Manifold Motion
Manifold Motion was founded in the Spring of 2005 in order to produce collaborative and interdisciplinary performances and encourage collaboration between artists of all practices. Based in Seattle, WA, the company works and performs with artists at home and throughout the country. To date, over 20 dancers, musicians, writers, technologists and visual artists have worked with Manifold Motion to produce 4 full length shows.
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Founding Artistic Director
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Keely Isaak Meehan is a movement and video artist who focuses on collaborative and interdisciplinary time-based art. Her work is frequently improvisational, exploring the use of structure and fluidity as a means to draw great performance out of the moment. Keely has earned a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre: London, a BA in Dance from Oberlin College, and a Certificate in Arts Management from the University of Washington. As well as founding and directing Manifold Motion she works in youth arts education as a teaching assistant for Arts Corps. Keely's work has been performed in Seattle, New York, London, Cleveland and around New England.
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Managing Director
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Bridget Gunning is a movement artist with 10 years of infused passion for performance and the creative process. With a highly athletic background, she began studying and performing ballet and jazz in her teenage years leading to the discovery of contemporary and Aerial dance in college. Bridget trained in dance at the University of Arizona where she holds a BA in Sociology. Her studies piqued her interest in the intersection between solid, supportive communities of people and the performing arts. She believes that dance is a powerful tool for communication, connection and evolution of society.
Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Bridget created and performed many works with ZUZI! Dance Company, as well as NEW ARTiculations Dance Theater, Funhouse Movement Theater, The Dambe Project and many freelance performance projects in the Southwest. She acted as the Administrative Director of ZUZI! and taught in-school residencies and studio classes throughout Tucson. She studied with Larry Keigwin, Chris Aiken and Mohammed DaCosta as a Tucson Pima Arts Council grant recipient in 2006. Also in 2006, Bridget received a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts to come to Seattle and study at the Skinner Releasing Intensive. She moved to Seattle to absorb, re-radiate and strengthen the dance community through performance and education.
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Idea Machine
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Mike McCracken helps dream up and create across the boards.
Contributing to the production process in all phases, Mike has designed and
built sets, installations and equipment, performed musically, run tech and
done production management when required for Manifold Motion. His
performance background is in music where as a percussionist he played with
jazz, rock and orchestral ensembles for several years. He graduated with a
BS in Computer Science from Evergreen, focusing on musical applications of
computers.
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Dual Processor
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| photo: Keely Isaak Meehan |
Luara Moore is a graphic designer, visual artist and musician. She works on both the artistic and administrative aspects of Manifold Motion as a creator, performer, designer and publicist.
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Dancer/Choreographer
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Ariel Rogoff Flavin began performing at an early age in the companies of Melanie Slater, Tamar Rogoff and Wendy Perron, as well as having the honor of dancing with many other choreographers. She choreographed at Oberlin College where she majored in Dance and Art History, graduating in 2000. She is a recent graduate of the NYU school of Social Work, and currently works as a psychiatric social worker. She has been a dancer with MayDance for the past two years.
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Dancer/Choreographer
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Kate Watson-Wallace Kate is a dancer and choreographer who lives in Philadelphia. She is artistic director of AGITA, a new performance company dedicated to re-using raw space with movement, video, graffito and sound. She currently dances with Headlong Dance Theater and Myra Bazell. She was a member of Group Motion Company for four years, with whom she toured nationally and abroad. She has also danced with Tania Issac, Paule Turner, and Gin MacCallum, among others. Kate has shown work at the Joyce SoHo, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and throughout Philadelphia in a variety of theaters, galleries and nightclubs. She presented "the Mentalist," a performance installation, in Philadelphia in May 2005 and excerpts of her last work, "GONE", at the Joyce SoHo in March 2005.
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Frequent Collaborators
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Jeremy Bieger aims to capture initial collaborator reactions and improvisations and use those as building blocks for his evolving textural music. Jeremy studied jazz bass and composition at Oberlin Conservatory and has performed works in New York, Washington D.C., Mexico, Ohio, Indiana, Washington, California and Florida.
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Manifold Motion is proud to be a partner artist of the Shunpike.
The Shunpike strengthens the Seattle arts community by partnering with artists to more effectively present and distribute their work.
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