ZACH BIRD
Zach Bird is a Chicago based artist and performer who enjoys collaborating with friends and dance companies throughout the city. Originally from Iowa, Zach’s love for dance and corn brought him to the University of Iowa where he graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance under the mentoring of Jennifer Kayle. After losing interest in the multiple varieties of corn cuisine, he moved to Chicago to further his dance and artistic training. Since his move, Zach has had the pleasure of dancing for Mordine and Company, Hedwig Dances, Kelly Anderson Dance Theater, Monica Thomas, Brady VanPatten, Earlyn Whitehead, and RE Dance. Zach is beyond excited and thankful to be dancing for Jessica Kondrath and her company Grayscale Dance. His next artistic focus will hopefully include the dynamic relationship between dance and corn.
Erika farkvam
Erika Astrid Farkvam began her dance training at the Academy of Movement and Music in Oak Park, IL. In 2005, she moved to Tucson, Arizona to attend the University of Arizona where she received her BFA in Dance in May 2009. From 2009 to 2012, Erika danced and choreographed with New ARTiculations Dance Theater in Tucson. Since Erika’s return to Chicago in 2012, she has performed with Momenta (2012-14); a showing of Aftertaste, hosted by The Inconvenience and Tuesday Night Dinner (2013); The Fly Honey Show (2013-14); works choreographed by Erin Kilmurray; The David Bowie Variety Hour Show at the MCA with The Salt; RE|Dance Group; and GRAYSCALE.
Photo by William Frederking
KATHRYN HETRICK
Kathryn Hetrick is a Chicago-based performing artist. She graduated from the dance program at Western Michigan University and performed work by noted artists Alonzo King, Lori Eisenhower, John Lehrer, Michael Foely, and Ginger Thatcher. Past collaborators include Esoteric Dance Project and Salty Lark Dance. Aside from her continued partnership with Project Bound Dance, Kathryn can also be seen performing with the Same Planet Performance Project.
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Liz hoefner adamis
Liz Hoefner Adamis is a choreographer, director, dancer, writer and actress who makes original dance and dance theater works and has been doing so for the past twenty years. Since receiving her MFA degree in Dance and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts in 2001, Liz has been presented in Los Angeles, New York City and internationally at a myriad of theaters, universities and festivals. Her latest evening length work “Enter Lenin!” was presented at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica and Center of the Arts in Torrance. Adamis’ dances have received seven Lester Horton Dance Award nominations in the categories of choreography, performance, music and design and she was a recipient of the Margaret Jenkin’s Dance Company’s CHIME grant in 2013 with mentor Nancy Keystone.
Adamis’ latest endeavors included curating an evening of dance and poetry for Beyond Baroque’s 50th anniversary with poet Laurel Ann Bogen in January of 2019, performing with Critical Mass Performance Group in the piece “Untitled Communion” at REDCAT in Downtown Los Angeles, performing for John Pennington’s Pennington Dance Group, Jessica Kondrath’s GRAYSCALE at The Brand Library Dance Series in May of 2019 and choreographing the musicals American Idiot, In the Heights and The Who’s Tommy for the theater department at El Camino College. Adamis continues to be a full-time Professor of Dance at El Camino College and enjoys acting as co-artistic director of the dance concerts on campus.
XENIA MANSOUR
Xenia Mansour is a movement artist, performer, director, and coach based in Chicago and New York City. Born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, she spent her formative years studying at the Academy of Movement and Music and performing with its resident company, MOMENTA.
Mansour holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has received additional training at LINES Ballet, The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH: 11, New Dialect, and the Merce Cunningham Trust.
She has performed in a range of stage, site-specific, immersive, film, and fashion work including as a performer for Brendan Fernandes’ In Two, a dance and sculptural performance in conversation with the work of Scott Burton throughout the galleries of The Pulitzer Arts Museum in St. Louis, as a guest dancer and model for Mexican fashion designer Carla Fernández, with choreography by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and as a feature dancer for CXN’s Fashion Commercial Come With Us, choreographed by Katherine Maxwell.
Recently, she choreographed and performed in "Welcome Home" at Steppenwolf Theatre with Grammy-nominated musician Nico Segal. She also collaborates with Greek-American pop artist Tommy Bravos, performing in and movement directing his work.
Currently, Mansour performs regularly with experimental dance theater HOLDTIGHT in both Denver and New York City, as well as with Katherine Maxwell’s HIVEWILD.
In October 2023, Mansour established Philoxenia Movement LLC, offering private movement instruction, direction, performance, and consultation services.
Mansour's movement vocabulary and curiosities stem from her lifelong participation in various sports, including softball, volleyball, tennis, and boxing. She remains fascinated by the intersection of these diverse movement modalities.
Photo credit: Janya Photography
SARAH MORIMOTO
Sarah Morimoto is a Chicago performer. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2016 with degrees in dance and chemistry. Throughout her training, Sarah has worked with and performed works by several Chicago artists including Jeff Hancock, Lizzie Leopold, Laura Wade, Maray Gutierrez, Robyn Mineko Williams, Joseph Caruana, and Riccardo Battaglia. Professionally, Sarah has worked with Project Bound, Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre, Joel Hall, and Hanna Brictson and Dancers. Sarah is so excited to be working with Jessica Kondrath on this performance!
Photo by A. Deran