Dance

Bailey Allshouse is a native of the Detroit Metropolitan area, where he began dancing at the age of 16, as a member of the Harrison High School Dance program. In the culmination of his high school career, Bailey elected to pursue dance as a profession, and attended the American Dance Festival six-week summer program (2013), in search of more extensive training. In the fall of the same year, Bailey attended Wayne State University, undeclared. Despite having been denied acceptance into the dance program for that school year, he was persistent in keeping up with his dance studies - eventually being accepted as a BFA dance major and talent scholar. During his enrollment, Bailey developed a strong interest in expressing himself choreographically, and had his work selected for presentation at four different departmental concerts. He finished his degree in the spring of 2017, summa cum laude.

In his short time out of school, Bailey continues to be well-received as a choreographer by various dance artists and professionals in and around the Detroit area, as well as the mid-west region of the United States, NYC, and more. At the age of 24, Bailey has been honored to be a recipient of the Copperfoot Award for Choreography and the Maggie Allesse Choreography Award. Additionally, his work has been selected for presentation at the 2017 ACDA East Central Conference Gala, the Oakland Dance Festival, the 2017 and 2018 Maggie Allesee Choreography Competition Galas, Brighton Dance Festival, New Dance Fest, Detroit Dance Exchange and Movement Research at the Judson Church. Allshouse was also offered to perform his works at the 2019 AZOTH International Choreographic Festival in Blois, France.

As a performer, Bailey has had the pleasure of dancing works by Doug Varone, Stefanie Batten Bland, Trey McIntyre, Robert Moses, Ronald K. Brown, Helder Seabra, and Martha Graham among others. As well, Allshouse has had the opportunities to study alongside artists, such as Andrea Miller, Johannes Weiland, Maxine Doyle, Kathleen Hermesdor, and Ohad Naharin. However, Bailey is looking forward to opportunities where he will present his work and finding spaces where he can develop his craft as a movement artist and choreographer through various contemporary forms. He is currently living in Detroit, MI, pursuing performance, choreography, teaching and travel, as a freelance artist.

Dušan Týnek (DT) is known internationally for his striking blend of theatricality, musicality and humanism in formally structured post-classical dance and has been called “an undoubted talent” by The New York Times. His intelligent and demanding work bridges the worlds of dance, visual arts, music, science, film and fashion.

Since founding his own company Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre (DT)² in 2003, DT has created over 30 major dances, choreographed an opera, and held ten critically-acclaimed seasons in major dance venues in NYC (e.g. New York Live Arts, BAM Fisher, The Joyce Theater). Two NYC seasons have been named as the dance highlights of the year by The New York Times and the Huffington Post.

In addition to stage work, DT has created a large number of site-specific works at museums (e.g. The Met), Skyspaces by James Turrell (Sarasota, FL; Houston, TX) and numerous flooded quarries (Cape Ann, MA). He has received commissioning grants from the NEA and from the Harkness, Greenwall, and O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundations. DT has taught and/or set work on students at schools across the U.S. and abroad. He is the recipient of the prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship, Djerassi Artist Residency, The Hermitage Fellowship, the CUNY Dance Initiative residency and a winner of the Choreographic Fellowship at the University of Kansas. The company regularly tours and has participated in festivals around the U.S., Europe and Russia.

“One does not just watch a dance by Zvi Gotheiner. One enters a world with its own internal logic, a sensual, organic world of movement, language and images where one is pulled along by currents unseen and inevitable.” (Dance Magazine)

Internationally acclaimed choreographer Zvi Gotheiner is the Artistic Director of ZviDance. Praised for a signature innovative style and fascinating melding of artistic mediums, his work is recognized as radical, contemporary dance theater, ground-breaking, thoughtful yet passionate, with lush movement. Zvi is also a renowned ballet teacher with a devoted following throughout the world, hailed by The New York Times as The Zen Dance Master of New York.

His work frequently touches upon relevant issues and themes around relationships and community. He has been described “as much sociologist as dance-maker” (Alastair Macaulay, New York Times), His Dabke was recognized by The New York Times as a Top Ten Dance Favorite of 2013.

A prolific choreographer with over 35 works in the last 30 years, Zvi integrates exciting original musical scores, evocative lighting designs, with edgy multi-media and video projections. The ZviDance renowned creative team includes composers Scott Killian and Jukka Rintamak; visual designers Josh Higgason and Herzog Nadler; and lighting designer Mark London. His collaborative approach extends to the dancers and is infused with a deep regard for the individual and their creative, aesthetic role within the ensemble. His company is admired for its elasticity, athleticism and emotional expressivity.

Zvi has created numerous commissioned works for prestigious companies, institutions and universities around the world, including Repertory Dance Theatre Utah, GroundWorks Dance Theatre, Juilliard Dance New Dances, Princeton, NYU, Ohio State University, University of Washington, Bard College, Vassar College.

ZviDance performs frequently at home in New York City at venues such as Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, Dance Now Festival, Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. The company has been featured in festivals such as the American Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow. The company tours internationally in Germany, Poland, Russia, Israel, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and Japan.

Born in Israel, the musically gifted young Zvi encountered a performance of the Batsheva Dance Company that forever changed his life, inviting him “into a world of fantasy and self-definition”. As a young dancer/choreographer, he was discovered by the legendary Gertrud Kraus, who took him under her wing. Following a dance scholarship with the America-Israeli Cultural Foundation, he began dancing throughout the world with Batsheva Dance Company, Joyce Trisler, Eliot Feld, among others.

He founded the Tamar Ramle Dance Company, a herald of the Israel dance fringe movement, and later directed the Tamar Jerusalem Dance Company. Increasingly drawn to New York City, he moved in 1988, and in 1989 founded ZviDance.