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Ann Liv Young
The Sherry Truck
January 10-20, Various Times
ABRONS ARTS CENTER
466 Grand Street
Keep your eyes pealed for Ann Liv Young and The Sherry Truck, both of whom will be making appearances throughout the course of the festival. Festival-goers will be able to have one on one “Sherapy” sessions, pick up a pink latté and purchase one of a kind ALY memorabilia. Contact Sherry at Sherry@annlivyoung.com or +1.7SHERRYV12 to schedule a “Sherapy” appointment. Be sure to stop by!
The Bureau for the Future of Choreography
The Flowchart Project: Mapping a History of Contemporary Dance and Choreography
January 10-20, 2013
Gallery Hours Concurrent with festival performances
ABRONS ARTS CENTER CULPEPPER & UPPER MAIN GALLERIES
466 Grand Street
The Bureau for the Future of Choreography is an apparatus–striving for collective authorship–that produces choreographies and documents. Taking inspiration from MoMA Director Alfred Barr’s infamous 1935 Flowchart of Modernism and responses to his gesture, The Bureau initiates The Flowchart Project, an endeavor to collect Flowcharts of Contemporary Dance & Choreography.
What might a flowchart for contemporary dance look like? Where and when does your flowchart for contemporary dance start? Where does it end? What are your ideologies and how do you name them? What are your histories and how do you write them–especially those that have not been formally written?
Visitors to the 2013 American Realness Festival will be invited to participate in the authorship of a decade-to-decade timeline 1960-2020. Draw flowcharts and diagram, rearrange walls of historical signage and categorizations, silkscreen tee shirts and tote bags, rock out to DJ Historical Accumulation and participate in discussions. Festival-goers take the authorship of the histories, legacies and narratives of contemporary dance into their own hands in this participatory exhibition.
Juliana May
SHOW & TELL: Commentary=not thing
SUN JAN 13 . 1:30 PM
ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street
In this work-in-process showing, May will present the first 30 minutes of her newest evening length piece, which will premiere at New York Live Arts February 19-23, 2013. Commentary = not thing is commissioned by New York Live Arts
Part Steven Sondheim, part Kate Pierson from the 1990’s group The B52’s, the piece becomes a Modern dance opera. This “coexistence of dissimilars” demonstrates a severe compression of time as it aligns a range of singular genres, decades, geographies, emotions and viscera. These “dissimilars” create a jagged and illegible terrain that makes a case for abstraction and its ability to communicate the expressive possibility of the emotional body. This project will look specifically at the social emotions i.e. compassion, embarrassment, shame, guilt and contempt in an effort to prioritize a more attentive and often aggressive relationship to the naked body, the functions of the body and the genitals.
Commentary = not thing is commissioned by New York Live Arts and made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and by contributors to The Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning Fund at New York Live Arts. Additional support is given by New York StateDanceForce with support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Tere O’Connor
SHOW & TELL: poem
SUN JAN 13 . 11:30 AM
ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street
O’Connor will present poem which is the second work of a multi-year, multi-venue project that will collapse three finished dances into a fourth culminating work in 2013. Each work features a different cast and point of departure. This series amplifies O’Connor’s affinity for developing distinctly unrelated strains of material and placing them into complex relational networks that resist narrative resolution. poem marks a return for O’Connor to artifice, complexity, technique and craft as agents of consciousness and the subterranean poetics of choreography.
poem is commissioned by New York Live Arts and made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is given by contributors to the Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning Fund at New York Live Arts. The work is also made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust; The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Jennifer Monson
SHOW & TELL: Live Dancing Archive
SAT JAN 12 . 1:00 PM
ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street
Jennifer Monson/iLAND will share excerpts of performance and video from Live Dancing Archive, a visceral exploration of the dancing body as a physical archive of experience and place. Drawing from more than a decade of dance-based environmental research, Live Dancing Archive has been choreographed using material from video documentation of The BIRD BRAIN Osprey Migration (2002)—an 8-week dance project along the Atlantic Flyway—as well as improvised scores accumulated over the past decade. The project is accompanied by a video installation and digital archive. A brief discussion will follow the performance.
Live Dancing Archive is commissioned by The Kitchen and made possible with support from the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Additional support provided by a Creative Research Award from the University of Illinois of Urbana Champaign and the Marsh Professorship at Large from the University of Vermont.
Faye Driscoll
You’re Me
FRI JAN 18 . 7:00 PM
SAT JAN 19 . 9:00 PM
SUN JAN 20 . 4:00 PM
Run time: 1 hour 20 minutes
ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street
Faye Driscoll’s You’re Me considers how we are constantly made-up and un-done by each other. In this evening-length duet Driscoll probes and obfuscates the inescapable nature of relationship as the contemporary, archetypal, fantastical and personal crash into each other, bending and warping in one shrug, quarrel, or reframing of a scene. Imbued with the adrenaline of potentially dire consequences, You’re Me is a moving portrait of the impossible struggle to unhinge the palindromic loop of self and other.
With the constraint of just two performers on stage the whole time, Driscoll and performer Aaron Mattocks fight a sweaty, evocative, disturbing and deeply funny battle with the dualism they face; male/female, director/performer and performer/audience. They ask: What do you see when you see us on stage? How does our very desire to be more than we are transform us? How do our fantasies of ourselves and of each other create new possibilities for being, and yet give birth to friction, failure, and loss? You’re Me is a kind of tango with chaos and recurrence in which the performers attempt to simultaneously control and destroy the frame through which they are seen – all the while asking, “Am I getting it right?”
You’re Me has been co-commissioned by The Kitchen and The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. You’re Me has been created, in part, through a NEFA National Dance Project production grant, which ia generously supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. You’re Me has also been created in part through a Greenwall Foundation Grant, a Jerome Foundation Grant, and has been supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council through a residency at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, a Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography fellowship, and residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. You’re Me was developed in part at the Key City Public Theater, supported by Westaf’s TourWest grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tony Rizzi
An Attempt to Fail at Groundbreaking Theater by Pina Arcade Smith
FRI JAN 18 . 8:30 PM
SAT JAN 19 . 5:30 PM
SUN JAN 20 . 5:30 PM
Run time: 1 hour 40 minutes
ABRONS ARTS CENTER EXPERIMENTAL THEATER
466 Grand Street
An Attempt to Fail at Groundbreaking Theater… finds its main protagonists from pop culture and the dance world and places them in the underground New York performance art scene of the 80s. Performer Tony Rizzi takes on the triple roles of German dance icon Pina Bausch, performance art legend Penny Arcade and queer filmmaker Jack Smith, to take the audience on a roller coaster ride of catholic nuns, wisdom through dance, pornographic sex and our success-obsessed world. The work teeters on the brink of complete failure but with the help of the public, lights will work, costumes will be changed, texts understood and dance seen. Jack Smith said it best, “You have to be willing to be bad for 20 years in order to be great and even then, there is no guarantee.”
Mind Over Mirrors with Miguel Gutierrez
Storing the Winter
WED JAN 16 . 10:00 PM
THURS JAN 17 . 7:00 PM
FRI JAN 18 . 10:30 PM
Run time: 60 minutes
ABRONS ARTS CENTER UNDERGROUND THEATER
466 Grand Street
Miguel Gutierrez and Jaime Fennelly (aka Mind Over Mirrors) met in the pine forests of the American South in summer of 2001. Taking refuge in the top story of a run down Bushwick, Brooklyn warehouse that Fall, they sonically and viscerally hammered away for the next four years at the mountains of detritus that had been left there before them, sculpting their own assemblage of self-sabotage actions up and down the Eastern seaboard and Europe. Eight years gone, reconfigured with their collective shovel dug deep, they are Storing the Winter.
Mind Over Mirrors is the solitary reeling of American harmoniumist/electronicist Jaime Fennelly. Fennelly began developing Mind Over Mirrors when he moved from Bushwick/Brooklyn, NY to a remote island in the Salish Sea of Washington State from 2007 – 2010. Utilizing an Indian pedal harmonium, oscillators, tape delays, and an assortment of synthesizing processors, Fennelly bends slowly-building, repetitive melodies into massive sonic mountains, and as XXJFG eulogized, sounds “like some drum-less-techno titan stalking the sand blasted bazaars of a near-future, eastern city.” His third and most recent album “Check Your Swing” was released on French imprint, Hands in the Dark Records, this past fall, with previous releases on Digitalis and Aguirre Records.
Chris Cochrane, Jassem Hindi, Jen Rosenblit & Enrico D. Wey
… or and animal…
New York Premiere
MON JAN 14 . 10:00 PM
TUES JAN 15 . 10:00PM
Run time: 50 minutes
ABRONS ARTS CENTER UNDERGROUND THEATER
466 Grand Street
For … or and animal… musicians Chris Cochrane and Jassem Hindi come together with dancers Jen Rosenblit and Enrico D. Wey for an evening of improvised performance. Four people, multiple identities. How do we sense this, or not? For example: thinking of Pasolini, simultaneously a communist, a catholic and a homosexual. How did he make sense of these conflicting idea(l)s? Were they conflicting? Were there commonalities? Ecstatic and/or linguistic actions? Traditions and rituals? New constructs? What was expressed? What wasn’t? This evening holds similar uncertainties to be revealed through their action. With as little sentiment as possible, as if a wet stick with some mud…
Body Cartography Project with Zeena Parkins
Super Nature
New York Premiere
MON JAN 14 . 8:30 PM
TUES JAN 15 . 8:30 PM
WED JAN 16 . 8:30 PM
THURS JAN 16 . 8:30 PM
Run time: 1 hour 15 minutes
ABRONS ARTS CENTER PLAYHOUSE
466 Grand Street
Born out of the restless imaginations of Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad, this radical ecological melodrama is replete with artifice and animal appetites. The dance/performance/installation duo engages the wild and civilized aspects of human nature with idiosyncratic movement drawn from bodily impulses and social interactions. Bessie Award–winning composer Zeena Parkins performs a live score within a scenic installation by visual artist Emmett Ramstad.