About Incidents...
Incidents Physical Theater pushes against the wall between dance and theater. Drawing from real life experiences, the company creates dramatic scenarios danced with intensity, humor, and raw physicality. Our mission is to use the theatrical experience to touch lives, allowing people to see the world or themselves a little differently. Incidents focuses on the human element, using dramatic scenarios to fuel dance performances layered with physical invention, psychological drama and emotional drive.
Founded by Christina Briggs and Edward Winslow in 1996, the company has performed in New York City at Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, Pace University, St. Mark's Church and University Settlement, as well as in Atlanta, Boulder, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New Orleans and Richmond. They have also participated in dancenow downtown, the Downtown Dance Festival, the d.u.m.b.o. dance festival, Goose Route Dance Festival and the Atlanta Fringe Festival among others. Recently, Incidents performed, staged our choreography and/or taught workshops at Ruth Eckerd Hall (Clearwater, FL), University of Florida- Gainesville, University of Buffalo, Penn State University- Altoona, and Lake County College in Chicago.
Repertory
When You Get Older
Choreography: Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow
Set Design: Chris Kurtz
Video: Brian Beasley
Costumes: Patti Gilstrap
When You Get Older is a multi-media piece about using childhood responses to cope with adult situations. The dancers in this piece are performing in especially challenging solos, each one a tour de force in its own right. Christina Briggs relieves her experiences as a rebellious young teenager in dialogue with her own self-image. Rebecca Radway, left out of the rough and tumble world of boys, is forced to deal with gender identity. Meryl Thurston is robbed of sleep as she acts out childhood games with light and shadow as a response to her own fear.
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Gauge
Premiered: June 15, 2001 University Settlement
Choreography: Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow
Music: Michael Minard
Costumes: Patti Gilstrap
8 million people now live in New York City according to the 2000 census. The population of the borough of Manhattan is 1,537,195 living in 23.7 square miles of space. Every day, the population swells as an estimated 3.3 million hit the streets during regular office hours.
Gauge addresses urban crowding, using the deflection of bodies in space as a metaphor for everyday street life in New York City. As the dance progresses, there is a shift from an exterior to an interior setting. The dancers isolate themselves in tightly enclosed spaces, finding more subtle body connections and exploring soft contact in the limbs and the redirection of small movement.
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Blueprints
Premiered May 22, 2004 92nd Street Y Harkness Center for Dance
Choreographers: Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow
Music: Michael Wall
Costumes: Patti Gilstrap
Blueprints is an exploration of interior habitats and the struggle to co-exist within the confines of a limited amount of available space. To an original score by Michael Wall, the two dancers weave in and around each other, playing out a scenario of conflict over personal space as they move from room to room.
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Flipped
Premiered May 16, 2003 DeBaun Auditorium, Hoboken, NJ
Choreographers: Patti Gilstrap with Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow
Conception & Costume Design: Patti Gilstrap
Set Design: Edward Winslow
Music: Seryn Potter
Flipped is a solo in which Patti Gilstrap is harnessed in a free-standing frame. This topsy-turvy world pokes fun at split personalities, shallow appearances, and dirty little secrets, complimented by Seryn Potter's silent film style score. There are two contrasting characters: one when she is standing up and the other when she is upside down. Eventually they become aware of each other's presence and a chase ensues, like a dog trying to catch his own tail.
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Imprints
Premiered May 16, 2003 DeBaun Auditorium, Hoboken, NJ
Choreographers: Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow
Music: Michael Wall
Costumes: Patti Gilstrap
Imprints reveals a glimpse of a relationship between roommates vying for space. The piece uses shadowing and mirror imagery to tell the tale, and the fiery friendship arcs to a dramatic climax as loving companionship turns into emotional manipulation.
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Pendulum
Premiered May 16, 2003 DeBaun Auditorium, Hoboken, NJ
Choreography: Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow
Music: Michael Minard, Chunwoo Kae (clarinet) & Minard (piano)
Costumes: Patti Gilstrap
Set Design: Chris Kurtz
Pendulum is a piece about the inexorable passage of time. A chorus of dancers move across the stage and back like a metronome as Winslow and Briggs are hemmed in by invisible forces. They perform a duet of intimate attachments on a rope ladder. The ladder is transformed into a pyramid and in a final solo Winslow is suspended high off the ground in a cocoon of rope, struggling with isolation and transcendence.
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Resonance
Premiered March 18, 2005, SUNY Orange
Choreography: Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow
Music: Michael Minard
Costumes: Patti Gilstrap
Accompanied by the sound of rain and Michael Minard's drifting score, Resonance finds the space where dancers weave in and out of one another in perfect symmetry, ease, and fluidity. In it the impulses and vibrations of one person are felt and increased by the group.
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Co-Directors • Collaborators • Dancers
Co-Directors
Christina Briggs is from Virginia, where she danced with The Richmond Ballet and earned a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. In New York she has danced with Heidi Latsky Dance, Pat Cremins' Wyoming and Susan Osberg's Workswith Dancers Company. As a teacher, she has taught ballet, modern technique, and modern partnering classes at several universities and private studios throughout the U.S. and in Austria. She was a rehearsal director for Dancewave's Kids Company for four years and is now the rehearsal director for the Hudson Vagabond Puppets and Heidi Latsky Dance. Christina also teaches Pilates at Groundfloor Exercise in Manhattan.
Edward Winslow toured nationally and internationally from 1990-1996 with Shapiro and Smith Dance of New York. Previously, he danced in the companies of Cliff Keuter and Jean Isaacs in California. Edward holds a BFA in Dance from University of California at Irvine and an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he was the winner of the Seidman Award for Excellence in Dance. He has taught in New York at Dance Space Center and Dance Affinity, and in universities and colleges throughout the country. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University in Long Island. He also choreographs for the Hudson Vagabond Puppets, using larger-than-life puppets and masks to create narrated ballets for children.
Collaborators
Patti Gilstrap (Costume Designer/Choreographer/Dancer) holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has attended the American Dance Festival three times, twice receiving a Costume Assistantship. Patti toured with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble from 1997-1998, serving as the Wardrobe Supervisor. In 1999 she moved to Southern California and danced for Kindra Windish and Emma Nagatta, then returned to New York, performing for Bianca Falco, Elise Knudson, the Hudson Vagabond Puppets and Chris Ferris. She also designed costumes for many NY choreographers including Heidi Latsky, Jennifer Chin and Heather Harrington. Her own line of clothing is featured at Flirt, her clothing boutique in Brooklyn.
Christopher Kurtz (Set Designer) is originally from New Jersey and was first introduced to dance while working at the Joyce Theater. He toured worldwide as the Master Electrician for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and as the Technical Director of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He has also worked with the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Siti Company and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Currently, he works as an electrician at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center.
Michael Minard (Composer) composes for film, television, dance and stage for both adults and children. Internationally, he has composed and produced music for German television and created the score for Friendly Fire for the State Ballet Company of Bulgaria. In the US he was a songwriter for Sesame Street and has written music for television films including The Lions of Etosha with James Earl Jones, Return to Salem’s Lot, and other shows on CBS, ABC, PBS, HBO, and Showtime. Michael has written the music for numerous children’s theater productions by the Hudson Vagabond Puppets.
Paul Moravec (Composer), was the recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Tempest Fantasy, has been described as "openly and ebulliently attractive, flowing with an effortless lyric pulse" (Fanfare), "assured, virtuosic" (Wall Street Journal), and "resourceful butidiomatic...richly melodic" (Commentary Magazine). As the composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and lyric compositions, as well as several film scores and electro-acoustic pieces, Moravec has been sought out by leading performing artists and ensembles to create original works.
Seryn Potter (Composer) has been playing the piano since the age of 2½ and soon after began her studies at the Crain School of Music. She has lived in New York City since 1998 where she is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the band SERYN. She creates compositions for the band ranging from folk to classical, and spends the rest of her time whining about the futility of the pop music industry. This is Seryn's first composition for dance.
Michael Wall (Composer) studied piano with Kenny Barron and Kenny Werner and music for dance with Tigger Benford. His most recent works have been with Lisa Race, David Grenke, David Dorfman, Shen Wei, K.J. Holmes, David Beadle, and Jen Nugent. Michael is currently freelancing in NYC and is faculty at The American Dance Festival and Bates Dance Festival.
DANCERS
Johannah-Joy Magyawe grew up dancing, acting, singing and performing in Rockland County with the Coupé Theatre School. She continued her education at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for modern dance. Since graduating in 1998, she has performed with KDNY/Kathleen Dyer New York, Murkofsky/Tsukayama Dance Theatre and the Hudson Vagabond Puppets.
Kara Moseley, a native of Venice, Florida, recieved her BFA in dance from the University of Florida. There she had the opportunity to dance in works by Paul Taylor, Shapiro & Smith, Adele Meyers & Dancers, and Neta Pulvermacher, to name a few. Kara has performed with the Florida MOD Project, the People's Touring Project and Shadow Dance Theatre. Most recently, Kara finished her certification in Pilates at the Kane School of Core Integration.
Rebecca Radway has performed with Incidents Physical Theater, the Kevin Wynn Collection, Heidi Latsky Dance, Ezra Caldwell, and iN.D.dance/Nicole Durfee and Dancers. Her choreography has been featured in NY at Alvin Ailey's Citigroup Theater, Henry Street Settlement, The Cunningham Studio, University Settlement, Soho Playhouse, Triskelion Arts, One Arm Red, and The Stable. Other venues include the Jack Guidone Theater in Washington, D.C., as well as Towson University, Goucher College, Arundel High School, and Oldfields School. She is a founding member of Collective Dance NY, an organization dedicated to creating performance opportunities for independent artists through financial, administrative, and artistic collaboration.
Kate Scott began her dance training in Virginia with the Richmond Ballet. She graduated from high school as a ballet major at North Carolina School of the Arts and received a BFA from Purchase College in May 2005, performing the works of Paul Taylor, Sean Curran, Stanton Welch, Kevin Wynn, Mark Morris, and Amy Marshall. She also learned stage management and lighting design and has designed for professional dance companies. Kate made her professional dance debut with Forces of Nature Dance Theatre in May 2005.
Meryl Thurston received her BFA in dance from the University of Florida where she performed with Kelly Drummond Cawthon in M.O.D. Project and Ric Rose in Jazz Reperoire. Meryl performed in the National Showcase of the American College Dance Festival in Never Enough, by choreographers Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith. She also performed in Russia in A Midsummer Night's Dream as an aerial dance fairy and dance captain. Meryl is currently dancing with the Hudson Vagabond Puppets, iN.d.dance/Nicole Durfee, Collective Dance NY and creating choreography of her own.
MISSION
Incidents Physical Theater creates cross-disciplinary performance events in which artists combine forces on a single overriding idea. Our mission is to use the theatrical experience to touch lives, allowing people to see the world or themselves a little differently. Incidents focuses on the human element, using dramatic scenarios to fuel dance performances layered with physical invention, psychological drama and emotional drive.
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