Voice Over Demo Reel.
Painted Photoshoot by: Adam
Painted Photoshoot by: Adam
Painted Photoshoot by: Adam
Painted Photoshoot by: Adam
Ariel in Motion.
Ariel was a very active and expressive child growing up and it came as no surpirse to anyone that she took up dancing at a young age. Starting from the moment Ariel put on her first ballet slippers in the hallway of St. Alphonsus Church in Chicago; she would go on to train in Jazz, Tap, Pointe, and Contemporary, with an intense focus in Ballet. Ariel has studied pre-proffesionally at Ruth Page Center for the Arts and the Joffrey Ballet School, and has danced in productions of the Civic Ballet’s Nutcracker and the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian.
However, after leaving the professional dance training world at the age of 14 to focus more on school the question then became what do I do now? Thus Ariel was thrown into motion and is now learning- for the first time- what movement and dance looks like using restoritive practices that are healhty and not straining on the body.
Ariel performing in “A Pastoral” choreographed by Luciana Achugar at New York Live Arts
“If I can talk, I can sing. If I can walk, I can dance.”
Artist /ˈärdəst/ (noun): A guardian of the human spirit.
We Dance On.
Ariel Performing in “Labeled,” a piece she co-choreographed to shed light on the toxicity of name calling and labeling in highschool that is placed on young women. The piece starts with each dancer’s shirt duct taped to conceal their stereotyped personality trait. At the end we hear a voice over say “In the end I’m still gonna be… me” with each dancer individually revealing their “label.”
Pictured from left to right:
Ariel Bastida, Dana Hundrieder, Carrie Lenza, DaiJa Mororehead
Listen up.
Ariel traces the turning point in her identity journey to a moment in 2018, sitting in an empty classroom with long time collaborator Jonon Gansukh. Two freshman pondering identity and the intersectionality of showing the world who we are, versus being shown by the world who we should be. What came then was Ariel’s first ever devised piece “Mixed Thoughts.”
Here is an excerpt of the beginning audio from that show. Listener discretion is advised as this is mature content.
