Global Performance + Sound Lab

From a family of athletes with strong social dance traditions and a love for music, ALEXANDRA BERGER’s early study of ballet and jazz evolved into a career rooted in modern dance. Berger has worked professionally in New York City since completing
her BFA at The New School in 2003, having had the privilege of dancing for and with, among others, Pat Catterson, Ellen Cornfield, Merce Cunningham (RUG 2007), Douglas Dunn, Rachel Monosov (Venice Biennale 2017), Roz Newman, Sally Silvers, Dusan Tynek, Vanessa Walters, and Matthew Westerby. Huffington Post named her performance in Tynek’s Logbook as one of the best performances of 2016, and she has enjoyed touring to myriad venues throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has been a member of the faculty for adult classes at the Mark Morris Dance Center since 2007 and is also an authorized teacher of Cunningham Technique® with the Merce Cunningham Trust. A certified practitioner of the Gyrotonic Expansion System® since 2005, Alexandra earned her MSW from Fordham GSS in 2023 and is licensed in New York
State. Her time at Fordham included internships with AHRC/NYC and the United Nations. With interests varying from military and indigenous populations to dancers and elite athletes, as well as the many-layered impacts of climate change, Alexandra is most drawn to our shared human experience. She continues to investigate how the arts can intersect with other fields to improve our systems for a healthier and more inclusive society. http://www.fullcirclebk.com

ALLEN FOGELSANGER composes and improvises music for dances, videos and installations; teaches courses on dance and music; and accompanies dance classes. His work, alone and as part of multimedia performances and projects, has been presented in the Americas, Europe and Australia, including at the Bourges Festival of Electroacoustic Music and Festival Synthèse, the Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, the Cloud Dance Festival (London), the Boston Cyberarts Festival, il Corpo nel Suono
(Rome), the global telematic festival Earth Day Art Model, Chez Bushwick (Brooklyn), and the New York City Electronic Music Festival. Fogelsanger has presented papers and talks on the relationship between dance and music at international conferences and festivals, including Sound Moves (London), the Abundance Festival (Sweden), the Accademia Mobile of ICKamsterdam (France), the I Seminário Internacional de Artes
Integradas (Brazil), il Corpo nel Suono (Rome), and the Dance Studies Association (Vancouver). His published essays include “José Limón’s Chaconne” (with Kristen Foote) in Bach 55/1 (2024), “Parameters of Perception” (with Kathleya Afanador) in
AVANT 8/1 (2017), “A Mirror in Which to Dance” (with Kathleya Afanador) in Bewegungen zwischen Hören und Sehen (2012) edited by Stephanie Schroedter, and “On the Edges of Music” in the Proceedings of Sound Moves (2005). He currently focuses on the practice of collaborative real-time movement/sound composition, working most recently with Nicholas Handahl (flute), and Alexandra Berger, Alan Good, Salma Kiuhan and Louisa Miller (movement). He serves as an associate arts professor in the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dance.