the dancers

Lucie Baker
LUCIE BAKER hails from Seattle, Washington and moved to New York to study at The Juilliard School. Since graduating in 2008 she has worked with Jane Comfort and Company, Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Sidra Bell Dance New York, Adam Barruch Dance, Bennyroyce Dance Productions, Yara Travieso and ARC Dance. Her choreography has been performed domestically in New York, Seattle and New Orleans and internationally in Spain, Peru and Germany. Lucie is also committed to arts outreach as a teacher with Artists Striving To End Poverty (A.S.T.E.P.)
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Courtney Drasner
COURTNEY DRASNER grew up in Minnesota, and later graduated with a BFA in dance from NYU. Since moving to New York she has performed works by Jana Hicks, Kilterbox, Nicole Berger, Jordana Che Tobak, Refractions Dance Collective, and M. Lindsay Smith. She has been a member of Gina Gibney Dance since June of 2004.

Marcos Duran
MARCOS DURAN holds a BFA in Dance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In his home state he worked with the companies of Jerry Pearson, Jean Issacs, John Malashock, Gary Masters, Keith Johnson, Stephanie Nugent and Misa Kelly. Since relocating to Brooklyn in 2008, Marcos has most prominently held working relationships with Daniel Charon and Bronwen McArthur. He is currently working with Eun Hee Lee, Meredith Glisson and Risa Jaroslow and Dancers.

Jenni Hong
JENNI HONG, made in Taiwan, is a choreographer, performer and improviser. She graduated from Columbia University with an MA in psychology and is a certified Yoga teacher. Jenni has had the fortunate opportunity in the past to work with Kirstie Simson, Jana Hicks, Taipei Dance Circle, and Guido Tuveri, among others. She is currently a company member with Delirious Dances, Erica Essner Performance co-Op, and Gina Gibney Dance. Her choreography has been presented in Taiwan, Italy and the United States. In New York City, Jenni's work has been shown in venues including: dancenOw/NYC, Danspace Project's "Food for Thought" series, Joyce SoHo, Dance Space Center/Dance New Amsterdam, The Puffin Room, and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Josh Palmer
JOSHUA PALMER, native of Maine, began his dance training during his high school years at a local studio in his hometown and Bates College. Moving to New York, he began his undergraduate degree at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. Josh graduated in 2007, earning a B.F.A. in dance. He currently dances for Erica Essner Performance Co-op, Hilary Easton & Co., Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, Danielle Russo Dance Company, and choreographer Jim Martin.

Paul Singh
PAUL SINGH recently earned his BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. He is currently dancing for Gerald Casel, Risa Jaroslow, Douglas Dunn and Erica Essner. In 2004, his solo piece "stutter"was chosen to be presented at the Kennedy Center. While in NYC, Paul hopes to continue dancing and choreographing until his feet fall off.
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the composers

Erica Essner Performance Co-Op colloborates with many new composers and has a long-history of working with original music for dance.

Erik Walkers
The Co-Op's award winning composer Erik Ian Walker graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He studied principally with renowned composer John Adams. Walker has worked as a principal music and sound design contributor for the Joe Goode Performance Group and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. His sound scores for the George Coates Performance Works' production of Right Mind won a critic's poll award for sound design. Other works by Walker include projects for KQED (PBS) and pieces for MTV's Liquid Television. | MORE |

Miguel Frasconi
Miguel Frasconi is a composer of new exploratory world music who has worked with John Cage, Brian Eno, Trichy Sankaran, and Jon Hassell. He has created over three dozen dance scores and received a 1997 Isadora Duncan Dance Award for his work with Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. Frasconi has also worked with choreographers Charles Moulton, Margaret Jenkins, Remy Charlip, Blondel Cummings, Homer Avila, and recently collaborated with modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin on a new piece marking her 80th year. In 1998 he collaborated with the Balinese composer I Dewa Berata on the music for a new large-scale shadowplay. That same year he traveled to Dharamsala, India, where he performed with the Tibetan songwriter Techung in a concert for the Dalai Lama. Frasconi's early work includes nine years as a founding member of THE GLASS ORCHESTRA, the internationally acclaimed new music ensemble featuring all glass instruments. | MORE |
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