Artistic Directors | Dancers | Current Collaborators
Artistic Directors
Sean Clute | Co-Artistic Director
Sean Clute is an inventor of sound, video, installation, and
performance. As Co-Artistic Director of DOUBLE VISION, Sean has
organized, curated, and performed in numerous events including
Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl, Involution 2 (Brooklyn), 13
Dreams of a Dying Clairvoyant, and Equinox 12 11 11 Kimi Yax. He
has built and performed in geodesic domes, suspended pods, and
interactive sonic environments. His diverse creative activities
have been presented at venues such as The Kitchen, CEAIT Festival, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TED2005, Uspannwerk Kreuzberg
(Germany), Shabla Solar Eclipse Festival (Bulgaria), La Case A Chocs
(Switzerland), La Ma Ma etc., Times Square Deli Dance, CBGB's, REDCAT
Theater, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, California College of
the Arts, Mills College, and California Institute of the Arts.
Sean has also been recognized with a Fulbright Award and residency at the MuseumsQuartier Wien in Austria, a Djerassi Resident Artist Award, and a Meet the Composer Award. He has an extensive background in music and intermedia art and
holds an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College
where he was awarded the Music Alumnae Scholarship, Crothers Award,
Hellman Award, Lynn T. White Award, and Frog Peak Collective
Experimental Music Award. Additionally, Sean was awarded a
scholarship to attend The Kitchen Summer Institute in New York City and
a recent scholarship to attend the Anderson Ranch in Colorado.
Sean holds a BA in Music at the University of New Mexico where he
studied classical guitar and composition.
Sean has also worked in performing arts and technology organizations
with positions held at Orban/CRL broadcast technologies, Columbia
University Music Library, and The Kitchen. He has guest lectured at Cal
State University Stanislaus, Mills College, and California College of
the Arts on intermedia art and technology.
Sean is the founder of experimental music groups X-Ray Vision Network
and Passing Strange, as well as the co-founder the electronic music
group Cloud Full of Clowns. He has collaborated on a number of projects
with groups Ransom Corp., Amoeba Technology, Jose Roque Ensemble,
choreographers Pauline Jennings, Nic Petry, animator Nick Fox-Gieg,
musicians Zemi 17, Pauline Oliveros, Jessica Catron, Dorsey Dunn, and
designer Ben Coolik.
http://www.seanclute.com/
Pauline Jennings | Co-Artistic Director
Pauline (click here for cv) is a contemporary dance choreographer interested in prophesizing and questioning the future of humankind through movement. The society she sees is one that is evolving with exciting technological advances, an onslaught of media pushing ideas and products, and in-debt zombie workers afforded little time for reflection and critical thought. Pauline believes that advances in life-extending tools, online communities, media conglomerates, and cybernetics will transform the definition of human nature and should not be permitted to do so unnoticed or unquestioned. Her work attempts to viscerally capture the excitement, confusion and fear that accompany this rapidly changing society. Through her work, she hopes that viewers will have an opportunity to reflect upon and take a more active role in determining their own evolution.
Since 2003, Pauline has completed over 90 performances involving collaborations between dancers, musicians, video artists and technologists. Her choreography has been performed in festivals and showcases nation-wide, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. Her choreography for Disembodied Head #2 was filmed for national distribution as part of PBS' Meaning of the 20th Century series. She has both performed and presented work at such venues as the SF Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, and Dance Mission Theater.
Pauline currently is a Visiting Artist for the Mills College Dance Department's Repertory Dance Company and has particpated in conferences held at the University of California at Berkeley, California State University, Mills College, Brighton College (UK), and Doncaster College (UK). She has also lectured and taught classes at Mills College, College of Santa Fe, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico and University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dancers
Blaine Bookey
Blaine Bookey co-created the Bluestockings Dance Collective and serves on the Board of Directors for the CounterPULSE community art space. Blaine studied Social Policy and Gender Studies at Northwestern University before working in the areas of asylum and deportation defense. She is currently pursuing her juris doctorate in Public Interest Law from University of California at Hastings.
Emily Gorman
Emily Gorman holds an MFA in performance and choreography from Mills College, where she had the privilege of performing in works by esteemed choreographer Molissa Fenley and others. She is on the dance faculty at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
Wendy Marinaccio
Wendy Marinaccio choreographs for El Gato Del Diablo Theatre Company and the Uphill Both Ways sketch comedy group. Wendy earned a minor in dance from Stanford University and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a focus in dance and gender studies. Prior to joining DOUBLE VISION, she danced with the contemporary dance company Dog Patch Superstars for five years.
Jennifer Mellor
Jennifer Mellor can't imagine a life without dance. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has performed with civic ballet company Tulsa Dance Theater, modern dance troupe Dance On Tulsa, rhythm tap duo FootSong, and A Call to Feet Tap Dance Ensemble. Jen came to the Bay Area to get her B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford University, and other than a short stint in Philadelphia, she has been in the San Francisco area ever since. Jen is currently dancing and choreographing with High Release Dance, and she is happy to be collaborating with DOUBLE VISION.
Cecelia Peterson | Managing Director
Cecelia Peterson is DOUBLE VISION's Managing Director. In addition to her training at Santa Clara, Cecelia has trained with the Ailey School and Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City. She has also danced with local choreographer Amy Lewis and taught creative dance to children in Salt Lake City, the Bay Area and Belize.
Current Collaborators
Andrea Campbell | Mistress of Costuming
If you ask Alice she would tell you, since Andrea was 3 years old, when people would ask her what she wanted to do when she grew up ... ''I wanna make clothes''. Born and raised in the City of Angels she attended college in the City of Stars. Preferring the type of art you can hold/wear she spends her time sewing, knitting, sculpting ... when you can part the computer from her hands.
Caitlyn Carradine
Caitlyn Carradine, born and raised in Los Angeles, is a choreographer and contemporary ballerina whose work transcends various venues, mediums, and roles as she feels the spirit of her native home is what guides her practice. She trained at and graduated from Vienna Austria's Wiener Staatsoper Ballettschule (1998-2001) and danced in productions at both the Wiener Staatsoper and Volksoper Wien before returning to Los Angeles, California in 2002 to establish her company: Los Angeles Contemporary Ensemble (LA.C.E.) an avant-garde experimental dance theater. LA.C.E. has produced 25+ original evening length dance productions including "dancing with paints" which was used to create a billboard for Hollywood Boulevard. L.A.C.E. resided in the abandoned portion of the Camarillo State Hospital from 2003-2006 and since has been a nomadic company most recently moving to Vienna, Austria where it will serve as a collaborative production base. Collaborating with DOUBLE VISION in Europe has come as a synchronistic and natural next step and it is all very thrilling to help represent California halfway around the world.
http://www.dancingwithpaints.com
http://www.lace-theater.com
photo credit: Jay Matsueda
Naomi Clark | Set Designer
Naomi Clark is an interdisciplinary painter and textile designer living and working in Brooklyn NY. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. Naomi also is the co-founder of the design art house Fortmakers located in the Navy Yards in Brooklyn NY.
http://www.naomiclark.com
Ben Coolik | Lighting Designer
Ben Coolik is a collaborative artist whose work crosses and often combines multiple disciplines including lighting design, music composition, interactive multi-media design and programming as well as performance. His most recent collaborative efforts, Paradise Hotel and E.L.I., were supported by grants from ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration) where Ben is currently serving on the Interactive Performance Research Task Force. Ben holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design, UGA 2005.
Dorsey Dunn
Raised in East Asia and a veteran of many cities, Dorsey Dunn is a
San Francisco-based artist. His work in sound, text, and image, in the
form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works, is
an extended meditation on the perimeters of language, the movements of
silence, and the vagaries of comprehension. The human voice, through
speech and other sound, is an important component of his work, as are
considerations of public and private, revelation and hiding, fear and
freedom. Dorsey has performed and exhibited his music and sound
installations in the US and Europe. He is currently at work on a full
production of his large-scale installation piece, The Narcissus
Project, and on a series of live performances of music for alto
saxophone, midi saxophone and electronics. He has scored and produced
music for film, theater, and dance; his latest score, for the film
"IPO", will appear at the Slamdance and Cinequest film festivals this
spring. Previously, he edited an international literary magazine,
Trafika. He was educated in New York City.
www.dorseydunn.com
Jessica Gomula
Jessica Gomula joined California State University, Stanislaus as
the professor of printmaking and new media in the Fall of 2005. She
currently enjoys dividing her free time between hiking at Yosemite and
being a member of the performance group DOUBLE VISION in San Francisco.
She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1996, and her MFA
from Illinois State University in 2000. She has since taught new media
and web design for Bradley University and Heartland Community College,
IL.
www.gomula.net
Dave Holton
Dave Holton makes automatic electronic music programs for the
Anarchy
wing of DOUBLE VISION.
Jason B. Jones
Jason B. Jones has been involved in multi-media events in the San
Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Albuquerque, and New York City
since 1998. His credits include curating, producing, performing, and
installation artist. Most recently working with DOUBLE VISION.
Hailing from Missouri, he became interested in photography and
installation art in high school. He took that interest to the
University of New Mexico, where he received a B.A.F.A. in Art History,
with a specialization in the History of Photography. During this time,
he began experimenting with perception based installation art and
sensory environments. While in Albuquerque, Jason was involved in a
number of shows and events, frequently with Sean Clute and Overcast
Records. This culminated in his multi-sensory piece "Splitting Atoms."
During January of 2000, Jason moved to Los Angeles, and continued to
write about and practice art. He also began handling and installing
artwork in museums, galleries, and for private collectors. For the next
year and a half, he would do several site specific pieces. Most
notably, "Deprivation," at Lake Isabella, California.
Upon arriving in the Bay Area, he began collaborating with Sean Clute
once more. This partnership lead to shows at the Autonomous Mutant
Festival, in New Mexico, and through the San Francisco Bay Area. Jason
was witness to the creation of DOUBLE VISION, and continues write about
and practice art with them.
Elisabeth Kohnke
Elisabeth has been involved in music, art and dance since she was a child. From opera and modern dance choreography to sculpture and electronic music, she finally settled for a BA in music composition and recording techniques at Mills College in Oakland, CA. During her time at Mills she studied with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, and John Bischoff, and recieved the Paul Merritt Henry Prize Music Award. Kohnke then went on to perform and study sound diffusion and electronic music at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Around this time video had also become a passion of hers, and she began to experiment with user interface interactivity exhibited in a video piece entitled Useful Garbage. Currently Elisabeth works as a free-lance videographer, editor, and DVD designer for private clients and local groups like Pinch Me Films and Berkeley Community Media. As for her own projects, she co-produces and composes music for a local television show called Affordable Entertainment which currently airs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Peter Matthews
Peter Matthews is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a founding member of Boxcar Theatre and serves as Associate Artistic Director. He has tried his hand at artistic direction assuming the role of Artistic Director/Choreographer for Synergy, an improvisational movement ensemble, which he directed for three years before moving home to the West Coast. He is also a member of SFStageWorks and Eastenders Repertory Company. He received his B.A.s in Theatre Arts/Performance and Spanish from the Pennsylvania State University, School of Theatre and the College of Liberal Arts. He has had the great joy of studying acting locally with Gregory Wallace of the American Conservatory Theater and Rodney Hudson while working with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He also studied and performed with premiere Fosse dancer, Spence Ford, and also with Patricia Heigel-Tanner of the original Doris Humphrey Company.
Anne Peattie | Photographer
Anne Peattie is currently a grad student within UC Berkeley's Integrative Biology program. When she isn't examining gecko setae, she's busily snapping photos for DOUBLE VISION and others. You can find her work throughout this site and on FLICKR: flickr.com/photos/anniemack/
Tim Thompson
Tim is a software engineer by day and software artist by night. For
more than 20 years he has been experimenting with algorithmic and
realtime music, developing his own programming language (KeyKit) along
the way. Moving to the Bay Area in 1996, Tim has been inspired by
events such as Woodstockhausen and Burning Man. His performances and
creations tend to use unusual controllers, ranging from qwerty
keyboards to wireless joysticks to playstation dance pads. His Burning
Man installations include a 12-foot high lyre and an antique radio.
Most recently, in addition to working with DOUBLE VISION, Tim has been
doing realtime graphics and video processing with an improvised art
ensemble called dud.
http://nosuch.com/tjt
Bill Wolter
Bill Wolter is a musician/composer, multimedia artist, and sound
engineer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His work hovers around the
sounds of experimental rock, jazz, and new music, emphasizing rhythmic
quirkiness and melodic angularity. Bill is an accomplished electric
guitarist and bassist. He has also studied composition with Fred Frith
and Alvin Curran at Mills College. Most recently he has been working on
a track for a Wesley Willis tribute album.
www.tribalgenes.com
Nicole Zvarik
Nicole Zvarik has an MFA in Choreography from Mills College, where
she studied with Molissa Fenley, Kathleen McClintock, Sonia
Delwaide-Nichols, and Anne Westwick. Originally from the East Coast,
Nicole received her Bachelor's degree in Dance and Sociology from
Wilson College. While at Wilson, she danced with Chambersburg Ballet Theatre, performed and choreographed for Wilson's Modern Dance Ensemble
including performing for Italia Dance Festival in Cesena, Italy. Her
path in choreography has been an eclectic exploration of possibilities
including dramatic narrative (Who wears Red Shoes), site specific
(Pathfinders), mathematical concepts (Degrees of Order), and audience
participation (Mutation of Mondrian). Nicole is one of the founders of
Deep Root Dance, a collective of modern dance artists who promote and
support dialog about the art making process through low cost
performances and workshops in the bay area. Nicole is currently
producing her own work throughout the bay area and is an active
collaborator with DOUBLE VISION.
http://nzvarik.googlepages.com