Bios

Megan McClellan's first professional dance job had her portraying a "water molecule" at a sewage treatment facility for site-specific choreographer Marylee Hardenbergh. At that very moment, her career began an unpredictable trajectory that continues to span the globe. So far seen on three continents, her performance range includes pounding out percussive dance with Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum, performing the contemporary repertoire of Shapiro & Smith Dance, cheerleading for Miss Richfield 1981, and executing the tango in a Los Angeles night club. Since joining forces with Brian Sostek in 2000 she has added writing, acting and choreography to her repertoire. Together they have created work for several theater companies in Minneapolis and St. Paul and have toured their own shows at theaters and festivals across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In 2003 she was awarded a McKnight Artist Fellowship in Dance administered by the Southern Theater and funded by the McKnight Foundation.

Brian Sostek's performance exploits have ranged from acting in some of Hollywood's most quickly-cancelled sitcoms to touring internationally with percussive dance-theater company Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum. Over the past fifteen years, he has parlayed his background in various dance forms, his life long experience with comedy, and his fascination with verbal and physical play, into a successful and constantly expanding career in the arts. From the Edinburgh Fringe to the Sun Dance Channel, his award-winning work has earned him a reputation as a "brilliantly versatile" actor, dancer, choreographer, and writer. In 2000 he joined forces with Megan McClellan to create Sossy Mechanics. So far they have created comic, physical and terpsichorean work for companies in Minneapolis and St. Paul as well as presenting their own work at theaters and festivals across Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

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