re:FRAME is a time-limited artist-initiated collective experiment between five New Orleans-based choreographers: Ann Glaviano, Jeremy Guyton, Meryl Zaytoun Murman, Ryuta Iwashita, and Shannon Stewart investigating the solo form and an artist-driven model for creative exchange and sustainability.
re:FRAME believes in the potency and promise of a radical reimagining of what dance includes and how dance can be funded, developed, and shared. Commonly, the five artists value embodied research, integrated community processes, the interrogation of complex social issues, and multidisciplinary ways of working, in unconventional relationships to space. re:FRAME invites communities to join in movement and discourse setting studio research and collective-building alongside (and against) social, political, and cultural landscapes. As a collective, re:FRAME seeks to address the regional lack of access to dance infrastructure in the Gulf South and to uplift New Orleans dance artists. Through this experiment, the collective aims to explore and share a model for cooperative practice—one that supports learning with and from each other, and that will be passed along through skill-sharing to another cohort of dance artists in New Orleans.
Ann Glaviano is a writer, dance-maker, DJ, and native New Orleanian; since 2013 she has directed the New Orleans-based performance project Known Mass, which is an ongoing collaboration between dancers and artists of mixed disciplines, aesthetically and ethically motivated by devised-theatre and DIY performance traditions.
Meryl Zaytoun Murman is an Arab American artist juxtaposing choreographic, cinematic and live art practices; most recently creating for Eyes Walk Festival and Dimitria 56 (Greece), The Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans), The Arab American National Museum (Dearborn, MI), and in 2024 in/on the Mississippi River as a McKnight International Choreographic Fellow (Winona, MN.)
Ryuta Iwashita, after 25 years of living in Japan improvises and lives their life in Bulbancha where they share their works of performance art as well as their life research called SOTAI, which centers embodiment and deep rest of ancestral bodies.
Jeremy Guyton is a Los Angeles native and a core artist with several New Orleans dance and theatre companies; his work has been presented at the Sydney Opera House with Solange, and in collaboration with CERN, the astrophysics lab at the Franco-Swiss border.
Shannon Stewart was born in the South and came of age as an artist in the Pacific Northwest; a 2023 USA Artist nominee, she/they make work for stage, screen, and galleries that has been presented throughout the US and Europe, including Tulane University and DOCK 11 Berlin, and was slated to appear in 2020 at the Kennedy Center.
Maggie Allesee
