Molissa Fenley, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and More Set for New York Live Arts This Week
By: Rosie Hertzman Sep. 30, 2013
New York Live Arts has announced this week's lineup Details below!
Molissa FenleyEnergizer (1980); The Floor Dances (1989); Witches' Float (1993); Found Object
Oct 2 - 5 at 7:30p, Oct 5 at 3pm
$30/$20 - Save 20% off tickets with discount code MFC20
Program A - Oct 2 & 3 at 7:30pm
Energizer, The Floor Dances, Found Object
Program B - Oct 4 & 5 at 7:30pm
Energizer, Witches' Float, Found Object
Lecture and Performance of The Floor Dances; Energizer (Part 2 - Duet) - Oct 5 at 3pm($20)
Molissa Fenley presents Energizer (1980), The Floor Dances (1989) and Witches' Float (1993) in two programs as part of the popular Replay Series. Energizer, a quartet featuring music by Mark Freedman and originally commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in 1980, returns to the public eye in its entirety for the first time since 1982. Two of Fenley's sculptural dances are presented in alteration: in Program A, The Floor Dances (1989), a solo performed by Fenley herself, with sculpture by Richard Long and music by Henryk Gorecki; in Program B, Witches' Float (1993) a solo performed by guest artist Holley Farmer, with sculpture by Kiki Smith and music by Alvin Lucier. Both Program A and Program B culminate with the world premiere ofFound Object, a new work commissioned by New York Live Arts.
Oct 2 immediately following the performance - Stay Late Discussion: Remounting Remembering Reconstructing, Bill T. Jones in conversation with Molissa Fenley.
Oct 3 at 6:30pm - Come Early Conversation: RHYTHM FIELD, The Dances of Molissa Fenley moderated by Richard Move (Artistic Director of MoveOpolis! and Move-it Productions)
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
A Rite
@ BAM
Brooklyn, NY
Oct 3 - 5 at 7:30pm
"Like many immersed in dance, I've seen a number of works set to Stravinsky's score...[t]his is the first new one to pull me into the music and its history in so many unexpected and provocative ways."
-- Arts Journal
Two of the most celebrated voices in American contemporary performance, Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart, join forces for A Rite, a major dance-theater work featuring their respective companies - Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company - that celebrates the 100th anniversary of The Rite of Spring and the impact of this revolutionary piece of music. Igor Stravinsky's groundbreaking masterpiece and celebrated collaboration with choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky was so radical as to incite a riot upon its Paris premiere in 1913. A Rite features a libretto that pulls from the diaries of World War I veterans, Stravinsky's score, the writings of physicist Brian Greene, and many other sources in an effort to imagine the consequence of hearing The Rite of Spring played for the very first time.
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Also this week:
Studio Series
Elena Demyanenko & Dai Jian
New York Live Arts Studios
Oct 4 & 5 at 6pm
$5
In-Process Talks moderated by Melanie Maar (Friday) and Cori Olinghouse (Saturday).
Studio Series kicks off with Chinese artist Dai Jian and Russian-born Elena Demyanenko, both recent alumni of Trisha Brown Dance Company. This informal studio showing will expose the inside process of Blue Room, a year-long collaboration commissioned by and premiering at Live Arts February 13-15, 2014. Segments of the work, developed during the Studio Series residency, will be shown in the intimate working space of the Live Art studio, with a hint of the final set in the periphery of the space.
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Shared Pracitce
Kyle Abraham
2012-14 Resident Commissioned Artist
New York Live Arts Studios
Oct 5, 1 - 4pm
$20
Abraham will lead participants in a guided warm-up followed by collaborative dance-making and conversation. Considering the diverse scope of our discourse against/with/in the context of movement is our aim and the most compelling aspect of our time together. This workshop will be led in a manner that is respectful, safe, and welcoming to all participants.
About Shared Practice
In Shared Practice workshops, Live Arts season artists share the physical and creative practices behind their work. Each process- focused session provides participants an opportunity to recharge their own artistry by experiencing different approaches to making and moving with similarly motivated professionals. All classes are held on Saturdays throughout the season at New York Live Arts. Participating artist include: Kyle Abraham, Big Dance Theater, Donna Uchizono, Cynthia Hopkins, Beth Gill, Trisha Brown Dance Company and John Jasperse. For a schedule and tickets, click here.Join the Facebook event here.
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From Our FriendsAnother Tree Dance
Oct 2 - 5 at 8pm
The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Avenue,
LIC NY 11101
Another Tree Dance began as a specific return: to publish in performance form Karinne Keithley Syers's dissertation on Emerson and first-person strangeness, a study that grew out of the last six years spent reading in an effort to sound a trans-disciplinary genealogy of the philosophical, ethical, and compositional commitments of the experimenting communities within dance and theater. It was to function as a means of ceremonially transitioning from scholarship back to making, a kind of homecoming. What it became is not so much a report as a private recuperation that bears an occult relation to that dissertation. In text, sound, and movement, Keithley Syers follows Emerson's strange assignments into undersea, aerial, and nocturnal landscapes that resonate with a sense of both the continual return and ongoing loss occasioned by ordinary experience. Culled and assembled from a natural history of her own work, materialized within a visual environment of slides found in her grandparents basements and attics, Another Tree Dance is a poet's essay, an essay for a room, for the mouth, the hand, the ear, a philosophy housed not in concepts but in sentences, gestures, slides, songs, visible and invisible things.
Created and performed by Karinne Keithley Syers in conversation with Sara Smith. Set design by Luke Hegel-Cantarella. Lighting design by Kathy Couch.Endangered Pieces
Oct 2 - 12 at 8pm
$20
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street,
New York, NY 10002
A man in an empty space: in a field, onstage, in combat. Is this his ultimate battle and can it be won? Pavel Zustiak/Palissimo charts new territories with Endangered Pieces, a performance unfolding in a series of dream-like scenes set amidst a looming calamity. Throughout, the visceral trumps the literal, leaving visual impressions that linger and gestate in the subconscious as both alluring and unsettling.
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Red, Pink, Black
Oct 2 - 4, 9 - 11 at 8pm & 9pm
$5-$10 suggested donation at the door
Storefront, 1N 481 Washington St.,
New York, NY,
Red, Pink, Black is an ever-shifting world of moving female sculptures. It is inspired by the emotionality of Mark Rothko's multiform paintings and the power and vulnerability of the female form. In a small room these female beings, or colors bleed together and splash apart creating a palpable tension.
Choreography and Performance by Stacy Grossfield in collaboration with dancers Nicole Daunic and Rebecca Warner.With other performers Judy Iocovozzi and Laura S. Romero.
Costumes & Headpiece designed by Stacy Grossfield constructed by Baille Younkman and Alan Calpe.
Music designed by Stacy Grossfield with Anders Griffen.
Masks by Max Dana.
danceTactics performs at Joe's Pub &
Dance Gallery Festival
Oct 10 at 7pm, Oct 11 at 7:30pm & Oct 13 at 3pm
$20
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St and Aliey Citigroup Theater
405 W. 55th St
danceTactics performance group by Keith A. Thompson presents two works back to back, A Piece of Hamlet's Machine extraction from The Hamletmachine: Heiner Mueller's single most famous work and Beginnings Forever Lost excerpt from the company's last evening length work. You can see A Piece of Hamlet's Machine at DANCENOW JOE'S PUB 2013 FESTIVAL Thursday Oct 10 at 7pm tickets can be purchased in advance at the box office of the Public Theater and at joepub.com. Ticket prices are $15 Advance Sale (no sur charges at the box office) and $20 at the door. You can see Beginnings Forever Lost excerpt at the DANCE GALLERY FESTIVAL Friday Oct 11 at 7:30pm and Sunday Oct 13 at 3pm. The tickets are $20 general admission. The $15 student tickets will only be sold at the door if we do not sell out on line. Please visitsmartix.com.
Photo Credit: Ian Douglas
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