EMILY JERANT-HENDRICKSON / NIKI FARAHANI

EMILY JERANT-HENDRICKSON has danced professionally in works by David Parker, Lorraine Chapman, little house dance, Sidra Bell, Itzik Galili, Shura Baryshnikov, Jenna Pollack, and Ilya Vidrin. She has performed at venues and through organizations such as World Music/CRASH Arts, Boston Lyric Opera, The Yard, APAP at City Center, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Martha Graham Theater, Soaking WET, Boston Center for the Arts, Oberlin Dance Theater's State of Play Festival, and Cape Dance Festival. Emily has also presented her own work at Arts on Site, Manhattan Movement Arts, The Canterbury Shaker Village, Gibney Dance Center, The Boston Conservatory, The Dance Complex, and Green Street Studios. She is also a teacher and has acted as a rehearsal director for little house dance, Jenna Pollack, and CoGRAVITY dance. Emily holds a BFA in dance from The Boston Conservatory. @emilyjh_

NIKI FARAHANI is an Iranian - American woman originally from Connecticut, and is currently based in New York City. She received her undergrad (BFA in Dance) from Umass Amherst in 2015. She had opportunities to preform the works of Camille A. Brown, Sidra Bell, Janice Brown, Gallim and Leslie Frye- Maietta during her time in Western Mass. Critical moments in the years after include, a residency at EPDM in Sinaloa, Mexico and Vertigo's Contact Improv Festival Eco - Village in Israel. She has performed in Festivals such as The White Wave Festival and INSITU - LIC, and notably was a past member of VESSELS and Heath In Progress as a principal member.  In the fall of 2022 Farahani participated in the New Museum’s Summer Residency in collaboration with: Ilya Vidrin. Her current research lies in the desire to dissect the pigments of loss we as a human species experience from a cultural lens and the misconceptions of formality/ civility.

GABBY CARMICHAEL is a dance artist determined to reveal herself with a provocative and compassionate voice. She believes that dance is a mode that both facilitates discourse and allows for new forms of care, and she uses her choreographic practice as a place to further imagine, process, and embody. She has been in residence at Leimay, Gibney, The Floor on Atlantic, MOtiVE Brooklyn, The Field Center, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and her work has been presented at Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts Center, Brooklyn Ballet, Center for Performance Research, Mark Morris Dance Center, and Dixon Place. She currently teaches yoga and works as a fiscal associate with Pentacle. She met Niki studying dance at UMass Amherst and have since become lifelong friends and collaborators.

Actually 2// is a duet between Gabby & Niki that was made for the Arts on Site space. The two have hold a long standing relationship and will cultivate a series of boisterous vignettes in this iteration of movement. The running piece is intended to bring you higher. @gabriellacarmichael

* PLEASE NOTE: VACCINE CARDS WILL BE CHECKED UPON ARRIVAL FOR THIS PERFORMANCE *