AUDIO PREVIEW: David Parker

Delightful dance artist David Parker talks about his new collaboration with Jeffrey Kazin--Misters & Sisters: A Love Story in Song and Dance--in this audio preview.

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David Parker and The Bang Group 

Misters & Sisters: A Love Story in Song and Dance

Joe's Pub
at The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street

(between Fourth Street and Astor Place)

Manhattan

Thursday through Saturday, June 2-4, 7pm

Misters and Sisters, a new work by and about David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin and their performing alter egos, represents a new way of working for Parker. This show─a kind of autobiographical fiction─is inspired by and dedicated to Parker’s father, mystery novelist Robert B. Parker, whose words “Don’t look for yourself in your work, look for your work in yourself,” Parker pays homage to here. Delving into their lives together, Parker and Kazin, joined by Nic Petry and Amber Sloan, cut a swath through an array of romantic standards from the American songbook as they chronicle their life together in song and dance. Misters and Sisters includes dramaturgy by Anne Davison and musical direction by Anna Ebbeson.

Ticket information and purchase: 212-967-7555, online or in person at The Public Theater box office from 1-6pm, and at Joe’s Pub from 6-10pm daily.

a DanceNOW [NYC] presentation

AUDIO PREVIEW: Jody Oberfelder

Jody Oberfelder (Photo by Paula Court)

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Choreographer Jody Oberfelder 

talks with Clare Cook about...

 

Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects 

and Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra

present 

The Soldier’s Tale (L’histoire du Soldat)

In presenting a fresh version of Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, choreographer/director Jody Oberfelder places this post-World War I story—originally sourcing two Russian folktales—in a modern world.

     

Thursday-Saturday June 9-11, 7:30pm

(Gala: Thursday, June 9)

Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
3 Spruce St, Manhattan
(directions)

Tickets here or 866-811-4111

AUDIO PREVIEW: Jill Sigman

Above/below: Jill Sigman in Hut #5
(Photo: Lindsay Comstock)

The Edges of Performance

A workshop led by Jill Sigman

Saturday-Sunday, June 4-5 (2-5pm)

Location: The Border

1 Grattan Street, Studio 221, Bushwick, Brooklyn

(Take L train to Morgan Avenue)

$15/workshop day

from Hut #5 (Photo: Lindsay Comstock)

 AUDIO PREVIEW

Dancer-choreographer Jill Sigman

talks about The Edges of Performance

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(6:32)

Where do the edges of performance lie? Does performing rely on a state of mind, a mode of presentation, a kind of activity, an audience? We will investigate these edges beginning with fine-grained movement explorations that are fueled by the visual and aural fields around us. We will then let ourselves be guided by touch, task, and taste, and eventually arrive at explorations of such activities as planting cooking, or building. We will test out the borders of performing through these activities—performing for ourselves, each other, the space, and the street below.

It is encouraged to take both days of the workshop for a more complete investigation, but it is possible to take one day as a discrete experience.

This workshop is part of the ongoing series CLASSCLASSCLASS. It also coincides with Arts in Bushwick Open Studios.

For more information, 

click here.

Jill Sigman asks questions through the medium of the body. Trained in classical ballet, modern dance, art history, and analytic philosophy, Sigman has been making dances and performance installations since the early 90s. In 1998, she founded her company jill sigman/thinkdance as a vehicle for her performance experiments. In the same year she received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. Equally comfortable on a proscenium stage or crawling in the dirt armed with fluorescent waterguns, Sigman transforms deceptively simple actions into explorations of politics, gender, and society; her work currently exists at the intersection of dance, theater, and visual installation. Sigman’s dances have been produced by such New York City venues as Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Dancing in the Streets, and the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center. Internationally, her work has been shown in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, and India. As a teacher, Sigman offers workshops nationally at colleges and universities; she has been a member of the dance faculty at Princeton University, a movement tutor at the Imaginary Academy in Groznjan, Croatia, a frequent guest teacher in Belgium, and a professor of aesthetics and performance theory at Brooklyn College and The New School. She has recently been teaching in Oslo, Norway, and is currently at work on a multi-site project about huts and sustainable living. See: www.thinkdance.org

Learn more about Jill Sigman in an interview with dancer-writer Siobhan Burke on her blog, phase.shift and on Performance Ritual, a new blog Burke shares with Isabella Bruno. Click here and here.

AUDIO PREVIEWS: Marya Warshaw and Levi Gonzalez

L-to-r: Marya Warshaw

with luciana achugar and Michael Mahalchick

(Photo: Angele Jimenez)

 Levi Gonzalez (Photo: Alex Escalante)

Levi Gonzalez (Photo: Alex Escalante)

AUDIO PREVIEWS

Founder and Artistic Director Marya Warshaw

talks about Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)

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Dancer-choreographer Levi Gonzalez

talks about BAX and his new work

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intimacy

A Solo Dance by Levi Gonzalez

April 29-May 1

(Friday-Saturday, 8pm and Sunday, 6pm)

In his solo, intimacy,  Levi Gonzalez attempts to bring the practice of making into the moment  of live performance. In constructing material for this work, he  prioritizes instinct over concept, cultivating sensitivity to what  resonates with him on a visceral level. By exploring the idiosyncrasies  of his own interests in movement and performance, he builds a structure  that exposes his own personal relationship to the form. Often framing  the action with language, he establishes a directness with the spectator  that resists metaphor, while still leaving space for the engagement of  the imagination. Ultimately the work examines the intimacy of the  relationship between performer and audience, and how we navigate this  shared experience. The solo is being developed in collaboration with  dramaturg Susan Mar Landau.

More information and ticketing here

Join BAX in celebration of 20 years
of arts and artists in progress!

Thursday, May 5, 7:30pm

Prospect Park Picnic House

Prospect Park West at 5th Street, Brooklyn

(directions)

hosted by George Emilio Sánchez and Christalyn Wright

performances by

    LAVA
    Famous Accordion Orchestra
    Mike Albo
    Faye Driscoll
    BAXco Youth Dance Company
    (performing choreography by Nami Yamamoto)
    Drew Petersen
    and more...

BAX Arts and Artists in Progress Awards

Awardees have revealed and transformed our creative world. By  instigating and enduring change they have deepened the definition of  their field and paved the way for others.

The PASSING IT ON AWARD creates a complete cycle where a panel of peers  chooses the awardees and the awardees choose someone who demonstrates  some of the same qualities that they, themselves, were chosen for.

awards presented by Marya Warshaw, Founder and Executive Director, BAX

artist award: Gus Solomons jr, choreographer and co-founder, PARADIGM passing it on to Malcolm Jason Low

arts educator award: Terry Greiss, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Irondale Ensemble Project passing it on to Leese Walker

arts manager award: Leslie Strongwater, Associate Artistic Director, Dixon Place passing it on to Andy Horwitz

honorary award: Long-standing theater/dance partnership between the Brooklyn New School (BNS) and BAX, with José Joaquín García as lead teaching artist

All program, directions and ticket information online here