Benoit Beauchamp has been involved with inFluxdance for the past couple of years. He has served as lighting and scenic designer for the past two shows including An Absence of Fences and This Fairytale is not Working Out, which made it’s international debut at the Montreal Fringe Festival this past June. Prior to that, Benoit’s lighting was seen in the premiere of the Center for New Theater’s production of Macbeth with Stephen Dillane. The work was shown at REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Almeida Theatre in London, and at the Sydney Theater in Australia.

Originally from Quebec, he received a BFA with a specialization in Theatre Design from Concordia University. While attending Concordia, he spent most of his time designing for various projects. A few of these include The Mary Project (2001) at the infinitheatre and Faith, Hope and Charity (2000). From 1995-1997 he served as lighting technician and designer for Club Med in the Bahamas, Mexico, and Switzerland.

Benoit received his MFA in Lighting Design at California Institute of the Arts where he also worked on Spit Shine Glisten, produced in collaboration with the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the workshop production of Brain People, a new play by Jose Rivera. His extensive credits in lighting design for dance include This is Not My Beautiful House, choreographed by Rose Pasquarello, and Sleeping with the Ambassador, a site specific piece at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, choreographed by Heidi Duckler. He has also collaborated with many dance artists including the GreatFruit Collective, Ella Ben-Aharon, Lauren Gordon, Sumi Kim and many more.

More recently, he has been involved in various projects in the Boston Area. He worked as Technical Director at Green Street Center for Movement and Dance and as a Lighting Technician at Boston University’s new Dance Theatre. Since then, he has moved to Charlottesville, Va and is excited to take an active part in the community. In his spare time he also designs architectural lighting, websites, and various other projects. www.lightx.org

Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and somatic body practitioner. She is the founder of inFluxdance. Rose holds a BFA in Dance from Emerson College and an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts. In addition, she is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and Bartenieff Practitioner (CLMA). Rose has danced with Annie Rosenthal and Co, Patricia Jiron, Rosemary Hannon, Alysia Woodruff, Emily Randolph and Dancers, and Ipswich Moving Company as well as various Contact Improvisation Projects. Rose’s choreography is influenced by her experience in Contact Improvisation, her love of being off-vertical and her exploration of LMA theory.

Rose has been extremely active in each of the communities she has lived and created in. While living in San Francisco, she spent much of her time initiating new projects with many collaborators. She was the founder and co-director of Marin Choreographers’ Collective as well as Summer Fest Dance Camp for youth (ages 6-12). She served as producer for various performances shown around the Bay Area at venues such as Marin Theater Company, Alice Arts Center, and Venue 9. During her time in California her collaborators include Elicia Smith, Chrissy Reynolds, Nicola Berlinksky, Alexander Vishno, and Benoit Beauchamp.

Her full-length work has been featured in Boston, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and in San Francisco while excerpts have been seen in performances such as the Shared Choreographers Concert, Marin 21st Century Dance Collaboration, Women’s Work, and the 23rd Annual Celebration of Craftswomen in SF. In Boston, her work has been seen in Crash Art’s Tens the Limit and Green Street Performance Works Project. Most recently, her choreography was shown at the Montreal Fringe Festival when inFluxdance performed This Fairytale is Not Working Out. inFluxdance was awarded with an opportunity to return to the Fringe as a guest company in June 2007. Rose has recently moved to Charlottesville, VA where she is starting the dance program at the University of Virginia. At present, she is becoming active with Laban colleagues in the area in addition to dancing in Charlottesville with Miki Liszt Dance Company. She continues to create with inFluxdance and will performing work by Keira Hart this season. Rose looks forward to creating the new season of work that will be performed by inFluxdance as well as continuing to forge new collaborations with various artists across the country.

Alysia Woodruff received her BA in dance education from Goucher College in Maryland and her MFA from the University of Utah in modern dance. She was co-founder of a non-profit dance company in Salt Lake City (1998-2001) called Paradigm Dance Project (PDP). Alysia’s past and current work is a merge of American Sign Language (ASL) and modern dance. She is fascinated by the juxtaposition of ASL, a very specific movement language paired with modern dance, an abstract form of movement as communication. The synthesis of these two movement languages drives her current artistic and creative research.

Starting with her community based work in Salt Lake City, UT Alysia has been very active in bringing non-traditional populations to the studio and engaging them in dance experiences ranging from typical modern and ballet technique to hip hop and swing dancing. As co-founder of PDP she has organized and taught in such programs in collaboration with VSA arts of Utah and Easter Seals as well as lectures on mixed ability education and Deaf awareness. She has intitiated dance programs in almost all places that she has lived through community education classes and in the public and private school systems. Through PDP, Alysia has provided dance experiences for Native American Youth, adults and children with disabilities, senior citizens, At-Risk youth, amputee patients and members of the Deaf community through outreach programs. The company also was heavily involved in providing venues in which emerging, experimental, and non-traditional dance artists could create and perform new dance works.

Alysia arrived in Boston, MA in 2002 where she started working among the Deaf population at The Learning Center for Deaf Children. Alysia piloted an after-school dance program and later created the visual art courses for grades k-12. Soon she was accepted for an independent choreographic project funded by the LEF Foundation as she merged into the Boston dance community as a choreographer, artist and dancer. Her collaboration with Deaf poet, Ayisha Knight-Shaw inspired and informed her creative research on the solo form and was performed by Alysia at The Performance Works Project in Boston. Her work with inFluxdance began soon after that with “This Fairytale is Not Working Out” which made its Boston debut in 2006. Teaching at Emerson College and collaborating through inFluxdance was where Rose and Alysia found the current prolific working relationship and collaboration that drove inFluxdance to Montreal where they met with rave reviews. Traveling and doing guest lectures at DeSalles University brought Alysia to Fall semester, 2006 where she taught at Bridgewater State College as a Visiting Lecturer. Last season she embarked once again as Artistic Director of inFluxdance as they danced their way through 7 cities in 2007. This season they present Identity Crisis in Charlottesville, VA, Montreal and San Francisco. Alysia is happy to be touring with inFluxdance once again as well as her other full-time position as “supermom” of 3 children. All artistic research and creative endeavors are accessible to Deaf and non-deaf audiences.