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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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Jonathan
Meyer began dancing at Oberlin College in
1990 and graduated with a BA in dance from the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1996.
In addition to modern and post-modern techniques, he
has studied ballet, capoeira, butoh, and other
movement forms. All find their way into an eclectic
choreography unified by an understanding of chaos as
the primal creative font, reflected by the name
“khecari,” a Sanskrit word for creation that
translates “moving in the void” or “dancing
in the
abyss.” Meyer has danced professionally in the United
States, Canada, Europe, and South America. He founded
Khecari Dance Theatre in January 2002 and serves as
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Current
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Julia
Rae Antonick is an independent dancer, choreographer,
videographer, visual artist and yoga teacher. Her dancing
and choreography reflects a digestion of modern/contemporary
dance, contact improvisation, ballet, yoga, Klein/Mahler
technique and Indonesian dance. Julia graduated from the
Chicago Academy for the Arts with the Dance Department's
Award of Excellence in 1999 and received her BFA in dance
from CalArts in 2003. She has studied at Jacobs Pillow
(Modern Traditions), Bates Dance Festival, The Joffrey
Ballet, Dance New Amsterdam (Dance Space), The Kitchen
and Earthdance. Julia returned to Chicago upon receiving
the LinkUp residency at Links Hall in 2004 and has recently
received grants from CSDP and CAAP. She is currently in
residence at the Chicago Cultural Center developing a
new work under the Dance Bridge program.
www.myspace.com/juliaraeantonick
www.youtube.com/hgwtvideo |
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Asimina Chremos is
an independent artist, residing in Chicago since 1997.
Her idiosyncratic solo dancing reflects training in ballet
and postmodern dance styles; in the past few years, yoga
practice and Klein/Mahler Technique have also made their
marks. Chremos’s choreographic work emphasizes improvisation
and experimental live music. Since 2005, she has explored
her Greek cultural heritage in works such as Zeibekika,
performed most recently in March 2007 at the Hellenic
American Academy in Deerfield IL. Please visit www.asiminachremosdance.net
for more information. |
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Iris Bainum-Houle is
a costume designer for the screen, the stage and the everyday.
Her work ranges from historical to surreal and she enjoys
blending the two. She is from Fairfax, Virginia and graduated
from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006.
While there Iris received two Richard M. Driehaus awards
for fashion excellence, the 2005 Marshall Field Ungaro Scholarship
and the 2006 NAMSB Foundation's Stanley Heller Design Award.
She has been seen locally on ABC and CBS discussing costume
and fashion in Chicago. Iris recently completed an internship
with celebrated costume designer William Ivey Long in New
York. During her internship she worked on the Tony award
winning musical "Curtains" on Broadway. Costuming
for Khecari continues to be an exciting and inspiring experience
for Iris. For more information about her work please visit
siriris.com. |
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Kendall Loyer is originally
from Caledonia, Ohio. She graduated from Columbia College
Chicago with a BA in dance. She has been privileged to
work with such choreographers as Kristen Rae Stevens,
Molly Shannahan, and Sandra Kauffman in a reconstruction
of Doris Humphrey’s Waterstudy, as well as numerous
works with Beth McNeill. Her work has been presented at
Estrogen Fest and Links Hall. |
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DANCER
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DANCER
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| Melissa Mallinson is an independent choreographer
and dancer, and recipient of a 2004 CAAP grant for choreography
from the City of Chicago. She has performed with Berlin-based
Compagnie Felix Ruckert, the Kalamazoo Ballet, Ann Arbor Dance
Works, Perceptual Motion, TJ&Co, Marquez Dance Project,
and many independent artists throughout the Midwest. In recent
years, she has choreographed for Around the Coyote, Dance
Chicago, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Melissa graduated
summa cum laude from the University of Michigan in 2001, and
also studied at the London Contemporary Dance School and Yorkshire
Ballet Seminars. She thanks Kris for his loving support. |
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Krista Hughes began
her dance training at the ripe age of three in Santa Fe,NM.
Since then her dancing has taken her through Canyon,TX
where she performed with Lonestar Ballet and Denton Texas
where she earned her BFA in Dance from the University
of North Texas in 2006. Now in Chicago she is currently
dancing her second season with Perceptual Motion. She
has also done some work in the Full Circle festival and
danced with Open House Dance over the summer. Krista is
excited to be working again with Khecari and continues
to dance her way through life. |
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DANCER
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| Megan Rhyme is originally from Green Bay,
Wisconsin. In 2006 she graduated from Northwestern University
with a degree in dance. While there, she studied with teachers
such as Molly Shanahan,Billy Siegenfeld, Laura Wade, Joseph
Mills, and Bril Barrett. She has performed in Northwestern
University's Danceworks, Dance Chicago's Dance Slam, and in
Molly Shanahan's Quick and Dirty Workshop. She is excited
to be dancing with Khecari and would like to thank her family
for their support. |
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Megan Schneeberger
was born in Montana; after a teenage flirtation
with Ayn Rand and The New Yorker, she graduated from the
University of Montana and moved to Chicago, becoming,
among other things, a member of the Space/Movement Project
and a full grown married woman. She shuns Objectivism
to this day but still reads The New Yorker weekly. |
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| GUEST ARTIST |
Carol Genetti is a multi-disciplinary artist
whose
primary medium is the voice. Using her voice as a
sound source and/or instrument, Genetti has created a
personal yet universal palette that is an abstraction
of "extended" voice sounds breaths, overtones, and
disconnected textual bits, squeaks, growls, non-verbal
tones sounds that evoke unconscious emotions that
are automatically triggered by the body fleshy cavity
quality of the voice. |
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Nevin Hersch began
his classical piano training at the
age of four and bought his first synth at nineteen.
After receiving his BA in Sound from Columbia College
Chicago in 2000, he worked for four years at Rhythm
Caf, a music house for TV and radio commercials,
gaining invaluable experience as an engineer and sound
designer. Working out of his North Side Chicago
studio, The Mausoleum, Nevin runs the independent
publishing company, record label, and website Tonecard
Sounds, which he founded in 2004. His first album on
the label, Voxbox, is an exploration of his influences
in dance music. His work for Khecari Dance Theater has
been a new sonic experience for Nevin, giving up
melodies, set tempo and other traditional parameters.
He limited himself to only using samples of insects
and (cousin) Jonathan Meyer's voice to create all of
the experimental music and sound design for the insect
piece. You can visit www.tonecardsounds.com
for more
information, or check out Nevin's music on Myspace at
www.myspace.com/voxboxfreakshow. |
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GUEST ARTIST
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| PHOTOGRAPHER |
Nadia Oussenko
http://nadiaoussenko.com |
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