KILTERBOX | Who We Are

COMPANY HISTORY 2001-2011

Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX was founded in 2001 as a diverse group of performers dedicated to bringing social and cultural issues to public visibility through the platform of multimedia dance performance. The projects created embody a movement vocabulary infused with improvisation, theatricality and physicality while focusing on topics ranging from American culture and excess to gender and sexuality.Over the past 8 years, Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX has performed numerous new works and repertory to critical acclaim throughout New York City at Danspace Project (BRIC Studio), Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, the Dancenow{NYC} Festival, University Settlement, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and City Center Studios among others. The company has also toured successfully to San Francisco for the Translations Festival, to Borlänge, Sweden to perform at the Peace and Love Festival, and was the only U.S. company to be selected for the 2006 MASDANZA Festival in the Canary Islands of Spain.

Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX has received a 2009 Harlem Stage/Fund for New Work Grant, the 2009 Woman at Work Award from Gibney Dance, Inc., a 2007 and 2008 Manhattan Theater Source/Estrogenius Commission, and was the cover story for GO! NYC Magazine's Female Entrepreneur article in September 2008.

Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX is on hiatus until 2013. Please continue to check for developments.

NEWS
WORK IN PROGRESS: VOLUTION

Volution (working title) is a long term collaborative project in development for 2013. Early research space for this project was supplied by Hunter College, WOW Café Theatre, and abandoned landscapes of New York City. Continued research and realization will be undertaken in London at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Project information and development updates will be posted on a dedicate blog site in the near future.