JULIA ANTINOZZI
THE SUITE
Co-presented with Live Artery | New York Live Arts
THE SUITE
Choreography by Julia Antinozzi
in collaboration with the dancers
Music by Ryan Wolfe
Costumes by Sonya Gadet-Molansky
Lighting by Connor Sale
Associate Lighting Designer Anna Wotring
Stage Manager Sabrina Canas
SIENNA BLAW DASOL KIM PAULINA MENESES KELSEY SAULNIER
SIENNA BLAW
DASOL KIM
PAULINA MENESES
KELSEY SAULNIER
Thank you Rachel, Janet, Juliette, Melissa, Hannah, Kyle, Larry, Charmaine, Miriam, Karen, Madeline, Shane, Leah, Tess, Sophia, Sabrina, Spencer and Evan.
Thank you Ryan, Sonya, Connor and Anna.
Thank you Paulina, Kelsey, Dasol and Sienna.
Thank you to BAM, Gibney Dance, New York Live Arts and Triskelion Arts for offering rehearsal space.
Variations for Pre Show Music composed by Shane Larson
JULIA ANTINOZZI, recently named ‘25 to Watch’ by Dance Magazine, is a choreographer based in NYC. Her work recontextualizes the allure of ballet using postmodern sensibilities in order to challenge the standards of concert dance.
Along with receiving the inaugural Trisk Fellowship from Triskelion Arts and a Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts, Julia has held artist residencies at The Floor on Atlantic, New Dance Alliance and Motive Brooklyn. In 2025, Julia will create a ballet for the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of the New York City Ballet. Her work has also been presented at PAGEANT, CPR, and Movement Research at the Judson Church, Jack Crystal Theater, Spoke the Hub (Director’s Choice), and New Dance Alliance (Performance Mix 34) in NYC, and nationally in Seattle (CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work) and Salt Lake City (Queer Spectra Arts), and featured in various online publications.
As a performer and collaborator, Julia has worked with Phoebe Berglund, Boy Friday, Juli Brandano, Lavinia Eloise Bruce, Barbie Diewald, Ayano Elson, Amelia Koper Heintzelman, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Shane Larson, Anna Sperber, and performed in repertory by Merce Cunningham and Bebe Miller.
Julia graduated from Smith College cum laude with a BA in Dance and a minor in Astronomy.
SIENNA BLAW is a queer dance artist from Austin, TX. Since graduating from SUNY Purchase in 2017 Sienna has performed the works of Pam Tanowitz, Merce Cunningham, Doug Varone, and Hannah Garner, and they have performed Contact Improvisation scores at MoMa and Park Avenue Armory. Sienna is a co-founder of A-Y/dancers, and a collaborator with BIRDHOUSE, POGO Dance Projects, Indah Walsh, and Julia Antinozzi. Sienna leads Dance Church classes in NYC and is an authorized teacher of Cunningham Technique™️ through the Merce Cunningham Trust. They most recently performed in Punchdrunk’s award-winning immersive theater production of Sleep No More, and currently you can find them clowning around at Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy at The Shed.
DASOL KIM is a dancer and movement director residing in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Cheonan, South Korea and moved to the United States when she was 7. Dasol received a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she performed works by Crystal Pite, Pamela Pietro, Madboots Dance, and Sonya Tayeh. She was a company member of UNA Productions (2019-2013) under the direction of Chuck Wilt, and her most recent collaborators include Julia Antinozzi and Akira Uchida. Dasol’s latest works as a performer and movement director have been featured in Allure, Nowness, and Vogue Portugal.
PAULINA MENESES (she/they) is a Filipino-American dancer, choreographer’s assistant, and arts administrator hailing from Las Vegas, NV. She graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance and minor in Arts Management. During their time in college, they performed works by Kimberly Bartosik, Shannon Gillen, Xan Burley, Sue Bernhard, Alexandra Beller, and Trisha Brown. Now based in New York City, she has worked with esteemed artists including Doug Varone and Dancers, Dylan Crossman, Hannah Garner’s 2nd Best Dance Company, and Kyle Abraham on his New York City Ballet premiere, "The Runaway." In addition to Julia Antinozzi, Paulina currently collaborates and dances for MeenMoves, Peter Stathas, Marie Paspe, and Johnnie Cruise Mercer.
KELSEY SAULNIER (she/her) is a Brooklyn based dance artist, choreographer, and movement instructor. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. Throughout her time in the Five College Dance Department, she performed works by Bebe Miller, Bill T. Jones, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Kinsun Chan, Chris Aiken, Leslie Frye-Maietta and more, and was a selected artist for the American College Dance Association National Gala toward the end of her time at UMass Amherst. Since graduating, Kelsey has worked with Boston Moving Arts Productions under the direction of Jenna Pollack, Prometheus Dance, Korhan Basaran, Boston Dance Theater, BODY | HOUSE, and is currently a performing collaborator with Julia Antinozzi. She is not only a mover, but a maker, and has presented original works at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, 92nd Street Y, Triskelion Arts, Green Space, the Somerville Armory and more.
SONYA GADET-MOLANSKY is a performer, costume artist, and poet. Their work explores uncovering the surreal in the everyday and remolding past wounds into the fruit of current pleasures. Sonya’s work has been featured at Triskelion Arts, Doc. Berlin Film Festival, Pageant, :iidrr Art Gallery, Boden International Film Festival, Unnameable Books, and the Redan Gallery in Sweden. They live and work in New York City with their dog Mary.
RYAN WOLFE is a composer and songwriter from Portland, OR. Since graduating from the University of Michigan he has lived in NYC where he plays for dance classes at Hofstra University, Princeton University, the Limon Dance Company, and Mark Morris. He has made music for choreographers including Jordan Lloyd, Rebecca Lazier, Alice Liddell and Dancers, Grounded View, The Lovelies, Colin Stilwell, and Chloe London.
CONNOR SALE is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: to begin with no end; ENUF; The Dybbuk Part Two (Triskelion Arts), Das Ersatz (The Brick), thegarden.exc (Judson Memorial Church), This is How We Remember (Triskelion Arts, Philly Fringe), But, Soft and What Light (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), Earth Temple (with Nocturnal Medicine at SMUSH Gallery), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He tours internationally with Akram Khan’s Gigenis and with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells and École des Sables are producing. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight
ANNA WOTRING is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists, whether they're starting to explore an idea or deep in research. Trisk serves as a home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a wide range of dance artists and organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Annie Heath, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Jennifer Nugent, Lauren Horn, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, slowdanger, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is deeply grateful and honored to be working, imagining, and making magic with the Trisk team and community.
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