Orélie White - Singer (Canada)

Orélie White was born in Montréal, Canada. While touring in Europe, she met the successful producer and manager CJ BOMB, owner of the music label RAG SQUAD Music (Club 69, Kim Cooper, DJ DOOZER, DJ Palermo, Norman Bass, Max DJ, Bingoboys etc.). She started studying theater in high school and she also sang in the school choir, where she became known as "the little girl with the big voice". She continued pursuing her studies in theater at Marie-Victorin College and earned her degree in the same field at the Université du Québec á Montréal, while performing in various cover bands throughout Montréal's. Music has always been a part of Orélie's life. She has gone on to achieve great success with her shows where she pays tribute to all her favorite singers. This incrediblytalented young Montréal artist never fails to enthrall her audiences with her special blend of vocals and rhythm. Aside from performing her own concerts, Orélie is increasingly requested as a studio singer.

http://www.oreliewhite.com/

Show Devils - Performers/Burlesque (USA)

When all the most amazing stunt performers in the world speak your name with reverence, they call you among THE SHOW DEVILS. Every performer having a history of theater, music and stage production, they are extremely proficient in all of the areas of theater and stunts. On top of all this, SHOW DEVILS originate and create new stunts, setting the bar and forever changing the face of the art from itself. Strong in identity, each and everyone of THE SHOW DEVILS risk their lives for one purpose , to express themselves in a death cheating live drama.

If you think you are an eye witness to performers of this caliber risking their well being for an audience of hypnotized spectators, then you are probably watching THE SHOW DEVILS.

http://www.showdevils.com/

Kelly Raines - Photographer (USA)

Photography is more than a job for me.... its my passion and my release from the world. I enjoy exhibiting my work in local galleries in my free time and enjoy photographing local groups such as TASK and the Special Olympics to demonstrate the need for incredible organizations such as these.

Some highlights:

Member of the Arts Council of Princeton

Exhibitor at Gallery 14, Hopewell NJ

Exhibitor at South Brunswick Arts Commission

http://www.kellyrainesphotography.com/index.html

Meeke Mutter - Painter (NTH) (USA)

“When it was impossible to find a dance poster of her liking, she came to the decision to create her own and so began Meeke’s dancers.”

Meeke Mutter is an artist from The Netherlands. She is a painter of abstract figurative dancers: Meeke’s dancers. She works in acrylic and watercolor. She started with abstract painting in 1998. Her artwork is exhibited frequently and considered as stunning and beautiful. To her it is all about the beauty of dance and abstract calligraphy.

Meeke is also a dancer. She began her ballet training at the age of eight and has often performed. Later she switched to competitive track and field and ran 100/200 meters. She recently finished a 3-year Professional Training Program at Dance New Amsterdam in NYC with one year on scholarship. Since January 2010 she is studying ballet at Ballet Arts with Kirill Matveev, Kenny Larson and contemporary with Nina Buisson.

Meeke has received her masters from the Free University in Amsterdam in Culture, Organization and Management (Social Sciences). She also completed studies in senior communication consultancy. She has worked as a communication consultant for HVR Public Relations in The Hague.

Her performance experience includes working with modern companies/choreographers Neil Ieremia, Ex Nunc Ex Nunc, Pieter de Ruiter, Anne Rene Petrarca, Hanna Samson. Meeke has also choreographed productions for live jazz musicians in The Netherlands.

”I love colors, especially gold, I love elegant lines, fast brushstrokes. Being an artist means being able to focus and knowing you cannot go any other way. This is who you are. Fantastic.”

http://www.meekemutter.com/

J - Morrison - Designer/Screen Printer/Performer (USA)

Fans of Xiu Xiu may recognize the work of J-Morrison - he created covers for the Vinyl releases of the band's albums "Fabulous Muscles" and "La Foret" - but the self -described artist/designer and screen printer hopes he'll get even more attention for his live collaborations with artists and musicians in his "performative art". Morrison who's work has been exhibited at New York's P.S 1 and John Connelly Presents galleries, has become a downtown darling for the screen prints he creates on canvases, bags, T- Shirts, for audiences at Manhattan's Exit Art Gallery, Brooklyn's Powerhouse Arena and the New York Book Fair. "I am interested in bridging the gap between commercial art market and consumer culture," he says, "specifically through using screen printing as a vehicle to transport the work into other sectors of life".

http://www.j-morrison.com/

Mary Madsen - Dancer/ Choreographer (USA)

Mary Madsen is a small town gal from Maribel, WI. She holds a BFA in dance from the University of WI-Milwaukee in 2003. Since graduating, she has been living and working as a dancer, choreographer and Pilates instructor in New York City. Mary has been dancing with Regina Nejman and Company for 5 seasons, and also currently dances for John J Zullo Dance. Other performing credits include Simone Ferro and Friends II as a Solo Guest artist, (Milwaukee '09), Fusion Danceworks, David Appel Dance, Rebollar Dance Theater, and Foothold dance. In 2005 Mary co-founded the Indie rock band performance group Jigsaw Soul, which she continues to work with as movement director, performer, and collaboration curator. Early in 2008 she appeared as a featured dancer in their music video Cockroach Hotel. Other choreography credits include the production of ‘You Can’t Take it With You’ at the University of Rochester, NY in 2008, and ‘Open the Dark Door’ in the New York Musical Theater Festival (2009). Mary is truly inspired by the momentum of everyday life on the city streets and challenges you to take a moment to 'be still' every now and then.

http://vimeo.com/13351812

Matthew Johnson - Writer (USA)

I guess the first thing you should know about is that I really don't like writing about myself. I've been writing in one form or another since I was a kid, I get my inspiration from the people around me and the emotions they evoke.
There was a stretch of time where I didn't write as much as I wanted, then I met someone and she opened the flood gates to everything I've been writing lately. She is my muse.

I am a father of two beautiful girls. My main focus in life is making them happy and providing for them, and making myself happy.

I enjoy writing and reading, movies and tv. I have a lot inside to write about. I just have to find the words...

http://lyceumdrift.blogspot.com/

Sue K. Green - Photographer (USA)

Photography is a serious hobby of mine. It allows me to give expression to the beauty and diversities around me. I look for that ‘unique’ perspective. Buildings, patterns, flowers and landscapes press me to take them in new focus. I allow myself to appreciate and enjoy the full panorama before studying its’ parts, angles, and lighting. I attempt to create an image that allows the viewer to enjoy the obvious but prompts him to look beyond and create his own story.

CdCC

Cranbury Digital Camera Club has allowed me to grow as an artist by providing me with challenges and new friends with whom I can share my passion. Several of my images have won recognition in their monthly competitions with one, “Geometrics,” taking Best of Show.

PSA, Photographic Society of America has helped to further my development in the ‘art’ and ‘skill’ of photography.

My website is currently under construction but many of my images may be viewed here:

http://www.psa-photo.org/

Awards:

“Geometrics” NYC

1st Place in Class and Best of Show CdCC Competition, May 2008 – Walls

“High Tower” Empire State Building, NYC

HM, January 2008 CdCC Competition – Architectural Elements

“Sail On” San Diego, CA

3rd Place, November 2009 CdCC Competition – Maritime

“On the Buoy” San Diego, CA

HM, November 2009 CdCC Competition – Architectural Elements

“Bird’s Eye Vie” Vestal, NY

HM, December 2008 CdCC Competition – Fall Season Colors

“By the Glow of the Lamp” Forsgate Community, Monroe Township, NJ

HM, April 2009 CdCC Competition – Winter Scenes

“Drip”

3rd Place, October 2007 CdCC Competition – Stop Action

“Fountain in the Fog” Forsgate Community, Monroe Township, NJ

HM, April 2008 CdCC Competition – Water

“Temple of Dendur” Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

HM, December 2007 CdCC Competition – Places of Worship

“Lion’s Paw” San Diego Wild Animal Park, CA

HM, August 2009 CdCC Competition – Animals

“Arnold Palmer” USGA Golf House, Far Hills, NJ

2nd Place, January 2009 CdCC Competition – Portraits

“Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” Lower Falls from Artists’ Point

3rd Place, October 2009 CdCC Competition – Grand Landscapes

“Bloomin’ Tea” Original Composition

1st Place, January 2010 CdCC Competition – Still Life

“Sound of Music” Museum of Music, San Diego, CA

HM, February 2010 CdCC Competition – Movie Titles

“Tree Ogre” Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

2nd Place, March 2010 CdCC Competition – Textures

“Flying High” Catskills, Glen Falls, NY

HM, April 2010 CdCC Competition – Standing Out

“Looking at You” Depression Geyser, Yellowstone National Park

HM, May 2010 CdCC Competition – Macro Abstracts

“It’s a Stretch” Thanksgiving 2009

1st Place, June 2010 CdCC Competition – In Flight

Exhibits:

Art and Frame Express, Summer 2007

“City Street”- “Still Life”

Art Way Gallery Princeton, Fall 2009

Art Way Gallery Princeton, Fall 2010

“Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone”- “Across the Lake” – “Morning Mist, Sun, and Shadows”

“NJ Has It All”

South Brunswick Municipal Gallery , January-March 2010

“La Promenade”

“Art for Art’s Sake”

Gallery 125, April 9-June 5, 2010

“Lady of the Lake”

“Spring Song”

South Brunswick Municipal Gallery, April-June 2010

“Cherry Blossoms” – “Tulip Opening”

“Summer Pleasures”

South Brunswick Municipal Gallery, July 13-September 30, 2010

“Sail On” – “Cooling Waters” – “On the Beach”

Lauren Curtis - Photographer (USA)

Lauren Curtis was graduated with a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, in 1988. She enjoys working in a variety of media, including oils, acrylics, pen & ink, watercolor and photography. The artist is happiest when creating pieces that represent her love of nature, wildlife, travel and spiritual subject matter. The symbology and mythology of ancient cultures such as Egyptian, Greco-Roman and Celtic are fused with the symbols of modern -day , natural spiritual practices, to form a unique and eclectic style. These images are often portrayed through the woman’s perspective, showing the importance of “The Feminine” , which is sometimes over-looked. Lauren wants to convey the beauty in diversity, as well as the similarities, that run through various cultural belief-systems.

Lauren has had artwork and poetry published by greeting card and crafter companies, magazines and historical organizations, including the Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission. One of her pieces was selected for the

permanent collection of the Joyce Kilmer Library. Her work is displayed in private collections, healthcare centers and galleries. She was selected for a solo exhibit at Johnson &Johnson World Headquarters, July-August, 2009. Lauren has participated in over 90 solo, group & juried exhibitions and is also a member of several NJ Arts organizations. Her artwork has been sold throughout the US and abroad, and can be seen in venues in NJ, NY, MA and PA.

http://sacredcowmusic.com/LaurenCurtisArt/index/index.html

http://laurencurtis.wordpress.com

http://www.laurencurtisart.mosaicglobe.com

http://www.imagekind.com/MemberProfile.aspx?MID=e191dd7c-9467-4a2f-9be4-b6eb58ec4944

Yuhua Hamasaki -Performer/Drag (USA)

New York City's youngest drag queen, Yuhua Hamasaki sings live, acts, lip syncs, and dances. Yuhua has also emceed for numerous contests, dance-offs and the like. This "fierce" queen's performances has been described as flirtatious, witty, funny, loud, wild, and "a rollicking good time". Always expanding her already sizable wardrobe, Yuhua is known for her various looks, ranging from 'real and simple' to over-the-top theatrical campy drag.
Despite her youth, Yuhua has already worked in establishments such as HK Lounge, Boots and Saddles, Lucky Cheng’s, Club Rush, Club Amnesia, Vlada Bar, Evolve Bar, and many more. Yuhua has also promoted and hosted various parties across the city including top venues like Vig 27, Marquee, Star Lounge, and Citrine.

Yuhua is the first runner up in the Gay Socialites Drag Queen of The Year 2009 Awards, and Miss Congeniality of Miss B&S 2010. Yuhua was seen internationally in "The Volta Show" in 2010. Her look was also featured in the Tribeca Citizen Paper, in collaboration with photographer, Chris Zedano. Yuhua has been invited to various schools including Rutgers, NYU, and New Paltz to introduce the art of drag to new audiences. Due to her expertise in drag costume, make-up and performance, The Gay Carribean Pageant invited Yuhua in 2010 to help train amateur drag queens. Yuhua currently resides in NYC and is recording original songs with the internationally-known music producer, Kazuhiko Gomi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK9z5o0kcLk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mAB3GOxfKI&feature=related

Carl Bromell -Sound designer (Sweden)

I create music and sonic art for dance performance act´s, fashion shows and installations. I try, in everything sonically i do, to explore the nature of he sound and if possible open up a discussion of where the thin line between noise and sound goes.

http://www.grevecarl.se/

Loresa Lanceta -Actress/Singer (USA)

Hailing originally from Louisville, KY, Loresa has been involved in theatre, modeling, music, and dance since the age of five. She attended the Youth Performing Arts School in her native Louisville, and moved to New York City after having graduated from the University of Louisville with a degree in Anthropology. Since then, she has been working steadily in theatre, film, and television. Credits Include: Off-Broadway/NYC: IMELDA: A New Musical(Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), NAATCO's'The House of Bernarda Alba' (Chay Yew, 'Rocky Horror' with Neil Patrick Harris, and 'The Awakening' at the Workshop Theatre Company. Favorite Regional productions include: Miss Saigon (Mimi/Kim cover), My Fair Lady (Actors Theatre of Lousiville, Virginia Stage Company, and TheCleveland Play House), Aida (Nehebka) at Count Basie Regional Theatre, Joseph(Narrator), Evita, and Big River. Film/TV: Salt,Nurse Jackie, and Gossip Girl. She has also worked on various recordings with the Children's Theater Company of New York, is a founding company member of the newly assembled Levianthan Theatre Lab, as well as part of a conglomerate of Filipino artists within the theatre world in NYC called Broadway Barkada, who lend their talents as performers to various charitable foundations. Loresa will next be seen in the New York International Fringe Festival in The Lost Theatre Company's (UN)Natural Disaster. You can visit her website at: www.loresalanceta.com

http://www.wix.com/elledelys/LoresaLanceta

John C. Hume - Performer (USA)

John C. Hume is most well know to NY audiences as the “darling of the downtown cabaret scene” thanks to his sold out one man show JOHN HUME LIVE WITH DANNY KATZ ON PIANO at The Duplex. Other NYC cabaret performances include the ever-popular JOHN HUME…AND FRIENDS series (also at The Duplex) and 7STAGES which played The Metropolitan Room in Fall 2009. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, John has been treading the boards for almost a decade with a diverse resume that runs the gamut from Shakespeare (Orlando in AS YOU LIKE IT) to Rudnick (Adam in THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD) to Stoppard (Valentine in ARCADIA.) John is thrilled to be making his NY Fringe Festival debut this summer in in GROUP, a new play by Daniel McCoy, playing the role of Alan Schwartz. He is currently working on a new one man show entitled THE BLOND IN THE BOX about his adventures in box officing, which will debut this fall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewu96ZM5OS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMI6kaq-4cw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LehhtkiY-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tceGyjkCH8k

Francesco La Macchia - Dancer (USA/Italy)

Francesco was born in Catania, Italy, in 1988. He began his dance training at the age of 10 at "Nuova Accademia Arte Danza" under the direction of Fia Distefano. He started his training in jazz and he continued with ballet, contemporary and Hip-hop. He started to perform at the age of 15 at Teatro Metropolitan, Massimo Bellini and Palasport. Francesco appeared in many dance festivals and fashion runways throughout Sicily, he appeared in "INSIEME", a local TV Channel and performed for the singer Massimo Di Cataldo. He attended numerous workshops and mastersclasses throughout Italy and the US with choreographers such as Michelle Assaf, Clarissa Mucci, Wes Veldink, Jason Parsons, Mandy Moore, and Brice Mousset to name a few. During his years of training he received several scholarships from Fia Distefano, Naike Negretti, Michelle Assaf, Brice Mousset and Wes Veldink. In 2008, he moved to New York City to work with Axis Danz and HaitiDansCo.He is currently a member of Michiyo Tanaka, Ballet Hispanico Ensemble and Steps on Broadway Repertory Ensemble.

http://francesco.moonfruit.com/#

Carole Alexis - Singer/ Songwriter (USA)

Born in Martinique Carole grew up traveling, studying and working between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In consequence, her composition of different cultures manifest itself continuously through her art sharing with the audience the sense of an attachment to universal values. After receiving an artistic formation at the SERMAC, created by Aimé Césaire and directed by Jean-Paul Césaire, with consciousness of her heritage, she studied in Africa in the school of Maurice Bejart (MUDRA), created by Leopold Sedar Senghor and the UNESCO . Due to these choices, today her musical and choreographic creativity is imprinted of a particular resonance. She has worked on different continents with international companies and artists. Among the performances of Carole Alexis we can mention a few concerts in New York:.River to River Festival, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, with guest such as; Harry BELAFONTE, Danny GLOVER,Kathy ENGEL, Michael RATNER, THE MIGHTY SPARROW, Susan SARANDON and The Harlem Gospel Choir. With her group Osmoses, highlight of the FESTIVAL des FRANCOPHONIE DE NEW YORK, organized by different Embassy, and received a very warm ovation. Osmoses is appreciated in great clubs such as: Big Apple Jazz, Shrine, S.O.Bs, Joes Pub, Satalla, Sugar Bar, etc. Her philosophy and her artistic performances are firmly grounded in the assurance that culture is a vehicle for the affirmation of our identity, a value that she takes from the teaching and the legacy of the three founders of the Negritude movement, Aimé CESAIRE, Leopold SESAR SENGHOR, and Leon GONTRAN DAMAS, Fathers of the Negritude. She believes that art is a tool to express, propose, and communicate the infinite possibility of humanity. She also believes that the artist must be a citizen living in the state of consciousness and should be a platform for cultural action leading to a reflection on the possibility of social change.

http://www.osmosescultures.com/home.html

Tri Huu Luu -Photographer (Vietnam)

I was born in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam in 1972 to a family of seven and a devoted Buddhist Mother. When I was three years old, South Vietnam was overtaken by the North. At that point, my father decided to leave and live in the countryside where he is to this day. My Mother single-handedly took care of seven children and worked as a seamstress to make ends meet.

In 1987, my Mother had stroke and died. Three months later, I escaped Vietnam and arrived in Thailand. I stayed in a refugee camp for about a year and then settled in Minnesota, United States.

In 1994, I entered Minneapolis College of Art and Design and graduated with a BFA degree in 1997. Two months later, I moved to New York City.

In 1998, I was accepted into New York University for a masters degree in Buddhism and photography. Halfway through the program, I decided to stop attending NYU and began studying on my own, traveling to different Buddhist temples throughout Asia where I continue to photograph and study.

Currently, I'm traveling around Asia. Focusing on my new photo series "No Past - No Future"

http://www.trihuuluu.com/

Jose Bertolero -Performer/ Stilt dancer (PERU/SPAIN)

Im 36 years old, I'm peruvian but I live in Barcelona since 2001. Before I discovered the stilt world I studied theater in Lima in three different schools, all related with the composition of the body, corporal expression and physical theater.

I became an actor and started acting in differents plays in Lima from 1996 to 2000.In 1995 I had my first contact with stilts and start trainning with them, but not too much, only the necesary to walk and move. Later, I decided to leave the scene as an actor and began trainning seriously with stilts, and in the year 2000 I started working with the peruvian heater company Yuyachkani as a stilt performer.

In 2001 I moved to Barcelona and continued my trainning, combining dance, acrobacies and a particular way to move on stilts. I started working in streets, dancing a coreography with live
music, and then performing in many events around Europe. Later, In 2008, I had the great opportunity to work with Cirque Du Soleil in two different shows:
"The Awakening of the Snake", show created for the EXPO Zaragoza 2008, and "Il
Sogno Di Volare", show created for the White Night in Italy.At present, Im still
trainning and investigating in this fascinating world that are the stilts.

www.myspace.com/josebertolero

William Connor- Photographer (USA)

As a visually oriented person, I am inspired by all that surrounds me.

I can capture the mundane and churn it into art. Each picture reveals the beauty infused in the people, nature, and places we casually encounter.

It is a beauty not normally seen or felt, but that doesn't matter. Everyone and everything has a story to tell. I want to use my camera to show you what I see, to unearth the hidden meanings of the objects and places we glance at but never truly see. It is time for a second look.

http://www.willcphotos.com/

Candy Olsen -Dancer (USA)

Candy Olsen Proud member of AEA, Most recently comes from the Las Vegas production of Spamalot. National Tours: Pippin, Evita (tango), Phantom of the Opera, Celine Dion’s “A New Day,” Regional: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck w/ Milwaukee Symphony, NYCO The Most Happy Fella, Showboat, Carousel, Music Man, Hollywood Bowl and LA Opera. Numerous National commercials and TV appearances. Dance: Diavolo, MOMIX, New Jersey Ballet, Columbia City Ballet and the National Choreographer’s Initiative. As well as several Cirque Du Soliel “Unplugged” cabaret shows.

You can see her dancing at POE, by Juan Borona:

http://juanborona.blogspot.com/p/poe-documentary.html

Lucia Campoy - Dancer (New York/Spain)

Lucia Campoy has danced with Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater since 2005. She is from Murcia, Spain , and earned a Diploma from the Conservatorio Superior de Arte Dramático y Danza. New York performing credits include Ballet for Young Audience, Northern Ballet Theater, MetropolitanRepertory Ballet, Lonne Moreton, Val Loukiano, Juan Borona, Ursula Verduzco, Benjamin Briones among others. Special thanks to her dear teacher Peff Modelski, and to her family and husband for their unconditional support through this wonderful journey.

http://www.forumartistico.com/index.php/component/option,com_community/Itemid,10/userid,67/view,profile/