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DAVID KONYK (dancer)  graduated from Temple University with a B.F.A. in dance. He has danced locally and abroad with Group Motion Company,  SCRAP Performance Group, Leah Stein Dance Company, The Bald Mermaids and the Reactionaries.

MEGAN MAZARICK (dancer) Born and raised in North Carolina, Megan Mazarick started dancing at age four and “choreographing” at age six (her first piece was a solo improvisation performed at the Wiley Elementary School Talent Show in 1987). She received her BFA in dance from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA in Dance from Temple University. As a performer and collaborator she has worked with numerous artists in Philadelphia including Kate Watson-Wallace, Makoto Hirano, Phil Grosser, Silvana Cardell, Marianela Boan, Paule Turner, Leslie Elkins, Keith Thompson, Olive Prince, Charles Anderson, and many others. In Pennsylvania, her choreography has been presented in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2005, Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2006, with Dance Theater X’s “Restless Native’s” at Silkwerks Theater Outlet (Allentown,PA), and Glue Dance Series (Philadelphia). Most recently she has shown her work, Roadkill, in nEW Festival 2007. Her short film, “Truck Stop Dance”, was shown at Mythinformation, a night of dance on film at Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2006.

Interdisciplinary movement based artist, JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO creates performances that draw from both visual and literary aesthetics. Poetry and video-art heavily contribute to how KOSOKO renders his ideas and concepts into dance. KOSOKO has performed in the choreographic works of various artists and companies including Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Terry Creach, Lisa Kraus, Helen Lesterlin, Richard Siegal, Kate Watson-Wallace, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Headlong Dance Theater, Leah Stein Dance Company, Emergent Improvisation Ensemble, and, Faustin Linyekula and Les Studios Kabako (The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa ). While KOSOKO has shown his own dances and dance-films atBennington College , Dance Theater Workshop, American Dance Festival, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, and Joyce SoHo among other venues, he has also been a resident artist at The Hudson School, Hoboken , NJ ; Community Education Center Meeting House Theater, Philadelphia , PA ; Earthdance, Plainsfield , MA . Currently, KOSOKO is in partnership with Melanie Stewart Dance and the 2008-2009 nEW Festival as a resident artist and is a member of Artists U, a non-profit organization focusing on professional development for Philadelphia based artists.