Despina Stamos, Wen-Shuan Yang, Wendy Blum and Kelvin Daly

doing something mysterious, and extremely interesting.

photo Richard Greene Sunday, February 15th 7 pm - tickets $7 reservations: 212 - 592 - 4644

Despina Sophia Stamos is a dancer/choreographer living and working in NYC since 1989.Her work has been presented through out New York City at such venues as Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, PS1,as well as internationally in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Her interest in site-specific work has been developing since 1998 when she was invited to be a participating artist in Julie Atlas Muz' 24 Hours on the Staten Island Ferry. Since then, she has performed and organized events in a plethora of locations including Times Square, the NYC subways, piers, parks and gardens. As a dancer she has worked with various companies and choreographers including Chen and Dancers, Hikari Baba and Dancers, Blum Dance Theater and the National Caravan Theater. Ms. Stamos has happily collaborated on most projects with Ms.Yang.

Wen-Shuan Yang was born and raised in Taiwan. She received her B.F.A. in dance from New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
As a performer, Yang has been a soloist for H.T. Chen & Dancers; and has also worked with Daniel Lewis, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Tony Silva Dance and Music, Mark Haim, Houlihan & Dancers, Freddick Bratcher, Hannah Kahn, Lila York, and Stephan Koplowitz among others.
Besides dancing for other choreographers, she and Despina Stamos together explore crazy ideas and strange thoughts and then create works for many formal and alternative venues. Their choreography has been shown at P.S. 1/Moma, Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks 2000, the La Mama Annex, Smack Melon Gallery, Williamsburg Arts Nexus, Stoneham Theatre in Massachusetts, Culture Project, Galapagos, Upper Manhattan Arts Project, Deli Dances on 42nd Street, Oasis, Sutton Gymnastic, and the Physical Arts Center.

Wendy Blum creates "eccentric dances about vulnerable human balances" (New Yorker June 2003). Her New York-based company, Blum Dance Theatre, is known for locomoting contortions and unlikely partnering and has been presented throughout New York City since 1990 and in Cleveland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Canada, France and Italy. A graduate of Wesleyan and of NYU's Performance Studies, Blum is a Lincoln Center Institute teaching artist and a dancewriter. She has performed with a bevy of independent choreographers and is thrilled to participate in Despina Stamos' dance-theater events designed for fortuitous audiences.

Elliot Crown has appeared at BAM in "Combustion", at the Public in "Thomas Cole, a Waking Dream", at the Samuel Beckett in "La Ronde". Films include the lead in "City News" on PBS, and "Harlem Aria". Crown toured 25 states as a clown in Carden-Johnson Circus. Summers he works as narrator on a whale watch in
Provincetown, MA.

Among many other things, Kelvin Daly is a musician and a builder of many of the musical instruments heard in this piece. His primary venues have been street performances and work in underground communal arts spaces, which suit his ideals and life philosophy well. His most recent ensembles have been Music from the Mood Expansion Chamber and The Hermaphroditic Marriage of Simple and Complex Tonal Contraptions and Hir Church of You're Lucid Dreaming Motherf@#!er Quintessextet, as well as work with the Rubulad and Ransom Corp. art groups. Kelvin's present work is primarily solo. He also performs with fire, puppets, and poetry. He has been making musical instruments for over ten years now.

Yuu Fujita was born in Kyoto, Japan where she was a member of the musical company, "Kyogei" which toured all over Japan. She came to The United States when she was 21 years old and received a performance award and her BA in Dance from Hunter College, CUNY in 2001. She has also studied on scholarship at the Jose Limon Studio. Ms. Fujita has shown her own choreography at art events in New York City, as well as in Mexico and Prague, where she toured with The Hunter College Dance Company. She performed in site-specific works directed by Stephan Koplowitz at Grand Central Terminal and in for the New York Performing Arts Library opening gala at Lincoln Center. She is also a Pilates instructor at Movements Afoot and has been working with Caron Eule since 2001.