The Dancers
KRISTEN FREELAND is from San Francisco where she performed with Earth Circus, Drego Rivera Theater, Rhythm and Motion Dance Studio, and Balazzo Mission Badlands Gallery. She has been in NYC since 2003 and has performed with Electric Butterfly Dance Theater, Kickstand Dance and has performed her own work for Chashama's Oasis Festival.
TEODORA KOLEVA is originally from Bulgaria and a recent graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, where she combined her studies in dance with architectural design. She now lives and dances in NYC.
MARY MADSEN holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she studied with guest artists Terrence Greene and Zvi Gotheiner. She was a member of the Milwaukee-based company Foothold Dance Performance, and upon moving to NYC she performed with VanDance.
TRAYER RUN-KOWZUN has been performing with DE/FDW at Monadnock's summit since 1994. She is originally from Taiwan where she earned a BFA in dance from N.I.H. in Taipei. She has appeared on Metro Arts Thirteen and dances with Freeman Repertory Dance Company and Dance Consort: Mezzacappa-Gabrian. Her teaching credits include Premiere Dance Theater, Young Dancer's Repertory. She is currently on the faculty of the County College of Morris in New Jersey.
DIANNE ENO is a native New Hampshire artist who began dance training at age three. She studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music and graduated from the University of Massachusetts while pursuing a specialized degree in Choreography and Dance Production under the guidance of Rosalind DeMille.
Professional training includes Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and School and most recently Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, where Ms. Eno was selected as a participant in Bessie Schoenberg's celebrated Choreographer's Lab.
Ms. Eno is the founder and artistic director of Dianne Eno/Fusion Danceworks (formerly Dianne Eno Dance Company), which performs in and around New England and NYC, presenting her original nature and Native American inspired Modern dance works. She has presented her work internationally, as well, in the 1998 England Tour of the original Native American inspired theater piece, "A Circle 'Round the Sun"; she served as principal collaborator, choreographer, performer, researcher and Native American sign language interpreter in conjunction with the Plymouth State College Chamber Singers and the Plymouth State College Education Department, Plymouth, NH.
Often staging her dances in unlikely places in the out-of-doors, she and her company have performed her innovative brand of dance on mountain summits, in rivers and streams in forests and along the rugged and rocky coastline of Maine. In 1998 and 1999, Ms. Eno was Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. Ms. Eno and Company performed at various "wild" sites throughout the park, including an original sunrise ceremonial dance at the summit of Cadillac Mountain. Additionally, as part of her residency, she designed a curriculum plan to implement dance and movement into the Park's affiliated AMC children's camp as a unique way for leaders and educators to give campers art experiences in nature.
Much of Ms. Eno's work, both educational and performance, is fused with Native American Sign Language creating a unique movement style reflecting her own American Indian roots. Her strong orientation in Native American values is evident in both her teaching philosophy and in her nature-inspired works and productions. Her most recent workshop presentation, "Dancing the Medicine Wheel: Model of the Creative Process" has been presented at a variety of venues including The Sacred Dance Guild in Ottawa, Canada, and the Art/ Culture/ Nature and Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference at Boston University hi 2003.
Other recent performance credits include: commissioned environmental site-specific dance works, "Dances for Sugar River" at the New England Artists Trust IV (Newport,N.H.) and the Manhattan Eco-Fest in NYC.