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Participating artists include David Or (3D scenery production manager and programmer), Robert Ramirez (OGRE 3D engine manager and programmer), Joshua Goldberg (Max/MSP/Jitter expert, interactive software programmer, and performer), Geoff Matters (music composer, media advisor, and programmer), Melissa Guerrero (dancer and live processing coach), Koosil-ja (dance, music, song, story, and media direction), and Janelle Miau, Seun Shogunro, Alex Kao, Peter Blanco, Fabio Corredor, and Kara Frame (3D modelers).
Blocks of Continuality will be commissioned and presented at Dance Theater Workshop (New York, NY) in March (to be confirmed) of 2010, and will tour to and Florida State University Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL) in November 2009 and Columbia College The Dance Center Chicago (Chicago, IL) in February 2010.
Florida State University’s Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography from October 25 to November 7, 2009.
*Columbia College Chicago from February 14 to 21st 2010
*Dance Theater Workshop NYC from March 3rd to 5th 2010
Funding Credit:
National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Department of Cultural Affair, American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, MAP Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Japan Foundation, New York State Council on the arts and Asian Cultural Council.
This piece is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop's Commissioning and Creative Residency program with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.
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***Info about May 09 performance:
koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO invites you to work-in-progress performance, workshop, and HANG OUT (a social environment for you and artists in the project).
Location for All Events: LMCC Swing Space at 14 Wall Street, Just off Broadway (between Broadway and Nassau), NYC
Link to a map for 14 Wall St, New York, NY 10005:
Admission for all events: FREE
MUST: RSVP by email: performance@dancekk.com
Dates and Times: See below
All events are made possible by New York State Department of Cultural Affair, and Swing Space, a program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, generously supported by the September 11th Fund. Project space is donated by Capstone Equities.
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Information about PERFORMANCE
Dance by: Melissa Guerrero & Ava Heller
Music by: Geoff Matters
Concept and video for movement by: Koosil-ja
Date:
Tuesday, May 12th
Wednesday, May 13th
Thursday, May 14th
Friday, May 15th
Saturday, May 16th
Time:
2 performances per night
7pm and 8:45pm
Duration: Less than an hour
Note: The space is located at a former bank vault of a fancy office building. It is a very raw space. There is no theatrical light. You will see the work by itself. Seating is extremely limited. Please RSVP by email at performance@dancekk.com.
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Information about WORKSHOP for Live Processing (a performance technique using video movement sources to create movement for dancers)
Date: Sunday, May 17th
Time: From 1pm to 5pm
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Information about HANG OUT (a social environment for all of you and artists in the project)
Date: Sunday, May 17th
Time: From 6pm to LATE NIGHT
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In regard to something as big as the House of World Cultures it is bold to focus on the 'Smal'l. Andre Lepecki, dance theorist and curator of the performance program Nomadic New York has the Chutzpah, and borrowed the concept of Gilles Deleuze's 'Small' for the occasion. What that means is 'Pure Intensity' of expression before all meaning, a rootless use of language that was once regarded as revolutionary by Deleuze. The fact that the 23 New Yorker arts promulgators are being enobled, too, with the moniker of 'Intensity' by their curator, liberates them from having to be 'representative,' but only a few are 'revolutionary' in the aspect of the 'Small'.
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