PRESS RELEASE:
Guest Artist Series

DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP
announces the

2010 GUEST ARTIST SERIES
Apr 7 - Jul 24, 2010

February 5, 2010 - Dance Theater Workshop announces the 2010 Guest Artist Series. The Guest Artist Series is a subsidized, comprehensive rental program benefiting a diverse group of dance and theater companies and producing organizations interested in self-producing their work at Dance Theater Workshop. This year’s artists are (in order of appearance) ZviDance, American Tap Dance Foundation, SITI Company, TAKE Dance, Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, Ellen Robbins, 360° Dance Company, johannes wieland, WDA Global Dance Event, and Wendy Jehlen/ANIKAI Dance. In addition to performance information you will find contact information for each guest artist’s publicists below. Read the rest of this entry »


 

Drawings by Gwen Welliver, Studio Series Artist in Residence

Drawings in sand, created through the movements of Studio Series resident, Gwen Welliver and dancer Kayvon Pourazar during the Friday night performance of her works-in-progress piece, Portraits 1-3

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Carla Peterson on Kimberly Bartosik

Artistic Director, Carla Peterson, talks about Kimberly Bartosik’s premiere at Dance Theater Workshop.

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Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance at Tribeca Performing Arts Center

TIME LAPSE DANCE DAZZLES WITH AN AERIALIST, FLAGS AND LUMINOUS SHADOWS FOR 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance

TIME LAPSE DANCE
Friday, February 19 and Saturday, February 20 at 8pm
Sunday, February 21 at 3pm
$25 (Students/Seniors $15)

Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Borough of Manhattan Community College
199 Chambers St. (Betw. Greenwich Ave. and West St.)

Artistic Director and Choreographer Jody Sperling and Time Lapse Dance have intrigued audiences for the past decade with visual and kinetic routines that integrate experimental dance, circus arts, and light spectacles. The 10th anniversary spectacular will present the Time Lapse Dance world premiere of “Forms of Dilemma,” an examination of materials, movement and aerial mechanics which has been awarded an Emerging Artists Commissioning Program grant from the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (S.L.A.M.). Sperling has also partnered with student dancers from Barnard College for “Ghosts,”a lively display of color and fabric that adapts the innovative style of modern dance pioneer, Loie Fuller (1862-1928) to a contemporary context. Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance will also incorporate a montage of vaudeville-inspired nuances, lighting techniques conceived by Lighting Designer, David Ferri and a new piece featuring Dancer-Aerialist Rachel Salzman.


 

Photo of the Week

Kimberly Bartosik

Kimberly Bartosik / daela
The Materiality of Impermanence
Pictured: Kimberly Bartosik, Marc Mann
Photo: Yi-Chun Wu


 

PRESS RELEASE: Sahar Javedani

For Immediate Release

DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP
presents
Sahar Javedani / compani javedani
in a Studio Series work-in-progress showing of

The Turquoise Lounge
Mar 11 - 12 at 7:30pm

New York, NY, February 2, 2010 - Sahar Javedani concludes her 100-hour creative residency, as a part of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series, with two work-in-progress showings of The Turquoise Lounge - a work examining the physical and emotional territories of allegiance. Inspired by a true event, The Turquoise Lounge is a laboratory of linguistic confrontations, visceral resignations, and voracious appropriations following a small group of travelers detained at airport customs. Placed deliberately in an intimate setting, the audience is visibly caught within nets of bewildering and puzzling interdependencies. It is these characters’ desperate search for the familiar, resistance to change, and perverse need to connect that simultaneously reconfirms and dismantles stereotypes of the Middle Eastern and Western diaspora respectively.

“The whole piece occupies an area of comic limbo where it’s never completely clear what is genuine and what is satirical, from the heavily accented English to the commentary to the dance solo itself, though clearly Javedani is one sharp woman.” - Quinn Batson, offoffoff.com Read the rest of this entry »


 

LAST MINUTE STUDIO SPACE AVAILABLE!

Need rehearsal space? We have space available in the mornings and afternoons this week and next:

TODAY, February 3
12-6 pm

Thursday, February 4
2-6 pm
9-10 pm

Friday, February 5
12-6pm
8-10 pm

Saturday, February 6
12-2pm
7-8 pm

Sunday, February 7
5-6 pm

Monday, February 8
2-7 pm

Tuesday,February 9
1-5pm
8-10 pm

Wed, February 10
10-6 pm

Thursday, February 11
10-12pm
2-5 pm

Friday, February 12
2-10 pm

Saturday, February 13
10-12 pm
8-10 pm

There are still some NYSCA subsidized rates available for the month of February. Contact Gretchen at gretchen@dtw.org or (212) 691-6500 x200 to take advantage of prime rehearsal space and time at affordable rates!

Check out our studio calendar to see the full availability at www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/about/studioavailability.


 

Sneek Peak Footage

Watch footage from a tech rehearsal for the upcoming Kimberly Bartosik/daela performance, The Materiality of Impermanence:

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See the debut at Dance Theater Workshop Feb 3-6 at 7:30 pm

Coffee and conversation Feb 3 at 6:30pm
Post-Show Talk Feb 5
Tickets: $15.

For more info visit our website


 

Twitter Community Choreography #20, part 2

We have rounded the bend with part 2 of Community Choreography #20. During part 1, we asked for a location, ideas for shooting the dance, and an order by which these moves should be performed. We took those ideas, integrated a few of them for a re-shoot with Jillian and put it all together.

We present, Community Choreography #20, part 2:
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We’re not done with this video yet. In the comments below, tell us how to influence the final version.

(Answer any of the following)
- What sound do you want to hear (music, speeches, sound scapes)?
- How else should we edit it (speed up/slow down a certain part, change it to black and white, add a color filter, add Ronald McDonald’s ever-vigilant head floating in the corner of the screen)?
- What other ideas do you have for the editing of this?

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The buzz begins… Kimberly Bartosik opens Wednesday

“Bartosik and her extraordinary collaborators have crafted a compelling work, a captivating experience that is physically expressive, musically dreamy, and visually stunning, and from which many levels of meaning and feeling can be derived.” - Brian McCormick

READ THE FULL PREVIEW


 

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