Pittsburgh Fringe and DANA Movement Ensemble Present: Crossing Paths Movement Collective

These artists have been curating showcases since the COVID recovery, highlighting varied styles and backgrounds, including release technique, butoh, and contact improvisation. Each artist’s work is different, but all share a vision of excellence and collaboration. Pittsburgh Premiere!

Genre: Dance/Physical Theater

Rating: PG-13

Show Run Time: 60 minutes

Show Creator(s): DANA Movement Ensemble

About the Performer(s): A Pittsburgh pioneer in exploring race and sexual identity, Nick M. Daniels is the founding Artistic Director of the D.A.N.A. Movement Ensemble (Dancers Against Normal Actions). With over 30 years of dance and choreography experience, he reemerged after a brief hiatus. Since returning in 2016 his choreographic style continuously has developed. His style is based on butoh, African, modern, and contemporary styles based on pure raw emotion. His creativity often entices the use of self-realized soundscapes and video imagery.

Considered an innovator who creates sensual, inspired, highly physical dance that seeks to communicate, unearth humanity, and framing it with clarity, Evalina Carbonell, is known affectionately as “Wally.” The Philadelphia-based dance artist’s work has been presented at various east-coast platforms as well as locally at Koresh Dance Company’s, “Come Together Festival,” KYL/D’s, “Inhale Performance Series,” Chisena Danza’s, “Evening of Duets,” and others.

Malcolm Shute, MFA, CMA, founded Human Landscape Dance (hldance.org) in 2006 and has since brought contact choreography around the world. Specializing in artist partnerships, Human Landscape Dance has given performances, held workshops, and shot video footage in Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as cities across the US and Canada. He teaches in the Dance Department at Towson University.

Sarah Carlson is the Founder & Artistic Director of DanceLink, a project-based company that seeks to bridge people, ideas, and understanding through the power of movement. Sarah danced in NYC with numerous companies including Brian Brooks Moving Company, Clare Byrne Dance, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. As an independent choreographer, her work has been presented throughout the U.S. at venues such as the Joyce Soho in NYC, On the Boards in Seattle, and The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard as well as in Benin, Africa. Sarah is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Cedar Crest College.

Website and Links:

http://crossingpaths.danamovement.com/

Check out what others are saying:

“Crossing Paths Movement Collective offered reflection on and celebration of human experience, as well as a richly diverse experience of dance, from distinct styles of movement and performance to a lineup of dancers refreshingly diverse in age, gender, body type, race, and ethnicity. I look forward to crossing paths with these artists again.”- Mellissa Strong, Broad Street Review