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Johanna Kotze Premieres New Work With Netta Yerushalmy at New York Live Arts
By: A.A. Cristi Mar. 19, 2018
New York Live Arts presents the world premiere of Bessie Award winner Joanna Kotze's What will we be like when we get there, a new interdisciplinary dance performance with long-time collaborators dancer/choreographer Netta Yerushalmy, visual artist Jonathan Allen, and composer/musician Ryan Seaton. What will we be like when we get there will premiere at New York Live Arts March 28-31, 2018, 7:30 PM. In conjunction with the performance, an exhibition, Knowing that your House is on Fire in the lobby of New York Live Arts, will feature new works by visual artist, Jonathan Allen. Tickets for the performance start at $15 and may be purchased at 212 924 0077 or online at newyorklivearts.
Praised as a "willowy, striking dancer" (New Yorker) and a "ruthlessly elegant dancer-choreographer" (Time Out), Kotze and her team investigate physical, emotional, and artistic spectrums while reflecting on personal journeys and current events. By flipping from humor to violence in one movement or slowly building a single ordered note into a cacophony of sound, these spectrums evolve into dances, songs, and visual design. Furthering the notion of an artistic partner, the artists utilize place and environment as their fifth collaborator. How does the environment shape you, how does the place where you live and work make you? What will we be like when we get there brings attention to our desires, flaws, strengths, and fantasies.
Inspired by the physicality developed in the making of the dance piece and the locations of the residencies, Jonathan Allen's art exhibition, Knowing that Your House is On Fire, includes mixed media using a diverse range of materials (charcoal, pastel, VHS/cassette tape, paper, paint) and found imagery (newspapers, brochures, rehearsal photography).
The artwork will be shown March 7-18, March 26-April 13, with an opening reception: Wednesday, March 7, 5-7pm.
Several post-show events will be presented in conjunction with the performance:
• On March 17, 2 - 4 PM, Kotze will offer a Shared Practice workshop for professional dancers. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at Live Arts.
• Starting March 28, following the performances, audiences are invited to explore Jonathan Allen's artwork exhibited at the Live Arts lobby.
• On March 29, following the performance, Kotze and her collaborators will speak about their creative processes in Live Arts' Stay Late Conversations. The talk will be moderated by Okwui Okpokwasili.
• On March 31, Ryan Seaton invites musicians to perform works that were part of the making of What will we be like when we get there. The concert will be held at the Live Arts lobby following the performance.
What will we be like when we get there was created during a series of residencies, most of which culminated in public showings of the work-in-progress at The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France; Marble House Project, Vermont; Sedona Arts Center, Arizona; Governors Island, New York City, through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Bennington College, Vermont; Jacob's Pillow, Massachusetts; Milvus Artistic Research Center, Kivik, Sweden; the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center and New York Live Arts, New York City.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Joanna Kotze is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher. In 2013, she received the New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer. Joanna recently toured her Bessie award-winning piece, It Happened It Had Happened It Is Happening It Will Happen, to Velocity Dance Center in Seattle and will tour to the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus February 15-18, 2018. She worked with Allen, Seaton, and Yerushalmy on Find Yourself Here at Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2015.
Joanna has received support from the Jerome Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) BUILD, Brooklyn Arts Council, Yellowhouse, and two Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants. She is a recipient of Process Space and Swing Space residencies through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and was a 2013-2015 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. In addition to the above, she has also had residencies at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Djerassi, Mount Tremper Arts and Gibney Dance (boo-koo). Joanna has upcoming residencies at The Bogliasco Foundation where she is the inaugural Van Cleef and Arpels Fellow (April 2018), and The Yard for the Bessie Schonberg Fellowship (June 2018).
Joanna has had commissions to create new works on Gibney Dance Company (NYC), Toronto Dance Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury (Salt Lake City), Zenon Dance (Minneapolis), and the James Sewell Ballet (Minneapolis).
Joanna danced with Wally Cardona from 2000-2010 and is currently dancing for Kimberly Bartosik/daela, and Kota Yamazaki. She has also worked with Stacy Spence, Netta Yerushalmy, Sam Kim, Sarah Skaggs, Christopher Williams, the Metropolitan Opera ballet, Daniel Charon, Nina Winthrop and others.
Joanna is on the teaching faculty at Movement Research and Gibney Dance. She has taught at Barnard College, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, The New School, Long Island University, Southern Utah University, Ohio University, Miami University Ohio, Salt Dance Fest, and the American Dance Festival. She is originally from South Africa and has a BA in Architecture from Miami University ('98).
JoannaKotze.com
Jonathan Allen (Visual Artist/Performer) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work focuses on painting, collage, video, and performance. In New York, he has exhibited at Lu Magnus, PS122, Exit Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artists Space, and FiveMyles, among other sites. He has participated in BRICworkspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)'s Workspace, Process Space, and Swing Space residency programs and the Bronx Museum of Art's Artist in the Marketplace program and has been awarded residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, Cill Rialaig in Ireland, and Blue Mountain Center. He is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner, Chenven, Puffin, and George Sugarman Foundations and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Ryan Seaton (Composer/Musician/Performer) is a New York-based composer and multi-instrumentalist. Seaton has created sound design, horn arrangements, vocal works, and electronic compositions for many acclaimed recording and performing artists, including Joanna Kotze, Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi, Lance Gries, Zenon Dance Company, Ririe Woodbury, Dark Sky, Ictus, Beth Gill Vision Control, and Mara Hoffman. His work has been featured at BAM, New York Live Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Kitchen, and Danspace among many other venues. Seaton also composes for film and TV, most recently for The Road Trick and Bennington Stories.
His band, Callers, has released three critically acclaimed albums and toured internationally with Dirty Projectors, Here We Go Magic, and Wye Oak, among others. Dubbed "stark in execution, dazzling in effect" by Pitchfork, Callers has often been featured on NPR and has appeared in various local and international festivals including Primavera, Tanned Tin, and the Ottawa Blues Fest. Seaton is also a founding member of Open House along with Steven Reker (People Get Ready), Eliot Krimsky (Glass Ghost), and Matt Evans (Tigue).
Netta Yerushalmy (Dancer) is a 2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant recipient, was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography, a Jerome Robbins Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Six Points. Her work has been presented by Danspace Project, The Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), 62 Center for the Arts, River To River Festival, Ailey Citigroup, Harkness Festival, La Mama, Suzanne Dellal Center (Tel-Aviv), and others. NettaY.com
The creation of What will we be like when we get there is supported in part by a commission from New York Live Arts' Live Feed Residency program with additional support from the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Council Member Corey Johnson, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, and the Shubert Foundation. What will we be like when we get there is also supported by a Jerome Foundation General grant and residencies at The Camargo Foundation (with support from Movement Research and the Jerome Foundation), Marble House, Sedona Arts Center (and the City of Sedona), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Bennington College, Jacob's Pillow Creative Development Residency Program, MARC - Milvus Artistic Research Center, the Harkness Dance Center's Artist-in-Residence Program at 92Y, and many generous individuals including the Joanna Kotze Dance Projects Leadership Circle.
FUNDING
Support for New York Live Arts is provided by Con Edison, the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Harnisch Foundation, the Alice Lawrence Foundation, the Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Metropolitan Capital Bancorp, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the National Performance Network, the New England Foundation for the Arts, The New York Community Trust, the O'Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Theatre Development Fund, and the Wege Foundation. Public support for New York Live Arts is from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts produces and presents dance, music, and theater performances in its 20,000 square-foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square-foot studios. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of performing artists. New York Live Arts serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and is the company's sole producer, providing support and the environment to originate innovative and challenging new work for the Company and New York's creative community.
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