MADE BY WOMEN
FILM NIGHT
PROGRAM
Adapt. Accept. Recover
Director and Choreographer: Rachel Harris
Dancers: DaMond Garner, Ashley Green, Jacquelin Harris, Sumire Ishige
Cinematographer: Aidan Gibney
Producer: Jake Tribus
"Adapt. Accept. Recover" was developed through Jake Tribus’ Moving Toward Justice program, Converge2Emerge, with support from Gibney and the Bay & Paul Foundations.
The Coronation
Directed by Emily Penick (she/her)
Starring Kelsey Burns (she/they) as dancer/choreographer
Cinematography by Anastasiia Kulikalova (she/her)
Scenography (Sets/Costume/Hair/Make-up) by Kate Fry (she/her)
Original Score by Meredith Butterworth (they/them)
Editing by Jacob Midkiff (he/him)
Lighting by Steve Kosiba (he/him)Assistant Camera Ian LaBarge (he/him)
Created by Emily Penick & Kelsey Burns
OVERANDOVER
Conception, Direction, and Performance: McKay House and Utam Moses
Videographer: Dave Walter
Music: Rich Ruth
Editor: McKay House
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INTERMISSION
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Sole
Directed by Irina Khokhlova
Dancing by Mizuho Karpa, Silvia Sistto, Jiang Feng, Lawrence Gonzales Ramos, Jackson Kettel
Cinematography by Sergio Lorenzana
Music Composed by Eldar Baruch
Viajo Sola
Director, script and choreography: Barbara Valencia Bladinieres
Photography: Yehosua Elizalde Edition
Edition: J. J. Flores Hernández
Music: Uriel Toga
Performers: Aranxa Alvarez and Bruno Barón
Love.
Director - Hannah Weinmaster
Choreographer (in collaboration with dancers) - Hannah Weinmaster
Director of Photography - Martin Olloren
Editors - Chloe Erlandson, Martin Olloren, Hannah Weinmaster, Zach Weinmaster
Performers - Christian Paris Blue, Maya Addie, Caitlin Marks, Sam Black, Emily Dail, Mickey Baker, Abby Tatro, Andrea Bracamonte, Hannah Weinmaster
Graphic Designer - Zach Weinmaster
INCAPSULE
Choreographed & Directed by: Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith | Dual Rivet
Danced by: Maggie Joy & Jennifer Payan
Filmed by: Retrograde Studios | Jake Kruty & Jonathan Rodrigues
Edited by: Jessica Smith
Color by: Alejandra Cedeno
Music by: Nicole Davis, Jessica Smith and "Dream" by The Pied Pipers Box
Box Design by: Kyle Netzeband
Set Design by: Chelsea Ainsworth & Jessica Smith
Line Producer: Lauren Flack
Executive Producer: Lawryn Lacroix with Pinkhouse Productions
Co-Producers: Clifford Brody with NPAFE & AAlchemy
- MEET THE ARTISTS -
RACHEL HARRIS
KELSEY BURNS
MCKAY HOUSE & UTAM MOSES
IRINA KHOKHLOVA
RIZOMA LABORATORIO ESCENICO
HANNAH WEINMASTER
2023 Bessie Award Nominee for “Outstanding Performer,” RACHEL HARRIS (Charlotte, NC) graduated Cum Laude from the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance with BFA and architecture concentration in 2020. She performed the works of William Forsythe, d Sabela Grimes, Barak Marshall, Crystal Pite, and many others. Harris later joined Zeitgeist Dance Theatre and Parsons Dance. Rachel has been named Howard University’s 2021 Emerging Choreographer to Watch, Gibney Dance Converge2Emerge 2021 Film Grant Recipient, and 2022 Finalist for New Century Dance Project. She also founded Make Space Artists, Inc. to house her creative endeavors. Rachel's creative exploration fuses her interest in architectural design with contemporary and social dance practices to creatively re-imagining how the human experience and fantasy is presented through film and on stage.
Based in NYC, KELSEY BURNS is a dancer, choreographer, and movement director, a company dancer with Movement of the People Dance Company (NYC), rehearsal director for Niko8 (Chicago), and former competitive latin ballroom dancer. Choreographer of Romeo & Juliet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), and the award-winning film “The Coronation.” Currently Associate Choreographer on Sammi Cannold's "Evita," first at American Repertory Theatre and now at Shakespeare Theatre Company. BA: NYU Gallatin. IG: @kelsinmotion. Website: https://burnsworks.squarespace.com/
Over the last 5 years dance artists MCKAY HOUSE and UTAM MOSES have created film works and live performances that transform the temporal into the metaphysical, using somatic practices, site specific installations, contemporary dance and Contact Improvisation as vehicles for their explorations. Their work thematically centers on different forms of intimacy, between people and the spaces they inhabit and leave behind. The collaboration is a long distance one, with McKay based in Nashville, TN and Utam based in Bloomington, IN.
IRINA KHOKHLOVA is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in New York City. She makes documentaries, branded content, fashion, dance and narrative films. Now developing her first feature narrative screenplay. Her work was featured on BBC, VICE, TOPIC, Dance on Camera Film Festival, Film Society at Lincoln Center, San Fransisco International Dance Film Festival and other platforms.
RIZOMA LABORATORIO ESCENICO is an interdisciplinary project that develops performing arts and production, screendance and movement workshops. Just like the transmutable roots of a rhizome, this project is transformed when connecting with other disciplines. Our focus and mission is to innovate in the creation of performing arts and movement projects through creative processes that invite to play, to be curios and the linking of different artistic expressions in order to provide sensitive experiences for our audience. We belive that the body is an excuse for everything we do, say or think.
HANNAH WEINMASTER graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. As a dancer, Hannah has performed works by choreographers such as Martha Graham, Shannon Gillen, Peter Chu, Brandon Coleman, Chelsea Thedinga, and Paul Taylor. Most recently, Hannah performed as a Radio City Rockette at Radio City Music Hall and has performed works for Dumbo Dance festival, Uptown Rising and White Wave Soloduo Festival in NYC. With choreography, Hannah has been selected as a finalist for Steps Beyond Choreography Lab, Utah Dance Film Fest, CDC McClaine Timmerman Choreography Festival, and the Palm Desert Choreography Festival.
-Meet the Selection Panel-
JESSICA SMITH
CHELSA AINSWORTH
MITSUKO
CLARKE-VERDERY
ANYA
CLARKE-VERDERY
LAUREN FLACK
MATILDA SAKAMOTO
JESSICA SMITH (she/they) is a New York City based dancer from New Orleans, Louisiana. She studied at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, London Contemporary Dance School, and received her BFA in dance from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. She has performed with companies such as Punchdrunk's Sleep No More NYC, Vim Vigor Dance Company, ZviDance and Kizuna Dance. She continues to teach and set work at schools, festivals, and training programs throughout the U.S. and internationally. Jessica was one of eight choreographers chosen for The Jacob's Pillow Ann and Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellowship in 2022. Jessica is the Associate Director of Arts on Site NYC, a non-profit arts organization, as well as Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Dual Rivet, a highly physical contemporary dance company based in NYC. Jessica is currently on Faculty at The Juilliard School, Purchase College, Gibney, and Peridance.
CHELSEA AINSWORTH is a graduate of the Dance Department of The Juilliard School. After graduating she worked with Johannes Wieland/StaatstheaterKassel in Germany, Lorena Egan, Flexicure, Amber Sloan, Bryn Cohn + Artists and was on the modern/ballet dance faculty at Cap21 musical theater school and Chen DanceCenter. Currently she is dancing with The Bang Group, as well as ZviDance. She’s also the co-founder and Executive Director of Arts On Site, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting artists of all disciplines by offering affordable studio space and hosting monthly events to encourage community collaboration. She also built and curates residencies at a retreat and residency center in the Shawangunk mountains in upstate New York. In 2020 she joined the Dance Advisory Board of Marymount Manhattan College.
ANYA CLARKE-VERDERY (they/she) Born and raised in Brooklyn, with roots hailing from Trinidad & Tobago, Anya Clarke-Verdery is a queer choreographer, dance artist, and educator. They received their BFA in Dance from Long Island University where they began their choreographic career choreographing for the American College Dance Association. In 2016, they won 1st prize for Choreographic Excellence in the 11th International REVERBDance Festival. Described as movement that “moves between lucid and fluid to downright jarring in the most effective way,” Anya’s work has been presented at venues such as the Andy Warhol Museum, Gelsey Kirkland Theater, Dixon Place, and more. As a dance artist Anya has worked with choreographers such as Matthew Rushing, Sidra Bell, Earl Mosley, Clifton Brown, Holly Blakey, Alex Ketley, Staycee Pearl, among others. Alongside partner Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery, they were selected as the 2019 Guest Lecturer and Resident Artist at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art & Drama, and a 2018 PearlDiving Movement Resident Artist at PearlArts Studios. Anya’s love for dance permeates through their teaching. Their expertise with both children and adults has led them to teach at schools and organizations such as Point Park University, Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, UC Santa Barbara, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, A BroaderWay Foundation, Excellence Community Schools, and more. With MICHIYAYA, Anya is the lead choreographer creating highly physical and visceral choreography that melds with each dance artist’s voice.
MITSUKO CLARKE-VERDERY (she/her) is a queer visual, performance, and dance artist from New York City. As a woman of European and Japanese descent, and coming from a family of artists of many genres, Mitsuko’s influences have always stemmed across mediums. She is a visual arts alumni of LaGuardia High School and the Ballet Hispánico School of Dance. She received her BFA in Visual Art from Carnegie Mellon University along with completion of the Independent Study program at the Alvin Ailey Dance School. Mitsuko is a National Silver Medal Winner in Excellence in Photography from Scholastic, and a recipient of Carnegie Mellon’s Emily Phyllis Howard and Wilfred Readio Awards. She has shown her visual and performance work at the Brooklyn Museum, Miller Gallery, BRIC Arts Media Gallery, Heath Gallery, among others. As a dance artist, Mitsuko has performed in works by Ronald K. Brown, Francesca Harper, Sidra Bell, Earl Mosley, and more. Alongside partner Anya Clarke-Verdery, she was selected as a 2021 guest resident artist at UC Santa Barbara, a 2019 Carnegie Mellon University School of Art & Drama Guest Lecturer & Resident Artist, and a 2018 PearlDiving Movement Resident Artist at PearlArts Studios. With a passion for supporting the next generation of artists, Mitsuko has taught at and led panel discussions at schools and organizations such as Montclair State University, Gibney, Peridance Capezio Center, A BroaderWay Foundation, and more. As an Artistic Director of MICHIYAYA Dance, Mitsuko creates visual and contextual landscapes for the dance artists to engage with—taking form as character development, sculptural/visual elements, technology, text, and more.
MATILDA SAKAMOTO is from Los Angeles. Matilda is currently a performer with Sleep No More in New York City, has performed in Richard Nelson’s play, The Michaels, at the Public Theater and starred in Apple’s “Snap” Airpods campaign as well as spots for Gap, Meta, Oscar Meyer, Skillshare and more. Matilda has shown work for “Newsteps” at Chen Dance Center, Dixon Place, Martha Graham, Judson Memorial Church, Triskelion Arts, Juilliard, and Highways Performance Space. She was chosen to be a dance resident at Art Omi and the Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow. She recently choreographed an evening length work for the Caroga Arts Music Festival alongside Jordan Morley with arrangements by Kyle Price and Julian Müller. She received her BFA from the Juilliard School.
LAUREN FLACK is a Brooklyn based producer and business owner, originally from KC. She is the co-founder of Mango Moon Productions and Brooklyn Cannery. She is passionate about developing and producing projects that capture the human experience. Her most recent credits include: Smack Dab in the Middle of the Day Show (EP), Here Lies Truth (Co-Director 2019, Wicked Queer Film Fest), Pizza Party (AD, 2019 Montclair Film Festival), Sprinkles (Film, AD), Ad Council PSA: She Can Stem (AD), ABT 2018 Fall Season Trailer (AD), Everytown For Gun Safety PSA: Enough! (AD), In Capsule (2022), Nudes (2021, Producer), Rabbithole (2020, Producer), Morning Mourning (2020, EP), Here Lies Truth (2019, Co-Director), Like Glass (2018, Nitehawk Shorts Fest Audience Award Winner + SCAD Film Fest). She has also helped produce commercial content for clients such as: Girl Scouts, NatGeo, Razor Scooter, Peppa Pig, Pantene, truTV, The Swiss Institute, Nike, FX, Discovery, Showtime, Hallmark, Apple, and FOX. She is a proud member of NYWIFT, Pano Network, KCWIFT, and Co-Producer of MADE BY WOMEN 2023 and Shorts Night Film Festival. She received her BFA from Pace University's School of Performing Arts.
-Produced by-
DUAL RIVET is a women-led dance company focused on creating and sharing highly physical contemporary dance to a wide audience. Based in NYC, Dual Rivet creates work for stage and film that exchanges a cinematic and visceral language to influence both platforms. Directors Jessica Smith and Chelsea Ainsworth have been making and presenting work since 2017. They have performed and set work at Festival PRISMA (Panama), Centro Cultural Los Talleres (Mexico), Oklahoma International Dance Festival, Barnard College/Columbia University, West End Theatre, Kittery Maine, Musikfest Pennsylvania, Peridance Capezio Center, CreateArt, Arts On Site and many more. The company teaches a myriad of classes, throughout the United States and internationally, with an emphasis on contemporary partnering and floorwork. Dual Rivet is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School, Gibney, Peridance, SUNY Purchase and Adelphi University. The company hosts an annual choreography festival, MADE BY WOMEN, highlighting women choreographers and creators. For more info: www.dualrivetdance.com @dualrivet
LAUREN FLACK is a Brooklyn based producer and business owner, originally from KC. She is the co-founder of Mango Moon Productions and Brooklyn Cannery. She is passionate about developing and producing projects that capture the human experience. Her most recent credits include: Smack Dab in the Middle of the Day Show (EP), Here Lies Truth (Co-Director 2019, Wicked Queer Film Fest), Pizza Party (AD, 2019 Montclair Film Festival), Sprinkles (Film, AD), Ad Council PSA: She Can Stem (AD), ABT 2018 Fall Season Trailer (AD), Everytown For Gun Safety PSA: Enough! (AD), In Capsule (2022), Nudes (2021, Producer), Rabbithole (2020, Producer), Morning Mourning (2020, EP), Here Lies Truth (2019, Co-Director), Like Glass (2018, Nitehawk Shorts Fest Audience Award Winner + SCAD Film Fest). She has also helped produce commercial content for clients such as: Girl Scouts, NatGeo, Razor Scooter, Peppa Pig, Pantene, truTV, The Swiss Institute, Nike, FX, Discovery, Showtime, Hallmark, Apple, and FOX. She is a proud member of NYWIFT, Pano Network, KCWIFT, and Co-Producer of MADE BY WOMEN 2023 and Shorts Night Film Festival. She received her BFA from Pace University's School of Performing Arts.
ARTS ON SITE is a women-run nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing artists with opportunities to create and perform new works. With a performance space in the East Village and a residency center in upstate NY, AOS is able to provide artists with an expanse of opportunities for artistic development. www.artsonsite.org
MADE BY WOMEN 2023 EVENTS
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October 5 | 7 PM
This year we are excited to add Film Night to our MADE BY WOMEN festival. This is a donation based film night that will highlight 6 movement based films created by women and offer an accessible opportunity for these artists to share with the community!
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Hannah Weinmaster
Rachel Harris
The Coronation / Kelsey Burns
McKay House and Utam Moses
Irina Khokhlova
Rizoma Laboratorio Escénico
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October 6 & 7 | 6:30PM & 8:30PM
Dual Rivet celebrates its 3rd annual MADE BY WOMEN Festival highlighting 9 women* choreographers who will present work at Arts On Site’s Studio 3R .
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PROGRAM A - Oct 6
Olga Rabetskaya / OR Dance Projects
Khala Brannigan
Kashia Kancey
Dual RivetPROGRAM B - Oct 7
Majella Bess, Laja Field, Jessie Lee Thorn
Dorchel Haqq
Ashley Pierre-Louis
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October 7 | 10AM - 4PM
Dual Rivet excited to add a movement Workshop to the MADE BY WOMEN Festival this year! This will be a high intensity, 6 hour workshop comprised of the key technical and theatrical elements the company works with. The workshop will start with a somatics class, then a floorwork technique class, theatrical/character development and improvisation study and end with partnering rep and conversation. This workshop will be held at Gibney (280) with guest teachers KE’RON WILSON & ISADORA WOLFE.
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Help support MADE BY WOMEN and the incredible artists involved in this festival by donating to our Sponsor Program!
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Dual Rivet is asking that you and/or your business consider becoming a part of Dual Rivet’s mission to uplift women, gender-expansive individuals and underrepresented creators in the arts. As a Sponsor, you will be listed in our program and recognized during the night of the festival in the pre show introductions/projections for the night. The more you give, the more you get - with the potential of receiving ample marketing, MADE BY WOMEN swag and free tickets to the shows.
Support levels start at $10 and go to $1,500.
Regardless of your support level, we would be so grateful and honored to have you be a part of this amazing community as a Sponsor.
Dual Rivet is fiscally sponsored through Arts On Site, a non-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the performing arts community. Your generous donations will be considered as tax deductible. Thank you for your support.