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Meg Stuart: Pre-Show Talk

Posted by admin on January 25, 2012 in Podcast / Leave a comment

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Studio Series Artist Profile: Arturo Vidich

Posted by Live Arts Staff on January 25, 2012 in Uncategorized / Leave a comment

“Sometimes it’s hard to find motivation alone in the studio. I found a solution in dividing my attention among extra-studio ventures, and applying unconventional tools to flesh out a sustainable movement practice. The immediacy of an electric cattle prod has been enough to motivate me. After all, that’s what it’s for.” – Arturo Vidich

Arturo Vidich is an inter-media artist working mainly in performance and video. Vidich’s work consists of actions and artifacts that revolve around his long-time fascination with bodies and behavior, both human and non-human, put into unpredictable situations. Improvisation is essential to his artistic practice. Beginning in 2003, Vidich’s performance work has been presented in New York by The Chocolate Factory, New Museum, Dorkbot NYC, Abrons Art Center, Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, SITE Fest 2010, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Movement Research, Catch Series, Dixon Place, Chashama, New York Live Arts, and AUNTS. He has also shown in Los Angeles, Belgium, The Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland, and New Zealand. In 2008, Vidich was awarded a Movement Research Artist Residency. In 2007, Vidich was awarded the first International Artist Residency at the Red Stables, Dublin, Ireland. In the same year, he co-founded and now co-directs Culture Push, a non-profit arts organization that brings together diverse professionals to share knowledge and resources (culturepush.org). Through Culture Push, he initiated a collaborative open-source residency, called Genesis Project, for artists who work or want to work with or through the body. Vidich has collaborated and/or performed with Deborah Hay, Yvonne Meier, Daria Faïn, Allison Farrow, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Hari Krishnan, Eiko & Koma, Lower Lights Collective, Christopher Williams and Nami Yamamoto, and Aki Sasamoto. In 2010, Vidich received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for his collaboration on Yvonne Meier’s Stolen.

During his creative residency Arturo will dive deeper into his current creative process which involves experiential research with psychedelic drugs, the procedural narrative of flying airplanes, and the social practice of BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadomasochism). In accessing these seemingly disparate activities, he feeds an intuitive drive toward a totalizing art-practice. Inherent in these forms of risk-play is the condition of submitting to a power greater than oneself.

For the showings, Arturo will lay out an improvised “first date” scenario in which he plays the part of a wimpy dog. He surrenders control of his instrument to the interrogative forces of a Russian dominatrix, Anya Stern, who is cast as the performer’s ego. She tests him, corrects him, and exposes his threshold for pain and exhaustion. Fluidly navigating between the fictive plane of negotiated consent and the stark reality of an electric cattle prod, Arturo will attempt to externalize the ecstatic process of boundary dissolution through humiliation and the confrontation of fears.

Studio Series: Arturo Vidich
Jan 27 – 28 at 6pm
$5
In-Process talks with Stephen Greco
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NJ.com: In ‘Story/Time’ Bill T. Jones’ company takes a waltz down memory lane

Posted by admin on January 24, 2012 in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Press / Leave a comment

“If only we could plug in a cable, and download the contents of Bill T. Jones’ memory. The choreographer, now almost 60, has led a boldly adventurous life [...] The choreographer shares a few of his experiences in “Story/Time” [...] These memories, and some second-hand tales, are poignant, hilarious and sometimes terrifying.” – Robert Johnson/The Star-Ledger

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"Story/Time" - Photo by Paul B. Goode

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NYTimes on “Story/Time”: Metaphors of Movement Around the Spoken Word

Posted by admin on January 23, 2012 in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Press / Leave a comment

“As Mr. Jones swept inexorably through personal anecdotes, art world gossip, biblical tales and poemlike meditations, his dancers came and went, tearing around the stage as they swept various individuals up in their collective arms, freezing briefly in tableaus, angling their limbs like vectors and moving through bursts of slippery partnering.” – Claudia La Rocco

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Bill T. Jones, right, narrating his newest work, "Story/Time," which included Ted Coffey's score. Photo by Matt Rainey for The New York Times

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Letter from a Danceaturg – No. 6 – January 22, 2012 – Story/Time World Premiere

Posted by Live Arts Staff on January 23, 2012 in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company / Leave a comment

Dear Lori: Happy New Year to you and everybody who reads this. It’s good to be back.

In the spirit of Bill T. Jones’ Story/Time let me begin by telling you that I arrived home last night from the Kasser Theater World Premiere at 9:34 p.m. – couldn’t stay for the Champagne – I really wanted to – and – true disclosure, I promised Bob Bursey before the show that I would stick around – but was too wired, my head was buzzing – and then, it took me until somewhere between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. to fall asleep, and is now 5:56 a.m., and I’ve had two cups of coffee, and here I am about to try to stabilize my jittery thoughts.

Toward the end of the piece, Bill was telling a story about sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room reading an article in Art in America about the Glenn Ligon America show/retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York City. My first “flash” thought was – “I went to that show last spring!…It was fabulous…unlike anything I had ever seen before…” and my second “flash” thought was to something Bill had told Felicia R. Lee in The New York Times interview last Wednesday, January 18, that “he has long admired [John] Cage and liked his insistence in Indeterminacy that audiences bring their own meaning to the work and discover the unity between sounds and stories.” And indeed – I had, at that very moment, it was about 48 minutes into the 70 minute work – brought my very own visual memories of the half-obliterated-jargon-phrased canvases of Glenn Ligon set against the pale walls of the Whitney galleries, and his glaring neon-reversed constructions, and his fake/authentic handbills mimicking vintage Wanted posters seeking escaped slaves. And, after I had finished this thought and its accompanying images in the Kasser Theater last night at about 8:53 or thereabouts, I then realized that for about thirty seconds I had stopped paying attention to what Bill was saying (sitting there, as he put it, “in the middle of the playing area,” dressed in a white, long-sleeved shirt, behind a simple desk with a pinpoint reading lamp, text in plain sight, feet planted firmly on the floor])and that I had also drifted away from following the sinuous movements of the dancers. (more…)

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Studio Series begins this week! But first…. a look back.

Posted by Live Arts Staff on January 19, 2012 in Uncategorized / Leave a comment

Created in 2005 by Dance Theater Workshop the Studio Series has supported over 50 artists through a 100 hour creative residency paired with work-in-process showings open to the public. (click “more” to see the full list of artists supported by the program)

Here are some of our favorite memories, please add on!!

Anna Sperber‘s string of Christmas-like lights reflecting off the windows in the David R. White Studio, glimmering movement…

Nora Chipaumire‘s gaze and fierce dancing…

Jack Ferver, Tony Orrico and Liz Santoro stripping, dancing, and singing in Jack’s Studio Showing…

Chase Granoff‘s open-source installation with sound, tennis balls, toys and more….audience members strung throughout and sitting on the floor…

Participating in Nia Love‘s music, dance, and artifact installation examining the Sam Hose lynching…

Will Rawls‘s feedback process with index cards…

Maggie Bennett telling her composer to stop during the showing…winning the non-existant “process transparency” award…

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NYTimes: A New Work Spins Bill T. Jones Back Onto the Stage

Posted by admin on January 19, 2012 in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Press / Leave a comment

“You might say everything up until this point in my life has been about this piece,” said Mr. Jones [...]

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Bill T. Jones, with Jennifer Nugent, in rehearsal for “Story/Time,” set to premiere Saturday at Montclair State University. Photo by Andrea Mohin/The New York Times

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Meg Stuart: Post-Show Discussion with Trajal Harrell

Posted by admin on January 18, 2012 in Podcast / Leave a comment

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Story/Time Premieres in 3 days!

Posted by Live Arts Staff on January 18, 2012 in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company / Leave a comment

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
World Premiere
Story/Time @ Peak Performances
Montclair, NJ
Jan 21 & 28 at 8:00pm
Jan 22 & 29 at 3:00pm
Jan 26 & 27 at 7:30pm

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New York Live Arts presents Vanessa Anspaugh and Jen Rosenblit: Feb 15-18

Posted by admin on January 18, 2012 in Press / Leave a comment

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
presents
Vanessa Anspaugh’s Armed Guard Garden
Jen Rosenblit’s In Mouth
February 15-18 at 7:30pm

New York, NY, January 18, 2012 – New York Live Arts presents two World Premieres in a shared evening featuring Vanessa Anspaugh’s Armed Guard Garden and Jen Rosenblit’s In Mouth, on February 15-18 at 7:30pm. (more…)

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