Saturday: 1/10/2009
Monica Bill Barnes & Company
5:00-5:20pm and 8:30-8:50pm
Monica Bill Barnes is a New York based choreographer and performer whose work has inspired the New York Times’ Jennifer Dunning to say, [hers is] “the kind of humor-not a snicker in sight-that is in woefully short supply in dance these days” and [she is] “a master of the dance equivalent of a sly guffaw blends sadness and hilarity.” Monica Bill Barnes & Company was founded in 1997 and in that time, Barnes has created twelve evening-length dance works, numerous site-specific events and several cabaret numbers with her group. The company has been produced in over twenty venues in New York City including Danspace Project, Joe’s Pub (DancemOpolitan Series), Symphony Space, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancenow/The Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church and La Mama. Her work has been presented in 30 cities throughout the United States and aboard. For more information, please visit the website, www.monicabillbarnes.com.
Title of work: I Feel Like
Choreography by: Monica Bill Barnes
Description of work:
Interlaced with allusions to absurdity
and high drama, I Feel Like places three performers Anna Bass, Monica Bill Barnes and Deborah Lohse in outrageous and vulnerable situations and is set to the music of Bach and James Brown.
Contact Info/website:
www.monicabillbarnes.com
Jenni Hong Dance
Jenni Hong, made in Taiwan, is a choreographer, performer and improviser.
Influenced by contact improvisation and her experiences growing up in Taiwan and New York City, Jenni creates physical and theatrical work that seeks to peel the layers of artifice to reveal what lies beneath.
Her choreography has been presented in Taiwan, Italy and the United States. In New York City, Jenni’s work has been seen at DanceNow/NYC, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought, Joyce SoHo, Dance Space Center/Dance New Amsterdam, The Puffin Room, RAW Material at DNA and Tisch School of the Arts/New York University.
Jenni also dances with DELIRIOUS DANCES/Edisa Weeks, and Erica Essner Performance Co-Op.
From 2004 - 2008, Jenni taught Yoga and movement awareness classes to survivors of domestic violence in New York City and was a guest teacher at Tisch/NYU as part of the Artist in Residency Festival with Gina Gibney.
Jenni graduated cum laude from Clark University and received her MA in psychology from Columbia University.
Title of work: No Rice
Choreography by: Jenni Hong
Description of work:
No Rice takes on the various definitions of “rice” and spits them back out in a quirky dance essay that examines what happens when one loses a key component in life such as rice, or a sense of self.
Contact info:
hongjenni@aol.com
Isabel Gotzkowsky & Friends
5:40-6:00pm and 9:10-9:30pm
Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends (IGaF), formed in 1998 by artistic director Isabel Gotzkowsky, has to date presented six New York City seasons as well as shared productions with IGaF company members in NYC and Canada. Additionally IGaF has performed in numerous productions and festivals in New York and around the U.S, such as Connecticut, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia.
Internationally, the company has been featured in Europe, Canada and Mexico.
Title of work: Circumstancial Affinities (excerpt) and The Fusion Project (excerpt)
Choreography by: Isabel Gotzkowsky
Description of work:
1. Circumstancial Affinities (excerpt) - 2 short duets
Live Music Performed by Basso Moderno Duo (www.solobass.org)
2. The Fusion Project (excerpt) - one short duet, one trio
Live Music Performed by Basso Moderno Duo (www.solobass.org)
Contact info/Website:
isabel@isabelgo.org
http://www.isabelgo.org/
Adele Myers and Dancers
6:00-6:20pm and 9:30-9:50pm
Adele Myers and Dancers, founded in 2000, is a five-member contemporary dance company combinding robust athleticism, theatricality, and social commentary. Myers’ choreography has been presented nationally including Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Tanglewood Music Center; 12-Minutes Max/On The Boards and the Velocity Dance Center in Seattle; New Havan International Festival of Arts and Ideas; and DanceNow, Dance New Amsterdam and Joyce SoHo in New York City. The repertoire has been perfomed in a variety of venues ranging from intimate art gallery spaces and black box theaters to larger outdoor venues and proscenium stages. In addition to performing the company offers customized “Community in Motion” workshops and residencies for movers at all levels. Adele Myers and Dancers has received support from the State of Connecticut, the LEF Foundation, NEFA’s RDDI series, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). The company was recently selected to be a Artist-In-Residence at the Dance New Amsterdam Theater in June 2009.
Title of work: Is That All There Is
Choreography by: Adele Myers
Description of work: Accompanied by popular iconic songs of Dolly Parton and Peggy Lee among others, Is That All There Is, is a humorous and at times unsettling narrative about the underbelly of modern motherhood.
Contact info/Website:
info@adelemyersanddancers.com
http://www.adelemyersanddancers.com/
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Barbara Mahler/Dances
6:20-6:40pm/9:50-10:10pm
photo by Julie Lemberger
BARBARA MAHLER, formerly of the Klein/Mahler School of Dance and Movement Studies, is a widely respected dance innovator, very active in the development of post modern dance technique. A Master teacher in Klein Technique she has taught daily class for 30years, educating a generation of performers and choreographers. She received her BA in dance from Hunter College, NYC, under the tutelage of Dorothy Vislocky. Barbara has had her work presented at many festivals and venues across the nation, as well as in Canada and Europe. She has danced with many renowned choreographers, but has primarily pursued her own choreographic vision and passion. She draws upon her life experiences and artistic exposures to create moving solo and small group dances of clarity and design for herself and other artists. Recent commissioned dances were for UnderFoot Dance (NYC), Janet Oxley (funded by the Council des Artes et des Lettres du Quebec, and work commissioned by the School for Contemporary Dance in Copenhagen, Denmark (2000) Hunter College) NYC, (2005) and Ohio State University Summer Dance Festival (2008). Recent solo performances took place in Berlin, Puebla, Mexico, Seattle (Improvisational Dance Festival), La Mama (Dancing Divas), DNA in NYC and a shared evening at the Judson Church as part of the Movement Research Presenting Series. In February Barbara will share an evening of Dance (SHORTS) with Gerald Otte, sponsored by the Hunter College Dance Department February 19-21, and will present a solo as part of the New Dance Alliance’s Annual Festival of Performance Arts (Joyce SoHo, NYC). Barbara has been a recipient of the Sage Cowles Land Grant Guest Artist (University of Minnesota), and was a Movement Research Artist in Residence for the 2000-01 and 2006-08 seasons., Barbara holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and is on the advisory board at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. A movement consultant at Hunter College, NYC, she also maintains a private practice in movement therapy and bodywork as a certified practitioner and teacher of Zero Balancing.
Title of work: Where have I been and Shorts (excerpt)
Choreography by: Barbara Mahler
Description of work:
Where have I been, a solo choreographed and performed by me, Barbara Mahler, incorporates intimate and intricately timed movement, limited in space by a stool, typewriter table, and a small square boxed in space, juxtaposed with video clips of traveling, places, movements, dreams and possibilities. - A section from a series of short and small dances.I invite you to embark on continuing development of Shorts on Saturday January 10 at Dance New Amsterdam as part of the APAP showings. I will be joined by the beautiful Cara Heerdt and Jessica Winograd. Still an ongoing, rough, presentation of new work. Music includes the singing voices of Bob Dylan and Edith Piaf, among others, created and supported in part by Movement Research, the Ohio State Dance Festival ‘08, and the Hunter College alumni space grant program.
Contact info/Website
barbmahler@aol.com
http://www.barbaramahler.com/
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Erica Essner Performance Co-Op
6:40-7:00pm and 10:10-10:30pm
Erica Essner Performance Co-Op
Now celebrating its 18th year, the Erica Essner Performance Co-Op incorporates a physical narrative into its intense and compelling work, creating dance that is both heartfelt and architecturally refined. Intricacy, high-flying partnering and expressionism all define the company. Essner’s work has been described by the San Francisco Examiner as “exceptional…all the drama of story and character while putting movement at center stage” and also by the Oakland Tribune as “aware of both the delicacy of order and the tug of chaos.” The current company of six grew out of the California-based Erica Essner Performance Co-Op, which was founded in 1990 in San Francisco and enjoyed a decade of performing, teaching and touring in the Bay Area. Since relocation to NYC in 2000, the Company is still going strong in New York, with significant recent achievements, these include performances at Central Park SummerStage and Jacob’s Pillow, Alsaka Dance Theater, residencies in Rio de Janerio, the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center and The Bessie Schonberg Chorerographers residency at The Yard in Chilmark MA. The company dancers include: Courtney Drasner, Akiko Furukawa, Jenni Hong, Josh Palmer, Hannah Seidel and Paul Singh.
Title of work: MOON UPRISING (excerpt) and
YOU GO, I GO 2007 (excerpt)
Choreography by: Erica Essner
Description of work:
Moon Uprising is an evening-length dance based on the change of season; the elements are defined in this new sextet with intricate partnering performed to live mibira and analog electronics by new exploratory world music composer Miguel Frasconi.
Contact info/Website:
essner@eecop.org
http://www.eecop.org/
