9/9 to 11/26
Kristina Berger

Kristina Berger has performed as a soloist with The Lester Horton Dance Theatre, Inc., under the direction of Donald Martin. She discovered her love for the Horton Technique while studying as a scholarship student at Jacob’s Pillow with James Truitte. Ms. Berger has worked internationally as assistant to Milton Myers and a teacher of the Technique at institutions such as The Ailey School, Steps on Broadway, Jacob’s Pillow, and Juilliard.

She has performed with The Erick Hawkins Dance Company, The Joyce Trisler Danscompany, The Washington Opera Ballet, BALAM (Balinese American) Dance Theatre, and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Kristina is a founding member of Paris-based company S.WA.T.T. whose primary goal is to create collaborations with artists all over the world.  Back in New York after an international tour, Kristina has resumed her faculty position at Marymount Manhattan College and as principal dancer with The Erick Hawkins Dance Company.

12/2 to 1/23
Nathan Trice

Nathan Trice is the Artistic Director/Founder of nathantrice/RITUALS based in New York City.

Nathan began training in 1989 under the direction of Aulani Chun in San Diego, Ca., Mesa College. While training, he simultaneously completed his remaining two years of a four and a half year contract with the U. S. Military Naval Service. He was then accepted into the Alvin Ailey certificate program. Since completing the certificate program Nathan has performed with MOMIX Dance Co., Complexions, Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater, Donald Byrd/The Group, danzaiza, Burnt Sugar Arkistra and his own group, nathantrice/RITUALS. His group has toured throughout the United States, Bermuda, Japan, Argentina and Aruba.

2/23 to 4/4
Daniel Gwirtzman

Daniel Gwirtzman directs, choreographs, and dances for the New York-based Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, a nonprofit performing and teaching organization. Known for its stylistic diversity, musicality, innovation, and accessibility, his choreography has been performed at venues throughout the country and abroad. He has toured nationally and internationally with Garth Fagan Dance and the Mark Morris Dance Group, among other companies, and has been awarded residencies by the Joyce Theater Foundation, The Yard (Martha's Vineyard), Raumars Artist-in-Residence Program (Finland), the Sacatar Foundation (Brazil), and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (CA).

4/20 to 5/8
Meredith Monk/
The House

Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in what is now called ”extended vocal technique” and ”interdisciplinary performance,” Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception. Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which we have no words. She has alternately been proclaimed as a ”magician of the voice” and ”one of America’s coolest composers.” During a career that spans more than 40 years she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major creative force in the performing arts.
Since graduating Sarah Lawrence College in 1964, Monk has received numerous awards including the prestigious MacArthur ”Genius” Award in 1995, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, three ”Obies” (including an award for Sustained Achievement), two Villager Awards, two ”Bessie” awards for Sustained Creative Achievement, the 1986 National Music Theatre Award, the 1992 Dance Magazine Award, and a 2005 ASCAP Concert Music Award. In 2006 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and named a United States Artists Fellow, and holds honorary Doctor of Arts degrees from Bard College, the University of the Arts, The Juilliard School, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Boston Conservatory. Her recordings Dolmen Music (ECM New Series) and Our Lady of Late: The Vanguard Tapes (Wergo) were honored with the German Critics Prize for Best Records of 1981 and 1986. Her music has been heard in numerous films, including La Nouvelle Vague by Jean-Luc Godard and The Big Lebowski by Joel and Ethan Coen. Monk’s publishing relationship with Boosey & Hawkes, begun in 2000, has helped make her scores available to a wider public.

5/11 to 6/15
Darrell Grand Moultrie

New York City native Darrell Grand Moultrie is a graduate of LaGuardia H.S. of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He received his BFA from The Juilliard School and is a recipient of the 2007/08 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award. Mr. Moultrie's critically acclaimed choreography includes commissions from The Juilliard School, Colorado Ballet, Ailey 2, Cincinatti Ballet, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, and Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys of Dance. Moultrie is currently performing on Broadway in Billy Elliot, and is preparing a World premiere for Atlanta Ballet in March 2009. He was also seen in the Color Purple, Hairspray, and Aida where he performed the role of Mereb alongside Toni Braxton.