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Hellzapoppin’: What about the bees?
New York Live Arts
Oct 5-8, 2022
In this new adventure Rainer juxtaposes text, dance and excerpts from the two classic films—HELLZAPOPPIN’, a 1941 Hollywood musical, and Zero for Conduct, 1933, by French auteur Jean Vigo—as backdrop and inspiration for some of her choreography.
Oct 5-8, 2022
In this new adventure Rainer juxtaposes text, dance and excerpts from the two classic films—HELLZAPOPPIN’, a 1941 Hollywood musical, and Zero for Conduct, 1933, by French auteur Jean Vigo—as backdrop and inspiration for some of her choreography.
Nothingbeing
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
TBA Festival: 22
Portland, OR
Oct 5-8, 2022
A collaboration that investigates ways to embody the conundrum of nothingness and "being."
TBA Festival: 22
Portland, OR
Oct 5-8, 2022
A collaboration that investigates ways to embody the conundrum of nothingness and "being."
Vs.
Vs. can be considered part tribunal of evidence — guided and constrained by the statutory powers of the “Interrogator” — and part psychodynamic investigation of a sovereign polity, a collective of accused citizenry.
patch the sky with 5 colored stones
Conceived by Daria FaÏn as a multilayered as a collaborative journey in celebration of her 60th birthday, and the culmination of 40 years of research into the body/mind embodiment within architecture, language, spirituality and communal action.
Last Audience: a performance manual
With Last Audience: a performance manual, a canary torsi reimagines performance for an era of social distance. A series of printed manuals developed in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Our Labyrinth
MetLiveArts in partnership with New York Live Arts, commissioned a unique, site-specific iteration of Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei's durational performance work OUR LABYRINTH.
ECHO EXHIBIT
I had the pleasure of participating in Asiya Wadud's Echo Exhibit.
My collaboration with Chia-Lun Chang chosen as one of the poems exhibited in Lower Manhattan.
Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born: Sitting On a Man’s Head
One of PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus‘s central questions “How do we weave a collective song?” builds on the ideas behind Okpokwasili’s and Born’s durational piece, Sitting On a Man’s Head.
Parts of some Sextets
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center
15-17 November 2019
DUMBO, 29 Jay Street, Bklyn
A piece centered around 12 mattresses, a 17th century American diarist and the madness of action.
Restagings No. 3: Fall (C.A.)
Fridman Gallery is honored to present Abigail Levine’s Restagings No. 3: Fall (C.A.), a 10 ½ hour performance and collective ritual for a community of performers, writers, and their witnesses.
Sunday, October 13th 2pm-12:30am
Yanira Castro | a canary torsi : Live Feed In-Process: Last Audience
New York Live Arts
April 26, 2019
Last Audience is a piece made with the audience. It grapples with questions of agency, manipulation and the complexity of choice inside a theatrical context.
Albertine Prize Launch 2019
French Embassy
972 Fifth Avenue
New York
April 3, 2019
I had pleasure of being invited to read a excerpt from Small Country by Gaël Faye, one of the five finalists for the prize. Translated by Sarah Ardizzone
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Sharjah Biennial 14, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Collaboration with Caecilia Tripp 5-screen film installation, copper sculpture
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
The Museum of Modern Art
September 16, 2018–February 3, 2019
MoMA opens a retrospective exhibition of the groundbreaking work, ideas and artists that came out of Judson Dance Theater. In conjunction with this exhibition are a series of performances.
Spinning a Yarn
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:30 pm
For the closing of Contra la Pared, David Thomson collaborated with exhibiting artist Analia Segal to create a solo.
Dance and Process at The Kitchen
Dance and Process @ The Kitchen
June 9, 6pm: Athena Kokoronis and Angie Pittman
Working with Athena Kokoronis|Domestic Performance Agency and a cast of beautiful performers
TEDx Asbury Park | Life is a Dance
May 19, 2018
9am
Paramount Theatre
1300 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ
The 6th edition of TEDxAsburyPark will be themed ‘Passion.
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project-Altered Annually
Early Works & DUST
Marseilles, France
Porto, Portugal
Barcelona, Spain
14th-19th December 2017
Kaneza Schaal | Go Forth | New Orleans
Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 7:30pm
Friday, November 10, 2017 - 7:30pm
Saturday, November 11, 2017 - 7:30pm
Saturday, November 11, 2017 - 11:00pm
Kaneza Schaal | Go Forth | Cairo
Cairo International Festival for Contemporary & Experimental Theatre
Cairo, Egypt
Wednesday, September 27 at 10PM
Thursday, September 28 at 10PM
Maya Ciarrocchi | A Remedy for a Constitutional Crisis
Abrons Art Center
September 17, 2017 (Constitution Day)
12pm-8pm
A Remedy for a Constitutional Crisis is an eight-hour celebratory reading of the United States Constitution. This event is free to the public and will occur in the outdoor amphitheater at Abrons Art Center on September 17, 2017 (Constitution Day)
a canary torsi | CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR
Abrons Arts Center
The Chocolate Factory
The Invisible Dog
September 7-23, 2017
CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR is a trilogy of new works by interdisciplinary artist Yanira Castro and a team of collaborators.
Yvonne Rainer & David Michalek | SlowDancing/TrioA
St Marks Danspace Project
New York City
June 23 - July 1
Danspace Project premieres SlowDancing/TrioA, a new video installation by artist, David Michalek, in collaboration with choreographer, Yvonne Rainer!
Marta Renzi | In search of lost time
Stamford, VT
June 2017
Marta Renzi invited Aislinn MacMaster, Charles Caster-Dudzick and myself up to the beautiful and cozy home of Marta Miller in Vermont for 5 days to shoot a little something.
Gustave Akakpo | Skins and Hoods (Even Knights Get Forgotten)
Skins and Hoods (Even Knights Get Forgotten) Mini-lab
Abrons Arts Center
3 May 2017
4p
As part of the French Play Series, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in association with Abrons Arts Center sponsored a mini-lab and a public reading of the play.
RADICAL BODIES: Anna Halprin; Simone Forti; Yvonne Rainer in CA and NY 1955-1972
UC Santa Barbara
Hatlen Theater
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 9:00am to Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 7:30pm
Radical Bodies reunites Halprin, Forti, and Rainer for the first time in over fifty-five years.
Leslie Scalapino Award Reading | The Triumph of Crowds
New Ohio Theater 5 December 2016 I had the pleasure of performing in the reading for Third annual Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. Brigid McLeer is the recipient of the third annual Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. In memory of Leslie Scalapino and her “commitment to the community of experimental writing...
The Commons Choir | BROOKLYN REZOUND (work-in-progress)
BROOKLYN REZOUND, created by The Commons Choir in collaboration with composer Darius Jones, is an investigative musical and dance performance that delves into the history of diversity and displacement in Brooklyn.
a canary torsi | CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR
This summer I had the pleasure of working on a new project with Yanira Castro. We began with a series of extended interviews in the Spring and workshops in the Summer. CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR is a trilogy of works to premiere for three weeks in September 2017 at three commissioning NYC venues: The Chocolate Factory,...
Kaneza Schaal | Go Forth
River to River Festival | LMCC
River to River Festival
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Building 110
Thu, Jun 16 from 4:30–5:30pm
Fri, Jun 17 from 4:30–5:30pm
Sat, Jun 18 from 2:30–3:30pm
Sun, Jun 19 from 2:30–3:30pm
“…a (fine) place to consider existence beneath and beyond the earth, “Go Forth” finds an immediate and visceral strength in ancient codes of mourning.”
–...
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project-Altered Annually
The Kitchen
2-4 June 2016
8p
ADI/NYC PremiereThe Concept of Dust: Continuous Project-Altered Annually” is an ongoing work-in-progress that interweaves formal dance and personal themes of aging and mortality with humor and diverse texts
Maria Hassabi | PLASTIC
February 21 - March 20, 2016
Museum of Modern Art
Artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi’s PLASTIC is a commissioned live installation in which dancers perform throughout MoMA continuously during opening hours.
Kaneza Schaal | Go Forth
7-12 January 2016
Westbeth Center
Drawing inspiration from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, GO FORTH is a performance and photo installation that considers how we create space in our lives for the presence of the absent.
Non-Sequitur by Khadijah Queen
10 - 20 December 2015
Thursday thru Sunday
8pm Thu-Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun
Theaterlab
357 West 36th Street, 3rd fl, New York NY 10018
(elevator)
David Bowie | Blackstar
Got a call out of the blue to do a music video…they couldn’t tell me the name of the artist as it was extremely confidential. When I got to rehearsal and discovered who it was, it blew my mind!! It was a pleasure meeting the man & legend. He will be missed…
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?
25 October 7pm
FIAC & Musée du Louvre / Auditorium du Louvre
Paris, France
28 October
La Cartonnerie - Friche La Belle de Mai
Marseille, France
Patricia Hoffbauer | Dances for Intimate Spaces and Friendly People
Performances
Wednesday, September 30 through Saturday, October 03
7:30 pm
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers)
a canary torsi | Performance Portrait: Live (work-in-progress) (2015)
August 2015
Performance Portrait: Live is an interactive, multi-channel video installation that focuses on the symbiotic relationship between performer and spectator.
Critical Correspondence | Takahiro Yamamoto in Conversation with David Thomson
26 July 2015
An informal conversation with Takahiro on aspects of aesthetics, cultural identity, practice and form.
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?
June 9–14, 2015
The Museum of Modern Art presents the East Coast premiere of Yvonne Rainer's latest work. This ongoing work-in-progress interweaves formal dance with personal themes of aging and mortality, humor, and diverse texts—intermittently read by Rainer and the dancers—dealing with ancient Mideast dynasties, paleontological findings, and literary quotations.
Daria Faïn & Robert Kocik | BROOKLYN REZOUND
21 April 2015
BRIC
As part of BRIC’s Stoop Series The Commons Choir will perform BROOKLYN REZOUND, conceived and directed by Robert Kocik & Daria Fain with another fascinating cast of performers. A sonic and physical mediation on commerce, language, and Brooklyn's history.
Beth Gill | Portrait Studies
April 15, 2015
Live Ideas Festival
S K Y – Force and Wisdom in America Today
Portrait Studies is a commissioned pièce d'occasion directed by Beth Gill. Sharing the program with Laurie Anderson and Deborah Hay.
E-Moves presents Malcolm Low
April 10, 11, 17, 2015
Harlem Stage Gatehouse
E-Moves Festival
Malcolm Low's
In the thrust towards the future…I want to leave something of use
Tanz Farm presents Malcolm Low | In the thrust towards the future (2015)
March 26-28, 2015
Tanz Farm
Atlanta, GA
Malcolm Low's
In the thrust towards the future…I want to leave something of use
Walker Arts Center presents Tere O’Connor | BLEED
March 19-21, 2015
Walker Arts Center
Minneapolis, MN
The final performances of BLEED
#spacetobreathe
February 2 - March 27, 2015
Gibney Dance Center
The recent cultural climate has shed light on the systemic conflation of violence with the black male body—bodies that are often perceived as threatening. Featuring visual artwork by performing artists Raja Feather Kelly, Jaamil Kosoko, Jumatatu Poe, Will Rawls and David Thomson (in collaboration with artist/designer Tony Whitfield),...
Tere O’Connor | Sister
JAN 9 & 11, 2015
American Realness
Abrons Arts Center
New York Premiere of the third part of the quartet which culminates in BLEED. In Sister, hyper-intricate rhythmic systems provide the chatter between the performers as they are propelled into an increasingly mysterious cascade of events.
Alain Buffard | Baron Samedi (2012)
Premiered in April 2012 at the Théâtre de Nîmes in France, Alain Buffard’s Baron Samedi is named after a Haitian “Vaudou” spirit. A tutelary figure for the work, Baron Samedi invokes ghosts, extracts the perfect dancing body and is a symbol of visibility in life and invisibility in death. Buffard continues his longstanding connection with...
Considering an Exhibition (2009)
A photographer wrestles with his conscience in his small attic studio at night. In a crisis of faith, he keeps returning to his stark black-and-white images for proof that what he does matters. After a bath, image and reality merge into a new beginning. By Marta Renzi, with David Hamilton Thomson, camera Jake Goldwasser, photos...
Landing/Place motion capture
Here is a sample of some footage from some tests we did at Ohio State University’s Lab while working on Bebe Miller’s Landing/Place.