Billy Cowie Retrospective Held at Baryshnikov Arts Center

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), in collaboration with Dance Films Association (DFA), brings to New York for the first time, the master illusionist Billy Cowie for his 3-D video installation. Featured will be: MEN IN THE WALL (seen above), a four-screen stereoscopic screen dance, GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE, and TANGO DE SOLEDAD. 3D glasses allow the viewer to enter the multi-cultural world (MEN IN THE WALL) of four men whose shared framed lives reveal a public quartet of private differences. Presented as a focal point of DFA's 39th Dance on Camera Festival co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Movement Research, Beacon School, and The Big Screen Project, the Billy Cowie Retrospective will be presented at:

Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Studio 6B.
January 25-February 1. Free. 1-6pm viewing.
Lecture/Reception January 26, 6-8pm
Billy Cowie will perform a lecture entitled "Hi Jinx," an homage to Heidi Dzinkowska, the seminal early 20th-century dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. A cheeky take on the creation of mythologies, personal gurus and the history of art.

Award-winning Scottish video artist/composer Billy Cowie creates a delightfully amusing montage that beguiles as it inspires. In collaboration with Liz Aggiss he has completed over 20 performance pieces for Divas Dance Theatre, and five BBC commissions 'Beethoven in Love' and 'Motion Control'; ACE Capture projects 'Anarchic Variations', 'Men in the Wall' and 'Doppelgänger'; and 'Break', a Channel 4 commission. In 2006, Routledge published his book "Anarchic Dance."

DFA is partnering for the first time with BAC, which was established in 2005 to house the core activities of the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, incorporated in 1979 by Mikhail Baryshnikov. BAC serves as a creative laboratory, meeting place, and performance space for a vibrant community of artists from around the world. BAC is also dedicated to building audiences for the arts by presenting contemporary, innovative work at low or no cost to to the public. Located in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, BAC comprises four large column-free studios, a studio theater, and office space. The mission of BAC, emphasizes multi-disciplinary work, emerging talent, and International Artists who might not otherwise have the opportunity to perform in the United States.