AEDC - Alban Elved Dance Company Karola Lüttringhaus

ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY

ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY is a 501-c-3 non-profit organization dedicated to creating community through performing arts. The organization serves as a platform for a number of creative projects, performances, festivals, community outreach and education.

Alban Elved Dance Company began as a performing dance company in Berlin, Germany, called to life by artistic director and choreographer Karola Lüttringhaus. In 2000 Alban Elved Dance Company, the non-profit organization, was founded by dancer/assistant director Andrea Lieske, visual artist/gallery owner Millicent Greason, and choreographer/scene designer Karola Luttringhaus in Winston-Salem, NC, Since then the company has offered hundreds of events, enriching the lives of community members across the board.

Alban Elved Dance Company is an instigator and incubator of art, expression and communication, interested in spanning borders between artforms and people.

Alban Elved Dance Company offers a variety of programming including:
    - Live performances
- Residencies
   - Outreach
   - Community projects
- Annual SARUS Festival for Site-specific & Exerimental Art:
sarusfestival.weebly.com
- Ongoing MoRe Movement Research project with Salem College
movement-research.weebly.com
- Annual MoRe Summer Intensive @ Salem College
movement-research.weebly.com/summer-school.html
- Teaching for professionals in dance, bodywork, and massage therapy
- Arts Education programming 8-12 (classes, residencies, performances)
   - Arts Education k-6 performances
Since 2003 we have celebrated a rich PARTNERSHIP WITH SALEM COLLEGE.

WWW.ALBANELVED.ORG

MISSION STATEMENT

(501-c-3 non-profit organization, incorporated in the state of North Carolina in 2000)

* ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY pursues the creation and presentation of innovative, multi-dimensional, original, and intellectually stimulating art experiences to fulfill some of humanities most fundamental needs: meaningful emotional & intellectual exchange and growth, creativity, and freedom.

* We investigate the psychological, societal and cultural implications of creativity and understand art to be an intrinsically human trait that bears great importance on our very nature.

* We are dedicated to enriching the professional artistic exchange in North Carolina and seek to expand the bearing of dance theatre and interdisciplinary performing arts on the social, personal and political fabric of our communities.

* We foster open-mindedness and empathy across ages and backgrounds and past the borders of the venue into everyday life. We aim to strengthen the image of women as physically and emotionally reliable, self-determined and eloquently expressive individuals.

* Our movement educators study and honor the body's design. They share their insights for the purpose of physical and emotional wellness.

about the name

'alban elved' is the Celtic name for the fall equinox, literally translating to "the light of the water" and water often finds a place in the company's works in actual or metaphorical form. The SARUS FESTIVAL was named after the sarus crane, Grus antigone, who had been a symbol for the company for years. The name "Sarus" has a Sanskrit origin and means "of water", "lake or wetland". In fact, in Tamil the term "Sarasa-naadanam" refers to graceful dancing.

ARTISTIC CORE TEAM

Karola Lüttringhaus
Artistic & Executive Director/Choreographer/SCENIC DESIGNER - board member

Karola Lüttringhaus
(Artistic and Executive Direcor )
www.karolaluettringhaus.com

Karola Lüttringhaus was born and grew up in Berlin, Germany, where she founded ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY in 1997 to form an outlet for her diverse artistic pursuits.

Her interdisciplinary dance-theatre works are marked by a unique visceral and kinetic voice that traces the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlies human interaction and interpersonal relationships.
Merging American experiences with her European roots she creates evocative psychological landscapes of dynamic elegance that embrace intellect and instinct in equal measure.
For the past 15 years she has been the artistic director of ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY, as well as working as a freelance choreographer at theatres and universities across Europe and the US, including residencies at UN Las Vegas, Auburn University, Salem College, Wake Forest University and others. She has performed and choreographed at the Prague Quadrennial, the T-Werk Potsdam, MoBe Berlin, the Landesbuehnen Sachsen, Germany, Dance New Amsterdam NYC, The Snowy Range Dance Festival, The International Aerial Dance Festival, CO, Dock 11 Berlinto name a few.

She holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a MA/MFA in Scene and Costume Design and Scenography from the Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany. Her continuing studies in biomechanics, the Axis Syllabus and massage therapy inform and shape her teaching, guiding dance technique out of the realms of style into an understanding of the ability to move intelligently and passionately within the parameters of anatomical and biomechnical guidelines.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Developing a new work is a process of love that is endlessly rewarding to me. I am enchanted by visceral and fierce kinetic expressions and by spaces that offer transformation. As an interdisciplinary artist I conceive choreography, costume-, scenic-, lighting- and sound design for many of my works. And,... I collaborate often with artists and people from other fields, such directors, dancers, visual artists, sculptors, composers, choreographers and scienctists. I love creating theatre/art spaces that leave room for the characters to create magic, for intricately interwoven relationships and strong personalities to develop. I am a detail-oriented and investigative director and my concepts for stagings and scene designs are based on a search for deeply seated layers of the subconscious. Intellect and instinct are at work in equal measure. Exploring the precipices of human emotion, I am drawn to friction, confrontation and vulnerability. I do not fear beauty. I avoid illustration. I crave a deep look into the soul of a work and I need absolute honesty within each work. With that, art can change our hearts.

ALBANELVED_HYDRA_loop from Karola Lüttringhaus on Vimeo.

NAOMI GREENBERG
Dancer/Visual Artist/Choreographer

The Art of Naomi Greenberg
Naomi's website

Naomi Greenberg
Visual Artist, Dancer, Choreographer

Naomi Greenberg channels her creative work through two different artistic
disciplines: Visual Art, and Modern Dance, which she regards as deeply connected, even continuous in her life.

Native of Kibbutz Cabri, Israel, she began her artistic training at early childhood, by her mother, painter Sara Samson, who nurtured her creativity, and encouraged her to choose art as the focus of her life, and seek the finest education in it. At the age of ten, she fell in love with Modern Dance, and from then on continued
training in both art forms throughout her teen years, double-majoring to matriculate in each, at the arts based High School Mannor-Cabri, and the Matte` Ashe`r Dance school in kibbutz Ga’aton, Israel, directed by Yehudit Arnon. Following graduation from High School, Ms. Greenberg enrolled in a 2 year diploma program in the Ga’aton Dance Village complex, under the tutelage of Einav Levi, which benefits from its proximity to one of Israel’s leading dance companies, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, offering repertory and master classes by the renown home choreographer Rami Be’er, and the company’s dancers.

In search of further professional training Naomi arrived in the U.S., to attain a bachelor’s degree in Modern Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. During her time in UNCSA, she became acquainted with Karola Luttringhaus in whose company ‘alban elve`d’ she has been dancing for the past fifteen years. Naomi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from UNCSA in 2003, and since then has been living in Winston-Salem, NC, creating work in both of her beloved arts, and participating in collaborative projects with various artists, including her partner, composer Samuel Allen Taylor, Choreographer Karola Luttringhaus, and other dancers. Naomi has participated in ‘alban elved dance company’ pieces such as Capture
(2015), The Dreamer (2012), Terra Nullius (2010), Inertia (2009), Hydra (2006), and created a few solo works such as Lullaby for Kora (2011), Pure Land (2010), Threshold-Fierce-Sun (2009), and has produced a short music-dance film Ella (2009), with composer Samuel Allen Taylor. She has also taught with Karola Luttringhaus in a few Arts in Education projects, Sarus festival, and MoRe Project events.

Naomi regards making art as a calling, a vocation, a way of life, and a spiritual path. Indeed, the very part of one’s life where one can find complete freedom to study, experience, express and refine who and what they truly are. Ms. Greenberg’s artwork is a record of a most personal journey of self-exploration and growth. Its imaginatively rich surrealism reflects a continuous search to integrate all aspects of self, striving to hone
ever-evolving technical skills in a uniquely expressive voice.
http://www.albanelved.org/naomi-greenberg.html

SAMUEL ALLEN TAYLOR
Composer/Musician

Samuel Allen Taylor
The sonic creations of composer and electro-acoustic artist Samuel Allen Taylor explore the point of intersection between electronic and acoustic sound media, and the live-performance-based transformation of their qualities. His work seeks a synthesis of the notated and improvised musical traditions, and navigates the spiritual feedback network between performing artists, technological instruments, electro-acoustic vibrations, and audience. Mr. Taylor resides in Winston-Salem, NC , where he works as a freelance composer and as classical guitar instructor at Salem College.

BREANNE HORNE
Choreographer/Dancer

breannehornedance.com
Breanne Horne grew up performing with The Columbia City Ballet while studying at the adjunct conservatory. In 2001 she began training at the North Carolina School of the Arts focusing on classical ballet. In 2004 her interests shifted to contemporary dance, and in 2008 she graduated from the Contemporary Dance program at UNCSA, earning her BFA later in 2013. Since graduating in 2008, she has performed for several alumnae run companies including “ALBAN ELVED DANCE CO,” “87 Dance Productions/ Cara Hagan,” and “Helen Simoneau Danse.”

She has also been fortunate enough to choreograph for community events such as the Wake County EMS Survivalist Ceremony in May of 2014, and through the Greensboro Ballet’s outreach program, “Build-A-Ballet,” which Breanne headed at Dudley High School. She loves creating and performing equally, and is starting to experiment with dance video making. Community outreach and art education are important to her, and her theories remain simple, while challenging the student/artist/dancer to fulfill the movement with genuine understanding of placement, awareness of its efficiency and, of course, joy of movement. She currently performs and creates throughout North Carolina, with several exciting upcoming projects, so stay tuned.

Breanne is the Artistic & Executive director of the SARUS Fall Retreat.

LUIS ADORNO
COMPOSER/MUSICIAN

Inference Engine is a project created by Wilmington student, artist, and musician (who performs under The Waking Life) Luis Adorno in 2015 in order to get local musicians from all areas together to create collaborative and improvisational site specific pieces of music and sound art. The collectives first performance was at the Cameron Art Museum for their exhibit Response Is The Medium where the crowd was encouraged to interact with the art as well as accompany the group on various instruments that were provided. Luis is the Artistic & Executive Director of the SARUS Spring Festival.

Artist Statement
I work because I have an unexplainable drive inside me to do so and it is my role as an artist to get my ideas out into the world. I enjoy doing things differently and bringing different ideas and concepts together to see what can be created from improvisation and collaboration between artists and musicians. Life in general is a huge inspiration for me when creating, especially the ever growing presence of technology in our lives in the 21st century.

Inference Engine is a revolving lineup of local musicians from multiple genres and disciplines that perform improvised pieces of ambient, experimental, noise, and avant garde music. Collaboration is a big part of the performances and audience participation is encouraged whenever possible. This project is used to bring artists and audience together to create a unique piece of music and art each and every time.

Rachael Crawford Goolsby
Dancer/SINGER - Board member

RACHAEL CRAWFORD GOOLSBY
(dancer/actress/choreographer/Yoga instructor)

Rachael Goolsby

Rachael Goolsby earned her BFA in Dance + Choreography from VCU in 2002. She has been teaching yoga full on since 1999. She began her practice at age 16.

She is certified as Yoga Alliance 500E-RYT, so you can collect your continuing education if you are a yoga teacher taking her classes. At MoRe she is teaching The Intersection of Dance in Yoga - Rediscovering Shiva Nataraja in two parts and Contact Improvisation.

She lives in Wilmington, NC where she dances and serves on the board with Karola Luttringhaus of Alban Elved, as well as works with The Dance Cooperative. On the yoga front she leads retreats, teacher trainings, workshops and weekly classes. She is also a massage therapist since 1993 and specializes in Thai Massage.

Photo by Caroline Daniel. Rachael in Midsummer Night's Dream by karola Luettringhaus. 2014.

Bonnie Dixon Feher
Dancer/ACTRESS

Bonnie Dixon (Dancer/actress)
Bonnie Dixon has been dancing and performing in Wilmington since 1998
She has been a member of ALBAN ELVED DANCE COMPANY since 2011. and also worked with Independent Choreographers, The Dance Cooperative, Forward Motion, as well as City Stage, Opera House and a variety of films. Dancing feeds her soul, but her most amazing achievement is her son, Dixon Dean. She would like to thank him for his awesomeness, sweetness, understanding and support.

FREQUENT COLLABORATORS

fereshteh rostampour
Lighting Designer/Scenic Designer

Fereshteh Rostampour
Born in Iran, Fereshteh Rostampour is a full time assistant professor of set & lighting design in the department of theatre at Auburn University. She had studied Marionette, Painting, Ballet, Architecture, and Scenography. She has been teaching set & lighting design, interior design, architecture, and computer 3D lighting & rendering for the past sixteen years. She holds an MFA degree in set and lighting design from The Ohio State University. Fereshteh has worked as a Free-lance Scenographer for numerous plays, films [productions] internationally. She has won many design awards and her work has been published in books, Magazines, and Music Medias. Fereshteh was one of the top five finalists in the World Stage Design (WSD) 2009 competition in Seoul, Korea. Her lighting design for Jesus Christ Superstar in 2006 won her outstanding lighting design at the 20th Annual Charlotte Theatre Awards. Fereshteh had also delivered seminars on lighting techniques within the retail environment at the International Retail Design Conference in Orlando, FL and Pasadena, CA. She is an associate member of OISTAT, International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians.

BILL DONOVAN/DONOVAN QUIXOTE
Composer/Musician

Tohm judson
COMPOSER/MUSICIAN/FRont end developer/Multi media artist

I am a Front End Developer and Multimedia Artist currently residing in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I am a former academic, having spent the last 2008-2015 as a Tenured Associate Professor of Digital Arts and Music at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. in 2015, I left the academic world and moved to Colorado Springs to be with my wife as she works her way through graduate school to become a Registered Dietitian.

As an artist, my pieces have been performed and exhibited in the Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and throughout the United States, including the College Art Association, the SEAMUS National Conference, Society of Composers, Inc., Electronic Music Midwest, the Festival of New American Music, the Santa Fe International New Media Festival, and was a featured artist at the EMIT festival in Tampa, Florida.

slow ear ensemble
COMPOSERs/MUSICIANs

CARL KRUGER, PHIL ZAMPINO, SEAN HART, JASON WARD, ALLISON PARKER

Carl Kruger (electronics, concept)
A mainstay of the local experimental music scene,
Kruger continues to have his recorded works represented
on domestic and international sound art music labels.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/225915-Carl-Kruger

Sean Hart (modular synth, electronics)
Having performed under the alias Authorless for over a decade,
Hart's minimal modular synth work has provided the steady, billowy
low end for SEE's previous two SARUS appearances.
https://youtu.be/t-PpryYE2EE

Phil Zampino (electronics)
As the proprietor of music store Squidco, Zampino has supplied the
world with all forms of creative and challenging music since 2003.
http://www.squidco.com

Grant Stewart (electronics)
Performing as Subterren, long time local artist Stewart channels
Hecker and Fennesz inspired ambient music in his deeply absorbing
live sets. This will be his third year at SARUS.
https://soundcloud.com/subterrene/

Allison Parker (percussion, electronics)
Poet, percussionist, noise artist, vocalist, Parker will reprise her
role as the sole, albeit unorthodox, percussionist for SEE.
https://chroniclevitae.com/people/501899-allison-parker/profile

Ryan Lewis (objects, electronics)
As the founder of Obscura Films and 910 Noise, SEE is proud is have
Lewis join its ranks. His instruments of choice are common, and
uncommon, objects.
http://www.obscuraart.com/

Jason Ward (guitar, electronics)
As a solo artist and front man, Ward is nothing if not dedicated to his
craft. His abstracting of familiar guitar palates adds much to SEE.
https://youtu.be/841zHGFv2ro

TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM

TARA ROGAN NOLAND
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Tara Rogan Noland
is a Wilmington, NC lighting designer that specializes in dance and minimalist interpretations. A graduate of the University of Tulsa with degrees in both Theatre and Exercise & Sport Science. Tara has been designing light professionally for 15 years. Currently, she is the Production Manager of Kenan Auditorium on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Kim Korzen
Administrative Assistant/Guest artist in Choreography

Althea Andros MANAGEMENT
management/Touring & booking

FURTHER

MORE Collaborators, Guest artists, etc...

Janelle Tatum Eggleston (dancer/actress/singer/guest choreographer)

has danced as Principal and Soloist dancer with North Carolina Dance Theatre, under Salvatore Aiello, Le Grande Theatre du Geneve (Switzerland), Chatauqua Dance Company (New York), under Jean Pierre Bonnefoux, Cincinnati Ballet, under Ivan Nagy and Alabama Ballet, under Dame Sonia Arova. She has worked with such renowned choreographers as Jiri Kylian, in Stamping Ground, Ohad Naharin in Kyr/Perpetuim and Ben Stevenson in Cinderella. Mrs. Eggleston is currently a freelance Artist living in Virginia where she is also Owner/Business Manager of EcoFriendly Foods, a mission based company for sustainable agriculture and the clean food revolution.

Silvia Ventura (dancer/actress)
was born in Padua, Italy, 1968. Aged 3, she began her swimming carrier and...with 8 years old she took up GYMNASTICS, a long way that led her to compete in the Italian Championship. Soon after she discovered DANCE and the passion to it, took up Ballett, Modern and Jazz in Padua. She attended her Dance Education in Nice and London and later landed in Berlin, which became her main work and home town. As a freelance dancer she has been working with different companies and choreographers, and she create her own Soloworks. She is teaching and choreographing in a Dance Education Programm as well as giving Training for professional and non-professional dancers. She is co-foudner of a CHILDREN CIRCUS and her last discovery is FELDENKRAIS, which she started an Education Programme of. She would love to become a CLOWN, that is, to put dance in 'burlesque'..and this is not a joke! She is fluent in english, french, german, spanish and...jeah, italian!

Jennifer Wynn O’Kelly
(Lighting Designer) delights in collaborative story telling whether her role be lighting, scenic or production design. She is always delighted to continue her artistic relationship with Karola and the company. Recent works include designs for North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Charlotte Dance Festival, the Stevens Center, Caroline Calouche & Co, Triad Stage, Winston-Salem Symphony, Clarence Brown Theatre Co., Festival Ballet and Blowing Rock Stage. Lighting credits include a number of Alban Elved productions as well as Bus Stop, Daughtry's September music video, Macabre Masque, Misterioso, Brooklyn to Broadway II, Music Man, Dracula,The Nutcracker, Modern Extensions, Snow White, and The Country Wife. A North Carolina resident, Jennifer earned her MFA at UNCSA and is a member if the IATSE. www.okdsmuse.com

Ashley Black (actress)
has been performing theater for 8 years now. She has a minor in theater from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She has also studied with Philadelphia, PA New Paradise Laboratories. She is thankful to be apart of another beautiful work of art.

Sarah Emery (dancer)
is the current co-artistic director of the Moving Poets (Charlotte, NC) and co-founder of Echo Arts, Charlotte, NC.
Sarah is from Chesapeake, VA and currently resides in Charlotte, NC. She began her dance training in Norfolk, VA at the Tidewater Ballet Association and later continued her training at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She has studied at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Boston Ballet and the Hungarian National Ballet.
Her professional dance experience includes the Moving Poets Theater of Dance, Alma Dance Company, Omaha Dance Theater, Kim Robards Dance, Terpsicorps Theater of Dance, North Carolina Dance Theater and the Tulsa Ballet Theatre.
Sarah is also a teacher and choreographer in the Charlotte area and in her spare time she enjoys working towards a degree in Web Technologies.

Bridget Morris (dancer/guest choreographer)
began her training in the Charles Weidman technique under former Weidman dancer, Mary Anne Mee. She then received her B.F.A. in dance from Ohio State University in 1998. Since then, she has performed for The Moving Poets Theater of Dance, Kim Robards, Project Incite, Sidelong, Claudia Stoltman & Company, Echo Arts, and The Raggs. She is the founder of Carolina Kids in Motion and co-founder of Echo Arts.
Photo: jeff Cravotta

Rebecca Smith (dancer)
was raised in Cary, North Carolina and
now resides in New York City where she works as a dancer and personal trainer. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, receiving her B.F.A. in Modern Dance. Since moving to NYC, Ms. Smith has performed and toured with Leslie Partridge, Eric Dunlap/forward...., Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, and Mary Bruce Blackburn and the American Dance Ensemble. She has also toured internationally with the North Carolina Contemporary Dance Ensemble, and with Austin Hartel Dance. Ms. Smith has also taught creative movement and modern dance to students in public schools, as well as private institutions. She opened her own business "Integration Fitness Training" in New York City.

Andrea Lieske (dancer/founding member, former assistant director)
was the Assistant Director of alban elved dance company for 8 years until the birth of her son in 2006. She grew up in Berlin, Germany and is a New York City resident.
She attended Elly's Dance School in Berlin and received her BFA in modern dance from the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. She has performed and toured with such companies as Leslie Partridge and dancers, Steven Koplowitz, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Eric Dunlap / "Forward", Mary Bruce Blackburn, Maja Milenovic-Workman, Benoit Maubrey and Tim Harling. Ms. Lieske and Ms. Lüttringhaus danced together for over 15 years and built alban elved dance company together.

Gaétan Leboeuf
Compositeur, chanteur et écrivain, Gaétan Leboeuf compose depuis 1986 de la musique pour les arts de la scène et des productions vidéo. Il a entre autres collaboré avec Marie-Josée Chartier, Danièle Desnoyers, Paul-André Fortier, Margie Gillis, Ginette Laurin, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Harold Rhéaulme, Irène Stamou, Tom Stroud et Dough Varone en danse; Patrice Dubois, Martin Faucher, Gervais Gaudreault, Denis Marleau et Claude Poissant au théâtre, Marie Cadieux, Françoise Dugré, Bernar Hébert Jean-Pierre Masse, sur des productions vidéo. Il a également composé des musiques et des ambiances sonores pour de nombreuses expositions au musée de Pointe à Caillère, au musée Mc Cord, au Centre des Sciences de Montréal, au musée de La Civilisation de Québec. Parallèlement à cela, il a longtemps poursuivi une carrière d’auteur-compositeur-interprète, (finaliste et troisième derrière Loco Locas et Les Cowboys Fringuants aux Francouvertes 1999-2000). Gaétan Leboeuf est également écrivain (deux romans publiés chez Québec Amérique et un troisième Bébé Et bien d’autres qui s’évadent, publié en 2007 aux Éditions Triptyques). Chargé de cours en musique au Contemporary Dance Department de Concordia depuis l’année 2008-2009. A donné des ateliers sur le son, la musique et la danse à l’UQAM en 2005, 2001, 1999. Conférencier invité par la Société des musées québécois en 2005 pour parler de la musique en muséologie. Publication en 2007 d’un article dans la revue Musée : Les dimensions sonores de la communication en exposition.

Steve Bloom
has been living and performing as a guitarist in New York City since 1983. Mr Bloom plays a variety of styles such as Jazz (Swing to Modern), Classical (Renaissance/Baroque, Spanish & 20th Century), Afro-Cuban, Argentine Tango, Brazilian, Blues, Funk, R&B, Folk Music, etc. as well as composing and arranging music.
Currently he plays with the following groups: The Harlem Renaissance Orchestra (Big Band Swing), The Last of the International Playboys (Cuban, Swing, and 'Spy Music'), Paris Match (Tango Trio), Classical Guitar & Flute/Violin, Jazz Trios/Duos/Quartets, Solo Guitar (Jazz, Classical, Brazil) , and various other groups depending on the situation.

Joe Morgan
is a filmmaker, video artist, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, NY. He has screened videos at the Abstracta Film Festival in Italy and has released music on the Intelligent Machinery label and is one half of the Brooklyn-based minimalist music duo Phantom Fauna. He has collaborated with the minimalist composer Kyle Bobby Dunn and filmmaker Victor Faccinto, and has contributed frequently in the past to performances by the Alban Elved Dance Company. His work explores juxtapositions of found imagery or sound and focuses on the underlying meanings of the image in popular consciousness.

Mark Engebretson
(b. 1964) is Assistant Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A 2007 recipient of a commission from Harvard University’s Fromm Music Foundation, his compositions have been presented at festivals such as ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), Bowling Green Festival of New Music and Art, Third Practice Festival (University of Richmond), Wien Modern (Vienna), Gaida Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), Sonoimagenes (Buenos Aires) Hörgänge Festival (Vienna), Ny Musikk (Bergen, Norway), Indiana State University New Music Festival (Terre Haute, Indiana), the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, ISCM Festivals (Tirana, Albania and Baku, Azerbaijan), the UNCG New Music Festival and World Saxophone Congresses (Pesaro, Italy, Montreal, Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Ljubljana, Slovenia).

Dr. Engebretson taught composition at the University of Florida, music theory at the SUNY Fredonia and 20th-century music history at the Eastman School of Music. He studied at the University of Minnesota (graduating Summa cum Laude), the Conservatoire de Bordeaux (as a Fulbright Scholar), and Northwestern University, where he received the Doctor of Music degree.

Jeff Matlock Schmitt
Jeff enjoys a rich life filled with science,
music and art.
He did his undergraduate work at Wake Forest University followed by a graduate fellowship at the University of Bath, during which time he was a visiting scientist at Oxford University. Jeff has collaborated with numerous American and European artists, including ventures with ex-King Crimson drummer Michael Giles and LA sound artist Rhan Small. Jeff has been creating music with alban elved for nearly 10 years now, leading to collaborations in England, the USA and Germany. Jeff has been creating music with alban elved for many years, leading to collaborations in England, the USA and Germany. Jeff served as chairman of AE's board of directors. he currently resides in Asheville, NC.

Mark A. Wienand
is a saxophonist residing in Ithaca, NY. Mr. Wienand has played for dance and drama productions and in bands of many styles. He has both BM and MM degrees in saxophone, and also plays flute, clarinet, and various other wind instruments. As well as performing, Mr. Wienand teaches private saxophone lessons and has taught middle school band in Winston Salem. He has taught at Livingston College, NC and was recently director of instrumental music at Pfeiffer University, NC. Mr. Wienand has been playing and composing music for Ms. Luttringhaus for almost ten years, and under her direction, will make his dancing debut in this piece. He regularly performs in the Triad and New York. He released a CD with the "Hog - Tie Sessions", an Irish and Bluegrass Band. As well as music, Mr. Wienand is passionate about non-polluting technologies, and has been driving a car that runs on vegetable oil for over two and a half years.

tapecase/Rhan Small
is the signature of sound artist Rhan Small. Rhan was born and raised in North Carolina and is currently living and working in Los Angeles.
He was a founding member of the multi-media performance groups:
- 3people 1990-1995 with Sylvia Bognar and Victor Faccinto
- Swimming with Her 1995-1997 with Sylvia Bognar,
Jeff Schmitt and Pam Wagner
- tapecase 1996-present with Sylvia Bognar and Xtevion.

FILMMAKERS

Ryan Lewis
Obscuraarts, obscurafilms

Erik Martin
is an independent filmmaker originally from Chapel Hill, NC.
He graduated from Tulane University with a degree in American Studies, and he got his filmmaking start documenting hip-hop artists and basketball events.
Recently, he has written, edited, co-directed and produced several feature films and documentaries with Carrboro NC's banzai! entertainment. He worked for LEAP Technologies, a laboratory robotics company. By late night, he is working on “Invisible Gorilla” (a novel). He lives and works in New York City.

Alexander Laub
grew up in Stuttgart, Germany and later on attended the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking. After leaving NCSA he worked in New York City in the filmmaking business for 2 years.
He resided in Berlin, Germany working as a screenwriter for several years and currently lives in Stuttgart, where he is a manager for two restaurants and works as a film director and screenwriter. Alexander has been collaborating with alban elved for about 10 years, as a camera man for two dance films and as photographer.

Xander died on October 6th, 2012. We miss you terribly and will never forget your beautiful, kind soul.

POETS

Konstantin Luettringhaus
grew up and lives in Berlin, Germany.
He started writing poetry at age 12. his poetry is strongly influenced by
the fantasy and fiction genre. The rich imagery reaches to deep emotional places that catches the reader off guard.
He has written poetry for Lux Eterna I and II and inspired many pieces on the company repertoire.

Konstantin Lazhar Luettringhaus verfasst Gedichte in englischer und deutscher Sprache, die geboren sind aus einer Faszination mit der menschlichen Psyche und Seele. Seine Werke ziehen den Leser in einen Bann, der von der Oberflaehe des Alltags des 21. Jahrhunderts in eine Welt entfuehrt, die hin- und her pendelt zwischen Fantasy, Expressionismus und Romantik. Sein erstes Buch 'Poetry of the Soul' erschien im Sommer 2012.

Poetry of the Soul @ amazon.com

SCIENTISTS/ENGINEERS

Jennifer Burg
holds Masters degrees in English and French and taught these subjects at the college level before returning to school to earn her PhD in computer science in 1992. She has been a faculty member of Wake Forest’s Department of Computer Science since 1993. Dr. Burg has found a place to bring together her interests in computer programming, poetry, literature, and art in the realm of digital media. She is currently working on an NSF-funded grant in digital media curriculum development.

Dr. David Brady
is the Brian F. Addy endowed Director of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Professor Brady received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1990 and a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College (home to Nobel prize winners) in 1984. He was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1990 through 2000 as an Assistant, Associate and adjective-free Professor. He has received several awards, including a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship (also home to Nobel prize winners). Professor Brady's work focuses on optical communications and sensing systems. He is currently the Information Processing Division Chair of the Optical Society of America.

Andy (Robert Andrew) Turner
was born and grew up in Winston-Salem, NC. He is the designer of the movement to midi converter. As the co-owner of Mojo Musical Supply in Wilmington, NC he enjoys a unique view of the past and present states of the audio electronic industry. Over the past 15 years his support behind the scenes has become invaluable to alban elved and the movement to MIDI converter has been one of the most successful assets to alban elved dance company, leading to extensive touring from Florida to Alaska. visit www.mojotone.com !

Yue-Ling Wong, Ph.D
Lecturer in Digital Media
Department of Computer Science
Department of Art
Wake Forest University

Jonathan Christman
is a scenic and lighting designer for Wake Forest University Theater andDance Program. Jonathan has designed lighting and projected scenery for Belfast Blues. The production opened in Los Angeles and was performed at the Feile Festival in West Belfast. The production will be returning for performances in Ireland and Belfast in February. Jonathan has designed the background for the comedian Vince Morris which will be seen on an upcoming special on Comedy Central. For Wake Forest, he has recently designed the Fall Faculty & Guest Artist Concert, Angels in America and Vieux Carre. Jon is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jonathan has been working with Ms Luttringhaus and alban elved since April 2000.

SCULPTORS
Valerie Potvin
www.valeripotvin.com

BOARD MEMBERS
Amanda Cordove (chair)
Dawn Shropshire Swaim
Rachael Crawford Goolsby (secretary)
Karola Luttringhaus (treasurer)
Ernest Morris