Trisk Presents SPLIT BILL #39
featuring...
Andrea Ward
Hunter Sturgis  

Andrea Ward is a contemporary choreographer creating dance, music, and film that embodies the healing of consciousness. Both music and dance are just a form of movement for her, and an evolving dialogue with consciousness. All of her work is an attempt to open the space within audience members that is often subdued by conventional culture. As a choreographer, Andrea's set work in Madrid Spain as part of a "Choreographic Lab" for Estudio DANZA180. She's also taught for the Dance Italia summer intensive in Lucca, Italy. In 2021, she'd taught in Paris at the Studio Harmonic and also lived in London as a teaching artist at The Hub Studios. Further, she performed her work as a soloist in Amsterdam at the Henny Jurriëns Studio, and in Italy as part of the Mediterraneo Dance Festival. Before her travels abroad, Andrea set work for the Columbia Ballet Collaborative while also developing her own company work, “The Tension of Nature,” though the performance was cancelled due to Covid-19. Prior to New York, Andrea held a choreographic residence at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, FL. Andrea's music is available on all music platforms, and her films can be found on Youtube and Vimeo.

Hunter Sturgis is a queer dance artist, filmmaker, and Pilates teacher from south Texas currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Hunter creates to subvert and challenge oppressive power structures that have taken root systemically, historically, and thusly, corporeally. He uses the power of disruption to open up new spaces where there is deep, uncharted territory of the heart