DMT Fundraiser in Philly Nov 28th 7pm!

Saturday, November 28, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Performance Garage
1515 Brandywine St
Philadelphia, PA
Tickets: $20

Join Ashley in Philadelphia for a night of dance performances and live music (contemporary and classical Indian dance, live electro experimental and more)

All proceeds from the performance will go towards the completion of the film which is currently in the editing stages.

Clips from the film will also be screened during the performance.
Homemade cakes, wine and photo prints for sale (to preview prints Click Here)

For more information about the film and for purchasing tickets, purchasing prints while not attending or to make any other contributions please contact Ashley at ashleyfargnoli@gmail.com

Who will be performing?
we are glad you asked

Alyson Pray
Alyson Pray began training in Cherry Hill, NJ. She went on to study at the Rock School, the Kirov Academy and The Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet. In 1999, Alyson became a member of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida and was promoted to Soloist in 2002. There she performed the role of Odette in “Swan Lake,” Sugar Plum Fairy in the “Nutcracker” and Toro in “Carmen”. In 2004, Alyson joined the Pennsylvania Ballet and had the opportunity to dance several Balanchine ballets including Concerto Borocco, Theme and Variations, Western Symphony, Ballo de Regina and Serenade. She performed classics such as Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and Copellia as well as Jerome Robbins, the Concert, Matthew Neenan’s Carmin Burana and Twyla Tharp’s Push come to Shove. Currently, Alyson is free-lancing and enjoying working on projects with the Washington Ballet and other dance companies.

Christina Gesualdi
Christina Gesualdi is originally from Bristol, Pennsylvania. She finished her BFA in Modern Dance Performance with an Emphasis in Choreography at The University of the Arts in May 2007. She has studied with and performed the works of artists such as: Curt Haworth, Silvana Cardel, Rosalind Crisp, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and John Jasperse. Christina has danced for local choreographers: Molly Root and Ashley Searles, she also performs regularly with Zornitsa Stoyanova’s Herebegin Dance. Christina’s choreography has been shown at The Arbons Art Center in New York, Mascher Space Co-op’s IN FLUX series, Current series at Studio 34, and at all of Pink Hair Affair’s performances. When Christina is not dancing, she can be found teaching for the Princeton Review, writing, turning other people’s trash into treasures, and collecting spandex leggings.

Lisa Rothstein
Lisa Rothstein earned a B.A. in dance and mathematics from Connecticut College.  There she trained in various release modern techniques as well as contact improvisation. While studying, Lisa performed in works by professional choreographers Alexandra Beller, David Dorfman, Doug Elkins, Heidi Henderson, Adele Myers, and Lisa Race.  Originally from Havertown, PA, she has selected Philadelphia as the first stop on her path to a career in dance.  In 2008, Lisa performed bodies in urban spaces by Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner, as part of the Philadephia Live Arts Festival, and she is currently making art with Here[begin] Dance Co.  She is further thrilled to occasionally venture to NYC to create with Rebecca Elias and BE Dance Collective.  Also, Lisa loves avocados, lavender, and the moon.

Shoba Narayanan
Shoba Narayanan is a professional Bharatanatyam artist from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.  She has performed in both group and solo performances in the U.S, as well as given lecture demonstrations at many colleges, universities, schools, fundraisers, and community outreach events.  She has performed in the prestigious Music and Dance Festival in Chennai, India.   She was the First Place Winner of the Cleveland Aradhana International Dance Competition in 2009.  Along with her passion for Bharatanatyam, Shoba is also an actor, singer, and ballet dancer.  She has trained for the past 14 years at The Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet under the direction of John White and Margharita de Saa.  She continues to study ballet, as well as jazz, tap and Modern at The Boston Conservatory where she is a sophomore Musical Theater major.  She aspires to work on Broadway, National Tours, film, and continue bringing Bharatanatyam onto the Mainstream stage.

Eve Keller
Eve Keller is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she began training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet under the direction of John White and Margerita de Saa. She received additional training at summer programs such as Ballet Metropolitan, Vail International Dance Festival and Washington Ballet School. At 18, she participated in the work/study at Steps on Broadway while attending Marymount Manhattan College part-time. After one year in NYC, Ms. Keller was accepted into Paul Vasterling’s Nashville Ballet II where she performed in the “Nutcracker,” “Romeo and Juliet,” and “Sleeping Beauty.” Eve has been training and performing with the Connecticut Ballet since 2005, most recently dancing in “Peter and the Wolf,” “Goose Pimples,” and in works choreographed by Bob Fosse and Isadora Duncan. She also attends Columbia University in NYC and will graduate with a degree in Twentieth Century U.S. History this upcoming May.

Amanda Keller
Amanda  hails from Philadelphia where she began her early dance training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet. (PAB).  While in Philadelphia, Amanda also had the opportunity to experiment with more contemporary choreography when she would take Kip Martins contemporary ballet class at Koresh School of Dance.

During the summer months, Amanda has attended various dance intensives including: Kirov Academy of Ballet in D.C., North Carolina Dance Theater, Boston Ballet Summer Intensive, and Concord Academy of Dance.  While at these programs, Amanda gained further experience with Jazz and Modern dance techniques.

Amanda has spent a year developing her career as a dancer and choreographer at SUNY Purchase and then moved to New York City to complete her Dance & Sociology degree at The New School University. While at The New School she had the opportunity to work with many established artists including Karla Wolfangle from Paul Taylor Dance Company and Eric Jackson Bradley from Bill T. Jones Dance Company. She performed in various contemporary works such as Steps in the Street by Martha Graham & Choreographic Offering by Jose Limon.

While in New York City, Amanda has been exposed to a wide array of modern dance styles including Cunningham technique.  Amanda received a scholarship to train at the Cunningham Dance Studios in the summer of 2006 where she gained an in-depth knowledge of the Cunningham technique and repertoire.
Since graduating in May 2008, Amanda has served as an Artistic Director, dancer and choreographer for Danzare Internationale Dance Company and has been dancing with In-Sight Contemporary Ballet Company, under the direction of Leeanne M.G-Bowley. She has also been collaborating with several other dancers to develop her own choreographic repertoire, which has led to the formation of the On-The-Go Dance Project in March 2009.

Pamela Kubiak
Pamela  began training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet at 5 years old. She is also trained in gymnastics and is a very accomplished figure skater. This year she is attending Villanova University part-time and is currently an apprentice at the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet. She is looking forward to dancing with a professional ballet company.

Caitlyn Williams
Caitlyn Williams is a tenth grade honor student at Greater Latrobe Senior High School where she is on the lacrosse team and is a member of the Forensics team.  Caitlyn started dancing at age four with Janet LaCava and later began taking classes at Pottstown Dance Theatre and Delaware Valley Dance Academy.  After moving to Western Pennsylvania, Caitlyn’s dance training continued at Laurel Youth Ballet where she became a member of their performing company and had lead roles in productions such as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Don Quixote.  She has been fortunate enough to receive training from teachers like Nicholas Petrov, Dmitri Kulev, Ying Li and Jiabin Pan. Caitlyn has attended summer intensives at BalletMet and Tulsa Ballet. Caitlyn has just recently returned to dancing after being diagnosed with endometriosis. She is active in educating other young ladies about this condition. Since choreography and dancing are such a passion for Caitlyn, she plans to continue doing both for as long as she can.  After graduation, she would like to attend Penn State and become an Occupational Therapist and incorporate her love of dance with OT work.

Becky Segal and Rachel Durling
Becky and Rachel met in feather boas and tap shoes at age 7.  Since then their love of dancing has lead each of them to study and perform at various places including Governor’s School for the Arts, Point Park University, Savage Jazz Dance Company, and Natasha Carlitz Dance Company.  Becky and Rachel both spent this past year doing volunteer work abroad.  They are excited to dance together again using what they have learned inside and outside the studio to promote dance as a function for social change.

Millie Yoshida
Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Millie Yoshida trained and worked with Momoko Tani Ballet Academy and New National Ballet Theatre Tokyo. Since coming to the US in 2003, she has trained with School of American Ballet, Dallas Metropolitan Ballet Company, Valentina Kozlova’s Dance Conservatory of New York, and Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet (PAB). She was a finalist for the World Ballet Competition in  Orlando. Millie attended Bard College last year (‘08-‘09) for her freshman year, and now is a full time student at PAB (she will be an apprentice in March).

Ashley Fargnoli
Originally from Philadelphia, Ashley Fargnoli is a dance activist, choreographer, instructor and advocate of promoting dance in post-conflict countries. While pursuing her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, she learned how dance was used to foster rehabilitation and reconciliation in Rwanda after the genocide. This realization helped her to focus her efforts on using her 18 years of classical ballet and modern dance training with the Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet as a tool for working with sensitive and marginalized populations. Her mission to employ dance in this manner has taken her to Bosnia and Herzegovina to work with Roma populations and then to Kolkata, India to work with survivors of trafficking. Ashley is dedicated to using dance as a form of post-conflict mediation and creating choreography that fosters social change. She is currently helping to produce and edit DMT {working title}. www.ashleyfargnoli.com

Josh Convey (musician)
http://www.joshuaconvey.com/

Erin Gallagher  - coming soon!

Shoba Narayanan- coming soon!

Brittany Ann Cormack - coming soon!

Kristen Dardozzi- coming soon!

*** Also we are looking for a KickStarter invite if anyone knows anyone that has one please do tell