DANCERS

Renée Archibald (performer) grew up in Maryland and studied ballet and contemporary dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She has had the pleasure of dancing with many friends including Lazier, Christopher Williams, Ann Liv Young, Nina Winthrop and Alex Escalante. Her work has been presented in various venues around New York including Danspace Project's Food for Thought and Draftwork Series, DTW's Fresh Tracks Series, the Brooklyn Museum, and at Dixon Place. Archibald was a space grant recipient at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange in 2004, an artist in residence at Yaddo in 2006, and received a Puffin Grant in 2007 for her first full length piece, Oh Dear Natascha, which was presented at the Chocolate Factory. Archibald is currently a member of the Sugar Salon, which provided her with a residency at Barnard College in 2007 and a premiere for her newest work at the Abrons Art Center in February 2008. In addition, she is creating a new piece as an adjunct professor with Barnard students.

Karen Carbonell (Performer) is originally from Raleigh, NC. In 2004 she graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in contemporary dance. Since moving to New York she has had the pleasure of working with Neta Pulvermacher and Terrain. She has also made appearances in the work of Christopher Williams, Hahn Nyugen, and most recently Jessica Gaynor.

Jennifer Lafferty (Performer) is from southern CA, where she received a dance degree from UCLA. Since her trip across the country in 1999 she has been dancing and traveling with Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN. She also works with Renée Archibald, Nina Winthrop, Christopher Williams and Michou Szabo.

Rommel Salveron (Performer) Rommel Salveron received his BA in Dance from the University of California, San Diego. While in Southern California, he danced with the San Diego Dance Theater and Patricia Rincon Dance Collective. He has also worked with Wendy Rogers, Joe Goode, Kim Epifano, Mary Anthony, Kevin Wynn, Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, and Christopher Williams. Rommel currently dances with ZviDance and has been with Terrain since the summer of 2005.

Emily Stone (Performer) Emily Stone is from Boulder, Colorado. Her early training was with both the Boulder Ballet and Colorado Ballet. Moving east, she attended the Dance Conservatory at SUNY Purchase. After receiving a merit scholarship to enroll in Professional Training Program at the Merce Cunningham Studio she earned her Certificate of Completion in '06. In addition to Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN, Emily has worked with and performed the choreography of Brandon Collwes, Ellen Cornfield, Sean Curran, Hilary Easton, Bryan Hayes and Robert Sher-Machherdl. Emily also plays the cello: most recently she recorded with Mikel Rouse on his (2006) "International Cloud Atlas."

Storme Sundberg (Performer) Storme Sundberg is a performing and teaching artist based in NYC for the past ten years. In addition to her work with Terrain, Storme is a long-time member of Jordan Fuchs Dance and performs regularly with Wendy Blum, Phillipa Kaye, Janusz Jaworski, Red Shift Dance and the Modern Dance Awareness Society. She has also worked with Jody Oberfelder, Noemie LaFrance and Stephan Koplowitz. Her choreography has been shown at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Joyce Soho, BRIC Theater, Movement Research, Wow, Spoke the Hub, and in Stamford CT at the Palace Theater and the Rich Forum. She holds her BA from SUNY Buffalo where she was a member of Pick of the Crop Dance. Storme teaches dance to children at the 92nd Street Y/Harkness Center for Dance, Spoke the Hub, and Creative Arts Studios.

Christopher Williams (Performer) Christopher Williams is a dancer, choreographer, and puppeteer based in Brooklyn. He studied at Sarah Lawrence College and the École Internationale de Thétre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and has since danced for Tere O'Connor Dance, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN, and Yoshiko Chuma's School of Hard Knocks, among others. He has also performed in the work of puppetry artists Basil Twist and Dan Hurlin. His own works have been seen locally at City Center, Dance New Amsterdam, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, BRIC Studio, Galapagos Art Space, The John Houseman Theater, HERE Arts Center, P.S. 122, Dixon Place, La Mama, the Mulberry Street Theater, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and internationally in the Casa del Teatro Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia. His collaborations include work with Colombian visual artist, Rosario López, composers Gregory Spears and Peter Kirn, and members of the acclaimed vocal ensembles, The Anonymous 4 and Lionheart. He is the recipient of grants from the Jim Henson Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and has been commissioned by New York University, Princeton University, and through the Dream Music Puppetry Program as part of the HERE Artist Residency Program. In 2005 he received a New York Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award for his work Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. He has held residencies at the Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam, Djerassi, Joyce SoHo, White Oak Plantation, Yaddo, The Liguria Study Center for Arts & Humanities, and The Yard. He serves on the Artist Advisory Board for the Danspace Project and lives in Sunset Park.

COLLABORATORS

Heidi Barr (costumes designer) brings more than twenty years of experience as a dancer to her work in costume design. She received a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle) in 1987 and danced professionally for the following ten years. In 1997, Heidi moved east and began creating costumes for theater and dance. She has designed costumes for over 70 choreographic works since beginning her own business in 2000. Heidi manages Drexel University's Mandell Theaters' costume shop and teaches costume design at Philadelphia University. She received the Leeway Foundations' Window of Opportunity Grant in 2004 for her collaboration on The Fold.

Aaron Copp (lighting designer) has designing lighting for TERRAIN since 2002, and has worked for such companies and choreographers as Merce Cunningham, New York City Ballet, Kronos Quartet, Sara Rudner, Paradigm, Jamie Bishton, Martita Goshen and the Second Hand Dance Company. Aaron received the Bessie award for his lighting of Merce Cunningham' Biped. He has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, is a member of United Scenic Artists, and has been on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College since 2001.

Jody Elff (composer/performer) is a sound artist living and working in New York City. Jody and Rebecca have collaborated three times, using both recorded music and live performance. His explorations into alternative systems for the control and manipulation of sound have led to the development of an ongoing series of sonic installations and sculptures which have been heard at PS122, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen and with the Post Media Network at Moving Image Gallery in NYC. His international presentations include participation in New York, New Sounds, New Spaces show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France and the 2003 Dublin Fringe Festival.

Gregory Spears (composer/sound designer) music has been played by the American Composers' Orchestra, the NOW Ensemble, So Percussion, the Eighth Blackbird Ensemble, the vocal group Ars Nova, the Zapolsky Quartet, the Synapse Chamber Orchestra (Montreal) and his own group, the Owen Quartet. He was awarded a First Music Commission in 1999 to write a piece for the New York Youth Symphony, which was given its premiere in Carnegie Hall. Since then his music has won multiple prizes from ASCAP and BMI as well as grants and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and Yaddo. Recent commissions have come from the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra and the Present Music Ensemble in Milwaukee. Spears studied composition at the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, Princeton University and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen as Fulbright Scholar. (www.gregoryspears.com)

Dan Trueman (composer/performer) plays and composes for a variety of violins, including the 6-string electric violin, the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, and the Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array (BoSSA: an instrument of his own design and construction). Transparent Body is the first collaboration between Dan and Rebecca, and hopefully is the first of many. His collaborations with Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn have been performed widely they have released a CD, ./swank, and a DVD Recording Field, H with guest Pauline Oliveros, on the Deep Listening label. A CD of his chamber music, Machine Language was released by Bridge Records in 2004. Dan teaches composition and electronic music at Princeton University.