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National Performance Network's 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

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CLYDE VALENTIN<br />

Hip-Hop Theater Festival<br />

Executive Director<br />

208 Qu<strong>in</strong>cy St, Apt 4, Brooklyn, NY 11216<br />

phone (718) 497-4282<br />

clyde@hiphoptheaterfest.org<br />

KATIE KA VANG<br />

64 Dexter Street Apt 2L, Providence, RI 02909<br />

phone 6513872887<br />

katieka.vang@gmail.com<br />

NPN's <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Meet<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Philadelphia</strong> Attendees / Page 104 of 115<br />

Katie Ka Vang is a performance artist and playwright and prose writer. She has been described as a<br />

"dynamic performer and relentless writer of truth." She has performed for Pangea World Theater (as<br />

ensemble member), Theatre Mu, Pillsbury House Theatre, Ordway Center for Perform<strong>in</strong>g Arts, Center<br />

for Hmong Arts and Talent, The Walker Art Center. She self released a collection of poetry and prose<br />

called Never Said. Her work has been published <strong>in</strong> Sa<strong>in</strong>t Paul Almanac, Asian American Press,<br />

BlueFifth Magaz<strong>in</strong>e and Voices from the Asian American Experience. Her commissioned works<br />

<strong>in</strong>clude wtf, Hmong Bollywood, 5:1 Mean<strong>in</strong>g of Freedom; 6:2 Use of Sharpen<strong>in</strong>g (as a Naked Stages<br />

Fellow), Youth In Session (CHAT's Creative Drama Youth class), and Myth of Xee. She's received<br />

fund<strong>in</strong>g from Jerome and MSAB.<br />

ALIE VIDICH<br />

Movement Brigade<br />

Artistic Director<br />

1122 Crease Street, <strong>Philadelphia</strong>, PA 19125<br />

phone 267-467-0657<br />

<strong>in</strong>fo@movementbrigade.org<br />

Alie Vidich is a choreographer, director, and performer creat<strong>in</strong>g immersive, site specific performance<br />

journeys and viscerally engag<strong>in</strong>g stage works. In 2009, she formed Movement Brigade, a dance theater<br />

group that acts as a vehicle for her choreographic voice. She is <strong>in</strong>terested <strong>in</strong> the dynamic <strong>in</strong>tersection<br />

between dance and theater and blurr<strong>in</strong>g the l<strong>in</strong>es between these two worlds. Recent choreographic<br />

works <strong>in</strong>clude: "CONSTANTS," an <strong>in</strong>teractive performance journey about the hidden histories of<br />

<strong>Philadelphia</strong>'s Schuylkill River <strong>in</strong> which audience members were guided by performers on land and <strong>in</strong><br />

canoes, and "For those who I love," a driv<strong>in</strong>g k<strong>in</strong>etic exploration <strong>in</strong>to the personal landscape of a<br />

turbulent mother-daughter relationship. For more <strong>in</strong>fo: movementbrigade.org.

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