p.t.a.
Performance and Time Arts
Friday & Saturday, May 14-15, 2010
8:00 p.m.
College Hill Town Hall
1805 Larch Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45224
Tickets at the Door: $15 General Admission; $12 Students & Seniors
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by or before May 13:
$12 General Admission; $8 Students & Seniors
Featuring New Work by:
NICOLE DeGREG & KIMBERLY SCHWARTZ
MARGARET DONOHUE (with Sammi Bowyer, Jenny Hughes-Wilson, Lauren Schaeffer, Cassie Wilson and Emily Weber)
KORI MARTODAM & EMMERAM MORNING
ETHAN PHILBRICK
F. KEITH WAHLE
PAUL SCHUETTE
Technical Direction by Lacey Montgomery
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
SAMMI BOWYER has been a company member of Miami University's Dance Theatre for the past two years. She has been dancing for fifteen years, previously studying at the Academy of Dance Arts in Middletown, Ohio. In the fall, she will be starting her junior year as a Speech Pathology and Audiology major at Miami. She
plans on becoming an audiologist.
NICOLE DeGREG is a classically trained violinist who also holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish. She has contributed both her leadership and her music to several community-building organizations in Cincinnati, and appreciates the capacity music has to promote engagement and encourage communication. Nicole enjoys playing improvisational violin whenever the opportunity arises. She is a translator at University Hospital and a Registered Nurse at Children's Hospital. She is working toward her Nurse Practitioner degree at the University of Cincinnati. This fall she will travel to Honduras as a health care provider, to gain experience in a rural clinic setting.
MARGARET DONOHUE works full-time as a Research Associate for the Division of University Advancement at Miami University. She graduated from Miami in 2006 and was a member of Miami University's Dance Theatre. While doing her graduate work at the University of Georgia in Public Administration, she participated in their
dance program. A guest teacher and choreographer for Miami's Dance Theatre, she also teaches weekly classes at the Academy of Dance Arts in Middletown, Ohio. This will be Margret's third appearance in a PTA concert.
JENNY HUGHES-WILSON has a master's degree in social work, works full time, and lives in Oxford, Ohio with her husband, a Miami University grad student. She attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts (dance), and Birmingham-Southern College (psychology and dance). She is grateful to be dancing again after a four
year hiatus.
KORI MARTODAM began her dance training at Denison University and graduated with a BFA in Theater Performance in 2003. As an undergraduate, she choreographed a number of original works, including an evening-length theater/dance hybrid entitled "Swimming in the Dark." Kori continued to study performance through theater and dance workshops, movement jams, teaching and improvisation. She is a faculty member at Contemporary Dance Theater, and is choreographing a new work for Choreographers Without Companies this June. Kori is excited to be engaged in the creative process of making dances again after devoting several years to her
career in nursing. She is currently a Registered Nurse in University Hospital's Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
EMMERAM MORNING is a creator of music, computer software, and poetry. Born with a soft skull and unable to stand upright, he learned to compensate for these deficiencies by the time he was a fully formed adult. Emmeram also enjoys cycling, gaming, and ripping up the crappy flooring at his new studio/office space. Ultimate goals include moving off-planet, composing a successful intergalactic symphony, and rescuing a green-skinned Martian princess.
KARI OLSON is an engineer by day and a dancer whenever opportunities arise. She joined the Cincinnati dance community after completing a minor in dance at Case Western Reserve University, and has trained with most of the modern dance faculty at CDT in the last ten years. She has performed with the improvisational group Kinesphere, and in works by Rachel James, Diane Germaine, Todd Berke Jeungling, and Flora Leptak-Moreau.
This is ETHAN PHILBRICK'S third performance with p.t.a. He moved to Cincinnati with his husband, Will, in 2007, and has been working as a performance artist, queer "organizer," and educator since arriving in the Queen City. He began his graduate studies in Literature at the University of Cincinnati in the fall of 2009, and is interested in pursuing his interests surrounding the intersections of performance art, pedagogy, and political theory. Philbrick has explored the possibilities of performance in unconventional spaces through his video-blog "Ethan dances in public." heck out www.projectcincinnatiUS.org to see what he's currently up to.
LAUREN SCHAEFFER has just graduated from Miami University, where she was a member of Miami's Dance Theatre. She majored in Mass Communications with minors in History and European Areas Studies. Originally from Perrysburg, Ohio, she hopes to join the Peace Corps in August, and travel to Latin America.
PAUL SCHUETTE is just finishing his work toward a master's degree in Composition from the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, where he has studied computer music with Mara Helmuth and composition with Joel Hoffman. While Paul writes for a large variety of media, all of his work seeks to explore and expose dualities, dichotomies and paradoxes of all kinds. His current projects investigate live performers' interaction with completely automated electronic systems. Paul's interest is in how the relationship is understood and processed
by both sides in an attempt to understand the differences between the two. He received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University.
KIMBERLY SCHWARTZ is a classically trained harpist, and studied music at Ohio State University. Her interest in the harp began roughly fourteen years ago and this instrument has been her primary focus, though she has also studied piano and music education. Also a nurse, marathon runner, and serious fan of road-trips, Kimberly engages in musical endeavors such as playing for weddings and church services in the Cincinnati area as often as she can. She has performed in several local orchestral performances, and taught music in the public school system for two years prior to becoming a nurse. She is excited to be creating her own music for p.t.a.
CASSIE WILSON works for Miami University and lives in Hamilton, Ohio. She began her dance training in her hometown of Rome, New York with classical ballet, but has enjoyed studying all forms of dance throughout her life. Cassie is excited for the opportunity to perform in her first p.t.a. show.
F. KEITH WAHLE, who holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been involved with p.t.a. since its inception fifteen years ago. He has performed poetry/dance collaborations as far north as Cleveland, Ohio and as far south as Morehead, Kentucky, working with dancers including Judith Mikita, Karen Kilbane, Susan Moser, Rachel James, Colleen McCarty, Sharon Manuel, and the late Cheryl Wallace, among many others. He and Kari Olson have performed together in many casual and improvisational settings. His books, A CHOICE OF KILLERS, FAREWELL TO HAPPY TOWN, and THE INVITATIONS will be for sale in the parlor at intermission and after the show
