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About UsApparatus Dance Theater is a performance company dedicated to devising resonant works of aerial theater and sharing the joy of flying via our education arm, Apparatus Arts.
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Who We Are |
Founded in 1999, Apparatus Dance Theater uses various physical apparatus, invented or traditional, to study and perform stories of human interaction. Our work is a collaboration of performers devising work through research, improvisations, and physical experiment, directed by Janette Hough-Fertig.
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Janette Hough-Fertig directs Apparatus Dance Theater, co-directs Anomalous Theatre Company and currently teaches at Dixie State University, Breakwater School Enrichment Center and throughout the U.S. as an independent aerial dance choreographer and aerial yoga instructor. She developed the afterschool enrichment aerial dance program at the Breakwater School in Portland, ME. Janette has performed with Pig Iron Theatre, Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, Sebastienne Mundheim, Dr. Meghan Brodie, and Theatre Cirque, among many others. Her choreographic works The Weightless Moment (for Tedx Dirigo), Pale, Suitor, and La Reve de Augustine with Anomalous Theatre Co have been performed in various local and national venues. She started as a company member of Louise Gillette's Trapezius! Aerial Dance in 1993. Terry Sendgraff taught her the art of Motivity. Her teachers have also included Nancy Smith of Frequent Flyers and Serenity Smith-Forchion and Elsie Smith of NECCA. Janette also has certifications in Yoga, Aerial Yoga, Pilates Mat and Reiki.
Emily Waller has been an assistant teacher, rigger and office manager with Apparatus Dance Theater for five years. She is also a high steel rigger and stagehand with local IATSE 114. Emily has a degree in Music Education and also teaches music lessons at Breakwater School Enrichment Center. In her summers, she is the wood shop and high ropes teacher for Camp Agawam in Raymond, ME.
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