STEELEDANCE presents Bicipital Groove or Echo My Instincts
Choreographed by Teri Lee Steele and Oliver Steele with Guest Choreographer Kevin Wynn
November 14-16

Bicipital Groove or Echo my Instincts explores changing roles in the dance community - from dancers to choreographers and teachers. First shown as a work in progress in DNA’s Gene Pool production in February 2008, Bicipital Groove or Echo my Instincts will be presented in it’s entirety as an evening-length work. Referring to students as “kids” feeling quite distant from them in age, yet yearning to stay a part of the agile young dancer...the piece brings forth thoughts on vanity, the constant search for the self and the battle between youth and maturity.

Teri Steele graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Exercise Physiology. Oliver Steele, Romanian by birth and a citizen of Germany, trained at the Iwanson Dance Center in Munich and moved to New York in 1992. In 1995 they co-founded their own company, STEELEDANCE. Their choreography has been presented at Joyce Soho, DTW’s Bessie Schönberg Theater, the Cunningham Studio, The Yard, the DeMille Theater at NCSA, the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and the Evolving Arts Theater. They have taught at Steps on Broadway, Abizaid Arts, Tappan Zee Dance School, Rutgers University, Hunter College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, North Carolina School of the Arts, the Iwanson Dance Centre (Germany), Matsuyama University (Japan), Dance Camp Companie Champagne (Italy) and Ketsevhagoof Studio (Israel). Oliver is currently on faculty at DNA teaching Contemporary Modern. Teri teaches Pilates Mat, private Apparatus sessions and is the creator of the DNA Pilates Mat Certification Program as well as their Continuing Education Curriculum.

Photo credits by Teri Steele

Funded in part by Nicusa Capital Partners