Jeff Hancock
Costume Designer
Jeff Hancock designs and constructs movement and costumes, examines their overlap and sometimes mutual influence. Since 1990, throughout his years dancing for River North, Hubbard Street, Same Planet, MadShak and many others, his dance and design life collided, supported and informed each other. The study of movement and curiosity about the semiotics of clothing has fueled a long history of aesthetic exploration ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime, minimalism to excess. Recent projects include 25th Anniversary Dance For Life Finale – Choreographer Randy Duncan, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project – Jimmie Blues, Walkabout Theater – the cure, Curmudgeon Productions – Fantasmagorie, Khecari – The Cronus Land, Lucky Plush – Super Strip, Parsons Dance Co. – Train. He was a founding member of River North Dance Chicago, danced for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dance Kaleidoscope, and Same Planet Different World Dance Theater, where he was a Co-Artistic Director. Recent choreography includes Rid of Them – a collaboration with Molly Shanahan/MadShak, ellipsis NU Danceworks – The Great Gatsby and Grapes of Wrath NU, Impolite Society at The Kennedy Center. He has created work for River North Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street Repertory Ensemble, Columbia College, Northwestern University, Paramount Theatre, the Edinburgh Festival, Same Planet, The Dance COLEctive, Pegasus Players, and Ohio Northern University among others. His company -ish design was formed in 2007. He was nominated for a McCormick Distinguished Lecturer Award, Ruth Page Awards for his dancing and choreography, and is an Illinois Arts Council grant recipient.
Beltran DelCampo
Violin
Chien-An Yuan
Photographer
Chien-An Yuan is an inter-disciplinary artist based in Ann Arbor, MI. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Salon, ArtSlant, Huffington Post, and WNYC.
Past exhibitions include The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Museum of Chinese in America NYC, Syrup Loft, Zhou B Arts Center, Asian American Cultural Center of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hyde Park Art Center, and Gallery 312.
He is a member of Chicago/Ann Arbor based performance collective IS/LAND.
Aren Viramontes
Videographer
Aren Viramontes is a freelance videographer, photographer, and an apprenticing Director of Photography. He is a specialist in visual color theory and was classically trained in the humanities with an eye for anything that abstracts. Aren has documented Khecari’s The Retreat : One Week and in-progress movement material from Marginalia.
Jenny Oelerich
Intern
Jenny Oelerich is a dance artist originally from Winnetka, Illinois and received her BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. During her time as an undergraduate she had the privilege of working with Jan Erkert, Renee Wadleigh and Abby Zbikowski, among others. Choreographically, Jenny is interested in floor work, partnering, and navigating full-bodied movement phrases that eat up space. Jenny is a dance and yoga instructor in the Chicagoland area with students ranging in age from two-years-old to adulthood.
