The Architects

The Architects were born out of collaborations between Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle and Pamela Vail, dating back to the late ‘80’s where they met as students at Middlebury College. For nearly twenty years the quartet has been in engaged in celebrating composition through their commitment to collaborative movement research. The Architects have presented their work in such venues as the Improvisation Festival/NY, Improvised and Otherwise Festival of Sound and Movement, NY, Big Range Dance Festival, Houston, TX, The Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN, The Flynn Theatre in Burlington, VT, Movement Arts Thorne’s in Northampton, MA, University of Iowa, Franklin & Marshall, Middlebury, Muhlenberg, and Keene State Colleges, and were the company in residence at Work in the Performance of Improvisation from 2001-2005 in Bennington, VT.  Recent international tours have brought them into collaboration with artists in Finland, Russia, Italy and Taiwan. Each member is professionally devoted to the life-long practices of choreography, improvisation, and teaching.  This quartet of artists brings a holistic and ferocious intelligence to the dialogue of dance-making and teaching, process and product, individual voice and ensemble composition, crafting and opening to the unknown.