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Curriculum Vitae: Stephanie Zaletel
Performance Experience:
(*** indicates professional experience)
"Sheila" ***
with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY
by Danielle Agami
April 2013
ArtShare LA
Los Angeles, CA
"TacTics" ***
with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY
by Danielle Agami
March 2013-ongoing
Mimoda Studio, Hamilton High School
Los Angeles, CA
"(ish)" ***
a solo by Stephanie Zaletel
February 2013
Pieter Performance Space
Los Angeles, CA
"With you when you do" ***
Group piece by: Jordan Saenz
November 2012
REDCAT
Los Angeles, CA
"flowersallawomansbody" ***
Quintet by: Stephanie Zaletel
October 2012
ARC (a room to create)
Pasadena, CA
"Fixed Moving" ***
Solo by: Stephanie Zaletel/Louis Lopez
October 2012
LALA (Live Arts Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
"Implications of Touch and Definite Texture" ***
Quintet by: Adam Wile
September 2012
ARC (a room to create)
Pasadena, CA
"Teen Dream"
Group Piece by: Kate Wallich
July 2012
Broadway Performance Hall
Seattle, WA
"Sois Proche (be near)" Understudy
Quintet by: Becca Lemme
May 2012
Lund Theater
"Yelp"
Group Piece by: Amanda McNussen
May 2012
REDCAT
"Comic Sans"
Quintet by: Cherise Richards (Riptide Dance)
May 2012
REDCAT
"Illuminado"
Sextet by: Jose Luis Trujillo
May 2012
REDCAT
"Sacrament"***
Evening Length Multimedia Group Piece by: Natalie Metzger
March 2012
Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA
"Wake"
Group Piece by: Daniel Charon
February 2012
Lund Theater
"Humus" (excerpt from "Three") and "Echad Mi Odeya" (excerpt from "Minus 16") Group works by Ohad Naharin
Taught by Danielle Agami
December 2011
Mod Theater
REDCAT
"I will write you a shoreline with the movements of our elbows."
Solo choreographed by Ariana Daub
October 2011
Lund Theater
"Chin to Chest" ***
Group piece for film and live performance by Jay Jackson and Lindsay Newton (NEWJACK)
August 2011
Los Angeles, CA
"Fresh Eyes"***
Solo Choreographed and Performed by Stephanie Zaletel
July 2011
Blue Diamond, NV
“Undone” ***
Group Piece Choreographed by Stephanie Nugent
January 2011
ARC in Pasadena, California
June 2011
Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California
"An Acceptable Amount of Inconvenience"
Group Piece Choreographed by Anne Moore
May 2011
Lund Theater
“Teeth” (From "Flowers Unfurling")
Solo Choreographed and Performed by Stephanie Zaletel
May 2011
New Works Festival
Lulu May Von Hagen Courtyard
"Liminal"
Group Thesis Choreographed by Rachel Boyajian
March 2011
Lund Theater
"Cutting Butter"
Duet Collaboration with Stephanie Zaletel and Kerrie Schroeder
February 2011
ROD Music Theater
"Rooster" (Excerpt)
Group Piece Choreographed by Barak Marshall
December 2010
MOD Theater
REDCAT in Los Angeles, CA
"Citoyen"
Group Piece Choreographed by Jean Emile
July 2010
La Companyia Showcase
Barcelona, Spain
Benicassim Arts Festival
Benicassim, Spain
"A Practical Life" ***
Duet Choreographed by Natalie Metzger
May 2010
Lund Theater
Asto Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA
September 2011
Mix Match Dance Festival
The Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica, CA
"Corvidae"
Group Piece Choreographed by Colin Connor
April 2010
Lund Theater
"Breath Held"
Group Piece Choreographed by Lisa Long
March 2010
Lund Theater
"Would I Then Be" ***
Quartet Choreographed by Stephanie Nugent
December 2009
MOD Theater
REDCAT
January 2011 (as part of "Undone")
ARC in Pasadena, CA
June 2011 (as part of "Undone")
Highways in Santa Monica, CA
"Seed"
Solo Choreographed by Stephanie Zaletel
November 2009
Lund Theater
"Subtleties in Character"
Quartet Choreographed by Lauren Frias
October 2009
Lund Theater
"Paperbag"
Duet Choreographed by Lauren Frias
May 2009
Lund Theater
"Upright Kneeling"
Group Piece Choreographed by Lindsay Newton
April 2009
Lund Theater
"Trashy"
Trio Choreographed by Lindsay Newton
February 2009
Lund Theater
"What's Left is Scattered"
Group Piece Choreographed by Natalie Metzger
October 2008
Lund Theater
Choreographic Experience:
"auburn and almond"
Duet: 25 minutes
Musical Collaborator: GRAMPUS
February 2012
Pieter Performance Space Los Angeles, CA
"Nothing's gonna stop us" ***
Music Video for Blackout Cash
November 2012
Butter Studios Tarzana, CA
"flowersallawomansbody" ***
Quintet: 40-50 minutes (evening length)
Musical Collaborator: Louis Lopez
October 2012
ARC (a room to create) Pasadena, CA
Many people see women as pretty, soft, nurturing, and malleable. These attributes are associated with femininity and are generally positive. Beneath the surface, however, women are so much more.
We are animals. We are ferocious. We are strong and vulnerable all at once.
"Stings of Command"
Septet: 5 minutes
Musical Collaboration: GRAMPUS, Louis Lopez
May 2012 (commissioned for the NEXT Company Concert)
CalArts Lund Theater
REDCAT
"Stings of Command" acts as a vital conversation we were never able to have with the people who never let us use our voice. The tone shifts between genuine frustration and tension, severe awareness of individual and group oppression, and finally a release. A great exhalation of truth!
"The Sinking of the Titanic"
Improvisational Sextet: 40 minutes
Musical Collaboration: Ryan Bancroft (conductor/musical director)
Original Composition by: Gavin Bryars
March 2012
The Wild Beast
Working soley from a musical score, the dancers and I formed a movement landscape as reaction to the intention of the written music. The two worlds of music and dance were combined for the first time the night of the performance.
"Boyle Heights"
Quintet: 20-25 minutes
Musical Collaboration: Louis Lopez, Brice Albert, GRAMPUS
February 2012/ May 2012
Coffeehouse Theater
"Boyle Heights" acts as a dedication to Derrick Ernest. A kindhearted, yet deeply troubled, teenager who ended his life in the summer of 2011 in Boyle Heights, CA. Derrick was a gay/black young man, who was subjected to harsh ridicule and isolation throughout his life, despite his beautiful spirit. "Boyle Heights" is an abstract collaborative response utilizing dance and music in order to generate a tone of acknowledgment and reconciliation. With this piece, we hope to offer up a sense of love and liberation to a heartbreaking and tragic moment in time.
"Fixed Moving" (a sequel to "Cutting Butter")
Solo: 5 minutes
Live Musical Collaboration: Live voice/electronics: Louis Lopez)
February 2012
ROD Music Theater
The objects that we acquire over time take on a life of their own. We allow them to silently witness our journey and join us through times of transition. These are our constants; a source of comfort. They are a reminder of where we have been and, just as much, a projection of our expectations.
"Fresh Eyes"
Solo: 3 minutes
Live Musical Collaboration: Louis Lopez
July 2011
Blue Diamond, NV
"Fresh Eyes" is a short solo accompanied by a live trumpet and electronic score by Louis Lopez. The piece grapples with the human themes of sickness and health as well as momentary self reflection after overwhelming physical experiences.
"Flowers Unfurling"
Group: 20 minutes
In Four Parts: "Teeth", "Flowers Unfurling", "Wind", "Breath of Waters"
Live Musical Collaboration: Louis Lopez, Daniel Eaton, Mike Lockwood, Ryan Parrish, Jake Rosenzweig, Steven Kai Van Betten
May 2011
New Works Festival
Lulu May Von Hagen Courtyard
As a part of the CalArts New Works Festival, “Flowers Unfurling” is an aggressive yet mesmerizing outdoor, site specific dance work performed by eight young women exploring the honest and cyclical thoughts of the feminine animal. An ensemble of electronic and acoustic musicians perform original works by Louis Lopez, Albert Ayler, and their own improvisations to further the intense investigation of genuine human emotion and the rejection of superficiality.
"Cutting butter"
Duet: 10 minutes
Live Musical Collaboration: Live guitar/electronics: Louis Lopez)
February 2011
ROD Music Theater
This piece was a collaborative effort between Louis Lopez (composer), Kerrie Schroeder (dancer) and myself. Utilizing living room furniture and a meditative guitar score, we explored ideas of human connectivity. Specifically the feelings we endure while missing a loved one due to long distances.
"Campon"
Group: 8 minutes
Musical Collaboration: Louis Lopez
April 2010
Lund Theater
“Campon” is a collaborative piece with composer Louis Lopez. The piece is a quartet (3 girls, 1 boy) exploring the fragility of the human mind and memory. It is based loosely on the life of Herb Schlimbach, Louis’s grandfather, who was suffering from dementia, and unfortunately passed during this process.
"Seed"
Solo: 2 minutes
Musical Collaboration: Taylor Brizendine, Louis Lopez
November 2009
Lund Theater
“Seed” was my first musically collaborative piece working alongside Taylor Brizendine and Louis Lopez. It was also the first solo work I set on myself. This piece was imagined after I saw a piece of art Taylor Brizendine created out of a mandrake root. In the solo, I explored capturing this mandrake’s grotesque, awkward, and hyper-sexual life.
"They just don't want them to sit up there."
Group: 6 minutes
May 2009
Lund Theater
Six uniquely theatrical dancers created a quirky, absurd world of cannibal birds. They consumed turkey meat throughout the piece, and fed one another while dancing a unique animalistic vocabulary.
"Puddles"
Solo: 8 minutes
February 2009
Lund Theater
“Puddles” was a solo performed with a tin bucket of water. Loosely narrative, the piece explored the danger of the water, causing the physical embodiment of oppressed strife within the dancer.
Workshops and Intensives:
Danielle Agami Workshop
Seattle, WA 2012
Gaga Technique, Methodology, Choreographic Tools
Strictly Seattle
Seattle, WA 2012
Contemporay, Ballet Technique, Performance Repertoire: Kate Wallich,
Improvisation: Salt Horse
Alex Ketley Workshop
Los Angeles, CA 2012
Repertoire and Improvisation
Improvisation Workshop with Jess Curtis
Los Angeles, CA 2012
Contemporary Technique Classes and Improvisation Exercises
Peridance Winter Gaga Intensive
New York, NY 2012
Gaga and Batsheva Repertoire:
Danielle Agami and Tom
Weinberger
Barcelona Summer Dance Intensive
(on partial scholarship)
Barcelona, Spain 2010
Ballet Technique: Jean Emile, Ingve Groven
Contemporary Technique: Zane Booker, Stephane Boko, Roger Jeffrery
Dance-Related Teaching Experience:
Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY Rehearsal Director
Led company through LADF while Danielle Agami was away in Israel
Los Angeles, CA
Choreography Substitute Teacher During Ate9's Residency: 2013
Los Angeles, CA
Loyola Marymount University
Institute Dance Substitute Teacher: 2012
Valencia, CA
California Institute of the Arts
Movement for Non-Dancers, Intro to Improvisation
Dance Instructor: 2009
Las Vegas, NV
Pointe Dance Center:
Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary
Artistic Assistant/ Student Teacher: 2007-2008
Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing
and Visual Arts:
Advanced Modern, Choreography, Dance P.E.
Lighting Design:
"An Untitled Duet"
February 2012
Duet by: Erin McCarthy
Lund Theater
"Don't Get Left Behind the Gates"
February 2012
Group Piece by: Michael Tomlin III
Lund Theater
Miscellaneous Work Experience and Special Skills:
Technical Theater: 2009- Present
California Institute of the Arts: Valencia, CA
(Designing/hanging/striking lights, setting up sound and
video equipment, loading-in/striking performances)
English as a Second Language Tutor/ Writing Tutor:
2010- Present
Self Employed/ California Institute of the Arts: Los Angeles, CA
(Private tutor for English as Second Language students of
all ages/ Writing Tutor for college level students)
Library Circulation: 2010-Present
California Institute of the Arts: Valencia, CA
(Organizing, re-shelving the CalArts collection, musical scores, film/ theatrical scripts, etc, helping patrons locate texts, working the front desk)
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts: (on partial scholarship) 2008-2012
Valencia, CA
California Institute of the Arts:
Dance Major/ Humanities Minor
High School Diploma: 2003-2008
Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing
and Visual Arts:
Dance Major
