Exquisite Frame - Dance Place

FORTITUDE PERFORMANCES & EVENTS

                           Exquisite Frame
                    Saturday, November 21st at 6:30pm EST
                  Created by Britta Joy Peterson in partnership with
                                       Dance Place and Olivia Weber
        Co-Curated by Britta Joy Peterson and Candace Scarborough

                      PROGRAM ORDER
datascape: castle of dreams
Artistic Direction by: Jenna Beardsley
Sound Design by: Jenna Beardsley
Videography by: Jenna Beardsley and Taylor Bonadies
Artistic Collaborators & Performers: Jenna Beardsley, Taylor Bonadies,
Marra Sherrier, and Ttendo Williams
Music Credits: Original soundscape - Untitled by Jenna Beardsley, Stage
B (Strange Music). Please Lose Battle by ELO: The Video Game OST,
Kingdom Hearts: My Friends Are My Power Cutscene, [untitled] by
mhzesent
RE:fore
Directed, edited, and performed by: Zoe Wampler
Music Credits: Garden Song, Halloween, and Savior Complex by Phoebe
Bridgers
Housefriend
Directed, filmed, and edited by: Amanda Hameline
Performed by: Amanda Hameline and Jace Weyant
Music Credits: Walking After Midnight by Patsy Cline
That’s Cooked
Directed, edited, and performed by: Sydney Lemelin
Videography by: Grace Lemelin
Music Credits: Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 (DMC DJ Only Remix) by
Motherfluffer Jones
#internetprincess
Created and performed by: Robert Woofter
Music Credits: … Baby One More Time by Britney Spears, Blazin by Nicki
Minaj, Blue Velvet by Lana Del Rey

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Originally from the suburbs of Washington D.C., JENNA BEARDSLEY (they/
them), datascape: castle of dreams, is a movement and multimedia artist currently
based in Richmond, Virginia. Jenna graduated with honors in May 2020, holding
a Bachelors degree of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
Jenna has studied from artists such as Scott Putman, Johnnie Cruise Mercer,
Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, Sidra Bell, and Trebien Pollard. While at VCU, Jenna had
a multitude of performance opportunities, most notably a solo work by Eric Rivera
which led to performances at the EDanco dance festival hosted annually in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic. Jenna draws on experimental influences from
all spheres of art, music, fashion, philosophy, culture, and personal experience
to create work that is investigative, curious, and referential. Through practices
of time mapping, recontextualization, coding, and distortion, Jenna utilizes
playfulness and surrealism to bring people together into inquisitive, fantastical
spaces that invite community, questioning, and ecstasy. They aim to engage
audiences in their work, creating dialogue and action between artist and viewer.
jennabeardsley.com

TAYLOR BONADIES (she/they), datascape: castle of dreams, is a movement and
video artist, choreographer, and teacher originally from Portsmouth, VA. Following
her attendance of the Governer’s School for the Arts, she graduated with honors
from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Dance and Choreography.
While in school, Taylor had opportunities to perform a variety of works and
study under artists such as Helen Simoneau, Scott Putman, and Autumn Proctor
Waddell. Taylor is currently a part-time instructor at GSA and producing video
work in the Richmond area with collaborators Jenna Beardsley and Jelani Taylor.

AMANDA HAMELINE (she/her), Housefriend, is a choreographer, performer,
producer, and co-founder of the interdisciplinary production company Amanda
+ James. Amanda’s choreographic work has been presented at venues across
New York City including CPR, National Sawdust, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts,
and Martha Graham Studio Theater; and in Berlin at Lake Studios. She has also
created site-specific pieces for a variety of non-traditional performance spaces
such as Christie’s New York, Pace Gallery, the Chelsea Hotel and the Moore
Building (Miami). She, along with her production company Amanda + James, was
recently awarded commissioning funds and a residency at the Pocantico Center
to develop a new work centered around the music of Oliver Messiaen. Amanda
graduated with an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College in 2020 and
received a B.A. in American History and Literature from Harvard in 2012.

SYDNEY LEMELIN (she/her), That’s Cooked, was raised in upstate New York
between the Mohawk river and a freeway. She escaped small-town Niskayuna
for college-town College Park to study dance and information science at the
University of Maryland. In 2019, she traveled to Melbourne, Australia where a
chance encounter on a sidewalk landed her studying dance at the Victoria College
for the Arts. She has enjoyed working with BANDportier, PEARSONWIDRIG
DANCETHEATER, Mamela Nyamza, Heart Stück Bernie, Orange Grove Dance,
and her peers Amber Lucia Chabus and Hana Huie. She is excited to be breaking
her covid-induced creative hiatus with That’s Cooked in Exquisite Frame.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES (cont.)
BRITTA JOY PETERSON (she/her), Creator and Co-Curator, is an award
winning choreographer, collaborator and educator. Raised in the midwest,
creatively pressure-cooked by the southwest, liberated by the pacific northwest,
and cracked open by the wild west, BJP is now an east-coast creative based in
Washington, DC. Recent creative work has been seen at the Sibu International
Dance Festival—Sarawak, Malaysia, Performance Mix 33—New York City, NY,
Arts and Society Conference—Paris, France, European Society for Literature,
Science and the Arts—Basel, Switzerland. BJP’s research practice churns at the
intersection of body, question, theory, relation and design. Current projects
engage questions surrounding organs, organisms and organization (External
Organ), fleshy bodies and social spheres (And Now, Hold Me), and attunement
as a strategy towards transcendent communities (Frequencies). BJP is an Artist
in Residence at Dance Place. BJP is an active educator, both in university and
professional settings. Her university choreography has been selected multiple
times for ACDA Gala Presentation, as well as for the ACDA National Conference.
She teaches in the DMV at Dance Place, and offers workshops and masterclasses
periodically. She holds her BA in Dance and Communications, magna cum laude,
from Gustavus Adolphus College and her MFA in Dance, summa cum laude, from
Arizona State University.

CANDACE SCARBOROUGH (she/her), Co-Curator, is a performer,
choreographer, and teacher based in Baltimore, MD. She received a B.A. in Dance
from the University of Maryland, College Park where she was a recipient of the
Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship. She has performed with AndaryDance,
Graham Brown, Denise Leitner, Ashley Thorndike-Youssef, maree remalia-
merrygogo, Helen Simoneau Danse, PearsonWidrig DanceTheater, and Orange
Grove Dance. Candace is currently dancing for Kendra Portier, Tariq O’Meally,
and Robert Priore. In 2016, Candace was invited by Ohad Naharin to start the
Gaga teacher training program in Israel, and was certified as a Gaga teacher in
2017 under the artistic direction of Bosmat Nossan. She has taught Gaga classes
extensively in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas, London, Manchester,
Tel Aviv, Toronto, and Atlanta. Candace’s choreography has been presented at
the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, The Clarice, Dance Exchange, Joe’s
Movement Emporium, and Baltimore Theater Project, in addition to Highways
Performance Space with Los Angeles-based performance artist Samantha Mohr.
In 2019, she received a Rubys Artist Grant to create velvet pony, in collaboration
with Samantha Mohr and Philadelphia-based musician Liz DeLise.

MARRA SHERRIER (she/her), datascape: castle of dreams, is an artist and
designer currently based in Takoma Park, MD. She graduated from Virginia Tech
in 2018 with a degree in Industrial Design, and since then has been enjoying
design in digital and physical realms, for work and for pleasure. Some of her
artistic practices include photography, screen printing, graphic design, and the
occasional dancing. She also values spending time outside and baking for friends.
msherrier.com @marra_xo

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES (cont.)
ZOE WAMPLER (she/her), RE:fore, is a Movement Artist, Teacher, and Arts
Administrator based in the DMV. She received her BFA in Dance & Choreography
from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019 and currently resides in
Washington, DC. Zoe has had the pleasure of performing with Snap Soup Dance,
Choreographers Collaboration Project, Extreme Lengths Productions, and Britta
Joy Peterson. Her creative work has been presented at ACDA Mid-Atlantic South
Gala (Raleigh, NC), Hind Gallery (Richmond, VA), Ascending Choreographers
Showcase (Edgewood, MD), Koresh Artist Showcase (Philadelphia, PA), and
Dusklit Interactive Art Festival (Sugarloaf, NY). She is a Teaching Artist with Tippi
Toes© DC and Jane Franklin Dance.

OLIVIA WEBER (she/her), Associate Producer, is a DC-based creative innovator,
researcher, and producer. Olivia’s work has been presented through the American
University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center (Washington, DC) and University
of Maryland (College Park, MD) with funding from the AU Center for Innovation’s
Entrepreneurship Incubator and Eagle Endowment Fund. Her current research
investigates how sustainable digital infrastructure can be leveraged to radicalize
resources in the arts. Olivia is the Founder of Dancespace, a digital platform
connecting dance professionals with workspace, and the Associate Producer of
Britta Joy Peterson, a DC-based choreographer and 2020-2022 Artist in Residence
at Dance Place. During the hours of 9am-5pm, Olivia is a Cloud Strategist at
Amazon Web Services. She holds a BS in Business Administration (Honors), with a
specialization in Digital Innovation, and Dance, summa cum laude, from American
University. @oliviajweber

JACE WEYANT (they/them), Housefriend, is a performance and video artist
based in New York City. They studied dance in high school at the University of
North Carolina School of the Arts, and they currently study mathematics and
dance at Sarah Lawrence College. They have been recognized as a Youngarts
Finalist in choreography and a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Jace has been
working with Amanda Hameline for the past few years making both live and video
performances.

TTENDO WILLIAMS (he/him), datascape: castle of dreams, is a second year
student at Virginia Commonwealth University studying Dance and Choreography.
Born in Alexandria, Virginia, his dance training began three years ago near the
end of high school. While attending VCU, he has been able to be a part of two
senior projects and a few student productions. Ttendo also had the opportunity to
perform at the Kennedy Center with Sinclair Dance. He hopes to continue learning
and developing his own artistic voice to soon create his own works.

ROBERT WOOFTER (BAMBI WARHOL) (he/him), #internetprincess                         ,
is a control freak, sporadic drag queen, and founder of haus of bambi
(hausofbambi.com). His work has been commissioned for Vogue.com and the
Kennedy Center and has been presented in New York City at the wild project,
Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place, and Triskelion Arts. Robert is
interested in the juxtapositions of the gaudy and subdued, the crude and refined,
and the classical and contemporary as he lives by the motto “extravagance is a
virtue.” Robert teaches at American University and Dance Place in Washington,
DC.

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