Biographies
Faye Driscoll Director
• Faye is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer and director whose work is rooted in an obsession with the problem of being ‘ somebody ’ in a world of other ‘ somebodies .’ Originally from Venice Beach , California , Driscoll moved to New York in 1994 to train in dance at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU . She began her career dancing with groups such as Yasmeen Godder , David Neumann and Doug Varone and Dancers . In 2005 Faye started making her own work , aiming to create immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation . These investigations gave rise to a wide range of works including : Loneliness ( 2006 ), exhibited in the Younger Than Jesus triennial at the New Museum ; Wow Mom , Wow ( 2007 ), a postmodern / pop musical / death metal fantasy ; 837 Venice Boulevard ( 2008 , Bessie Award ), an autobiographical work within a theatre within a home ; There is so much mad in me ( 2010 ), an exploration of ecstatic states ; You ’ re Me ( 2012 ), a duet distorted by props , paint and manic costume shifts and Thank You For Coming : Attendance ( 2014 ) the first part in a series of works that propose performance as a shared political act , where performer and audience co-create reality .
Driscoll is currently working on the second in the series Thank You For Coming : Play which focuses on the consumption and fabrication of stories to make our lives cohere . It premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in September 2016 and will be playing at BAM ’ s Next Wave Festival in November 2016 .
Faye ’ s work has been presented across the US at places such as Walker Art Center , Wexner Center for the Arts , ICA / Boston , Danspace Project , and American Dance Festival , and internationally to Theatre de Vanves Festival Artdanthe , Theatre de Gennevilliers , Festival D ’ Automne a Paris , Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb , Centro de Arte Experimental UNSAM in Buenos Aires , Belfast International Festival and in the Made in USA Festival , Onassis Cultural Center in Athens , Greece . She has received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award .
Giulia Carotenuto Performer
• Giulia is a NYC-based dance artist from Rome . Moving to New York in 2008 , she had the honour of working with artists including Mark Dendy , Douglas Dunn , Catherine Miller and Kate Fisher . In 2011 Giulia became a member of Pavel Zustiak ’ s Palissimo , with whom she created and performed Strange Cargo , the third part of The Painted Bird Trilogy . Later that year she joined Monica Bill Barnes & Company and toured , taught , and performed in venues including the Joyce Theatre , Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC . In 2012 she joined the Faye Driscoll Group , and could not be more thrilled to be performing Thank You for Coming : Attendance all over the world .
Alicia Ohs ( ayo ) Performer
• Alicia is a dance maker and community builder interested in what makes people laugh , cry and continue . She has shown her own work in New York and San Francisco . AO has worked with Movement Research as a curator , educator and a founding member of the Artists of Color Council . She is honoured to have performed with Sally Silvers , Andrea Geyer , niv Acosta , Sondra Loring , Laura Arrington and RoseAnne Spradlin . She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts and Experimental Theatre Wing . She lives in Brooklyn , NY .
Sean Donovan Performer
• Sean is a New York actor , dancer and writer . He has worked with Faye Driscoll , Miguel Gutierrez , Jane Comfort and Company , The Builders Association , Witness Relocation , 600 Highwaymen and Jennie Marytai Liu . He creates theatre and mixed media works in collaboration with Sebastián Calderón Bentin . Original works include the site-specific bilingual piece Se Vende at the FAE Festival in Panama , The Climate Chronicles at Incubator Arts Project , NYC and 18 ½ Minutes at JACK , NYC . He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at HERE Arts Center , NYC . Sean received his BFA in Theatre from NYU ’ s Experimental Theatre Wing . He has trained and performed internationally in France , Holland , Romania , Poland , Russia , Panama , Argentina , Croatia , Canada , Thailand and Japan working with the highly acclaimed Ildi ! Eldi of France and Sankai Juku Butoh company of Japan .