Amid concrete and clay
And general decay
Nature must still find a way…
- The Smiths, Stretch Out and Wait
Site-Specific Dance: White Wave of Brooklyn, NY is proposing a series of site-specific dance works during the 2010 Dumbo Dance Festival. The seven sites are situated within two designated areas; the Brooklyn Bridge Park (near the entrance at Washington and Plymouth Streets), and along the Pier 1 waterfront (entrance at Old Fulton and Water Streets). There is no application fee to apply. Ideally they would like work to be collaborations between dancers, movement artists and multimedia artists of all kinds: musicians, composers, fashion/costume designers, video artists, photographers etc. You may apply as collaborators or as individual artists and they will will match you together. They are primarily a dance festival but are open to creative applications from artists in different media who can make a strong case for the way their work would fit in a dance context. The sites are presented raw. Before submitting an application, they strongly suggest you visit the site–specific designated areas. Learn More
Deadline: Postmarked August 15, 2010
Call for Digital Art: Digital’2010: PLANET EARTH, an international digital print competition and exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is looking for artists and scientists to submit digital prints that reflect their perceptions of our planet. Jurors are Maddy Rosenberg, owner/director of Central Booking in DUMBO, Brooklyn; and Patrick Hamilton of the Science Museum of Minnesota. Selected works will be exhibited at the New York Hall of Science from October 3, 2010 through January 31, 2011. For more information, visit ASCI’s Web site.
Deadline: August 16, 2010
Funding for Media Artists: The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering Media Development & Media Production Grants.
Deadline: August 18, 2010
Call to Artists: Turners Falls RiverCulture is looking for artists to make art in downtown Turners Falls. Submit a proposal for the participatory/public art you want to make/do and if you’re selected, they will give you money to make that art happen. The criteria are inventiveness/beauty/aha-ness, use of location in a new/reimagined/creative way, likelihood you can pull it off, participatory nature/reach, use of the money, submitted by deadline. Questions, contact Lisa Davol.
Deadline: August 30, 2010
Call to Dorchester Area Artists: The Dorchester Arts Collaborative (DAC) is looking for artists to participate in their 2010 Open Studios October 23-24. For more, see DAC Web site or the DAC blog.
Business Development for Visual Artists: The Artist’s Professional Toolbox Program is a business development program specifically designed for visual artists. The Toolbox is an eight-month intensive course in which artists will learn marketing, networking and business skills with the additional benefits of peer group interaction, mentorship, and feedback. Apply to the program.
Deadline: September 24, 2010
Call for Public Art: Pittsfield’s Artscape invites artists to submit proposals for new work in the 2010-2011 exhibition season. Artists will receive a $1000 honorarium. For more information, call 413-499-9348.
Deadline: October, 31, 2010
What discoveries await you in this fan blog about Williamstown writer Jim Shepard? A. the above video. B. news of a new collection coming out March 2011, and that The Millions thinksYou Think That’s Bad‘ll be rad. And C. that a Project X movie may be on the way. (I guess I just spoiled all your discoveries. Sorry. But still go check out the blog.)
Boston novelist Michelle Hoover guest-writes in the highly entertaining 1st Books Blog (authors writing about publishing their first books). The takeaway: persist, writers! Some 15 years spanned between the author starting her novel to the final days of editing, when she read chapters aloud to Other Press publisher Judith Gurewich.
Local playwright, actor, and theatre artist John Kuntz has launched a blog, and he recently wrote about how the audience at Company One’s Grimm was engaged and interested in the new play process: “It was a packed house, out for the night, they wanted to be there, and they were having a great time.” Dig it. May many more new works find many more enthusiastic audiences.
Jen Mergel, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, was featured in the New American Paintings blog discussing the role of contemporary art in an institution with a strong art history tradition: “I see [emerging artists] as hugely important in terms of keeping the conversation going and the discourse alive.”
And while we’re in the hallowed halls of the MFA: the Boston Globe recently profiled Andrew Haines who, as the museum’s conservator of frames, matches frames with paintings from MFA’s collection (that is, when he’s not creating his own astutely observed paintings).
In promoting their books and advancing their work, writers should definitely do these three things and then also these five things. Then POW: instant fame! Or at least, eight things done.
Sign of the times: Porter Square Books in Cambridge has added an e-Books buying section to its website.
Neato idea: a theatre company in NY enlists donations to cover the cost of giving away seats to audiences who otherwise may not have the opportunity to go.
In the blog of ArtCorps, an organization that sends artists to strengthen and mobilize Central American communities, Massachusetts native Laura Smith talks about using art to foster empowerment with women in El Salvador.
Always wanted to weld/wire/sew/woodwork but don’t have the tools, space, and/or know-how? Artisan’s Asylum, a non-profit community workshop in Somerville, wants to make an array of tools and classes available to current or aspiring makers of things. In preparing their upcoming class schedule, they’re asking for artist/artisans to take an interest survey.
Attend the London Biennale – in Boston. No inter-dimensional wormhole required! TransCultural Exchange, a Mass. org specializing in connecting international cultural communities, is holding a local satellite event - a Curated Salon - as Boston’s contribution to the London Biennale’s three month calendar of cultural events. If you’re interested, bring yourself and a non-artist guest for an evening of brilliant conversation. All participants will be listed on TransCultural Exchange’s website as official participants in the London Biennale. The salon takes place on August 19, 6-8 PM, at the Hampshire House. Download the press release, which includes ticket information, here.
Finally, two “Notes” we missed in our recent Artist Fellows Notes: Wendy Jehlen’s (Choreography Finalist ‘04) Anikai Dance Company is producing a free site-specific outdoor performance at Georges Island on the Boston Harbor Islands on Saturday, August 7, 1:30 PM. And Vico Fabbris (Painting Fellow ‘06) is featured in the July/August 2010 Design New England. His art was selected as part of a model unit by interior designer Meichi Peng (see art overlooking pillow, below).
Media: clip of Jim Shepard reading the story “Boys Town” at Skidmore College; detail of model unit at the W Boston Hotel & Residences in Back Bay, Meichi Peng, designer and Michael J. Lee, photographer, from Design New England Magazine.
We compile a monthly list of presentations, honors, publications, and events featuring past and present MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. As you’ll see, the news is good - not just about these award-winning artists, but also about the breadth and vitality of contemporary arts throughout the Commonwealth.
The Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown exhibits dozens of intriguing contemporary artists, including numerous from Massachusetts. MCC fellows/finalists upcoming at Rice/Polak include Joshua Meyer (Painting Fellow ‘10), whose Intermingle: New paintings by Joshua Meyer is on exhibit August 13-August 26, with an opening reception Friday, August 13, 7 PM. Following that exhibition, Julie Levesque (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ‘05) and Jane D. Marsching (Photography Finalist ‘03) will both have solo shows, August 27-September 10, 2010, with a reception on Friday August 27, 7 PM.
Steve Almond (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ‘08) visited Here and Now on WBUR radio to discuss his summer music picks, and those of callers-in.
Liza Bingham (Painting Finalist ‘10) is among the artists in Free Association, a summer group exhibition for Associate Members of Kingston Gallery in Boston. The show runs August 4-29, 2010, with an opening reception Friday August 6th, 5:30-8 PM.
Steven Bogart (Playwriting Finalist ‘09) directs a new production of Cabaret, opening at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge on August 31. The production features local performing artist Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) as the Master of Ceremonies.
Lorraine Chapman’s (Choreography Fellow ‘04) dance company is among those performing and participating in the Massachusetts Dance Festival, which seeks to successfully establish dance artistically, financially and operationally, throughout the state. Lorrain Chapman The Company will perform at the Boston Ballet on Saturday, August 21, 2010, at 8 PM, and at the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at 8 PM.
This July, Janet Echelman’s (Crafts & Sculpture/Installation Fellow ‘09) Biennial of the Americas was unveiled in Denver. The work is suspended between the Greek Theater and the Denver Art Museum in Denver’s Civic Center Park.
Christopher Faust (Painting Fellow ‘10) is among the artists in On the Road, an exhibit of artwork inspired by the road, running through August 27, 2010, at the Suffolk University Art Gallery at NESAD. The show was curated by Gallery Director James Hull.
Jane Gillooly (Film & Video Fellow ‘07) will screen Today the Hawk Takes One Chick on August 16, 7 PM at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, as part of the DocYard series of contemporary documentary films. Also, Jane received a pre-production grant from the LEF Foundation for her film-in-progress The Suitcase of Love and Shame.
Rebecca Meyers (Film & Video Fellow ‘09) has been hired as film coordinator for ArtsEmerson. Rebecca will program films related to ArtsEmerson’s live performing arts series, as well as “other independent, repertory and foreign films, a student-curated series, classics, and regular screenings of films for children.” (News via the HubArts blog.)
Caleb Neelon (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ‘07) is among the artists in The Boat Show, an exhibition in the Drive-by Gallery in Watertown. Drive-by is the new gallery of Beth Kantrowitz (formerly of Allston Skirt Gallery) and Kathleen O’Hara (formerly of OH+T Gallery).
Liz Nofziger (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ‘05) created a site-specific installation at an abandoned bar called The Artery. The installation treats the inside of a bar as the inside of a body in an immersive multimedia environment. The installation is in the old Artery Lounge space on 26 Holden Street in North Adams, MA, through October 17, 2010. See Downstreet Art for more information, including gallery hours.
Work by Daniel Ranalli (Drawing Fellow ‘10) will be on exhibit at DNA Gallery in Provincetown, August 13 - September 1. The show, which also includes work by Tabitha Vevers and Peter Hutchinson, was curated by Russell LaMontagne & Richard Baiano.
Monica Raymond’s (Playwriting Finalist ‘07, Poetry Finalist ‘08) poem “The Miraculous” is part of the exhibit “Sinners, Saints, and Censorship: A Quills Art & Poetry Exhibition” at the Central Square YMCA (Durrell Hall), Cambridge, running through August 8th, 2010. The free art show will be up for 45 minutes before, and about 30 min. after, each performance of Bad Habit Productions‘ Quills (attendance of the play is not required to see the exhibit).
Sunanda Sahay (Traditional Arts Finalist ‘10) has an exhibition of traditional Indian Madhubani paintings at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, running through September 6, 2010.
Jo Sandman (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ‘84) will lead a talk and conversation on her work selected for inclusion in the exhibit Out of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection of the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln. The exhibition, which runs through October 30, 2010 and was organized by independent curator Leslie K. Brown, is a fascinating selection of photographs from the DeCordova’s collection. Bring your cell phone for an audio tour of the exhibition by Leslie Brown and Gus Kayafas of Palm Press. Jo’s talk is on Saturday, August 7, at 3 PM.
Sarah Slifer (Choreography Fellow ‘10) will perform a new duet with dancer Jimena Bermejo Black in an evening of pieces called Body of Eyes: a dance party/performance, at Club Oberon in Harvard Square, Cambridge. Sarah’s new duet, “5 light-years 3 seconds now,” looks into grand-unified theories and human perception. New scientific theories are postulating many spatial dimensions and sometimes two time dimensions; Sarah is attempting to find these dimensions and play around in there. The performance takes place on August 11th, at 8 PM.
Lewis Spratlan’s (Music Composition Fellow ‘88) opera Life Is a Dream has its world premiere in July and August, at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico.
Are you a past fellow or finalist with an event, honor, or other bit of news you’d like to share? Tell us about it.
Images and media: Joshua Meyer, SMILING AT THE CEILING (2010), oil on canvas, 38×42 in; Janet Echelman, BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS (2010), public art installation, Civic Center Park, Denver, CO; Jo Sandman, toned gelatin silver photograph using medical x-ray as source material; Helena Wurzel, TEA FOR ONE WITH LUCINDA WILLIAMS (2009), Acrylic Paint and Paper Collage, 22×30 in.
Above, Moving Company artists perform “common ground” at the International VSA Festival in Washington, D.C.
The piece, performed this past June, was choreographed by Dawn Lane (Choreography Fellow ‘10), who runs the Moving Company as Artistic Director of Community Access to the Arts (CATA). CATA, based in Great Barrington, nurtures and celebrates the creativity of people with disabilities through shared experiences in the arts.
It’s a prestigious honor for the Moving Company, the only Massachusetts performing arts organization invited to participate in the international festival. Below, you can see Dawn and Sandy Newsman from CATA with VSA founder Jean Kennedy Smith.
For more news on MCC Artist Fellows and Finalists, read Fellows Notes.
Images: (l to r) Moving Company dancers Jane Goodrich, JoAnne King, Hope Garner; CATA Founder & Executive Director Sandy Newman, VSA Founder Jean Kennedy Smith, Choreographer Dawn Lane.
The above is from one of the many poems, prose excerpts, and dance clips recently added to our Gallery@MCC. You see, every time we award new Artist Fellows and Finalists, we feed a sampling of their art into the adorable, irascible robot that doubles as our Artist Fellowships computer. Several futuristic sound effects later, you have an updated Gallery@MCC: a historical record, if you will, of the awesomeness of Massachusetts artists.
Among the other recent additions:
In Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, Preston Gralla’s olfactory entrepreneur has a can’t-lose scheme and Jung H. Yun’s teenaged, Vietnamese protagonist tracks her unwanted suitors by the American states they come from
In Poetry, Anna Ross juxtaposes the personal against the scale of civilizations and Leslie Williams writes stirring poems that recently won her the Bellday Books Prize & Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Memorial Award!
And, in Choreography, watch this clip from Sarah Slifer’s my own personal (#2), with its idiosyncratic references to rec center sports:
Credits: Excerpt from To the High School Prom Queen by Nancy K. Pearson; video excerpt from my own personal (#2) by Sara Slifer.
Nancy K. Pearson reads at the Wellfleet Library, Thursday, July 29, 8 PM (CANCELLED: due to unforeseen circumstances, Nancy has had to cancel this appearance).
Sarah Slifer will perform a new duet with dancer Jimena Bermejo in a group evening of pieces that play with perception, on August 5th at Club Oberon in Cambridge.
We compile a monthly list of presentations, honors, publications, and events featuring past and present MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. As you’ll see, the news is good - not just about these award-winning artists, but also about the breadth and vitality of contemporary arts throughout the Commonwealth.
Three past fellows/finalists are participating in Pioneer Women in Wonderland at the Paper City Project Space in Holyoke, Mass. The exhibition includes work by Cynthia Consentino (Crafts Fellow ‘07), Karen Dolmanisth (Sculpture/Installation Finalist ‘03), and Sandy Litchfield (Painting Fellow ‘06), and is on view through July 31, 2010.
Steve Almond (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ‘08) presents Rock & Roll Will Save Your Life: The Musical, billed as “An evening of words, music, drinks, dancing, and bad hair,” on Thursday, July 8, at 8 PM. The event takes place at Club Oberon in Harvard Square, and will feature Steve reading from his new book and music by Dayna Kurtz. Buy tickets and/or check out the event’s Facebook page.
Congratulations to Claire Beckett (Photography Fellow ‘07), selected as the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2010 Award Winner! Her work will be featured in the Flash Forward 2010 book, and in the Flash Forward Festival, scheduled for October. Meanwhile, see Claire’s arresting photography in the show In Training: Soldiers Before War at the Gallery 303 at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline. The show runs July 19-September 8, with an opening reception Monday, July 19, 5:30-7:30 PM.
Liza Bingham (Painting Finalist ‘10) is in a three person show with Alice Denison and Cathleen Daley at the Alden Gallery in Provincetown. The show opens Friday, July 16, 2010 (reception 7 to 9 PM) and shows through July 29.
Kristin Bock (Poetry Fellow ‘06) joins fellow poet Lee Sharkey for a reading on Thursday, July 1 at 7 PM, as part of the Collected Poets Series. The reading takes place at Mocha Maya’s Coffee House in Shelburne Falls.
William Ciccariello (Painting Fellow ‘06) joins artists Eileen Wagner and Robin Winfield for a show of new works at Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, July 2 - July 15, with a preview Thursday, July 1, 9-10 PM and an opening reception Friday, July 2, 7:00 PM.
Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ‘10) is among the artists in a group exhibition of new work at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. The show runs July 16-August 4, 2010.
Michael Dowling (Playwriting Fellow ‘09) will have a staged reading of his new play Tamarack House at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. The reading, which is presented by the Berkshire Playwrights Lab in association with the Atlantic Theater Company, will take place on Wednesday, July 14, at 8 PM. The play is about a boarding house – run down but harboring potential - in a bucolic New England town. As developers encroach, the house’s residents need to act, and quick. Recently, the film version of Michael’s play Speck’s Last screened at Boston International Film Festival and the Berkshire International Film Festival. In other work as a theatre artist, Michael is directing Molly Sweeney, performing this month by the Chester Theatre Company in Western, Mass.
Dawn Lane (Choreography Fellow ‘10) choreographed and directed “common ground” at the Harmon Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., in June. Dawn’s Moving Company, a troupe of Community Access to the Arts in Great Barrington, was selected to perform at the International VSA Festival, which showcases the accomplishments of artists with disabilities. The Moving Company, the only Massachusetts performing arts group selected to appear at the D.C. event, also recently performed at the She’s Got Moxie Awards and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
Work by Scott Listfield (Painting Finalist ‘10) is included in Crazy 4 Cult at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, CA. The show, which features artists re-interpreting cult classics, runs July 9-30. An opening reception on July 9, 7-10 PM, will feature an appearance by Kevin Smith!
Anne Neely’s (Painting Finalist ‘10) work is included in the Northeast competition edition of New American Paintings. Juror Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Curator of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, writes of Anne’s work: “Her paintings imagine an environment that goes beyond the human surface into the underground, exploring the possible colors and textures of sediment and strata. They depict wonderful surprises, like large bodies of water, yet the richness and possibility evident in these invented landscapes exist on planes not accessible to us.”
Nancy K. Pearson (Poetry Finalist ‘10) will join novelist and short story writer Heidi Jon Schmidt for a reading at the Wellfleet Library, Thursday, July 29, 8 PM (CANCELLED: due to unforeseen circumstances, Nancy has had to cancel this appearance).
Evelyn Rydz (Drawing Fellow ‘10) has work in The Pencil of Nature, a group exhibition exploring the dialogue between drawings and photographs, at Julie Saul Gallery in NYC. The show runs July 1-August 20, 2010, with an opening reception on Thursday, July 8, 6 to 8 PM.
Sarah Slifer (Choreography Fellow ‘10) joins U.K.-based interdisciplinary performer Vincent Cacialano for Plex at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, July 9th, 7PM. On August 11th, she will perform a new duet with dancer Jimena Bermejo in a group evening of pieces that play with perception, at Club Oberon in Cambridge.
My Name is Art, a short play by Peter Snoad (Playwriting Fellow ‘09) will be performed at the Short and Sweet Festival in Singapore July 21-25, and at Salem Theatre Company in Salem, MA in its “Moments of Play” festival July 22-25. Peter’s new full-length play, Identity Crisis, a comedy about race and identity, is one of four finalists in the annual new play contest of Centre Stage-South Carolina and will receive a staged reading in Greenville, SC in October. More information at: www.petersnoad.com.
Julia Story (Poetry Finalist ‘10) will read from her book of poems, Post Moxie, as part of the Deep Moat Reading Series. The reading will take place on July 24, at 7 PM, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge.
Poetry by Daniel Tobin (Poetry Finalist ‘10) is included in the most recent issue of Salamander.
Rachel Perry Welty (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ‘09, Drawing Fellow ‘04) is featured in the June/July/August 2010 issue of Art New England (pictured above), is participating in the exhibition Incognito: The Hidden Self-Portrait, July 15 - August 27, 2010, at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in NYC, and is showing new work in the group exhibition At the Edge at the Portsmouth Museum of Art, in Portsmouth NH, through July 11, 2010. More good news: the Baltimore Museum of Art has acquired one of Rachel’s fruit sticker drawings for its permanent collection. You can follow Rachel’s near-daily performances on Twitter.
Judith Wombwell (Choreography Fellow ‘10) recently joined with Kathryn Alter to present Intersect/Integrate, an evening of works that explore different stages and phases in life and relationships, at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. Both choreographers presented new work, and Kathryn Alter (a NYC-based dancer working with the Limón Company) danced in Judith’s work “Shed.”
Kevin Young’s (Poetry Fellow ‘10) poetry collection Dear Darkness will be published in paperback in July 2010.
Are you a past fellow or finalist with an event, honor, or other bit of news you’d like to share? Tell us about it.
Images and media: Scott Listfield, GRAND CANYON (2008), Oil on canvas, 24×48 in; Rebecca Doughty, FETCH (2010), acrylic on wood, 5×5 in; Cover of June/July/August 2010 issue of Art New England, featuring work by Rachel Perry Welty; excerpt of GRASS, choreographed by Judith Wombwell.
ArtSake couldn’t make it to Lorraine Chapman’s (MCC Choreography Fellow ‘04, Finalist ‘08) Soaking WET performances at the West End Theater in NYC, but thanks to her Web site, there are excerpts we can all take a look at (although attending a live performance is always preferable).
Wendy Jehlen’s (FY04 MCC Choreography Finalist) latest choreographic work FOREST combines elements from Brazilian Capoeira, South Indian martial arts, West African dance and Contemporary dance. Her company ANIKAI Dance will present FOREST this weekend. If these images are any indication, this performance promises to evoke the unpredictable nature of a forest and its abundance, vitality, sensuality and life-giving source.
FOREST has been created, in part, during a Dance Residency at the Boston Center for the Arts.
FOREST
Friday, June 18 at 8pm
Saturday, June 19 at 3pm & 8pm
BU Dance Theater on Buick Street
at 915 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA. Tickets: $25, $20 Student/Senior/BDA, $10 Children under 12 available at 617-358-2500 and www.akhra.org/tix.html
ANIKAI Dance Company Artistic Director/Choreographer: Wendy Jehlen. Dancers include Amelia Beard, Danielle DiVito, Wendy Jehlen, Pradhuman Nayak, DeAnna Pellecchia, Mila Thigpen, Terra Weaver.
Image credit: All photographs of FOREST by by Charles Daniels.
Last month, Elizabeth Streb, Artistic Director of the Streb Laboratory for Action Mechanics (S.L.A.M.) had an inspiring public dialogue in Boston with Diane Paulus, Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre, about innovative ways of engaging audiences. We’ll share the video of this conversation as soon as it’s available - can’t wait!
Watch the above clip of the Brooklyn-based Streb Extreme Action Company and you can see why Elizabeth Streb is a natural to discuss engagement. Her groundbreaking work weaves action sports, acrobatics, and wild contraptions into mesmerizing dance. She recently engaged us with a nano-interview. Enjoy!
What’s the best/worst day job you’ve ever had? I’ve never not-liked working- so I would restate the question to what was the ‘most arduous’ job I’ve ever held, and the answer to that would be cooking in NYC restaurants from 1975-1988-from age 25yrs to 38yrs.
If forced to choose, would you be a magic marker, a crayon, or a #2 pencil? I would be a #2 pencil because I like the smell and it reminds me of solving (or not) for hours on end Mathematical Problems.
How do you know when your work is done? I run out of time or money or get bored or all. Nothing else would act as the impetus for cessation of making a choreographic event.
What do you listen to while you create? I don’t listen to anything. Music is the true enemy of dance.
Spring, Summer, Winter or Fall? I don’t care which as long as all still contain time space and motion.
What films have influenced you as an artist? Das Boot, Stan Brakhage’s The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
What are you currently reading?The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder/ Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs in Afghanstan by Greg Mortenson/ Warped Passages by Lisa Randall/ Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson
Have you ever revised your work on the spot, during a performance (intentionally, I mean)? Yes.
What’s the most embarrassing line of an artist’s statement you’ve ever written? “I’m searching for movement, its out there somewhere, I’ve got to find it” In a Dance Magazine article by Iris Fanger in the late 80s (even though its true).
Do you secretly dream of being a) a pop icon, b) an algebra teacher, and/or c) a crime-solver/writer a la Jessica Fletcher? No, I ardently dream of being who I am.
What’s the most surprising response to your art you’ve ever received? In 1985 in Basel, Switzerland-at the Kunsthause, Basel, when 195 audience members of 200, walked out on my show.
Like, what does your work MEAN? ‘Feeling the Move’ through ‘changing the ground.’
What’s next? The invention and staging of the first ever: ‘Moveical.’
Media: video promo from Elizabeth Streb’s STREB VS. GRAVITY tour, 2008.
Anna Myer is one of the recently named MCC FY10 Choreography Fellowship finalists. The excerpt above is from her piece Street Talk Suite Talk. It is a remarkable example of her artistic vision and commitment to experimentation and collaboration. She definitely walks the walk, and talks the talk.
If you are among the many dancers, cultural enthusiasts, arts administrators, community organizers, social activists, social scientists (you get the picture) who agree that dance has vastly untapped potential as a powerful force to shape communities, then join in on this first of a series of free discussions called Talk About Dance, a program of Dance for World Community on Sunday, June 13.
Barbara Schaffer Bacon, co-director of Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, will moderate this afternoon of learning, conversation, and social interaction - all around dance and the expanded role it can play in galvanizing communities to meet civic, social, and environmental challenges.
Bring your voice to the table and be an active participant in these uniquely intimate conversations that can help shape the future role of dance in the Greater Boston Area and beyond. See old friends and meet new people. Contribute to the list of issues, concerns, ideas and perspectives that will be shared at this event.
Sunday June 13, 2010, 2:00-6:00pm José Mateo Ballet Theatre 400 Harvard Street. Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
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