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.

In 2012 Janessa Clark decided to dissolve the KILTERBOX company structure in pursuit of a new method of working. This site will remain up as an archive of past projects during 2013. An announcement of Janessa's new choreographic platform will also be placed on this site so that those who are interested can follow the new trajectory. KILTERBOX 2001-2012

NEWS

NEW PROJECT/NEW PLATFORM: 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 the abandoned landscapes of New York City and London. Deeper research was also initiated at London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and continues now in Stockholm, Sweden. Project information and development updates will be posted here and on a new site e in the near future.

As KILTERBOX has now dissolved, Volution will be developed through a different platform in 2013-14.