I will be doing a duet with Buddy Valdez for this festival. Buddy is an awesome dancer who trained at Julliard. He recently returned from Chicago dancing with Luna Negra.
We will be dancing to original music from Fuckintosh (Fa Ventilato)- a Satie vs Wagner mashup.
Here is a link
http://www.clarkdancetheatre.org/rebound.htm
Monday, February 16, 2009
Dumbarton Oaks with the Astoria Symphony Orchestra on March 21st
BUY TICKETS NOW
http://www.astoriamusic.org/programs/spring-info.html
March 21 at 8pm
at LaGuardia College
31-10 Thompson Ave
LIC, NY
Tickets are $15/$20
Box Office 718 482 5151
or online at
www.astoriamusic.org
We are making new work to perform in Queens! We will be doing
Dumbarton Oaks with the Astoria Symphony Orchestra in their SPRING SONG DANCE show
March 21st at 8pm at LaGuardia College in Queens
Dancing with the Astoria Symphony will be
Laura Ward/Octavia Cup Dance Theatre
Ballet for Young Audiences/Long Island City Ballet
Martha Graham School Company
Octavia Cup has some new dancers!
Welcome to Temple Kemesis and Katie Moorhead! Laura and Jaime are still kicking!
Dumbarton Oaks will feature these four!
Link to more Dumbarton Oaks pictures
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=64713&id=613398084&saved#/album.php?aid=64713&id=613398084
Friday, September 5, 2008
Creative life – killer music – and a performance
Amazing things are happening as life is stirring and shifting. I met Frank Heer and Fa last night at Lucy’s in the East Village. First of all Lucy is the Queen of the East Vill. Her hair is Queen of the East village and her presence is phenomenal. Truly- wonderful.
Back to Frank and Fa…
Frank wrote the book Bingo Palace (Swiss version not the one people know here) which was the inspiration for Whistle Me Higher by Bingo Palace- the soundtrack for the book. Fa and Frank are Bingo Palace. That was the inspiration for Whistle Me Higher: Imaginary Dances From Bingo Palace – the show I made with Octavia Cup.
We met up right after rehearsal for Between the Channels- a new piece we are performing at the 92nd St Y this Sunday the 7th at 6pm. We are part of New Choreographers on Point Previews show. We have had the fortune of doing this shows several years in a row. We often get other gigs through this. YAY! The music for this show is another Fuckintosh (Fa) mashup of Eric Satie vs. Richard Wagner- it is fantastic- especially for the musos out there. LOVE IT!
Also super exciting is the 2nd Bingo Palace that I recently got from Fa- we had just gone to see the 800 year of Minimalism at Damroshe Park – got totally soaked but had a great time! Gottshing was awesome – as was Beata Viscera who performed Pérotin’s work. YUMMY. On the way home we listened to Monumental Thrill and I got the scoop straight from the seahorses mouth!
Equally excellent was getting new Mercury Rev from Jonathan this week. My ears are smiling.
On another note I am getting involved with LIMS (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies) again- the sweetest love of my life. I taught an Intro to LMA a few weeks ago and I will be teaching in their upcoming Bartenieff Certification program. Check it out! This ROCKS! No joke- the most expansive movement vocabulary and a kicking philosophy to go with it.
Great things- loads of people from the past are popping up in my life and it is 90% bananas! Sorry about the bananas Georgina.
Off to England on Tuesday- Yorkshire Downs.
Back to Frank and Fa…
Frank wrote the book Bingo Palace (Swiss version not the one people know here) which was the inspiration for Whistle Me Higher by Bingo Palace- the soundtrack for the book. Fa and Frank are Bingo Palace. That was the inspiration for Whistle Me Higher: Imaginary Dances From Bingo Palace – the show I made with Octavia Cup.
We met up right after rehearsal for Between the Channels- a new piece we are performing at the 92nd St Y this Sunday the 7th at 6pm. We are part of New Choreographers on Point Previews show. We have had the fortune of doing this shows several years in a row. We often get other gigs through this. YAY! The music for this show is another Fuckintosh (Fa) mashup of Eric Satie vs. Richard Wagner- it is fantastic- especially for the musos out there. LOVE IT!
Also super exciting is the 2nd Bingo Palace that I recently got from Fa- we had just gone to see the 800 year of Minimalism at Damroshe Park – got totally soaked but had a great time! Gottshing was awesome – as was Beata Viscera who performed Pérotin’s work. YUMMY. On the way home we listened to Monumental Thrill and I got the scoop straight from the seahorses mouth!
Equally excellent was getting new Mercury Rev from Jonathan this week. My ears are smiling.
On another note I am getting involved with LIMS (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies) again- the sweetest love of my life. I taught an Intro to LMA a few weeks ago and I will be teaching in their upcoming Bartenieff Certification program. Check it out! This ROCKS! No joke- the most expansive movement vocabulary and a kicking philosophy to go with it.
Great things- loads of people from the past are popping up in my life and it is 90% bananas! Sorry about the bananas Georgina.
Off to England on Tuesday- Yorkshire Downs.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Blah blah blog for NYFA
Artistic Intent
The emotional and physical strength and resilience of the “weaker sex” is an inherent theme in my work. I am also interested in teasing forth the darker shadow side of humanity as it pulses beneath the surface, drawing it out and shedding light on the spaces between motion and motivation. Heavy doses of humor, pop references and a sense of the absurd make these explorations compelling and palatable. Kaleidoscopic stories unfold around artifice and compulsion revealing themselves through non-linear, multi-layered collage-like spectacles that beg the question “is this getting better?”
The work reverberates on many levels echoing the consciousness of the viewer, providing drama and resonance while reaching into the secret soul spaces that thrum beneath the sensual assault of daily life.
The choreography is usually on pointe, but the movement expands well beyond the conventional forms of ballet as so clearly stated by Jack Anderson from the New York Times "instead of having dancers skim with balletic grace, she often had them stagger". The surprisingly controversial use of the pointe shoe happily places the company in the indefinable place betwixt and between ballet and modern dance. The movement vocabulary has developed through a multitude of dance styles creating a highly athletic lexicon that allows for great diversity of expression.
I believe it is within the scope of art to create space for reflection and connection, this in turn engages the vibrational level of the individual psyche, which then reshapes the collective unconscious. Dance has the ability to affect the audience on multiple levels often taking the viewer on a parallel ride through their own energetic body as they externally watch and internally take part in the show. This stimulates seismic shifts down to the cells.
As artists we take creative responsibility to make work and we must have faith in the integrity of the creative process- to allow our work to be what it is, and to accept ourselves as purveyors of the artistic expression of this current zeitgeist.
The slightly twisted explorations we present on stage juxtapose our mundane vision with that of Cervantes’ Don Quixote whose double-edged sword was the knack of seeing life not as it really is but as it should be! In dance I think it is time we sought specifically to support the whole and wholeness of our community on the local and global stage.
The emotional and physical strength and resilience of the “weaker sex” is an inherent theme in my work. I am also interested in teasing forth the darker shadow side of humanity as it pulses beneath the surface, drawing it out and shedding light on the spaces between motion and motivation. Heavy doses of humor, pop references and a sense of the absurd make these explorations compelling and palatable. Kaleidoscopic stories unfold around artifice and compulsion revealing themselves through non-linear, multi-layered collage-like spectacles that beg the question “is this getting better?”
The work reverberates on many levels echoing the consciousness of the viewer, providing drama and resonance while reaching into the secret soul spaces that thrum beneath the sensual assault of daily life.
The choreography is usually on pointe, but the movement expands well beyond the conventional forms of ballet as so clearly stated by Jack Anderson from the New York Times "instead of having dancers skim with balletic grace, she often had them stagger". The surprisingly controversial use of the pointe shoe happily places the company in the indefinable place betwixt and between ballet and modern dance. The movement vocabulary has developed through a multitude of dance styles creating a highly athletic lexicon that allows for great diversity of expression.
I believe it is within the scope of art to create space for reflection and connection, this in turn engages the vibrational level of the individual psyche, which then reshapes the collective unconscious. Dance has the ability to affect the audience on multiple levels often taking the viewer on a parallel ride through their own energetic body as they externally watch and internally take part in the show. This stimulates seismic shifts down to the cells.
As artists we take creative responsibility to make work and we must have faith in the integrity of the creative process- to allow our work to be what it is, and to accept ourselves as purveyors of the artistic expression of this current zeitgeist.
The slightly twisted explorations we present on stage juxtapose our mundane vision with that of Cervantes’ Don Quixote whose double-edged sword was the knack of seeing life not as it really is but as it should be! In dance I think it is time we sought specifically to support the whole and wholeness of our community on the local and global stage.
Monday, July 7, 2008
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