ANIMAL
a new dance project by Julie Rothschild
JULIE ROTHSCHILD, Director
HEATHER MCINTOSH, Composer
ZAP MCCONNELL, Assistant Director
JOHN GIBSON, Creative Partner
AMANDA MARTIN
REBECCA ENGHAUSER
THOMAS JAY
JUANA FARAFAN
KIMBERLY KLEIBER
MARYGRACE PHILLIPS
LILIAN MAE RANSJIN
Skwhirlhaus
WHO we are
ANIMAL CAST
Heather McIntosh
recently moved to Los Angeles from Athens, Georgia. House cellist for the Elephant 6 Collective, she has played with of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes, Gerbils, Elf Power, Circulatory System, Apples in Stereo, Great Lakes and The Ladybug Transistor.
She has extended her talents outside of Athens, performing with Linda Perhacs, Kevin Ayers of the Soft Machine, Faust, Animal Collective, Cat Power, Superchunk, M Ward, The Clientele, St. Vincent, Azure Ray, Icy Demons, Bright Eyes, Washed Out, Dr. Dog, Gnarls Barkley and Lil Wayne.
John Gibson
grew from a child actor into a director, designer, producer of theater, dance, opera, film, and video, but has since set aside those pursuits in hopes of becoming a child actor once more. he lives in atlanta's oldest extant schoolhouse with the love of his life and is close to the end of his first novel (as a writer, not a reader). there's quite a large theater named in his honor somewhere, a fact which fills him with both pride and profound existential trepidation.
Zap McConnell
began investigating dance/movement performance at North Carolina School of the Arts in 1988. Upon leaving NCSA, she began traveling, splitting her time between performance, visual arts and direct environmental activism in Northern California, New York City, Idaho, Mexico, Costa Rica and Colorado. Zap has been involved with the Zen Monkey Project (ZMP) since 1995 performing, teaching, stage managing, producing and directing evening-length pieces. She facilitated the New Dance Space and co-facilitated Studio 11 at the McGuffey Art Center, organized performance festivals and ZMP’s summer dance intensives. She is also a visual artist who regularly creates and prints cartoon books, paints, makes murals, sculpture and who builds performance installation sets that also include lights and costumes.
Julie Rothschild has been making and performing dances for 30 years. Her dances have been staged in Colorado, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Maryland, D.C., Virginia, Georgia, Mexico and Ireland and she has presented Dance and Alexander Technique workshops throughout the US as well as in Spain, Switzerland, Ireland and Mexico. Julie’s collaborations with Zap, Heather and John are numerous, though ANIMAL is the first project in which she has brought this amazing creative crew together. Julie currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and 2 sons. Her daily walks with her dog Olive are when and where her wildest ideas seem possible. And this idea is one of her wildest.