Artistic Statement

YelleB is a contemporary dance ensemble operating as a not-for-profit organization in New York. Through a continuous creative process, performances, educational programs and collaboration with diverse artists and communities, Yelleb promotes awareness and dialogue that inspires personal, and therefore communal well-being. YelleB seeks to establish a symbiotic relationship between performance and educational outreach.

ARTISTIC STATEMENT

While our work is based in subject matters that are sincere and personal to the artists, YelleB aspires to create a high quality performance art that moves individual audience members to reflect on his/her own experiences and spark dialogues with others in the community.

I am fascinated by instinctual movement; the choreography of natural existence, the ways that reactions, desires, thoughts, compulsions, and space manipulate one’s physicality. Moments that evoke such movement create the space where a new work begins. This space is a nourishing landscape for exploration and collaborative endeavors informed by a variety of disciplines. I encourage my dancers to ask and answer the question ‘What initiates movement?’ This process-oriented experience provides us with opportunities to develop untapped abilities and newfound physical awareness. This embracing and provocative raw movement, presented in a performance atmosphere, elevates the sense of immediacy and allows my work to be technically challenging and emotionally transcending for both the performers and the audience.

YelleB provides a unique, experiential training that retunes, reveals and redefines the body/mind connection for our dancers, participants, collaborators and the audience.

YELLEBOLOGY

In addition to performances, YelleB conducts post-performance discussions, innovative movement classes and workshops for dancers as well as non-dancers. YelleB’s educational programs offer a blend of physical, intellectual, and artistic activities, which provide interactive experiences designed to introduce and expose new audiences to the art of dance, and to enhance self-awareness, communication, and self-expression.

YelleB recognize that we all posses a human body, therefore we tailor all of the mentioned activities to any target audience in any given environment.

• “GoofsA”- Makor of the 92nd St. Y (NY)
• “(in)Veiled”- University Settlement (NY)
• “Orange Alert”- Company Residency (NH)
• “Leave-in Room”- The Tank (NY)
• “Duet”- Contemporary Dance Festival, Ailey CitiGroup Theatre (NY)

• “Part A: The Meeting” – LABA, 14th St. Y (NY), Goose Route Dance festival
(WV), DUMBO Dance Festival (NYC), Wave Rising Series (NYC)
• “Pericardium” (video dance) - Tina B. Contemporary Art Festival (Prague)
• Taught and choreographed - World Dance Alliance Assembly –
University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Taught and choreographed - 2009 Summer Dance Intensive –
University of Florida, Gainesville.
• "Neighbors" (installation/performace) Hendershot Gallery (Chelsea, NYC)

2010

• “Moving to the beat of Dialogue” – A week long workshops,
   performance & a panel, UC Berkeley (CA)
• “Animus”- Cool NY Dance Festival (NYC), WestFest, Cunningham Theater
• YelleB was invited to conduct their outreach program - “Dance Exposure” in
   different communities such as the Adaptations Program as well as R+R at the JCC
   in Manhattan, the Esplanade and Amsterdam Nursing Homes.
• “Pericardium” – Joyce SoHo, NYC
• La MaMa Moves Dance Festival 2010 – Rossobastardo Evenings