Dance Docs

SoloShow
In association with Performa 09
Thu, Nov 12 - Sun, Nov 15
Thu - Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm,
Late shows Fri, Sat 10pm
Post-show Party Thu, Nov 12
$20, $15 (students/seniors/Performa and FIAF members)

More info:
http://www.ps122.org/performances/solo_and_soloshow.html

  

excerpt of a 16mm film by Miami-based artists Nikki Rollason and Clifton Childree

“A tale of a washed up girl and her postmortem adventure.”

My wife, Anna, and I have been collaborating since we met in 2002. I make music, videos, and interactive work. Anna is a choreographer. She typically begins a piece by improvising with her dancers, with a form emerging gradually, honed and distilled over several weeks. My role in our collaborations has generally been to create sound or video to augment or accompany the performance. With this project, we set out to integrate video more fully into the process. 

“Between Scans” is the product of five days well spent in residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York. After years of making videos with digital tools, it was freeing to return to the physicality of analog. We used synthesis (applying varying voltage patterns to the video signal), a seven-camera array, and a primitive video switcher to create states in which the effects of the image processing and of the captured movement amplified each other, states in which the humanistic presence was graphically abstracted or fractured while, simultaneously, the geometric nature of the imagery took on an organic quality.

-Peter Kerlin
Between Scans, Video, Courtesy of the Artists
Further info available via Triple Canopy

From the YouTube channel description:

“I made a dance video every single day for an entire year. No, I was not on Ellen… I am only here to make you smile and hopefully change the way you think about ‘genres,’ show you what honest reactions to music look like on the daily, teach you some stuff, SPREAD POSITIVITY and provide a new addiction for the masses… I react to the music I hear, then I take out the diegetic sound. That means I use my speakers on site as a guide track, so to speak.”

www.youtube.com/user/dipsetmuthafucka 

THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY.
kaleidoscopic blinks presented in portable proscenium

A quality knock-off you’ve never seen the original of, THIS DANCE IS CALLED GREE. IT IS FROM BEDSTUY. is the new dance piece of renegade touring project, Modern Garage Movement, aka MGM. Started in San Francisco, based in Brooklyn, MGM is dancers Felicia Ballos, Biba Bell & JM Leary. Inspired by hardcore touring rock bands, JM conceptualized MGM into a five week US touring project summer 2006, dancing in garages, backyards, packing sheds, wine warehouses, galleries and community centers. The performance of GREE is an assignment to cultivate urban flowers in secret gardens by grafting the sounds of Stevie Wonder to Pash(ly), costumes of Neil Greenberg to soccer outfits and the dances of Youssouf Koumbassa to Sarah Michelson. The show opens with a dimly lit seating area entirely covered by foliage, which is then removed by the dancers as the audience members arrive and are integrated into the thicket. GREE dusts off dance pieces, sets and audiences, invisibly arousing all growing, moving things.

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“After you have finished reading through these instructions, follow this step first: sit down and write a sentence describing a memory, scene, or image. It can be anything that comes to mind. Paste it into an email and send it to me…”
-from emailed instructions given to participants by Ana Keilson, The Populous Project, presented by “populous by AUNTS” at Judson Memorial Church gym (June 1, 2007).

Complete event instructions for The Populous Project (video excerpt shown above) can be found at Ana Keilson’s wiki.

In addition to making dances, Ana is the editor of zine. The zine #2 release party happens on March 28th, 2008 at SoundFix in Brooklyn, NY.

For more details about the event, go here (the link to zine on the front page is currently empty, but I’m sure something will be posted soon).