Bios

Co-Founding Directors:

TODD RICHMOND (Composer/Filmmaker/Visual Design) is a composer whose musical approach involves relationships to dance, film and visual arts. Awards for his compositions for dance include the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer Commissioning/USA, Individual Artist Award from Queens Council on the Arts with funds from NY State Council on the Arts, and an ASCAP/Gershwin Award for music for dance and film. His collaborations in dance began in 1993, working as composer, set designer and filmmaker with choreographer Paz Tanjuaquio as well as with many New York City and international choreographers. His works have been seen and heard in NYC at such venues as Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, nationally from Las Vegas at Godt-Cleary Projects to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and internationally at the National Theater in Seoul, Korea and Sovannah Phum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He has been an artist-in-residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida for a dance on camera residency with master artist Merce Cunningham. His dance films have been selected to be screened at American Dance Festival’s 15th Annual Dancing on Camera, at the Queens Museum of Art, Video Cha Cha at Bryant Park and Dance on Camera Festival at the Donnell Media Center. As a visual artist, he was assistant to sculptor Richard Artschwager from 1990-1995 and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Richmond is a graduate of City College of New York in Music and Film.

PAZ TANJUAQUIO (Choreographer/Dancer) has been creating dances in NYC since 1990. Her work has been presented by 92nd St. Y, Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks Series, LaMaMa ETC, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Aaron Davis Hall, Symphony Space, Dixon Place, Thelma Hill Performing Arts, and nationally at Godt-Cleary Projects in Las Vegas, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Ohio University. Awards for her choreography include National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA BUILD/Homer Avila Memorial Award, two Individual Artist Awards from Queens Council on the Arts, and DTW’s Suitcase Fund where she participated in the Mekong Project’s Cambodia Creative Residency and artistic research travel in Vietnam. She has been an artist-in-residence at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli, NY, Akiyoshidai International Art Village in Japan, The Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, and Movement Research in NYC. As a dancer, she has performed with Molissa Fenley and Dancers since 1997 and Marlies Yearby’s Movin’ Spirits Dance Theater from 1991-96. She has been guest artist at Sacramento State University, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts HS, and Vargas Museum at Univ. of the Philippines. She received her MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and her BA in Visual Arts from University of California, San Diego. She is a member of the NYS DanceForce since 2009.