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60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Nichifor/Arrieta]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Animal Farm
Music: Serban Nichifor
Dance: Patty Arrieta

Serban Nichifor, born in Bucharest, received his Doctorate in Musicology at National University of Music, Bucharest. He is the Vice-president of the Romania-Belgium, cellist of the Duo Intermedia and co-director of the Nuova Musica Consonate - Living Music Foundation Inc. Festival. He is presently a professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest

Patty Arrieta is a native of Guadalajara, Mexico and grew up in the San Fransisco Bay Area. She has been living in NYC for the last 10 years, dancing, teaching, and choreographing professionally. She's traveled internationally as a performer and has worked with both dance companies and commercial artist alike.
Dancers: Leigh Atwell, Jen James, and Patty Arrieta

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [McIntire/Painter]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Was Er Sagte, Was Er Bedeutete
Music: David McIntire
Dance: Jen Painter

David D. McIntire was born in upstate New York and trained on the clarinet. He became fascinated with electronic music at an early age and later wore out many razor blades in pursuit of that discipline. He has played in the Colorblind James Experience and is currently a DMA candidate at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Was Er Sagte, Was Er Bedeutete (What He said, What He Meant) was composed in response to certain U.S. government policies. The title is in German since the work was first presented to a German audience, and because the speaking official is wanted for war crimes in that country. The work uses samples from thanvannispen, ashassin, and FreqMan of the Freesound Project.

Jen Painter is a dancer/choreographer based in Astoria. She is active in her community arts scene, as well as in the greater New York area. She has enjoyed working with artists such as Skip Costa, Te Perez, and Valerie Green , and companies such as Wobble and Seen Performance. She is currently dancing with Valerie Green Dance Entropy, and enjoying the new and unique challenges that choreographing her own work presents. Venues she has enjoyed performing at include LPAC, Triskellion, Galapagos, and Luna Lounge, not to mention various other bars, parks, and piers. Jen is also a certified Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis instructor.
Dancer: Jen Painter

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Lacaze/Shapiro]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Fenouillet I
Music: Sophie Lacaze
Dance: Laura Shapiro

Sophie Lacaze, born in France, studied composition with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone in Italy and attended Pierre Boulezâs courses at the College de France. Her compositions range from tape solo to orchestral music, and are performed in festivals worldwide. Sophie Lacaze has developed an aesthetic that takes current research into account while looking restore music to its primary functions of ritual, incantation, dance, and links with nature. Fenouillet I is an acousmatic work based on sounds gathered on excavations in Fenouillet Castle in France. The sounds÷including wheelbarrows and trowels÷are organized in rhythms of dances.

Laura Shapiro is a NYC-based choreographer/performer who has collaborated with many new music and jazz composer/performers. Listening to Feuillet Castle and its progression from slow to very fast tempo, she decided that the dance would begin with very quick movements and progress to very slow ones. Then she added simple geometric concepts to structure the spacing and shaping of the movement, and built the piece from these forms. Many thanks to Colleen, Ingrid and Pedro, the three, one-of-a-kind performers who, individually and together, provide the energy and character that brings the piece to life. Thanks also to Pascal, Jeramy and Rob.
Dancers: Colleen Cintron, Pedro Jimenez, and Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [McFerron/Radway]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Dinadanvtli
Music: Mike McFerron
Dance: Becky Radway

Mike McFerron is an associate professor of music and composer-in-residence at Lewis University and he is founder and co-director of Electronic Music Midwest. A past fellow the MacDowell Colony, June in Buffalo, and the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composersâ Forum, honors include: first prize in the Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition, first prize in the CANTUS program, recipient of the CCF Abelson Vocal Music Commission, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestraâs ãFirst Hearingä Program. Dinadanvtli means "My Brother" in Cherokee.

Becky Radway has performed with the Kevin Wynn Collection, Heidi Latsky Dance, Ezra Caldwell, Incidents Physical Theater, MariaColacoDance, and iN.D.dance/Nicole Durfee & Dancers. Her choreography has been recently featured in the DUMBO and Cool New York Festivals (White Wave), Coming Together Performance Series (Alvin Ailey's Citigroup Theater), Fielday (Henry Street Settlement), and Dance Conversations at The Flea (Soho Playhouse). Other venues include the Jack Guidone Theater in Washington, D.C., Towson University, and a site-specific work for the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ. She is currently planning her first full-length production to premiere in December 2009.
Performed by: Heather N. Seagraves and Laura Henry

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Kraptavicius/Eule]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Godot in hurry
Music: Gintas Kraptavicius
Dance: Caron Eule

Gintas K (Gintas Kraptavicius) has been participating in the Lithuanian experimental music scene since 1994. He was a core member of the industrial electronic music band ãModusä and worked as an editor on the radio station Kapsai. He is known for his sound actions, theatrical performances and conceptual art. Gintas K is a sound artist exploring minimal digital sounds, sine waves, noise, glitches, microwaves and acoustic vibration, making music for films, sound installations. Godot in hurry may be described as microsound or noise, but its intention is to study the physical effects of sound on the human psyche.

Caron Eule received her BFA in dance and composition from SUNY Purchase and has also studied at the London Contemporary School of Dance, the Bat D'or School in Israel, and The Paul Taylor School in New York City. She has performed with NYC choreographers such as Stephan Koplowitz, Daniel Gwirtzman, Larry Keigwin, Tina Croll, and the Shadow Box Theater and currently teaches creative movement and pre-ballet at Ballet Hispanico, and ballroom dance in inner-city schools for Pierre Dulaineâs Dancing Classrooms. Along with being the Artistic Director of C. Eule Dance, Ms. Eule has also choreographed for theater, film and opera.
Dancers: Erin Jennings, Chie Mukai, Carmen Nicole

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Bailey/Belman]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Separation Anxiety
Music: Thomas Bailey
Dance: Rodger Belman

Thomas Bey William Bailey is a nomadic, multi-disciplinary artist concerned with the limits of perception, synaesthesia, etc. His work questions the notion of Îprogress at any cost,â and his sound pieces aim to reintegrate people with the Îmicroâ and Îmacroâ aspects of life, which are lost among daily social contact. Separation Anxiety is a jolting minute inspired by a quote from Slavoj Zizek regarding anxiety, and by the composerâs personal struggles with the condition noted in the title. Separation Anxiety is a highly compressed/ truncated translation into Îraw soundâ of continually firing nervous tics and almost palpable premonitions.

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Eckel/Krtolica]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

1.9
Music: Andrew Eckel
Dance: Marija Krtolica

Andrew Eckel is a musician from upstate New York, currently living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his four years in the percussion ensemble influenced many of his arrangements. He has two solo CDs, Summer Heat and Winter Heat, and is working on a funky set of songs that will be out in late 2008. 1.9 is a song about a magazine article. Maybe you've read it. Andrew played all the instruments except the trumpet, played by Katie Silberstein.

Marija Krtolica is a choreographer/performer and a certified yoga teacher. In February 2008 her thesis concert ÎMostly in Blue- the Hidden Syntax of Dreams in Translationâ was premiered at Mondavi Studio at UC Davis. Her most recent solo work-ÎCryptomnesiaâ was shown at the Cloud Dance Festival in London, 8X8 in Berkeley, and at WaxWorks in Brooklyn. On April 11th section from ÎCryptomnesiaâ will be performed at the Raw Festival at NYU Studios. Marija holds MFA from UC Davis, and BFA from Tisch School of the Arts. This summer she will enter MA program in Performance Studies at Tisch, NYU.

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Algadafe/Vernier/Jennings]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

La vie amnagee-le quart d'heure
Music: Henri Algadafe and Philippe Vernier
Dance: Erin Jennings

Henri Algadafe and Philippe Vernier's first interest in music started with the guitar (rock and gypsy guitar). They studied at the national regional conservatory of Rueil and obtained prizes in harmony, orchestration and composition. They then studied "tape" music with Philippe Leroux and passed a DEM in electro-acoustic composition. Henri Algadafe now composes instrumental pieces, mixed music or pure electroacoustic. Philippe Vernier has written ensemble music, songs, film and stage music, and electro-acoustic pieces. "La vie amŽnagŽe-le quart d'heure" is built on sounds of everyday life. Sounds of indefinite pitch such as squeaking wheels, stone shoveling and compressors provide rhythmical elements.

Erin Hunter Jennings is on her 3rd 60x60, and is always happy to dance and collaborate especially with her sister, Faith Kimberling. They have been making dances together since they were little! Erin danced in NYC recently in Chattaqua! and abroad with Pilobolus and West Side Story at La Scala. She has danced in companies with Natasa Trifan, Charlie Moulton, and Erica Essner and performed recently with Yepdance,& DanceEntropy. Faith dances with the Isadora Duncan Co. under Lori Bellilove and has toured and performed with Young Soon Kim. See Erin & Faith this spring also with CEuledance, or dancing around on a west side roof

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Bathory-Kitsz/Rusich/Skur]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Future Remembrance
Music: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Dance: Molly Rusich and Andrea Skur

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz co-hosted Kalvos & Damianâs New Music Bazaar, co-founded the NonPop International Network, and has been project director for new music festivals since 1973. He encouraged the chamber opera rebirth with Plasm over ocean at the World Trade Center; he was the first American commissioned for Pragueâs M‡nes Museum, conducting Zonule Glaes II for string quartet and electronics; retrospective concerts of his work were presented in Amsterdam and Ghent. His recorded electroacoustic work can be found on Frog Peak, UnLimit, Capstone, and illegal art.

Molly Rusich earned her degree in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. A native of Minneapolis, her work has been shown at Patrickâs Cabaret and Zenon Dance Company and School. In New York hew work has been seen at the Bowery Poetry Club, Dance Forum, The Puffin Room, and Dance New Amsterdam. Molly is married to Michael Rusich and lives in Astoria with their two young daughters.

Andrea Skurr found her movement voice at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where she earned a BA in Music & Dance.Ê Beginning life as a gymnast, she ventured into dance, choreography, directing,Êand lately, skydiving, silks, and bungee. Her adventuresome spirit extends from a heritage Down Under and a faith inspired. Skurr has presented work nationally and performed under Nathanael Buckley, Beth Megill/Megill & Co, Patrice Regnier/Terpsichore, Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance, and Chriselle Tidrick/Above & Beyond Dance.
Dancers: Molly Rusich and Andrea Skur

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Batzner/Reilly]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Bad Villager
Music: Jay Batzner
Dance: Evangeline Reilly

Jay C. Batzner is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida. He received a D.M.A. in composition from the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Jay is an active composer, educator, and theorist in addition to being a sci-fi geek, an amateur banjoist, a home brewer, and juggler. Bad Villager was inspired by a news story (and photographs) of a Bussendorfer piano falling off the back of a loading truck. All of the samples come from the Freesound user batchku's sample pack "piano/dry ice."

Evangeline Reilly is a playwright, musician and performer currently based in Brooklyn. She graduated in 2007 from University of California Santa Cruz. She loves songs that make people dance and dances that make people think. She would like to thank 60x60 for entrusting her with their stage for a minute or two.

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Steen/James]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

forty-nine
Music: Ken Steen
Dance: Jen James

Recent premiere performances and sound installations in such diverse locations as Xi'an, China, Fortaleza-Ceara, Brazil, Spring in Havana Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, New Delhi, Goa and Jaipur, India, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Australia, confirm that his work is fast attaining international recognition. Steen is Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at the Hartt School, University of Hartford. forty-nine was composed from material originally collected during my ACF Continental Harmony Reliquary of Labor project. Nearly all of the sound sources were harvested during the construction and renovation process of the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Originally from Arizona, Jen James moved to NYC after graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in psychology and marketing. Her credits span all areas of the entertainment industry and she has danced and choreographed for recording artists, fashion shows, videos, TV and film in addition to Off-Broadway, stage and club performances all over the US. In 2006 she started MIXT Dance, a dance-based entertainment company that provides choreography and dancers for special events and productions with clients such as Mercedes Fashion Week, Red Bull, and Gentleman Jack. Jen's current baby is "Crazy Sexy Disco," an Off-Broadway show for which she is co-creator.

Dancers: Nikki Baksh, Zachary Denison, Demar Braxton, Mariano Martinez

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Lella/Petitt]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

(m)inut(ile)
Music: Graziano Lella
Dance: Tamora Petitt

Graduate in astrophysics, self taught bassist, Graziano Lella studied saxophone at the SMPT in Rome. Starting in 2006, he entered an audiovisual collective together with video artists Studio Brutus and Citrullo International. Their work H2O has been presented in the following festivals: Torino Film Festival, Roma Film Festival, Live!iXem, Netmage, Optronica, Sonar Film Festival, Cyborg Film Festival, and Annecy Animation Film Festival. His music attempts to fill existence with immanence and to express its strength and depth. It expresses the process of becoming a man, the continuous self-consistent intensity, where forms change and dissolve in the flow of becoming, as if they were pure micro-metamorphous.

Tamora Satterfield graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA in Modern Dance Performance. Since moving to New York City, Tamora has worked with Young Soon Kim, Steeledance and Stephan Koplowitz among others. Tamora is one of four founding members of the Deliquescent Dance Ensemble, which continues as a duet with fellow founding member Stephanie Dixon under the name Deliquescent Designs.
Performers:Tamora Petitt and Stephanie Dixon

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Tache/Duncan]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

sssffFGGRGR
Music: Olivier Tache
Dance: Brittany Beyer and Sundara Duncan

Olivier Tache is a PhD student in computer music in Grenoble, France. After seven years in a rock/ electro band, he began composing in Solo, Starting with remixes of French bands ãRhesusä and ãLes Frres Nubuck.ä, sssffFGGRGR is his first contemporary music work. sssffFGGRGR (pronounced as a rough and continuous sound) is a somewhat violent digest of life in societies invaded by technologies and information. 60 seconds is enough to go through several steps marked by the increasing feeling that machines surrounding us, video games or plants, are getting out of control.

Sundara Duncan grew up in Northern California and holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts. She currently dances with Jessica Gaynor Dance Company and teaches Pilates at Equinox. Before moving to New York she worked with Trip Dance Theater and Elizabeth Hoefner in L.A.

Brittany Beyer-Schubert grew up in the Midwest, attending Interlochen Arts Academy for high school, and later received a BFA in Dance Performance from NYU/ Tisch School of the Arts. She has performed the works of Trisha Brown, Nacho Duato, and was a founding member of Johannes Wieland. (2001-2006) She now works with dance companies in administrative capacities.

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Creshevsky/Bonilla]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Free Speech
Music: Noah Creshevsky
Dance: Amelia Uzategui Bonilla

Trained by Nadia Boulanger and Luciano Berio, Noah Creshevsky is the former director of the Center for Computer Music and Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Free Speech uses hyperrealism, an electroacoustic musical language constructed from sounds that are found in our shared environment, handled in ways that are somehow exaggerated or excessive. Text written and performed by Chris Mann.

Amelia Uzategui Bonilla is a performer and teaching artist based in New York City. She was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Los Angeles, CA. In 2007, Amelias received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Juilliard's Dance Division with Scholastic Distinction. She resides in Bushwick, NY.
Dancer:Amelia Uzategui Bonilla

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Mann/Guyon]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Told You So
Music: Chris Mann
Dance: Jil Guyon

"Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do. (Where 'I' is defined by those changes for which I is required)." -Chris Mann

Jil Guyon's performances have been staged in theaters throughout Europe, Japan and the U.S., as well as various site-specific locations, from Webster Hall to a monastery crypt. Her collaborative work includes appearances in Joan Jonas's Variations on a Scene at ãThe Wave Hill Dancescape,ä and in Noemie Lafrance's Agora II at the McCarren Park pool. She also performs regularly with the satirical group "The Butoh Rockettes." She is a recipient of the Magistrat der Stadt Wien Award (Austria) and an Artward Bound Residency at the White Oak Plantation, funded by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Performed by Jil Guyon

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Kurth-Nelson/Salhov]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Ives in Space
Music: Zachary Kurth-Nelson
Dance: Lila Salhov

Zach Kurth-Nelson is currently a graduate student pursuing an MA in Composition at Mills College, and studying with Maggi Payne. He received his BA in Composition from Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he studied with Henry Gwiazda. He is also a vocalist, and has been recorded singing Psalmus XXIII on Noah Creshevsky's To Know or Not to Know, released on Tzadik. Ives in Space combines natural sounds with samples of recorded music in an attempt to create entirely new sound conglomerations that exceed the sum of their component parts.

Lila Salhov dances for Jessica Danser/dansfolk and teaches dance in the NYC area. She received her BFA in dance performance from The Boston Conservatory. In Boston, Lila performed with Windhover Dance Company, and baroque dance with the Handel and Hayden Society. Lila is excited to be part of 60X60 Dance, and to work with Ellenore Scott, her beautiful dancer!
Dancer: Ellenore Scott

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Gherman/Graves]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Obsidian
Music: Marcel Gherman
Dance: Aja Graves

Born in Chisinau, Moldova, Marcel Gherman is a musician, radio DJ and journalist currently working for Sud-Est Cultural magazine. From 1994-2003 he hosted programs on electronic music on the national radio station of Moldova. He studied piano in music school and composition with Oleg Palymski, and has releases under the alias Megatone on labels Tibprod, Simlog, Invasion Wreck Chords, Zaftig, Krakilsk. Has a particular interest in the Advaita Vedanta doctrine of Indian spirituality. This musical composition expresses the texture and color of obsidian, and acts as a metaphor for the feeling of bliss and fulfillment that is intuitively present within each person, for every moment of life.

Aja Graves comes from the state of Utah. She graduated from BYU with a BA in Modern Dance in 2006. Choreography is her particular love; she loves nothing more than creating movement paired with the perfect selection of music. Yes, Aja can dance, but she also likes to cook too. Her recent food successes include an awesome basil pesto, vegetable lasagna, and a hash brown quiche. Eat Me by Kenny Shopsin and Carolynn Carreno is her newest favorite cook book. The chicken salad recipe is to die for. Who knew chicken needed to be massaged? Dancer: Aja Graves

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Grey/Dai]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Aspect
Music: Melissa Grey
Dance: Jian Dai

One definition of aspect is the way in which the planets, from their relative positions, look upon each other [and] their joint look upon the earth. Commonplace sounds that mark the beginning of my day provide the sonic palette: constellating harmonies from noise, Aspect shifts the perspective from the mundane to the stars' collective view of Earth. Melissa Grey's compositions range from concert works for chamber orchestras, live electroacoustic performances, collaborative media installations to music and sound for radio, film and video.

Dai Jian was born in Hunan Province, China and graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy & Guangdong ATV Professional Academy for Performing Arts, founded by Madam Yang Meiqi. In 1998 he was awarded the Second Prize at the Fourth National Dance Competition. 2004 He received a full scholarship to attend the ADF. He also danced and choreographed for Jin Xing Dance Theater and Guangzhou Song & Dance Ensemble in China before becoming a member of the Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2005. Dai Jian joined Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2008.

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Gauthier/Kook]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Cycles 1
Music: Thierry Gauthier
Dance: Jacqueline H. Kook

Thierry Gauthier is an eclectic composer, distinguished by his experimental techniques. He has studied computer assisted sound design and holds a BM in electroacoustic music composition from the University of Montreal. He received an honorary mention at the music competition Musica Nova and was a finalist at JTTP. Gauthier has been commissioned for movies, art-videos, television series, documentaries, multimedia, installations and multidisciplinary performances. Cycles1 is an expressionist acousmatic piece where the concept and process is minimalist and repetitive. The cyclic revolution is conceived with microsounds which are accumulated, repeated and granulated by the mediation of microloops.

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [McLeer/Douglas]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Black Lung
Music: Christian McLeer
Dance: Chloe C Douglas

Christian McLeer is the artistic director and founder of Remarkable Theater Brigade. His musical success began as a youth, winning piano competitions and commissions while still in high school. His work HOPE was his first commission at the age of 14 from American Cancer Society. He attended Julliard Pre-College and worked his way through Manhattan School of Music where he acquired his Bachelorâs degree, composing and performing professionally for classical, jazz and rock ensembles.

Chloe Douglas is interested in sight-reactive and experiential dance, dance for video, and any work that brings dance a new context for a new audience. She is inspired by her boyfriend Fred Brehm, along with Coco Karol, Mira Peck and Ashley Wallace and Spring. She is very grateful to participate in 60x60.

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Maters/Brandenburg]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Double Future Container Love Music
Music: John Maters
Dance: Colette Brandenburg

Born in Nijmegen, Netherlands, John Maters attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Hertogenbosch. His group presentations include: Vegetable Man, curated by Dario Antonetti; Soundlab V, Cologne; Gallery Aferro, Newark; Pendu Gallery, New York; Open Source Art Champaign, Illinois. In Double Future Container Love Music he continues exploring the possibilities of recycling and re-transformation, rethinking a work by considering it in relationship to different contexts. This piece infiltrates ordinary conditions with the mixed emotions of homesickness and consolation, which are disturbed by the undetermined sounds of a building-ground, where past and future are present.

Colette Brandenburg currently choreographs, performs, and teaches in LA, although she misses living in Brooklyn immensely. Colette trained with Evelyn Kreason and completed the Independent Study Program at the Alvin Ailey School. She has been a member of Michigan Ballet Theater, Midwest Dance Theater, and currently performs with Saba Dance in LA. She has been a guest faculty member at Valley College as well. She wants to thank all of her dancers past and current for letting her experiment her choreography on them.
Dancers: Colette Brandenburg, Victoria Brown, Eileen Crowe, Dana Vultaggio, and Shannon Zimmerman

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Schappert/Jansen]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Phase Shift
Music: John Schappert
Dance: Krista Jansen

John Schappert's formal education and background is in music, the computer sciences and systems engineering. He has been a musician, chef, computer operator, database and systems administrator, systems engineer, house-husband, caretaker, and home-school teacher. His life-long passions for electronic and Electro-acoustic music, Christian spirituality, art, and systems engineering have now come together to create a fusion of unique sound design and construction as inspiration, technology, and opportunity present themselves. He owes whatever talents and opportunities he may have to God and to his wife, and offers to them his eternal gratitude for their endless patience and inspiration.

Krista Jansen began her training with Ellen Robbins at the age of five and has been dancing and choreographing ever since. She is currently an assistant in two of Ms. Robbinsâ classes. She has performed with Doug Elkins, Levi Gonzalez, Brynn Rosen, Rachel Wynne, Christine Shallenberg, the Fly-by-Night Trapeze Dance Company and others as well as performing her own choreography at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Fourth Street Arts Festival and Dance Theatre Workshop.
Dancer: Krista Jansen

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Geers/Levine]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Verbosity Ore
Music: Doug Geers
Dance: Abigail Levine

Douglas Geers is a composer who works extensively with technology in composition, performance, and multimedia collaborations. He particularly enjoys manipulating sound color, both in instrumental and electronic music media. A former guitarist, the laptop is now his primary instrument. Currently, Geers is a professor of music at the University of Minnesota, where he founded and directs the annual Spark Festival. Verbosity Ore follows one short path unpacked from a thumbprint of music. Nearly all the sounds of the piece were created by manipulating a recording of one vocalist singing one word.

Abigail Levine has made dances for subway stations, swimming pools, sidewalks, airports, office buildings, gardens, galleries and theaters in New York City, Washington DC, Havana, Caracas, Mexico City and Taipei. Upcoming performances include Prisma Forum in Mexico City and Oaxaca (July 2009), the benefit launch of a new performance company, Move the House (May 14) and the creation of Soundtrack Q, a carnivalesque performance ride along the length of the Q subway line (from Carnegie Hall to Coney Island) with an original soundtrack played through audience members' ipods.
Performers: Navild Acosta, Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, Abigail Levine, Jimmy Smith, Despina Sophia Stamos and Storme Sundberg

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Izzo/Bonenfant]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Ground
Music: Alphonse Izzo
Dance: Jessica Bonenfant

Alphonse Izzo remembers hearing Straussâ Thus Spake Zarathustra as a boy while staring at a tank of gold fish swimming in endless circles. Heâs attempted to recreate that strange and beautiful juxtaposition through his music ever since. His compositions have been performed in the USA, Canada and abroad and his music also appears on CD through the Paris based Trace Label. Ground was composed by imagining the sound of a Harpsichord attempting to break out of its own sonic cage.

Jessica Bonenfant makes dances here, there and everywhere. She is Creative Director of Odonata Dance Project and one half of Greenfield & Bon: Purveyors of Fine Dance Theatre, a Brooklyn based duo that performs, tours and educates with a focus on collaboratively created dance theatre and contemporary partnering.
Dancers:Rachel Borgman and Sara Greenfield

60x60 Dance @ Galapagos, NYC (4/8/09) [Caird/Zimmerman]

noreply@blogger.com (David Morneau) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Going To The Match
Music: Adam Caird
Dance: Full Cast

Adam Caird graduated from Manchester University with 1st class honors, and from the Royal Northern College of Music with a GRNCM and an MPhil in Performance. His music ranges from orchestral to instrumental and vocal works. He has received performances at the Bridgewater Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, St. Davidâs Hall, Cardiff and the Purcell Room. Going to the Match was inspired by the scene around the stadium before a game. The sound of the turnstiles and the crowd form the musical material which represents how flows of people run sometimes against one another and at other times together in parallel currents.