Bicipital Groove or Echo My Instincts

November 14-16

Bicipital Groove or Echo my Instincts explores changing roles in the dance community - from dancers to choreographers and teachers. First shown as a work in progress in DNA’s Gene Pool production in February 2008, Bicipital Groove or Echo my Instincts will be presented in it’s entirety as an evening-length work. Referring to students as “kids” feeling quite distant from them in age, yet yearning to stay a part of the agile young dancer…the piece brings forth thoughts on vanity, the constant search for the self and the battle between youth and maturity.

Friday | Nov 14 | at 8.30 pm
Saturday | Nov 15 | 3.00 pm & 8.30 pm
Sunday | Nov 16 | 3.00 pm

Ticket Prices: $20, ($15 members, $17 students)

Teri Steele graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Exercise Physiology. Oliver Steele, Romanian by birth and a citizen of Germany, trained at the Iwanson Dance Center in Munich and moved to New York in 1992. In 1995 they co-founded their own company, STEELEDANCE. Through prolific movement invention, STEELEDANCE works brilliantly fuse technical virtuosity and subliminal wit. Their choreography has been presented at Joyce Soho, DTW’s Bessie Schönberg Theater, the Cunningham Studio, The Yard, the DeMille Theater at NCSA, the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and the Evolving Arts Theater. They have taught at Steps on Broadway, Abizaid Arts, Tappan Zee Dance School, Rutgers University, Hunter College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, North Carolina School of the Arts, the Iwanson Dance Centre (Germany), Matsuyama University (Japan), Dance Camp Companie Champagne (Italy) and Ketsevhagoof Studio (Israel). Oliver is currently on faculty at DNA teaching Contemporary Modern. Teri teaches Pilates Mat, private Apparatus sessions and is the creator of the DNA Pilates Mat Certification Program as well as their Continuing Education Curriculum.

Guest Choreographer Kevin Wynn
Performed by the STEELEDANCE Company
Music by Various Artists, mixed by DJ Heinz and Tbob
Costumes by Teri Lee Steele and Oliver Steele

Photo credits by Teri Steele

Slideshow with photography from tech rehearsal by Florence Bataray: