Eternal Flame

 

 

Leah Meyerhoff is currently pursuing a Master’s in Film at New York University. A Student Academy Awards finalist, Leah’s previous films have screened at over 100 festivals worldwide and won a dozen international awards. Leah is currently working on her first feature film.

 


Leah Meyerhoff
Writer/Director

 


Joan Wasser
Vocals


Joan's REAL LIFE album goes a long way to laud honesty, trust and beauty, and in doing so lauds her own beauty. You might know Joan from her loud serrated bands The Dambuilders, Black Beetle and Those Bastard Souls. Or playing more subtly and quietly in Antony's Johnsons or Rufus Wainwright's band. Some influences pervade, but this is all together different. It's music that shimmers, torch-song-like, between categories. It feels adjacent to jazz while being deeply soulful. The voice and delivery has raised comparisons to Dusty Springfield, Annette Peacock and Chrissie Hynde. Like Antony, Joan's music seems to have come out of nowhere, and yet feels fully-formed, idiosyncratically individual, all on, and of, it's own. Simply, Joan As Police Woman feels very Joan.

Ben lives and breathes the music of the city he has grown up in (NYC) and was playing drums from a very young age.
A graffiti tag artist and early fan of hip hop back when the city was a very different place to be, Ben quickly found himself playing drums around the world for many famous names.
Just like his fellow band members Joan and Rainy Ben has played with an impressive array of artists (John Cale, Roy Ayers, John Zorn, Lounge Lizards, Ed Pastorini's 101 Crustaceans and Steven Bernstein are just a few examples).
Joan and Ben were introduced when he was drumming for American art rock band Elysian Fields and whilst his skills have been in demand for many years in the jazz and avant garde scenes, it is only now that Ben is ready to be transformed into 'Ben Perowsky - Rock'n'Roll Stud' via his sterling work with Joan As Police Woman!

Ben Perowsky
Drums

 


Rainy Orteca
Bass

Rainy Orteca was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up as an only child in a small town in Maine. She did what every little girl wants to do after learning to walk: she taught herself to play the electric guitar.
Rainy brings a dark, melodic, sometimes gritty / sometimes delicate enveloping flavuor to the Joan As Policewoman oeuvre. Drawing on vastly disparate influences, her driving soulful melodic sensibilities work powerfully in tandem with Ben Perowsky's creative beats, elegantly carrying and exponentially expanding the sonic territory that is JOANASPOLICEWOMAN.
Her New York-based music years have afforded her the opportunity to join in the making of numerous projects involving (to name a few) Antony and The Johnsons, Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Lesley Gore, Sarah Silverman, Lloyd Cole, Mascott, The Naysayer, Dave Derby, Cat Power, Harper Simon, White Magic, James Blood Ulmer, Joseph Arthur, Jane Siberry and fashion designer Patrik Rzepski.
Be on the lookout for a solely Rainy-based project soon.
Watch choreography reel here


Chase Brock
Choreographer

 


Jennifer Capriccio
Dazzle Dancer
Jen is an accomplished dancer living and working in New York.
Genaro Martinez is a native of Newark, N.J. He began his dance training while in college and received a BFA in dance from Montclair State University. While at Montclair he was fortunate enough to work with such choreographers as Marlies Yearby, Sean Curran, Ellen Cornfield, Peter Pucci, Tiger Benford and Martha Partridge, among others. He has since worked with Freespace, Umoja, and currently with 7th Principle Dance Co., and Kim Whittam & Co. Genaro has also worked on several movie shorts including Ripfest #6, Caven Point, and A Walk In The Park. Genaro is currently on faculty at William H. Brown Jr. Academy, and Camden Middle public schools.


Genaro Martinez
Dazzle Dancer

 


Joe Komara
Dazzle Dancer
Joe also stars in Leah's other music video Team Queen

Heidi lives and dances in New York City.


Heidi Turzyn
Dazzle Dancer