PARAMODERNITIES LIVE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Netta Yerushalmy, Marc Crousillat, and Jeremy Jacob
HOSTED BY: Marc Crousillat and Netta Yerushalmy
AUDIO DESCRIPTION BY: David Linton and Mary Murphy
DIRECTED BY: Jeremy Jacob

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: Jack Halberstam, Pam Tanowitz, Tracy K. Smith, Fred Moten, Jeremy O. Harris, and Peter N. Miller.

NETTA YERUSHALMY’S PARAMODERNITIES
[NEW YORK LIVE ARTS, MARCH 2019]

by Netta Yerushalmy

WITH SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE DANCERS AND SCHOLARS: Michael Blake, Gerald Casel, Marc Crousillat, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Joyce Edwards, Brittany Engel-Adams, Julia Foulkes, Stanley Gambucci, Taryn Griggs, Magdalena Jarkowiec, Georgina Kleege, David Kishik, Nicholas Leichter, Mara Mills, Claudia La Rocco, Jae Neal, Carol Ockman, Hsiao-Jou Tang, and Megan Williams.

COSTUMES: Magdalena Jarkowiec 
LIGHTING DESIGN: Tim Cryan
COMPANY MANAGEMENT: Marc Crousillat
STAGE STAGE MANAGER: Stacey Boggs
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Rachel April
PARAPHILOSOPHICAL CONSULTING: David Kishik

PARAMODERNITIES #1: The Work of Dance in the Age of Sacred Lives
A response to Vaslav Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (1913)

PERFORMED BY: Marc Crousillat, David Kishik, and Netta Yerushalmy
TEXT BY: David Kishik, read by Michael Cecconi

PARAMODERNITIES #2: Trauma, Interdiction, and Agency in ‘The House of Pelvic Truth’
A response to Martha Graham’s Night Journey (1947)

PERFORMED BY: Taryn Griggs, Carol Ockman, and Netta Yerushalmy
TEXT BY: Carol Ockman

PARAMODERNITIES #3: Revelations: The Afterlives of Slavery.
A response to Alvin Ailey’s Revelations (1960)

PERFORMED BY: Brittany Engel-Adams, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Stanley Gambucci, Jae Neal, Nicholas Leichter, and Netta Yerushalmy
TEXT BY: Thomas F. DeFrantz

PARAMODERNITIES #4: An Inter-Body Event 
With material from Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest, Sounddance, Points In Space, Beach Birds, and Ocean (1968-1990)

PERFORMED BY: Marc Crousillat, Brittany Engel-Adams, Claudia La Rocco 
TEXT BY: Claudia La Rocco
WITH A SPECIAL GUEST CONTRIBUTION BY: Bill T. Jones

PARAMODERNITIES #5: All that Spectacle: Dance on Stage and Screens
A response to Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity (1969 film)

PERFORMED BY: Michael Blake, Joyce Edwards, Julia Foulkes, Hsiao-Jou Tang, and Megan Williams
TEXT BY: Julia Foulkes

PARAMODERNITIES #6: The Choreography of Rehabilitation: Disability and Race in Balanchine’s Agon
A response to George Balanchine’s Agon (1957)

PERFORMED BY: Gerald Casel, Magdalena Jarkowiec, Georgina Kleege, and Mara Mills
TEXT BY: Mara Mills and Georgina Kleege

PARAMODERNITIES is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. PARAMODERNITIES is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project, commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow in partnership with New York Live Arts, HMD’s Bridge Project, and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
For more information: www.npnweb.org.

PARAMODERNITIES is also commissioned by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and developed as part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (LMCC.net). The New York presentation of PARAMODERNITIES is supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Gilbert Heritage Foundation, and contributions from individual donors.

The development of PARAMODERNITIES was made possible in part by NCCAkron, the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron. Additional support came from LMCC’s Creative Engagement Fund and residencies at Trinity College, Williams College, the Arts Research Institute and the Department of Theater Arts at University of California Santa Cruz, BAC Space Residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Watermill Center - a laboratory for performance, Madison Square Park Conservancy, Harkness Dance Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program at 92Y, Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Paramodernities #1 was Produced by Hebbel am Ufer as part of Tanz über Gräben: 100 Years of Le Sacre du Printemps, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The George Balanchine Trust is wholly unaffiliated with, and no choreography from George Balanchine’s Agon is included in this performance.

PARAMODERNITIES is produced with and managed by Los Angeles Performance Practice / PerformancePractice.org

Video-recorded at New York Live Arts by Nel Shelby Productions.

The recording of this work was made possible by the cooperation of Netta Yerushalmy and New York Live Arts and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND ADDITIONAL CREDITS:

PM#1: Directorial consulting by Katie Brook. Essay recording sound engineering by Ryan Seaton.

PM#2: Directorial consulting by Katie Brook. Thank you to Janet Eilber and Denise Vale from the Martha Graham Dance Company. Video: 1960 film by Alexander Hammid. 

PM#3: Thank you to Jesse Zaritt and Shamar Watt for their early contributions to this work. Thank you to Robert Battle.

PM#4: Thank you to Ken Tabachnick and Rashaun Mitchell from the Merce Cunningham Trust. Song by Getish Mamo.

PM#5: Directorial consulting by Katie Brook. Thank you to Gabriella Garcia and J’nae Simmons for their various contributions.

PM#6: Thank you to NYU Center for Disability Studies. Thank you to Gerald Casel, Michael Cecconi, Maria Jarkowiec, Margi Young, and Mara Mills for extending resources and hospitality. Thank you to August Eaton for his contribution to this work. 

NOTES FROM NETTA: 

I am deeply grateful to the incredible cast for their generosity and beauty. For sharing their time, their thoughts, their big hearts, their immense and diverse talents, and their vulnerabilities in order to craft this complicated work together. I am forever changed. 

A huge thank you to Michael Donaldson of Donaldson + Callif, LLP and to Joseph Gratz with Durie Tangri LLP, as well as to Margaret Freund, for their invaluable support and guidance through the dark forests of copyright law in our infuriating yet fascinating dispute with the George Balanchine Trust.

Thank you Sam Miller. 

Special thanks to Pam Tatge and everyone at Jacob’s Pillow, Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong at New York Live Arts, Christy Bolingbroke and National Center for Choreography in Akron, Judy Hussie-Taylor and Danspace Project along with the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Hope Mohr and Bridge Project, Daniel King, Melissa Levin, and Andy Hamingson at LMCC.

ABOUT US: 

MICHAEL BLAKE​ holds an MFA in dance from Purchase College, and a 2010 Bessie Award for Dance and Performance with PARADIGM Dance. He has had the honor of working with many incredible artists in several companies: Murray Louis Dance Company, Jose Limon Dance Company, Donald Byrd/The Group, Joyce Trisler Danscompany, Cab Calloway’s Cotton Club Review, The Supper Club, PARADIGM Dance and many more. Michael is an Assistant Professor of Modern Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is very excited to be back on the stage performing!

GERALD CASEL is a San Francisco based dance artist and director of GERALDCASELDANCE. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he holds an MFA from UW-Milwaukee. He is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz. Casel received a Bessie award for his work with Michael Clark, Stephen Petronio, Zvi Gotheiner, and Stanley Love. Recent projects include collaborations with Netta Yerushalmy, Keith Hennessy, and Peiling Kao + Na-ye Kim. He leads Dancing Around Race, a community engagement program that interrogates racial equity in dance in the Bay Area. www.geraldcasel.com

MARC CROUSILLAT is an actor and dancer based in New York City. He has performed in the works of Tere O’Connor, Netta Yerushalmy, John Jasperse, Gerard & Kelly, Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey and was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2014 to 2019. He has performed in the Bessie award-winning Night of 100 Solos as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial at Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is currently making his Broadway debut in Ivo van Hove’s reimagined production of West Side Story. He is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award: Dance Fellowship (2016), was listed in Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch (2017), and is currently represented by Clear Talent Group. He was the recipient of The President’s Award and Outstanding Performance in Modern Dance from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia (BFA ’13). He has shown his own work throughout New York City and has taught extensively and re-staged works for the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Netta Yerushalmy. www.marccrousillat.com

TIM CRYAN (Lighting Designer & Production Manager) Previous collaborations with: Berkshire Fringe, BodyStories/Teresa Fellion Dance, Bryn Cohn+Artists, Cat-Scratch Theatre/Jeramy Zimmerman, Delirious Dances/Edisa Weeks, Fiasco Theatre Company, Fusionworks Dance Company, Jiva Dance/Sonali Skandan, LaMaMa Etc, Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy. He has toured as lighting supervisor for the Martha Graham Dance Company as well as Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group. Tim has taught classes on design and collaboration at Hunter College, Providence College, Dalton School, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and is currently on the faculty of Long Island University’s Dance Department, Brooklyn Campus. MFA: NYU Tisch Design. Portfolio: www.timcryan.net

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM (Assistant Stage Manager) is a New York City based lighting designer. Before moving back to New York City, he was the Assistant Technical Director at the Cleveland Play House (Recipient of the 2015 Regional Theater Tony Award). He has designed pieces for The Guatemala Lyric Opera, The Cleveland Public Theater, The Cleveland Dance Exchange, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, Oberlin Summer Theater Festival, The Marymount School of Manhattan, Midtown International Theater Festival, NYU Experimental Theater, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Planet Connections Theater Festivity. Michael holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from NYU. Mactheatrical.com

THOMAS F. DEFRANTZ teaches at Duke University and directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. DeFrantz received the 2017 Outstanding Research in Dance award from the Dance Studies Association. DeFrantz believes in our shared capacity to do better, and to engage our creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, anti-homophobic, proto-feminist, and queer affirming. DeFrantz acted as a consultant for the Smithsonian Museum of African American Life and Culture, contributing concepts and a voice-over for a permanent installation on Black Social Dance that opened with the museum in 2017.

JOYCE EDWARDS, a native of Rochester, NY, is an undergraduate student at The College at Brockport State University of New York where she works to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Science in Afro/African-American Studies. Joyce became enamoured with dance at the age of two and has recently furthered her studies alongside Ronald K. Brown (EVIDENCE) where she is welcomed as a company apprentice. Joyce will travel to El Centro de Lenguas Modernas in Granada, Spain to further her undergraduate studies in the upcoming fall term. 

BRITTANY ENGEL-ADAMS is a Brooklyn based performing artist, teacher and choreographer. She is a lecturer of dance at Rutgers University. Brittany was recently awarded the Lifetime Experience scholarship from The University of the Arts, and is currently attending their low-residency MFA program. Brittany has had the privilege of dancing with Ailey ll, Donna Uchizono, Netta Yerushalmy, Stefanie Batten Bland, among others. She performed across disciplines for projects like Sleep No More; “The White Album” a multimedia performance piece directed by Lars Jan; and is a co-star in HBO series “Boardwalk Empire”. In the spring, Brittany will begin working with Annie-B Parson - Big Dance Theater. www.brittanyengeladams.com

JULIA FOULKES is a professor of history at The New School and the author of A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York (2016); To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal (2011); and Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey (2002). She curated the exhibition “Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York” (NYPL 2018-19), and is currently researching the rise of New York as a capital of culture in the 20th century.

STANLEY GAMBUCCI is a dancer and maker withholding and passing through. They have helped realize the work of Kevin Beasley, Xavier Cha, Jonathan Gonzáles, Jasmine Hearn, NIC kay, Ralph Lemon, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Ambika Raina, Will Rawls, Maddie Schimmel, and others. Ultimately (and always) they are trying to de-language themself. 

TARYN GRIGGS has danced with Ivy Baldwin, Yoshiko Chuma, Mary Cochran, Sara Hook, Jodi Melnick, David Neumann, Susan Rethorst, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Liz Roche/Rex Levitates, Sara Smith, Anna Sperber, Karinne Keithley Syers, Johannes Wieland and Hijack. Since 2002 she has been creating, performing and teaching with her husband, Chris Yon. Griggs received a Sage Award for Performance in 2009 and a McKnight Fellowship for Dance in 2012. Current projects include work with Tori Lawrence, Netta Yerushalmy and Chris Yon. Griggs lives in Winston-Salem, NC and teaches Pilates at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts.

JACK HALBERSTAM  is a tenured Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005) and The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and collections.

JEREMY O. HARRIS is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Daddy and Slave Play. He was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given by the Vineyard Theatre in New York City.

JEREMY JACOB is a New York based Director and Production Designer for film, still photography, stage, and web. His work focuses on the development of aesthetic principles to communicate with audiences. Short films include Dear Merce, JenMari, Courting; or, An American Romance and State of Desire. Production designs for stage include Jack Ferver’s Everything Is Imaginable and Desire. Designs for screen include Jay Dockendorf’s Three Deaths. Jeremy Jacob is also the producer and editor for Dance And Stuff and the creator/director of The Dance And Stuff Show.

MAGDALENA JARKOWIEC is an Austin-based dancer, choreographer, costume designer and sculptor. She was born in Poland fifteen minutes after her fraternal twin sister, Maria, and grew up in Baltimore City where she studied dance at the public arts high school. She earned a BA in General Studies from the New College of Florida where she started creating her distorted figurative soft sculpture, AKA Giant Mutant Dolls. She spent eight years in San Francisco working as a freelance dancer, most notably with Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, and then finally convinced her husband to move to central Texas. Her work can be seen at www.magsjarks.com. 

DAVID KISHIK, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emerson College, is the author of The Book of Shem: On Genesis before Abraham (2018) The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City (2015), and The Power of Life: Agamben and the Coming Politics (2012), all with Stanford University Press, as well as Wittgenstein’s Form of Life (Bloomsbury, 2008). He has been working with Netta since 2013, and in love with her since 1995.

GEORGINA KLEEGE teaches creative writing and disability studies at UC Berkeley. Her recent books include: Sight Unseen and Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller. Kleege’s latest book, More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, is concerned with blindness and visual art: how blindness is represented in art, how blindness affects the lives of visual artists, how museums can make visual art accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired.

CLAUDIA LA ROCCO is the author of the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited), the chapbook I am trying to do the assignment ([2nd Floor Projects]), and the sf trilogy The Olivias (published in performance, print, and interdisciplinary editions by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Man Pant Publishing, and The Lab). animals & giraffes, her duo with musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, has released July (with various musicians; Edgetone Records) and Landlocked Beach (with Wobbly; Creative Sources). She has writing in numerous anthologies and publications, including Artforum, I Like Softness (Ugly Duckling Presse), On Value (Ralph Lemon, ed; Triple Canopy), and The New York Times, where she was a critic and reporter from 2005-2015. http://claudialarocco.com/

NICHOLAS LEICHTER has taught throughout the United States and at festivals in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Eastern and Western Europe. Leichter has received support from The Joyce Theater Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NPN, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation,The Greenwall Foundation, The 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund, the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, NYSCA, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) through the National Dance Project (NDP), the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Program Manager @ArtsConnection.

PETER N. MILLER is a historian and Dean of the Bard Graduate Center. He was a 1998 McArthur Fellow.

FRED MOTEN is an American poet and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Moten is professor of performance studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa. His scholarly texts include The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study which was co-authored with Stefano Harney, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, and The Universal Machine (Duke University Press, 2018). He has published numerous poetry collections, including The Little Edges, The Feel Trio, B Jenkins, and Hughson’s Tavern.

MARA MILLS is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where she co-directs the Center for Disability Studies. She is a founding editor of the journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Her book On the Phone: Hearing Loss and Communication Engineering, forthcoming from Duke University Press, examines the history of speech and hearing research in the Bell System and its legacy for information theory and digital media. She is currently working on the history of optical character recognition and, with Jonathan Sterne, on the history of audio time stretching technology. Mills has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the DAAD, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the IEEE.

JAE NEAL was born and raised in Michigan and received their training from Western Michigan University. There they performed in professional works such as Strict Love by Doug Varone, Temporal Trance by Frank Chavez and Harrison McEldowney’s Dance Sport. Since relocating to New York, Jae has had the privilege of working with SYREN Modern Dance, Christina Noel & The Creature, Catapult Entertainment, Katherine Helen Fisher Dance, Nathan Trice, and for the past 8 years A.I.M Currently and ideally continuously with Netta Yerushalmy, as she remains to be an artistic and choreographic voice of inspiration. Jae also spends a fair amount of time performing in and holding a torch for queer nightlife of NYC.

CAROL OCKMAN, long-time Professor of Art History at Williams College, is a writer, performer, and curator.  She is completing a memoir, Sarah Bernhardt’s Handkerchief, which is now a one-woman show, about close encounters with stardom, her father’s suicide, and the power of objects. Her publications include Ingres’s Eroticized Bodies (Yale, 1995) and Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama (Yale, 2005), the catalogue for the award-winning exhibition (The Jewish Museum, New York, 2005-06), produced with Kenneth E. Silver. She is Curator at Large for Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, FL, which puts major works of art in dialogue with living plants.

PERFORMANCEPRACTICE.ORG
PerformancePractice.org is the national touring extension of Los Angeles Performance Practice, a non-profit organization devoted to the production and presentation of contemporary performance by artists whose work advances and challenges multi-disciplinary artistic practices. Founded by Miranda Wright in 2010, our mission is to support a unique and diverse constellation of artists and audiences through the active creation and presentation of groundbreaking experiences that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology and social engagement. Anchored in Los Angeles, our artists and projects have national and global reach. 

TRACY K. SMITH is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.

HSIAO-JOU TANG was born and raised in Taiwan where she studied ballet, modern, traditional Chinese dance and martial arts. She graduated from SUNY Purchase College with a BFA in Dance in 2008. Tang has been a company member of Doug Varone and Dancers since 2012, and has had the great pleasure of working with a number of wonderful people and companies including Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.motion, Shen Wei Dance Arts, the Metropolitan Opera, Kevin Wynn Collection, Daniel Charon Dance, Nora Petroliunas/The Pharmacy Project, Xan Burley+Alex Springer, and others. Hsiao-Jou is honored to be able to work with Netta and all these amazing artists in Paramodernities.

PAM TANOWITZ is an American dancer, choreographer, and founder of the company, Pam Tanowitz Dance. Prominent dance companies such as the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and the New York City Ballet have commissioned works by Tanowitz. She is currently the inaugural Choreographer in Residence at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

MEGAN WILLIAMS was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group from 1988-98 and continues to stage his work worldwide. An esteemed teacher, she has served on the faculties of Purchase College, Connecticut College and Marymount Manhattan College and currently teaches at Gibney and Sarah Lawrence and has taught Dance for PD for ten years. Megan Williams Dance Projects presented its full evening work, 'One Woman Show' (at Joe’s Pub in NYC), as the 2018 DanceNOW Commissioned Artist and is currently in process with composer Eve Beglarian on a live music and dance event that will premiere in March 2020. She has a BFA from the Juilliard School, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and proudly dances in the work of Rebecca Stenn and Netta Yerushalmy.

NETTA YERUSHALMY is a dance artist based in New York City. Her work aims to engage with audiences by imparting the sensation of things as they are perceived, not as they are known, and to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed.

For her choreographic work Netta has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, National Dance Project Grant, commission from LMCC’s Extended Life program, Six Points Fellowship, and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She was recently a Research Fellow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and is currently a Toulmin Fellow for Women Leaders in Dance at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, as well as a New York City Center Choreography Fellow. Netta will be a Princeton Arts Fellow at Princeton University in 2019-2021.

Her work has been commissioned and presented by venues such as Danspace Project, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Wexner Center for the Arts, La Mama, River to River Festival, Center for the Arts/Buffalo, International Dance (Jerusalem), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, 62 Center for the Arts/Williamstown, ODC & Bridge Project, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance (Tel Aviv), Harkness Dance Festival, International Solo Festival (Stuttgart), Roulette. Her work has been supported by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Watermill Center, National Center for Choreography/Akron, Djerassi Arts Program, Movement Research, Gibney’s DiP, Trinity College. Netta works across genres and disciplines: she contributed to artist Josiah McElheny’s “Prismatic Park” at Madison Square Park, choreographed a Red Hot Chili Peppers music video, worked with cellist Maya Beiser and composer Julia Wolfe on “Spinning”, and collaborated on evenings of theory and performance at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin). As Guest Artist and visiting faculty, Netta has created work with repertory companies and students nationally at the University of the Arts, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Rutgers University, University of Utah, Zenon Dance Company, American Dance Festival, Alvin Ailey School, SUNY Brockport, University of Texas at Austin, James Madison University, Long Island University, UNC Charlotte, Roger Williams University, and Sarah Lawrence College.

As a performer Netta has worked with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers, Joanna Kotze, Karinne Keithley, Nancy Bannon, Mark Jarecki, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

Netta grew up in Galilee, Israel. She received a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.