PRESS RELEASE:
Nia Love
presents
Nia love
in a Studio Series work-in-progress showing of
Meet me in Okemah:
The Hanging Tree To The Iron Bars: an installation of sorts
Jan 14 - 15 at 7:30pm
New York, NY, December 9, 2009 - Nia Love punctuates her 100-hour creative residency, as a part of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series, with two work-in-progress showings of Meet me in Okemah: The Hanging Tree To The Iron Bars: an installation of sorts. Inspired by the lynching of Laura Nelson and her Son in Okemah, OK on May 25, 1911, Love brings together a group of world renowned artists to create a multidimensional installation focused on “opening our eyes so we proceed forward with one another on this planet with and/or without pain”. Collaborators include filmmaker/documentarian Rhonda Haynes, Jazz Musician Antoine Roney’s Africa Project trio, and the visual art work from artist/sculptor Ed Love.
The showings will take place at Dance Theater Workshop in the David R. White Studio, Jan 14 - 15 (Thursday - Friday) at 7:30pm. There will be a Post-Show Talk on January 15 (Friday). Tickets are free with a suggested donation of $5 at the door. Tickets can be reserved in person at the box office or by calling (212) 924-0077. Box office hours are Monday - Friday from 5pm - 9pm and Saturday - Sunday from 12pm - 8pm. Dance Theater Workshop is located at 219 West 19th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.
About the Artist
An American Fulbright Fellow, Nia Love has worked in Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Mali, Japan, France, Colombia, Cuba and throughout the USA, collaborating with some of the most distinguished musicians in the world-Ornette Coleman, Geri Allen, Wallace Roney, Antoine Roney, Buster Williams-to further develop the interplay of improvisational music and dance. Nia has created over fifteen dance works, which have been presented in varied venues: the Royce Hall Theater, in Los Angeles; Theater Artaus, in San Francisco; the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, in Washington, DC; and throughout New York City- Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Dance Theater Workshop, Symphony Space, Dancing in the Streets, Aaron Davis Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 651 Arts, Judson Church, and Wave Hill. She founded Blacksmith’s Daughter in 1999 after the passing of her father, renowned visual artist Ed Love; using his traditions as a starting point, the company has, since its inception, performed dance, music, and art-based stories about diversity, life and death, and the power of communication through contemporary dance.
About the Studio Series
The Studio Series offers an opportunity for research and development in a creative residency format, providing resources of time, space, and a commission. The Studio Series is a research laboratory for physical explorations and new movement investigations with a focus on process, not final performance/product. The “performances” are intended to be informal public showings to share ideas with an audience in the intimate working space of the studio. Studio Series artists are curated internally by the Artistic Director in conjunction with Programming staff and guest curators from Urban Word NYC and Dance Theater Workshop’s season artists.
Funding
Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series Commissioning and Creative Residency Program is supported by The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.
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Dance Theater Workshop is the preeminent U.S. based center for dance and performance that maintains an uncompromising mission to identify, present, and support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance and live performance in New York and worldwide. Dance Theater Workshop supports innovative artists through all facets of their creative process and offers audiences the opportunity to experience and engage with artistic expression in bold and evocative ways.
Dance Theater Workshop’s 2009-2010 Season Supporters (as of July 1, 2009)
Private support provided by: American Masterpieces: Dance Initiative of the New England Foundation for the Arts; The Carnegie Corporation of New York; The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; The Ford Foundation; French United States Exchange in Dance of the New England Foundation for the Arts; The Howard Gilman Foundation; The Mertz Gilmore Foundation; The Greenwall Foundation; The William Randolph Hearst Foundations; The Jerome Foundation; The Lambent Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts; National Performance Network; The New York Community Trust; New York State DanceForce; The Jerome Robbins Foundation; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; The Scherman Foundation; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; The Shubert Foundation, Inc.; The Trust for Mutual Understanding; and The Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund.
Corporate support provided by: Bloomberg L.P. and Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
Public support provided by the following government agencies and elected representatives: National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Kate D. Levin, Commissioner; Speaker Christine C. Quinn; New York City Council; New York State Council on the Arts; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Senator Thomas K. Duane, New York State Senate.
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