Live Artery
Live Artery is an annual event of dance and body-based performance at New York Live Arts (New York Live Arts is the company formed by the merger of Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2011). New York Live Arts commissioned or created all of the works to be presented in the festival. This year’s event spans three days, January 10th to January 12th, and features 10 pieces, varying from full remounts to works-in-progress.
LOCATION
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street
New York City
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DATES
January 10 through January 12, 2014
TICKETS & SHOWS
This is a performance of two works both works-in-progress premieres: i shot denzel by niv Acosta and macromen by Tess Dworman. Acosta, a queer, transgender, Brooklyn-based artist, explores blackness in the context of contemporary and classical movement in i shot denzel, the sixth work of a three-year series of “denzels.” In macromen Dworman “zooms in, on a micro scale, to physical states that construct theatricality in the body. Balletic postures are affected by abstract qualities and textures that explore virtuosity on a molecular level.”
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
Blue Room is a multi-media duet by Chinese Dai Jian and Russian-born Elena Demyanenko. The two artists bring together their distinct artistic backgrounds to present an experimental performance on relationships.
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
Story/ and Analogy (working title) – This showing is open to presenters by Invitation only.
Story/ and Analogy are two works in progress by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Story/, which is performed to live music, explores randomized, disparate elements of movements. In Analogy, Bill T. Jones looks at private experiences that are shared across generations to create a narrative with dance, decor, text, and music.
Choreographer Beth Gill teams up with performers Danielle Goldman, Jennifer Lafferty, Heather Lang, Marilyn Maywald, Kayvon Pourazar, Stuart Singer, and lighting designer Thomas Dunn in this work-in-progress examining the body’s struggle to express conflicting ideas and forms simultaneously.
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
Energizer; Found Object; Desert Sea
Excerpts of three pieces from Molissa Fenley and Company, including the newly created Found Object featuring featuring text by John Guare, Joy Harjo, and Rudy Wurlitzer and music by Erin Gee.
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion
New York Live Arts Resident Commissioned Artist Kyle Abraham is showing work-in-progress excerpts from When the Wolves Came In (working title), one of the four-work suite he is working on during his residency.
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
Fire Underground by Donna Uchizono Company features a cast of five performers and addresses courage and the story of a complex international adoption.
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
A Living Documentary is a hybrid of musical comedy, autobiography, documentary, and fiction by musical performance artist Cynthia Hopkins. Hopkins will reflect on her artistic life and discuss the challenge of earning a living as a theater artist in the 21st century.
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
Created by choreographer Kimberly Bartosik, You Are My Heat And Glare is a series of mixed-genre duets addressing Anne Carson’s question “What are we made of but hunger and rage?”
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)
From Once Between is a new work by New York based choreographer John Jasperse and composer Jonathan Bepler. The piece is still in progress, and seeks to meld distinct sensibilities.
Tickets: $10 (click here for performance times and to purchase tickets)