DIGITAL CV
BAVA Dance at Amateur Night at The Apollo 2022
When Amateur Night at the Apollo debuted in 1934, it quickly became the leading showcase for many young, talented, new performers such as a 15-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, who went on to become one of the first Amateur Night winners. Amateur Night at the Apollo has since become the quintessential talent competition, serving as the model for Star Search and American Idol. The show marries world-class talent with a distinctive, vaudeville-like atmosphere, and has depended on audience participation since the very beginning. This popularity contest has proven an effective measure of star potential, becoming a launch pad for some of the nation’s greatest entertainers.
Awakening debuted at The Apollo Theater on June 22, 2022. Videography took place at Central Park's Band's Shell on June 21, 2022 by Nelson Luna.
Talissa Bavaresco led her dance company, BAVA Dance, at the world famous Apollo Theater, where they debuted her new work AWAKENING as part of the 88 years of history of the longest running talent show in America, Amateur Night at The Apollo.
Event: Amateur Night at The Apollo Piece: Awakening Choreographer: Talissa Bavaresco Dancers: Talissa Bavaresco, Maggie Kelly, Danie Kurzman, Sydney Lastorino, and Michelle Palatucci Music: Stomps Sport by RamolPro Videography: Nelson Luna
Dance Parade NYC - Dare To Dance Challenge 2020
The bi-coastal trio Asia Miller, Talissa Bavaresco, and Hana Kozuka came together to shed a little happiness during these times of adversity. Conceptualized by the artists and created to participate at the 2020 Dance Parade NYC’s Dare to Dance Challenge, here is a peek into their COVID-19 quarantine lives!
Dancers: Asia Miller, Talissa Bavaresco, and Hana Kozuka Choreography and Editing: Asia Miller and Hana Kozuka
On 1 Condition: PING PONG
Warning: Explicit Music
Dixon Place’s Festival ‘On 1 Condition’ has one sole purpose: Choreographers create…on 1 condition: they must abide by the same crazy rule!
In its ‘Ping Pong’ edition on February 2020, choreographer Talissa Bavaresco performed along dancers Callie Hale and Michelle Palatucci at the premier of Evolution.
Festival: On 1 Condition, Ping Pong Producers: Zoe Clayton and Ryan Daniel Beck Piece: Evolution Choreographer: Talissa Bavaresco Dancers: Talissa Bavaresco, Callie Hale and Michelle Palatucci Music: British Movietone,Will Blair, Cakes da Killa Lighting: Lily Grace Cummings
Photo by Lily Grace Cummings
“Unleashed” - Six Flags Fright Fest 2019
Back for its third year at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, UNLEASHED took over the Showcase Theater during Fright Fest, with another spooky spectacular circus show voted best performance showcase in the park!
Photos by Taylor Anselmo
Production: Shade Entertainment Dancers: Talissa Bavaresco, Amanda Carr, Starr Dee, Britne Lopez, Amanda Somma Aerial Acts: Cirque Sanity - Tina Phoenix and Rewi Bracey Balancing Act: Emil Vlasta Faltyny Magic Act: Michael Turco Trampoline Act: Zero Gravity Arts - Maurice ‘Mo’ Armstrong, John ‘Jay’ Cox, Garret Myers Choreography: Edmar Benitez
Concept Video
Produced by the trio themselves, Talissa Bavaresco, Hana Kozuka and Asia Miller star on an all new dance concept video straight out of Brooklyn, New York.
Choreography and Concept: Hana Kozuka
Videography and Editing: Talissa Bavaresco
Costume Design and Make Up: Asia Miller
Dancers: Hana Kozuka, Talissa Bavaresco, Asia Miller
Music: Tower
PANORAMA Music Festival 2018
Talissa had the pleasure of returning to PANORAMA Music Festival as one of seven ‘Oracles’ in “Pixel Vortex”, the most popular installation at the 2018 TheLAB. This interactive dome, put together by the The Windmill Factory, had festival goers interact with pixel balloons in a colorful dance party. Meanwhile, other festival goers visited The Podium where a sensor captured their Aura and transformed it into color, which filled up the room ahead of them with the pixel balloons.
Concept/Direction: Jon Morris
Production: Clementine Seely & Ana Constantino
Custom Inflatable “Osmos Pavilion” and Aura Podium Design: John Hilmes
Interactive Aura Sensor: Rob Godshaw with Ward Flemming’s pinscreens
Video & Lighting Design: Josh Higgason
Sound Design: Bobby McElver
Wireless LEDs: Lumigeek
Balloon Content/Design Technologist: Maxx Berkowitz
If that wasn’t amazing enough, all Pixel Vortex visitors were surprised once exiting the dome, by finding Polaroid Photos of themselves, taken during their time at the podium. The photos had each an unique colorful filter generated from each person’s Aura sensored at the dome. And to finish it off, once handed your photograph, the magical Oracles, or may I say Auricles, gave you a full expert reading of the aura on your photo!
Auricles: Tristan O’shea, Joe Trombino, Fisher Neal, Marianna Hoitt-Lange, Angelica Kushi, Talissa Bavaresco, Will O’Hare
Production Assistants: Aristo Ambatzidis & Juliana Leandra
Aura Photography: Will O’hare
“The Table of Silence Project represents the common threads of humanity which unite all mankind into a single force with common goals and aspirations regardless of race, culture, or religion. Through this event, we wish to achieve the dual purpose of celebrating and honoring peace, through listening, a united moment of silence - a call for Peace in our world…”
Photos: Kendall Carter and still shots from YouTube live-stream
9/11 Table of Silence Project 2018
The Table of Silence Project 9/11 is a multi-cultural prayer for peace, realized through a transcendent ceremony for 150 dancers swathed in white, that carries out the vision of choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi and artist Rossella Vasta.
Talissa had the honor of joining Buglisi Dance Theater and the cast of 150 guest dancers to perform The Table of Silence on September 11th, 2018 at the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center - New York City. The live-stream of the 2018 performance (made by Nel Shelby’s Productions) reached nearly 100,000 people worldwide.
IKEA to I Do!
A surprise wedding video from Timothy Edwards to Joe Vigliotti. June 1st, 2018.
Director and Videographer: Mikal Din (Blackbird Pictures)
Choreographer: Timothy Edwards
Dancers: Lyndsey Arorash, Talissa Bavaresco, Aileen Carroll, Bryce Cox, Starr Dee, Maddison Hilton, Alexzandra Knapp, Hana Kozuka
Dance Education Laboratory 2018 at the 92nd Street Y
Invited by Dancer & Choreographer Nicole Wolcott, who co-facilitated the event with Taryn Vander Hoop, Talissa was one of the professional dancers "infiltrated" in the DEL Movement Sentence Choir on March 2018. Assisting miss Wolcott on demonstrations and helping taking the lead on movement exercises, Talissa had a blast being part of this workshop, bringing dance together for everyone.
Photos by John Suhar Photography
KIMBRA at Park Avenue Armory Gala 2017
Talissa had the honor of sharing this event with 50 other NYC professional dancers, performing alongside artist Kimbra for HAPPENING! - Park Armory Gala 10th Anniversary! In a work set by Larry Keigwin (Keigwin + Co), the dancers joined the Headlining Artist for her grand finale act, in a flash-mob style performance! Watch 'Part 2' for a Behind the Scenes insight on Kimbra's experience with the Dancers!
Flash Mob America Event
Talissa was one of ten selected professional dancers to lead a flash mob performance at a BASF conference in Hamburg, NJ.
Directed by Flash Mob America and JoiLynn Production.
Professional Dancers Talissa Bavaresco and Hana Kozuka
Flash Mobs Go Corporate
“Companies are paying thousands of dollars for “impromptu” mobs to spice up conferences and sales meetings. (...) Flash Mob America, which stages events at corporate conferences and trade shows, began in 2009 after a group of friends put on a flash-mob tribute to Michael Jackson, which went viral.”
PANORAMA Music Festival 2017
Talissa was a featured Performer in the PanoramaLAB at PANORAMA Music Festival of 2017. She performed all three festival days in "Right Passage" with The Windmill Factory.
Photos by Will O'Hare
“It was like interactive theatre meeting modern dance in a futuristic art museum. A spectacle that captured my imagination.”
Concept/Director: Jon Morris Producer: Ana Constantino
Original Score: Steve Nalepa and Adam Freeland from The Acid
Scenic/Lighting Designer: Maruti Evans
Lighting Programmer/Designer: Dan Alaimo
Sound Design: Bobby McElver Sound Assistant: Keenan Hurley
Scenic Choreographer: Tyler Gilstrap
Stage Managers: Anne Haney & Will O’Hare
Production Coordinator: Juliana Leandra
Female Cast: Mary Kate Sheehan (dance captain/swing), Khadija Griffith, Alexzandra Knapp, Geneva Jenkin, Talissa Bavaresco, Sarah Dodd, Ayesha Jordan // Male Cast: John Hartzel (captain/swing), Tristan Oshea, Terrance Popular, Daniel White, Malcom McMichael, Stephen Galberth, Tim Ottman
Photo by Bearlosophy
SO CLOSE - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
A Windmill Factory Production of a Michael Joseph McQuilken Film “So Close” starring Tyler Gilstrap and Andrew McMahon Music by Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness.
Choreography by Tyler Gilstrap
Featured Dancers: Alex Knapp, Suzanne Rzecznik, Steven Orrego Upegui, Talissa Bavaresco; Stunts by Jon Morris
Photos by Ana Constantino
Talissa is one of the four selected dancers performing in Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness' music video for his hit single "So Close".
“The singer-songwriter reinvented himself with the in The Wilderness moniker, and is really just looking to have fun with his music videos”
Give it Away - Joilynn Moves
Inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Choreographer and Director JoiLynn produced "Give it Away", a short dance film in which Talissa had the pleasure to be part of.
Photos by Tiba Vieira
Choreography, Direction, Editing: JoiLynn
Videography, Editing: Tiba Vieira
SYMBIOH with Humans Collective
Created by Lauren Cox, Founder and Artistic Director of Humans Collective, "SYMBIOH" was a show with three manifestations (Dixon Place as part of Under Exposed (May 2016), Five Myles as an independent showing (July 2016), LPAC as part of their CUNY Dance Initiative, which Humans Collective was in residency with (September 2016)).
“A thought-provoking journey inspired by symbiotic relationships and medieval architecture”
Talissa danced alongside Brianna Mercado as "The Twins", one of the characters of Symbioh, performing as the openning or closing act (depending on which manifestation). Photos by J. Mulsen
Jazz Ain't Dead at Harlem Arts Festival 2016
Talissa had the pleasure of performing with Jazz Ain't Dead Dance Collective in collaboration with Jazz Ain't Dead Music Collective to bring Candice Michelle Franklin's work of "Afro Blues" to Harlem Arts Festival at the Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater in the summer of 2016 in NYC.
Direction and Choreography: Candice Michelle Franklin
Dancers: Ryan Albee, Lyndsey Arorash, Talissa Bavaresco, Autumn Bozak, Kendall Carter, Maria Andrea Castellanos Gomez, Starr Dee, Erica Johnson, Alexzandra Knapp, Danie Kurzman, Alexis Montoya, Steven Orrego Upegui, Rosalia Panepinto, Tori Roman-Secor.
Music Cast: Axel Laugart Tosca (Keys), Paul Beaudry (Bass), Amaury Acostas (Drums), Jonathan Beshay (Saxophone), Joaquin Pozo (Congas), Rajdulari Barnes (Vocals), Billy Davis (Vocals), Kenyetta Coffee (Vocals)
Top Model Latina 2014
Talissa Bavaresco performed with Keep Rising to the Top (KR3T's) Dance Company at the Final Fashion Show for Top Model Latina 2014. The Fashion Show also had guest performances by puerto rican singer Frankie Negrón and bachata group 24 HORAS and the event awarded Veronica Montano as Top Model Latina 2014-2015.
Photos by Manny Zoom
