Co-Founder of 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.’

Co-Founder of BODYSONNET

SEAN (him/his) 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.

Dramaturg

Hannah Gellman is a movement dramaturg, theater-maker, and educator. Previously, she has worked across the Berkshires at Berkshire Theatre Group, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, and the Great Barrington Farmers Market, and she is excited to be back this summer! She has a BA in English from Carleton College (’18) and is currently an MFA student in Dramaturgy and DramaQc CriQcism at Yale School of Drama.

Collaborator & Performer

Madion 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.

Collaborator & Performer

Mio Ishikawa is a dancer and a collaborator based in New York City. She is a native of Tokyo, Japan, where she began dancing at the age of 6. Her training in both classical and contemporary dance forged her strong interest in the performing arts and led her to study at the Juilliard School in New York City where she received BFA in 2019. Mio has performed the repertories by Iván Pérez, Alejandro Cerrudo, Roy Assaf, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris among many others. She works for Sidra Bell Dance New York (2022-), Company Stefanie Batten Bland (2020-), BODYSONNET (2019-) and ChristinaNoel and the Creature (2021-). During pandemic in 2020, Mio was in Tokyo and has assisted Mariko Kakizaki (former dancer of L.E.V) and Ryu Suzuki (Associate Choreographer of Dance Base Yokohama). She has collaborated with the American artist Dan Colen, visual artists Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison, cellist Ken Kubota, jazz pianist Isiah Thompson, jazz bass player Felix Moseholm, High Line Nine Gallery in Chelsea Manhattan and continues to make her own multidisciplinary art and collaborate across mediums.

Guest Artist

Sayer Mansfield is currently dancing with Compagnie Marie Chouinard in Montreal, Quebec. She holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Sayer worked full time with Pilobolus Dance Theater for 3 years and has performed with Compañía Sharon Fridman (Madrid, Spain), Boston Dance Theater and The Indah Walsh Dance Company. Sayer has been an adjunct faculty member and guest artist at Jacob’s Pillow, Phillips Academy Andover and Roger Williams University. Sayer has worked extensively across mediums including film, television, music videos and print. Sayer received her classical training from The Royal Academy of Dance, Boston Ballet and Joffrey Ballet and has studied at Laban in London, UK and The Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria. More recently, Sayer has begun an independent investigation of performance, choreography, and creation – collaborating with inspiring artists of her generation, Sayer has presented work in New York City and The Berkshires.