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GLORIA

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GLORIA is Maria Hassabi’s fourth evening-length piece; for its creation, she has worked with several of her longtime collaborators, dancers Hristoula Harakas and David Adamo, fashion designers ThreeAsFour, musician Jody Elf, dramaturge Marcos Rosales, lighting designer Joe Levasseur, and visual artist Scott Lyall.

GLORIA is composed through the layering of three individual solos. Each solo was developed separately and then joined together. As a result, they inhabit a space of quiet stillness and isolation in which the body is viewed as sculpture, dead and alive at the same time. Moving between one iconic posture and another, the dancers invoke a set of fleeting images within their abstract, mobile diagram. GLORIA’s rhythm stretches time across an optical field of perception, allowing each audience member to recall their own references and fantasies.

Named by Time Out New York as one of “25 Ace New Yorkers to Keep an Eye On” in 2006, Maria Hassabi, born in Cyprus, is an independent choreographer living and working in New York City.

Photography by Natasha Papadopoulou

Running time: 1 hour

Co-commissioned by Allison Sarofim and Ballroom Marfa.

GLORIA is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

NOW PLAYING AS PART OF
COIL FESTIVAL 08
SHOWTIMES: January 11, 2008 at 10pm, January 12, 2008 at 3pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)
N.Y. Premiere
November 7-10, 2007

Version 2.0

Version.2.0 is the third episode of an unexpected trilogy. While the first two pieces, MM3 and Woyzeck, explore the public aspect of war, Version 2.0 confronts the private domain.

In Version 2.0, the audience sits on stage between Halogen lights as three performers – one man and two women – thrash it out just inches away, and occasionally over their heads. Bodies smack, yank, collide, and tremble, repelling awkwardly off of each other, disrupting any expectation of “grace.”
Although it may look like contact improv, each movement is carefully choreographed. Director Zsolt Palcza works with performers who have little formal dance training in order to access the “rough visceral movement” he finds so compelling.

Choreography by Zsolt Palcza. By Readymade Dance Theater Company

July 12-15, 2007
Thursday-Sunday at 8:00 p.m.
$20, $15 Students, Seniors

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

“Haunting voice and powerful lyrics… voice reminds of classic singers
such as Patsy Cline”
-monstersandcritics.com

“Brilliant and thought-provoking…Lear deBessonet blows the doors off this
one”
-Nytheatre.com (on Death Might Be Your Santa Claus)

One of Time Out’s 25 People to Watch in 2006, director Lear deBessonet reinvents Brecht’s savage masterpiece with tight choreography and seductive Country and Blues. Transplanted into a richly imagined and anachronistic 1920s Chicago, and with live original music by country/blues singer Kelley Mcrae, intrepid St. Joan and her Slaughterhouse King weave a cautionary tale for the 21st Century. The survival of youth, hope and faith in a world of greed and corruption hang in the balance.

Click to read “Faith Confronted, and Defended, Downtown”an interview with director Lear deBessonet and Young Jean Lee in The New York Times and watch the audio slide show.

St. Joan of the Stockyards is presented by special arrangement with Culture Project as part of Women Center Stage 2007.

June 16 – July 1, 2007
$18, $15 Students, Seniors
($10 Members)

The Devil on All Sides

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“…dramatizes the inhumanity of war with stunning eloquence.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“One of the brightest stars of San Francisco’s experimental theater scene.” —San Francisco Arts Monthly
“Director-translator Ben Yalom does us a huge favor by introducing French magical realist Fabrice Melquiot to our shores”— Time Out
“Extraordinary play”— Backstage

A haunting love story unfolds as a Christian falls in love with a Muslim during the war in
ex-Yugoslavia.

When it premiered France (2003), Le Diable en Partage was named both
“Best French Play of the Year” and “Theatrical Discovery of the Year” by the
National Critics’ Syndicate. Foolsfury delivers the first U.S. production
of a play by Fabrice Melquiot, one of the most celebrated contemporary
French playwrights and winner of the prestigious Prix Jean-Jacques
Gauthier from Le Figaro. A spellbinding spectacle, it is a unique and startling collision
of the troupe’s trademark vibrant physical style and the text’s remarkable blend of
expressionism, poetry, fantasy, and harsh, raw reality.

Featuring: Debórah Eliezer, Stephen Jacob, Brian Livingston, Ryan O’Donnell, Nora El Samahy*, Joseph William.

This project is produced in conjunction with Alliance Française and the Cultural services of the French Consulate, and supported by significant funding from The Creative Work Fund, Etants Donnés (the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts).

* Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity; AEA Approved Showcase

Photo credit: Wendy K Yalom

June 13 – July 1, 2007
Preview: Tuesday, June 12, at 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday – Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
$18, $15 Students, Seniors
($10 Members)

The Forest is Young and Full of Life

“…part of a trend of multidisciplinary ensembles with genre-defying approaches that appeal to smart, adventurous young audiences.”
– Anne Midgette, The New York Times

“…crackling virtuosity…their music grabs the listener by the lapels and refuses to let go.”
– John Von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

In the 1960’s Italian composer Luigi Nono turned to theater and electronics to express his political sentiments outside of the constraints of the concert hall. Nono’s bold anti-war statement, A floresta é jovem cheja de vida (The Forest is Young and Full of Life (1966) blends his experiments with the human voice, traditional instruments and electronic playback into a self-contained dramatic work. ICE is proud to present this work in collaboration with world-renowned soprano Tony Arnold and director Habib Azar.

Approximate running time: 65 minutes

New: Listen to International Contemporary Ensemble’s Concerto 2, Movement 4 in mp3 format.

May 22 and 23

Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

$20, $15 Students, Seniors

($10 Members)