Featuring:
Human Movement Project
Alexandria Nunweiler / NunweilerTanz
Carmen Rizzo
The Click's Repertory Ensemble
karen Krolak
Olivia Moon
Rose Woods Dance Collaborative
Olivia Moon
While pole dance has become most of her identity, Olivia Moon is also a photographer, sock-lover, martini enthusiast, princess, and simp. Based in Boston, Olivia is curious about pushing boundaries and buttons of all sorts. You can find them grooving at @mooningeveryone and snapping pix at @halfasianlens on Instagram.
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Olivia is sharing an experimental pole solo titled 'Goodnight Moon'.
Rose Woods Dance Collaborative
Rose Woods Dance Collaborative is performance art-focused dance theatre company founded by New England dancers and choreographers, Jenna Gross and Jillian MacLaughlin. Their work approaches social commentary through pantomime-inspired comedy and absurdism. The main focus of their choreographic work is to make serious topics into jokes and to take jokes seriously. Jenna and Jillian’s work brings together the excitement of full bodied athleticism while maintaining dramatic physicality and comedic levity.
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They are sharing a piece in collaboration with Dances by Isadora Duncan Boston for their upcoming show in June 2025. The movement in this duet is influenced by Duncan’s “Classical Duet” and other common motifs in Duncan’s repertoire.
karen Krolak
karen Krolak (she/her - prounounced Care - wren Crow- lock) is a free range collaborator who lives with a dynamic disability and an infectious laugh. She’s a midcentury Euro-mutt with an unruly silver mane, a futuristic tripod walker and a bag stuffed with craft supplies.. She is the Founder/co-Artistic Director of Monkeyhouse, an award winning nonprofit that connects communities with choreography. Her ongoing project, the Dictionary of Negative Space (DoNS) holds space for the words that the English language lacks for grief, trauma, and repair. DoNS offers refuge for mourners grappling with complicated grief and became even more relevant as the COVID 19 pandemic rewrote rules about death, dying, and mourning. karen is a co-producer of NACHMO Boston, co-director of aMaSSiT at The Dance Complex, a Board member for The Flavor Continues and Boston Dance Alliance, an Advisor for The Black Arts Sanctuary, Subcircle and Rasik, a dramaturg for Jessica Roseman, Human Movement Project, Simon Montalvo, and a freelance audio describer.
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​Still #33025 is a duet between a midcentury Euromutt and her mobility chariot, Iq.
The Click's Repertory Ensemble
The Click's Repertory Experience is a group of community dancers led by Angie Benitez. They met to take Community Contemporary and rehearse for just 7 weeks! The experience is an opportunity for all levels of movers to dive into improvisation, technique, and play while fostering relationships new and old, thus creating and/or expanding their creative community.​
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This contemporary piece "Icarus was right, it was worth it" is a 5.5 minute exploration of hope, sacrifice, and migration. “And so he died with broken wings, but a fulfilled soul”
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Performers: Kalee Burrows, Hernán César, Allie Krystofik, Ayaz Naeem, Lauren O'Neal, Nate Roderick, Victoria Angel Verderese, Paula Welch
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Created by: Angelina Benitez
Alexandria Nunweiler
Described by Dance Informa as “grace with power,” Alexandria Nunweiler/NunweilerTanz creates community by uncovering true stories (whether that be in the classroom, on stage, or on the yoga mat) through ethnography and collaborative reflection. She works independently and within The Click in projects for stage, screen, and augmented reality app, as well as devising her first evening-length work Edge of Aquarius that premiered in January 2024. Alexandria creates duet stage works and co-heads a curation series with Ashlea Sovetts, a collaboration that spans the east coast, presenting in festivals such as the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, BOOM Charlotte, and Piccolo Spoleto. She is currently an adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Director for Artistic Planning and Development at her home studio Dance Theatre of Greenville (South Carolina). Learn more at www.alexandrianunweiler.com or on Instagram @nunweilertanz​
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SALVAGE is a dance / theater show currently in development that deconstructs the funny, ridiculous, harmful and beautiful practices of non-denominational American Christianity. It unpacks deep seeded religious traumas with a smile as it strips consumerism, perfectionism, and white nationalism away from the faith itself. This section 'shoulder' explores sacred presence, both outside and inside of the self.
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Performers: Ava D'Eon and Virginia Spinks
Carmen Rizzo
Carmen S. Rizzo, from São Paulo, Brazil, is a Somerville-based dance artist, dance educator, fitness instructor, and arts administrator. She graduated from the professional training program at Escola de Dança de São Paulo and from Manhattanville University (Dance and Business) summa cum laude. Her choreography has recently been performed at her first evening length show “Unchosen”, NACHMO, Boston WiP, Dance for World Community, Salem Arts Festival, and ArtBeat. She was also a guest choreographer at Manhattanville University and has had her dance films featured at Homegrown, Shut in Dance Festival, and the DFA College Exchange. Exploring the neuroscience of dance and of emotion, Carmen choreographs collaboratively, showcasing dancers’ abilities and expressive voices, bridging the gap between science and art. Debunking that science and dance are hard to understand, Carmen brings diversity into concert dance, making it more relatable and accessible.
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Carmen's short solo came from reflections and research on how women's rights were fought for (who was involved, who is remembered, how are the stories told). Contextualizing to today's current climate, the dance is an exploration on a perpetually imperfect feminist woman, questioning when to stand up and when to rest and conform.
Human Movement Project
Boston's Human Movement Project develops
human-centered dance theatre that functions as a tool for starting community conversations, building empathy, and illuminating untold everyday stories.
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Led by Kim Holman, our projects utilize the talents and lived experiences of our artists to share ideas and find chemistry with an audience.
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Learn more about the company here.
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HMP is showing a short duet from Contradictions + Casual Self Loathing, an award-winning evening-length work based on anecdotes from the female existence.
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Learn more about the work here.
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Performers: Eliza Malecki & Katie McGrail