MADISON VOMASTEK
CHOREOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIO
Live & virtual dance performances and collaborations.
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Still by Eno de Witt
ABOUT MADISON
Portrait by Eno De Wit.
Madison Vomastek (She/Her/Hers) Madison Vomastek is a professional contemporary-ballet dancer, maker, educator, and artist leader born in Michigan, USA.
Her professional trajectory sprung after her graduation from the inaugural class at the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance under the artistic direction of William Forsythe and Jodie Gates. Thereafter, Madison moved to NYC to join the 2020 revival of West Side Story on Broadway choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Due to the closure of the show during the COVID-19 pandemic, she moved to Cologne, Germany to join the ensemble with Richard Siegal's Ballet of Difference am Schauspiel Köln. Currently Madison resides in Antwerp, Belgium as a dance artist with the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
Madison has directed community events in my hometown of Traverse City Michigan and continues to travel the world pursuing her career as a performer. Madison credits her choreographic work and philosophical thoughts to the dance collective: BODYSONNET where she is a collaborator.
“I want to connect with spaces that not only support my passion to perform but also engage communities of all nature through transmissible performances, events, and art making.” - Madison Vomastek
COLOGNE, GERMANY
JUNE 2023
CYCLICAL
Within the evening of Love Letters to Köln
Live dance performance.
choreographed and performed by: Madison Vomastek in collaboration with Sean Lammer
ABOUT CYCLICAL
Cyclical is a physical duet between Sean Lammer and Madison Vomastek within an intangible trio including cellist Carl Noë Struck. The piece was produced by Madison Vomastek for the evening of LOVE LETTERS TO KÖLN; a celebratory festival featuring a multitude of artistic disciplines and collaborations.
Within the piece there is an emphasis on listening, both to the self and the other, as the dancers build a physical trajectory using their impulses to repeat, contest, and pause.
Being confined to a smaller space created a clear improvised structure for all artists, yet enough freedom for play and pleasure.
Cyclical stills by Pramudiya.
OCTOBER 2020 - JUNE 2021
BODYSONNET
A dance collective’s 9 month residency within Berkshire MA, Hudson NY, and NYC, NY USA.
Place of residence: Berkshire Pulse
BODYSONNET in collaboration with Samantha Pleet.
Still by Adrianna Newell.
BODYSONNET’s BLUE VICE.
Still by Shana and Robert ParkeHarrision.
Live and digital performances in collaboration with BODYSONNET
BODYSONNET X OUR TREATY.
Still by Jake Borden.
ABOUT BODYSONNET & FOUNDERS
“Founded in 2019, BODYSONNET is a collective of contemporary dance makers and performers committed to making work in non-traditional spaces. BODYSONNET initiates projects in an array of communities that provide locals with unique and inclusive performance experiences. While the collective’s most fluent language is dance, the work also demonstrates the intersection of many mediums and enacts zero waste consciousness in an entire process. To create highly collaborative work, BODYSONNET employs horizontal working practices and considers every artist in the room equal parts dancer and creator."
Moscelyne Parkeharrison (she/her) is a graduate of The Juilliard School (’19) where she received the Joseph W. Polisi Award for Artist as Citizen. Moscelyne pursued additional training at Hubbard Street Pro (’20) and Walnut Hill School for the Arts (’15) and summer workshops including b12, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Jacob’s Pillow.
Moscelyne’s choreographic works have been performed at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, the Hudson Guild Theater, The Studebaker Theater (Chicago), the Foundry West Stockbridge and Triskelion Arts. She has received support from the Anthony Quinn Foundation Fellowship, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and Metropolis Ensemble for her choreography.
Moscelyne dances professionally on the East and West Coast with Post:ballet, David Michalek, Francesca Harper, Liz Gerring, and Helen Simoneau. She moved to the Bay Area in early 2022 as a company artist with Post:ballet, and faculty member at Berkeley Ballet Theater. Her world premiere ‘say i am you’ was performed by Post:ballet at BAMPFA in March 2022. Shortly after Moscelyne was named Choreographer in Residence. She looks forward to dancing and creating in the Bay Area with Post:ballet, and pinkslip her duo with composer Trey Makler, as well as continuing her work as director of the solo series ‘please come alone.’
Sean Lammer (He/Him/His) is an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. He began training seriously at age 13 while in attendance at The Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet under the direction of John White and Margarita De Saá. Sean is an alumnus of Walnut Hill School for the Arts (’15) and The Juilliard School (’19) and, throughout the course of his education, has had the good fortune of dancing the work of Merce Cunningham, Nacho Duato, Roy Assaf, Twyla Tharp, Ohad Naharin, Martha Graham, José Limón, and Stephanie Batten Bland. Sean spent the years of 2019-2021 freelancing professionally in and around New York City, working and collaborating with a breadth of artists and companies including GALLIM, Helen Simoneau Danse, MADBOOTS, Madeline Hollander, David Michelak and Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. As of August 2021, Sean is a member of the Richard Siegal Company / Ballet of Difference at Schauspiel Köln. In 2019, Sean Co-Founded BODYSONNET in pursuit of bringing together a collective of inspired artists to create highly collaborative work in unconventional spaces.
Mio Ishikawa (she/her) is a dancer and a collaborator based in New York City. She is a native of Tokyo, Japan, where she began dancing at the age of 6. Her training in both classical and contemporary dance forged her strong interest in the performing arts and led her to study at the Juilliard School in New York City where she received BFA in 2019. Mio has performed the repertories by Iván Pérez, Alejandro Cerrudo, Roy Assaf, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris among many others.
She dances with Company Stefanie Batten Bland (2020-), BODYSONNET (2019-), ChristinaNoel and the Creature (2021-), Olga Rabetskaya (2022-), and Sidra Bell Dance (2022-).
During the pandemic in 2020, Mio was in Tokyo and has assisted Mariko Kakizaki (former dancer of L.E.V) and Ryu Suzuki (Associate Choreographer of Dance Base Yokohama). She has collaborated with the American artist Dan Colen, visual artists Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison, cellist Ken Kubota, jazz pianist Isiah Thompson, jazz bass player Felix Moseholm, High Line Nine Gallery in Chelsea Manhattan and continues to make her own multidisciplinary art and collaborate across mediums.
HUDSON, NEW YORK, USA
OCTOBER 2020
BODYSONNET X OUR TREATY
Live performance in collaboration with BODYSONNET
Our Treaty and BODYSONNET invite you to explore the embodiment of the Hudson Valley landscape through dance. An acknowledgment of the hemp growing season’s end and the land’s heritage, the performance will take place in an interactive habitat for solitary bees designed by Harrison Atelier at Hudson Hemp. The experience includes a Treaty product of your choice, a box of foraged and wildcrafted foods prepared by Woodland Pantry, and hemp milk by Little Rico. Afterwards, a Treaty pop-up store in real life.” - BODYSONNET
“ZERO WASTE DANCE
While in process for our collaboration with Our Treaty, BODYSONNET took time to connect with the community of Hudson, NY outside of the studio. We are committed to ‘zero waste dance,’ an ethos we live by to reduce our environmental impact and carbon footprint. As a traveling dance collective, we locally source all of our materials for process, performance and collaboration. The same applies to food and nourishing ourselves throughout a week of rehearsals and performances. We sought out partnerships with Hudson based farms to participate in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) work exchange.
BERKSHIRES, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
JANUARY 2021
BLUE VICE
Film created in collaboration with BODYSONNET
“Blue Vice is a film created by BODYSONNET, with videography by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, and original sound by Dorothy Chan and Lucy Yao of chromic duo. The work is centered on four characters and their intimate experiences with winter and solitude. One by one they delve into the depths of waiting and the ecstasy of confession. With its cinematic beauty the Berkshires provide potent grounds for this meditation on how we survive winter.” - BODYSONNET
Still by Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison
MASS CULTURAL COUNCIL
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, USA
JUNE 2021
HIGH LINE NINE
Live performance in collaboration with BODYSONNET
“BODYSONNET makes their New York City debut with a collaborative and intimate performance at High Line Nine’s gallery space in Chelsea, NY. With live music by jazz pianist and composer Isaiah J. Thompson and costumes by Samantha Pleet, BODYSONNET shapes a sensory evening in the spirit of youth, melding their movements with sounds of jazz and a sense of play.” - BODYSONNET
Stills by Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
AUGUST 2015 - 2019
USC KAUFMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE
Undergraduate creations towards BFA in Dance Performance
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
MAY 2019
FORMS FROM FORMS
Senior Thesis
My bachelors solo called Forms from Forms is a structured improvisation exploring the repetition, humor, anger, obscurity, tension, fantasy, recovery and loss through letting go. Throughout this process I was reading Octavio Paz’s Love and Eroticism which sat on the shelf of my first love. This solo is a goodbye love letter to him but not in sadness.
CREDITS
Music curation:
Video:
Video handling:
Garrett Borns
Garrett Borns in collaboration with Madison Vomastek using Isadora software
Evan Sagadencky
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA
APRIL 2018
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
A curated evening: Caught in the Chamber encompassed a collaboration between students and faculty in the USC Kaufman School of Dance and USC Thornton School of Music.
Spearheaded by USC Kaufman assistant professor of practice Jennifer McQuiston Lott and USC Thornton assistant professor of composition Andrew Norman.
My work Slow and Steady Wins the Race was about loss. I divided the space to specify trajectories that indicated two dancers on a completely different plane than the other-- that the space between the dancers can serve as a metaphor for the in-between, afterlife, or transition. The work was created in collaboration with the dancers and composter Tyler Eschendal.
CREDITS
Music composition:
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Madison Vomastek has also made work in her hometown of Traverse City, MI for half a decade. She has made work for the seasonal dance company Traverse City Dance Project as well as for the pre-professional dance company and education institution Company Dance Traverse.