en route curbside series presents a compilation of films showing Thursday-Saturday/Feb 17-19 at Engine!

Check out this en route curbside series week two artists: @marlontaylorwiles @akbandco @kelsiesteil @lizzymulkey @jennystulberg @torilawrenceco and Subcircle
Presented by: @subcircleresidency @jacquidefranca
@enginebiddeford
Preview music by: @swain.morganeve
from Between Silences

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Ali Kenner Brodsky makes gesturally rich and emotionally driven dance-theater works and dance films that ask the viewer to indulge in a world of reflection, remembering, and connection. Ali was recently accepted into NEFA’S Regional Dance Development Initiative, and was a 2019 artist-in-residence (Croft: Ground for Art), 2018/19 Catalysts artist (Dance Complex), 2016 Emerging Choreographer in Residence (Bates Dance Festival), 2014 recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship, and a 2003/04 artist-in-residence at Joyce SoHo. She has received support from NEFA’s New England States Touring and Dance Fund, and from the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County. 

With David Henry, Lila Hurwitz and Andy Russ, Ali co-founded Motion State Arts, which presents innovative dance-films and live performances from local, national and international artists. She is on the Board of New England Presenters, which provides leadership and support for the presentation/development of the NE performing arts. She also works as a dance advisor and curator to the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford, MA. Ali has designed award-winning choreography for The Wilbury Theater Group (Providence), and worked as a rehearsal director/dancer with the national touring company Lostwax Multimedia Dance (2012–15). She graduated with honors in dance from Skidmore College. A Rhode Island native, AKB makes home in Dartmouth, MA with her husband, two children and five chickens.

Filmed on Wampanoag land, between silences (2018) is a dance film based on a live, emotionally charged solo, the most depressing piece. There is a richness in isolation as trauma is relayed through the body and in conversation with her surroundings. between silences portrays one woman’s  journey through grief as she investigates how to love, to lose, to grieve, and to pick up the pieces. 

Choreographer & Performer: Ali Kenner Brodsky

Director of Photography & Editor: Rich Ferri

Score: MorganEve Swain

Tori Lawrence Bio

Tori Lawrence is a New England-based choreographer who creates site-specific multimedia performances and digital/analog dance films. Her environmentally-based work inspires an imaginative and sustainable way of looking at, thinking about, and using space. She has taught at Smith College, Bennington College, University of Kansas, and was the 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence at Middlebury College. She has also been a guest artist at Franklin & Marshall College, Connecticut College, Drexel University, and Wilson College. She has recently been awarded artist residencies from Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Trondheim, Norway) and USF Verftet (Bergen, Norway), where she’ll create a new screendance project in 2022-23. Other fellowships/residencies include: Yaddo, Djerassi, Playa, Ucross Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest’s Workshop Foundation. Her work has been presented by the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Dance Projects, Movement Research, Chez Bushwick, Triskelion, Counterpulse, Space 124, Fresh Festival, Bodies in Motion Festival, Dance Films Association, and SCDT, among others. She’s currently collaborating with San Francisco-based choreographer Sara Shelton Mann on a new analog film installation “7 Excavations.” The finished work will premiere at Fort Mason in San Francisco in June 2022. Tori’s currently creating ATLAND, a new artist residency space in the hill towns of the Berkshires in western MA. More info: www.torilawrence.org

Jenny Stulberg is a Los Angeles-based dance artist, filmmaker, and educator inspired by the symbiotic relationship between dance and film. Drawn to the intimacy and movement within both mediums, her work aims to highlight the idiosyncratic beauty of what it means to be human.

In 2014, Jenny co-founded Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations, a San Francisco-based performance company, with Lauren Simpson. Their work was nominated for two Izzie Awards in 2016 and were artists in residence at CounterPulse Theater, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s CHIME Program.

Jenny’s films have earned screenings at several international festivals including The San Francisco Dance Film Festival, ADF International Screendance Festival, and Dance Camera West, to name a few. She is an adjunct professor in the LEAP Program at St. Mary’s College and teaches screendance workshops across the country. Jenny holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and BFA from Western Michigan University.