principal artists
Randy Gibson / artistic director + composer
Ana Baer-Carrillo / choreographer + videographer
Dani Beauchamp / choreographer
Mike Rugnetta / composer + programmer
randy gibson / artistic director + composer
Randy Gibson is a composer, performer, and nascent film-maker living and working in Brooklyn. He began his musical training at the age of six, studying drums, and later marimba with Pete Ehrmann in Boulder, Colorado. In the summer of 1998, he traveled to Japan, where he had the good fortune to study marimba with Keiko Abe. Earlier that same year he wrote his first composition, “Descention,” a short solo for percussion using extended techniques to augment a research paper about John Cage.
In early 2003, Gibson began studies in New York with seminal minimalist composer La Monte Young which has brought the heart of his music into focus, and reinforced his commitment to quality in his craft. His pieces often combine live and electronic music, as well as aspects of the world music he has studied, most recently and prominently Raga singing in the Kirana tradition with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, but also Balinese and Japanese music. Gibson has begun to explore just intonation and the Raga tradition with "Separate Haven" (for violin and electronics) and "Aqua Madora" (for piano and sine-wave drones.). These two recent works highlight his interest in small sounds and subtle shifting patterns in a unique sonic environment.
His first large piece, "Chaos and Simplicity," was written during his trip to Japan, and received its premiere in the spring of 1999. Since that time he has received commissions from choreographers and film-makers, including Kim Olson/Sweetedge, Lauren Beale, the Interstate Dance Collective, Notes In Motion, and Ana Baer-Carrillo. His piece Alicia with Baer-Carrillo was awarded second place for the Creative Works Award through the University of Colorado, the first time the award was given to a dance performance. His pieces have been performed in North America and Europe,and have been included in several festivals including the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art in Minnessota, The Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in Dusseldorf, The Boulder International Fringe Festival, HOT DAM: the opening festival of the Denver Art Museum, the Sans Souci International Festival of Dance Cinema, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Erick Hawkins Legacy Forum in New York, and the 44. Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt.
Gibson is a member of the American Music Center, ASCAP, SEAMUS, the International Society of Improvised Music, and Dance Theatre Workshop. He is co-founder and director of Avant Media Performance, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to collaborative performance works.
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ana baer-carrillo / choreographer + videographer
Ana Baer-Carrillo has been nationally and internationally active as a choreographer, dancer, and video-artist since 1992. In March of 2004 Dance Magazine, in the article “Rocky Mountains Dancing,” described her as “one of the most innovative multimedia choreographers living in Boulder.”
In 2003 she co-founded Avant Media Performance with Randy Gibson. In 2005 she co-founded The Sans Souci International Festival of Projected Dance with Michelle Ellsworth. Currently, she is working and performing with Los Angeles based Corpus Delicti and is a co-director of the Boulder based Sans Souci Festival, and an artistic director of New York based Avant Media Performance.
She holds a Licentiate of Choreography from the Centro Nacional de las Artes, in Mexico City. In 2000 she moved from Mexico to the United States and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which she received her MFA in Dance with an emphasis in Video Dance. While in graduate school, she conceived and directed projects in several venues outside the University, the highlight being a solo exhibition with performances at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
The collaborative aspects of Baer-Carrillo’s work have led to projects and performances with choreographers Nancy Spanier, Kim Olson, Gabe Masson, and Tarek Assam; filmmakers Elliot Caplan, Victor Jendras, and Hamel Bloom; and musicians Randy Gibson and Marcelo Gaete, among others. During her most recent artistic engagements she has presented work in Germany, France, Mexico and various venues on the west coast, such as The Theater of Note in Los Angeles and the Yugen Theater in San Francisco.
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dani beauchamp / choreographer
Dani Beauchamp is a dancer and choreographer working in Los Angeles, California. Her work blends the thematic exploration of self and society with the contemporary vernacular of dance to inspire intellectual, emotional, and kinesthetic introspection. Preferring to work in collaboration with other artists to create a deeper sensory experience for audiences, her choreography more often than not is seen in conjunction with film and/or live music and at times is defined by it’s sight-specific nature.
Beauchamp began cultivating her choreographic signature while exploring movement and composition under the tutelage of such influential instructors as Nancy Spanier, David Capps, Michelle Ellsworth, Maria Gillespie, Keith Johnson, and Doug Neilsen. Her growth as a choreographer has stemmed from her constant challenging of the limits of physicality and the juxtaposition of the feeling of being brought to the brink. Her interest in causation fuels her movement choices and she draws thematically from the experiences that have shaped her existence.
As a performer, Dani has had the good fortune of premiering works by Debra Christie, Joe Goode, Gabriel Mason, Alexander Gish, Nina Martin, Kim Olson, and Ana Baer. Her own work has premiered at the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’ Highways Performance Space, Topanga Park, the University of Morelia in Mexico, and the alternative high schools, September School and Chattanooga Center for the Creative Arts. In 2006, Dani was invited to join Avant Media Performance; a non-profit organization dedicated to collaborative performance work. Her own work, in conjunction with Avant Media Performance, has been produced at the Highways Performance Space. In addition to her collaborations with Ana Baer-Carillo and Randy Gibson of Avant Media Performance, she has collaborated with a number of artists including Heather Libonati (lighting designer - LA), Elizabeth Nalley (choreographer/dancer - OR), and Mike Rugnetta (composer - NY). In 2007, experimenting with dance for the camera, Dani’s short film Saturate premiered as an installation at the San Souci International Film Festival.
Dani is also the co-owner of Second Story, a Pilates and GYROTONIC method studio in Los Angeles county.
mike rugnetta / composer + programmer
Mike Rugnetta is a composer, programmer, sound designer and musician who lives and works in Brooklyn. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he became involved in theatre and music as a youngster and went on to attend Bennington College as a theatre tech major. While at Bennington, his interests shifted and after much academic soul searching and many stressful advisor meetings, he ended up with a degree in Music Composition and Computer Science.
Along the way he ended up developing interests in finger style acoustic guitar and Derek Bailey's method of total improvisation, as William S. Burroughs and Edward Tufte's books on the organization of information. To date, these four things remain sources to which Rugnetta turns when in need of inspiration.
After graduation, Mike moved to New York City. He worked at an uptown art's organization here, a downtown art's venue there. A stint as a creative professional services technician (think ProTools and Final Cut for famous people) and another as the director of a continuing education program focused in the arts. All the while, Rugnetta was involved in works being produced by Avant Media and other groups around the city.
He has performed or had work performed at 20 Greene, St. Mark's Church, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center, Columbia University, and The Gene Frankel Theatre to name a few. Rugnetta has worked as commissioned composer or sound designer for dance, performance, theatre and video as well as performer (guitar, laptop, voice), technical director, lead audio engineer, and director.
He currently works as a freelance engineer and programmer. His most recently projects include FOH mixes for New York based composer Nick Brooke and a computer controlled motorized digital video system for the Chocolate Factory Theatre in Queens. He was co-producer and lead mix engineer on New York based band The Kiss Off's debut EP Brace. He also teaches Max/MSP and Jitter at the Product Architecture Engineering Department of the Masters School of Architecture at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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