RAW Directions

February 11-13
Performance Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm
Ticket Prices: $17 ($12 members, $14 students, $10 RUSH tickets)
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In an effort to create more opportunities for artists at various stages of development, DNA’s RAW Material Series (established in 2000) now has a counterpart: RAW Directions. The new series, RAW Directions, will support the work of five emerging and mid-career choreographers with more than five years of choreographic experience in the field who wish to bring new work to a live audience, and to experiment with new ways of crafting their work. This season’s new direction pioneers include Jesse Phillips-Fein, Lawrence Goldhuber/BIGMANARTS, Stefanie Nelson, Katy Orthwein and independentdancemaker|Kara Tatelbaum.

*Opening Reception on Thursday, February 11th at 7:00pm
*A post-show discussion moderated by Aynsley Vandenbroucke will follow the Thursday, February 11 performance.

Jesse Phillips-Fein

Unbind it! (saddam hussein’s final poem)
Choreographed by Jesse Phillips-Fein
Performed by Rachel Lane, Marina Libel, and Gillian Vinton
Music mixed by Jesse Phillips-Fein: “Leave” by R.E.M., “Ready” by Tracy Chapman, “Ready to Die” by Notorious B.I.G., “I Wanna Be Ready,” “Destruction,” and “Lullaby” by Brett Lefferts, “God Will Knock You Down” by Johnny Cash
Costumes by Kate Cusack and Jesse Phillips-Fein
Lighting Design by Anna Adams Stark

Unbind it! is a response to the public execution of Saddam Hussein in 2006. This work questions the role of the American public in acts of violence committed by our government, while drawing parallels between Hussein and George W. Bush as war criminals and potential lovers. It asks, is there a time when sympathy is not appropriate? How do we face death with blood on our hands?

Photo by: Rebecca Barrett Stein

Lawrence Goldhuber/BIGMANARTS

TRELLIS (excerpt)
Work in Progress
Choreographed by Lawrence Goldhuber
Performed by Roy Fialkow, Lawrence Goldhuber, and Siri Petersen
Music by Skeeter Davis and Geoff Gersh
Set by Gregory L. Bain
Lighting Design by Amanda K. Ringger

A solo, a duet, a trio. Life is a garden.

This performance is made possible by DanceNOW [NYC] Silo, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council-Manhattan Community Arts Fund.

Photo by: Josh Gosfield

Stefanie Nelson

0112
World Premiere
Choreographed by Stefanie Nelson
Performed by Malinda Crump, Jeffrey Kent Jacobs, Ariel Lembeck, Matthew Oaks, Ali Schechter, Ariana Siegel, and Yin Yue
Music by Sahand Rahbar “0112” (original composition)
Costumes by Ashley Gardner
Lighting Design by Solomon Weisbard

0112 is a new work by choreographer Stefanie Nelson using a Fibonacci sequence of numbers up to #13 as the structural guide (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13 - each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers), to original music by Iranian composer Sahand Rahbar. These numbers were used to develop both the sequence for the movement material and to structure spatial patterns in this piece. The movement material was generated with a focus on physically vulnerable body parts, individual to each dancer’s personal experience.

Material for this work was developed while in residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
Stefanie Nelson’s 0112 is supported by residencies at the Far Space, the new 42nd Street Studios, with sponsorship by Fullsail University

Still from video by: Nell Breyer

Katy Orthwein

Clearing
World Premiere
Choreographed by Katy Orthwein
Performed by Jean Freebury, Katy Orthwein, and Derry Swan
Film by Janusz Jaworski
Score composed by Matthew Applebaum
Costumes by Mary McKenzie
Lighting Design by Asami Morita

This new work by choreographer Katy Orthwein explores the inner and outer impressions of space as experienced by three individuals. The work examines how they create and emerge into their own boundaries and edges and their attempt to experience new interactions and connections with each other. This work is a collaboration among artists: the embodiment of the movement vocabulary by dancers Jean Freebury, Derry Swan and Orthwein, the unique perspective of Janusz Jaworski through the medium of color and black & white super 8 film, an original score by Matthew Applebaum and costumes by Mary McKenzie.

This piece was created, in part, through a Creative Development Residency provided by Mount Tremper Arts.

Photo by: Janusz Jaworski

independentdancemaker|Kara Tatelbaum

Off Like a Prom Dress
Choreographed by Kara Tatelbaum
Performed by Adele Berne, Valton Jackson, Jessica Dixon Majka, Francheska Lopez, Colin Raybin, Andrew Smart, and Kara Tatelbaum
Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, “Piano Concerto in D Minor, Allegro ma non troppo,” performed by Zoltan Kocsis
Costumes by Kara Tatelbaum
Video Design by Shane DeBlasio
Lighting Design by Nikolaus Tsocanos

Off Like a Prom Dress is a theatrical dance piece inspired by the American prom. Performed against a backdrop of prom etiquette videos from the 1940’s and 1960’s and set to one of the most virtuosic piano concertos, this piece combines choreographic nuance, character development, and innovative musicality. Having never actually attended a prom of her own and feeling part relieved, part left out- Tatelbaum’s imaginative work honors, questions, and laughs at this bizarre and quintessential American tradition.

Photo by: Steven Schreiber