New York Live Arts Sets Fresh Tracks 2014-15

New York Live Arts today announced the seven artists selected for the 2014-15 Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program. The 2014-15 Fresh Tracks artists are Same As Sister (S.A.S.)/Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown, Nico Brown, He Jin Jang, Niall Jones, Julie Mayo and Lindsay Reuter. These artists will present their works in the Fresh Tracks performance showcase, January 29 - 31, 2015, at 7:30pm.

This year's Fresh Tracks performance will include the following works: Same As Sister (S.A.S.)/Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown's Women Times Three, a collaboration with composer Beau Mullis and video artist Kit Tipley, splices together a collection of vivid imagery and delves into human nature's reliance on the inseparable bond between terror and horror to assert dominance over our own and others' psyches.

Nico Brown's Nation propels his evolving relationship to formalism into a place of repurposed virtuosity, rigor and unstated emotion, in which durations of stillness, repetitive sequencing and evolving relationships to linearity and verticality result in a fiercely sentimental journey through surfacing images and exhaustive physicality.

He Jin Jang's migrant-self the speed of a door, explores the perceptible and imperceptible timing within Jang's choreographic process, and examines the impact that Jang's travels between her birthplace of Seoul, Korea and other geographies has had on making time hybrid, fictional and acclimated.

Niall Jones' a pleasure, 2014 edition, is a dance work that engages the affective materiality of labor and desire on the body. The body (object and phantom) bespeaks a site where the erotics of presence collect at the edge of choreographic architectures.

Julie Mayo's Buoys for Escapees reveals the collision of internal experience with external environment, in which Mayo engages in overlapping movement, deconstructed language and an absurdist sense of humor towards an exploration of the ontological nature of performance, meta-consciousness, and the slipperiness of meaning making.

Good Evening, Strangers, a duet by Lindsay Reuter activates feeling, sequence, and support performed by siblings Dan and Lindsay Reuter.

The January showcase performance features new work by these seven emerging choreographers who were selected by an annual live audition. Each year six early career artists are selected by a panel of distinguished practitioners to receive comprehensive performance and residency support. The program begins with a showcase performance in New York Live Arts' Theater. Following the performance, each artist receives a commission fee and a 59-hour creative residency in the New York Live Arts studios for research and development of new work. Additionally, artists receive introductory level professional development workshops in marketing, fundraising and career development under the guidance of Artistic Advisor Ursula Eagly.

Established in 1965 by Dance Theater Workshop as the Studio Series program, the open call for emerging choreographers evolved into the Fresh Tracks program by 1984. This season's showcase marks the 50th anniversary of this signature program supporting the work of early career artists. Fresh Tracks has launched the careers of nearly 500 artists spanning a wide range of aesthetics and backgrounds. Previous Fresh Tracks artists include: Jeff Duncan (1965), Deborah Jowitt (1968), Wendy Perron (1970), Alice Teirstein (1974), Bill T. Jones (1977), Bebe Miller (1978) Elizabeth Streb (1979), Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (1982), Tere O'Connor (1984), Amy Sue Rosen (1986), Ron Brown (1987), Reggie Wilson (1989), Yasuko Yokoshi (1998), RoseAnne Spradlin (1994), Rosane Chamecki (1991), Maura Nguyen Donohue (1995), Ivy Baldwin (2000), luciana achugar with Levi Gonzalez (2002) and more recently Jen Rosenblit (2009), Vanessa Anspaugh (2010) and niv Acosta (2011).

Support for Fresh Tracks is provided, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Performances will take place at New York Live Arts' Theater. A Come Early Conversation will precede Thursday's show (see complete schedule below). Tickets are $10. Tickets may be purchased online at newyorklivearts/season, by phone at 212-924-0077 and in person at the box office. Box office hours are Monday to Friday from 1 to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 9pm.