Dance | Performance Space New York

Symptom

“A stirring piece, viscerally, and you’ll be thinking about it afterwards, as I am now.” – TC Daily Planet

Join twins, dancer Otto Ramstad and visual artist Emmett Ramstad, as they examine the human body, investigate notions of social bodies versus biological bodies, and explore the gaps between seeing, knowing and empathy. Symptom inspects the slippage between subjective and objective understandings of the human body, where a symptom acts as an indicator, trait, feature, mark or sign that is open for interpretation. Sound composed by electro-acoustic instrumentalist Andrea Parkins.

Co-created by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, Composer Andrea Parkins, Researcher and theorist Aren Aizura , Performed by Otto Ramstad and Emmett Ramstad

Since 1998 The BodyCartography Project’s co-directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have created numerous dance, film and installation works. Their work extends from intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, dance films in national parks, to highly complex works for site or stage amidst installations, video and sound. Their work has been produced across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America. Recent highlights include a commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet and the premiere of their work 1/2 Life with a physicist, composer Zeena Parkins and visual artist Emmett Ramstad at Performance Space 122, NYC, the Southern Theater and Art of This Gallery in Minneapolis. They are featured artists in the first book about site dance in the USA published by University of Florida Press titled Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces and 2010 McKnight Fellows.

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
NY PREMIERE | DANCE | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, Jan 7 4:30PM / Sat, Jan 8 9:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 4:30PM / Mon, Jan 10 6:30PM

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Now and Nowhere Else

“It’s 1977. It’s 1973. It’s 1958. It’s 1962. It’s 1979. And I’m going to ask you the same damn thing people are always asking me, like ‘how did you end up here?'”

Jamming, cramming, sucking and fucking off with dance, live music, theatre, and video: an unkempt, bleached and bludgeoned fake take on Beckett and Sartre, and Cage, and Cunningham, and Barfly and chance. You are now here. You are nowhere.

Made in collaboration with Diane Madden, Joey Truman, Peter Warren, Pål Asle Pettersen and Jim Dawson.

Developed through a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center and is a co-production of Touscene and RAS in Stavanger, Norway and is generously supported by Norsk Kulturrad, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, FFUK and Stavanger Kulturbyfond. Supported in part by TestPerformanceTest. Additional residency support provided @ the Collapsable Hole by the Collapsable Giraffe.

Photos by Minna Suojoki

NY PREMIERE | Theatre, Dance | Upstairs

Wednesday, November 10 –
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
Sunday at 6PM
Saturday at 10PM (Sold-Out)
Thursday Night Social: November 11

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Supergabriela

“Hi, hello my love, I’m so happy you’ve called…I’m happy to hear your voice, I was missing you.”
– Cosmin Manolsecu on the phone with Gabriela Tudor

“Inventive, relaxed and joyful” – Alex Leo Serban, Elle magazine (on Serial Paradise)

Cosmin Manolescu, one of Romania’s leading contemporary choreographers and artistic director of Serial Paradise Company, continues his investigation of and desire to deepen the relationship between performers and audience in SUPERGABRIELA. Alternately sexy, confounding, and dark-humored, this 2-part evening of dance explores expressions of love & loss, heightened sensation, and the illusion of everyday life in Cosmin’s signature satirical style and superb visual sense.

Part 1: dreams.land Directed by Cosmin Manolescu, performed by Camille Mutel & Litsa Kiousi

Part 2: superGabriela Choreographed & performed by Cosmin Manolescu

Cosmin Manolescu, in addition to directing SUPERGABRIELA, has initiated the “Moving Dialogue” series aiming to foster engagement and interaction between both emerging and established American and Romanian dance artists. The project focuses on networking, artistic process, and professional development for performers, choreographers, dance critics and cultural managers through studio research, residencies, classes and workshops, and more. Moving Dialogue is based on the initial commitment of the Romanian Cultural Institute and National Dance Centre Bucharest and is facilitated by both Cosmin Manolescu (RO) and Levi Gonzalez (USA). Moving Dialogue takes place between Movement Research, Dance Theater Workshop and the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York.

The performances of SUPERGABRIELA close a series of memorial events dedicated to Gabriela Tudor, Cosmin’s manager and wife, who set many landmarks in the world of Romanian contemporary art with passion and dedication. Thursday, November 4 celebrates the launch of the Gabriela Tudor Foundation, which focuses on contributing to the development of emerging Romanian cultural managers.

Supported in part by TestPerformanceTest

WORLD PREMIERE PREMIERE in Two Parts | Dance | Upstairs

November 4-5, 2010
Thursday & Friday at 8PM
Thursday Night Social & Launch of the Gabriela Tudor Foundation: November 4
Post-performance talk: November 5

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I Am Saying Goodnight

I am saying goodnight

“She is certainly intense, and she is certainly talented.”
– John Rockwell, The New York Times

Every night I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee and start all over again until exhausted I AM SAYING GOODNIGHT only to wake up in the morning longing for the smell of coffee.

A pre-decided game, with an intense physical vocabulary, unfiltered emotions, and an unflinching embrace of fatalism.

Conceived and directed by Amanda Loulaki
Created by Rebecca Brooks, Carolyn Hall, Becky Serrell,
Pedro Osorio
and Amanda Loulaki
Performed by Carolyn Hall, Becky Serrell, Pedro Osorio
and Amanda Loulaki
Sound score by Georgios Kontos with music by Giannis Aggelakas
and Nikos Veliotis with permission by Altogethernow
Visual Context by Joanna Seitz
Lights by Jonathan Belcher

Amanda Loulaki was born and raised in Crete. Amanda Loulaki and Short Mean Lady, a project oriented company was formed in 2001. Amanda’s choreography has been presented at Danspace Project, La MaMa, Dixon Place, PS 122, Joyce Soho, Dance New Amsterdam, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, 11th Biennale of artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, BucharEast.West International Dance Festival, The Mediterranean Contemporary Dance Platform, American Dance Festival and MIT. Amanda was selected for The Barnard Project in 2007 at DTW and was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard College of Columbia University during the 2007 fall semester. Since 1998, Amanda has been the Programming Director at Movement Research, and has programmed the Improvisation Festival/NY. www.amandaloulaki.com

Supported in part by TestPerformanceTest, The Jerome Foundation and Dance Theater Workshop’s Suitcase Fund as part of the East/Central Europe Cultural Partnerships Program, with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
DANCE | UPSTAIRS at PS122
Fri, January 7 – 11, 2011
Single Tickets: $20, $15 (students/seniors)

WORLD PREMIERE presented by Performance Space 122 as part of our 30th Anniversary Season
October 13 – 16, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
LATE SHOW: Saturday, October 16 at 10PM
Thursday Night Social: October 14

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Rumble Ghost

“Best dance of 2009” – David Velasco, Artforum (on Death Is Certain)

4 STARS – The Financial Times

Horror movies will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. They act as metaphors – scary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Without ghosts to explain haunted houses, we are left with the pain sites of crumbling careers, failing marriages, abused children. In Rumble Ghost, as the flimsy membrane between an American horror movie classic and the fragility of the human condition deteriorates, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there: in your mind.

Performed in Jack Ferver’s “hyper-reality” style, seven performers reinterpret the 1982 classic horror film Poltergeist, exploring pop-psychological landscapes with movement, original music, and a highly calibrated script. The Poltergeist theme corrodes and gives way to a group therapy session, created from Ferver’s personal experience with “Inner Child Work”, in a therapy technique aptly called: Psychodrama. As the performers are overtaken by their own child selves, a disturbing spectacle confronts the audience and a fearless exploration of the company’s own personas ensues.

Written and Choreographed by Jack Ferver
Performed by Benjamin Asriel, Reid Bartelme, Christian Coulson, Carlye Eckert, Jack Ferver, Michelle Mola, Breanna O’Mara
Dramaturgy by Josh Lubin-Levy, Original score by Calder Singer, Costumes by Reid Bartelme

Rumble Ghost is made possible with a generous space grant from Abrons Arts Center, Center for Performance Research and supported in part by TestPerformanceTest and The Jerome Foundation.

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
DANCE | UPSTAIRS at PS122

Fri, Jan 7 10PM / Sat, Jan 8 7:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 7:30PM

World Premiere Dec 12 2010

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