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Jason Akira Somma's "Phosphene Variations"

12249540069?profile=originalWhat does Jason Akira Somma’s installation “Phosphene Variations”  recently on exhibit at Soho’s Location One have in common with Snoop Dogg’s performance with Tupac this last April in Coachella? Both are take-offs of Pepper’s Ghost, a centuries old illusion popularized by John Henry Pepper in 1862 in which an image is bounced off the floor onto an invisible screen.

 

Beyond that, the similarity ends. The music producer Dr. Dre sprinkled his gold dust on the California digital effects company Digital Domain to make possible Snoop Dogg’s appearance with the prolific rapper who was killed in 1995.  The acclaimed event added little to an old trick other than context, where as Jason Akira Somma created a new chapter for dance presentation and preservation. Supported in part by the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, his liquid wall created with a start-up company, a horizontal flow of mist in which images can dance, is, as Le Figaro wrote, “a true revolution…stupefying poetry, humanity and invention.”

 

When he was ten, Somma saw a floating head, engineered with the method behind Pepper’s Ghost, in a “haunted house.” Little did he know that encounter would determine the direction of his artistic life. He re-created the effect while a dance student at Virginia Commonwealth University, which has a fertile dance film program led by Martha Curtis. After much back and forthing between dance and visual arts, Somma realized dance is a visual art. His approach gelled; his career zoomed, winning him accolades in both US and Europe and the coveted Rolex Mentorship with Dutch choreographer Jiri Kylian.

 

12249541052?profile=originalSomma has the instincts of a magician inclined to play with dual realities and those of an engineer who solves problems.  Somma  used 5 infra-red cameras for his multi-media show commissioned by Lyon Opera Ballet. Why infra-red, I asked him. He replied, "I like to incorporate science into my work that exposes other realities around us that we (can't)  perceive. The one in which our naked eye can see and the one in which technology can see. I want to remind the world of all the possibilities and things that surround us at all points and time."  

Dance legends Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carmen DeLavallade, Robert Wilson, Bill Shannon, and Jiri Kylian, among others, appear in the liquid walls, moving in a space no wider than the wings of your arms. 

Imagine the chance to prepare your own ghost. Who can resist that? Sporting a waxed moustache, Somma (seen levitating left) set up with “Phosphene Variations” a vertical playground in which the viewer can reach out to touch a ghost who vanishes, only to be immediately replaced by another.

 

Location One, 26 Green Street, NYC presented “Phosphene Variations” September 12-October 3, 2012.

Closed earlier than schedule due to technical difficulties.

 

 

 

 

 

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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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Misnomer Dance Live Webcast

This Friday, we'll be streaming Misnomer Dance's new work, Time Lapse, live from the Joyce Soho. We hope you'll join us for a great night, a lively chat, and fantastic art.

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We're also accepting submissions for video works to show during intermission and before the show. If you have work you'd like to screen, get in touch. Leave a comment or shoot me an email! We're featured on the livestream.com homepage so it'll surely be a great event. 

 

It starts at 7:30 PM EST / 12:30 am GMT.

 

 

Related press :

The New Yorker

Technology in the Arts Blog

Livestream homepage

 

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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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My name is Oz Skinner, I am a graduate student at the New School for
Media Studies. I am writing because we partnered with your University
last year to promote our graduate studies conference: Critical Themes In
Media Studies, and we were hoping to partner again this year. I have
attached a copy of the press release in the hopes that you will
advertise our event to your students. We anticipate that members of your
student body will be interested in our academic conference. If you have
any questions about the conference or any of the information presented
in the press release please contact me at Ozskinner@gmail.com or by
phone at 530-828-0631.

*11th ANNUAL CRITICAL THEMES IN MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE AT THE NEW SCHOOL
*/Innovative Scholarly Research at the Intersection of Media and Society
/Hosted by The New School Department of Media Studies and Film
and the Art, Media & Technology Department at Parsons the New School for
Design


*April 15 & 16, 2011, New York NY. The 11th Annual Critical Themes
Conference at the New School will bring together students from across
the globe to present interdisciplinary, theoretical, and critical
approaches to a broad range of media studies. This year’s theme,
*/Multimodal Scholarship/*, explores how we in Media Studies might
transform the media technologies that have traditionally been our
research subjects, into research tools, and thereby “open up fresh
avenues” of creative scholarship.

The two-day conference will kick off with a panel discussion entitled
“The Multimodal Dissertation” in which PhD students Jennifer Heuson,
Veronica Paredes, and Carlin Wing will present their experiences with
multimodal research work. Following this will be an opening keynote
address from Professor Clay Shirky of the Interactive Telecommunications
Program at New York University. Saturday will continue with a full day
of student presentations, and will conclude with a closing keynote
address by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media
at Brown University. Since the initial conference in 2000, Critical
Themes has grown into a leading forum for showcasing research papers
from graduate students pushing the boundaries of academic research. This
year the conference continues this trend as it welcomes student scholars
from eighteen universities spanning six countries.

For a full schedule of panels and event locations, visit
*_http://criticalthemes.net/2011/schedule/
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If you would like more information about this conference please contact
Oz Skinner at 530-828-0631 or at Ozskinner@gmail.com
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12249501865?profile=original Photo Archive June 30—August 27 New York, NY, May 23, 2011—The Kitchen presents The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, an exhibition featuring single-channel videos and other artworks presented alongside video, audio, and print documentation related to the institution’s programming during its first fifteen years, which were spent in Soho. There will be an opening reception for The View from a Volcano at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Wednesday, June 29, 6:00–8:00 P.M. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, June 30 through Saturday, August 27. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday—Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. Curated by Debra Singer, Matthew Lyons, and Lumi Tan as part of The Kitchen’s 40th anniversary season, The View from a Volcano reveals the depth of the organization’s early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and new developments in the visual arts, offering a unique perspective on the vibrant, interconnected downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s and early 1980s. The exhibition will include work, and/or documentation of work, by ground-breaking artists who were redefining what art, music, dance, and performance could be. Those artists include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Karole Armitage, Robert Ashley, Charles Atlas, Beastie Boys, Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Trisha Brown, Rhys Chatham, Lucinda Childs, Tony Conrad, Simone Forti, Philip Glass, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Mike Kelley, George Lewis, Arto Lindsay, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Meredith Monk, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Charlemagne Palestine, Arthur Russell, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Stuart Sherman, Sonic Youth, Elizabeth Streb, Talking Heads, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Lawrence Weiner and many more.
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Friday, October 22, 6:30pm
New York's Showbiz Cafe
19 West 21st Street
Presented by Loikka-festivaali director Hanna Pajala-Assefa
in collaboration with Dance Films Association.


Dance on Camera
sparks
your imagination!


Hanna Pajala-Assefa, who is accepting entries until the end of October for her 2011 Festival, will present:

KOTKA (Eagle)
Eino Ruutsalo, 7', 1962
This short by the pioneer of Finnish experimental film stars Riitta Vainio with a score by Otto Donner, a central figure in Finnish popular music scene in 60's and 70's.



LIIKKEEN MIELI (Mind Embodied)
Seppo Rustanius, 7'20," 2007
Reveals the connection between modern dance in Finland and women´s gymastics.



365 DAYS
Reijo Kela, 18,'1999 (2006)
A video diary directed by Reijo Kela (b.1952), a pioneer of site-specific dance and political environmental art.

MUURAHAINEN (An Ant)
Kimmo Alakunnas, 23', 2010
"An Ant" reveals a workaholic's questionable sense of reality.

Register for Sunday, October 24thdance on camera workshop at 92nd St Y led by Alla Kovgan, Russian born filmmaker, curator, editor, and story teller who co-directed with David Hinton the award-winning film NORA.

December 19th workshop will be led by Richard Move, the multi-talented performer, choreographer, filmmaker.
Register now for these unique dance on camera workshops.

Dance on Camera Touring Events
October 23
New Jersey State Film Festival at Cape May

October 26
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

November 5-21
FEDAME in Mexico

DFA produced 44 events this year, in addition to its 38th Festival co-produced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Movement Research, Beacon School, and Mark Morris Dancec Center with the support of the National Endowment of the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. We thank our 112 partners for their enthusiasm for this blossoming art.

For more details see Dance on Camera Festival Touring Schedule
Stay in touch!
Deirdre Towers
DFA Festival Director
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Peridance Capezio Center's Certificate Program

Have you heard about Peridance Capezio Center’s newCertificate Program? It is a two-year training program designed for serious dance students 17-28 years old, looking to invest 2 years into an intensive quality training program. Students have daily interaction with top dance instructors and choreographers. The program is currently auditioning for the Spring Semester beginning January 31st.

For more information visit the website:http://www.peridance.com/certificate%20program-1.cfm

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From Chris Elam, director of Misnomer Dance Theater and Founder of the Audience Engagement Platform for the Arts (AEP) www.aeplatform.org

Hi all,

Misnomer is hiring for a Community Manager for the Audience Engagement Platform, based here in NYC. If you or someone you know are interested, we'd love to hear from you.
The description is here:
Here's the description of the Beta service that you'd be participating in bringing to life:
Thanks,
Chris Elam
Artistic Director & CEO
Misnomer Dance Theater
www.misnomer.org
Ph: 917-602-0478

Founder of the Audience Engagement Platform for the Arts (AEP) www.aeplatform.org
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Contemporary Workshop

Nacho Duato Workshop with Africa Guzman

Juan Ignacio Duato Barcia, also known as Nacho Duato, is an acclaimed Spanish dancer and choreographer. He began his dance career with the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm and has received multiple awards in recognition of his achievements as a dancer and choreographer. In 1990, he was invited to become the Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional de Danza by the Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. In July of 2010, he left the Compañía Nacional de Danza after twenty years. This January, he will become the Artistic Director of Russia’s Mikhailovsky Ballet.

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This move represents an exciting step for both Mr. Duato and Russian ballet. He will be the first foreigner to direct a Russian ballet company in over a century, the last was France’s Marius Petipa. For Mr. Duato, it will be his first time leading a large classical repertory company. Russian ballet is not known for its malleability and has had a history of ignoring modern dance influences like Mr. Duato’s, in favor of preserving tradition. Vladimir Kekhman, the businessman who took over as Mikahailovsky’s general director in 2007, feels that a strong contemporary influence is exactly what the company and Russian ballet needs.


Peridance’s Nacho Duato Workshop will be taught by Africa Guzman, another Spanish native. Ms. Guzman trained at the “Escuela de Ballet y Danza Española Africa Guzmán” and at the “Escuela del Ballet Nacional de España.” She became a member of Compañía Nacional de Danza in 1988, two years before Duato became the director. She has received many awards for her achievements as a dancer, has also danced with Netherland Das Theater, and has worked with many of the world’s highly acclaimed choreographers. For 20 years, she has been involved in Nacho’s choreographic and creative process. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to both take from a very accomplished dancer and to learn the style and repertory of one of today’s most celebrated dancer/choreographers and possibly the new face of Russian Ballet.


Preregistration for the Workshop is encouraged. Click here to register.


To learn more about Mr. Duato’s move to the Mikhailovsky Ballet read the New York Timesarticle

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2 Workshops _ Expanded Body
Call for subscription
4 Scholarships*

As part of their stay in residence at 3-Legged Dog art and technology center in NY, Kònic thtr
organizes this training program in R + d + i.
This course will examine the relationship between voice, body movement and audiovisual
languages. It is a transdisciplinary workshop linking installation and performance, searching
the relationship between action, video, sound and real-time digital processes on the stage.
This workshop proposes a process of training in a practical and theoretical activity that
combines the performative action with interactive audiovisual technologies. Contents will
be related with models based on projects and devices made by Kònic Thtr, to understand,
from its analysis, the significance of technologyc languages applied to contemporary creation.
Participants will work in groups and theoretical sessions will alternate with practice sessions
and demonstration, using available tools, and there will also be screenings of the creative
projects discussed by Kònic Thtr.

konic@koniclab.info
When:
Workshop #1_ September, Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19th , 1:00 – 5:00pm
Workshop #2_ September, Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th , 1:00 – 5:00pm
Where: 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center. 80 Greenwich St. NY 10006
Organizer: 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center
Price for 1 workshop: $ 125 + taxes
Producers: Kònic Thtr / Associació Kòniclab - 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center
+ Info: www.3ldnyc.org
map_www.3ldnyc.org/map.shtml

* 2 HALF TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS FOR EACH WORKSHOP FOR DANCE-TECH.NET MEMBERS/
WRITE AN EMAIL STATING YOUR INTEREST IN THE WORKSHOP AND INCLUDE THE URL OF YOUR DANCE-TECH PROFILE PAGE.
konic@koniclab.info
IF GIVEN THE SCHOLARSHIP YOU MUST SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE AT THE WORKSHOP VIA DANCE-TECH.NET WITH BLOG POSTS AND OR VIDEOS.
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15TH 2010


Workshop at Harvestworks. September 2010

Alain Baumann has been using Max/MSP as his main tool to develop the creative works of
Kònic thtr, and working with dancers to interact both with sound and image in real time
on stage. As an important part of their activity, Kònic thtr is actively contributing to the
dissemination of their knowledge, both by teaching in different colleges in Catalonia and
Spain and by giving workshops in many countries of Europe and Central and South America,
workshops in which the emphasis is the development of creative languages based on
interactive technologies.
FTM is a set of Max externals developed at the IRCAM that eases the handling of complex
data structures in the max/MSP environment. This course, taught by KonicLab's Alain
Baumann (Barcelona), will specially focus on the MnM package included in the library, and
have hands-on experiments with included abstraction MnMfollower, which allow us to do
real time gesture following when used in combination with sensors, camera analysis, or a
wiimote.

Subscription: konic@koniclab.info
When: September, Saturday the 11th, 12:00 – 6:00pm
Where: Harvestworks. 596 Broadway Suite 602, NY 10012
(between Houston and Prince Streets in SoHo)
Organizer: Harvestworks
Price: $ 100 + taxes
Producers: Kònic Thtr / Associació Kòniclab - Harvestworks

Artist-in-residence program at 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center
a {d’Aigua} show_5 presentations. September - October 2010

In 2009, the center of performing arts and digital technologies 3 legged Dog invited Kònic
thtr to develop a residency at its center in New York. Kònic Thtr will take the opportunity to
develop a new phase of the show a {d'Aigua}, an existing project with a modular structure,
and elaborate a new format for the piece at 3LD,, an interactive dance installation involving
audience participation opens up to visual arts audiences and new circuits. This time the show
will stage dancer and performer Masu Fajardo.
Kònic Thtr/Koniclab hope to strengthen their research in non-linear and interactive
performing and choreographic narratives.

a {d'Aigua} is a project originally developed in the context of several labs made by Kònic Thtr.
As part of this process, we highlight the encounters with the Catalan choreographer Maria
Muñoz, from Mal_Pelo dance company, with the aim of developing a cross-experience work
that includes dance, performance, music, computer graphics and interactivity.

In the performative project a {d'Aigua}, a dancer, a performer and musician interact on
stage with sound and image using the iXKa, a small wireless sensor device integrated on the
body and designed to capture the movement and the dancers on stage in real time. These
devices are used in conjunction with a piece of software called MNM and developed by
Frédéric Bevilacqua from the Real-Time Music Interaction Team at IRCAM, Paris (France). The
combination of sensors and software allows us to record the gestures of the dancer and then
recognize it in real time. Whole phrases of movement are recognized and reproduced, and the
dancer can play sounds that are being recorded simultaneously with its movement.

This stage piece was first presented in openlab format, at Officine Sintetiche (Torino, Italy),
and was premiered in Barcelona at the Mercat de les Flors during the IDN Festival 2009, with
the participation of the dancer and choreographer María Muñoz.

Later, the piece continues to evolve through encounters with different dancers and
choreographers. It was presented at the Electron Festival (Switzerland), with dancer and
performer Masu Fajardo, and also at 'Certesa Simulada. New frontiers of science, art and
thought’, program organized by Ars Santa Mònica from Barcelona in September 2009.
In 2010, this show has been performed in the Theater of Madrid, for the event Cartographies
of Dance, in Theatre Moulay Rachid at the Festival International d'Art Vidéo of Casablanca
(Morocco) and at Thsekh_Proekt Fabrika in Moscow (Russia). There’s also a tour plan in the fall
2010 with presentations of the show int he III Seminário Transcultural sobre Teatro e Dança in
Salvador de Bahía (Brasil) and in the International Videodance Festival Cuerpo Digital in La Paz
(Bolivia).

When: september 9th – october 7th 2010
a {d’Aigua} show : september 30th, and october 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th, 2010
Where: 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center. 80 Greenwich St. NY 10006
Producers: Kònic Thtr / Associació Kòniclab - 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center
+ Info: www.3ldnyc.org



Ad'Aigua Process_Spanish from konic thtr on Vimeo.

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From dancespace project site

After several years of experimental ensemble investigation,
award-winning choreographer Deborah Hay returns to solo
performance in response to an invitation by Juliette Mapp and Danspace
Project. In No Time To Fly, she partners with long-time
collaborator, lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, whose work has
been pivotal to Hay’s aesthetic vision over the last decade.

During her evening-length solo, Hay seeks to open the door to sustained
moments of non-linear learning for the performer and the audience alike.
“If I am to really admit and celebrate the ephemeral nature of dance,
then I must learn to see, experience, and respect time passing.”


Don't Miss:

Artist Talk with Deborah Hay
A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty
March 24, 2010 • [Wed] • 7:00 PM
Admission:
FREE
Location: The Great Hall, The Cooper Union,
7 East 7th Street, NYC
Information: www.cooper.edu
Join groundbreaking choreographer Deborah Hay for a talk framed around
the question 'can a formal and stimulating adherence to a prescribed set
of hypothetical conditions be seen as choreography even if there is no
learned movement?'


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On March 26, Parsons and MoMA with IFF, Seed, and Coty present Headspace: On Scent as
Design.


Headspace is a one-day symposium on the conception, impact, and potential applications of scent. This event gathers leading thinkers, designers, scientists, artists, established perfumers as well as
"accidental perfumers" (a selection of architects, designers, and chefs
invited to experiment with scent) to acknowledge scent as a new
territory for design and begin to draft the outline of this new
practice. The event marks the establishment of a new MFA
in Transdisciplinary Design
at Parsons.
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This week at the NYEAF: New Project Demos ZACHARY LEIBERMAN / LESLEY FLANIGAN / BRENDAN FERNANDES FRIDAY OCTOBER 2, 2009, 7PM FREE HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER 596 Broadway #602 New York City (at Houston St) Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince As part of the New York Electronic Art Festival 2009, a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology, Harvestworks will present the first in a series of New Project Demos on Friday October 2nd with presentations by new media artists Zachary Leiberman, Lesley Flanigan and Brendan Fernandes. Zachary Lieberman will present recent and on-going works developed in the last year, including an eye tracker for a paralyzed graffiti writer who has ALS, a performance on the facade of a building, tools for new forms of magic, a 3d drawing tool, and the openframeworks toolkit, a framework for creative coding in c++. In addition, there will be presentation of an upcoming work the artist is developing in collaboration with Taeyoon Choi. Lesley Flanigan will share her work with custom-built Speaker Feedback Instruments, addressing the physicality of sound, amplification as a source of sound in and of itself, and the relationships between noise, speakers, and voice. Brendan Fernandes investigates the concept of authenticity, as an ideological construct that both dominant and subordinatecultures use to their own ends. It is a word that shapes cultural experience, and thus also shapes concepts and formation of identity. He uses the Safari-as-authentic-African-experience to provide an evocative metaphor for the inscription of culture onto his own sense of identities. In his lecture at Harvestworks he will discuss his practice and the new work that he created in his residency. -- Artist Talk CHRISTINE SUGRUE / JULIA HEYWARD / CELESTE BOURSIER-MOUGENOT SATURDAY OCTOBER 3, 2009 2PM FREE World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery 220 Vesey Street, NYC Subway: R/W City Hall, E World Trade Center, 1,2 or 3 Chambers St. In conjuction with the New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition, Rate of Change - time and space in electronic art, Harvestworks in partnership with arts>World Financial Center present a talk with exhibition artists Christine Sugrue, Julia Heyward and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. Rate of Change exhibits the wide range of electronic art and it’s transition from the 20th to the 21st Century. It presents the works of eight artists working in immersive video and audio installation, audience and environmentally responsive sculpture and experimental narrative. It is anchored by the newly restored digital media work “Hand-drawn Spaces” (1998), a virtual dance installation by Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar that presents 3D hand-drawn figures performing intricate choreography in a virtual space. Additional exhibition artists include Céleste Boursier-Mougenot who recently received the 2009 Golden David Award, Hisao Ihara, Julia Heyward, Eunjung Hwang, Jessica Ann Peavy, Christine Sugrue and the CCRT Collaboration. Rate of Change - time and space in electronic art September 29 – October 24 Open Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 4PM, FREE World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 220 Vesey Street, NYC Produced by Harvestworks and presented by arts>World Financial Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties, and Merrill Lynch. www.artsWorldFinancialCenter.com ABOUT NYEAF: The New York Electronic Art Festival was created to provide a responsive public context for the appreciation of cutting-edge electronic artwork through concerts, panels, workshops, and exhibitions of the highest quality across the arts and technology spectrum. Attendees will get an overview of how technology is being used in various artistic disciplines, and have the opportunity to take part in a discussion about how these technologies will continue to shape contemporary art practice. This year’s festival will be a showcase of exciting interdisciplinary work and serve as a catalyst for discussions and collaborations between artists, technology, and the public. The NYEAF will plug into a national and international network of electronic art festivals, bringing significant contemporary art and music to the city. NYEAF is produced by Harvestworks, an international digital media arts center with 30 years of experience helping artists to get ”inside the electronics” and to develop a hands-on, experimental and explorative approach to making art with technology. Produced by Harvestworks in partnership with arts>World Financial Center, Roulette and New York University with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, mediaThefoundation, Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, the Québec Government Office in New York, Electronic Music Foundation, the Experimental TV Center Presentation Funds and the Institute for Electronic Art and the Paula Cooper Gallery. Corporate sponsorship is provided by Tekserve: the Apple Specialists, Newmark Knight Frank, Original Sin and Cycling74. ABOUT HARVESTWORKS: Founded in 1977, Harvestworks offers an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media. Harvestworks helps the community at large to understand, assimilate, and make creative use of new and evolving technologies. Harvestworks creates a context for the appreciation of new work, advances both the art community and the public's agenda for the use of technology in art; and brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts by fostering collaborations across electronic media. For more info: www.nyeaf.org www.harvestworks.org -- Harvestworks is a non-profit arts center in Lower Manhattan. Private funding for our programs has been provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Jerome Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Carnegie Corporation, the Aaron Copland Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Materials for the Arts, the Experimental TV Center and mediaThe foundation Inc. Public Support is provided by New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs. Thanks to our Friends Circle, Cycling74, Digidesign, Inc. and NHT Pro.
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September 8, 2009 - April 4, 2010 Dance Theater Workshop’s 2009-2010 season showcases dedication to artistic exploration, innovation, and quality programming through Dance Theater Workshop’s commissioning program, Season of Returns, Studio Series Creative Residency Program, Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, Lobby TALKS, and Family Matters. Strategic partnerships with DanceNOW [NYC], Barnard College, Urban Word NYC, 651 ARTS, FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival, and Performa 09, and new partnerships with Baryshnikov Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Anne Bogart’s SITI Company extend our ability to provide access to diverse and significant cultural programming. “Dance Theater Workshop continues to enact its promise to provide a holistic ecology for artists and audiences alike, and we invite you to enjoy and engage in a rich, provocative range of contemporary dance and performance, significant legacy works, and animated conversations in our 2009 – 2010 season. With our reduced prices and new fee-free ticketing, we are excited to offer even wider access to contemporary culture and global artistic practice,” said Carla Peterson, Artistic Director. As the go-to destination for contemporary dance and performance, the upcoming season highlights the work of internationally acclaimed artists Bruno Beltrão, Nora Chipaumire, Lucy Guerin (Australia), Miguel Gutierrez, Raimund Hoghe (France/Germany), Koosil-Ja Hwang, Tere O’Connor, and Yasuko Yokoshi. Kimberly Bartosik, Faye Driscoll, Neal Medlyn, Hwang and Yokoshi make Dance Theater Workshop debuts and choreographers Ursula Eagly, Kennis Hawkins and Will Rawls (Dance Gang), Ori Flomin, and Mina Nishimura share programs. Now in its third season, the critically acclaimed Season of Returns remounts Anna Halprin’s historically influential Parades and Changes and Urban Bush Women’s Jawole Willa Jo Zollar explores her early investigations into the sensual. Doug Elkins and David Parker and the Bang Group celebrate the holidays with their illustrious renditions of family favorites, The Sound of Music (FRÄULEIN MARIA) and The Nutcracker (Nut/Cracked). Nora Chipaumire and Pat Graney perform off-site. SNAPSHOTS: 2009 – 2010 PERFORMANCES & EVENTS The DanceNOW [NYC] Festival, Sep 8 – 12: Whether you're a seasoned dance-goer or have never seen a dance performance, the DanceNOW Festival is the way to experience the brightest, hippest, smartest, sexiest and most stunning hip hop, theater, pointe, and contemporary dance companies in NYC today. DanceNOW’s 15th Anniversary Celebration presents over fifty choreographers who honor DanceNOW’s past, present, and future direction. For show details visit dancenownyc.org. Curtain time: Tuesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $20 Advance Sale, $25 at the Door Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Last Meadow, Sep 15 – 19: Last Meadow is a dream-like visit into an America in a state of collapse. Inspired by James Dean’s classic films – East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant – the piece exploits the iconic and seductive image of James Dean as a symbol of the ways we project unrealistic expectations onto our identity as a nation. Last Meadow is about acknowledging confusion and the state of waiting, where what you need never comes. Starring Michelle Boulé, Tarek Halaby and Miguel Gutierrez, Last Meadow features a soundtrack created by Neal Medlyn and lighting by longtime collaborator Lenore Doxsee. Curtain time: Tuesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15

Photo: Eric McNatt Raimund Hoghe, Boléro Variations, Sep 23 – 25: Co-Presented with FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival. Highly regarded German writer, performer, and choreographer, Raimund Hoghe makes his long awaited US debut with Boléro Variations. Once a behind-the-scenes dramaturge for Pina Bausch, Raimund has thrown his own “body into the fight,” energizing and destabilizing audiences as he questions our conceptions of abnormality. Boléro Variations, created in Paris in 2007, features Ravel’s Boléro as well as fado and folksongs. Crossing the Line is FIAF’s annual fall festival, produced in partnership with leading New York cultural institutions, and conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of transdisciplinary artists working in France and New York City. Curtain time: Wednesday - Friday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15, FIAF Members $12 Lucy Guerin Inc, Structure and Sadness, Sep 30 – Oct 3: Presented in partnership with Baryshnikov Arts Center. Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin uses the 1970 collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne Australia, where 35 men lost their lives, as a starting point for Structure and Sadness. The work explores these events as a physical, emotional and visual response to a devastating accident. On stage, the six performers employ a movement vocabulary based on the engineering principles of compression, suspension, torsion and failure to construct a precarious world teetering on the point of collapse. Curtain time: Thursday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15

Photo: Jeff Busby Ursula Eagly, Fields of Ida; Ori Flomin, Toronto; Mina Nishimura, Timmy’s Idea, Oct 7 – 10: Ursula Eagly builds strange yet recognizable worlds. Her newest solo, Fields of Ida, is set on a bare stage, where movements and songs create an ornate universe of their own. Here, Ursula evokes the post-apocalyptic landscape described in Norse mythology, where destruction and regeneration co-exist. Toronto is a trio inspired by newly-found super-8 footage of Ori Flomin’s early childhood. Beginning with these documented memories of family jaunts and bringing in longtime friends Antonio Ramos and Colleen Thomas to perform, Ori creates a dance that translates a sense of youthful innocence and camaraderie through the well-trained adult body. Toronto features sound design by James Lo and video installation by Carlos Moore. Born in Tokyo, Japan, and a New Yorker since 2001, Mina Nishimura’s work is “both dense and rewarding, heavy and refreshing, always unpredictable and sometimes funny.” (offoffoff.com) Mina’s new work, Timmy’s Idea, exists within a particular set of rules where time, space and events are consciously and unconsciously moving in one direction. Using both text and movement vocabularies the work exaggerates commonplace ideas of time, thought, and emotion. Curtain time: Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15 Neal Medlyn, …Her’s A Queen; Dance Gang (Kennis Hawkins and Will Rawls), Dog Breaks, Oct 22 – 24: …Her’s A Queen is Neal Medlyn’s fifth pop-star opus and the first installment in a two-part Britney Spears/Hannah Montana extravaganza, built around the idea and music of Britney Spears, purity, and non-sexual touch. There will be overlapping stories and bears and abstinence and unwashed hair and dance moves and knives and snakes and laptops and cuddle parties and babies. …Her’s A Queen features Neal and Carmine Covelli with live music from Farris Craddock. Dance Gang was founded in 2006 as a performance outlet for dancers Kennis Hawkins and Will Rawls. Dance Gang's projects include site-specific, guerilla-style performance, gallery installations, and stage work. Their newest stage work, Dog Breaks, will set the stage as the evening’s opening act. Expect their signature blend of direct audience engagement and archly spurious logic as they reference pop iconography, dance, and perform live music. Curtain time: Thursday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15 SITI Company, Antigone, Oct 28 – Nov 1: SITI Company’s most recent addition to its repertoire is a starkly contemporary retelling by Irish writer Jocelyn Clarke of Sophocles’ classic tale of family loyalty, patriotism, war, and the powers of the state. Antigone, the cursed daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, defies the King of Thebes for the right to bury her own brother. Do not miss SITI Company's embodiment of one of humankind's most enduring and influential stories. Curtain Time: Wednesday – Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday & Sunday at 3:00pm & 7:30pm; Ticket Price: $25 regular, $20 students SITI Company, SITI Company Mondays @ DTW, Nov 23, Dec 14, Jan 25, Feb 22, Mar 8: Five evenings, five windows into the creative process of the groundbreaking SITI Company that, over the past 17 years, has been altering the DNA of the theatrical art form. Join Anne Bogart and SITI in an interactive journey through the company's repertoire and methods - past, present and future. Curtain Time: Mondays at 7:30pm Tickets: $10 each evening/$40 for all 5 Tere O’Connor Dance, Nov 10 – 14: In his new work, Tere O’Connor embraces the tension between fixed states and constant change as a fundamental ingredient in choreographic thought. With a focus on spanning this divide, O’Connor’s complex movement networks will be interrupted by the spontaneous choreographic choices made by the dancers in each performance. The movement, lighting, music and set will shift from meticulous calculation to chance, connecting and disengaging, as the contours of the dance take shape. The work features an original score by longtime collaborator James Baker, lighting design by Michael O’Connor, and is performed by Hilary Clark, Daniel Clifton, Erin Gerken, Heather Olson, Matthew Rogers and Christopher Williams. Curtain time: Tuesday – Saturday at 7:30pm, Friday at 10pm; Tickets: $15 Anna Halprin, Anne Collod & guests, parades & changes, replays, Nov 18 – 21: Presented in partnership with Performa 09. In 1965, postmodern dance legend Anna Halprin’s Parades & Changes shook the dance world by challenging conceptions of nudity, stillness, and the “ceremony of trust” (as Halprin named it) between performers and audience. Originally banned in the United States, Parades & Changes has not been staged here since 1967. Today, French choreographer Anne Collod, in dialogue with Anna Halprin and original composer Morton Subotnick, is restaging this seminal work, bringing a highly acclaimed group of American and European performers together to relive this masterpiece in its new form, parades & changes, replays. Performa 09 (November 1-22, 2009, New York City) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. www.performa-arts.org. Curtain time: Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $25 The Barnard Project at Dance Theater Workshop, Dec 3 – 5: Created in 2004, The Barnard Project at Dance Theater Workshop was the first university partnership of its kind, pairing artists presented at Dance Theater Workshop with Barnard College dance students in a residency environment. Now in its fifth year, The Barnard Project offers both choreographers and students a rare opportunity to work within a large group of dancers in an educational environment that exposes everyone involved to new processes. The resulting new works by 2009-2010 artists Brian Brooks, Juliana May, Vicky Shick, and Kota Yamazaki are performed at Dance Theater Workshop. Curtain time: Thursday – Saturday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2pm; Tickets: $20 HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA: Doug Elkins & Friends, FRÄULEIN MARIA, Dec 10 – 12, 17 – 19; David Parker and The Bang Group, Nut/Cracked, Dec 13, 19, 20: A love letter to his young son Liam and daughter Gigi, Doug Elkins’ FRÄULEIN MARIA has wowed audiences since its 2006 premiere. This delightful take on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music includes ballet, hip-hop, voguing, stepping, stomping and more. Directed by Barbara Karger and Michael Preston, this New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award winning piece is a holiday treat not to be missed. Curtain time: Thursday – Saturday at 7:30pm David Parker and The Bang Group’s Nut/Cracked is the contemporary dance world’s beloved version of The Nutcracker. With an enterprising mix of tap, ballet, contemporary, disco and even toe tap, Parker conjures a comic, subversive neo-vaudeville tinged with whimsy. Danceded to novelty and popular arrangements of the score as well as the traditional orchestral suite, Nut/Cracked premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in 2004 and has been touring ever since. See it while it’s home for the holidays! Curtain time: Saturday and Sunday at 2:00pm. Tickets: $25 for one show; $40 for both, Discounted tickets (members, seniors, children under 16): $20 for one show; $35 for both, Family Package (tickets to both shows, 2 adults, 2 children under 16): $100 Urban Word NYC presents Journal to Journey, Dec 15: Presented in partnership with Urban Word NYC. These new solo works by young poets navigate a path through hurt and hope on a journey towards self. Equipped with pen as compass and journal as road map, they discover that life is full of moments that will carry you as far and as deep as you are willing to go. Poets are paired with Writing Mentor Darian Dauchan and Director/Choreographer Nicco Annan. Curtain time: Tuesday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $5 Urban Bush Women, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Artistic Director, Zollar: Uncensored, Jan 20 – 23: Kicking off the Urban Bush Women’s 25th Anniversary season, Zollar: Uncensored explores and interrogates Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s early investigations into the sensual and the power of women. Her early work explored these themes; however they were considered by many to be too controversial for touring in the late 80’s. This is the first time since that time period that Jawole has revisited this content. Still interested in “erotic integrity,” Jawole examines an essential aspect of human nature from an empowered stance. Curtain time: Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $25 Kimberly Bartosik/daela, The Materiality of Impermanence, Feb 4 – 6: Kimberly Bartosik’s newest evening-length work, The Materiality of Impermanence, investigates the traces and residues bodies leave on each other. Distinctly cinematic, the piece consists of a series of scenes which spring up spontaneously the way memories suddenly find their way into our consciousness. These scenes - defined through sparseness, stillness, silence, and a sense of time passing - are performed within Roderick Murray’s set made entirely of LED lights, creating a luminescent trace of a home. The work will be performed by Kimberly, Joanna Koetze, and Marc Mann, with original music by Luke Fasano. Curtain time: Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15 FRESH TRACKS Performance and Residency Program, Feb 11 – 13: Created in 1965, Fresh Tracks is Dance Theater Workshop’s longest running series of new dance and performance. Featuring works by emerging artists selected through open auditions, Fresh Tracks artists are presented each year and receive a 50 hour creative residency along with introductory level professional development workshops in marketing and fundraising strategies. Artists also participate in dialogue sessions with Artistic Advisor Levi Gonzalez, facilitating open discussion about their creative process. The Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program is supported, in part, by the Greenwall Foundation. Curtain time: Thursday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15 Bruno Beltrão/Grupo de Rua , H3, Feb 2010: Brazilian choreographer, Bruno Beltrão makes his NYC debut in an anticipated first ever US tour that highlights his remarkable fusion of hip hop and contemporary dance. In his latest work H3, nine dancers from Bruno’s company Grupo de Rua create astonishing duets as they collide and balance against each other, incorporating elements of krumping, popping and floor-spins. Bruno’s choreography has won him a string of accolades including 'Upcoming Choreographer of the Year' from Balletanz Magazine. Curtain time: TBA; Tickets: $15. koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO, Blocks of Continuality/ Body, Image, and Algorithm, Mar 3 – 6: Continuing her investigation started in deadmandancing Excess, mecha [a]OUTPUT and Dance Without Bodies, Koosil-Ja‘s newest work Blocks of Continuality/ Body, Image and Algorithm uses Live Processing, a performance technique and video system, to create and perform movement that is new to the dancers and is simultaneously shared with the audience. The work is created in collaboration with 17 partners ranging from 3D programmers to performers, the work experiments with ideas of synesthesia, transcoding, and percept vs. perception as a means of experiencing the potential of a dynamically networked body in a digital environment. Curtain time: Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15 Yasuko Yokoshi, Tyler Tyler, Mar 17 – 20: Tyler Tyler resumes Yasuko Yokoshi's artistic partnership with Masumi Seyama, revered master teacher of Kabuki Su-Odori dance and the heir to the legacy of Kanjyuro Fujima VI, one of the renowned Kabuki choreographers of the 20th Century in Japan. Together they deconstruct new choreographic material from Fujima's classical dance repertories. Yokoshi and Seyama dare to face boundaries of different training, cultural code and social hierarchy yet simultaneously desire to cherish the forms and beauty of universal language of dance. Tyler Tyler features the oldest disciple and member of Seyama Dance Family, Kayo Seyama; a young Kabuki actor, Kuniya Sawamura; and an actor from the Bungakuza Theater Company, Asaji Naoki. In the United States Yokoshi collaborates with American contemporary dancers Julie Alexander and Kayvon Pourazar and singer Steven Reker, who has just returned from a world tour with Talking Heads. Curtain time: Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15 Faye Driscoll, There is so much mad in me, Mar 31 – Apr 3: In a time of distraction, voyeurism and over stimulation, how do we experience authentic connection? Faye Driscoll investigates the physical and theatrical narratives that drive our misplaced need to be seen. From creating facades to seeking the divine to committing violent acts and falling in love, There is so much mad in me looks into the ways we fail, succeed, and get lost in the chase for true connection. Curtain time: Wednesday – Saturday at 7:30pm; Tickets: $15 Urban Word NYC presents12th Annual Teen Poetry Slam Semi-Final, March 2010: Urban Word NYC's 12th Annual Teen Poetry Slam brings out the top teen poets from across the city. Poets will compete for a chance to perform at the Grand Slam Finals and represent NYC at the National Teen Poetry Slam. This semi-final slam also features special guest poets and DJs. Since 2004, Dance Theater Workshop and Urban Word NYC have been collaborating to support urban youth in their development of hybrid performance work for the stage. And now for the second year, the partnership includes the participation of a spoken word artist, selected by Urban Word, in Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series. Urbanwordnyc.org Curtain time: 7:30pm; Tickets: $5 Teens, $7 Adults OFF-SITE @ 651 ARTS: Nora Chipaumire, lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi, May 2010: Presented by 651 ARTS in association with Dance Theater Workshop. lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi is a multimedia performance by contemporary/African solo dance artist Nora Chipaumire in collaboration with the revolutionary musical legend Thomas Mapfumo performing live with his band The Blacks Unlimited. Incorporating video animation, lions… explores the migrant experience within and outside of Africa and examines how Africa is portrayed to a western, globalized world. This collaboration is a representation of a collective self, a depiction of the Zimbabwean immigrant body, and explores what it means to be an African in the Diaspora. Check dancetheaterworkshop.org for date, time and price information. OFF-SITE: Pat Graney Company, House of Mind, June 2010: Presented in partnership with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Pat Graney’s House of Mind presents both the construction and dissolution of memory. Set in an all encompassing environment featuring a wall made entirely of buttons and a wall of over 1000 tiny cupboards, this work’s episodic nature and filmic sensibility create past, present, and memory - a literal House of Mind. Check dancetheaterworkshop.org for date and time information, Tickets: FREE. STUDIO SERIES The Studio Series offers an opportunity for research and development in a creative residency format, providing resources of time, space, and a commission. The Studio Series is a laboratory for physical explorations and new movement investigations with a focus on process, not final performance/product. The "performances" are intended to be informal public showings to share ideas with an audience in the intimate working space of the studio. Studio Series artists are curated internally by the Artistic Director in conjunction with Programming staff and guest curators from Urban Word NYC and Dance Theater Workshop's season artists. Joyce S. Lim - Oct 29 - 30 Will Rawls - Nov 5 - 6 Nia Love (guest curated by Jawole Zollar) - Jan 14 - 15 Gwen Welliver - Jan 28 - 29 Kathy Westwater - Feb 18 - 19 Natalie Green - Feb 25 - 26 Sahar Javedani - Mar 11 - 12 Darian Dauchan (guest curated by Urban Word NYC) - Mar 25 - 26 Lobby TALKS Coordinated by Chase Granoff, Lobby TALKS creates a forum for open and in-depth discourse on contemporary issues in dance and performance. Organized around specific themes, each meeting uses as a starting point one or more of the artistic investigations, methodologies, and motivations that can be seen in performance today. Subjects will be investigated, challenged, and considered by an invited group of artists, critics, and theorists, and is open to all who would like to join the conversation. Institution Independence, moderated by Karinne Keithley, Sep 22 at 7:30pm Performing Arts - Visual Arts, moderator TBD, Nov 17 at 7:30pm Relevance of the University, Part II, moderated by Maura Nguyen Donohue, Feb 9 at 7:30pm Family Matters SerieS Curated by Keely Garfield and Peggy Peloquin FREE for Kids! Only $15 for Adults Created for families looking to introduce their children to fun, intelligent, and provocative live performance, Dance Theater Workshop’s Family Matters Series embraces dance, music, and theater. Relaxed and informal, these one-of-a-kind showcases provide an opportunity to turn off your gadgets and experience live performance art made for all ages and presented in kid-friendly, bite-size-pieces. All children under the age of 13 must be supervised by an adult. Dance by Very Young Choreographers - Jan 23 at 2pm, Jan 24 at 1pm and 4pm TBA - Feb 20 – 21 at 2pm TBA - Mar 20 – 21 at 2pm
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