Axiom Dance Theatre

29/03/2016

3 Years Ago today I sat next to my best friend, , while we watched our company, AXIOM's debut performance. Since then, we have created 3 other shows and are looking forward! Happy Anniversary AXIOM!

05/11/2015

Thank you for giving us the space Pilates & Arts ~ Echo Park. We would not be able to create if it wasn't for you!

05/11/2015

Take a look at Co-Artistic Director Denna Thomsen and DANCELEN(D)S new film collaboration with director Phillip Montgomery. There are two more weeks to donate. Any support helps as we look forward to its release!

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A narrative dance film about the forces that prevent us from realizing who we truly are. | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

15/05/2015

We begin to face the fear.

10/05/2015

"Keep the channel open." - Martha Graham

27/04/2015

THIS EVENING'S CONGRESS IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT! We are overwhelmed and elated by the positive response and turn out from the community and cannot thank everyone enough for a wonderful weekend of shows. There WILL be a very small batch of standing-room tickets available first-come first-serve at the door this evening for $25 CASH ONLY. We advise that you arrive early to allow for parking and to secure a ticket. If you have pre-purchased a ticket we also advise that you arrive early to secure parking and a seat as we will be completely packed this evening-every nook and cranny. See you all tonight for another incredible evening of spectacular performances. CONGRESS IN SESSION.

26/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: WIFE

WIFE, A Trinity of Illusory Performance Makers, is an all sensory theatrical experience born of three Los Angeles based artists, Jasmine Albuquerque, Kristen Leahy, and Nina McNeely. Her creations combine surrealist animations via projection mapping, sculpture, original music and costumes, using movement and dance as the vehicle for storytelling. WIFE harnesses old and new technology (magic) to illuminate enduring mystical phenomena and ancient archetypes that resonate throughout humankind’s collective unconscious. She is as a magician of picture and light, of movement and sound, reflecting rescued dreams and the subtleties of human behavior. She is the daughter, sister, and mother of all people set apart.

WIFE has been seen at Art Basel Miami, The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, MOCAtv, Grand Performances, Frequency Festival UK, Wall to Wall: The Fusion Collective (Ford/Milk NYC, LA), Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Human Resources, Forum Lounge at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, the Bootleg Dance Festival 2011, and was awarded the ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation in 2011. WIFE’s “The Grey Ones” was presented at the Long Beach TEDx SoCal event, and is featured on Amon Tobin’s box set DVD. WIFE has an ongoing collaboration with The Acid and their video "Basic Instinct" premiered on Nowness. WIFE is featured in the January 2015 issue of Flaunt Magazine and premiered new work "Past Lives" at Mack Sennett Studios in Los Angeles in 2015.

WIFE has crafted an entirely new brand of magic. She harnesses yesterday's whispers and feeds them into the blaring digitized speaker of today. Her images are uncanny and are born and die in nearly the same instant, giving her spectators just enough time to bask in her technicolor brilliance for the wake of a splendid moment. As alchemist she is mechanical and digitized and simultaneously psychotropic and ephemeral. Do not miss WIFE. Here in an instant and gone in a flash, she disintegrates just as quickly as she takes visible form.

Pre-sale tickets are SOLD OUT. A small batch of standing-room only door tickets will be available so please arrive early. For more info, visit http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com/

26/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: RYAN SPENCER

Born and raised in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Ryan Spencer has been in involved in dance since the age of 3; training at competitive dance studios then at 15 years old began traveling nationally and internationally to take workshops, perform, and choreograph. Now at 20,he is a graduate of the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists, and is living in Los Angeles, CA continuing his career in dance while being signed by Clear Talent Group. He has assisted choreographers Ryan Heffington, Nina McNeely, and Erica Sobol on various commercial jobs and performances. As well as worked for artists Florence and The Machine, SIA, Fitz and Tantrums, Pentatonix, The Night Terrors of 1927, The Low; and was a dancer on the ABC series “The Middle”.Some live performances include include dancing for Billy Bell’sLunge Dance Collective, Juliette Irons’ Art-uncensored, and for Ryan Heffington at Marina Abramović’s charity event, ‘HEAVEN”. He is a founding company member of LA-based performance theater company AXIOM Dance Theater, under the direction of Denna Thomsen and Zak Ryan Schlegel. As a teacher he has taught/choreographed at Broadway Dance Center in New York, The Sweat Spot in Los Angeles, Movement Lifestyle in Los Angeles; as well as studios in Australia, Italy, Minnesota, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama. Ryan is currently teaching at professional dance studios in Los Angeles, and participating in performances for local choreographers. He feels so grateful to be dancing his way through life everyday.

Ryan's work is an absolute reflection of himself as artist and weirdo extraordinaire. He has the ability to capture and portray the spirit of childhood and adulthood alike with fluid ease. Removed from gender and from age, his work floats somewhere in a nexus of freedom where he has built a playground of new ideas. As founding company member of AXIOM Dance Theatre, we are thrilled to present his first ever work in a professional setting. Less than a handful of tickets are left and sale end at 2 pm. Don't hesitate: http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com/

26/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: ERICA SOBOL

Choreographer Erica Sobol is a Los Angeles original, born and raised in the city. After high school, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in the performing arts. There Erica earned a BA in dance-theater from Barnard College at Columbia University and began her professional dance training at Broadway Dance Center. She also began her teaching career in New York, serving as a faculty member at Manhattan’s Peridance.

Erica has contributed works to Gay Pride NYC, Traffic (Tessandra Chavez, dir.), the Broadway Dance Center Performance Outlet, Carnival: a choreographer’s ball (in New York and Los Angeles and Sydney), the EDGE Annual Show, and many many others…In addition, her work was featured on So You Think You Can Dance: Ukraine, in a collaborative effort with London’s Sisco Gomez. And Erica was handpicked in 2011 as a finalist for the prestigious Capezio ACE award. In 2013 Erica won the grand prize at the Capezio ACE award.

She has worked as a master instructor at several dance studios and festivals all over the world, including Broadway Dance Center in New York, BDC in Tokyo, Pineapple in London, Harmonic in Paris, FnF in Poland (alongside world famous hip hop choreographers Luther Brown, Kevin Maher, Tucker Barkley, Tony Czar, Ian Eastwood, Nick DeMoura, and others), DiAmbra in Stockholm, Skip on Guam, and Mediterranean Dance Festival in Italy (alongside choreographers and dancers from Madonna (World Tour), Bat Sheva Dance Company, Nederlands Dans Theater, Kidd Pivot, and more). And she is on faculty at the Edge Performing Arts Center.

Erica Sobol is the founder and artistic director of collidEdance, an ever-evolving professional dance company dedicated to blurring the line between dance and theater. The company’s Brooklyn, NY debut in 2004 received rave reviews and enjoyed five straight soldout performances. collidE is now based in Los Angeles. And thriving! It’s West Coast debut, in Hollywood in 2008, brought four packed houses down! collidEdance continues to make and perform groundbreaking dance, to inspire audiences worldwide.

Erica has appeared in Dance Teacher Magazine and in Dance Spirit Magazine. She and her work have been praised in multiple art and travel blogs. And collidEdance was featured in Dance Spirit Magazine’s “The Higher Ed Issue” as one of eight most desirable companies for post-competition dance life, leading the way in this professional dance phenomenon.

Erica's work is emotionally charged, fantastical, and driven by athletic rigor. Evocative of childhood, memory and dreams, her pieces contain a nostalgic edge that is as wistful as the movement is inventive and dynamically impressive. Touching and tenacious, you won't want to miss your last chance to see her work, among the rest of the CONGRESS line-up this evening. Only a few tickets left online and limited tickets at the door. Secure yours now: http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com

26/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: SARA SILKIN

Sara Silkin is an L.A based contemporary choreographer, dancer, and teacher. She graduated UCLA and went on to pursue her dancing career in Israel, where she was selected to be part of the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company's second company. This opportunity allowed her to immerse herself in Israeli contemporary dance and study various techniques that she utilizes in her movement practice and choreography: Forsythe, GaGa, continuum, and counter countertechnique. She has taught at the Sydney Drama School in Australia, Le Centre de Danse du Marais in France, and various local Los Angeles dance studios. Her classes are a fusion of contemporary techniques that focus on performance and improvisation.

She has choreographed for: L.A Fashion Week, L.A Dance Invitational, Los Angeles Movement Arts, Agamemnon at the Santa Monica Pier, The Hammer Museum series in Los Angeles, Explosions in the Sky's album release at Hollywood Forever, and music videos for Minus the Bear and Fool's Gold. She is a founding company member of AXIOM Dance Theatre and has performed for Josie Walsh (Myokyo), Heidi Duckler (Heidi Duckler DanceTheater), Kitty McNamee (Hysterica Dance Company), Nguyen Nguyen (LAMA), Laura Karlin (Invertigo Dance Theatre), and IN/EX Dance Project. And has assisted Barak Marshall and Sarah Elgart.

Sara is a master of the physical relationship and architecture of partnering. She will be premiering a new duet that builds on an earlier work in collaboration with her dancer. With liquid-like ease and incredible mobility, she has a keen sense of original shape-making and maneuvering high-risk partnering sequences. Her duet is a sensual, heart-rending and clamoring with beauty. Don't miss it, two days left! TONIGHT AND TOMORROW ONLY: http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com

25/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: NINA MCNEELY

Nina McNeely is a genre-bending choreographer, dancer, and artist. Having moved to Los Angeles from Denver, Colorado in 2001, Nina began her career performing burlesque, choreographing for LA’s underground club scene, and dancing in various contemporary dance companies including Hysterica Dance Company, Collage Dance Theater and is a founding company member of AXIOM Dance Theatre.

Her international and varied experience as a performer has allowed Nina to develop a unique aesthetic as a choreographer. Nina has recently choreographed for Fitz and The Tantrums, Major Lazer, Sam Sparro, and shot with directors Eric Wareheim, Dugan O’Neal and Mike Rosenthal.

Furthermore, Nina brings her style as choreographer into her work as a multimedia artist and director, combining her multiple talents to produce work that is both surreal and ephemeral in nature. She has worked as a video editor since 2009, that same year, Nina also began experimenting with animation and projection mapping and co-founded WIFE in 2010 as a choreographer, dancer, and animator. In 2013, Nina began video directing, and has since directed music videos for Hayley Kiyoko, KERF, and Hi Fashion.

Nina has recently returned from creating and performing in her first solo body mapping piece entitled MORPH, which continues to run in Franco Dragone’s 2014 production of Taboo in Macau, China.
Nina continues to live, work, dance, and create in Los Angeles.

Nina's genre-jumping work is indescribable. Her ear for musicality, nuance and precision paired with distinct penchant for mythology, fantasy and lush imaginative narrative elevates her work into a genre all its own. Her choreography is at once in the darkest corner of a gritty hip-hop club and in the same right a glimpse into a glittering utopia. We are ecstatic to present Nina's new quartet tonight and tomorrow! Tickets are nearly sold out, book yours now: http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com.

24/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: KITTY MCNAMEE

Kitty McNamee is a highly regarded choreographer, earning distinction from Dance Magazine as an artist with “an outsize talent for that most elusive gift, originality."

Kitty brings her passion and unique voice to tv, film and live performances. Recent work includes choreography for Lifetime's Beautiful and Twisted, Lifetime's Petals on the Wind, Gwyneth Paltrow's The Restart Project, Secret Cinema’s ground-breaking live performances with Laura Marling in London, LA Philharmonic and Wet Design. Kitty's work includes original productions for National Choreographer's Initiative, LA Ballet, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and LA Philharmonic. Kitty is known for her ability to draw out sophisticated, engaging performances, she has coached and choreographed for Paz Vega, Laura Marling, Julianne Hough, Margaret Cho, Vanessa Williams, Vittorio Grigolo, Lily Tomlin, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, the boys of 90210 and the ladies of the L-Word. Moving into Direction and Creative Direction, Kitty has shepherded new work for LA Philharmonic, Hello Kitty, Grey Ant, Henry Wolfe and Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW.

Ms. McNamee is the artistic director of Hysterica Dance Co. a consistently prolific and invigorating force in the LA dance community. She was recently nominated for best choreography by the World Dance Awards for her work with Fred and Nick on Laura Marling's "When Brave Bird Saved". She was also nominated for the UK Video Music Awards for Laura Marling's "Master Hunter".

Kitty's work is marked by its raw, rapturous images and distinctly original architecture. At once poignant and disarming, then entirely quick-triggered and aggressive, she is esteemed for her ability to display her dancer's technical and emotional range. She is particularly significant to directors Denna Thomsen & Zak Ryan Schlegel as it was a work of hers, "Flash On The Beach", that introduced the two and awoke their possibility to join in artistic partnership.

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23/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: NICK LANZISERA

Nick Lanzisera moved to Los Angeles about seven years ago from Colorado Springs, CO to pursue a career in dance. Since moving, Nick has been able to work on a number of amazing projects. So far, Nick has appeared in numerous movies including both High School Musical 2 & 3, Fame, Footloose, and No Strings Attached. Nick has been so thankful to be busy with these amazing opportunities as well as working on various music videos, national commercials, television series, and award shows including the Oscars with Hugh Jackman, VH1's Divas Live, The Grammy's, and recently the Academy Awards. Nick's favorite recent credits include dancing for Britney Spears on her 2011 Femme Fatale Promo Tour and Jennifer Lopez at the American Music Awards. Nick has been teaching in LA for nearly a decade, and has very much enjoyed sharing his unique style and choreography.

Nick's work is high-energy, expansive and emotional. He will be presenting an athletic ensemble piece that highlights his dancers' stamina, courage and deeply expressive body work. We are looking forward to another electric work from Mr. Lanzisera. Reserve your tickets today, ticket sales will close at 2 pm before each performance. http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com

Photo by: Andrea Sisson

23/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: KATE HUTTER

Kate Hutter is co-founder and Artistic Director of the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC). Kate is an alumnus of the Walnut Hill School and a graduate of the University of Southern California with a BFA in Theatrical Design. Kate also holds an MFA in Dance / Choreography from Purchase College, SUNY. Kate has presented her choreography at prestigious venues throughout L.A. including the Broad Stage, Celebrate Dance at the Alex Theater, Ford Amphitheatre, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. Theatre Center, Diavolo Dance Space and Highways Performance Space. Kate was also the movement director for the band Foster The People on their 2013 Summer Tour and part of the Move campaign by indie clothing retailer Alternative Apparel. Kate has been a visiting artist at USC, UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, Santa Monica College, Ohio State University and Wayne State University where she has taught and/or set new work. Kate continues to create dance experiences for LACDC, choreograph for theater and commercial productions, and teach at the Brockus Project Space in downtown L.A.
Kate will be presenting an explosive duet performed by two of her LACDC company members (including ADT alumnus Tess Hewlett) that is marked by her signature energetic and full-bodied dynamism. Modern and original, we look forward to presenting Hutter's work up close. Grab your tickets today: http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com/ You don't want to miss it!

23/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: RYAN HEFFINGTON

Ryan Heffington is a performance artist, choreographer, designer and self-described dance guru who makes highly theatrical works exploring dance's aesthetic and socio-cultural possibilities. Since arriving in Los Angeles in 1991, Heffington has forged collaborations in order to create performances and site specific projects that mix choreography, video, music, dance and costume design. He was co-artistic director of Hysterica Dance Company, a founding member of the dance-performance band WE ARE THE WORLD and the owner of The Sweat Spot dance studio in Silverlake. Driven by the impetus to encourage audience involvement, his work is conceived to allow the viewer to engage with the performers and therefore take part in the art making process. Attentive to the relationship of the body to the ephemeral moment, Heffington's work also brings to light the collective experience of many bodies housed in a choreographed space. Extending the intersection of art, performance and dance as pioneered by artists such as Merce Cunningham, Joan Jonas, Robert Rauschenberg, and Yvonne Rainer, Heffington's expansive approach to dance-as-life-as-art constructs avenues for participation, provides space for the play of identities and roles, and explores the physical presence and impact of diverse bodies, gestures and movements.

As an artist, Ryan has staked his claim equally in both the commercial and underground art worlds. High art enthusiasts have experienced his electrifying work at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, Charlottenborg Museum (Copenhagen), REDCAT, Highways and L.A.C.E. Gallery. In 1999 Ryan became Co-Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Hysterica Dance Company with which he was nominated for Best Male Performer, Best Small Group Ensemble, and Best Costume Design by the Horton Awards. During the same period, Ryan individually choreographed several site-specific dance projects: "House Party" and "S*x On A String" that disrupted traditional performance space expectations by bringing dance out of the galleries and theaters and into the parks, homes and streets of east-side LA. Part museum tour, part roving night club, these transient installations redefined dance for Los Angeles audiences.

He’s been a fixture of the LA dance scene for over 20 years, recently catapulted into the world spotlight with his choreography for Sia’s Chandelier. Chandelier earned him the 2014 MTV VMA for Best Choreography, and his follow up collaborations with Sia have appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and SNL. Ryan’s work is at home everywhere, from the runway to reality shows to the grittiest of nightclubs. He’s been presented by LACMA, The Hammer, The Grammys, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and MoCA, where he broke attendance records for the museum. He’s worked with Arcade Fire, Florence and the Machine, FKA Twigs, Sigur Ros, Hercules and Love Affair, Muse, Lykke Li, Ke$ha, Little Dragon and Icona Pop. Commercial clients include American Airlines, Acura, Evian, Target, Absolut, and his choreography has also appeared on The L Word and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Sweaty Sundays started as a midnight dance class storming the club scene in 2008, and by 2010 Ryan and Sweaty Sundays were calling The Sweat Spot home.

Ryan has been a significant influence and mentor to director's Denna Thomsen & Zak Ryan Schlegel since their professional inception. AXIOM could not be more honored to present the premiere of a new original work in what has become our second home, The Sweat Spot. Grab your tickets today at http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com/.

Photo by JR Mankoff

22/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: DANA FOGLIA

Dana Foglia has performed and taught dance both nationally and internationally. She trained extensively in ballet and modern with the Seiskaya Ballet Academy and later on a full scholarship to the Ailey School. At the same time she also studied hip hop, pointe, jazz, tap and African. When only a select few were chosen, Dana was honored to perform with the Ailey Company in Memoria. Dana joined Rhapsody The Company in 2001.

She has toured and performed with top artists including Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, Kelis, New Kids on the Block, Fantasia and the Latin sensation Thalia and others. Most recently Dana worked with Beyoncé for her I Am….2009 Tour as Assistant Choreographer, personally training and preparing Beyoncé for this tour. Dana has worked with top choreographers including Frank Gaston, Rhapsody, Brian Friedman, Gil Duldalao, Tony Michaels, Rosaro, and others.

She has performed in numerous TV and Award shows including " So You Think You Can Dance," "Q***r Eye for the Straight Guy," "MTV VMA Awards," "Teen Choice Awards," "AMA Awards," "World Music Awards," "Billboard Awards," "All My Children," "Regis and Kelly," "Dick Clark’s Rockin' New Year’s Eve," "The Today Show," "Good Morning America," "BET 106 & Park," "Noble Peace Prize Concert," "Jimmy Kimmel," "Carson Daly," and "Jay Leno" Shows. You may have spotted her dancing side by side with Beyoncé in “Single Ladies” at the World Music Awards.

Dana was both Artistic Director and choreographer for the recent shows cy.clo.thy.mi.a and Vatic which were performed in New York City to packed houses and both received rave reviews.

She has been recently featured in Dance Spirit Magazine as well as Dance Teacher Magazine. For “Fashion Night Out” in New York City, Dana choreographed for 4 different Sephora locations. Dana presented her work at “the Young Choreographers Festival” and at The PULSE On Tour gala as a special guest choreographer.

Dana's work is precise, rapid, and thorough. She will be presenting an impressive new all male trio that is dynamically strong and hard-hitting. AXIOM is excited to have Dana among the CONGRESS artists. Visit http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com/ to book your tickets today.

22/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: TALIA FAVIA

Talia Favia is a Los Angeles-based choreographer, dancer, artist, and creator/artistic director of LIV Dance. Talia has taught and choreographed all over the United States, Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. Her goal is to extract the “essence” of movement through her contemporary work. Talia has directed and choreographed the live contemporary dance show, “The Difference Between Sinking and Drowning”, to sold-out audiences in her hometown of Phoenix, AZ. Most Recently, Talia’s dream to present the show in Los Angeles has become a reality. “The Difference Between Sinking and Drowning” made it’s LA premiere at The Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood in April 2014.

Talia is a consistent behind the scenes presence on SYTYCD assisting Mia Michaels most recently on her tribute, and past work assisting Mia Michaels with her Emmy award winning pieces “Bitter Earth” and “When We Dance”. In addition she was assistant choreographer for Tyce Diorio for season 7. She has also had the pleasure working with Blake McGrath for SYTYCD Canada.
Talia has taught in Poland at the FNF Dance Intensive and enjoys traveling throughout the United States and abroad teaching and choreographing. She is a faculty member with In10sity Dance Convention, currently assists Mia Michaels and Bobby Newberry with JUMP Dance Convention as schedule permits. She is on staff with Dance Connection Company (Scottsdale) and Mather Dance Company (California).

Talia will be premiering a duet with Chaz Buzan. We look forward to their locked chemistry and intimate partnership. For more details and tickets visit http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com/.

21/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: MIKE ESPERANZA

Born in Manila, Philippines and raised in Southern California, Mike Esperanza has established himself as a sought after teacher and choreographer. With a BFA in graphic design from California State University, Fullerton, Mike's approach to visual construction has influenced a unique movement orchestration on stage described as "captivating visuals of impeccable lines and shapes" Jessica Abejar, Broadway World. His works have been commissioned by prestigious college and university dance programs including Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, UNLV, Cal State Long Beach, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Utah Valley University, Shenandoah University and Grand Valley State University to name a few.

In 2005, Mike was awarded the "Dance: Creation for Performance" grant presented by Dance/USA and the Irvine Foundation. With this distinguished award, BARE Dance Company began. Mike has also been a finalist at the Palm Desert Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 taking second place in 2009 and winning the paid engagement award in 2010. In 2011 BARE was part of the "Innerstate" roster presented by ODC Theater and funded by the Irvine Foundation. The program allowed the company to tour California and present the Lester Horton nominated show "Manhatttan". In 2014, Mike received the Steps Repertory Ensemble Commission award at the Reverb Dance Festival and became the recipient of the CUNY Dance Initiative grant creating a new for work, VENIMOUS, for LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Mike Currently teaches at Peridance, Steps on Broadway and serves as a guest teacher at Broadway Dance Center.

Mike's work emphasizes dynamics through physically locomotive and emotionally demanding movement. We are proud to have him in from New York to premiere a new solo work this weekend. Check out http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com for more details and to book your tickets today.

21/04/2015

CONGRESS Artist Spotlight: MATT CADY

Matt Cady is the founder and creative director for the dance group, F***y Pak, from ‘MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew’ – Season 2 and Season 7. With the success of the show as his platform, Matt has had the opportunity to choreograph in numerous areas of the entertainment industry. He most recently collaborated with Megan Lawson to choreograph Madonna’s 2012 MDNA World Tour, directed by Rich and Tone Talauega. Matt was also Associate Choreographer for Chonique Sneed & Lisette Bustamante on both Ricky Martin’s World Tour and Britney Spears’ World Tour, 2011. He recently completed choreography for the Polish version of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’, as well as dance sequences for the movies Honey 2 and Birds of a Feather, featuring F***y Pak.

Matt has done choreography for the music videos “Que Veux Tu/Safari Disco Club” by Yelle, “Go Crazy” by Patricia Kazadi, “Truly In Love” by Lil’ Mama, “The Sky Is Falling” by Gina Starbuck, “China Doll” by Natalise, and a sequence in Toni Braxton’s “You Make My Heart” video. He has also choreographed industrials for companies such as Canon and Hasbro Games as well as live entertainment events for MetroPark and Teen Vogue. Additionally, Matt has also choreographed live stage shows for artists including Shoshana Bean, Chonique Sneed, Ty, Natalise, and under the direction of Brian Friedman, Lauren Hildebrandt. He has assisted in choreography for Nickelodeon kid’s television show “Hip Hop Harry”, and has his hand in show choir choreography working with John Burroughs High School. His movement credits include Fox’s “Mobbed” under Tabitha and Napoleon Dumo, Honda, Missy Elliot, ABC Family’s “Life of an American Teenager”, Finger 11, Bellagio Hotel, and ABDC Live US and Canadian Tours.

Matt is a much sought after dance instructor and has taught domestically on numerous dance conventions including Adrenaline Dance, Intrigue, Triple Threat, The In10sive, RISE, Monsters Of Hip Hop/Contemporary and L.A. Dance Magic. In addition to traveling across the US and teaching internationally in such places as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Moscow, Warsaw, Madrid, Barcelona, Taipea, London, Tropea and all over Canada, he also teaches in Los Angeles at Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio and The EDGE Performing Arts Center.

Matt's style is marked by an intelligent blend of tightly woven musicality and contemporary physicality. Slick and human, his work is always a crowd pleaser. Visit http://thecongress.brownpapertickets.com for more information and to book your tickets today.