BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance is a contemporary dance company of women that captures and communicates universal human encounters through dynamic, purposeful movement. We bring a wealth of cultural arts activism experience into each work we create with community partners. We focused on family heritage and personal obstacles in Agawam and Home, traveled abroad with our piece The Border Project about human migration and displacement, and collaborated with Trey Anastasio of Phish on a piece focused on addiction issues. Valuing international exchange, we collectively speak nine languages and research, perform, and collaborate with artists from five continents. We are a multifaceted, highly physical company laced with provocative, emotional, political, humorous edges.

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance has shown work at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Public Theater, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, University of Florida, ENTPE University (Lyon, France), NYU, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Bryant Park Summer Stage, BDF Edinburgh at EICC, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at Gibney Dance Center, NY City Center, Dixon Place, UME, ICA Boston, 92nd St. Y, Naropa University, Franco-American Cultural Center, CPR-Center for Performance Research, 14th St. Y, Merce Cunningham Theatre, The Dance Complex, Southampton Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, and in concerts with Phish. BodyStories has put on free and ticketed public concerts throughout the United States and abroad, and held several workshops with integrated participant performances, such as the Patrick Dempsey Cancer Center, where participants contributed text/movement created in collaboration with BodyStories.

Collaborations on original music under the direction of our Musical Director, John Yannelli, are vitally integrated into our productions. Music collaborators include Yannelli, Trey Anastasio, Phish, Ryan Lott, Ryan Edwards, Kevin Keller, and Carver Audain. We have also enjoyed in-depth collaborations with costume designers Nina Katan, Ljupka Arsovska, and Elena Comendador, set designer, Robert Gould, and video artists Nel Shelby, Jacob Hiss, and Charles Dennis.

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance has received gracious support from the O’Donnell-Green Foundation for Music and Dance, LMCC, National Endowment for the Arts Window Grant via chashama, inc., The Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council, SummerStages Dance Choreographic Fellowship at Concord Academy and ICA Boston, Jacob’s Pillow Choreographic Fellowship, MANA Arts Center and Armitage Gone! Dance, Field FAR Space Grant, Dragon’s Egg, Mount Tremper Arts, Inception to Exhibition space grant, and Triskelion Arts Space Subsidy Program made possible with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.