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Artists-in-Residence The application period for the 2012-2013
This program is made possible, in part, by generous contributions from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the offices of Senator Daniel Squadron / NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation grant and with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and adminitered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. This program is also sponsor, in part, by individual support.
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Wednesday, June 6 at 7:30PM General Admission $10 Drenched - Dance Choreographed by Luke Murphy An evening length duet work for Luke Murphy and Carlye Eckert which deconstructs the notion of
romance in contemporary society and examines the void between the expectations and ideas learned
from media, art, music and centuries of social rhetoric and the starker realities of navigating trust, desire, Originally from Cork, Ireland, Luke is a performer and choreographer based in New York and Ireland. Early training was at the Cork Arts Studio in and at the Shawbrook Ballet School in Longford. Later, he trained at the Legat Pre-Professional Dance Course in East Sussex and went on to the University of Pittsburg, where he graduated with a BFA in Dance and English. Upon graduation, Mr. Murphy was selected for the Emerging Choreographer Programme by the Kelly Stayhorn Theatre. In 2009, Mr. Murphy came to New York City where he has performed with Heidi Latsky Dance, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theatre and Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Mr. Murphy joined The Eric Hawkins Dance Company and has performed with them at Jacob Pillow, American Dance Guild Festival, Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center and the Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y. He joined the British troupe Punchdrunk for their U.S. debut of the acclaimed “Sleep no More.” Since moving to New York, Mr. Murphy has presented his choreography at LaMaMa, The Flea, Greenspace, Triskelion Arts Center and Dance New Amsterdam and has been invited to the New Moves Festival for three consecutive years. |
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Saturday, June 9 at 7:30PM General Admission $10 Water in the Desert - Dance/Music/Multimedia Concept & dance/visual director: Kiori Kawai Performers We human beings are a part of nature, even in the urban life. A city, composed of steel, concrete, glass, electrical lines, cellular data, wifi signals, etc., taken in and of itself can appear cold and lifeless, barren in its overwhelming inorganic-ness. From this perspective it can almost seem desert-like, devoid of life. However, a desert is not devoid of life. There is water; there is life. The water may be minimal, and overwhelmed by the heat, the arid air, and the barrenness, but the desert still thrives in its own peculiar ecosystem. Us humans, we are a city’s water. We make all that electricity, cellular data, grand architecture, concrete, and steel flow. Despite the un-humanness in everything that surrounds us in a city, we thrive, and make the city thrive, in its own peculiar ecosystem. Purring Tiger is a multi-cultural, multimedia, experimental performance group dedicated to bringing people together in the context of Art, in a subtext of Wonder. Consisting primarily of Japanese choreographer Kiori Kawai, and American composer and multimedia programmer Aaron Sherwood, Purring Tiger uses technology to intertwine the human body with sounds and visuals, and foster interaction. http://purringt.com/ Kiori Kawai is a 1999 graduate of the Osaka University of Arts, specializing in Musical Theatre & Contemporary Performance. Since her arrival to NYC in 2001, Kiori has had the professional pleasure of working with artists such as Skymusic Inc., Elaine Summers Dance, Pauline Oliveros, Azul Dance Theatre, H.T. Chen Dance Company, Human Kinetics Movement Arts, and many more. Kiori has performed as an artist for dance performances at many places, including Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lamama Theatre, University at Buffalo, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art as well as touring internationally. http://kiorikawai.com/ Aaron Sherwood has devoted his energy to music for over 25 years. Coming up as a jazz musician in New York City, he performed in many different bands, spanning many different genres, and with artists such as George Garzone, Charlie Persip, Taylor McFerrin, and Matthew Miller (Matisyahu). As a composer he has written for film, stage and dance. Currently, he does production work for Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and creates interactive multi-media art. http://aaronsherwood.wordpress.com/ |
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James Scruggs The Deepest Man on Earth / Theater A Staged Reading By James Scruggs Directed by Mark Rayment Stage Management by Nicole Greene Featuring: Spencer Scott Barros*, Maximillan Balduzzi, Vienna Carrol, Bill Johnson, Laura E. Johnston*, and Karma Mayet Johnson. *Members of Actors Equity Association
The Deepest Man on Earth is the title given to the athlete who dives the deepest and holds their breath for the longest time. The Deepest Man on Earth play is an evening length theatrical piece about water, dogma, delusion, Christianity and celebrity worship. The play in its final form will include elements of video, movement, and music has two parallel narratives which collide: one, the search for redemption and salvation by Hurricane Katrina survivors; and the other, the search for meaning in his life by a grief ridden therapist. James Scruggs was awarded a grant from Franklin Furnace in August 2002. In March 2003, he became an Artist-in-Residence at HERE Arts Center. Disposable Men, his solo performance piece, was originally produced by HERE, and he received a NJSCA grant for artistic excellence in 2005. In September of 2005, he was awarded the first ever NY IT award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Disposable Men. In February 2006, he was a resident artist with Mabou Mines. In March 2007, Disposable Men completed a four city tour, to Seven Stages in Atlanta, Perishable in Providence, New World Theater in Amherst, and the Painted Bride in Philadelphia. He premiered his mixed media play, RUSH, in 2008 at 3LD. In 2010, he had a reading of his work, Touchscape, at Harlem Stage’s The Gratehouse, followed by a 3-week residency at The Baryshnikov Arts Center and a work in progress showing at Dixon Place. Tickets to Manhood was commissioned by Dixon Place to be performed at their Hot Festival in July 2011. He is a board member of The NY IT awards. He has a BFA in Film from the School of Visual Arts. |
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Susan Oetgen Saturday, June 16 at 7:30PM General Admission $10 The Salt Water Hotel - Music/Dance Susan Oetgen – Composer/Librettist Jennifer Furst – soprano The Saltwater Hotel is an epic bedtime story...an underwater dream musical...a hero’s journey into the deep unknown to reclaim an original spark of inspiration...and a fable about taking the long way home. The idea for the piece came from a dream I had several years ago, in which I journeyed to the bottom of the ocean to a famous old hotel, a kind of holiday resort for souls on vacation from their earthly lives. As though the Star Wars Cantina had been transported to the Algonquin’s Oak Room, the Saltwater Hotel of my dream was alive with myth, magic and music - it was here that I encountered a charming chanteuse called La Sirenne, a mysterious mind-reader named Black Pearl and a cast of other wondrous underwater creatures. This year is Susan Oetgen’s third season as an artist-in-residence at BMCC Tribeca PAC. Susan is a performing artist, conflict resolution practitioner and arts administrator. Through Susan’s creative practice, she explores individual, group and cultural conflict and tries to find ways to expand our capacity to engage conflict constructively. Susan has been examining the complex relationship between art and war in a series of solo and collaborative music-theater projects about the US Marine Corps, including Command Voice, which premiered at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center in 2010; Bazm-o-Razm, commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic for the Music Off The Walls series at the Brooklyn Museum in 2008; and IED: Improvised Experimental Diva, which premiered at the inaugural Capitol Fringe Fest in Washington, DC in 2007 and was hailed by The Washington Post as “a perfect fringe experience.” Susan earned a Master of Music from Catholic University of America and a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. Susan is a recipient of a 2007 Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant and a 2010 Meet the Composer Creative Connections Grant. |
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Parijat Desai
Sameer Gupta |
PD & Friends: Face the Music - Dance/Music
Choreographer Parijat Desai explores possibilities for creating contemporary dance to Hindustani-style music, working with collaborators Sameer Gupta (tabla), Arun Ramamurthy (violin), and Shobana Ram (vocal). In addition to sharing excerpts of their own creative work, these artists will present short dances to the musical genres of thumri, khayal, and tarana. Parijat Desai Dance Company performs a hybrid of Indian classical and modern dance the New York Times called a “seamless blending of the new and old.” Choreographer Parijat Desai brings together the lines, rhythms and theatricality of Indian classical dance with the dynamism and conceptual experimentation of modern dance, creating new vocabularies that move across boundaries of tradition and culture. PDDC has been presented by venues including the Grand Performances and Skirball Cultural Center (LA); Northwestern University (Chicago); and Danspace Project, La MaMa, BRIC Studio, and Queens Museum of Art (NY). PDDC also performed at The Other Festival (India) and in Desh Pardesh (Toronto). The company is a 2010 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD grant. |
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Photo by: Ian Douglas
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Devouring Devouring - Dance Choreography-Netta Yerushalmy Netta Yerushalmy presents an excerpt from her new work in progress, Devouring Devouring.The dance deals with the relationship between the articulation of language and the articulation of the body, with the way choreo-graphy (body-writing) can translate different aspects of language into the dancer’s body. The questions that guide us through this process are: When we stop paying attention to the content of language (what is called semantics), are we merely blocking ourselves from the possibility of meaning, of communicating, of understanding? Or are we opening ourselves then to another realm of possibilities (what is called semiotics)? If dance is itself a sort of a language, is it supposed to denote something specific in the world, mean something in particular, or can it find truth in sheer movement? Netta Yerushalmy Originally from Israel, Netta came to NYC in 1996 to earn a BFA in Dance for4m Tish School of the Arts. She is a 2010 NYFA Fellow in choreography, and a recipient of grants from the Israel Lottery Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and LMCC. Most recently, Netta was invited to participate in the International Solo-Dance-Theater festival in Stuttgart, Germany, and was commissioned by Harknmess Repertory Ensemble in NYC, and OfMovingColors in Baton Rouge. In the USA her work has been presented by Danspace project, Harkness Dance Festival, LaMamma, The Kitchen, Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, Movement Research, Brooklyn Museum, Joyce Soho, 92 Street Y, and Philadelphia Fringe festival. In Israel Netta was commissioned by the prestigious festival Curtain Up, International-Exposure, Intimadance, and Different Dance Festival. As a young choreographer in Irsael, her wok was presented by the Minister of Culture. As an artist –in –residence, Netta has worked with dancers at the Yasmeen Godder Studios, Bikuerey Haitim, Misgav Dance Academy, University o Michigan, Point Park College, the Yard, and OfMovingColors. Netta is currently a member of Doug Varone and Dancers and has also danced and toured internationally with Mark Jarecke, Noemie LaFrance, Nancy Bannon, Karinne Keithley, Ronit Ziv, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. |
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Taken - Dance
Choreographed by Tze Chun. Original score by Richard Vagnino. Performed by Tony Bordonaro, Elisa Davis, Adi Kfir, and Tim Ward. Tze Chun is the Artistic Director of Tze Chun Dance Company (TCDC) and draws upon her background in visual arts, Asian martial arts and dance, and her love of cinema to create the company’s repertory, which consists of stylistically diverse dance works and multi-media projects. TCDC has performed at many NYC venues including: Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, The Flea Theater, The Tank Theater, Triskelion Arts, Riverside Theatre, South Oxford Space, The Brooklyn Lyceum, University Settlement, Merce Cunningham Studios, CSV Center, DUO Theater, Minor Latham Playhouse, and the 92nd Street Y. Tze is the recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council Regrant, Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, American Music Center (AMC) Live Music for Dance Grant, JP Morgan Chase SOAR Grant, and a Field FAR Space Grant. Tze graduated phi beta kappa and magna cum laude from Columbia University with degrees in Dance and American Studies. In 2008, she researched the Tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina as a Jerome Foundation Dance Travel and Study Fellow. |
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