Rolyrbee name: Drella Earth name: Vladimir Kremenović
VLADIMIR KREMENOVIĆ (he/they) is a Seattle-based queer immigrant performer, videographer, and arts administrator. Originally from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, he graduated from Middlebury College in 2017 and moved to Seattle, where he danced with Heather Kravas, Melissa Riker, Petra Zanki, Karin Stevens, Jordan Macintosh-Hougham and Noelle Price. He has also worked on several short and feature-length film productions. He is the artistic director for CommonForm, a dance project that creates immersive durational and site-specific performances centered on his Slavic heritage and political issues in the US and ex-Yugoslav countries. Their recent live virtual work, UTOPIA: touch, was co-presented by Velocity Dance Center and Design in Public festival in Seattle, WA, several West Coast and international arts organizations, and US embassy initiatives.
Instagram: @commonform_ @vladimir_flintstone
Rolyrbee name: Malin Earth name: Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham
Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham (they/them) graduated with a B.A. from Bennington College in 2016 and is currently based in Seattle. Through hybridizing and queering the mediums of dance and video, Jordan creates performance works that reshape viewers preconceived boundaries, and invoke radical empathy. Often working with elements of humor and spectacle, their pieces revolve around themes such as anxiety and failure, and are inspired by cyberfeminism and science fiction. They consider the agency and somatic experiences of biological, technological, and “inanimate” bodies in equal importance. This helps Jordan to create worlds that seem strange, dystopic, or alien, while simultaneously being oddly familiar and relatable. Jordan has participated in artist residencies at EMPAC, Velocity Dance Center and Studio Current. They have worked for artists such as Kota Yamazaki, Dana Reitz, Elena Demyanenko, Heather Kravas, LanDforms, Morgan Thorson and Elby Brosch/Drama Tops.
Rolyrbee name: Remalia Earth name: Hans Rasch
Hans is a dancer and tattoo/graphic artist from Miami, FL. For 15 years, Hans has been an arts administrator with organizations in Florida (Florida State University, Nina Torres Fin Art) and New York City (Wingspan Arts, Flamenco Vivo, New York Live Arts). A practice that is focused on dance as a visual art form, he has shared work with audiences in Florida (Fountain Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Edge Zones Gallery, 621 Gallery) and held artistic residencies in New York City (Otion Front Studios, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Dance in Bushwick). Hans has also performed in works by Katy Pyle’s Ballez, the Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Pavel Zustiak’s Palissimo, Luciana Achugar, Mariangela Lopez, Okwui Okpokwasilii, and Peter Born. His artwork references Sailor Moon mythology, queerness, flamenco, “Latinidad”, sex, and psychology. He describes himself and his work as the “gay love-child of Frida Kahlo and Sailor Neptune’s lesbian love affair.”
Rolyrbee name: Sienti Earth name: Leah Dubbin-Steckel
Leah Dubbin-Steckel (she/her) is a constantly-singing, tea-drinking, self-love learning Canadian and actor, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. A strong advocate of joyful, community-based movement practices, Leah loves dance in all its forms, yoga in outdoor spaces, and experimenting with movement she’s never tried before, like rock climbing and pole dancing. When she’s not singing or being a voice-actor, you can find Leah playing with dogs, or watching every TV show you’ve ever heard of while forever sitting in pigeon pose.
Rolyrbee name: Zayne Earth name: Moonyeka
Pre covid-19 Moonyeka directed LIL BROWN GIRLS CLUB (a movement based mentorship program for young g*rls of color), organized (e)merge: a movement based healing intensive for dance communities and beyond in September 2019; and am working on LOOB**—a multi-disciplinary biomythography/memoir as part of my 2020 Northwest Film Forum x Velocity Dance Center Dance Film Residency.
Moonyeka is on a journey to integrate their erotic knowledge from various lived experience within the SW industry, performing arts, and Aswang* guidance to offer sensually sacred, erotic, and body experiential spaces, especially for the communities that have raised them. *Aswang is an umbrella term for various shape-shifting, mythological, animist, folkloric, “evil” spirits and creatures in Filipino folklore.
You can find out more about group courses such as Aswang Movement Incantations, SLITHER: a sensual movement practice, and other class offerings @m00nyeka / patreon.com/moonyeka
Rolyrbee name: Amaranth Earth name: Matthew Soson
Bio: Matthew loves speaking about themselves in third person. This isn't a "bit" or a "goof" or a "low-key flex". The bio is the place where Matthew (Robert) feels most alive! They have a BA from UCLA in Acting and Directing, and are working on their MFA in Interdisciplinary Digital Media Performance from ASU. What does that degree mean? They aren't sure. If you have suggestions about what to tell people (think, like, very cool pickup line meets professional TED talk) then email msoson@asu.edu. Still reading this?! Fool! Go! Live your life! Matt (Rob), out! (mic drop)
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Rolyrbee name: Sienti Earth name: Omar Bojorquez
Artist and dancer Alfonzo Omar Bojorquez is from the Dallas/ Fort Worth area currently enrolled at Arizona state university for his BFA (Bachelors in fine arts) in dance education. His experience includes choreographing, performing, and teaching in Fort worth, TX and in the Phoenix, AZ area . He hopes to inspire others not only through his performances but through his art. He aspires to be a leader in not only in his community but also to his peers and those that look up to him by his own success and passion for dance.
Rolyrbee name: Zayne Earth name: Janine "J9" Micheletti
J9 (aka Janine Micheletti) is a native New Yorker, a Hip-Hop dancer, and a street fusion choreographer. Her dancing credits include Madonna, 070 Shake, Spotify, Reebok and more. She graduated from SUNY Purchase’s School of Art & Design with a concentration in photography. Thereafter, she has spent most of her professional life as a visual artist and accomplished textile designer. In 2009, she began taking dance classes again as a hobby. The art form quickly enraptured her as it did as a child, and since she has pursued it with fierce abandon. This dedication has led her to being selected for the Breaking Glass: an emerging female choreographers program run by Ellenore Scott. This allowed her a mentorship with the esteemed Rhapsody James. She has founded J9Dance, a company focusing on Commercial and Concert Street Dance, showcasing women in a strong aspect through these styes. She has shown her work throughout New York City. She has also choreographed for artists Shenna, Calvin Play, Noia, and Dominic Sen. She is a collaborator with Mozaik Dance, a concert dance trio, including herself, Sun Kim, and Manon Bal. The company focuses on storytelling through Experimental Popping. They have performed at Jacob’s Pillow, Mark Morris, and San Francisco Hip-Hop Festival.