Joyce SoHo Presents New Sounds, New Moves As Part of SONiC

Joyce SoHo will present four world premiere collaborative works between emerging choreographers and composers, as part of SONiC (Sounds of a New Century), a new city-wide festival of 21st century music featuring work by more than 100 composers age 40 and under. New Sounds, New Moves at Joyce SoHo (October 19-21) will showcase works by choreographers Deborah Lohse, Miro Magloire, Darcy Naganuma, and Rebecca Stenn who have teamed with composers David Fulmer, Michel Galante, Michael Klingbeil, and Konrad Kaczmarek, respectively. Live music will be performed by Argento Chamber Ensemble.

These artists were paired at an event hosted by Joyce SoHo in May 2011, aimed at introducing choreographers and composers to one another.

Deborah Lohse and David Fulmer will premiere an intense visual and sonic performance experience in their work Spark. Set to a Fulmer's composition for soprano saxophone and metal percussion and featuring a new film by Lohse, Spark elicits an original approach to temporal structure between these two artistic mediums.

In the solo piece Zone A, choreographed and danced by Rebecca Stenn, the stage is divided into various zones, each offering a different experience and perspective to the solo performer and audience. Konrad Kaczmarek has composed an improvisational piece, Points on a Line, that transforms the acoustic sound of the piano during the live performance. As he improvises at the piano and responds to the dancer's movement, the computer will respond by altering the digital manipulations.

Darcy Naganuma and Michael Klingbeil have combined and distorted two earlier works by twisting and bending thematic undercurrents to create an a "upside-down, inside-out" new rendering. The work titled seeds of twist is set to Klingbeil's musical composition Beta Warp II.

Miro Magloire will present a new work for two dancers set to Michel Galante's musical composition Two Etudes.

New Sounds, New Moves as part of SONiC will take place at Joyce SoHo on Wednesday, October 19 at 10pm with added performances on October 20 & 21, Thursday and Friday at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15. After Hours @ Joyce SoHo, a free post-performance Q&A with the artists, will follow the October 20th performance. Joyce SoHo's onsite box office is only open one half-hour prior to performance time to sell tickets exclusively for that performance. Tickets may also be purchased online at joyce.org (no service fees!), via JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or in person at The Joyce Theater at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street Mon-Sun, 12 noon-6pm. On days when there are performances, The Joyce Theater's box office is open for advance sales up to one hour prior to Joyce curtain times and up to three hours prior to Joyce SoHo curtain times. The Joyce Theater's box office is closed on major holidays.

SONiC Passes entitle ticket buyers to 20% off SONiC festival events and can be used to purchase discount tickets to the performance on Wednesday, October 19 only. SONiCPass can be purchased online at sonicfestival.org . Tickets are $12 with the SONiC Pass.

New Sounds New Moves is co-presented as part of SONiC: Sounds of a New Century. SONiC is produced by American Composers Orchestra and The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University. These performances are made possible, in large part, by the generosity of The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. For more information on SONiC, visit sonicfestival.org

About the Artists:

Deborah Lohse (choreographer) & David Fulmer (composer):

Deborah Lohse is a performer, choreographer and filmmaker from Northern California living and working in New York City. She received a B. A. with majors in both Dance and Theatre from the University of California, San Diego. In 2010 she received a Professional Certificate in Filmmaking from New York University - School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Her ballet company ad hoc Ballet was founded in 2007 and has since created work ranging from contemporary ballet pieces on pointe, to dance theater performances, and most recently dance films. www.deborahlohse.com

Still in his twenties, composer, violinist, and conductor David Fulmer is the winner of the 14th International Edvard Grieg Competition for Composers; the first American ever to receive this highly acclaimed award. He has also been a winner of an ASCAP Composer Award, a BMI Composer Award, and the Charles Ives Award (Scholarship) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His award-winning Violin Concerto has been performed by major orchestras and festivals, most recently with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Matthias Pintscher. He recently joined the Argento New Music Project as violinist, conductor and composer. David received his DMA from Juilliard. www.fulmermusic.com

Miro Magloire (choreographer) & Michel Galante (composer):

Born in Munich, Germany, Miro Magloire is the founder and artistic director of New Chamber Ballet. A choreographer and composer, he has created over 50 ballets for New Chamber Ballet, several of which are set to his own music. Miro is a former student of composer Mauricio Kagel at the State Conservatory of Music in Cologne, and received his dance training at the Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham Schools and with Wilhelm Burmann and Peff Modelski. http://newchamberballet.com

Michel Galante received a doctorate in composition from Columbia University, where he worked with Tristan Murail. Recent projects include a complete ballet for the Kate Weare Dance Company, and a commission from the New York New Music Ensemble, and a work for violinist Viviane Hagner which was premiered in the Berlin Konzerthaus and at Wigmore Hall in April 2012. Dr. Galante's composition awards include Fulbright, Hertz, and Mellon fellowships, as well as prizes from ASCAP and the Composer's Guild. He is the chief curator of the Moving Sounds Festival, and the director of the Argento New Music Project. www.argentomusic.org

Darcy Naganuma (choreographer) & Michael Klingbeil (composer):

Darcy Naganuma is the Artistic Director/ Founder of Naganuma Dance. Born and raised in Lihue, Hawaii, she has traveled across the U.S. and around the world as a choreographer, performer, and educator. Recent projects have taken her to Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, and Puerto Rico, and her NYC-based ensemble has created a buzz at such venues as Joyce SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam, 92Y, Ailey, 92Y Tribeca, and City Center since 2006. In August 2010, the company shared a split-Bill SummerSTAGE evening with Taylor II. Dedicated to cross-cultural, interdisciplinary exchange and the synthesis of ideas, contexts, and idioms, Darcy has collaborated with poets, filmmakers, sculptors, painters, cartoonists, visual composers, and musicians. www.naganumadance.com

Michael Klingbeil is a composer who is active in both acoustic and electroacoustic music. His works have been played by ensembles including the JACK Quartet, Argento, Minnesota Orchestra, and Fifth House Ensemble. He was the first prize winner in the 2009 Martirano Competition. Additional Honors and awards have come from the Bourges Competition, Earplay, First Music, Russolo competition and ASCAP. He completed his formal training at Oberlin Conservatory, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, and Columbia University. Principal teachers include Tristan Murail, Heinrich Taube, and Gary Lee Nelson. He is currently on the faculty at the Yale University Department of Music. www.klingbeil.com

Rebecca Stenn (choreographer) & Konrad Kaczmarek (composer):

Rebecca Stenn founded Rebecca Stenn Company in 1996. The company has since performed to critical acclaim and sold out houses in over 50 cities, including The Copenhagen Festival, The Edinburgh Festival, The Joyce Theater, Danspace Project and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival among many others. As a principal dancer with Momix Dance Theater from 1989 to 1996, Stenn performed in over 30 countries and appeared as a featured performer in films for Italian, Spanish and French television. Stenn is a founding member of Pilobolus Too. She has written for Dancemagazine and The Dance Insider and is the Choreographer for the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Stenn is currently on faculty at The New School. http://rebeccastenncompany.com

Konrad Kaczmarek's music incorporates live audio processing and improvisation, drawing freely on his diverse musical and technical backgrounds. As a performer and freelance programmer his work has been shown at SARC in Belfast, The Stone, Bargemusic, The Chelsea Art Museum, the NextWave festival at BAM, Works in Process at the Guggenheim, the Whitney Biennial Performance Series, The New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, The Banff Centre, and STEIM in the Netherlands. He holds degrees from Yale and University of London, Goldsmiths, and is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in composition at Princeton. http://konradkaczmarek.com

The creation of Joyce SoHo was made possible by the magnanimous support of the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Joyce SoHo is generously supported by Alphawood Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, First Republic Bank, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundations and the Fund for the City of New York, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation.

Lead support has been provided by The New York Community Trust. Special support has been provided by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Joyce SoHo is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties; and the National Endowment for the Arts.