1830EST: 2022-2023
Artist Talk
Lauren McFalls
Event Date: May 18th, 2023
Loren is a highly skilled Experiential Producer with a demonstrated history of working in the creative marketing industry. She holds a B.S. cum laude in TV News/Nonfiction from Drexel University with a minor in Journalism and Dance and holds an Emmy award for a sitcom she produced during her Drexel tenure.
Roie Avidan and Maya Gelfman
Event Date: April 20th, 2023
Roie Avidan is a visual poet Avidan was a prominent manager in the fields of music and performance in Israel. His footprint can be found in many of Israel’s cultural phenomena of the past decade. Maya Gelfman is a multidisciplinary artist. Her main mediums are painting, installation, and public art. A graduate of Shenkar Academy in 2006, she’s since had nine solo exhibitions.
Amador Artiga
Event Date: March 16th, 2023
Amador Artiga is a visual artist specializing in visual dramaturgy, design, and production of video scenes, digital scenography, and installation for performing arts, For more than 10 years, he has been creating visuals, being in charge of the design and content creation, and going hand in hand with the director in his or her creative journey.
Julio Medina and Professora Dandhara
Event Date: February 9th, 2023
Julio Medina is a first-generation Chicano from South Central Los Angeles and an Assistant Professor in the Dance & Movement Studies Program at Emory University. Professora Dandhara started training Capoeira in 2001 in Londrina, Brazil. She is one of the head kids teachers and administrators at Capoeira Maculele Decatur.
Lori Teague
Event Date: January 19th, 2023
Lori Teague develops improvisational scores that invite plau, kinesthetic listening, and choice. These processes seek to empower, expand awareness, and build new connections. Teague joined the dance faculty at Emory University in 1994 where she teaches modern, improvisation, choreography, and more. Currently, her ongoing practice of site-specific improvisational performance strengthens connections to the natural world and explores uninhabited spaces.
Michael Eckblad
Event Date: December 15th, 2022
Michael Eckblad is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans the performed to the visually formal. His body of work ranges from traditional media like photography, filmmaking, and painting, to conceptual works meant to be experienced. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Valerie Massadian
Event Date: October 20th, 2022
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Valérie Massadian
Event Date: October 20th, 2022
Valérie Massadian is a filmmaker whose work concentrates on female characters, their animality, and their relationships with nature and the world. Massadian's background is in photography, and she has collaborated with filmmakers and artists such as Nan Goldin.
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Barbora Látalová & Zden Brungot Svíteková
Event Date: September 22nd, 2022
Barbora is a graduate of the dance conservatory Duncan Centre in Prague (1997). As a dancer and performer, she is involved in projects in the Czech Republic and abroad. Zden Brungot Svitekova is a moving, freelance artist. Since 2000, She has been working internationally as a dance artist-performer, creator, and curator.
