New York Live Arts Presents LIVE ARTERY This January

Live Artery 2019, a showcase of dynamic new work by New York Live Arts commissioned artists and curated guests, kicks off on January 4, 2019. Showcasing the latest work from some of the most relevant artists to date, Live Artery provides an opportunity to bring to the forefront the vitality of today's dance and performing arts community not only to New York but across the country and beyond.

Live Artery is presented during the annual Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference and features full length performances including: Jack Ferver's jarringly honest Everything is Imaginable, Joanna Kotze's madcap interdisciplinary journey through actions and consequences, Marjani Forté-Saunders' intimately self-reflecting work Memoirs.... of a Unicorn, Jennifer Nugent & Paul Mattenson's exploration of dancing in tandem, and Randjelovi?/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) RoseAnne Spradlin's embodiment of form, risk, and intimacy. In the studio there will be excerpt showings from Bill Shannon, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Yanira Castro | a canary torsi, Kimberly Bartosik / daela, Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith, Abby Z and the New Utility, Netta Yerushalmy, and curated guests Sean Dorsey Dance, Kyle Marshall Dance, and Lakaï Dance Theatre.

Now in its eighth season, Live Artery is New York Live Arts' platform for showcasing the works of artists from the Live Arts community during the annual Association of Performing Arts Professionals Conference.

Live Artery runs January 4 to 7, 2019 at New York Live Arts with presentations at Live Arts theater and studio. New York Live Arts is located at 219 West 19th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, NYC. Tickets start at $10 and $20 and are free for presenters with APAP badges. For tickets, please call 212-924-0077 or visit newyorklivearts.org

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS: LIVE ARTERY 2019
PROGRAM SCHEDULE

JANUARY 4, 2019 8 PM & JANUARY 5, 2019 12:00 PM (noon)
Live Arts Theater
Joanna Kotze: what will we be like when we get there
what will we be like when we get there premiered at Live Arts in March 2018. Choreographer Joanna Kotze is accompanied by dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, visual artist Jonathan Allen, and composer/musician Ryan Seaton (2018 Bessie Nominee) in the newest iteration of this charged collaboration. Through their various artistic forms, the performers respond to the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and its dichotomies: the order to chaos, the humor to violence, and the intimacy to isolation.

JANUARY 5, 11:00 AM
Live Arts Studio
BILL SHANNON: Touch Update (excerpt)
Bill Shannon brings back his Touch Update after presenting it at Live Arts in November 2018. Shannon explores contemporary modes of digital versus interpersonal representation and physicality. Touch Update "reverse engineers" Shannon's virtuosic technique for dancing on crutches, as he dissects and dismantles the multiple online identities we create in order to mask and manipulate our lived experience.

JANUARY 5, 2:00 PM
Live Arts Studio
JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO: Chameleon (Work-in-Progress)
Through Chameleon, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko undertakes an investigation into the fugitive realities of Black Diasporan people. Through the melding of live feed and augmented reality media, Queer and Black Critical Theory studies, archives of public and personal narratives from the Stonewall Riots to Juneteenth, Kosoko's work explores how minoritarian communities record and affirm their humanity. This in-progress presentation will be further developed in 2019 through residencies at New York Live Arts, Gibney, EMPAC, and others to be premiered at Live Arts in the 2019-2020 season.

January 5, 3:00 PM
Live Arts Theater
RoseAnne Spradlin: Y
Randjelovi?/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) RoseAnne Spradlin remounts her production of Y after its acclaimed premiere in September 2018 at Live Arts. Spradlin's ever transforming work begins in the cyclical exploration of form. The dancers move from a personal "cellular" state of embodiment - the ground for their complex decision-making - toward new levels of need and risk as a different intimacy develops with inevitable change. The work explores revelation in its pressurized glimpse of the world.

JANUARY 5, 5:00 PM
Live Arts Studio
YANIRA CASTRO | a canary torsi: Last Audience (Work-in-Progress)
The newest work from Bessie-award winning collaborative group, a canary torsi, comes Last Audience--an immersive performance installation that invites audience members to embody the piece. Reminiscent of a traditional requiem mass experience, the audience goes through the greetings and processions that lead to requests for mercy, peace, and liberation as an instigator for participatory movement and sound.

January 5, 6:00 PM
New York Live Arts Theater
Jennifer Nugent & Paul Matteson: another piece apart
Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson, both Bessie Award-winning performers and former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company dancers (2008-2014), are known for their phenomenal partnering work, creating duets that are intense, forceful, and passionate. Their latest duet, another piece apart, reflects on a history of a fractured togetherness and blurred boundaries. The multi-focused movement fluxes in and out of knotted touch.

JANUARY 5, 7:00 PM
Live Arts Studio
KIMBERLY BARTOSIK / daela: I hunger for you (Excerpt)
Set in an atmosphere of light and absence, I hunger for you is comprised of five dancers looking deeply into feelings of impulsiveness, ecstasy, ritual, and desire as they ride the edge of controlled abandon and vibrating stillness. This new evening length work is a meditation on faith and the collective desire for transformation through the artistry of Kimberly Bartosik and longtime lighting designer Roderick Murray.

JANUARY 6, 12:00 PM (noon)
Live Arts Studio
SEAN DORSEY DANCE: BOYS IN TROUBLE (Excerpt)
Sean Dorsey's timely and urgent commentary on black queer love, issues arounds whiteness, and perspectives of Trans and LGBTQ empowerment, come together through BOYS IN TROUBLE. Recognized as the nation's first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, Sean Dorsey's ability to stay in conversation with toxic masculinity, the trans revolution, Black Lives Matter, #metoo, and increasing attacks on trans bodies and civil liberties manifest in his latest work.

JANUARY 6, 2:00 PM
Live Arts Studio
MOLLY LIEBER & Eleanor Smith: Body Comes Apart (Work-in-Progress)
Continuing their 10 year collaboration of making abstract work that responds to trauma, Lieber and Smith challenge perceptions of female identity by exploring the multiplicities of joy, pain, and suffering. Body Comes Apart is a declaration of love, commitment, catharsis, and rage, as the two negotiate the foundations of movement, imagination, and touch. Lieber and Smith have fostered a trust, comfort, and vulnerability with each other that allows them to confront head-on topics such as rape and the healing that comes after.

JANUARY 6, 5:00 PM
Live Arts Studio
Kyle Marshall CHOREOGRAPHY: Colored (Work-in-Progress)
Recipient of the 2018 Juried Bessie Award, Kyle Marshall joins forces with Dare Ayorinde, and Myssi Robinson to navigate the nuances and twisted spectrum of the black identity. All coming from varied backgrounds, the trio takes on conversations prevalent to the black community: tokenism, appropriation, stereotyping, and representation. With original music from Matt Clegg, Colored is a celebration of cultural variation rarely given to those underrepresented.

JANUARY 6, 5:30 PM
Live Arts Theater
MARJANI FORTÉ-SAUNDERS: Memoirs....of a Unicorn
Of her piece that premiered at Live Arts in 2018 in collaboration with American Realness and received two 2018 Bessie Dance and Performance Wards, Marjani Forté-Saunders says : "My Father's story allows me to burrow into my lineage, to ritualistically remember, interrogate, and relish in the celestial ecliptic journeys of folks identifying with-and building legacies within-the spectrums of blackness, maleness, and womb-ness." Anchored by a solo performed in a non-linear installation, Forté-Saunders shares stories of her Father's life that lead to thoughts on lineage, alchemy, and unabated love - an unearthing and exploration of Black American magic and resilience.

JANUARY 6, 7:00 PM & JANUARY 7, 2:00 PM
Live Arts Studio
ABBY Z AND THE NEW UTILITY: Radioactive Practice (Work-in-Progress)
The ensemble work of Abby Zbikowski's company, Abby Z and the New Utility, share their newest creation developed from their rigorous physical practice and boundless mental capacities. Drawing on distinct histories in hip-hop, modern dance, West African, Tap, synchronized swimming, ice skating, and House, the corps explores the conflicts and possibilities created from aesthetic and cultural collisions in order to address questions of cultural bias and misunderstanding through form. Abby Z and the New Utility are made up artists from the United States to Senegal to Taiwan, and the unique physical history and knowledge of the artists are brought to the forefront in Radioactive Practice, which will have it's full premiere at Live Arts in 2020.

JANUARY 7, 12:00 PM (noon)
Live Arts Studio
LAKAÏ DANCE THEATRE: The Block: An Afro-Musical (Excerpt)
Founded by McKersin Previlus , Lakaï Dance Theatre showcases The Block: An Afro-Musical with influences of Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Afro-Diasporic styles. As the street becomes a stage for self-reflection, spoken word and musical stories share the realities of an inner city life, including toxic masculinity, racial profiling, and violence.

JANUARY 7, 7:00 PM
Live Arts Studio
NETTA YERUSHALMY: Paramodernities (Installments)
Nerushalmy's acclaimed Paramodernities series returns to Live Artery with a showing of three full installments (85 minutes. Open to presenters only). In this unique project, iconic modern choreographies are deconstructed and performed alongside contributions by scholars and writers who explore foundational tenets of modern discourse, such as sovereignty, race, feminism, and disability. One installment uses Alvin Ailey's "Revelation" to examine coercion as concept and embodiment, another positions Vaslav Nijinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" as a political turning point, the third reflects on Bob Fosse's "Sweet Charity" through the lens of taste intertwined with sex and spectacle.

JANUARY 7, 10:00 PM & JANUARY 8-12 AT 8:00 PM
Live Arts Theater
Jack Ferver: Everything Is Imaginable
Commissioned and presented by Live Arts in the 2017-2018 season and remounted in collaboration with American Realness, Everything Is Imaginable, is an evening-length interdisciplinary performance work examining and juxtaposing the lives and technical virtuosity of its queer performers. In turns manic and poetic, the work problematizes ideas of genre, sexuality, success, and friendship, destabilizing the regulations and social codes that are always at play, both in the theater and in life.

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At the center of its identity is Artistic Director Bill T. Jones, world-renowned choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer. 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 the NYC creative community. 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 that can be combined into one large studio. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of artists and commissions.