Daniele Strawmyre

Daniele Strawmyre is a multi-media artist, choreographer, performer and educator based in Philadelphia. She directs the collaborative arts company readySetGO. Currently an artist in residence at thefidget space in Philadelphia, she’s developing a performance installation inspired by Japanese ghost stories for October 2010 titled Kaidan Insuto. The staged version (Kaidan) will premiere at this year’s Live Arts Festival as part of 8 (eight choreographers/eight new works) and is the culmination of 2 years of research and performance called The Obake Project. Daniele’s past work has been shown at Mascher Space Cooperative, thefidget space, Pentimenti Gallery, Kumquat Dance Theater, the CEC, the Painted Bride Art Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others, and in site specific performances throughout Philadelphia. In 2003 she co-curated, “Ladyfest Philly”, a 4-day festival showcasing women’s activism through the arts and in 2004 she participated in a 2 month residency with CIE Felix Ruckert in Brussels, BE and Berlin, DE (made possible by a grant from the Leeway Foundation). She has performed with companies here and abroad including Megan Bridge, Kate Watson-Wallace/Anonymous Bodies, Jeb Kreager/Brown Squad, Perpetual Movement and Sound, Workshop for Potential Movement, SCRAP/Myra Bazell, Janette Hough, Jerome Meyer and Isabelle Chafaud (NL) and CIE Willi Dorner (AT) in Philadelphia; Junction Dance Theatre in Pittsburgh; Martha Bowers Dance Theatre Etcetera in New York; and CIE Felix Ruckert in Brussels, BE and Berlin, DE. Daniele has students aged three to eighty-three and has been teaching for over a decade. She teaches Creative Movement, Ballet, Yoga, Pilates, Water Aerobics, Body Conditioning, Basic Anatomy/Kinesiology, Acting and Story-telling, Technical Theatre, Arts and Crafts, and Eurhythmics as well as college and professional level courses in Dance Technique and Improvisation. She earned a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia.