Andy Russ

Visiting Lecturer, TDM 90CR: Fall Dance Production Studio: Odd Couple: The Dancing Body in the Digital World (Fall 2025)
Sound Design, The Danube (Spring 2019); NAME: _____ (Fall 2020)
Lighting and Sound Design, Truth Hurts: A Transformational Cabaret (Fall 2019)
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Andy Russ is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, producer, and educator, based in Providence, RI. For over 30 years, Andy has been making and helping others make art. Originally from North Carolina, with degrees in music and dance from Oberlin College, he spent 10 years in New York City, surfing the downtown dance scene, while acting as Music Supervisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In 2005, he relocated to Rhode Island to take on the role of Artistic Coordinator for cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, with whom he produced the Grammy nominated album Off the Map. As a designer, he has created soundscores, lighting, and projections for over 100 dance, theatre, film, and radio productions, including work with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Hal Hartley, David Neumann, Lionel Popkin, Jordan Fuchs, The Wilbury Theatre Group, Clever and Vainglorious Kings, and Harvard University. He is a founding co-director of Motion State Arts, alongside Ali Kenner Brodsky and Lila Hurwitz. Since 2014, his home for personal invention is Passive Aggressive Novelty Company.  http://www.passiveaggressivenoveltycompany.com/