// ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE//
The A.I.R. program supports the work of Seattle’s finest veteran choreographers, providing free rehearsal space. The A.I.R. interfaces with Velocity’s other programs throughout the year. If you are interested in participating in 2012 please contact Tonya Lockyer.
Velocity’s Artist-In-Residence program was created to give Seattle choreographers opportunities to create and experiment, without the financial constraint of paying for rehearsal space. The A.I.R. is required to show work in at least one Velocity program in their year in residence. Additionally, the A.I.R. acts as an advisor for The Bridge Project choreographers, and sits on selection panels for Velocity’s other programs. Past A.I.R.’s have included: Crispin Spaeth (2007), Molly Scott (2008), Mark Haim (2009) and Amelia Reeber (2010).
// A.I.R. 2011: Amy O’Neal //
Amy O’Neal is a performer, choreographer, dance educator, and the director of AmyO/tinyrage (tinyrage.com). From 2000-2010, she was the co-director, along with Zeke Keeble, of locust (music/dance/video)(locustsucka.com). Over he past decade, she has toured nationally and internationally with her own dance and video work as well as with Reggie Watts, the Pat Graney Company from 1999-2001, and was a company member of Scott/Powell Performance from 1998-2004. She has created 2 works for Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater and collaborated with Savion Glover at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, and danced in Mark Haim’s “Goldberg Variations” at On the Boards in 2006. Amy has choreographed for theater, commercials, and for Reggie Watt’s Comedy Central DVD in the music video for “F…, Shi…Stack”. Amy teaches contemporary dance technique, funk, and choreography regularly at Velocity Dance Center and with Seattle Theater Group’s “Dance This” and the Young Choreographer’s Lab, which she helped to develop. She has been a guest artist at several major universities in the US as well as Dance New Amsterdam in NYC and has a degree in dance from Cornish College of the Arts. Amy was choreographer in residence at Bates Dance Festival in 2007, at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2008, and took part in the US/Japan Choreographer’s Exchange through Dance Theater Workshop and the Japan Society in 2009. She has received funding for her work with locust and AmyO/tinyrage from all the major funders in Seattle (including an Artist Trust Fellowship and Stranger Genius short list in 2004) as well as DanceWEB (Vienna, Austria), the National Dance Project, National Performance Network, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Creative Capital Foundation. She is proud to be a Seattle based artist.
LINKS to A.I.R. ALUMNI
Crispin Spaeth: http://www.spaethprojects.com/dance/
Molly Scott: http://www.scottpowell.org/
Mark Haim
Amelia Reeber: http://www.ameliareeber.com/