Angela Martinelli

Angela Martinelli has been a dancer for 26 years in the art of ballet, modern, improv, contact, West African, and street funk. She has been experimenting butoh in the last five years and has Somatics training through EastWest Somatics. She is yoga certified in Ashtanga/Iyengar blend but has dipped into Jivamukti recently. She is originally from New England and has performed all over the Northeast. She has done her own butoh/modern work in Hawaii and Seattle. She has worked for Harvard University, Built on Spilts, Friends of the Arts NH, Green Street Studios, Upside Down Dance, PSU Contemporary Dance Ensemble, UH Manoa Theatre and Dance Dept, Danse Perdue, Daipan and a collective of musicians, dancers and actors. Angela is an anthropologist and works with native semiotics and tribal customs. Angela has worked with Fitzmaurice voicework with Gin Hammond and has created her own workshops involving tribal dance and butoh at the Gage Academy of the Arts, Freehold Theatre and her own personal venues. She has become quite the underground dance aficianado. She is trying to work more with the inner workings of the mind with dance and psychodrama then just the performance spectrum. After 26 years of dance/performance, Angela is embarking on a healing journey that brinks on the edge of risky dance work that not many have seen. Embarking on the darkness of dance through butoh but letting the authenticity of individuals allow time for transformation through somatic work.

Angela has taught workshops in New England, Hawaii, Seattle, Berlin and New Zealand. She has experienced a plethora of opportunities with artists all over Canada, the US, Europe and Oceania. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006 in American Studies, preservation of culture through the arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Plymouth State University in Global Communications 2002, minor in Dance. Angela has received awards for social service and performing arts creations and continues to focus on indigenous tribal customs and mind/body connection. Dealing with trauma through butoh and psychodrama, she is bicoastal and currently works from Seattle to Vermont, as well as dunks her talent into Canada, Europe and Oceania frequently.