Double-Edge Dance

Ross Feller is an accomplished composer and saxophonist. His compositions have been finalists in the International Gaudeamus Foundation Composer’s Competition, ASCAP Young Composer’s Competition, Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and Bent Frequency's International Call for Scores. He has received awards and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, Paul Sacher Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, and institutions in Belgium and Switzerland. His works have been performed throughout the USA and Europe at major venues including Symphony Space, Roulette, De Ijsbreker, Plateau, Park West, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Public Library, Playhouse Square Center, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts by many fine ensembles and members of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Elision Ensemble. As a saxophonist  he's performed with many well-known improvisers and performers including: Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, Leroy Jenkins, Greg Bendian, Chris Cochrane, and Peter Evans.
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Julie Brodie is an Associate Professor of Dance at Kenyon College.  She has always been interested in interdisciplinary collaboration; since moving to Ohio, projects have included an intergenerational piece performed at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus with an art installation by Marcella Hackbardt, reconstructing a Protein Synthesis Dance for the opening ceremonies of the new Kenyon Athletic Center, and a piece combining dance with live painting on Plexiglas for Columbus Movement Movement.  Brodie has been working with Radella for the last several years, performing her choreography in venues like the Palace Theater for the Dance Showcase, Ingenuity 2006, the American College Dance Festival, and the North Carolina State University Computer Music Festival.  Radella and Brodie's first choreographic collaboration was for Big [BOX] this past February.   www.kenyon.edu/x3016.xml

Lisa K. Lock holds a Ballet Diploma from the Grande Ecole de Danse in Bern, Switzerland and a BFA and MFA Degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Lisa, relocated to Cleveland from Los Angeles in 2006. Since 1993 she is performing her own choreography mainly as a solo artist internationally, nationally and locally. She was  honored by a Lester Horton Award for outstanding achievement in choreography in L.A. and voted best dancer of the year 2004 by the Beverly Hills Outlook. Cleveland debuts include her dance and video work at the Cleveland Public Theatre and as a featured artist in Ingenuity ’07 Clevelands Festival for Art and Technology, collaboratively with Larry Coleman. She also had an opertunity to perform Opera Clevelands production of A Little Night Music, directed by Paul Gurgol. Currently she functioned as ballet mistress for Dancing Wheels. In the past Lisa taught and and set a work on the Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre in their’06 -’07 season. She is also a guest teacher for Verb Ballets. Recent performing and teaching recedencies include Kenyon College and Ohio University this past Spring.
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Kimberly Karpanty is a founding member and co-director of Travesty Dance Group (www.travestydancegroup.org), which tours nationally and internationally. Ms. Karpanty holds a M.F.A. in Choreography and Dance Technology from Arizona State University and an M. A. in Dance and Dance Education
from New York University. As Associate Professor of Dance at Kent State University, she teaches modern and
jazz technique, dance composition and dance science, among other courses.  She has served as the Artistic Director of the Kent Dance Ensemble since 1996. Karpanty performed and taught professionally in New York City for over ten years, dancing with Rondo
American Dance Theatre in works by Anna Sokolow, Manuel Alum, Moses Pendleton, and Murray Louis, and
was a soloist with Linda Nutter & Dancers.  She was a founding member of the collaborative, interdisciplinary group StraightJacket/Danza en vano, the 1993 recipient of the U.S./Mexico Fund for Culture Grant. Karpanty¹s
choreography has been performed throughout the US, and abroad in Toronto, Argentina, Mexico, and Costa Rica. She is also a certified teacher of Core Dynamics pilates.