Lucy Liu, Darren Star, And More Join Stephen Petronio Company To Honor Patricia Field And Sylvia Drulie Mazzola

Stephen Petronio Company will honor fashion visionary Patricia Field and lifelong patron of dance Sylvia Drulie Mazzola at the company's 2018 Benefit on March 21. The evening will feature the fourth season of Bloodlines, a five-year autobiographical project that not only honors the lineage of American postmodern dance, but also traces the influences and impulses that have shaped choreographer Stephen Petronio.

The evening's program includes the world premiere of Petronio'sHardness 10, the third collaboration between Petronio and composer Nico Muhly. This new work features costumes by Patricia Field ARTFASHION, in her first collaboration with the Company. Another highlight will be Merce Cunningham's playful and indeterminate Signals (1970), a 20-minute work for six dancers. Completing the program is an excerpt from Petronio's darkly abstract Underland (2003) titled Wild Wild World that was inspired by the music of post-punk, Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave.

The performance will take place atThe Joyce Theater (175 8th Avenue) at 7:30pm on March 21 with a celebration to follow at Kola House (408 West 15th Street). Tickets-starting at $350 for patrons, $500 for Dancer's Circle, $2,500 for Choreographer's Circle, $5,000 for Producer Tables and $10,000 for Benefactor Tables-can be purchased online at www.petron.io, by calling 212-473-1660.

The Stephen Petronio Company Board of Directors is led by Board Chair,Jill Brienza*. The 2018 Benefit Gala is co-chaired by Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and Alison A. Mazzola*.

The 2018 Benefit Committee includes Marina Abramovi?, Renate Aller, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Auger, Joa Baldinger*, Mikhail Baryshnikov, James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach, Maria Caso and Leo Radosta, Alan Cumming, Willem Dafoe, Michelle d'Arcambal, John Demsey, Tambra Dillon, Martha Eddy and Blake Middleton, Mandie Erickson, George L. Farias, Richard E. Feldman and Jon Nathanson, Teresita Fernández, Claire Flack*, Daniele and Ron Flack, Jean-Marc Flack*, Tad Flynn, Janet Goldman, Lisa Resling Halpern, Stephen Hannock, Margaret and Lenny Harrington, Ed Henry and Susan Monk, Gary O. Holder and Todd M. Whitley, Sheila and Jeffrey Hollender, Jasper Johns, Anish Kapoor, Harold Koda and Alan Kornberg, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Lucy Liu, Ryan Lott, The Honorable and Mrs. Earle I. Mack, Yael Mandelstam and Ken Tabachnick*, Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney, Benjamin Millepied, Jodee Nimerichter, Alexandra Rhea, Narciso Rodriguez, Atticus Ross, Matt Saunders, Michele Saunders, Linda Shelton, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Silver*, Donna and Edwin Sirlin, Laura and Harry Slatkin, Jean Stone, Laurie and Roberto Tuchman, Laurie Uprichard, Michael Volpe aka Clams Casino, Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt, Martin Wechsler, James Welling and Jane Weinstock, Jedediah Wheeler, Wendy Whelan and David Michalek, and Steven Wine.

*Stephen Petronio Company Board of Directors

About the Honorees

Patricia Field single handedly changed the way women dress through the HBO series "Sex and the City" and its feature films. For her work as costume designer on SATC, Field won an Emmy Award and received five nominations for Best Costume Design. Field also received an Academy Award nomination for The Devil Wears Prada, as well as continued recognition for her work costuming television series such as Ugly Betty, Hope & Faith, and most recently for Darren Star's hit TVLand series Younger. Field is also a seasoned retailer, establishing her namesake boutique in New York City in 1966, which remained a fashion landmark for 50 years. In 2016, Field sold her iconic retail property and launched a new concept, ARTFASHION.

Sylvia Drulie Mazzola, devoted supporter of the arts, has spent her life supporting dance and performance of all kinds, with credits that begin with her work as an associate producer of the original Broadway productions of West Side Story and The Music Man, Vice Chairman of the Trisha Brown Dance Company Board of Directors, and as a longtime board member of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Friends of Channel Thirteen, and Robert Wilson's Byrd Hoffman/Watermill Center Foundation.

About Stephen Petronio Company

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, Stephen Petronio is widely regarded as one of the leading dance-makers of his generation. New music, visual art, and fashion collide in his dances, producing powerfully modern landscapes for the senses. He has built a body of work with some of the most talented and provocative artists in the world, including composers Atticus Ross, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nico Muhly, Fischerspooner, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Son Lux, Nick Cave, James Lavelle, Michael Nyman, Sheila Chandra, Diamanda Galás, Andy Teirstein, Wire, Peter Gordon, Lenny Pickett, and David Linton; visual artists Janine Antoni, Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, Donald Baechler, Stephen Hannock, Tal Yarden, Arnaldo Ferrara, and Justin Terzi III; fashion designers Narciso Rodriguez, John Bartlett, Jillian Lewis, Adam Kimmel, Benjamin Cho, Michael Angel, Tony Cohen, Rachel Roy, Tara Subkoff, Tanya Sarne/Ghost, Leigh Bowery, Paul Compitus, Manolo, Yonson Pak, and H. Petal; and Resident Lighting Designer Ken Tabachnick.

Founded in 1984, Stephen Petronio Company has performed in 40 countries throughout the world, including numerous New York City engagements and 23 seasons at The Joyce Theater. The Company has been commissioned by Dance Umbrella Festival/London, Hebbel Theater/Berlin, Scène National de Sceaux, Festival d'Automne à Paris, CNDC Angers/France, The Holland Festival, Festival Montpellier Danse, Danceworks UK Ltd, Festival de Danse-Cannes, and in the U.S. by San Francisco Performances, The Joyce Theater, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, and White Bird, among others.

The 2014-15 season marked the first incarnation of Bloodlines, a project of Stephen Petronio Company to honor and curate a lineage of American postmodern dance masters. Distinguished for creating original languages that embody the highest level of artistic excellence displayed through extreme physical and conceptual rigor, these artists have had a profound impact on Petronio's own artistic path. To date, the Company has restaged seven works, by Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, and Steve Paxton, with plans to incorporate others in the coming seasons. The juxtapositions of Bloodlines repertory alongside Petronio's works offers audiences an experiential insight into the evolution of this strand of creativity in American choreography.

In 2016, Stephen Petronio Company expanded its focus on American postmodern dance to explore the meaning of legacy and its impact on the future and sustainability of this most ephemeral art form. With an eye toward securing artists' consistent ability to create and explore, the Petronio Residency Center (PRC) has been established as a retreat center where research and the creative process will be paramount. After launching the Campaign for PRC, $1M was raised within 12 months to facilitate the purchase of Crow's Nest, a 175-acre property in Cairo, New York, 20 minutes from the burgeoning Catskill and Hudson, New York art scenes. Paid artist residencies will begin in the summer of 2018, providing dedicated rehearsal space and resources to choreographers and their collaborators to develop new work in an environment unfettered by market constraints and away from the daily pressures of urban life. The program will become part of a growing ecosystem in the U.S. dedicated to fostering a new model for the future of contemporary dance.

The Company recently performed its 23rd season at The Joyce Theater in NYC, after a five-week residency teaching and performing in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam as a part of the sixth season of DanceMotionUSA supported by the U.S. Department of State and Brooklyn Academy Of Music. The 2017 Bloodlines season received two New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award nominations.

For more information about the company, visit www.petron.io.