This Weekend!

The Dinner Club

The Dinner Club
a contemporary performance directed by Michele Torino Hower

The Woods, Ridgewood, NYC

November 4-5, 2011 at 8pm

Tickets $10 at door

www.thewoodscooperative.org
www.micheletorinohower.blogspot.com

"I make love to myself when I eat."

The Dinner Club is a dance-theatre performance that follows 4 members of a meet-up group who connect through their love for food. Personal food stories compiled from interviews with Queens residents and members of the cast transport us through alternate food-induced universes with TV commercial jingles and Reality TV- style confessions exploring food-based themes of nourishment vs. destruction and tradition vs. progression.

Michele Torino Hower is a choreographer, performer and teacher with a deep interest and background in improvisation, psychology, theater and modern dance. Her work has been presented at Judson Church, The Tank, WaxWorks and the Incubator Arts Project, and she has performed with Bill Evans, Heather McCardle and Mariangela Lopez/Accidental Movement. She is currently a Teaching Artist in NYC Public Schools and holds a BA in Theater from College of the Holy Cross and an MFA in Dance from the University of New Mexico.

Performed by
Rafael Gallegos
Rachel Gibbs
Kristine Pregot
Laurel Snyder

Sound and Music by John Stanesco

This project is funded in part by The Queens Art Council.

The Dinner Club
at The Woods
November 4-5, 2011
8pm
$10 at door
1826 Palmetto #1
Ridgewood, NY 11385
M to Seneca or L to Myrtle-Wycoff

The Dinner Club

SAVE the DATE!
November 4-5, 2011
8pm
The Woods
1826 Palmetto St. #1
Ridgewood, NY
L to Myrtle-Wycoff / M to Seneca
www.thewoodscooperative.org

I have been in this fantasy. Before

"I have been in this fantasy. Before" was performed at The Tank in NYC in October 2010. It was performed by Sarah Holcman, Laura Prudhomme, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Michele Torino Hower and Devika Wickremesinge, with live music by Shawn Gallagher. The work grew out of duet between Hower and Tenenbaum which had been showcased at Judson Church and the Chocolate Factory's Throw Series.

In 2006 I moved with my husband to Brooklyn, NY. I quickly joined forces with an old Albuquerque acquaintance to continue researching collaboration in dance-making. We performed works in progress at Movement Research's Open Studios and Gowanus' Spoke the Hub. Then, we toured 4 versions of an evening's work, Cabin Fever, to Portland Oregon's Conduit Dance, the University of New Mexico, the Philly Fringe Festival and finally back to NYC at Cunningham Studio. We presented an improvisational reflection of Cabin (2 years in the making) as part of Bushwick's SITE Festival at Chez Bushwick and most recently presented work at The Tank's 3rd Generation Festival.

In NYC, I have also had the pleasure of dancing with Heather McCardle, Scott Lyons and ConLab.

This past summer, of 2009, I began formulating ideas for a new dance work while taking Sarah Michelson's MELT choreography workshop. The new work, for 4 dancers, is now in process.

From 2000 - 2006, I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico where I received my MFA in Dance and 500-hr. Yoga teaching certification. Over those 6 years in the beautiful harsh desert, I danced with Bill Evans, Jennifer Predock-Linnel, Donna Jewell and Esther Balfe. I also co-founded The PutAttention Collective, a performance based collaboration between myself and 4 other female dance artists. Over 2 years we actively researched the nature of collaboration and the unification of our 5 colliding visions. The Collective received a grant from the Place Program at UNM to create a site specific dance work, Imposters, that interacted with Albuquerque's community, presented at ReadyMade Dance Theater. They also performed an evening length work, Keeping Time, at Q-Staff Theater in Albuquerque.