≡ Who We Are
Change of State Performance Project was founded in 2005 by Andrea del Moral and K. Qilo Matzen. In January 2006, we became a fiscally sponsored project of CounterPULSE. Since 2003, we have made or contributed to seven dance, dance-theatre and theatre pieces, and performed these works in the Bay Area, Chicago and Urbana, Illinois. In 2003 we produced an evening of our work and that of four other performers in Oakland; in 2006 we produced a fundraiser of socio-political performance, featuring work by thirteen eclectic artists, to raise funds for the Common Ground Clinic in New Orleans. We work annually with choreographer Lisa Fay in Urbana, Illinois. For two years we have concentrated on deepening our creative partnership, performing in living rooms and a cemetery, as well as traditional small arts spaces.
Andrea del Moral provides theatrical direction for Change of State Performance Project. She has studied at Boston University and the School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Her choreography was seen in ODC’s PILOT program, and she has performed at Dance Mission, Jon Sims Center, CounterPULSE, in underground venues in Oakland and Chicago, and at the Independent Media Center of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Her work is influenced by her training in Skinner Releasing Technique, theatre direction, improvisational dance and theatre, contemporary dance, clowning, and writing.
K. Qilo Matzen brings a technical movement background to the Project, with a BFA in Dance from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and training in Martha Eddy’s Integrative SMTT (Somatic Movement Therapy Training). Ze both works with clients and teaches through a Somatic Movement Therapy perspective. Qilo has performed throughout North America and Europe: touring the Balkans with arts/activist collective Building Bloc, working with European director/choreographers, and locally in residency at Jon Sims Center. Currently ze works as a plumber’s apprentice in addition to hir Somatic Movement Therapy practice.
(ze and hir are gender neutral pronouns)
