MacLean |
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Sophia Diehl holds a degree in Dance and Religion from St. Olaf College and a certificate in Contemporary Dance from Gibney Dance Company's Professional Training Program. She has performed with Minneapolis-based companies Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater and ARENA Dances and New York-based companies Lines of Energy, Vashti Dance Theater, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, Chris Ferris & Dancers and Ballaro Dances. Through a grant from the Utah Arts Council, Sophia choreographed and produced two site-specific dance films in 2020 and premiered them at the Salt Lake City Public Library to generate dialogue around place-based dance. She has created new work as an Artist Resident at Bearnstow in Maine (2018) and as a selected artist for the Take Root program at Green Space in Queens (2023). |
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Sophia Diehl, dancer |
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photo: Christine Fischer |
