Alberto Zayden poetry from Echoes and Dreams

DREAMCATCHER by Alberto Zayden

The sieve worked at first

Only good ones passed

Like tiny balls of couscous

Filtering through a dreamcatcher

Of nylon panty hose

But the nightmares

Cloying and relentless clogged the web

Ice-smooth and skated off

Rappelling towards us down the sides

On the backs of hungry spiders

For days we prayed to the alarm clock

A flash of blood red LEDs our only hope

Embarrassed by the silence of a coddling timepiece

It could not bare to let us know

That we had never been asleep

Philip Gardner- Oberon's Grove- and Michel Ayello

http://oberon481.typepad.com/oberons_grove/2010/05/rehearsal-octavia-cup.html

http://oberon481.typepad.com/oberons_grove/2010/05/octavia-cup-rehearsal-gallery.html

http://luggvale.bandcamp.com/album/lugg-drops

Echoes and Dreams, May 20-23, 2010

Laura Ward and Octavia Cup brings ECHOES AND DREAMS to the Queens Fringe Festival. An exploration of movement reflecting verse and music where dance leads itself through visceral reflections of frigid abandonment and a labyrinth of pictures emerges through words and patterns. The company known for stretching the boundaries of traditional dance performance teams up with poet Alberto Zayden (whose poetry the New York Times calls "Visionary") to bring a spectacle of free flowing expressionism to the stage. Original music from French composer Michel Ayello and Swiss-Italian Fa Ventilato add to the mix with loops, samples and curls fusing new sounds with echos from the past. Sets and design by installation artist extraordinaire, Judy Thomas.
Performers include Georgina Aragon, Kristen Goldrick, Nana Hitomi, Jessica Martineau, Katie Moorhead, Jaime Thompson, Laura Ward, Natalia Wodnicka, Alberto Zayden

The Secret Theatre- Long Island City
http://www.secrettheatre.com/
Thursday May 20th at 8pm
Friday May 21st at 8pm
Saturday May 22nd at 8pm
Sunday May 23rd at 2pm
Directions- http://www.secrettheatre.com/index.htm?page=directions

Rebound Festival in New Haven, CT on April 25th

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

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

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.

dancing with dogs

Self Portrait with Zeus