The Collaborators
is a dancer, choreographer, and a Marine Iraq War Veteran, who served in Fallujah from 2005-2006 and was honorably discharged in 2008. Upon his return to the United States, Roman co-founded Exit 12 Dance Company as a vehicle to bring the military experience to audiences. Roman’s work has been recognized by Pointe Magazine, The Dance Current, NPR’s All Things Considered, WNYC’s The Takeaway, American Public Media, and Reuters. His work was recently performed at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in New York City and on the deck of the USS Intrepid in honor of Memorial Day. Exit 12 also re-envisioned the holiday classic The Nutcracker to include a military twist, and collaborated with Quinnepiac University for their production of The Antigone Project, a theater work developed with the help of Vietnam Veterans. In 2012 Roman received a fellowship from The Mission Continues to volunteer with Battery Dance Company. Roman was certified as a Teaching Artist through the Dancing to Connect Institute and now holds workshops with New York City youth and youth around the world along with Battery Dance Company’s core dancers. Read article in the Wall Street Journal. |
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(Composer, Mother Goose and Notebooks) Frank Carlberg is a native of Finland and divides his creative time between New York, Boston, Helsinki and Bombay. Carlberg’s awards include First Prize in the Jazz Composers Alliance Composition Contest, the Julius Hemphill Award (1997) the Thelonious Monk Competition, BMI Award (1994), the Cognac Hennessey Jazz Search and the Boston Jazz Society Award. Carlberg has received performance and recording grants from the Finnish Government and a grant from the Cultural Foundation of Finland. Carlberg received a grant from Meet the Composer to support the commission of his first work for Battery Dance, Zero… Two… Blue… Heaven… Seven. Subsequent commissions by Battery Dance Company included Mother Goose and Time Signatures, a co-commission with the Academy of Indian Performing Arts. ). Carlberg has performed throughout the U.S., Finland, Poland and India with Battery Dance Company Carlberg from 1999 – 2003. He has performed his own work and collaborations with jazz notables, Steve Lacy and Rufus Reid. His discography is extensive and includes Frederico (GM Records), Ugly Beauty (Northeastern Records), Carlberg was nominated for Outstanding Jazz Album (India), the Boston Music Awards (1994.) |
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Tadej Brdnik, a native of Slovenia where he began his dance career, has performed and taught with Battery Dance Company in three continents since 1998. He has also performed with Coyote Dancers, Avila/Weeks Dance, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, theater director Robert Wilson, David Gordon’s Pick Up Performance Company and MoveOpolis as well as in works of Maurice Béjart, Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, Susan Stroman, Steve Paxton, Lerry Keigwin, Deborah Hay and others. He is a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company (since 1996). His choreography has been performed in the U.S. and Europe. He has served as a teaching artist with Battery Dance Company in the U.S., Asia and Germany and encouraged the development of the Everybody Dance Now audience participation aspect of BDC’s Downtown Dance Festival. He was Special Projects Coordinator for the Martha Graham Dance Company and is a recipient of the 1993 Benetton Dance Award and the 2003 Eugene Loring Award. His career has been supported by a full scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance sponsored by actor Gregory Peck and a three-year grant, given by the Ministry of Culture from Republic of Slovenia. |
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(Vocalist) Christine grew up in Bombay where she was influenced by her father's career as a band leader, arranger and composer of jazz and popular dance music. She studied classical piano in Bombay and before emigrating to the U.S., sang in Bollywood Films. In the U.S., she trained in jazz voice at New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ran Blake, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, and Gerry Martin. She now lives in New York City and runs the Maine Jazz Camp. Her professional career has involved collaborations with Steve Lacy, John LaPorta, her former teacher Ran Blake, and her husband, Frank Carlberg. Correa has toured and performed with Battery Dance in New York, Finland and Poland. Other recent performances have included The Knitting Factory, New York City, National Opera House, Helsinki, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC and The National Center for the Performing Arts, Bombay. |
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Autobiographica marked his third collaboration with Battery Dance Co. and solidified a committed return to composing for dance theater, a direction inaugurated in Boston in the mid 1980s. This extended piece for Battery Dance melds traditional musical forms with contemporary elektro; acoustic with electronic; funny time signatures and industrial sludge. He's also crafted dance music for the club scene with his band Koko Dozo and has released eight albums of songs and instrumentals including soundtrack works and songs addressing political issues for filmmaker/journalist Danny Schechter and Nile Rodgers' post 9/11We Are Family Project. In addition, Polar founded Battery Drumline, an all-kids samba school located Tribeca, New York City. |
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Works in directing and design in New York City and surroundings. He is a resident designer for the Stolen Chair Theatre Company, and has designed projects for Balinese American Dance Theatre, New Jersey Opera Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Princeton Summer Theater and many others. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he studied theater and worked with student productions and the McCarter Theater. |
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