TPAC to Feature Artists-in-Residence in 2013 Work & Show Festival, Beg. 6/6

In its 17th (and final) season, the BMCC Tribeca PAC's Artists-in-Residence (AIR) hallmark program enables four to eight emerging and established artists-writers, dancers, and composers-to create and develop new work over the course of one year. We are celebrating this tremendous program with a final presentation that is indicative of the cutting-edge work this program has strived to present. The artists have been chosen by a panel of established performing arts professionals from some of the city's highest regarded organizations such as LaMama, Here ARTS, Abrams Arts Center, The New York State Council on the Arts, River to River, and Dance New Amsterdam. The artistic disciplines the artists come form are dance, multimedia, music, and theater.

This seasons Work & Show Festival features 5 of the eight Artists-in-Residence at Tribeca PAC. These artists represent the cutting edge of artististic expression and innovation. It will feature Luke Murphy, arguably one of the top male dancers and choreographers in the world, Purring Tiger with their unique blending of dance, technology and music, James Scruggs' fearless writing and performance in a one man reading, Yara Travasio and Jerome Begin, creators of modern operas and newly commissioned by the Miami Opera Company, and finally Tze Chun and Oren Barnoy, bringing their choreographic magic to round out the festival.

Performances run from Wednesday, June 6 through Sunday, June 17 at 7:30PM. Tickets range from free to $10 for each of the performances. Tickets can be purchased by calling Ticketing Services at 212-220-1460 or by visiting Tribeca PAC's box office at 199 Chambers Street (Tues-Sat, Noon - 6PM).

MIZARU by Purring Tiger (Dance)
Thursday & Friday, June 6 & 7 at 7:30PM, $10

Choreographer: Kiori Kawai
Composer: Aaron Sherwood
New media artists: Aaron Sherwood, Mike Allison, Johann Diedrick
Performers: Kiori Kawai, Masanori Asahara, Marjolayne Auger, Kanako Yokota, Emi Ueda, Hsiao-Wei, Hsiao-Ting, Prema Kelley, Laurence Martin, Tia Huston, Sammy Donahue, Kashimi Asai, Pavel Y. Machuca-Zavarzin, Ayaka Habata, Suzanne Beahrs, Lauren Kelly, Shandoah Goldman, Arisa Kusumi, Peter Musante

MIZARU is a dance performance with interactive multimedia and live music, exploring life and death, technology and the human body. The border between life and death exists everywhere. This border is happening every moment, we just do not realize it. It's hidden and decorated by many things.The title MIZARU is the name of one of the three wise monkeys in Japanese Culture, Mizaru Kikazaru Iwazaru , better known in English as See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil. The literal translation of Mizaru is "not to see."

This piece made possible in part with funding from Huawei, the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and the Puffin Foundation.

Purring Tiger is a multi-cultural, multimedia, experimental performance group dedicated to bringing people together in the context of Art, in a subtext of Wonder. Consisting primarily of Japanese choreographer Kiori Kawai, and American composer and multimedia programmer Aaron Sherwood, Purring Tiger uses technology to intertwine the human body with sounds and visuals, and foster interaction. http://purringt.com/

Kiori Kawai is a 1999 graduate of the Osaka University of Arts, specializing in Musical Theatre & Contemporary Performance. Since her arrival to NYC in 2001, Kiori has had the professional pleasure of working with artists such as Skymusic Inc., Elaine Summers Dance, Pauline Oliveros, Azul Dance Theatre, H.T. Chen Dance Company, Human Kinetics Movement Arts, and many more. Kiori has performed as an artist for dance performances at many places, including Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lamama Theatre, University at Buffalo, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art as well as touring internationally. http://kiorikawai.com/

Aaron Sherwood has devoted his energy to music for over 25 years. Coming up as a jazz musician in New York City, he performed in many different bands, spanning many different genres, and with artists such as George Garzone, Charlie Persip, Taylor McFerrin, and Matthew Miller (Matisyahu). As a composer he has written for film, stage and dance. Currently, he does production work for Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and creates interactive multi-media art.http://aaronsherwood.wordpress.com/

ICARUS by Luke Murphy (Dance)
Saturday, June 8 7:30PM and Sunday, June 9 at 4PM $10

Choreographed and Directed by Luke Murphy
Performed by Phil Atkins, Peter Chamberlin, Leslie Kraus and Luke Murphy

In this dynamic new re-imagining of the Greek tale, Icarus finds himself at breaking point. In his last moments there is nothing left but the dangerous game of pride, regret and denial as he looks back on choices he made to work out where it all went wrong. This haunting dance theatre work takes the audience through a labyrinth of ambition, memory and reinvention examining the needs that drive us and the malevolent potential of our own ego.

Originally from Cork City, Ireland, Luke Murphy is a performer and choreographer based between New York City and Ireland. Luke has performed with Punchdrunk in productions of 'Sleep No More' in Boston ('09-'10) and New York ('11-'12), with Martha Clarke in 'Angel Reapers' ('10-'11) with Kate Weare Company, Pavel Zustiak's Palissimo Company and in projects with Jonah Bokaer, John Kelly, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Sean Curran. His own work has been presented throughout New York, Ireland and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and supported through commissions and residencies from Arts Council of Ireland (Dance Project Awards 2013 and 2013), CultureIreland, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Duo Multicultural Arts Center, DanceIreland, University of Limerick, Dance New Amsterdam and Dragon's Egg. His first work at TPAC Drenched, premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2012 and will make its NYC premiere at the Lamama Moves Festival in July 2013, his current project Icarus is due to premiere at the Cork Midsummer Festival June 28-30 2013. www.lukemurphy.org

*Double Bill (Dance):
TRANSMIT by Tze Chun Dance Company
SEARCH DANCE by Oran Barnoy
Thursday & Friday, June 13 & 14 at 7:30PM, $10

TRANSMIT
Created by Tze Chun
Original Music by Ithai Benjamin
Performed by Mistral Hay and Mary Remy
TRANSMIT examines past notions of clarity and enlightenment in relation to our current ratio of signal to noise.

SEARCH DANCE
A full bodied energetic dance performance with three dancers. It is the culmination of research on satisfaction in dance and how to attain it. Using satisfaction as a premise while drawing self-portraits and then dancing the self-portraits, writing descriptions of these dances and dancing these narratives, meanwhile asking ourselves how we can become choreography while questioning our decision making process to construct a performance.

KWAIDAN by Yara Travieso & Jerome Begin (Multimedia)
Saturday & Sunday, June 15 & 16, at 7:30PM and 8:30PM $10

A Multimedia-Dance-Cine-Horror-Opera-Installation
Composer: Jerome Begin; Director, Choreographer and Video Artist: Yara Travieso
Installation Designer: Chat Travieso

Featuring: Dancer, Carlye Eckert | Dancer, Element | Mezzo-Soprano, Lisa Komara | Baritone, David Giuliano
Additional Credits:
Director of Photography, Pamela Giaroli
Director of Photography, Darren Hoffman
Technical Director, William Fastenow
Costume Designer, Ingrid Travieso for MANDRA designs
Set Engineer, Nicholas Lazzaro

KWAIDAN is a Multimedia-Dance-Cine-Horror-Opera-Installation. The libretto derives from ancient Japanese horror stories collected and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Through a cross-pollination of live performance, cinema, architecture, music and underground East Brooklyn Flex dance, KWAIDAN creates disorienting environments that reflect and trigger the foreignness that lies within. Housed in a 360? installation where audience and performers coexist on stage, the theater is turned inside out and transformed into a place for highly personal encounters with the singers, dancers and the expansive, surrounding cinematic video projections. In this all-encompassing environment, audience and artists dive together into our shared experience of uncertainty, fear, and pleasure of the unknown.

This opera is forged through the collaboration of composer Jerome Begin, director, choreographer and video artist, Yara Travieso, and installation artist Chat Travieso.

YARA TRAVIESO: Ms. Travieso is a choreographer, director and video artist noted for her cinematic approach to multimedia productions and installations. Travieso is based in Brooklyn, NY and was born to Cuban and Venezuelan parents in Miami FL. Her recent full-length works were presented in NYC's Lincoln Center and Miami's New World Symphony Center. Her video/installation pieces have been presented in NYC's New Museum, Dorsch Gallery, Flomenhaft Gallery and reside in international collections. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School and is a guest artist with the Metropolitan Opera. Chosen as the 2012-13 artist in residence with the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in NYC, Travieso is currently developing an original operatic installation, Kwaidan, with brother, Chat Travieso and composer, Jerome Begin to premiere June 2013. Travieso has received the first ever Stepping Grounds Artist in Residence Award taking place in Netherlands' Korzo Theater this July 2013 where she will continue to develop Kwaidan. Currently a collaborating artist with the Streaming Museum, Travieso will create a long-term video project in NYC. A 2005 YoungArts winner in both dance and choreography, she is the recipient of an individual artist sponsorship from Kodak Films, the 2010 Bessie Schonberg International Choreographic Residency, NYC's Imagine Science Film Festival Residency, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Winner for the Borscht Film Festival (co-founder). Travieso is also engaged in giving lectures and workshops with institutions such as The Juilliard School, Fordham University, and The YoungArts Organization.

JEROME BEGIN: Called a "fabulous composer-pianist" and an "unimpeachable" choice of collaborator by the New York Times, Jerome Begin has composed many scores for dance and theatre, concert works, installation and film. Equally at home in the classical, experimental, theatrical and pop worlds, he has always been drawn to collaboration. Begin takes from classical music concepts of form, process and compositional rigor. From experimental electronic and acoustic music he draws on ideas of sonic expansion and innovation in the ways musicians connect in time and sonic texture. In pop music, he is strongly attracted to the power of rhythm and sound over the body, as well as the ability of the "hook" to resonate within the consciousness of individuals and masses. His recent works have incorporated extensive use of electronics to process and augment the sound of acoustic instruments, employing customizable touch screen interfaces which allow him to "play" the effects live. Through this technology, the electronics function in a dynamic, musical way as part of the ensemble.

Begin's works have been performed throughout the country and internationally, including a performance of his score for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors. Commissions include works for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Juilliard School, Keigwin + Company, Gallim Dance and many other dance companies. In 2011 his music was featured on the PBS American Masters series in the documentary A Good Man, about the making of a Bill T. Jones work. Recent projects include collaborations with director/choreographer Yara Travieso for gallery installation, dance, and video works. The pair are currently at work crafting Kwaidan, a large scale opera installation. Other current projects include scoring a documentary about Brooklyn street "Flex" dancers entitled "Flex is Kings" and recording an album with his synth/cello duo band Tranimal. Jerome serves as Music Director of The Juilliard School Dance Division.

A VOLUPTUARY LIFE by James Scruggs (Theater)
Mondays, June 17 at 7:30PM, FREE

Written and Performed by James Scruggs
Directed by Mark Rayment

Just like breathing to survive,
when one approaches a certain age,
one gathers all their essential
stories to pass them on to someone who cares.
Unfortunately not everyone has someone who cares,
yet the process,
almost biological,
must occur.

James Scruggs was awarded a grant from Franklin Furnace in August 2002. In March 2003, he became an Artist-in-Residence at HERE Arts Center. Disposable Men, his solo performance piece, was originally produced by HERE, and he received a NJSCA grant for artistic excellence in 2005. In September of 2005, he was awarded the first ever NY IT award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Disposable Men. In February 2006, he was a resident artist with Mabou Mines. In March 2007, Disposable Men completed a four city tour, to Seven Stages in Atlanta, Perishable in Providence, New World Theater in Amherst, and the Painted Bride in Philadelphia. He premiered his mixed media play, RUSH, in 2008 at 3LD. In 2010, he had a reading of his work, Touchscape, at Harlem Stage's The Gratehouse, followed by a 3-week residency at The Baryshnikov Arts Center and a work in progress showing at Dixon Place. Tickets to Manhood was commissioned by Dixon Place to be performed at their Hot Festival in July 2011. He is a board member of The NY IT awards. He has a BFA in Film from the School of Visual Arts.

BMCC Tribeca PAC is Downtown Manhattan's premier presenter of the arts, reaching audiences from the college community, downtown residential and business communities, local schools, families, and audiences of all ages. BMCC Tribeca PAC strives to present a broad global perspective through the presentation of high-quality artistic work in music, theatre, dance, film and visual arts. BMCC Tribeca PAC is located on the Borough of Manhattan Community College campus, 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich Avenue & West Street) and is convenient to the 2/3, A/C/E and R subway lines and the New Jersey Path Train. For more information please visit our website, www.tribecapac.org.

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