Scapegoat Garden

Present Collaborators

Hanna Kivioja is originally from Finland and has lived in the United States since 2001. She is a BA Hons graduate in Contemporary Dance from London Contemporary Dance School at the Place, England and also studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Hanna continues to explore movement and has most recently immersed herself in yoga and kung fu, studying with Damon Honeycutt and Master Hu Jianqiang. In Europe, Hanna has performed in the works of Charles Linehan and Jonathan Lunn. Since moving to the States Hanna has danced with Full Force Dance Theater and collaborated with Leela Dance Theatre. She continues to with perform with Figments Dance Ensemble and in the works of Amber Sloan and Julian Barnett, in addition to her work with Scapegoat Garden.

Hanna has expressed her passion for interdisciplinary collaboration, choreography and performance in numerous productions and ensembles. In June 2005, Hanna was commissioned to choreograph ‘Viel’ Valkee Aamu’ for Las Sirenas choir, a 17 voice multinational and multilingual female choir directed by Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey. This past October, Hanna also collaborated with Actors’ Stock Company for 'Eve Descending, directed by Abena Koomson and presented by Six Figures Theatre Company. In the summer of 2005, she was selected to participate in the inaugural International Dancers Collective at Dance Omi. Hanna has served as assistant directors for Acoustic Revolutions, a collaborative acoustic multimedia performance combining original music and dance bringing together the music and dance communities of Greater Hartford in 2002 and for Drink to This! in 2005.

As a teaching artist, Hanna has taught at the Hartford Conservatory, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, Dance Connecticut, at various nursery schools as an early childhood dance specialist and directed a youth company the NewDance Company. Currently, Hanna teaches at Peridance in NYC and Steffi Nossen School of Dance in White Plains New York. Hanna also provides a yoga classes for Corporations in NYC as well as the Finnish community of NYC at the New York Finnish Lutheran Congregation.

Sarah Weiss began her dance training in Dallas, Texas at the wee age of three, when her parents planted her in ballet class because she couldn't sit still. After many pointe shoe fittings and new pairs of pink tights, Sarah made the switch to modern dance and never looked back.

She graduated from Bates College with a B.S. in Biology and received a One Year certificate from London Contemporary Dance School at The Place. Sarah also holds an MFA from the University of Utah where she taught undergraduate non-majors classes and explored the physical and psychological realms of boundaries. She has performed in works by Sean Curran, Maura Ngyuen Donahue, Doug Elkins, Bebe Miller, Marcy Plavin, Sara Sweet Rabidoux, Kaye Richards and Doug Varone.

Since her arrival in New Haven in December 2003, Sarah has taught children’s creative movement at Yale University and led workshops for Waterbury’s Brass City Ballet’s Reading in Motion program, which integrated dance and reading in public school classrooms. She has also performed with Yale Repertory Theater and with local choreographer Mary Barnett. Sarah is currently an Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Yale University and is thrilled to have been dancing with Scapegoat Garden for a year and a half.

Past Collaborators


	Tony Olivares was born in Managua, Nicaragua. His dance training began in Edmonton, although he had performed in Managua, Mexico and the United States before that time. In Edmonton, Tony assisted the dance program at Grant MacEwan College. Later he formed Dirty Feet Productions, a dance collective which was active for 3 years and produced 5 independent shows. Tony performed and trained in Improvisation in Montreal, New York, at Bennington College, and at EarthDance in Massachusetts. Tony moved to Hartford in 2003 to study massage therapy at the Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy. While Tony continues to call Canada his dance home, he currently lives in Hartford where he is studying dance pedagogy at Hartford Conservatory.
	Damon Honeycutt is a transdisciplinary artist whose work involves the cohesion of many traditions. He holds an MA in Conscious Evolution and Integral Studies from The Graduate Institute and a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in music composition and cross cultural dance studies. Damon is a grassroots martial arts practitioner and yogi with twenty years of experience. He is the founder of The Temple of the Monkey, through which he teaches Taoist Yoga, and Monkey Kung Fu as well as creates programs and apprenticeships in those fields. Damon is a founding member of Scapegoat Garden and has worked with Nai Ni Chen dance company, Mei Yin Ng, Beijing Opera company Yuan, I Nyoman Wenten and the Burat Wangi Gamelan, Oddfellows Playhouse, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Leela Dance theater and has been featured at numerous martial art festivals and independent films. More of Damon’s work can be found at: http://tribes.tribe.net/templeofthemonkey and www.wayofthenomad.com.

	Jennifer Morley received her BA in Dance from Hofstra University. The Connecticut native currently resides in Philadelphia where she is pursuing an MFA in dance at Temple University. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Figments Dance Ensemble which is dedicated to inspiring students to use movement as a means for communication by creating and performing ground-breaking modern dance works for children of all ages - offering workshops, lecture demonstrations and residencies. She also teaches Pilates and Yoga.

	Ana Manuela Jara is from Bogota, Colombia where she began her dance training. She performed and toured Colombia with the pre-professional modern dance company “Danta Danza”. Manuela is a Magna Cum Ladua graduate from the Hartt School/University of Hartford BFA program. She was a member of the Touring Ensemble, performed works by Martha Graham, Peggy Lyman and Katie Stevinson-Nollet and had the privilege of performing at Jacob's Pillow and the Festival of Arts and Ideas Festival in New Haven. She is on the faculty of the School of Dance Connecticut and performs with Greater Hartford area artists, including Full Force Dance Theater, the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble as well as Scapegoat Garden.

	Anne Tegtmeier originally trained in Denver, Colorado and went on to receive her BFA from The Boston Conservatory in 1996. Since then she has danced in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and has, most recently, been performing with various modern companies in the Hartford area including the Bare Bones Project and Scapegoat Garden. Anne is a licensed massage therapist.