Inimois Dance / Megan Chu and Charlie Rauh

Megan Chu graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University’s department of Dance and Choreography. She has received an Individual Artist grant from the Queens Council on the Arts, an award from VCU’s School of the Arts and the Carpenter Foundation. She has been an artist in residence at the Klaustierd Foundation in Iceland, Newsteps at the Chen Dance Center, Le Feil Artist Residency in France, The Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and Groundworks at the Cora Studios. 

She founded Inimois Dance, currently based in Union County New Jersey, in 2008 to encompass her choreographic works. The company has been funded by Meet the Composer, Queens Council on the Arts, Fractured Atlas and the Untitled SOF grant. Internationally Megan’s work has been performed in Mexico, Iceland, Amsterdam and France. Nationally she has presented work in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Wyoming, and Illinois. In New York her work has been shown at Rooftop Dance, Center for Performance Research, Lincoln Center, WestFest, BAX, Dumbo Dance Festival, Ailey CityGroup Theater, AUNTS, and Triskelion Arts among others.

Previously she has had the opportunity to perform for Davis Freeman in the P.S.122 COIL Festival, Dai Jian at the MET, Burr Johnson at Danspace, and Helen Simoneau at the Joyce Soho.

Guitarist Charlie Rauh has been awarded grants from such organizations as Meet The Composer, The  Fractured Atlas Group, The Untitled Artists Group, The Herndon Arts Council, The Queens Arts Council, and The International Studios at Denkalschmeide Hofgen. Master improviser Connie Crothers notes Rauh as "a true musician with an originality that is deeply personal", while virtuoso composer/pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn describes his creative approach as "a rare combination of discipline, attention to detail, and impeccable taste."  In collaboration with choreographer Megan Harrold he has served as composer in residence at The Klaustrid Foundation-Iceland (Sept. 2010), The Chen Dance Center-NYC (Oct./Nov. 2011), and Le Feuil-France (Aug./Sept. 2012).  Rauh has worked with such artists as Ingrid Laubrock, Abigail Breslin, Michael Hafftka, Noël Akchoté, and Cornelius Eady - His compositions have been featured on NPR's Live in Studio C program and WUSB's Jazz On The Air program as well as in venues such as Merce Cunningham Studio, The Kitchen, Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center, The Chocolate Factory, The Stone, The Rubin Art Museum, and the Shapeshifter Lab. His debut solo release on Composers Concordance Records/Naxos will be released May 26th, 2015

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