Carolyn Lucas
Associate Artistic Director
Carolyn Lucas attended North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated with a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase before joining Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1984. Lucas originated roles in some of Brown’s most acclaimed works including Lateral Pass (1983), Carmen (1986), Newark (Niweweorce) (1987), Astral Convertible (1989), Foray Forêt (1990) and Astral Converted (1991). Lucas’ dancing has been described in the New York Times
as “affecting in her softly penetrating attack” and “especially luminous.” In 1993, Brown appointed Lucas as her Choreographic Assistant, a position Lucas held for twenty years before being named Associate Artistic Director in 2013. As Choreographic Assistant, Lucas played an integral role in Brown’s creation process in dance and opera, working closely
alongside Brown for pieces including If you couldn’t see me (1994), its revision to the duet You can see us (1995) with Bill T. Jones and later Mikhail Baryshnikov, Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1998), and its revival in 2002, El Trilogy (2000), Luci Mie Traditrici (2001), It’s a Draw (2002), Winterreise (2002) with Simon Keenlyside, PRESENT TENSE (2003), O Zlozony/O Composite (2004) with étoiles from the Paris Opera Ballet, Da Gelo a Gelo (2006) with Salvatore Sciarrino and La Monnaie, Rameau’s Pygmalion (2010) with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Festival d’Aix, Holland Festival and Athens Festival, and Brown’s nal work for the Company, I’m going to toss my arms- if you catch them they’re yours (2011) which premiered at Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris. In addition to assisting with new choreography, directing Company rehearsals and restaging existing choreography on the current dancers, Lucas has led projects for companies and institutions around the world, including The New School in NYC, P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels and Paris Opera Ballet. She was one of the rst instructors Brown sent to P.A.R.T.S. to construct a Set and Reset/Reset, whose collaborative, interdisciplinary learning process is now a cornerstone of the Company’s education program. Lucas is currently documenting Brown's work for the Trisha Brown Archive. She studies Tai Chi with Maggie Newman and Alexander Technique with June Ekman.
Diane Madden
Associate Artistic Director
Diane Madden attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts before joining the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1980. Since then, Madden has danced, directed, taught, studied and reconstructed Brown’s work. A much lauded performer, Madden has been described in the New York Times as “one of those dancers who can make magic out of almost any task.” She has originated roles in works including Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981), Brown’s masterwork
Set and Reset (1983), for which she was recently honored, along with the full original cast, by Movement Research in 2012, Lateral Pass (1985), Carmen (1986), Newark (Niweweorce) (1987), Astral Convertible (1989) for which she was awarded a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, Foray Forêt (1990), Astral Converted (1991), the “running solo” in For M.G.: The Movie (1991), Another Story as in falling (1993), Yet Another Story as in falling (1994), M.O. (1995) set to Bach’s Musical Offering, Twelve Ton Rose (1996), Accumulation with Talking Plus Repertory (1997), Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1998) and the Interlude solos Rage and Ladder in El Trilogy (2000). Madden has served as Brown’s personal assistant and was the rehearsal director from 1984-2000. She continued to teach and direct special projects for the Company before serving again as Rehearsal Director from 2010 until 2013, when she was named Associate Artistic Director. Through the talents of dancers both within the company and from internationally known schools and companies, Madden enjoys keeping Brown’s rich range of choreography alive on stages and alternative sites worldwide. Madden has developed an approach to teaching that weaves anatomically grounded technique with improvisation, composition and performance skills. In addition to her own performance work in collaborative improvisational forms, she is greatly in uenced by her study and practice of Aikido with Fuminori Onuma. Madden is honored to be the recipient of two Princess Grace Awards, the rst in 1986 and the second for sustained achievement in 1994.
Oluwadamilar Ayorinde
Dancer
Oluwadamilar Ayorinde was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey and received his dance education from Mason Gross School of The Arts. Currently, he also dances for Kyle Marshall Choreography. This is his first season with The Trisha Brown Dance Company and he is happy to be sharing her art alongside these amazing translators and friends.
Cecily Campbell
Dancer
Cecily Campbell is from Santa Fe, New Mexico and holds a B.F.A.in dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She was a company member of Shen Wei Dance Arts from 2008 to 2013 and began working with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2012.
Marc Crousillat
Dancer
Marc Crousillat currently works with Trisha Brown Dance Company and Netta Yerushalmy. He has also performed in the works of John Jasperse, Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey, and Alessandro Sciarroni. His own work was shown at Roulette, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research’s Open Performance, HyLo Boutiques, and FringeArts Philly. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Chez Bushwick, and an artist at The Watermill Center’s Summer Program. He is a recipient of the 2016 Princess Grace Award Dance Fellowship, and is listed as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2017.
Kimberly Fulmer
Dancer
Kimberly Fulmer holds a B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. During the summer of 2014, she was an apprentice with Dance Forum Taipei. She has also had the opportunity to perform with Bruce Wood Dance Project and Malashock Dance. Kimberly has also had the honor and joy of performing works by Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, José Limon, Emery LeCrone, and more.
Leah Ives
Dancer
Leah Ives holds a B.F.A. in Dance and minor in Movement Science from the University of Michigan. Leah has since collaborated and performed with The A.O. Movement Collective/Sarah A.O. Rosner, Avodah Dance Ensemble, Elizabeth Dishman, Median Dance/Alex Springer and Xan Burley, the Leopold Group, and the Peter Sparling Dance Company. In addition to dancing, Leah is also a NY State Licensed Massage Therapist.
Amanda Kmett’Pendry
Dancer
Amanda Kmett’Pendry, hailing from Southern Maryland, is a dancer/aspiring SNL cast member living in New York City. Since receiving a B.F.A. from The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, she has had the pleasure of working with artists Jonathan Allen, Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey, Jodi Melnick, Sam Kim, Katie Swords, Teddy Tedholm, Romeo Castellucci, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Adrienne Westwood. She has danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company since 2016.
Kyle Marshall
Dancer
Kyle Marshall graduated from Rutgers University. He dances with doug elkins choreography etc. and has worked with Tiffany Mills Company and 10 Hairy Legs. In 2014, Kyle organized Kyle Marshall Choreography. His work has been performed throughout the tri-state area including; Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Joe’s Pub, NJPAC, NYC Summerstage, Montclair Dance Festival, and Wassaic Arts Project.
In 2017, Kyle was awarded a New Jersey Arts Fellowship in Choreography.
Patrick McGrath
Dancer
Patrick McGrath was born and raised in Santa Monica, California. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2016. Prior to that he was a student at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. In the past McGrath has worked and performed with BANDPortier, Company Stefanie Batten Bland, and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Works. He started dancing with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2017.
Leah Morrison
Dancer
Leah Morrison is a New York based dance artist, teacher, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and Birth Doula. Leah performed with the Trisha Brown Company from 2005 to 2013 and continues to participate in Trisha Brown Dance Company projects. She was awarded a Bessie Award for her performance of Brown’s solo, If You Couldn’t See Me. Leah has had the pleasure of dancing with Elena Demyanenko, Dai Jian, Kensaku Shinohara, and Kota Yamazaki. Leah is highly in uenced by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s work in Body Mind Centering.
Jacob Storer
Dancer
Jacob Storer attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and graduated from PARTS in Brussels, Belgium where he worked with various artists amongst many disciplines as part of the 3-year training. He collaborates with Libby Farr in a continuous research project investigating a more Somaticbased approach to Ballet and is also developing his own work under the name Amphigory in collaboration with Theo Livesey. Jacob joined Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2017.