an as-yet-untiltled work
Choreographed by: Melinda Ring in collaboration with the performers
Performed by: Amelia Heintzelman, Ayano Elson, Laurel Atwell, Molly Ross, and Paul Hamilton
Rehearsal Director: Laurel Atwell
Work-in- Progress showing
June 1, 2026 7pm
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Project Proposal
Video - Rehearsal Clips
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Laurel Atwell has been performing and building performance-driven work since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2008. Her work and collaborations have been presented at MoMA PS1, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place; as part of Sundays on Broadway, Performa ’11, CATCH, Offerings; and have shown in Los Angeles, CA, Marfa, TX, Minneapolis, MN, and New Haven, CT. She has worked with luciana achugar, Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Camilla Carper, Barnett Cohen, Milka Djordjevich (for which Atwell received a 2018 Bessie nomination for her performance in ANTHEM), Beth Gill, Ursula Eagly, Nikima Jagudajev, Melanie Maar, and Melinda Ring, among others. Atwell participated in the 2022 Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon, Portugal, beginning corresponding live and video projects that attempt to decipher the new perceptions of reality, desire, and mortality thanks to the internet, as well as merge the necessities and benefits of the organized group (towards policy, agenda, legible accomplishment) with the disorganized group (towards intuition, pleasure, the self maintained). She is a qi gong facilitator and Reiki practitioner.
Ayano Elson is an Okinawan–American dancer and choreographer. Her choreography has been presented by the Kitchen, The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Pageant, and Roulette, among others. She is currently dancing for Kim Brandt, Jesi Cook, and Melinda Ring, and has danced for Milka Djordjevich, Simone Forti, Niall Jones, Gwendolyn Knapp, Ella Dawn W-S, Juli Brandano, and Alexa West at museums, galleries, and theaters in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
Paul Hamilton is a Jamaican-born, Bessie Award-winning dancer/choreographer who has collaborated with a wide range of choreographers. His longest ongoing collaboration, with Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Performance Group since 2000, has yielded five original works: Black Burlesque (revisited) 2003, the Bessie-winning Big Brick 2004, The Good Dance dakar/brooklyn 2009, the duet 2012, and Moses(es) 2014. With Keely Garfield: Scent of Mental Love 2005, Telling the Bees 2013, Wow 2014, and Pow 2016. With National Medal of Arts winner Ralph Lemon: Scaffold Room and Chirus 2015. For the MoMA, he has restaged Bruce Nauman’s Wall Floor Position in the largest-ever retrospective of the artist’s work and performed in works by David Gordon and Deborah Hay. Other notable performances include two Bessie-winning productions—Jane Comfort’s 40th Anniversary Retrospective and David Thomson’s He his own mythical beast—and works by Melinda Ring and Neil Greenberg. He has toured and lectured internationally. His work as a choreographer was most recently seen in Kevin Beasley’s Sound of Morning, Performa 2021.
Amelia Heintzelman is a dancer. She has shown work at Center for Performance Research, Draftwork at Danspace Project, Issue Project Room, Movement Research at Judson Church, Pageant, and Snug Harbor. She has performed for Kim Brandt, Jesi Cook, Ayano Elson, Deborah Hay, Melinda Ring, evan ray suzuki, and Alexa West. She teaches at Movement Research and Pageant, and rarely/sometimes teaches Comedy Pilates.
Molly Ross is a dancer and choreographer from Michigan. She has been based in NYC since 2017. Her solo projects have been presented at Grace Exhibition Space, PAGEANT, Essex Flowers, FourOneOne, and the Wild Project. She is also in an ongoing collaboration with Nola Sporn Smith. As a performer, she has recently worked with Melinda Ring, Laurel Atwell, Juliana May, Alexa West, Peter BD, and others. When not dancing, Molly works as a bookkeeper.
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