Co-Founder of BODYSONNET

Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (she/her) 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.’

Project Director

Caroline Sharkey (she/her) is a freelance artist, dancer, and choreographer. Caroline is originally from Northwest Arkansas, which sits on the unceded native lands of the Osage, Caddo, Quapaw, and Sioux peoples. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy to further her formal dance training. Upon graduation, she received the Fine Artist award in dance. She has since spent time at the Alonzo King LINES BFA program and the Hubbard Street Professional Program (HSPro) under the direction of Alexandra Wells. Caroline has worked closely with artists such as Rena Butler, Peter Chu, Ryan Mason, Troy Ogilvie, Bobbi Jean Smith, and Johannes Wieland among others. Caroline has served as rehearsal director for works by Mark Morris and Joshua Manculich. She is currently a collaborator and performer with T2 Dance company, Control Group Productions, and BODYSONNET. Caroline finds value and creative energy by training and learning through the lens of yoga, stage combat, rock climbing, Capoeira, Qigong, and her fellow artists. Caroline is a recipient of the 2020 Artists 3/60 grant.

Collaborator

Elias Rosa (he/his) is a New York based performing artist. He graduated from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of The Arts with a BFA in dance in 2017. During his time at Rutgers he performed in works by Doug Elkins, Soon-ho Park, Martha Graham, Netta Yerushalmy, Jessica Lang, Ellen Cornfield, Joe Goode, and Randy James. He made his professional debut in 2017 dancing for the Bessie Award winning Choreographer Doug Elkins. Elias has danced with companies Doug Elkins Choreography Etc., Rock Dance Collective, and 10HL where he learned rep from Yin Yue, Stephen Petronio, Doug Elkins, and Randy James. In June 2019 he attended Springboard Danse Montreal where he was casted in and performed excerpts from Kidd Pivot’s Betroffenheit. In the fall of 2019 Elias was casted in Punchdrunk’s award winning and critically acclaimed immersive performance Sleep No More in NYC.

Collaborator

Blake Worthey (he/his) is a dance-theater artist from Memphis,Tennessee. He started dancing in as a rehab for a sports injury then continued his training while at U. of Arkansas-Little Rock, While there he trained in Limon and Graham based modern with a sprinkling of strong 80s jazz. Most notably he got to perform WHATT?!!! by Rennie Harris. After receiving his BFA he studied at Modus Operandi, a training program in Vancouver, British Columbia. While in Vancouver he got to work with amazing people from OutInnerSpace, RadicalSystemArt, Company 605, Kidd Pivot, Parts + Labour, Mutable Subject, and Social Ritual. Most recently he attended Orsolina28 where he studied the process of Crystal Pite and William Forsythe. He has performed as part of a “Looking for America'' exhibit in 2019, and was a part of Nick Cave’s Until exhibit at the Momentary. He has been a guest artist of the Northwest Arkansas Ballet Theater for the past three years. While at NWABT he had a feature role in Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye’s Immortal Beloved:Possessed by Genius. He is very honored to be a part of NWABT for this season.

Amos Cochran (he/his) is an Emmy nominated composer, musician, and sound artist based in America. His compositions for film, theater, radio, and television have received many honors, including a 2010 Kennedy Center Excellence in Composing Award and a premier at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In 2019, he was commissioned by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to create a sound piece for its groundbreaking outdoor exhibition Color Field, and he was selected by global creative house Justkids to be an official artist of the award-winning Unexpected Urban and Contemporary Art Festival. In 2020 Cochran has released five new albums and premiered work at the London Design Festival. His work is currently on view at The University of Houston.