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ABOUT THE ALLEN BODY GROUP
The Allen Body Group appreciates the body's potential - to communicate, to promote health, to continually improve. Eltesia, the training system developed by Allen Body Group founder Malinda Allen, develops power, suppleness, subtlety, and versatility. Advanced movers trained under this system can be either raw or refined, purely technical or deeply instinctual - and very very strong. Private training is available for all levels.
The company maintains a revolving
roster of guest star artists and performers from companies as diverse
as Pilobolus Dance Theater, Blue Man Group, De La Guarda, and STOMP.
The company engages in live performance, film and video projects, and
integrative theater.
Each artist who participates in Allen Body Group projects is a multi-talented individual
whose unique emotional intensity, intelligence, and distinctive movement
abilities are central to the power of the Body Group's performances.
ABOUT MALINDA ALLEN
Malinda Allen is a writer, director and choreographer who moved to New York in 2004, where she was selected to show her solo work, Antigen, as part of DTW’s fall Fresh Tracks program. She has since created a number of film and stage projects including “other games”, a video/dance piece commissioned by the 2005 East Village HOWL Festival, and Einstein’s Dreams based on the novel by Alan Lightman at Dance Theater Workshop in 2006. Most recently, Malinda recently directed The Vagina Monologues at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and assisted on the human billboard aerial dance presentation for the launch of Microsoft Vista.
Before coming to New York, Malinda received a number of commissions and awards including the 2002 Tap Water Award for Dance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland.
Most recently, Malinda teamed up with Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and Christal Brown/Inspirit Dance Co. to create "roam - a solo in two voices" for the OB.ject ob.JECT festival at Dance New Amsterdam.
Along with teaching group and private sessions in the New York and Boston areas, Malinda uses the Eltesia System to develop original choreography and train the gifted professionals who perform her work. Her choreography has been shown in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has been featured in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Improper Bostonian, Boston Magazine, Dance Magazine, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
PAST ALLEN BODY GROUP COLLABORATORS AND PERFORMERS:
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai (Poetry, Performance)
Alicia Jo Rabins (Poetry, Music, Performance)
Mee Ae (Performance/Video)
Noah Fischer
Christal Brown (Performance)
Karen Fuhrman (Performance)
John Hartzell (Performance)
Holly Heiser (Performance)
Jeslyn Kelly (Performance)
Jim French (Lighting Design)
Rafael Cohen (Sound Design)
Adrian Clark (Set Design/Stage Manager)
Arthur Aviles (Special Performance)
Beverly Canteen (Performance)
Gretchen Rowe Eames (Performance)
Pedro Jimenez (Performance)
Laura Iverson(Performance)
Kate Lucek (Performance)
Antoine Lutens (Photography)
Jen Schoonover (Performance/Vocal Coach)
Richard Silverman (Performance/Information Technology)
Michelle Smith (Performance)
Mark Beattie (Cinematography)
Stacey Schroeder (Video Editing)
Melissa Levins (Video Producer)
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