GREEN CHAIR DANCE GROUP is a collaborative dance-theater company that has tumbled, lifted, leapt, and stood still all along the eastern seaboard of the United States and in Poland. Green Chair weighs 372 pounds. On an average day, it sweats 1 gallon, bikes 11 miles, inhales 8 pounds of food, and checks email 33 times.

Sarah began dance life at Swarthmore College and continued studying at Laban School for Contemporary Dance and The Circus Space in London. As a professional dancer and choreographer, she has participated in festivals in Lithuania, Slovakia, Finland, Poland, Florida, Connecticut, Colorado, California, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and has performed with groups in Italy, England, and NYC. In addition to collaborating and helping run Green Chair, she is on the Board at Mascher Space Cooperative, is an Associate Artist with Workshop for Potential Movement, performs with Grounded Aerial Dance Theater, and this year joined the Advisory Board of DanceUSA/Philadelphia.  In 2009/2010 she was a nEW Artist and began long-term project of building a piece with oceans made of 12 dancers and a dangerous army of combat bunnies.  Here in Philadelphia she created and runs ZoomDance Action Adventure Story-Telling Dance Classes for young kids.

Hannah is a dancer and choreographer who thrives in collaborative creation and whose work challenges artists (including herself) to expand their performance presence. In addition to her work with Green Chair, she has enjoyed dancing with Gabrielle Revlock, Charles O. Anderson/dance theatre X, Ellen Gerdes, Marcel Williams Foster, Kelley Donovan, and others. She also runs a massage therapy practice in Philadelphia and is the Audience Experience Manager for Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, an ensemble theater company.

Gregory learned how to build human towers in high school, and has been experimenting in movement ever since. His work is nearly always collaborative and process-driven, and has been shown in festivals and venues across Europe and the United States. He has a BA in Movement Research and Performance from the Institute for Dance Art at Anton Bruckner University in Linz, Austria, where he has also taught seminars in dance composition. He has paired with Berlin-based artist An Kaler on several projects, and their short dance films have been shown in numerous festivals around the world, including the Body Navigation Festival in St. Petersburg, the International Dance Film Festival in Yokohama, and New Video Dance Festival in Tel Aviv. Locally in Philadelphia, he dances for several choreographers and performance groups including Brian Sanders/JUNK, Jumatatu Poe/idiosynCrazy productions, Gabrielle Revlock/Manodamno, and Marcelo Rueda. His dance work and development has been supported by two Dance Advance professional development grants, the Research into the Unknown residency in Budapest, and the Lockwood Fellowship.

Photos: Elena Camp

JOHN BEAUREGARD first came upon dance at Swarthmore College, where his experiences in movement and composition spurred him on to pursue training in physical theater at the Anton Bruckner Institute for Dance Art in Linz, Austria.  He currently lives and teaches yoga in Boston, MA.