2022/23 DIY Performance Series
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About Taking the Long View
Molissa and Pat share the stage to present an evening of recent work.
Molissa Fenley presents three dances: Cosmati Variations, Variation 5, music by John Cage, Third Construction (11 minutes). I began choreographing Cosmati Variations while a fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 2008, added other variations other the years, and just completed the series in May 2022. The 12th century Cosmatesque mosaic floors existent in many of the cathedrals and churches of Rome are of a non-iconographic design, breaking from the preceding Byzantine tradition and influences. The design of squares, parallelograms and circles of dark marble are often contained by ribbons of mosaic composed of lighter colored glass. The serpentine patterning creates a sense of beauty and inspires movement material structured within a time frame; a system of patterns made. Lava Field, music by John Bischoff, Piano 7hz (14 minutes). The great lava fields of Hawaii expand across the landscape. The Night Marchers, Huaka’I po in the Hawaiian language, are frequently seen, especially on nights when the moon is full. On the nights of Kane, Lono, Akua, and Ku, the Night Marchers proceed in a single file, venturing forth from their burial mounds at sunset to march in proud unison to revisit sacred sites or the locations of past battles, returning to their graves the following sunrise. Current Piece, music by Vijay Iyer, Crown Thy Good, (6 minutes), commissioned and performed by Min Kwon as part of her America/Beautiful Project – Premiere Performed by Christiana Axelsen, Molissa Fenley, Timothy Ward.
In her half of this program, Pat Catterson will premiere her 116th work, Tremor. Tremor is concerned with our vulnerability in those moments of high alert when we realize something is not right, when we realize all could collapse or explode or disappear, when what happens next is uncertain. Just a small “tremor” might be the sign. Do we surrender, flee, despair, persist, withdraw, rebel? Dancing this new work will be Alexandra Berger, Louisa Pancoast, Maia Ramnath, Sarah Sliver Swift, Joshua Tuason and Timothy Ward, with sound score composed by Quentin Chiappetta and lighting design by Matthew Breton.
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| About Molissa Fenley
Molissa Fenley, was born in Nevada in 1954, grew up in Ibadan and Lagos, Nigeria (1961-71), and returned to the USA to attend Mills College 1971-1975. She moved to New York in 1975 and founded Molissa Fenley and Company in 1977 creating 90 dances for the company since. The Company have performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Choreographic Commissions: the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Dia Art Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, New National Theater of Tokyo, National Institute of Performing Arts, Seoul, New York Live Arts, and The Kitchen. Dance Companies: Australian Dance Theatre, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oakland Ballet, Ohio Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Robert Moses’ Kin. Fellowships: American Academy in Rome, Asian Cultural Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Greenwich Collection Ltd, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts. Bessies Awards: Cenotaph (1985); State of Darkness (1988, 2021). Residencies: Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bainbridge Dance Center, Bard College, Baryshnikov Art Center, Bloedel Reserve, Bogliasco, Dance Hub in Florence and Agropoli, Italy, Dance HUB in Santa Barbara, Harvard University, Hotchkiss, TopazArts, Yaddo. |
| About Pat Catterson
Pat Catterson, whose parents were a ballroom dancing team and her paternal grandfather a tap dancer in Vaudeville, is a NYC and Boston based artist choreographer who has created 115 works. Receiving many accolades including a 2011 Solomon R. Guggenheim Choreography Fellowship, a Fulbright Grant, and multiple individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the CAPS Program, the Harkness Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, she had been on the faculties at Sarah Lawrence College, UCLA, the Juilliard School, Marymount Manhattan College, and the Merce Cunningham Studio, as well as a guest artist all over the US and in Europe. This year she is a Resident Artist at LaMama in New York City. Her writing has been published in Ballet Review, JOPERD, Attitude Magazine, Dance Magazine Online, the Getty Iris, and the Dance Research Journal and she recently finished her memoir I Said Yes/ The Autobiography of a Choreographer. She earned her BA in psychology and philosophy from Northwestern University and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She first performed Yvonne Rainer’s work in 1969 and since 1999 has worked as her dancer, rehearsal assistant, and stager of her works, touring nationally and internationally. Pat is a Resident Artist at NYC ‘s La Mama Experimental Theatre for the 2022 / 2023 season. |
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Julie Ince Thompson Theatre, Studio 1
Molissa Fenley and Company, Nine Lives/Dance by Pat Catterson
Street shoes are not allowed in the studio at any time.
