COLLABORATORS
ADAM BOYER
Filmmaker
Adam works as a commercial videographer and editor. His company Vertical Vision Films is a dedicated network and resource for film makers and non-profit organizations across the country. Adam also works as a dramatic director and producer, creating such short films as the popular Reality Check. His professional experience includes working on both short films, like the award-winning film Empathy, as well as full-length feature film sets. On the stage, he has worked as a still photographer and grip crew for operas like The Elixir of Love and Shakespearean plays such as Hamlet and Macbeth as well as sound engineer and lighting crew for the World Dance Theater in New York City.
Website – http://www.verticalvisionfilms.com/
ELISABETA STANCULESCU
Still Photographer/Production Manager
Isa was born in Bucharest, Romania and moved to the United States in 1994. She studied at the Kirov Academy of Ballet for four years and later trained with Rudolf Kharatian at the Washington Ballet. In 2005, she received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Isa currently works as a freelance artist in photography, production, and dance. She has assisted photographers such as Thomas C. Card, Terry Gruber and Tracy Bennet. She is currently performing with Albano Ballet in Hartford Connecticut. Isa is looking forward to be an assistant still photographer for the film "Get Smart" filming this summer in Montreal. She loves her track bike and is happy to have finished the Five Boro Tour this May. She is very much exited to be part of Bennyroyce's projects.
JOCELYN MELECHINKSY
Costume Designer
Jocelyn pursued her undergraduate studies at the NCSA and SCAD, primarily designing for film. Recently, her design credits include Woza Albert at the Clark Studio Theater, dance pieces for the Juilliard Dance Division, Romeo and Juliet with Ballet NY, and assistant work on Bloomberg’s Inner Circle Gala and on King Lear at Classical Theater of Harlem. Her designs have been seen at the 78th St. Theater Lab, the 45 Bleeker St. Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival (workshop), and Cannes Film Festival, and her costume construction credits include builds for Striking 12 at the Darryl Roth Theater, Radio MacBeth for Siti Company, and dyework for the out of state productions of …Spelling Bee. This is her second project with Bennyroyce Royon.
KYRA JEAN GREEN
Choreographer
Kyra Jean Green was born in France and raised in West Palm Beach , Florida . She trained through middle and high school at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Southern Dance Theater, and Magda Aunon's School of Classical Ballet . She received her B.F.A. in dance from Juilliard in May 2006. Upon leaving Juilliard she danced and choreographed for City Dance Ensemble of Washington D.C.. Kyra was one of three winners selected from a pool of 114 applicants to participate in a one-week residency to create an original work for Hubbard Street II. The new work is being premiered during Hubbard Street II's 2006-07 season.
LAURIER RAJOTTE
Pianist, Composer
Laurier began his musical training at the age of four. He went on to work with such great teachers as Marc Durand (Université de Montréal) and Julian Martin (Juilliard School). The winner of several competitions, including the FCAR and the Canada Music Competition, the young musician has also taken part in various international stages, and he obtained his master’s diploma from Université de Montréal at age 21. Passionate about dance, Laurier has collaborated with renowned Montreal choreographer Hélène Blackburn as well as French choreographer Christophe Garcia. As a composer, he has also fostered an interest in musical theatre, collaborating with playwright Érika Tremblay.
SIDRA BELL
Choreographer
Artistic Director of Sidra Bell Dance New York, graduated from Yale University with a BA in History and received an MFA in choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. Since its inception in 2001, the company has presented three seasons featuring live jazz and dance at the Joseph P. Kennedy Center in Harlem, NY. The company has been presented at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Yale University, Harvard University, the Schomburg Museum, Purchase College, Stella Adler Studio of Acting MAD AIR series, DancenOw/NYC at Dance Theater, Workshop, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Montreal's Danses Buisssoniéres at Tangente and Joyce SoHo Presents. The company performed a program of its repertory at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out Series. Sidra Bell’s works have been performed in Spain, Aruba, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. Recent commissions include Alvin Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Marygrove College (Detroit), Ballet Divertimento (Montreal), Arts Umbrella (Vancouver), Canadian Children's Dance Theater (Toronto), Purchase College, Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School, LaGuardia High School and Sacramento Ballet (2008). In 2005 and 2006, Sidra was selected to work as a young choreographer at Springboard Danse Montreal and created works that were performed at Moyse Hall and Place des Arts. Ms. Bell was a recipient of the Patricia Kerr Ross Award for choreographic achievement, sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts, was a Tribeca Performing Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, and was awarded a Bessie Schönberg Choreographers Residency at The Yard in 2007.
Ms. Bell has guest taught technique and composition at The Ailey School, Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, Canadian Children’s Dance Theater, Arts Umbrella, Perry Mansfield School for Performing Arts, Marygrove College, Ballet Divertimento, Greenwich Academy, Peridance Center, Dance Space Center, Yale University, Long Island University, High School of New Rochelle and New Haven Ballet. She has taught a modern dance course for non-majors at Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. She is on faculty at Stella Adler Studio of Acting where she teaches movement techniques. She also teaches young children at Riverbank Cultural Center and the Joseph P. Kennedy Center in Harlem, NY where she has developed a performing arts program for young girls.
ROBERT ADAM MAYER
Photographer
Robert has continued to expand his experience in the career he enjoys as "a gift." He notes that he "loves pictures of people, especially the portraits of Irving Penn and the street photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson." He is passionate about his street photography, and his award winning commercial and documentary portraiture has been featured in national print magazines. His appreciation of hip hop music and documentation of the artists, has led him to recently expand his interest to music video.
