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Paul Blackman
Paul Blackman, a native of Perth, Australia, first interacted with Battery Dance in 2005. His awards and citations include 2006 “Best Male Dancer in Western Australia” from AusDance and “2007 Dancer to Watch” in Dance Australia Magazine. He studied at the Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm (1998), Australia Ballet School (2000), and West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where he received an advance diploma in dance in 2002. Mr. Blackman spent 2003 as an apprentice with the West Australian Ballet Company and joined Buzz Dance Theatre, West Australia’s leading contemporary dance company, in 2004. Mr. Blackman received a travel grant from the West Australia Arts Council for professional development in New York in 2006, following which he took part in Dances for the Blue House with Battery Dance Company. He performed in Justicia, by Jasmin Vardimon, at the Sadler’s Wells Theater in London and on tour in Scotland and throughout the U.K. in 2006-07.
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Tadej Brdnik
Tadej Brdnik joined Battery Dance Company in 1998, and has performed in his native Slovenia during Battery's 1999 tour to Ljubljana and Maribor, as well as Varna and Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He performed a solo, Pavilion, created for him by choreographer Jonathan Hollander, in a special tribute to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks on a street in Lower Manhattan on September 26, 2001. He has been a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, and is a recipient of The Benneton Danca Award (Treviso, Italy). He also performs with David Gordon Pick/Up Company, has toured with Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Project, and has been a Battery Dance Company teaching artist in New York City public schools.
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Robin Cantrell
Robin makes her Battery Dance Company debut this season. She is a native of Saint Paul Minnesota. she attended the University of Utah as a Willem F. Christensen scholarship recipient, graduating with a BFA in Ballet Performance and a B.A. in Anthropology. Robin has been a member of City Ballet of San Diego, Ballet Deviare, Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, and Rebecca Kelly ballet. She supplements her dance training with The Alexander Technique. Robin also enjoys creating sit specific dance films and spends her free time focusing on her current project: "Trans-Continental Dance Collaborative.
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Bafana Solomon Matea
Bafana Solomon Matea made his Battery Dance Company debut during the 2004 Hungary and Poland Tour. He was born in Mamelodi, South Africa and is a Ceccheti Advanced Dance Graduate of the Pro Alphen Art School in Pretoria and the recipient of the Alvin Ailey South African Dance Fellowship. His previous company affiliations have been with Elisa Monte Dance and Ballet Hispanico.
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Adele Nickel
Adele Leroi Nickel made her Battery Dance Company in 2006, and has participated in European and Asian tours as well as New York Seasons over the past two years. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she has trained and performed with Oregon Ballet Theater and San Francisco Ballet, and studied on scholarship at Joffrey Ballet School. In New York, she has performed in Noemie LaFrance's site-specific production of "Agora" and earned a BA in Writing and Contextualized Arts from the New School University, and has served as BDC's teaching artist at I.S. 162 in the South Bronx.
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Sean Scantlebury
Sean Scantlebury joined Battery Dance Company in 2003. A native of Barbados, he trained with Richard Thomas, Christine Sarry and Daniel Levans at New York City Public School for Dance and joined Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech, with which he performed throughout the U.S. With Battery Dance, he has performed and taught in New York, Poland, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, Jordan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Australia and is Battery's teaching artist at P.S. 257 in Brooklyn. He has also served as a guest ballet teacher with Dance Theatre of Harlem. |
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Mayuna Shimizu
Mayuna Shimizu is a native of Fukushima, Japan, where she began her training. Mayuna moved to New York in 1998 and enrolled at Joffrey Ballet School. Soon after, she founded Blue Muse Dance, a New York City-based performance arts collective that presents her work as well as film, music and other dance productions. She has performed with Third Rail Dance, Nathan Trice, Slam and others in New York. She has been associated with Battery Dance Company since 2004 when she presented her choreography at BDC’s Downtown Dance Festival, and in 2006, when she joined BDC as a guest artist in its Japanese debut performance at International House in Tokyo. Mayuna makes her debut as a Battery Dance Company member in the summer ’07 European Tour. |
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Lydia Tetzlaff
Lydia Tetzlaff has been a member of Battery Dance Company since 2003, performing in New York and on tour in North Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. She has over fourteen years of professional performing experience encompassing the styles of Modern Dance, Classical and Contemporary Ballet, with companies including Ballet Tech, Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY, John Passafiume Dancers, Alabama Ballet, and Teri Weksler's Southern Danceworks. Lydia received a U.S. State Department grant to teach in Lebanon and Jordan, and served as Battery’s resident teaching artist at Frank Sinatra School for the Arts during the 2004-2005 school year. Lydia teaches at Central Park Dance in Westchester County and taught for Battery Dance Company in its pilot ballet program in Battery Park City last season. She has also taught at Peridance in NYC and internationally on tour with Battery Dance. |
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