Artists in Residence
Daniele Strawmyre
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Daniele Strawmyre is a multi-media artist, choreographer, performer and
educator based in Philadelphia. She directs the collaborative arts company
readySetGO. Currently an artist in residence at thefidget space in Philadelphia,
she's developing a performance installation inspired by Japanese ghost stories
for October 2010 titled Kaidan Insuto. The staged version (Kaidan) will premiere
at this year's Live Arts Festival as part of 8 (eight choreographers/eight
new works) and is the culmination of 2 years of research and performance called
The Obake Project. Daniele's past work has been shown at Mascher Space Cooperative,
thefidget space, Pentimenti Gallery, Kumquat Dance Theater, the CEC, the Painted Bride Art Center,
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the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others, and in site specific performances throughout Philadelphia. In 2003 she co-curated, "Ladyfest Philly",
a 4-day festival showcasing women's activism through the arts and in 2004 she participated in a 2 month residency with CIE Felix Ruckert in Brussels, BE and Berlin, DE (made possible by a grant from the Leeway Foundation).
She has performed with companies here and abroad including Megan Bridge, Kate Watson-Wallace/Anonymous Bodies, Jeb Kreager/Brown Squad, Perpetual Movement and Sound, Workshop for Potential Movement, SCRAP/Myra Bazell, Janette Hough, Jerome Meyer and Isabelle Chafaud (NL) and CIE Willi Dorner (AT) in Philadelphia; Junction Dance Theatre in Pittsburgh; Martha Bowers Dance Theatre Etcetera in New York; and CIE Felix Ruckert in Brussels, BE and Berlin, DE.
Daniele has students aged three to eighty-three and has been teaching for over a decade. She teaches Creative Movement, Ballet, Yoga, Pilates, Water Aerobics, Body Conditioning, Basic Anatomy/Kinesiology, Acting and Story-telling, Technical Theatre, Arts and Crafts, and Eurhythmics as well as college and professional level courses in Dance Technique and Improvisation. She earned a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia.
Bonnie Lander
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Bonnie Lander is a coloratura soprano based out of Philadelphia, PA. Classically
trained, Bonnie performs a wide range of contemporary music in a wide variety of spaces.
Most recently, she performed with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society under the baton
of Leon Fleisher and as a participant in the Yellow Barn Kurtág Residency studying with
soprano Susan Narucki, who affectionately termed her "the Janis Joplin of modern music."
Bonnie is currently an Artist In Resident at thefidget space, a founding member of chamber
opera company "Rhymes With Opera," and a featured artist with the "Embody" vocal arts
series in Baltimore. She has performed experimental improvisation with amazing
musicians Mike Formanek, David Smooke, Shodekeh, Kate Porter, and Peter Price.
Bonnie holds a BM in Voice Performance from the University of Miami Frost School
of Music in the studio of Esther-Jane Hardenbergh;
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MM in Voice Performance at the Peabody Institute in the studio of Phyllis Bryn-Julson; two GPDs in Voice and Computer Music studying with Dr. McGregor Boyle. She is the only person to have twice received the Phyllis Bryn-Julson Award for the Commitment to and Performance of 20th/21st Century Music.
Chris Mandra
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Chris Mandra is a composer and performer whose work has been performed in
Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree
in composition from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; a certificate
of study from the Liszt Ferenc Zeneakademia in Budapest; two Master's degrees -
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one in music composition and one in computer music, both from the Peabody
Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where he also completed all of the
coursework for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree before abandoning that program.
In 2004 he was awarded a fellowship to STEIM in the Netherlands to work on his
wearable performance interface "the manDrum". He currently lives in Baltimore,
gets to help create cool audio processing software (that he likes to use himself) for the company Intelligent Devices, and plays guitar for and performs extensively with the celebrated original psychedelic dance band TELESMA.
Gloria Justen
Gloria Justen, Violinist and Composer, is both a passionate performer of the classics and an innovative artist trying new approaches to music. Ms. Justen grew up in Houston, Texas, and from 1984-1990 she attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her principal violin teachers were Fredell Lack and Szymon Goldberg. Currently residing in San Francisco, Gloria is dividing her time between East Coast and West Coast.
Ms. Justen has played with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia since 1985, serving as Concertmaster since 2004. From 1990 to 2008 she performed and toured internationally with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a substitute violinist. She is associated with groups in Philadelphia and San Francisco such as Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, the Relache Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and the magic*magic orchestra, and she has premiered and recorded many works by living composers. She has toured with the Philip Glass Ensemble for the Book of Longing project. Ms. Justen has enjoyed collaborations with musicians from diverse backgrounds, modern dancers and visual artists. Improvisation in various genres spurred her to create her own compositions. Some of these are written in the traditional manner for acoustic instruments, and others are digital sound collages incorporating electronics, field recordings, and surround sound concepts. Her first CD of original music, Four-Stringed Voice, is a collection of pieces for solo violin. Most recently her composition "Not Created or Destroyed" was performed by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.
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