-- Nadia Oussenko --


*Connect 4 (2006)* Choreographed, directed, and edited by Nadia Oussenko, and filmed by Daniel Kullman, Connect 4 uses four dancers who work within four spaces of a warehouse to connect a single movement phrase.	*going. (2005)* Two people shift, brush, run, slide, and slouch while they explore the intricacies of a sun-lit stairwell. Hesitation, frustration, and comfort are heard in the whisper of fabric, skin, and callous against tile and stone. Movement rebounds and echoes as the two strive to leave a transitory place but go no nowhere.

*Up There (2006)* Choreographed by Denise Posnak and directed and edited by Nadia Oussenko, Up There presents the binary relationship between the external, posed woman on display with the internal, private woman who breaks social coding. Set in a bar, a female dancer grapples with masturbatory "tics" while attempting to maintain composure. Easily distracted, her focal changes depict a displaced, conflicted self that is unable to settle into one system. Within the context of the public setting, her experiences with these shifts can be judged inappropriate and/or raise questions of acceptable social norms for women.	*My Name is a Blackbird (trailer-2006)* My Name is a Blackbird, a dance film by Nadia Oussenko, is an intimate documentary of one year in choreographer Molly Shanahan's transformative movement investigations during the creation of her solo dance performance My Name is a Blackbird, which premiered in April 2007 at The Building Stage in Chicago. Oussenko guides us through Shanahan's enigmatic and provocative movement journey through dance-for-the-camera vignettes interwoven with footage that exposes aspects of an artist and her creative process rarely seen in performance alone.