Boutique Roster
The Boutique Roster is an eclectic group of dance companies ready to tour! These artists perform a range of styles from modern to aerial to dance inspired by Irish and Indian culture. Fees are reasonable - generally $10,000 and under! To help foster the growth of artists with great talent and potential, JK&A represents these companies at booking conferences, assisting them in establishing contacts in the world of performing arts presentation; the companies then handle their own booking arrangements.
International Boutique Roster
JK&A now represents international dance companies on this new Boutique Roster featuring the best in world dance.
NYC Boutique Roster
The NYC Boutique Roster is comprised of companies based in and around New York City that reflect the broad spectrum of innovative dance born in New York, from modern styles to tap and dance theater.
National Boutique Roster
The National Boutique Roster consists of select companies from around the United States with diverse styles and strong ties to their local communities. The addition of these companies to JK&A's Boutique Roster seeks to increase national awareness of dance from all parts of the country.
For booking, please contact companies directly. For general inquiries, contact Boutique Roster Associate br@bookingdance.com
Applications for the 2008-09 Boutique Roster will become available in February 2008. Click
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INTERNATIONAL BOUTIQUE ROSTER
Navtej Singh Johar (India)
www.navtejjohar.com
www.abhyastrust.org
Based in New Delhi, Navtej Johar's work is unique in that it freely traverses between the traditional and the avant-garde. Drawing on plural vocabularies of yoga, Bharatanatyam and physical theater, Johar is recognized as a cutting edge choreographer whose work is sensitive, compelling, witty and layered. Apart from classical Bharatanatyam his work includes contemporary performance pieces, street-theatre, performance-installations, site-specific events, musicals and spectacles. Available for solo or group work.
"The enmeshing of different musical genres, all emphasising Sufi mysticism . . .enabled the inner dancer to speak. . . Ecstasy and surrender come easily to Navtej whose mobile face mirrored every emotion." - Leela Venkataraman,The Hindu
NYC BOUTIQUE ROSTER
Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group
www.aynsleymovement.org
With work described as “ritualistic” and “meditative” by the New York Times, Aynsley Vandenbrouck Movement Group explores the intersection between movement and fundamental human questions. Using strong, simple images, intimate duets, and sculptural ensemble work, the group creates dance that is spare, delicate, and thoughtful. It is dance that asks the audience to rethink aesthetic assumptions and invites them into introspection and silence.
“The work of this talented young choreographer has invited comparisons to Cunningham and Butoh, but it more boldly recalls the very beginnings of modern dance.” - Brian Seibert, The New Yorker
C. Eule Dance
www.ceuledance.org
The spirited and dynamic movement of C. Eule Dance fuses classical modern dance, ballet, gymnastics, and traditional dances from around the globe. Incorporating a wide variety of music from Chopin to Bebel Gilberto, C. Eule Dance also collaborates with local musicians to create new scores. Enjoyed by dance connoisseurs and novices alike, C. Eule Dance’s emphasis on artistic excellence combined with a diverse range of styles creates compelling performances to be experienced and marveled by all.
“Talented dancers and musicians engage their adoring and returning crowds with visceral magic.” – Lori Ortiz, Gay City News
Christine Jowers/Moving Arts Projects
www.movingartsprojects.org
When dance history meets the contemporary imagination anything is possible! Inspired by Isadora Duncan and other dancing goddesses, Christine Jowers/Moving Arts Projects explores dance landscapes (past and present) with passion, reflection, and whimsy. Christine Jowers, acclaimed solo performer and director, joins forces with an eclectic mix of talented collaborators -dance, video, music, art, theater- to wow audiences worldwide.
"Christine Jowers is not only a remarkable performer, but an important dance historian" - Judith Mackrell, The Guadian, UK
danceTactics performance group
www.danceTactics.org
danceTactics performance group is hailed for its ability to “show dance as a reason unto itself.” (New York Times) Thompson’s work is dance undressed. Transmitting sheer kinetic energy through unexpected pathways, danceTactics' “engagingly individual dancers” investigate the exchange of intricate, yet exquisitely simple and supple movement. Thompson’s unique ability to orchestrate fresh, vivid impressions of movement lays the ground-work for an abstract telling of humanity’s story.
Jennifer Dunning, New York Times
FREEFALL
www.freefallltd.org
Celebrating it's 10th anniversary, Freefall is a low-tech, high-concept dance-theater company headed by Lynn Brown and Lynn Marie Ruse. We create evening-length projects that range from site-specific works to interpretations of film and literature. Our dance vocabulary explores the instability and resilience of moving bodies, creating and resolving emotional tension. This movement vocabulary is fueled by highly-charged political and psychological ideas layered with text and a live music option. The resulting work articulates the body's secrets in shouts and whispers. FREFALL is now touring Clever Hans, a darkly comic re-imagining of a Grimm's Fairy Tale.
"The New York-based troupe follows in the absurdist footsteps of Samuel Beckett and Kurt Weill... Yet the company's style is not antagonist. It's urgent in a rambunctious-sad way. And the performers are lovely and engaging even as frightening truths brew underneath." - Lucia Mauro, Chicago Tribune
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Donna Scro Gentile/Freespace Dance
www.freespacedance.com
Donna Scro Gentile/Freespace is an athletic, bold, and fearless company accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. Artistic director Donna Scro Gentile hails from a strong performance background including touring with Nikolais and Murry Louis and being a proud founding member of Sean Curran Company. Donna Scro Gentile/Freespace is currently touring two programs: The Namaste tour is an evening of repertory showcasing two yoga inspired works and The Human Walls tour includes a piece for 25 dancers about social boundaries performed by the presenting community along with the company. Donna Scro Gentile/Freespace Dance is a company that makes a strong connection both physically and emotionally with the audience, believes in the spirit of inclusion, and leaves all with a positive dance experience.
"Donna Scro Gentile's Freespace Dance is a captivating experience in movement and music with striking partnering and choreography."
- Molly Holm, Theatre Scene.net
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Ivy Baldwin Dance
www.ivybaldwindance.com
Ivy Baldwin Dance is dedicated to the creation of original dance-theater that explores both the serious and humorous sides of the human condition. Known for her vivid and wild imagination, Baldwin creates works break the traditional boundaries and assumptions of theater. Through a broad range of mediums, the Company creates dance that is emotionally engaging and can therefore provoke an awakening with audience members. Invoking fascination and empathy, this company of performers described as “amazing, smart, physically fearless, dancer-actors all . . .” take you on a journey both beautiful and strange.
“The young Ivy Baldwin is a choreographer with a knack for creating oddly coherent other worlds. Her peripatetic imagination turns her dancers into composite creatures, funny an poignant, whose gaits, gestures, and behaviors elicit fascination and empathy.”
- The New Yorker
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Jody Sperling/TimeLapse Dance
www.timelapsedance.com
Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance gives a postmodern twist to vintage dance genres, from the mesmerizing fin de siècle spectacles of Loie Fuller, to circus and music hall entertainments. Artistic Director Jody Sperling – a choreographer, performer and scholar – combines research with imagination to create inventive, visually lush and often humorous dances. Sperling’s luminous Fuller-style dances are a mainstay of the repertory; other works draw inspiration from such eclectic imagery as contortion acts, hula hoping, partner acrobatics, 16th-century galliards, Degas ballerinas, mermaid myths, magic-lantern shows and more.
“a vision of glory” – Elizabeth Zimmer, Gay City News
KDNY
www.kdnydance.com
A virtuosic female modern dance company, KDNY offers a repertory of insightful dances that explore the intricate experiences of women through an athletic movement vocabulary that is "clean and sharp, geometric and postmodern . . . a thrill to watch." (Dance Magazine) KDNY is currently touring Charges from Domremy, a dramatic evening-length work that captures the inspirational story of the historic female hero, Joan of Arc. The piece for sixteen women is performed to the hauntingly beautiful oratorio, "Voices of Light," by renowned composer, Richard Einhorn. KDNY is also touring Navigating the Hallway, an ever-fluctuating, site-specific dramedy that captures the exhilarating pace and proximity of urban living through a collision of live and projected high energy dance.
"Dyer's sense of humor infected East Whistwaddle Ladies most thoroughly. In tiny movements, like little shakes of the head, Dyer brims with personality." - The Washington Post
Lane & Co.
www.lanecoarts.org
Choreographer Lane Gifford reveals the intriguing relationship between movement, words, art and music in her dimensional approach to the language of dance. Featuring narrative and the blending of classically influenced dance with different art forms, Lane & Co. designs rich visual moving experiences as seen in the compelling interpretations of such stories as The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Maya Angelou’s Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. This inquisitive creative process offers a unique view of expression for today’s modern spectator.
"lovely and deeply felt." The Village Voice
Lori Belilove & Company/
Isadora Duncan Dance
www.isadoraduncan.org
Lori Belilove & Company/Isadora Duncan Dance, the resident performing troupe of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, captures the spirit and technique of Isadora Duncan culminating in a purity of style hailed by Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times and other internationally renowned critics. Capturing Duncan’s fluidity and emotion, the company¹s innovative work touches a visceral chord within its audiences. Often featuring live music, Lori Belilove & Company/Isadora Duncan Dance presents multi-media work that illustrates the vitality of Isadora Duncan’s technique and philosophies.
"Lori Belilove is arguably the best, most devoted Duncan interpreter in the U.S. When she performs Duncan’s dances you see the glorious sweep through space, the oppositional skips, the swooping torso. You see the emotional range from BREATHY JOY to SEDUCTIVNESS to EARTHBOUND DESPAIR." Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine 2006
Robin Becker Dance
www.robinbeckerdance.org
Robin Becker Dance celebrates fifteen years of honoring ancient wisdom through the beauty of contemporary dance. Fusing expressionistic modern dance with traditional and contemporary forms of painting, music, and poetry - particularly the mystical Persian poet Rumi and Native American culture - Robin Becker's works are strong statements of the heart. They explore the realm of myth, dreams, and the physical expression of the human spirit.
“…choreographic synonyms for compassion.”
- Jack Anderson, The New York Times
Silver-Brown Dance Company
www.silverbrowndance.org
brooklyntobourbon.com
Affectionately known as Brooklyn's fearless dance company, SBD performs for audiences of all ages and backgrounds, creating work that celebrates the human spirit with "wit and elation" (The Village Voice) and reveling in "the joy of dance" (The New York Times). SBD founded and presents the annual OASIS Series which features free, outdoor dance performances memorializing 9/11 in Brooklyn Bridge Park with the NYC skyline as a backdrop. The company has also initiated Brooklyn to Bourbon Street, a dance education and outreach project in New Orleans as a response to Katrina. SBD strives to make modern dance accessible, relevant, and inviting for the widest possible audience.
"Ms. Silverstein has carved a place for herself as a choreographer of bright zany dances that explode with energy and have a distinctive point of view." - Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
TAKE Dance Company
www.takedanceny.com
TAKE Dance Company was founded by Takehiro Ueyama, whose diverse choreography ranges from the classical to the avant-garde in a stunning blend of lyricism and athleticism. Often collaborating with his contemporaries in music and the visual arts, Mr. Ueyama’s work blends Eastern and Western sensibilities to communicate the universal human condition.
“Call the Japanese-born, former Paul Taylor dancer Takehiro Ueyama a fusion choreographer. He melds movement, music and themes derived from his roots in both East and West. Ueyama's at his most inventive with the ever-shifting pattern of the figures on stage. Any given moment offers a picture that's exquistitely balanced yet often surprising.” - Tobi Tobias, Bloomberg.com
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CAPACITOR (San Francisco)
www.capacitor.org
The movement of the human diaphragm, the story of evolution, the behavior of electricity, genetic manipulation, the birth of the moon the cycles of digestion – CAPACITOR boldly investigates the natural and synthetic processes that exist around and within us. CAPACITOR artists are inspired to become master inventors, designers of wearable sculpture couture, and engineers of devices that to stretch the limits of physical poetry.
“Ingenious . . . Within Outer Spaces compared heavenly bodies to human bodies and found them equally amazing.” - New York Times
CORE Performance Company (Atlanta / Houston)
www.coreperformance.org
For more than 25 years, Atlanta/Houston-based CORE Performance Company has been performing riveting, passionate, original works that evolve through collaborations with internationally renowned artists from different mediums. CORE’s repertory is eclectic in style, ranging from highly physical dances accompanied by a live chorus to simple gestural theater performed within a visual art installation.
“CORE Performance Company weaves sophisticated meaning into sublime movement, creating gorgeous kinesthetic credos.”
– Thomas Bell, Creative Loafing
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Kim Robards Dance (Denver)
www.kimrobardsdance.org
Kim Robards Dance (KRD) energizes and entices audiences with the driving physicality and broad dynamic range in the beautifully crafted choreography of Artistic Director Kim Robards. Based in Denver, KRD is a leader in contemporary dance in the western region with its sophisticated, inspiring and accessible approach to modern dance. This company of nine to twelve dancers is renowned for their incredible athleticism as performers and dedication as teachers. Experimenting with dynamic force and momentum, the work takes an aesthetic journey through movement landscapes covering vast amounts of space.
"Kim Robards choreographs beautiful waves of movement."
- Jack Anderson, The New York Times
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Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp (Washington, D.C.)
www.dancenow.org
Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp are renowned for their daring virtuosity, visual elegance and social consciousness. This innovative duet company creates works that reflect their individual and combined experience of contemporary culture. Highly energized choreography includes ruminations on action and re-action, conflict, empathy, and transformation – creating motion narrative with a sensual luster and dynamic variety. A commitment to the intersection of art and social justice fused with an edgy exploration of dance and theater, Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp have forged a unique blend of artistry, cultural synthesis, community engagement and contemporary commentary.
"DC dancers Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp have long been acclaimed for their grace, verve and strong sense of social responsibility." - The Washington Post Express
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Odyssey Dance Theatre (Salt Lake City)
www.odysseydance.com
Odyssey Dance Theatre explodes with world-class bravado, passionate charm, and choreographic invention, combining the classical virtues of ballet with the explosive attack of jazz, the freedom of modern dance, the raw energy of hip-hop, the syncopated rhythms of tap, the fluid partnering of ballroom, and the spirit of Broadway and Vaudeville to create a fresh dance vocabulary. This entertainment genre has carved a unique niche in the national and international dancescape, engaging audiences across the country and around the world.
“Odyssey Dance Theatre struck a chord with the audience with a mixed program that few other groups accomplish!”
- Kim McDaniel, Salt Lake Tribune
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Rebecca Rice Dance (Boston)
www.rebeccaricedance.com
Rebecca Rice Dance performs choreography that innovatively blends the movement concepts of modern dance with the elegance and technical virtuosity of ballet. Rebecca Rice's solid foundation in traditional ballet technique and sterling modern dance background combine in a style that is powerful, expressive, earthy and yet, ethereal. Her original choreography merges strong, assertive physicality with a sense of majesty, theatricality and a pure understanding of form. Her work is poetic, powerful, eclectic; all contributing to unique blend of modernism and musicality. Rebecca Rice Dance often performs with the award-winning "Cello e Basso", resulting in a rich synergy of live music and dance.
"...works of sweeping grandeur" - Boston Herald
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The PGK Project
(A Contemporary Dance Company) (San Diego)
www.ThePGKProject.com
The PGK Project (A Contemporary Dance Company) is an internationally acclaimed performance group invested and interested in dance’s ability to entertain as well as inform. Artistic Director Peter G. Kalivas is committed to creating on the edge, incorporating movement invention that is innovative, stunning, powerful, clever and entertaining, often performed with live music. Many PGK programs engage the community and encourage local dancer participation resulting in an experience which is as much fun and interactive as it is reflective and thought provoking.
“. . . athletic and elegant, beautifully sculpted, inventively fresh and smart . . . demonstrating the strength of American Dance.”
- Dance Europe Magazine
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