BEYOND

Directed and Designed by
Laura Peterson

Music Composed and Performed by Christina Campanella

Choreographed in collaboration with Ching-I Chang, Meredith Fages, Emily Pope and Miho Ryu.

Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30pm
work-In-progress performance at OAS.
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BEYOND
There is a shared visual logic in the spirals of hurricanes and galaxies.

BEYOND is a new dance and music work that draws connections between the immediacy of environmental disasters and the vast systems that shape our universe, revealing patterns that link personal and planetary loss to the grand forces of the cosmos.

Beyond has received generous support from 2025 and 2026 grants from Brooklyn Arts Council.,, and contributions from our gracious donors.

Miho Ryu, Emily Pope, Meredith Fages

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Christina Campanella is a composer, performer, and sound artist. The “contemplative rhythm” of her sound installations (Boston Globe), her “moody, driving music,” “hymn-like songs” (NY Times), and “ethereal voice” (BUST) are the building blocks of her performance, installation and fixed media works. Her soundwalks, installations and music-theater have been presented throughout the U.S. and abroad. She regularly performs the operas of composer/visual artist Joe Diebes, and in 2026, will be in Sweden recording an album of her most recent composition for the Great Learning Orchestra (Stockholm). www.christinacampanella.com

Ching‑I Chang A migrating breeze, made in Taiwan, U.S.‑naturalized dance artist. She explores the voices of the peripheral and subaltern. Her interdisciplinary work has appeared at Yuz Museum, Queens Museum, MOCA, ICA at VCU, Harlem Stage, Danspace DraftWork, and Movement Research at Judson Church. She has worked with Susan Marshall and Gesel Mason, performed in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (NYC original cast; Shanghai performer & rehearsal director), and toured with ANIKAYA to Palestine, India, and across Africa. Ching-I holds an MFA from the U of Utah and certifications in Laban/Bartenieff, Yoga and Yoga Nidra. She facilities the Inter‑grant Festival. In 2025, she is an Individual Artist Finalist (NJ State Council on the Arts), a Create Change Fellow (The Laundromat Project), and a 2024-2025 AAPI resident artist at TOPAZ ARTS. Ching‑I loves bananas.

Meredith Fages has been making dances with Laura Peterson since 2010. She has also performed with Armitage Gone! Dance, Alexandra Beller, Monica Bill Barnes/Waterwell, Michele Brangwen, Wally Cardona, Doug Elkins, David Hallberg/Francesco Vezzoli, Deborah Hay, Heidi Latsky Dance, Mana Kawamura, Motley Dance, Jimena Paz, Becky Radway, Sarah Skaggs, Steeledance, Palissimo, Mitzi Adams, Verlezza Dance, Kim Whittam, Eidolon Ballet, Helen Heineman, Todd Rosenlieb Dance, and Virginia Ballet Theatre, featured in Ashton, Balanchine, Christensen, Tudor ballets. Described by Deborah Jowitt as a “remarkable dancer...adept in some society of the future, [a] primal, near-aquatic creature slipping around in a watery world...", she graduated from Columbia University with a Pre-Medical Concentration in English. Her writing appears in Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher, Well + Good, and ARTDESK.

Emily Pope is a NY based dance artist, teacher, choreographer, and videographer. She received a Bessie for Outstanding Performer in 2020. She currently works with Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Hilary Easton, Megan Williams,Tiffany Mills Company (where she is rehearsal assistant), and Bodymouth Productions. She has been an all around instructor for the YMCA since 2007. In 2006 Emily created HoverBound Productions, a platform to create multimedia work in collaboration with local artists. She received three choreographic residencies at Chen Dance Center, and was nominated for The Yard’s Summer Residency in 2011. Emily created the choreography for the Off-Broadway play “Teenage Dick,” which first previewed at The Public Theater in 2015. She is honored to be dancing for Laura Peterson for the very first time!

Miho Ryu is a New York based dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist originally from Tokyo, Japan. She holds a BA in Drama from Waseda University and received the Best Dance Choreography Award at the Oniros Film Awards® in 2018. She has created and performed over 100 works, including live performances, films, music videos, and interactive installations, across Europe, Asia, and the United States. After two decades of professional work based in Japan, she returned to New York in 2024, the city where she first trained in contemporary dance from 1999 to 2004. Her recent work has been presented at WestFest Top Floor at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, Crossing Boundaries at Dixon Place, Recess at Chez Bushwick, At Capacity/AOCC by at BAX, Inter-grant Festival, Arts On Site, Peridance, Chain Theatre, and Asia Tri Jojga in Indonesia. She currently teaches Contemporary Dance classes at Peridance Center, Ballet Hispanico School, and Steps on Broadway. https://www.ryumiho.com