VANESSA M.M.A. NOWITZKY

innovator, choreographer / composer, writer

Height: 5’3”
Weight: 105 lbs
Hair: brown and silver
Eyes: dark brown

Ashland, Oregon

http://www.singdancing.com

see IMDb

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001 on- Artistic director, founder, choreographer and composer, A Singdancing Company. Performed, taught, presented, and videotaped singdancing compositions and improvs throughout the Rogue Valley, including Singdancing Creation Workshop; Winter Solstice Concerts with Dancing People Co., It’s About Dance! regional choreographers’ concert at Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater; Jefferson Nature Center, Medford, OR; Dance Variations, Grants Pass Performing Arts Center; Love’s Labors and The Green Show at OSF; Suzee Grilley’s Open Stages; Ballet Rogue’s Ballet in the Park; Oregon Fringe Festival, SOU; NACUSA-SOR Composers’ Concerts; Online Performance Art Festival; Levity Circus; Ashland Aerial Arts; Humanimal Research, improvisational street singdancing.

2023 live lecture/ presentation at CalArts Expo, “Feral Voices and Heavenly Bodies” Valencia, CA

2022 video Singdancing the Flower Duet on infinity ring with Shae Céline, Ashland, OR

2021 video scenes from Life, Death, and Continual Birdsong for the Oregon Fringe Festival, Ashland

2020 comp./chor. & workshopped continual birdsong with A Singdancing Company, Ashland, OR

2020 collaborative video The Silver Swan, w/ artistic editor Katherine Buono, Ashland

2019 Ariel on trapeze for The Tempest (scene), dir. Steven Dominguez. Levity Circus, Ashland

2018 improvised Force for film The Marvelous Path by Jacques Burtin, Emigrant Lake, Ashland

2018 Come Now a Roundel (Britten / Shakespeare) as Titania on trapeze, LunacyFest, Levity

2017 created video The Creek in thanks for water, w/ piano acc’t. perf.by Jon Hays. Ashland, OR 2017 voice movement integration coach, Nomadic Tempest. Caravan Stage Co., St. Petersburg, FL

2016 improvised Presence in the Heart, streaming singdance from Lithia Park to downtown Ashland. First annual festival of Online Performance Art! Day 4, second video here: www.onlineperformanceart.com

2016 Apsara, a singdance with piano. Music composed by I’lana Cotton. National Association of Composers, USA, Southern Oregon chapter Composers’ Concert, Ashland, OR

2015 played Lord Edgar / Jane / Irma in The Mystery of Irma Vep, Randall Theatre, Medford, OR

2013-14 solo and duet singdances for trapeze, the Curtain Climbers, Black Sheep, Ashland, OR

2013-14 made short film Street Deer with Sangye Ince-Johannsen, Ashland Independent Film Festival

2013 choreog. The Fantasticks, dir. Richard Heller, Theatre Convivio, Ashland, OR

2012 Stage Director/ Choreog., Poetic Lyricist, and Lead Soprano (Molly) for The Peasant Cantata, Bach. Conductor Dr. Margret Gries, Jefferson Baroque Orchestra, Ashland / Cottage Grove, OR (2014)

2009 Composed songs, finished screenplay, created demo CD for The Rainforest, a musical animation

2009 Designed the Infinity Ring (commissioned welder and began developing movement)

2007 Singdanced on a rope as Ariel’s Shadow, The Tempest, Dir. Libby Appel, Oregon Shakespeare Fest.

2006 “The Lone Wild Bird”, with David Rogers, faculty concert, SOU music recital hall, Ashland, OR 2006 “Emerging Light” chor. by Peggy Paver. Winter Solstice Concert, Dancing People Co., Ashland, OR

2006 Movement / vocal coach for SOU theater dept. production of The Jungle Book. Dir. Kevin Berg.

2003-2008 member of TriAngel, vocal improv with Heather Hutton & Aletha Nowitzky, Ashland

2003-2005 Performances and school tour with Rogue Opera. Roles: Hansel, The Queen of the Night, The Little Man, Cousin Hebe. Elementary and secondary schools throughout southern Oregon and northern California. Dir. Bruce Hostetler & music director David MacKenzie, & Richard Sheldon.

2000 Composer / lyricist / book for musical The Golden Key, chamber opera for harp, string quartet, choir & singdancers. From a fairy tale by George MacDonald. Dir. concert version, CalArts, Valencia, CA

1999 Portion of original choral / kvaeðaskapur piece Kall – composed by V. Nowitzky to poem by Icelandic writer Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson – aired on Icelandic radio, channel 1, Reykjavík, Iceland.

1995 Performed Third Witch in Macbeth. San Jose Stage Co., San Jose, CA.

1994 Performed Shirley Talley in Fifth of July. Dir. Clinton Turner Davis, OSF, Ashland, OR.

1994 Performed leading role, music directed and produced readthrough/ singthrough of my original musical Werewolf Blues with Cygnet Theater at the Ashland New Plays Festival, OR. Now a screenplay.

1990 Performed Echo in three woman show Eleemosynary, Dir. Kirk Boyd, Actors’ Theater of Ashland, OR Won Best Actress Off-Bardway award in local entertainment newspaper Sneak Preview.

1990 Iphigenia and composed song “Nightingale” in Trojan Women, Dir. James Edmondson, ATA

1989- 1990 Composed and music-directed songs in productions: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (played Lucy) and The Magician’s Nephew. Dir. Michael O’Rourke, Actors’ Theater of Ashland (ATA)