Blue Vice

Blue Vice Trailer

Blue Vice Film

Blue Vice at The Foundry, Emerging Artist Series

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We would like to recognize the land on which we live, create, learn and commune is the original homelands of the Mohican Tribal Nations. We honor and respect the many indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we make art and our new home.

 

Blue Vice

  • Blue Vice is a film created by BODYSONNET, with videography by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, and original sound by Dorothy Chan and Lucy Yao of chromic duo. The work is centered on four characters and their intimate experiences with winter and solitude. One by one they delve into the depths of waiting and the ecstasy of confession. With its cinematic beauty the Berkshires provide potent grounds for this meditation on how we survive winter.

  • Blue Vice by BODYSONNET

    Direction: Jake Nahor, Sean Lammer, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Madison Vomastek

    Videography: Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison

    Music: Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan as CHROMIC DUO

  • Special thanks to Berkshire Pulse for supporting BODYSONNET as Company in Residence during the creation of this project.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Cast

  • Jake (him/his) is an Israeli American artist based in New York. He is an alumnus of Alvin Ailey & Fordham University (‘18), London Contemporary Dance School (‘17), and Walnut Hill School for the Arts (‘14) where he was awarded the Director’s Scholar.

    He trained at various programs including Jacob’s Pillow, Henny Jurriëns Foundation, and Springboard Danse Montréal where he performed repertoire by Crystal Pite. He has completed postgraduate studies at Hubbard Street’s Professional Program (‘20) under the direction of Alexandra Wells, and performed works by William Forsythe, Ryan Mason, Rena Butler, and Peter Chu. While earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, he joined Ballet Hispanico 2 and presented his choreography with Buglisi Dance Theater among other concerts in New York City.

    Jake has performed Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother at The Place Theatre in London and was in the original cast of Shechter’s Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, the First National Tour is currently the Assistant Choreographer and Dance Captain for the production, also appearing in the roles of Nachum and Yussel.

    He has danced professionally with GroundWorks DanceTheater where he originated new works with Antonio Brown, Hannah Garner, Adam Barruch, and James Gregg. He is the recipient of the Career Award from The Actor’s Fund (‘21) and a Director at BODYSONNET.

  • Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is a graduate of The Juilliard School (’19) where she received the Joseph W. Polisi Award for Artist as Citizen. Moscelyne pursued additional training at Hubbard Street Pro (’20) and Walnut Hill School for the Arts (’15) and summer workshops including b12, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Jacob’s Pillow.Moscelyne’s choreographic works have been performed at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, the Hudson Guild Theater, The Studebaker Theater (Chicago), the Foundry West Stockbridge and Triskelion Arts. She has received support from the Anthony Quinn Foundation Fellowship, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Metropolis Ensemble for her choreographies.Moscelyne dances professionally on the East and West Coast with Post:ballet, David Michalek, Francesca Harper, Liz Gerring, and Helen Simoneau. This season she looks forward to creating a new work on Post:ballet, a installation with Trey Makler for the Shrem Manetti Museum, and continuing her work as director of the solo series ‘please come alone.’

  • Sean Lammer is a dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Cologne, Germany where he is currently an artist in Richard Siegel's, Ballet of Difference. He is an alumnus of The Juilliard School ('19) and Walnut Hill School for the Arts ('15). He has performed repertoire by Twyla Tharp, Nacho Duato, Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Martha Graham and Roy Assaf, and has worked with artists spanning a spectrum of mediums including Bobbi Jene Smith, Zack Winokur, David Michalek, Madeline Hollander, and Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. Sean has worked and performed extensively with NY based dance companies GALLIM, Helen Simoneau Danse and MADBOOTS. In his own work and process he values the constant reconciliation of the breadth of physical tones, rhythms and dialects present in the body and absorbed from a range of corporeal experiences. Post-style in approach, he is interested to explore movement untethered to any one genre or fixed style, but rather aims to distill a sense of spontaneity of movement, using improvisation as a central tool for movement creation. In 2019, Sean Co-Founded BODYSONNET in pursuit of bringing together a small collective of inspired artists to create highly collaborative work in unconventional spaces.

  • Madison Vomastek is a graduate of the inaugural class from the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance under merit scholarship, where she performed work by Alejandro Cerrudo, Aszure Barton, Crystal Pite, Jodie Gates, Jiri Kylian, Sonya Tayeh, and William Forsythe. In February of 2019, she performed leading roles for USC Kaufman’s New York City debut at the Joyce Theatre. She has been a guest artist with Richard Siegal’s Ballet of Difference, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Gala De Danza, Laguna Dance Festival, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She can be found in the 2018 Backstreet Boys music video “Chances.” Before the pandemic, Madison was an original cast member in West Side Story’s revival on Broadway, choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. She continues to explore many dynamic colors in various movement languages to further ignite her passion. Currently, Madison dances and collaborates with BODYSONNET in residence at Berkshire Pulse.