Danielle Agami
Founder/Artistic Director
Not every good choreographer develops a language, and Ms. Agami speaks her borrowed tongue with considerable skill." |
Agami’s work reshapes the idea of what is possible in the body, communicating a sensation-based understanding to an observant audience and challenging them to absorb the feeling. [Agami] is the kind of dancer who truly appears to live onstage, moment by moment, in a highly conscious state. A mesmerizing performance, a very big pay-off after years of L.A. dance-viewing to see a woman artist of this caliber create dance in our city.” |
USA Cast members
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Cacia LaCount (Joined September 2018)
Cacia LaCount is from Boston, MA. She graduated from The Boston Conservatory in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance as a Jan Veen Scholar. She has supplemented her training at workshops and intensives including The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers, Gallim Dance, and Ate9 Dance company and Springboard Danse Montreal. Cacia has performed works by Robert Battle, Uri Sands, Dwight Rhoden, Merce Cunningham, Pam Tanowitz, Andrea Miller, Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Micaela Taylor and Danielle Agami. In her professional career, Cacia has had the pleasure of dancing with Heather Stewart Dance, Lorraine Chapman The Company, Boston Dance Theater and moved to LA in 2018 to dance with Ate9. |
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Montay Romero (Joined September 2018)
Born and raised in San Diego, California, Montay Romero has been an avid participant in the arts from a young age. Heavily involved in music, Montay sought further forms of self expression which he had the opportunity to explore while attending the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. After coincidently stumbling into a dance studio on campus, he soon found himself actively seeking dance education, which he continued at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA where he received his BFA in dance. Romero, who was originally accepted to the University as a vocal major, changed his path upon arrival. He chose to honor the strong calling and deep connection he felt towards dance. Currently a resident of Los Angeles, California, Montay is continually refining his relation to dance as an art form, a means of expression, and an opportunity to explore self. |
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Paige Amicon (Joined September 2018)
Paige Amicon is a dance artist and teacher originally from Glenmoore, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts under Susan Jaffe with a BFA in Contemporary Dance. She also holds a high school degree from UNCSA with a concentration in ballet. There she performed works by Twyla Tharp, José Limón, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, and Helen Simoneau. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has had a wonderfully adventurous freelance career. Performance experience includes work by Danielle Agami, Merce Cunningham, Yuval Sharon, Sophia Stoller, and Mallory Fabian. Paige enjoys extending her research through dance education and has had the pleasure of teaching students in Philadelphia, Winston Salem, and Los Angeles. |
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Jordan Lovestrand (Joined September 2018)
Jordan Lovestrand is a native Minnesotan. He received Honors in Dance from Gustavus Adolphus College in St.Peter, Minnesota. During his undergraduate studies, he took part in the DanceJerusalem study abroad program and traveled to Jerusalem, Israel. At the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Jordan was first introduced to Gaga under the direction of Aya Israeli. He has trained with Shahar Biniamini, Noa Paran, Yaniv Abraham, Shani Garfinkle, and other luminaries in the field. Soon after his time at the Academy, he became a member of Kolben Contemporary Dance Company in Jerusalem. Recently, Jordan has performed Danielle Agami’s Next Door with Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Ate9's Board of Directors!!
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Catharine Soros| Board Chair
In addition to the Ate9 board, Catharine has served on the boards of the Music Center, Center Dance Arts, L.A. Dance Project, and Exit Art, and has served on the REDCAT Council. As a Program in the Arts major at Barnard College, she focused on dance criticism. She was the principal of Cosover Creative Media Ariel Carpenter | Board Member An award winning writer and communications strategist specializing in arts and entertainment. Previously she was Vice President of Communications for KCETLink Media Group where she oversaw publicity, on-air promotions, advertising and corporate communications. She orchestrated numerous nationally recognized integrated marketing campaigns to support the mission and vision of the organization. She was also a contributing writer to KCET’s Artbound series. Previously, Ms. Carpenter was the director of Public Relations for the University of Southern California where she cultivated angles for promoting select USC initiatives in national media outlets, and shepherded social media efforts university wide. Ms. Carpenter also has served as Senior Vice President for MPRM Communications. Her leadership has been recognized throughout her career, including an Award of Excellence by the Society for New Communications Research for Innovation: Digital and Marketing Experience in Media; two First Place Awards of Excellence from the Publicity Club of Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club; and an Honorable Mention in national Cynopsis Social Good Awards, among others. |
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Cheryl Mann| Board Member
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/ Lorraine Evanoff | Board Member/ CFO
In addition to serving as CFO and board member of Ate9, Lorraine Evanoff has over 20 years of film industry experience. For the past 10 years she has been Director of Finance of CineSky Pictures, and prior to that, was CFO of National Lampoon, Director of Finance of Element Films, and co-founder of Sideral Productions in Paris.In addition to serving as CFO and board member of Ate9, Lorraine Evanoff has over 20 years of film industry experience. For the past 10 years she has been Director of Finance of CineSky Pictures, and prior to that, was CFO of National Lampoon, Director of Finance of Element Films, and co-founder of Sideral Productions in Paris. |
Ate9 ADMIN TEAM:
Production & Office Manager | Sheila Parker ate9.information@gmail.com
epresentation | Ariel Carpentar
balletwriter@gmail.com
Photography | Cheryl Mann ate9.mann@gmail.com
Social Media & Branding | Cacia LaCount cacia.lacount@gmail.com