FRANK CARLBERG
TADEJ BRDNIK
CHRISTINE CORREA
MICHAEL SARIN
BARRY STEELE
DAVID BENGAL |
FRANK CARLBERG
COMPOSER
(Composer, Mother Goose and Notebooks) Frank Carlberg is a native of Finland and divides his creative time between New York, Boston, Helsinki and Bombay. Carlberg’s awards include First Prize in the Jazz Composers Alliance Composition Contest, the Julius Hemphill Award (1997) the Thelonious Monk Competition, BMI Award (1994), the Cognac Hennessey Jazz Search and the Boston Jazz Society Award. Carlberg has received performance and recording grants from the Finnish Government and a grant from the Cultural Foundation of Finland. Carlberg received a grant from Meet the Composer to support the commission of his first work for Battery Dance, Zero… Two… Blue… Heaven… Seven. Subsequent commissions by Battery Dance Company included Mother Goose and Time Signatures, a co-commission with the Academy of Indian Performing Arts. ). Carlberg has performed throughout the U.S., Finland, Poland and India with Battery Dance Company Carlberg from 1999 – 2003. He has performed his own work and collaborations with jazz notables, Steve Lacy and Rufus Reid. His discography is extensive and includes Frederico (GM Records), Ugly Beauty (Northeastern Records), Carlberg was nominated for Outstanding Jazz Album (India), the Boston Music Awards (1994.) |
 TADEJ BRDNIK
Tadej Brdnik, a native of Slovenia where he began his dance career, has performed and taught with Battery Dance Company in three continents since 1998. He has also performed with Coyote Dancers, Avila/Weeks Dance, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, theater director Robert Wilson, David Gordon’s Pick Up Performance Company and MoveOpolis as well as in works of Maurice Béjart, Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, Susan Stroman, Steve Paxton, Lerry Keigwin, Deborah Hay and others. He is a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company (since 1996). His choreography has been performed in the U.S. and Europe. He has served as a teaching artist with Battery Dance Company in the U.S., Asia and Germany and encouraged the development of the Everybody Dance Now audience participation aspect of BDC’s Downtown Dance Festival. He was Special Projects Coordinator for the Martha Graham Dance Company and is a recipient of the 1993 Benetton Dance Award and the 2003 Eugene Loring Award. His career has been supported by a full scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance sponsored by actor Gregory Peck and a three-year grant, given by the Ministry of Culture from Republic of Slovenia. |
CHRISTINE CORREA
VOCALIST
(Vocalist) Christine grew up in Bombay where she was influenced by her father's career as a band leader, arranger and composer of jazz and popular dance music. She studied classical piano in Bombay and before emigrating to the U.S., sang in Bollywood Films. In the U.S., she trained in jazz voice at New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ran Blake, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, and Gerry Martin. She now lives in New York City and runs the Maine Jazz Camp. Her professional career has involved collaborations with Steve Lacy, John LaPorta, her former teacher Ran Blake, and her husband, Frank Carlberg. Correa has toured and performed with Battery Dance in New York, Finland and Poland. Other recent performances have included The Knitting Factory, New York City, National Opera House, Helsinki, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC and The National Center for the Performing Arts, Bombay. |
MICHAEL SARIN
MUSICIAN
Drummer Mike Sarin has performed with Battery Dance Company in India. He has appeared in major and minor festivals and concert halls famous around the world. He is currently recording with Ben Allison, Frank Carlberg, Erik Friedlander, and David Krakauer/Fred Wesley’s Abraham Inc. |
BARRY STEELE
LIGHTING DESIGNER
(Lighting Designer) Barry has designed and supervised lighting for Battery Dance Company's productions in the U.S., India, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovenia since 1996. He designed Battery's production in collaboration with Anjali Dance Center for the Miller Theater in Houston, and designed Battery’s most recent works, Notebooks, Secrets of the Paving Stones and Hers and Histories. He has also designed the lighting for opera and theater companies in the U.S. and France. |
 DAVID BENGALI
ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Works in directing and design in New York City and surroundings. He is a resident designer for the Stolen Chair Theatre Company, and has designed projects for Balinese American Dance Theatre, New Jersey Opera Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Princeton Summer Theater and many others. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he studied theater and worked with student productions and the McCarter Theater. |
