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(New York, NY) - Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is pleased to present Artists in Residence SPLICE: Clifton/Ng. This shared program walks the line between reality and illusion with two world premieres by DNA’s 2009-2010 Artists in Residence, Daniel Clifton and Mei-Yin Ng.
December 3-6
Performance Times: Thursday, Friday, Satur...day at 8:00pm, Sunday at 3:00pm
Ticket Prices: $17, ($12 members, $14 students)
*$10 RUSH tickets available from 7:00-7:30pm on performance evenings/2:00-2:30pm on Sunday
*A post-show discussion moderated by Ishmael Houston-Jones will follow the Thursday, December 3 performance.
*The performance on Sunday, December 6 will be live streamed on DNA’s website www.dnadance.org
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Daniel Clifton
Dust
A World Premiere
Choreographed by Daniel Clifton
Performed by Daniel Clifton, Sarah Holcman, and Kathryn Logan
Music composed collaboratively and performed by Daniel Clifton, Sarah Holcman, and Kathryn Logan
Costumes by Daniel Clifton
Written collaboratively with Daniel Clifton, Sarah Holcman, and Kathryn Logan
“It was a good thing that she did not know what went on in his mind, and, through his
mind, what happened to his body” John Steinbeck
Imagined histories, real and unreal memories, conjured futures, magical creatures, and dreamed-up monuments are used as the entry point to examine the passage of time.
Daniel Clifton’s residency was made possible, in part, by a generous gift from Joanna Fields.
Daniel Clifton, based in Brooklyn, NY, is from Niceville, FL, where he spent many years writing and playing music in punk and jazz bands. His dances have been presented at Dancenow/NYC, Dance Off, Hollins University, Florida State University, The Kitchen, FAUT BRULER POUR BRILLER/YOU GOT TO BURN TO SHINE, The A.W.A.R.D. Show!, ADF, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dancespace, North Carolina School of the Arts, and WAX. Clifton has taught at DNA, Lehman College, Hollins University, Sarah Lawrence College, North Carolina School of the Arts, the American Dance Festival and the Korean Dance Festival. Clifton has danced for Tere O’Connor Dance, Martha Clarke, and Nicholas Leichter Dance. While in New York City he has also worked with Julia Ritter Performance Group, photographer Tony Jones, visual artist Tunga, comedian Pam Ann, and the New York Historical Society. Clifton earned his MFA in Dance from Hollins University/ADF and his BFA in Dance from Florida State University.
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Mei-Yin Ng / MEI-BE WHATever
Mentallic (Mental+ Metallic)
A World Premiere
Choreographed by Mei-Yin Ng
Performed by Kelly Buwalda, Junichi Fukuda, Kathleen Kelley, Mei-Yin Ng, Cassandra Taylor, and Owen David (Apprentice)
Music and Interactive Sound Designed & Performed by Matt Rocker
Video/Media Designed and Perform by Eric Koziol & Nicolas Jenkins
Costumes by Mika Inatome
Interactive Chair Design and Construction by Joshua Christopher
Mentallic (Mental+ Metallic) utilizes the phantom limb syndrome as an initial site of conceptual research into body/mind connection and its confusion, the sensuousness of longing, the space of simultaneous illusion and reality. Video images and sounds layer with dancers’ movements create a “Live dance cinema” where the physical and the psychology are in constant controversy dialogue.
This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. Additional support from New York Foundation for the Arts. This work was created, in part, during a 2009-2010 A.I.R residency at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) which included free rehearsal space, production, and marketing support.
MEI-BE WHATever sustains an ongoing collaborative laboratory for the investigation of new dance/art ideas, processes and forms that challenges the concept of dance and seeks a wider dance/art and public audience. The company creates mixed-discipline works that fuse contemporary dance with various forms of media, including video (live and recorded) and specially-designed sounds or soundscapes. Staging a variety of multi-media events, MEI-BE WHATever explores the ever changing relationship between the body and the technology, the real and the virtual world.
Founded in 2003 by Mei-Yin Ng (Artistic Director/Choreographer), the company has been presented internationally at Leap Festival 05 in Liverpool, UK; IFFC Festival in Barcelona, Spain; SESC Festival of Arts in Sao Paulo, Brazil; International Choreographer’s Platform in Almada, Portugal; Festival de la Cite, Lausanne, Switzerland. Monaco Dance Forum, Fabbrica Europa, Bassano State Opera Festival, Festival Ammutinamenti Revenna, Civitanova Danza Festival, Bologna Danza Urbana, Opera Estate Festival Veneto, Teatro Fondamnata Nuove of Venice and Enzimi Festival in Italy. MEI-BE WHATever has performed domestically in the USA at venues such as PS122, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, La Mama, The Flea, Joyce SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam, Boston Cyberarts Festival and Dance Camera West Festival in the Hammer Museum, LA.
The company has received commissions from Merseyside Dance Initiative, UK, Dance New Amsterdam, NYC and American Music Center, NYC. Artistic Director/Choreographer Ms. Ng was a selected participant in the 2004 Multimedia Forum of the Monaco Dance Forum, the 2007 5th Pointe to Point Asia-Europe Dance Forum, an artist in residence of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and Dance New Amsterdam, a recipient of a 2004 NYFA Choreography Fellowship, 2009 NYFA interdisciplinary Fellowship and 2009 NYSCA Individual Artist Program.
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Tickets may be purchased in person at DNA during regular business hours or by visiting www.dnadance.org
For more information, press tickets and inquires please contact Amanda Szeglowski, Manager of Public Relations and Corporate Development at 212.625.8369 ext. 226 or visit www.dnadance.org.
Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is proud to celebrate its 25th year as an agent of experimentation for New York City dance arts. Since 1984 DNA has been dedicated to the pursuit of artistic excellence in dance performance, education and creative/administrative services. An incomparable resource, DNA’s 25,000 square foot facility is a pioneer infrastructure for the performing arts by housing both a professional theater and education center – cultivating dance in all its forms and guiding dancers through the various stages of their career. DNA provides valuable opportunities for the aspiring, emerging and established artist, including classes, artistic residencies, and studio and administrative office subsidies. DNA also commissions new choreographic works and presents a year-round performance season of fully produced dance works and world premieres. Founded in NoHo and originally known as Dance Space Center, DNA changed its name in 2005 and relocated to 280 Broadway shortly thereafter. The state-of-the-art facilities include a professional 130-seat theater, six studios, a wellness program, two galleries and a reception space. DNA was the first not-for-profit arts organization to move to Lower Manhattan after 9/11 and plays a critical role as an asset for the dance community, as well as a renewing force in downtown Manhattan’s cultural landscape.
DNA’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA); National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. DNA's 2009/2010 Season is made possible with DNA program revenue along with generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency; and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), a city agency.
SPLICE: Daniel Clifton/ Mei-Yin Ng
Time:8:00PM Thursday, December 3rd
Location:Dance New Amsterdam
Dance New Amsterdam
ResiDance
An evening of works by DNA's Subsidized Administrative Space Artists
September 23
Performance Time: Wednesday at 8:00pm
Ticket Prices: $17, ($12 members, $14 students)
DNA’s Subsidized Administrative Space Program (SAS) was created to extend DNA’s resources to New York City artists. Helping to alleviate the fina...ncial pressure that dance companies face in New York, DNA provides emerging and established choreographers and companies a home at DNA. The SAS administrative space also pools resources (internet, fax, phone, etc.) to become a more cost efficient space for company operations. On September 23, DNA will present the following SAS artists on the stage in the first-ever SAS Concert Event: Julie Gayer Kris/ Avodah Dance Ensemble and Yong Mi Olsen, Full Circle Productions, Mark Lamb Dance, and Pasion Flamenca.
Dance New Amsterdam
Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is pleased to continue the celebration of our 25th Anniversary and the holiday season with a special party – Holiday on the Hudson. Special guest hosts Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen from The Real Housewives of New York City will be leading the evening of drinks, food, and celebrity perform...ances on board the Skyline Princess.
3:00pm-4:30pm Cocktails at the Dock of Chelsea Piers
4:30pm The Skyline Princess Sails
7:00pm The Ship Docks
While aboard the ship, guests will enjoy performances from the wilder-than-average performers of the New York Burlesque scene, including Honi Harlow, Jo Boobs, Akynos, the Schlep Sisters, Howling Vic, and Plum Manchego. Guests will have the pleasure of a special appearance by Mink Claus, Santa’s wayward sister from Bay Ridge, as well as performances by singer Sarah Jane, pianist George “Shorts” Small and Venezuelan cellist Marja Barrios-Solano.
Ticket Levels:
$500 Cruise Director
$250 Party Captain
$125 Chief Mate
$50 Boatswain
To Purchase Tickets With:
Credit Cards: Purchase online at www.dnadance.org by clicking on “Holiday on the Hudson Tickets.” This link will redirect you to NYCharities.org. Total the amount of tickets to be purchased and place amount in the donation box. The donation should be designated to December 6th. Note: Please do not make your donation anonymous as we will not have your name on the reservation list!
Cash: Pay at the front desk at DNA, or meet us at the dock at Chelsea Piers!
Holiday on the Hudson is sponsored by The Pinnacle Group and media sponsor, Gotham Gazette. Dance New Amsterdam also appreciates the additional support from Grandma’s Secrets.
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Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) has been dedicated to the pursuit of artistic excellence in dance performance, education and creative/administrative services since 1984. An incomparable resource, DNA’s 25,000 square foot facility is a pioneer infrastructure for the performing arts by housing both a professional theater and education center – cultivating dance in all its forms and guiding dancers through the various stages of their career. DNA provides valuable opportunities for the aspiring, emerging and established artist, including classes, artistic residencies, and studio and administrative office subsidies. DNA also commissions new choreographic works and presents a year-round performance season of fully produced dance works and world premieres. The state-of-the-art facilities include a professional 130-seat theater, six studios, a wellness program, two galleries and a reception space. DNA was the first not-for-profit arts organization to move to Lower Manhattan after 9/11 and plays a critical role as an asset for the dance community, as well as a renewing force in downtown Manhattan’s cultural landscape.
Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is celebrating 25 years of empowering artists, and promoting artistic excellence through dance performances, educational programming, artist services and creative opportunities. Please donate today to support DNA and help us maintain affordable pricing for artists and audiences.
DNA’s Winter Fundraiser with hosts Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen of The Real Housewives of New York City
Time:3:00PM Sunday, December 6th
Location:The Princess Skyline at Chelsea Piers
Dance New Amsterdam As fresh and motley as its name implies, RAW Material is a juried performance series that encourages burgeoning artists to bring new work to a live audience, and to experiment with new ways of crafting their work. This season’s artists include Eleanor Goudie-Averill/Stone Depot Dance Lab, Indah Boyle, Catherine Galasso..., GoGoVertigoat Dance, Amanda Szeglowski/cakeface, and Makiko Tamura/small apple co.
Dance New Amsterdam Panic Journals opens THURSDAY! Don't forget to buy your tickets...it's sure to be a entertaining performance!
Dance New Amsterdam
(New York, NY) - Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is pleased to present SPLICE: Panic Journals. One’s been around the block and the other may prefer to throw it at you…two larger than life performance artists join forces for an evening of raucous theatrics in SPLICE: Panic Journals. In this shared program, Ishmael Houston-Jon...es and Dan Safer of Witness Relocation form a fiery pair with sparks that give Kerrigan/Harding a run for their money.
November 19-22
Performance Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 3:00pm
Ticket Prices: $17, ($12 members, $14 students)
*SPLICE: Panic Journals is in conjunction with FALL DOWNTOWN, a 3-month series of free and low-cost cultural events by 11 arts groups known as Lower Manhattan Arts Leaders (LoMAL). FALL DOWNTOWN is LoMAL’s first joint project since having been formed in the early part of 2009 to face the challenges of the recession collectively. Full details of each event will be listed on LoMAL’s website www.falldowntown.com
*There will be a free preview of this performance Thursday, November 12 at 12:15pm in DNA’s 2nd Floor Gallery. A brief Q&A session will follow.
*A post-show discussion moderated by DNA’s Executive Director Catherine Peila will follow the Thursday, November 19 performance.
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Ishmael Houston-Jones
The Myth and Trials of Calamity Jane and the Son of the Queen of the Amazons
Choreographed by Ishmael Houston-Jones
World Premiere
Performed by Ashley Anderson, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and more
Recorded Music by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood
Text Appropriated by Ishmael Houston-Jones
The Myth and Trials of Calamity Jane and the Son of the Queen of the Amazons is a twenty-minute dance/theater piece that conflates the biography of American frontierswoman Calamity Jane with the Greek myth of Phaedra.
The Myth and Trials of Calamity Jane and the Son of the Queen of the Amazons was developed in part at the American Dance Festival 2009.
Ishmael Houston-Jones' improvised dance and text work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America.
Ishmael Houston-Jones' Nowhere, Now Here was commissioned for Mordine and Company in Chicago and Specimens was commissioned for Headlong Dance Theater in Philadelphia. He was the choreographer for Nayland Blake's Hare Follies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From 1995-2000 he was part of the improvised trio "Unsafe/ Unsuited" with Keith Hennessy and Patrick Scully. In 1990 he and writer Dennis Cooper presented The Undead at the Los Angeles Festival of the Arts. In 1989 he collaborated with filmmaker Julie Dash on the video Relatives, which was aired nationally on the PBS series Alive From Off-Center (Alive TV).
In 1984 Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie Award” for their Cowboys, Dreams and Ladder.
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Dan Safer/Witness Relocation
The Panic Show
Directed/Choreographed by Dan Safer
Performed by Witness Relocation
Sound Design by Ryan Maeker
Costume Design by Deb O
Set/Lighting Design by Jay Ryan
Video Design by Kaz Phillips
The Panic Show is a wild ride with dances, dark confessions, confetti blown through a fan, people getting shoved inside cardboard boxes, and real time tasks that both refer to panic and actually cause it in the performers.
An earlier version of The Panic Show was presented at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, Washington as part of the PS122 road show
Witness Relocation combines dance & theater with the energy of a rock show, exploding contemporary culture into intensely physical, outrageous, poetic, and sometimes brutal performances in order to question the assumptions of the modern day experience. The company formed in 2000 and is led by director/choreographer Dan Safer. They’ve created over ten original productions, and performed in theaters, nightclubs, rock videos, and on a Thai TV Soap Opera. They are based in New York and perform there, as well as across the US and in places like France, Poland, Russia, Romania, and Thailand.
Dan Safer originally hails from the wild suburbs of New Jersey. He’s done shows here: Off-Broadway, The Ontological, La MaMa, DTW, Danspace, Les Subsistances (France), Thailand, Denmark, Poland, Russia, in a Romanian State Opera House, and in San Francisco; he’s choreographed operas, rock videos, films and fashion shows, and teaches at NYU. He was a 2007-9 recipient of the Six Points Fellowship and won two NY Innovative Theater Awards. Artforum Magazine called him “pure expressionistic danger”. He used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party.
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This Ring of Fire
*An additional duet co-created and performed by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer.
In this new, collaborative duet, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer might kill each other, they might slow dance together, and there could be moments where they are staring at each other from across the room with a wide variety of emotions going on underneath the surface. This Ring of Fire will feature blindfolds, knee pads, following instructions, falling, falling in love, a fight, and some tortures of various kinds.
Tickets may be purchased in person at DNA during regular business hours or by visiting www.dnadance.org
For more information, press tickets and inquires please contact Amanda Szeglowski, Manager of Public Relations and Corporate Development at 212.625.8369 ext. 226 or visit www.dnadance.org.
Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is proud to celebrate its 25th year as an agent of experimentation for New York City dance arts. Since 1984 DNA has been dedicated to the pursuit of artistic excellence in dance performance, education and creative/administrative services. An incomparable resource, DNA’s 25,000 square foot facility is a pioneer infrastructure for the performing arts by housing both a professional theater and education center – cultivating dance in all its forms and guiding dancers through the various stages of their career. DNA provides valuable opportunities for the aspiring, emerging and established artist, including classes, artistic residencies, and studio and administrative office subsidies. DNA also commissions new choreographic works and presents a year-round performance season of fully produced dance works and world premieres. Founded in NoHo and originally known as Dance Space Center, DNA changed its name in 2005 and relocated to 280 Broadway shortly thereafter. The state-of-the-art facilities include a professional 130-seat theater, six studios, a wellness program, two galleries and a reception space. DNA was the first not-for-profit arts organization to move to Lower Manhattan after 9/11 and plays a critical role as an asset for the dance community, as well as a renewing force in downtown Manhattan’s cultural landscape.
DNA's 2009/2010 Season is made possible with DNA program revenue along with generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency; and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), a city agency.
Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer/Witness Relocation
Time:8:00PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Dance New Amsterdam
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Did anyone else realize it's November already?! When did that happen? The Holidays are upon us and I for one am taking a preemptive strike and fitting in as many classes as I can now! Zvi Gotheiner's ballet is life changing, Tiffany Mills is awesome, Nicole Wolcott is in the house... Check out the Guest Artist Schedule...! http://www.dnadance.org/modern_guest_new
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Dance New Amsterdam DNA needs your help! We are looking for a new name for our performance series currently known as “Object.obJECT.” The new name should reflect the program’s goal of celebrating female choreographers. So can you help us? If we select your suggestion – you will win 2 free tickets to the “Your Name Here” show in February 18-21, 2010! Please post your suggestions!
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