WASTE YOUR TIME: Co-produced by INDELIBLE DANCE and NoOSPHERE ARTS
Directed by Robin Cantrell
Field Guide: Casey Howes
The Turret - * Choreography: Robin Cantrell with Sarah Housepian and Amy Saunder * Dancers: Sarah Housepian and Amy Saunder * Music: Joseph Allred and Don McLean
Granite Steps - * Choreography: Robin Cantrell * Dancers: Mira Cook, Arimee Gambill, Sarah Housepian, Allegra Herman, Tiffany Mangulabnan, JoVonna Parks, Amy Saunder * Music: Françoise Hardy
Watershed Bollard - * Choreography: Allegra Herman * Dancers: Arimee Gambill, Sarah Housepian, Allegra Herman, Tiffany Mangulabnan, JoVonna Parks, Amy Saunder * Music: Original score by MÏRÄNDÄ
The Monitor Table - * Choreography: JoVonna Parks * Dancers: Arimee Gambill, Sarah Housepian, Allegra Herman, Tiffany Mangulabnan, JoVonna Parks, Amy Saunder * Music: Molly Lewis & Thee Sacred Souls and Matt Kilmer * Props created by: Gwen Millard
Tree Fossils - * Choreography: Gabrielle Lamb/PigeonWing Dance * Dancers: Arimee Gambill, Allegra Herman, Tiffany Mangulabnan, Amy Saunder * Music: Elena Kats-Chernin & Tamara Anna Cislowska
The Pied Pooper: Bethany Mitchell
Kingsland Wildflower Green Roof - * Choreography: Tiffany Mangulabnan * Dancers: Mira Cook, Arimee Gambill, Sarah Housepian, Allegra Herman, Tiffany Mangulabnan, JoVonna Parks, Amy Saunder * Music: Original score by Mira Cook
Bios
Robin Cantrell: Director, choreographer
With a professional performing career spanning more than two decades, Robin Cantrell has worked with numerous dance companies including City Ballet of San Diego, Rioult, and as a member of Battery Dance for 17 years. Robin has performed, taught, and presented her own choreography in over 65 countries worldwide. She is the subject of the award-winning documentary Moving Stories. She has taught at Vassar College and is currently on faculty at PACE University. Robin dances for Gabrielle Lamb’s PigeonWing Dance and is the Artistic Director of Indelible Dance: a Brooklyn-based dance company that creates otherworldly dance films and presents multimedia immersive dance events. Her dance films have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including Best Screendance of the Year at the 2022 Independent Shorts Awards. Robin is the Co-Founder of Constant John Productions which creates dynamic films that tell their stories entirely through dance and music. Robin curates the dance series 12x12 at L&SD and is the Director of Dance at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. She is a native of St. Paul Minnesota and received her BFA in ballet performance at the University of Utah as a Willem F. Christensen scholarship recipient. She loves her bird very much and continues to expand her mindfulness practice.
Mira Cook: Dancer, musician
Mira Cook is a dancer, singer, composer and movement teacher based in Austin Texas. Over the last 20+ years Mira has released 7 music albums, danced professionally in New York, California and Texas and taught movement workshops in 32 countries around the world. Her choreography has been performed by Battery Dance, Indelible Dance and City Ballet of San Diego and presented by Periapsis, Spectrum NYC, Dance Carousel, Spaces of Fontana and East Side Performing Arts. Mira currently teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and East Side Performing Arts.
Arimee Gambill: Dancer
Arimee was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a small town in the northern part of the state. She danced professionally with James Sewell Ballet in Minneapolis from 2018-2023 and performed heavily in contemporary ballet works and improvisation. She has been dancing with Minneapolis based choreographer Kerry Parker since 2018. In 2022, she was commissioned by James Sewell Ballet to create a new work for the company, while still a dancer there, that premiered in the fall of 2022. She regularly danced and collaborated with Twin Cities musicians as well. Arimee moved to Brooklyn in 2023 where she has been freelancing and presenting her own choreography in New York City. She is currently a member of Pigeonwing Dance.
Allegra Herman: Dancer, choreographer
Allegra Herman is a native New Yorker and Bessie Award winning dancer. She trained classically at Manhattan Youth Ballet and the School of American Ballet and furthered her contemporary training at the NDT summer intensive, Springboard Danse Montreal, and b12 Berlin. Allegra has been a member of Trainor Dance since 2014 and joined Pigeonwing Dance in 2022. She has performed with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, the Little Orchestra Society, OUI DANSE, and DanceLab NY. From 2018-2019, she joined the first national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Bartlett Sher and choreographed by Hofesh Shechter. Allegra is a graduate of Columbia University, where she majored in French Language and Literature, and is currently the head of contemporary curriculum at Rye Ballet Conservatory.
Sarah Housepian: Dancer
Originally from Southern California, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from California State University of Fullerton. She was the Distinguished Keynote Speaker on behalf of The Performing Arts Department upon graduation. On the West Coast, she worked with Fuse Modern Dance, BARE Dance Company (CA), and Vision’s Dance Theater; she performed works by Colin Connor and José Limón. In New York, she has worked with Battery Dance, BARE Dance Company, Yin Yue Dance Company, Erica Essner Performance Co-Op, Indelible Dance, 10 Hairy Legs Projects, NOW Dance Project, Robert Mark Dance, Shawn Bible Dance Co, Gabrielle Lamb, Spark Movement Collective, and Julia Ehrstrand. She has collaborated with visual artists and extensively explored dance on film, including starring in Robin Cantrell’s award-winning 40-minute dance film “Odyssey.” Sarah has toured and taught domestically and internationally, leading Battery’s Dancing to Connect workshops in Germany, Canada, India, Honduras, and Mexico. In New York, she has taught at Washington Irving High School, Chinatown Senior Center, PS 90, and Curtis High School. She has a passion for art, food, community and all things dance.
Casey Howes: Field Guide
Born into a distinguished family of LA surf bums, Casey Bronwyn Howes forsook her sunshine and freckled destiny for a life of sweat, criticism, and pliés. After graduating from SUNY Purchase, Casey moved to Brooklyn and joined Pilobolus Dance Theater, where she learned how to tell a story, harness the forces of light and shadow, and defy gravity. In 2021, Casey helped create and starred in NYT Critic’s Pick Endure: Run Woman Show, a site-specific immersive theater piece in Central Park. Casey is also half of Leggy Bones Physical Theater, a multi-disciplinary creative vessel she started with her partner who shall not be named here because this is Casey’s bio, and not his. Casey was a founding cast member of the immersive show Life and Trust. Beyond that, Casey is a decorated competitive rock-climber, is almost good at the antiquated art of felting, and usually makes mean lemon squares.
Gabrielle Lamb (PigeonWing Dance): Choreographer
Gabrielle Lamb is a Princess Grace Award-winning choreographer based in NYC, where she directs Pigeonwing Dance. Her work has also been presented by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballet, Whim W’him (Seattle), Ballet Collective (NYC), Ballet Austin, Ballet Memphis, and the Sacramento, Milwaukee, and Kansas City Ballets. Ms Lamb, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, has won choreographic competitions at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Milwaukee Ballet, as well as the Banff Centre’s Lee Award and a NY City Center Choreography Fellowship. In 2018 she was Grand Prize Winner of the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award. In 2018 and 2019 she was selected to create for the American Ballet Theatre Choreographic Incubator. A native of Savannah, GA, she trained at the Boston Ballet School and was a longtime soloist at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. In 2009 she was invited by Christopher Wheeldon to join his company Morphoses in NYC. Her performing repertoire also included new creations by Mauro Bigonzetti, Pontus Lidberg, and Shen Wei, as well as leading roles in existing works by Naharin, Balanchine, Kylian, and Duato. She was described by DANCE Magazine as “a dancer of stunning clarity who illuminates the smallest details–qualities she brings to the dances she makes, too”.
Tiffany Mangulabnan: Dancer, choreographer
Tiffany Mangulabnan, born and raised in Manila, Philippines, was a principal dancer with the Philippine Ballet Theatre before moving to NYC in 2012. She danced with BalletNext for four years, and also performed with Claudia Schreier & Co., Emery LeCrone DANCE, Gleich Dances, Trainor Dance, and Terra Firma Dance. In 2016, she co-founded konverjdans, a Brooklyn-based contemporary ballet company, with co-artistic directors Jordan Miller and Amy Saunder. She has since choreographed several works for the company, as well as for DanceLab NY, Columbia University, and Woman in Motion Dance Co; in August 2023 she created a new piece for Carolina Ballet. She also performs with The Metropolitan Opera, Indelible Dance, John Passafiume Dancers, and for the conceptual artist Brendan Fernandes, and currently with Pigeonwing Dance.
MÏRÄNDÄ: Musician
Mïrändä is a music producer, singer, songwriter, composer and DJ born, raised and based in NYC. She explores a wide spectrum of styles but her backgrounds in theater and classical violin always play a powerful role in her songwriting. In 2013 and 2014 she won YoungArts awards in Voice. Through their program she’s had the opportunity to perform her original music at The Kennedy Center and at Lincoln Center in a Dance/Theater piece directed by Bill T. Jones. She also starred in the HBO Masterclass Sing Your Song with Josh Groban and performed her original music alongside him at T.D. Garden and at MoMA. Mïrändä studied Theatre at NYU Tisch’s Stella Adler Acting Conservatory and after a year she transferred to Tisch’s songwriting program at Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. While Mïrändä has continued to grow her fanbase and develop her craft, she has also gone on to compose for dance and short film as well as DJ. In 2021 she composed a piece for Trainor Dance, which was performed at and inspired by the Yayaoi Kusama exhibit at the Bronx Botanical Gardens. It was then that she discovered a passion for collaboration with dancers and has since gone on to compose for numerous award winning Dance/Poetry films as well as standard short film. Most recently, Mïrändä collaborated with Nu Deco Ensemble and performed orchestral arrangements of four of her original songs with them at The Citadel in Miami, FL.
Bethany Mitchell: The Pied Pooper
was raised in Mission Viejo, California, where she studied dance from the age of 4. Her professional career includes work with Ballet Pacifica, State Street Ballet, City Ballet of San Diego, Liss Fain Dance, Blue Bear School of Music, Battery Dance, Indelible Dance, Mark Morris Dance Center and Harlem School of the Arts. She has toured in 40+ countries as a professional dancer, taught masterclasses and creative workshops in 20+ countries, and completed a Fulbright Scholar Award at the Escuela Profesional de Mazatlan in Mexico. Bethany currently lives in San Francisco, California, where she is pursuing her own creative endeavors as a producer. Her one-woman show, "Boxsteps and Beers," was presented by The Marsh Theater and her music video, "Dicks," was nominated at the 2021 Berlin Music Video Awards.
JoVonna Parks: Dancer, choreographer
JoVonna Parks is a Philadelphia native where she began her intense formal training in Ballet, Horton and Graham techniques. She attended Ailey/Fordham and graduated with her BFA in dance in 2012. JoVonna performed with Elisa Monte Dance under the direction of both Elisa Monte and Tiffany Rea-Fisher from 2014-2019. She has also worked with Classical Theater of Harlem in their productions of Macbeth, The Three Musketeers, Antigone and A Christmas Carol. She is currently a freelance dance artist with Clymove, Konverjdans, Ballet Vero Beach and South Dakota Ballet. Her creations have been performed at Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company: Solo Suites as well as the all female collaborative choreography festival CounterPointe. She has appeared in Season 2 of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness. JoVonna is a recipient of the NYFA City Corps Grant, the 2021/2022 UMEZ grant from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as choreographer in collaboration with Nite Bjuti and a microgrant from The Map Fund in its first microgrant initiative. JoVonna has also created two world premieres for Brooklyn Ballet and CLYMOVE 2024 spring seasons. She is an original member of Clymove since 2019, served as Founding Board Secretary 2021-2023, and is currently Clymove’s first commissioned Choreographer and Rehearsal Director.
Amy Saunder: Dancer
Amy Saunder is a Brooklyn-based artist who was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She joined Battery Dance during its 2022-23 Season and has traveled to Germany, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Saõ Tomé with the company to teach and perform. She studied classical ballet at Baltimore School for the Arts and at North Carolina School of the Arts and began her professional career with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, where she performed at The Kennedy Center for three seasons. In 2014 she moved to New York City to work as a freelance dancer with companies such as Indelible Dance, PigeonWing Dance, MorDance, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and Ballet Next. In 2016 she co-founded konverjdans (converge/dance) with Tiffany Mangulabnan and Jordan Miller, and she has created numerous original works for the company as well as performed in new works by Gabrielle Lamb, Caili Quan, Peter Cheng, Mangulabnan, and Miller. Amy is also a videographer and filmmaker, and has a production company with Joe Raffanti called Nine Mile Productions.