Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, Dancers

Alissa Cardone Harriett Jastremsky Mia Keinänan Dillon Paul DeAnna Pellecchia Ingrid Schatz			*Alissa Cardone* a company member since 1998, Alissa currently resides in NY where she is getting a Masters in Performance Studies from New York University. She also works with Bennett Dance Company, Brenda Divelbliss and has worked with Sara Sweet Rabideux/hoi polloi & Marjorie Morgan. With Outside Art Collective, Alissa enjoys producing inter-disciplinary shows and making collaborative projects with Alla Kovgan (film-maker) and Dedalus Wainwright (visual artist). She has shown her own work in various Boston venues (including the street) and in Rhode Island at AS-220. Movement research includes flamenco, yoga, Popping & Locking, butoh with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm, Japan 1999/2001), Action Theatre, and recent training with butoh master Akira Kasai, who has invited her to Tokyo to create a new dance work in Summer 2003. Grants and fellowships include: MCC Choreography finalist (2002), MCC Professional Development (1999, 2001), Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship (2002), First Night Boston (2001 w/ Outside Art Collective). In her spare time she plays in the indie rock duo the Matters, and conspires for ways to unite the rock community with contemporary dance.
			*Harriett Richardson Jastremsky,* has been a company member since 1997. She has produced her own work “Vestigial House" and “Spark” (with musician T.R. Willits) both of which received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and were presented by Mobius, Boston and A.P.E. Movement Arts Series at Thornes, Northampton, MA. She collaborated with filmmaker Alla Kovgan, sculptor Dedalus Wainwright, and dancer/musician Alissa Cardone, to create the multi-media performance piece “Body Tales". Most recently she was commissioned by Balance, a Boise, Idaho based company to choreograph a work that will premiere March 2002. Jastremsky also teaches Pilates Exercise in Northampton, MA and New York. She graduated from Wesleyan University, is a native of Boise, ID, and is fluent in American Sign Language.
			Mia Keinänan began her dance studies in Northern Finland and continued in London Contemporary Dance School graduating with BA(Honors) in `93. She also studied at the Alvin Ailey Dance School, Harvard Summer Dance Program and Merce Cunningham Studios in their scholarship programs, as well as with independent teachers in London, New York, Boston, Paris and Copenhagen.Mia danced professionally in Europe and the US, most recently touring internationally with improvisational ensemble VIA (Seattle/Boston), of which she is a founding member. In the Boston area she has worked with Olivier Besson, Caitlin Corbett, Brian Crabtree, Arawana Hayashi/JO-HA-KYU and Paula Josa-Jones/Performanceworks. Her own work has been seen in UK, Slovenia, Crotia, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands and the US. Mia is a dance educator in the US, Slovenia, Russia and Finland. During the past few years she has collaborated in various new media projects with KA TI MA, a company creating works that mix dance and technology, based in Paris, France, at MIT Media Lab and with independent new media artists. She is currently working on her doctorate degree in human development and psychology at Harvard University.
			*Dillon Paul* has been a member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works since 1998. She is currently working on her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where she is studying performance, video and sound. Her recent work has been shown at the Coolidge Corner video screening room, Mobius' annual benefit Artrages, and the Museum of Fine Arts. She has danced in the work of Min Tanaka, Neta Pulvermacher & Dancers, and is currenly dancing with Lorraine Chapman.
			*DeAnna Pellecchia*, dancer, originally from the Boston area has been dancing with Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works since October of 2000. An equestrian as well as a dancer, she has been riding horses since a very young age. Her movement background includes extensive studies in Modern, Jazz, Hip-hop, Ballet, Tap, Improvisation, Performance Art, and Tae Kwon Do. DeAnna also dances with Boston-based Bennett Dance Company, which focuses on collaborations with artists working in media other than dance. She has taught at Roger Wiliams University, Boston Conservatory, Newport High School, BDC's Summer Intensive, and the VHA Complexity Science Conference in LA with PJJ/PW. DeAnna received a BA in Dance Performance with a dual minor in Latin and Business Management from Roger Williams University. As a recipient of the RWU Dance Theater Scholarship, she performed and choreographed for the University's dance company, The Dance Theater. She will return to RWU in 2002 to set a piece on the company. She has had the pleasure of working with such artists as Sean Curran, Heidi Latsky, Doug Elkins, Heidi Henderson, Carl Flink, Emilie Plauche, and Janis Brenner. The International Library of Poetry published her poem, "House in the Familiar Crack", in a compilation of poetry entitled " True Reflections" and recently selected her poetry to appear in their special edition, "The Best Poems and Poets of 2001". DeAnna is a practicing personal trainer certified by the American Council on Exercise (ACE).
			*Ingrid Schatz*, Rehearsal Director, dancer, is a performer and teacher who grew up dancing in the hills of western Massachusetts. Since receiving her BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts, she has worked with Amie Dowling, Joyce Lim, Jin-Wen Yu, Outside Art Collective and has performed and taught throughout the United States and in Paris, France and St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently, she performs with Bennett Dance Company and Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works for whom she is also rehearsal director. She has worked with Victory Girl Productions and with actress Amy Robbins whom with she made the dance/theatre work "Images of a Gecko in Flight" which premiered at the Playhouse Theater in Belfast, Maine.

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