Resident Company – Tribe of Human

Tribe of Human is the resident company at The Rover, directed by Rani Welch.

Definitely experimental, never the usual…  Sometimes singing, most times talking, all times moving.   Underneath it all is some gem of a story laced up with busy life addictions, stilettos as weapons,  layered humane detail that is sometimes heavy like railroad ties, then soft like breath —There is nothing specific to define us — you know it when you see it, but you can’t label it.  There is nothing stylistic to hold us back.   No certain technique, no decided school of thought, no academic qualities we borrow from the big whigs.    We just do our thing….a group of beautiful creatures,  a tribe of human.

Members of the Tribe:

Angela Buccinni, originally from Buffalo, NY, received her BFA in Dance from the Boston Conservatory.  Since moving to New York in 2006, she has worked with trapeze artists and aerialists, with Chase Brock, and with the Brooklyn based ‘Pop Action‘ dance company Streb, where she performed ‘Little Ease’, a solo initially created and performed by Elizabeth Streb. www.AngelaBuccinni.com

Nick Brentley is a native of Silver Spring, MD and graduate of Amherst College where he studied music, theater and dance. Outside of Tribe of Human, he performs with the afro-Caribbean dance company, Something Positive, and is a fashion/figure model for some of NYC’s art schools including the School of Visual Arts, Parsons/The New School and FIT.

Sally Donaubauer started dancing with Rani Welch at the University of Iowa, many many  moons ago…Since moving to NYC in 1999, she has also danced with Pam Tanowitz, Alexandra Beller, Daniel Charon, and Chris Ramos, among others.  Sally is a Pilates instructor and physical therapist, and pretends to sing sometimes too.

Nasim Haroun Mahdavi, of Northern Pennsylvania, co-founded The Red Shoes Dance Company with Kirov graduate, Valeria Bogokina Myers in 2004, and served as Artistic Director and Project Coordinator of the Folkloric Character Dance Company.  Nasim received a Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising/Public Relations from the University of Scranton in 2005.  In 2006, she was accepted into the Professional Studies Program of the Jose Limon Institute of NYC, and was a scholarship student at the Mary Anthony Dance Studio.  She also performs often with Movement Pants, directed by Adrian Jevicki.

All images copyright. Courtesy Aehee Kang Asano.