PRESS RELEASE: Tere O’Connor Dance, Pam Tanowitz and Faye Driscoll

DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP
presents

TERE O’CONNOR DANCE
Wrought Iron Fog

PAM TANOWITZ
Be in the Gray with Me

and an excerpt of
FAYE DRISCOLL
There is so much mad in me

During the Association of Performing Arts Presenters
January 7 - 11, 2010

New York, NY, December 10 - Dance Theater Workshop announces performances by Tere O’Connor Dance and Pam Tanowitz, and an excerpt showing of Faye Driscoll’s newest work-in-progress during the Association for Performing Arts Presenters Conference.  O’Connor and Tanowitz will each remount their most recent full-evening productions commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in the Bessie Schonberg Theater. Driscoll will present an excerpt of her current work in progress, There is so much mad in me, which will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2010. Details about each presentation are below.

TERE O’CONNOR DANCE
Wrought Iron Fog (2009)
Bessie Schönberg Theater
January 7 - 8 at 6pm (Thursday - Friday)

“A spirit of experimentation regularly drives Tere O’Connor’s dances, but the abundance of invention in

Wrought Iron Fog beggars the imagination - and feeds it. [O'Connor's] dancers occupy a private sphere of play animated by mechanical compulsion and voluptuous whimsy.”

–The Financial Times
Tere O’Connor’s new evening-length work, Wrought Iron Fog, engages in a poetic interface with the convoluted ideologies of contemporary culture. Its richly layered structure flows through unexpected shifts in rhythm and mood, revealing interior psychologies ghosted behind the surface of the dance. Wrought Iron Fog features an original score by James Baker, lighting design by Michael O’Connor, and set design by Walter Dundervill and Tere O’Connor. The work is performed by Hilary Clark, Daniel Clifton, Erin Gerken, Heather Olson and Matthew Rogers. Wrought Iron Fog premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, November 2009.
Fee-free tickets are $15 and are available online at dancetheaterworkshop.org, over the phone at 212.924.0077, and in person at the box office. Dance Theater Workshop Members, Students, and Seniors are eligible for a 20% discount ($12 Tickets).  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 7^th and 8^th Avenues.

FAYE DRISCOLL
There is so much mad in me (premieres Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2010)
Jerome Robbins Studio
January 8 at 3pm (Friday)

“Faye Driscoll is a startling original talent.” - The New York Times

In a time of distraction, voyeurism and over stimulation, how do we experience authentic connection? Faye Driscoll investigates the physical and theatrical narratives that drive our misplaced need to be seen. From creating facades to seeking the divine to committing violent acts and falling in love, There is so much mad in me looks into the ways we fail, succeed, and get lost in the chase for true connection.

Reservations are required through the box office at 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 7^th and 8^th Avenues.

PAM TANOWITZ
Be in the Gray with Me (2009)
Bessie Schönberg Theater
January 10 at 7pm (Sunday)

January 11 at 9pm (Monday)

“…a miniature by Ms. Tanowitz has more inventiveness than a magnum opus by most choreographers. She knows how, in a single phrase, to contrast fast and slow, sharp and soft, large and small, stillness and motion.” - The New York Times

A series of interrelated solos, duets and ensemble pieces, Be in the Gray with Me highlights Tanowitz’s reconstructs classical, formal and traditional movement using rigid physicality and abstract sensibility. Tanowitz’s dances shift between encoded gestures and virtuosic dancing: expanding movements to demonstrate the tension behind the pose and the emotion inside the edifice. The New Yorker has called Tanowitz “a clear sighted modernist” whose “studious, deliberate dismantling of traditional balletic movements produces a stream of provocative fresh juxtapositions.”  Be in the Gray with Me explores performing rituals, mining codified techniques in an unusually layered contemporary collage. Imbued with rich, mysterious undertones, the work plays with narrative and abstraction, formality and immediacy, creating a progression of images that dissolve and reappear throughout the work’s path. Be in the Gray with Me is set to music by Vladimir Martynov, Pavel Karmanov and an original score by Dan Siegler, with set and lighting design by Philip Trevino, costume design by Renee Kurz, and is performed by Christina Amendolia, Dylan Crossman, Anne Lentz, Theresa Ling, Ashlee Kittleson, Ellie Kusner, Rashaun Mitchell, Uta Takemura, and Glen Rumsey.
Fee-free tickets are $15 and are available online at dancetheaterworkshop.org, over the phone at 212.924.0077, and in person at the box office. Dance Theater Workshop Members, Students, and Seniors are eligible for a 20% discount ($12 Tickets).  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 7^th and 8^th Avenues.

About the  Artists
Faye Driscoll was hailed as “1 of 25 to watch out for in 2008″ by Dance Magazine. Her recent work, 837 Venice BLVD, was named “one of the top 5 dance shows of 2008″ by the New York Times. Her video flip book dance, Loneliness, is featured in Younger Than Jesus the first edition of the New Museum’s new signature triennial in which fifty select artists from twenty-five countries are presented. This Summer Driscoll has been commissioned to create a new work at the American Dance Festival. Her new evening length show has been commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop and is set to premier in March 2010.In addition to creating her own work, Driscoll has collaborated with several theater artists. She is directing an act of Taylor Mac’s 5-act epic extravaganza, The Lily’s Revenge, premiering at HERE Arts Center in October 2009 and will be choreographing for Cynthia Hopkins new show The Truth: A One-Woman Greek Tragedy, premiering at Soho Rep in 2010. She recently choreographed for Jennifer Miller’s Cracked Ice and the National Theater of the United States of America’s Chautauqua! at PS122. She also choreographed for Church (PS122 and Under The Radar) and The Shipment (The Kitchen), two great plays by Young Jean Lee. Driscoll was a member of the HERE Artists Residency Program 2007-2009 and is an Artist Advisor at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, where she was an Artist-in-Residence 2005-2007. Formerly, Driscoll was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers, performed extensively with Yasmeen Godder and was choreographic assistant to David Neumann in his creation of The Common Foreign Language of the Red-Haired People with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts.

Tere O’Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over 34 works for his company. The company has performed throughout the US, and in Europe, South America, and Canada. O’Connor has created numerous commissioned works for dance companies around the world, among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep, Dance Alloy, and Zenon. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in a Ditch for White Oak, he also created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is currently creating a solo for Jean Butler, which will premiere in May 2010 at the Dublin Dance Festival. Tere O’Connor is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards - One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He

is also a recipient of repeated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NEFA/National Dance Project, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation, Altria Group, Inc., Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and Mid Atlantic US Artists International. A much sought after teacher, O’Connor has taught at the Bates Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, Colorado Dance Festival, Ohio State University, University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, at the School for New Dance Development (The Netherlands), and Tanzwochen (Austria), among others. He is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Pam Tanowitz’s work has been performed at Danspace Project, The Joyce Soho, Works & Process at The Guggenheim Museum, American Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and Central Park Summerstage. Tanowitz holds a BFA in Dance from Ohio State University and an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. During her two years at Sarah Lawrence College, Tanowitz had the honor of working closely with Viola Farber-Slayton. She has also studied choreography with Martha Myers and Dan Hurlin. In 2007 she participated in Oregon Ballet Theater’s Choreographic Institute. She has taught composition at Hunter College and was on faculty for ABT/Bermuda summer workshop. The company has received support from the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program; Meet the Composer, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, The Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust’s 2002 Live Music for Dance Program, and The Harkness Foundation for Dance. She is the 2001 recipient of the Scripps/ADF Primus-Tamaris Fellowship in Choreography. Tanowitz received a 2010 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant

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