Gabriella Carmichael
Emerging Artist Track
Fall 2017
Gabriella Carmichael is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Western Massachusetts. She is a choreographer, a performer, a writer, and an activist. Her work has been presented at The Mark Morris Dance Center, Dixon Place, The Tank, The Actor’s Fund Arts Center, Triskelion Arts Center, and The Hudson Theatre Guild, and she is currently collaborating with her life-long movement companions in Heath In Progress, directed by Annie Heath. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Five-College Dance consortium where she studied dance and cultural anthropology. Using research techniques similar to her background in anthropology, her work documents and discovers human possibility-rewarding an explorer principle of delving into uncharted territory. She is a certified yoga instructor and encourage radical self love in her classes. Gabriella uses movement as a tool for empowerment, community creation, and finding space where we feel like we belong.
Meghan Carmichael
Developing Artist Track
Fall 2017
Meghan Carmichael is a dance artist from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2012, where she performed in works by José Limon, Merce Cunningham, and Alwin Nikolais. She has also worked with choreographers Helen Simoneau, Eric Oberdorff, and Doug Elkins. Her training continued at Impulstanz International Dance Festival in Austria, Bates Dance Festival, and with AXIS Dance Company. In New England, she has danced for Ali Kenner Brodsky, Betsy Miller, and in projects for Shura Baryshnikov and Heidi Henderson. She was a faculty member at Festival Ballet Providence (FBP), Providence Ballet, Moses Brown School, and an adjunct at Brown University and Dean College. Her choreography has been presented at Brown, FBP, AS220, and The Dance Complex in Boston. Meghan is passionate about inclusive dance practices and developing community support projects through the arts. Learn more about Meghan at MeghanCarmichaelDance.com.
Emily Wolfe
Spring 2017
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Emily Wolfe is a performer, yogi, choreographer, and facilitator who is passionate about progressive art and inclusive creative communities. Emily is from Winston-Salem, NC where she studied ballet, theater and modern dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts for high school. She continued studies at Florida State University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance. She has performed in works by Gerri Houlihan, Cassie Meador, Helen Simoneau, Natalie Johnson, Alex Ketley, Rodger Belman, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Mark Morris, and Daniel Clifton.
Emily has worked at the American Dance Festival as a teaching assistant for Gerri Houlihan and Rodger Belman. She continues to freelance for Gerri Houlihan as a demonstrator and rehearsal assistant. Emily previously worked administratively as a fellow for Gibney Dance and with choreographer Liz Lerman as her rehearsal assistant for “Healing Wars”. Recently, she has collaborated with the Dance Exchange in Washington, DC as an Intern and Adjunct Artist through three Summer/Winter Institutes, as well as the New Hampshire Ave Project.
Emily currently performs with Natalie Johnson Dance in NYC and teaches at Silva Dance in Long Island. She is an avid choreographer who enjoys exploring new creative processes, interdisciplinary collaboration, and activism through movement. She believes in performance as a vehicle for communicating research, healing, and storytelling. Her work has been presented at The Dance Exchange, Lucid Body House, Gibney Dance Center, Brooklyn Arts eXchange, Mark Morris Dance Center, and American Dance Festival. At the moment, Emily is collaborating with installation artist/costumer Kelsey Vidic and classical guitarist Colin Fullerton in works for spring 2017.