Photos by Cheryl Mann
|
Michela Muratori- Image DesignMichela joins Ate9 this season, bringing her talents of design, fashion and event planning, featured in our recently shot films. Michela is another voice for the moves, an image maker and stylist.
www.michelamuratori.com Instagram: @dawavani 
|
Photos by Cheryl Mann
|
Collin Del Cuore- Director and ProducerA long-time producer, director and creative director in the TV business - most notably for Harpo Studios and OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network - Collin has previously collaborated with Ate9 on Calling Glenn and the 2016 Gala film. He reunites with the Ate9 family to direct Danielle Agami's most recent cinematic vision: An Apology.
www.imdb.com/name/nm7439972/ |
Photo by Cheryl Mann
|
Diego Hurtado De Mendoza- Director and ProducerSpanish-Swedish director and producer Diego Hurtado de Mendoza started his career at the prestigious FABRICA, the Research Center on Communications of Benetton in Italy.
There he worked for Colors Magazine, helped brand the launch of Youssou N’Dour’s micro-credit initiative in Senegal and directed his first documentary films including the award-winning Branding Kosovo --documenting the birth of a country in the XXI Century— and Welcome to Beirut —about the relationship between filmmaking and war in Lebanon. He’s worked for MTV, Vice, The Office of the Prime Minister of Dubai, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Wells Fargo, Ford, among others, alternating between his roles as commercial and music video director and creative lead. He directed the fashion film Escape from Mondays for Rabaneda, in partnership with Vogue Spain, which received two awards at the Madrid International Fashion Film Festival (MIFFF), and was subsequently screened at multiple international fashion film festivals. In 2018 he produced and directed the documentary series Arriba Cuba! for the Olympic Channel, the global media platform of the International Olympic Committee, followed by the feature Teófilo Stevenson and the Legend of Cuban Boxing, co-directed with Peter Berg, which was awarded First Prize at the AIPS Awards. He’s currently overseeing production on five feature documentaries for Mandalay Sports Media, the production company behind current global mega-hit “The Last Dance” on Michael Jordan, and starting production on his next film, a Disney+ Original scheduled for 2021. www.diegohurtadodemendoza.com |
Photo by Cheryl Mann
|
Mimi Haddon- Costume DesignerMimi Haddon is a costume designer who uses textiles as a sculptural medium. She finds rhythm in repetition and combines traditional craft practices with contemporary technology. Haddon is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with dancers who bring her creatures and creations to life through the poetry of movement.
http://www.mimihaddon.com https://www.blurb.com/b/9940938-the-palace-wild |
Photos by Cheryl Mann
|
Glenn Kotche- Composer. PercussionistFor a percussionist and composer as energetic, inquisitive and versatile as Glenn Kotche, it’s his sense of balance—his ability to thrive in different and seemingly disparate worlds that really makes him stand out as a musician.
Since 2001, Kotche has been the rhythmic anchor in Wilco. He has appeared on over 80 recordings by artists as diverse as Andrew Bird, Edith Frost, Neil Finn and Radiohead's Phil Selway, and he’s a founding member of two other bands— Loose Fur, with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and longtime collaborator Jim O’Rourke, and On Fillmore, with upright bassist Darin Gray. He has also written music for classical and post-classical ensembles like Kronos Quartet, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, So Percussion, eighth blackbird and many more. Kotche created the music and performs live in Ate9's calling glenn, currently on tour throughout the US. For more information visit: http://www.glennkotche.com/ |
Photos by Cheryl Mann
|
Jon Hamm- ActorActor, director, and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men (2007–2015). His performance earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series-Drama during 2008 and 2016 and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2015.
Hamm is collaborating with Danielle Agami in the upcoming creation of FISHING, also featuring percussionist Glenn Kotche. |
Photos by Cheryl Mann
|
RUSSIAN RED- Song Writer. Composer. PerformerAfter putting out 4 records, 2 independently and 2 with a major label, touring the world for a years and ending up in LA to explore other creative disciplines, Lourdes Hernandez, also known as Russian Red, is currently using her music to plug into film, contemporary dance and theatrical performances.
Listen to Russian Red on Spotify |
|
Cheryl Mann- Image & PhotographyCheryl Mann fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a Hubbard Street dancer in 1997. She has been fortunate in her career to travel to and perform in 17 countries, as well as countless domestic cities in the U.S. Ms. Mann retired after 10 1/2 years with the company in October 2007. She received a Ruth Page Award for her performance in
Nacho Duato’s Cor Perdut, and was on the cover of Dance Magazine for the August edition in 2004. She is now the owner of Cheryl Mann Productions, where she travels the world setting dance works for world-renowned choreographers, as well as photographing companies such as Ate9, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Joffrey Ballet Chicago, River North Dance Chicago, Ballet Hispanico, Chicago Dancing Festival, Thodos & Dancers, amongst many more. Photography keeps her close to her beloved dance community, and for that, she is grateful. For more information visit: http://cherylmannphoto.com/ |
|
Nadav Heyman-Writer.Film Maker.PerformerNadav is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His written pieces have been seen on the stages of Juilliard, Boston Conservatory, and Cornish College of the Arts. His film work has screened in festivals around the world, including Miami, Chicago, Boulder, Australia, Romania, Spain, and the UK. In 2016, he was selected as one of ten international artists to participate in the Koumaria Residency in Greece. In 2018, he was invited for a three-month artist residency by Subhashok Art Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His goal is to observe life through story, movement, and film. To see more of Nadav's work, visit www.nadavheyman.com.
|
|
Omid Walizadeh- Composer. DJOmid Walizadeh, also known as Omid or OD, is a hip hop producer based in Long Beach, California. He has produced tracks for the likes of Freestyle Fellowship, Busdriver, 2Mex, Subtitle, and Awol One. Omid Walizadeh graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor's degree in recording arts. He has produced tracks since 1992.
Walizadeh composed and performed the music for Ate9's EXHIBIT b. For more information visit Omid's Facebook Page |
|
Amir Raveh- Designer. furniture maker. Amir Raveh operates a design studio named Nagarya and is a partner in an upscale boutique carpentry workshop, in Tel Aviv. As a designer, he blends his twenty five years of experience as a carpenter with his soft spot for discarded objects and furniture. Raveh's scavenger inclination drives him to collect items that bear the scars of time and obviously their own history.
The compositions he creates confront those old objects with a new reality. He does not pour new wine into an old bottle, but rather unveils a new chapter of a forgotten book. Raveh's poetic and romantic touches are very often displayed with a tongue in the cheek attitude. His works navigate in the gap between utility and the autonomy of the art object. Raveh's works have been exhibited in Tel Aviv, Berlin and Los Angeles and have served as sets for Dance performances by choreographers Ohad Naharin and Danielle Agami including the Queen George set. For more information visit: http://www.nagarya.net/en-about/. |
Photos of Ate9's Queen George by Cheryl Mann
|
Samantha Shay- Director. Producer.Samantha Shay is a director of theatre and film, performer, producer, and teacher. She creates multi sensorial poetic landscapes, reminiscent of a living dream. Her work is at it’s best, a collaboration between the body and its senses, performing on the body like a welcomed hallucination. She is the founder of internationally recognised artist collective Source Material, and frequently collaborates with musicians to make films, including K Á R Y Y N, Katie Gately, JFDR, and Sóley. 2016 marked an initiatory time in her career when she premiered of Light, which garnered the attention of artists such as Marina Abramovic, who mentored Shay through the process, and Björk, who listed her as one of her artistic inspirations in The Guardian after attending the premier. She then headed to Poland to premier A Thousand Tongues in the world renowned Theatre Olympics as part of the European Capital of Culture 2016, a co-production with the Grotowski Institute. Most recently, her work has been performed at RedCat, HERE, and the San Francisco International Arts Festival. She is currently finishing her first short film, Homesick, in collaboration with Danielle Agami, which is set to premiere at CPHDOX. Samantha holds a BFA in Acting from CalArts.
visit her website: http://www.samantha-shay.com/ |
Photos by Alexandre Souêtre
|
Eli James (GHOSTCIRCUS APPAREL)- Costume Designer
Drummer/producer/designer Eli James created his line of apparel for the simple reason that he wanted to make clothes that were cool and that he wanted to wear. Eli would always alter everything he wore. Whether he was going to meetings, running errands, practicing, playing shows, going out with friends or even hanging in at home, he really just wanted to be comfortable. “All you have to do is throw another layer on and keep on going.” Through a variety of testing, he figured out what he was really after. His way of putting a few pieces together made it unique enough for him to want to wear. Welcome to our world, a lifestyle where music and fashion collide.
For more information visit: https://ghostcircusapparel.com/ |
Ate9's calling glenn with costume design by Eli James.
|
Selena Moshell- Video & DocumentationSelena Moshell is a dancer and filmmaker who has performed in musical theater and aerial performances around the country with companies such as the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Walt Disney World, Royal Caribbean, almost ten years with the National Tour of the Lion King. Her film work includes commercials, music videos, short films, and a feature length documentary for Disney Theatricals centering around the experience of touring with the Lion King. Her film craft is firmly grounded in her background as a professional dancer and photographer, which can be seen in her use of musicality, light, and movement in her films. Selena draws from her years of physical storytelling through dance to convey narrative in a compelling, visually rhythmic language in her films.
|
|
Victoria Sendra- Filmaker.Visit her website here https://victoriasendrafilms.com/
|
|
Jodie Landau- ComposerLandau is a composer, vocalist, and percussionist who created the music score for Ate9's mouth to mouth. His music combines elements of chamber music, rock, and jazz for live performance, film, theater, and dance. As a solo performer, Jodie sings while playing vibraphone and marimba. He has performed with groups such as ACE Jazz Collective, wild Up, Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Gnarwhallaby, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, The Guthrie Project, CalArts Chamber Orchestra, CalArts Percussion Ensemble.
For more information visit: http://jodielandau.com/ |
|
Jeff Forbes- Lighting DesignerForbes is a Portland based lighting designer working primarily in theatre and dance. He is a 9 time winner of the Willie and Drammy Awards for theatre for such companies as Artists Repertory Theatre, Imago Theatre, the Musical Theatre Company, Storefront Theatre, and Tygres Heart Shakespeare Co. He has also designed for American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, Mass), the New Rose Theatre, Portland Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Portland Actors Conservatory, and many others.
He is currently the Technical Manager for White Bird Dance, a presenting organization based in Portland, and has served as a technical director for PICA’s TBA Festival since its beginning in 2003. He is a co-founder, with Linda Austin, of Performance Works NorthWest, for which he also serves as technical director. Forbes designed the lights for Ate9 productions EXHIBIT b and calling glenn. |
Ate9's calling glenn with lighting design by Jeff Forbes.
|
Yuval Sharon- Artistic Director of the Industry OperaDescribed by The New York Times as "opera's disrupter in residence," director Yuval Sharon has been creating an unconventional body of work that seeks to expand the operatic form.
He founded and serves as Artistic Director of The Industry in Los Angeles, an acclaimed company devoted to new and experimental opera that has brought opera into moving vehicles, operating train stations, and various “non-spaces” such as warehouses, parking lots, and escalator corridors. Sharon conceived, directed, and produced the company’s acclaimed world premieres of Hopscotch, Invisible Cities, and Crescent City. He also devised and directed the company’s two “performance installations”: In C at the Hammer Museum and Nimbus at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Sharon was honored with a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Art grant for theater. He serves on the board of Opera America, the Artist Council for the Hammer Museum, and as a Fellow for the LA Institute for Humanities. For more information visit: https://www.yuvalsharon.com/ |