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Fancy June 13-14 Big Range Austin
Choreography: Ellen Bartel, Music: Adam Sultan, Video: Eliot Haynes, Dancers: Ellen Bartel, Lisa del Rosario, Ellen Hauck, Katherine Hodges, Janine Ploetz
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Clapping Dance
SVT May 16 2009
Mari Akita, Ellen Bartel, Janine Ploetz
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Spank Dance at First Night Austin
Light in the New Year.
Site spicific dance at 100 Congress Ave. on New Years Eve 2008.
Score: Adam Sultan and Miss Darlene
Witness the powerful beauty of dance performed by a large ensemble of dancers and listen to the dynamic serene sounds composed and performed live. As they share with you a series of moving pictures and sounds of hope, as a tribute and a gesture for a peaceful new year.
Performers: Sarah, Kisten, Christina, Julie, Jen, Rianon, Milissa, Kristi, Jamine, Rachel, Liza, Lani, Janine, Marrion, Lilly, Amber, Lilly, Ashley, Shawn, Jana,Hanna, Molly, Jen, Kristin, Angie, Carey, Jessica, Kirsche, Leigh, Heather, Mia, Madiline, Mandie, Cyble, Ginger Katie Mae.
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Reaching Counting Backwards 1-2-6-1, and Thollem McDonas
photos Matthew Young
Pianist Thollem McDonas (from San Francisco and all over)
Thollem on You Tube
at St. David's Episcopal Church on 8th and San Jacinto
Monday, Nov 10 2008 @ 8:00pm- Bethell Hall
dancers: Ellen Bartel, Ellen Hauck, Katherine Hodges,Caroline Sutton Clark , Janine Ploetz, Maggie Wilhite, Dawnerin Wilkinson
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Platform Forward
June 6-72008 part of Big Range Austin: It is an abstract look at the interplay between people when they are in the process of going someplace new. As we look at the world changing before our eyes this journey is a mix of the routine and the familiar, verses the unknown and the unexpected, that is all to real in our everyday lives. It address the political landscape of today and yesterday to reveal how so many of societies growing pains and embarrassments repeat themselves
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Cool.Dance.
cool.dance. and 4Red Lines nominated for 2007-2008 Critic's Table Awards!
featured story here
Interview here
You-Tube Video from 8/12/07 performance at Austin Figurative Gallery Inerview here .
Review from Hot September Flurries 2007 here
1. Flowers . video
2. Bon Voyage . video
Dancers: Ellen Bartel, Dawnerin Larrimore, Janine Plotez, and Maggie Wilhite.
performance locations: Beauty Bar, Tom Waits Stray Dogs Party, HSF 2006, Dance Carousel 2006, Emo's Lounge, Little City Esp Bar, Trophy's, Austin Figurative Gallery, Dr. Sketchy, HSF 2007, SUNY Potsdam, Blackmail Clothing store.
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4Red Lines
Thursday, March 15, @12:15pm-- 4th and Trinity/Austin Convention Center
Sunday, March 18, @4:13pm--4th and Trinity/Austin Convention Center...see photo's below.
Thursday, April 5@12:30pm---4th and Guadaloupe/ Republic Square Park
Monday, April 9, @5:03pm--Auditorum Shores
Tuesday, April 17, @8:30pm part of Refraction Arts FUSE BOX
Saturday, April 28, @11:01am & 12:30pm Pease Park, Eyores b-day party
Thursday, May 3, @11:45am Saltillo Train Station, 5th and Comel
Sunday, May 6 @4:27pm Big Stacy Park...in the trees, hot and humid!
Hot September Flurries 2007
SUNY Potsdam October 2007
Dancers: Ellen Bartel, Dawnerin Larrimore, Janine Ploetz, Maggie Wilhite & Mari Akita
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4Red Lines (2007) is an original contemporary dance choreographed by Ellen Bartel and by the elements surrounding the dance. 4Red Lines is created to be a dance of transformation, adaptation, and change -vs- stability, strength and constancy. Ellen choreographed a 20-30 minute dance designed to be performed in outdoor, non-traditional venues. Specifically to observe how the audience interacts with the performance, how the sounds juxtapose the movement, and how the dancers adapt the movement to their unpredictable environment. The movement is abstract yet yielding to the characters of each of the performers and the surreal images that 4 red-brightly dressed- individuals can create.
Ellen was interested in breaking down barriers of all kinds for 4Red Lines. Not only has she taken the dance outside, out of the theater to literally break down “the walls”, but there is no fee for any of these events and she is also bringing dance to different locations at different times to break down the “time and money” barrier that keeps people from seeing live performances.
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Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel
March 6-26, 2006 @ Blue Theater, choreographed by Ellen Bartel, with original music composed by Andy Hadaway, lighting design by Jason Amato. Performing in Greyhounds and Other...are dancers: Mari Akita, Chika Aluka, Ellen Bartel, Dawnerin Larrimore, Debra McAdoo, Kayo Tsujimoto, and Roberta Villalon.
about how we travel without actually going to a new physical place. Through our memories, with our computer, and sparking our intellect we transport ourselves through space and time. Three new dances entertain this idea of travel without moving. Exploring the past, present, and future of our imagination and thoughts about humanity. Asking where are we going from here?
.KillSport
T. Williams
T. Williams
March 17-April 3, 2005 @ Blue Theater, music by Andy Hadaway (nominated for critics choice award for music composition) Dancers: Ellen Bartel, Amy Cone, Cristina Jesurun, Michel Scott, Kayo Tsujimoto, Matthew Young. Lighting: Stephen Pruitt.
A satirical portrayal of the killer instinct in the most innocent of creatures. Taking from images of the current political environment, video games and family pets, Bartel's imagination brings to life the darker side, the aggressive nature of society, and how it changes from a Utopia to a battle ground and innocence lost.
June 10-19, 2004 @Blue Theater, music by various artists. Dancers: Mari Akita, Ellen Bartel, Amy Cone, Cecilia Proeger, Matthew Young. Lighting: Stephen Pruitt.Created to express elements of things that are Black. Intrigued by how movement can portray and capture human nature in ways that language may describe less poetically, Bartel unwraps the idea of "black", opens the box and lets the audience inside the darkness. A dense void, thick and shapeless, the dancers shape, gesture and move in ways that describe literal, metaphoric and emotional levels of black. It is a dance about political and social observations that are timeless, relevant and sure to make the imagination question ones own view about black things.
July 10-20, 2003 @ Off Center, music by Golden Arm Trio and video by in the RA studio. Dancers: Ellen Bartel, Matt WilliamsVisually and aurally this dance will be sensual and emotional; a complete idea. Sonambulo is truly a dance and multi-media collaboration performance that is made to peek inside the male perspective of love and relationships, designed by a woman and created for everyone.
J. Jobst
January, 2003 @ Blue Theater, music by Andrew Baron. Dancers: Megan Knotz, Cecilia Proeger, Kristen Studer, Krista DelGallo, Nancy Moran, Milissa Epstine, Lindsay DiGiaseppe, Gail Gresham, Amy Cone, Jennifer Tietz, Emily Fawcett, Janine Ploetz, Rhianon Renee, Genevieve Salmon, Whitney Hocke, Ellen Bartel, Dawn Bishop, Debra McAdoo, Jenna Weikerth, Susan Tietz.A dance featuring twenty female dancers which describes a brief moment of personal interaction between two women. It is an inside look at how women think of themselves when they are feeling insecure about the way they look as well as how aggressive they can be toward one another.
Full Dance History: Ellen Bartel
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS
2008 Platform Forward part of Big Range Austin Dance Festival
Reaching Counting Backward 1-2-6-1 with Thollem McDonas
Light First Night
2007 4Red Lines a new modern dance performed in non-traditional settings,
Balloons a new Cool.Dance.
2006 Greyhounds and Other Virtual Way to Travel performance at Blue Theater collaboration with composer Andy Hadaway.
Cool.Dance. free performances non-traditional venues Flowers and Bon Voyage collaboration with composer Andy Hadaway
2005 KillSport performance at Blue Theater collaboration with composer Andy Hadaway,
Hot September Flurries showcase of a dozen dance artist for a full month of dance at the Blue Theater.
2004 Black Things Frontera Festival
Dance Carousel Frontera Festival Austin Independent Choreographers
2003 Knock Knock Austin Independent Choreographers,
Sonambulo Collaboration with Graham Reynolds and Ricardo
2002 Brenda Meets Barbara Frontera Festival,
You’re My Favorite Color Partially funded by the City of Austin, collaboration with Peter Stopschinski.
2001 Midnight Playground Partially funded by the City Of Austin, collaboration with composer Andrew Baron.
2000 Will You Walk In The Park With Me? Partially funded by the City Of Austin, in Partnership with Parks and Recreation, music Andrew Baron,
Up movements gallery music Graham Reynolds,
Crystal Leaves Austin Dance Fest.
1999 Innocence, Sensuality & Sleeping Collaboration with poet Heather Burmeister.
Ascension/descend Site specific dance collaboration with musician Tara Vamos at four local coffee shops.
Ruth Frontera Festival:
Break On Through Austin DanceFest.
1998 Blewh An evening length dance concert, collaborated with Ashley Overton and Graham Reynolds
Queenie: past, present, and future Café Dance,
4 Years In Austin, A solo dance/performance art showcase.
1997 Beaujolais’Dream Le Cirque De Sourtes:
Extension Ten Min Max.
1996 The Business Man musical/opera: Arid Cry The Performance Art Church (Pe.A.Ch.)
Lost Child (Pe.A.Ch.).
1995 Corner World (Pe.A.Ch.):
S&M Ball Abroto’s:
Episode #19 Ten Min Max & Lollapalooza:
Kafka On A Good Day Candy Factory.
1994 Phantom Paris ’25
Bat Frontera Festival.
1993 A Summers Romp
Occasionally I… Potsdam College Alumni Dance Concert, Potsdam, NY:
Interpretation Faculty Dance Concert, Potsdam, NY.IMPROVISATIONS:
2007-Current Butoh the last Friday of every month at Austin Figurative Gallery/various locations
2007 Improvisation pianist composer Thollem McDonas with 11 members of AIC perform at Clear Springs Studio.
1995-01 The Creeps: The goal as an art performance is to set extremely slow, continuous motion in juxtaposition to normal time and how observer reacts to the out of the ordinary event.
The Creeps: 2001 AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART fine arts festival people flowers 4/01
2000 ARTHIP AMA platinum statues 10/00
AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART Crystal Leaves 3/00
AUSTIN DANCE FEST Crystal Leaves 1/00
1999 ARTPLEX the surreal show -Ascension/descend duet 9/99
ASCENSION/DESCEND solo performance at four coffee shops in four nights 7/99
28.5 #3 code 6/99
PUBLIC DOMAIN fund raiser 3/99
ARTPLEX the blue show 3/99
28.5 #2 progress 2/99
AUSTIN DANCE FEST Break On Through 1/99
1998 ARTPLEX the dada exhibit, living art 11/98
28.5 #1 performance art collaboration at Movements Gallery 8/98
FUNHOUSE CINEMA collaboration with film & music 6/98
CLARKSVILL JAZZ FESTIVAL #2 bouncing balls 6/98
EYORE’S BIRTHDAY #3 rat race 4/98
THE DRAG #3 follow the leader 3/98
FRONTERA FESTIVAL collaboration with film & music 2/98
4 YEARS IN AUSTIN duets performed during the duration of a solo dance concert 1/98
1997 WORLDLY DUST backyard performance art show collaboration 11/97
6th STREET 10/97
4TH & COLORADO wrote sayings on paper wearing black 8/97
CLARKSVILL JAZZ FESTIVAL#1 yellow & toilet paper 6/97
EYORE’S BIRTHDAY #2 formal picnic 4/97
LAUGHING AT THE SUN ART OPENING #2 dream show 4/97
LAUGHING AT THE SUN ART OPENING#1 found objects 1/97
1996 ALTON OF THE SPOT public access show 10/96
CAFE BREMOND 10/96
LITTLE CITY played musical chairs 9/96
SELLING SHAKI performance collaboration Zac-Scott 6/96
THE DRAG #2 night along the wall 5/96
EYORE’S BIRTHDAY #1 pedestrian 4/96
THE WALK BRIDGE UNDER MOPAC 2/96
PERFORMANCE ART CHURCH solo lost child 1/96
RUTA MAYA 1/96
1995 AUDITORIUM SHORES 12/95
6TH & COLORADO 11/95
UT CAMPUS 9/95
THE DRAG #1 pedestrian 8/95
THE TEXAS CAPITOL LAWN 7/95DANCE CAROUSEL
2008 Headstand, Tommy can you hear me?, All the classics in tank tops. Belly Waltz
2007 Flowers, Home, Bon Voyage, Balloons
2006 Taos, Tokyo, Saint Louis, Amsterdam....all cities I’ve never been to.
2005 The comedian, Crystal Leaves 2, light, Be My Guest
2004 Lunch Ladies, Duet, Group, QuintetCOMPANY PERFORMANCE
2005 Wicked Cricket Dance Theater We Beasties Butoh performer. Dir Caroline Sutton Clark.
2001 ADT 7 Rooms To The Soul, Dir.: Andrea Ariel, ADT with the Walter Tompson Orchestra, ADT in Concert.
Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert with Golden Whornet.
2000 Undertow Dance theater Not Just Shock: dir.: Ashley Overton,
Madam Butterfly, ALO.
1999 ADT dance project with the Walter Tompson Orchestra,
Xenon dance The Sidereal Body Dir. Bryan Green:
ADT (Re)Flex.
1998 ADT Junction.
1997 ADT No Exit: S
till Point Dance Blah Blah Blah and Upon Reflection. Atlanta, GA.:
Still Point Dance Not My Body Dir. Lisa Fehrman.
1996 ADT Scrutiny and No Exit:
Still Point Dance A Couple Turns.
1995 ADT Tangle : ADT
Stuck Unstuck. Dallas, TX.:
Phobia Productions Erotiphobia
1994 ADT Silences I. San Antonio, TX.:
Paris ’25 Burlesque Theater ( full 5 month run: 2-3 shows every week)
ADT at the Clarksville Jazz Festival
ADT Blink
