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Alison

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About Me

Alison Rootberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose primary focus is in dance and video. She completed her MFA in Dance and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Rootberg also has a BFA in Dance and a BS in Inter-Arts and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Furthermore, she was selected and attended the Sydney Kahn Summer Institute at the Kitchen in New York, the Music and Dance Exchange at Dartington College of Art in Devon (United Kingdom), and STEIM in Amsterdam (Netherlands) for a residency in the Electronic Performance Arts.
Her work has been presented by Aalborg University Esbjerg (Copenhagen, Denmark), ADaPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics), Alterna Professional Haircare (CA), The Apple Store SOHO (NY), The Blankenship Ballet Company (CA), Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (WA), The California Institute of the Arts, The El Rey Theatre (CA), H & H Entertainment (IL), the International Computer Music Conference, The International Consumer Electronics Show (NV), the International Digital Media and Arts Conference, The Kitchen (NY), the MacWorld Conference, the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (Morelia, Mexico), NIME (the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Pochron Studios (NY), Rivolta (Venice, Italy), Roulette (NY), San Diego State University (CA), The Southern Theater (MN), St Mark's Church (NY), Stony Brook University (NY), the University of Arizona – Tucson, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Colorado – Boulder, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the Wisconsin Union Theater, Workspace Limited (CA), and Zentrale Randlage (Berlin, Germany).
Alison is a board member of the New West Electronic Arts and Music Organization (NWEAMO) and the Dance Resource Center (DRC). In addition to all of this, she continues to serve as Artistic Director of Kinesthetech Sense, creating new work and traveling the world with it.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Old friends, new friends, artists, dancers, choreographers, performers, producers, directors, etc.

Music:

Current favorites are: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Damien Rice, A Fine Frenzy, Blue October, Colbie Caillat, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae, Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, Etta James, Explosions In the Sky, Feist, Herbie Hancock, Jack Johnson, Joshua Radin, Jimmy Eat World, Joshua Radin, Joss Stone, Matt Nathanson, Ray Charles, Regina Spektor, Sara Bareilles, Sia, and Yael Naïm

Movies:

Beaches, Becoming Jane, It's a Beautiful Life, Hotel Rwanda, Scent Of A Woman, Picture Perfect, The Notebook, The Terminal, Sixth Sense, Harry Potter, Three to Tango, She's All That, Good Will Hunting, Risky Business, Working Girl, Top Gun, Meet Joe Black, The Goodbye Girl

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Lost, and Heroes

Books:

Tuesdays with Morrie, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Da Vinci Code, The Rule of Four, Harry Potter, and anything by J.D. Robb or Elie Wiesel

Heroes:

"I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit... Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."
-Martha Graham

My Blog

Kinesthetech Sense

Please go to: www.myspace.com/kinesthetechsenseKinesthetech Sense was founded by Alison Rootberg and Margaret Schedel in 2006 with the intent to collaborate with visual artists, dancers, and musician...
Posted by Alison on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:47:00 PST

Disjointed - St Marks Church (NY)

A Daughter's Grief, Transformed on StageDanceBy JOY GOODWINMay 15, 2006Choreographer: Heidi LatskyGuest Choreographer: Sean CurranMusic: Frank PonzioVideo Design: Alison RootbergSet Design: Matthew Eg...
Posted by Alison on Wed, 17 May 2006 04:39:00 PST