Baryshnikov Arts Middle has introduced the Spring 2023 season of dance, music, and multimedia performances. January brings Vertigo Dance Firm’s PARDES (New York Premiere) and flamenco artist Israel Galván’s SOLO to BAC, adopted in February by the New York Premiere of AMOC (American Fashionable Opera Firm)’s Find out how to Fall Aside composed by Carolyn Chen and the World Premiere of Eunbi Kim’s music and new media work it looks like a dream. In April, BAC presents the World Premiere Digital Fee of Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche’s dance movie One & One Different, and the Spring 2023 season concludes with the New York Premiere of choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s I as one other in Could.
BAC’s Spring 2023 season additionally contains 4 BAC Artist Residency applications, supporting 17 artists and collectives throughout disciplines: Monica Invoice Barnes & Firm, Aszure Barton, binbinFactory / Satoshi Haga + Rie Fukuzawa, Rose Bond, Zbigniew Bzymek + Kuba Falk, Leslie Cuyjet, John Jasperse, Claude Johnson, Daniel Evan Kersh, Jodi Melnick, Denisa Musilova, David Neumann, Haruko Crow Nishimura / Degenerate Artwork Ensemble, Raymond Pinto, Shamel Pitts, Melisa Tien, and Welcome to Campfire / Ingrid Kapteyn + Tony Bordonaro.
BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER PRESENTS: SPRING 2023 PERFORMANCES
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Vertigo Dance Firm
PARDES (New York Premiere)
January 12 + 13 at 7:30PM, January 14 at 2PM + 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets: $25
Underneath the inventive course of Noa Wertheim, the internationally acclaimed Israeli trendy dance firm Vertigo has begun its third decade with a powerful repertoire of authentic works. Past her contribution to cultural life in Israel, Wertheim’s distinctive method promotes social change by creating an inventive reference to the neighborhood and the surroundings. Her newest work, PARDES (the Hebrew phrase for “orchard”), is a dance for six performers exploring the connection of the physique to its inside religious layers whereas being interwoven with the frequent tapestry of humanity. Wertheim’s lush choreography is accompanied by authentic music by Itamar Doari, one among Israel’s most distinguished percussion artists.
Choreographer: Noa Wertheim
Assistant Choreographer: Rina Wertheim-Koren
Dancers: Etai Peri, Sian Olles, Eden Ben Shimol, Ruth Ben David, Ilan Golubovich, Theo Samsworth, Micah Amos, Korina Fraiman
Unique Music: Itamar Doari
Stage Design: Zohar Shoef
Styling: Rosie Canaan
Lighting Design: Dani Fishof – Magenta
CEO: Adi Sha’al
Firm Supervisor: Sandra Brown
Manufacturing Overseas: Maya Williams
Worldwide Relations and Vertigo Mates: Rachel Grodjinovsky
Israel Galván
SOLO
January 23 + 24 at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets: $25 at bacnyc.org
In Israel Galván’s SOLO, the bodily language of flamenco is recodified, utilizing modes of expression which might be genealogically associated in addition to performative elements of different rituals of common tradition, from soccer to activism to cross-dressing. In fixed pursuit of a dance that frees itself from the inherited options of established flamenco, Galván says: “SOLO is a coincidence – in the future once I was dancing I stood nonetheless, I could not transfer, and there was no music. It was a minute of solitude. In all these years I’ve discovered to bounce alone with my solitudes. I understand the sound of my physique and dance in silence.”
Inventive Course, Choreography, and Dance: Israel Galván
Sound: Pedro León
Administration: Rosario Gallardo
Distribution: Rial & Eshelman
Manufacturing: Israel Galván Firm in collaboration with INAEM, Instituo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas de la Música
AMOC (American Fashionable Opera Firm)
Find out how to Fall Aside (New York Premiere)
February 10 + 11 at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets: $25
Composed by Carolyn Chen, Find out how to Fall Aside describes cosmic, pure, and human processes of disintegration, getting older, and falling aside. This evening-length work for 3 dancers, one violinist, and one cellist integrates textual content, gesture, and music, constructing upon Chen’s long-standing compositional work “through which sensuality and abstraction discover frequent floor” (LA Instances). Find out how to Fall Aside unfolds as varied assemblages of sound, motion, and storytelling cohere, dissolve, and reform, telling private and scientific tales concerning the local weather disaster, cosmological historical past, the erosion of soil in Northern Chad, the getting older physique, The Billion Oyster Challenge in New York, and the operations of microbes.
Composed by Carolyn Chen
Performers:
Julia Eichten, dancer
Keir GoGwilt, violinist
Coleman Itzkoff, cellist
Yiannis Logothetis, dancer
Matilda Sakamoto, dancer
Motion Director: Julia Eichten
Lighting Designer: Mary Ellen Stebbins
Commissioned by AMOC.
Developed partially throughout an artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Middle.
Developed in residency at The Lumberyard.
Particular because of Or Schraiber and Jay Campbell for contributing to early workshops of the piece, in addition to to Justin Decatur, Suzanne Thorpe, George Gwilt, and Dea Lou Schraiber.
Eunbi Kim
it looks like a dream (World Premiere)
February 23 at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets: $25 at bacnyc.org
Pianist Eunbi Kim presents a sonic memoir titled it looks like a dream, providing a meditation on household and id in collaboration with new media artist Xuan. That includes a dreamy soundworld of classical music with pop consciousness interwoven with hypnotic projected visuals, this multimedia efficiency asks: What are the goals we supply and move on? it looks like a dream options music for piano, pre-recorded voices, and electronics written for and carried out by Kim from Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and Sophia Jani. Additionally becoming a member of Kim is visitor artist Wen-Ting Wu on drums.
Pianist: Eunbi Kim
Artwork Director: Xuan
Composers: Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and Sophia Jani
Developed partially throughout an artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Middle.
One & One Different (Digital World Premiere)
April 10 – 24
BAC Digital Fee
Free / Accessible to observe Monday April 10 at 5PM till Monday April 24 at 5PM
In a weird play between actuality and absurdist fantasy, One & One Different is a divergent dance movie providing a window into the key world that exists on the fringes of our late-night consciousness. On the coronary heart of the movie is the thoughts’s means to move us away from the mundane, recurring rhythm of life into the incongruous realm of our creativeness; a spot that oscillates between the incredible and the harrowing. One & One Different is Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche’s fifth collaboration collectively, pushed by a shared ambition to push the boundaries of movie and dance and uncover how the 2 media would possibly meet, intersect, and disrupt one another.
Directed and Choreographed by: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche
Editors: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche
One & One Different was filmed partially throughout an artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Middle
Half One
That includes: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche
Director of Pictures: Bram VanderMark
Producer: Julia Bolt
Assistant Digital camera: Zhenya Townley, Tom Ford, Terry Ahern
Manufacturing Assistant: Riley Lynch
Stylist: Brie Welch
Music: Wolff Bergen, Niki & The Dove
Dramaturg: Megan Wright
Half Two
That includes: Jonathan Fredrickson and Maximillian Leopold Deibert
Manufacturing Assistant: Lukas Turtur
Director of Pictures: Danijel Bogdanic
Composer: Rebecca Foon
Dramaturg: Megan Wright
Miguel Gutierrez
I as one other (New York Premiere)
Could 4-6 at 7:30PM, Could 7 at 2PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets: $25
I as one other is a brand new duet created by Miguel Gutierrez. Carried out with Laila Franklin, the work takes place in a future/current dystopia and explores the digital structure of reminiscence, what it means to be alongside each other, and the way existential despair has come into public view. Drawing inspiration from Martinican thinker Édouard Glissant and his conceptions of Relation and Opacity, I as one other examines what it means for variations to come back into contact and the way unknowable we could be.
Choreographer, Performer, Sound Design, Textual content, Costumes: Miguel Gutierrez
Performer and Collaborator: Laila Franklin
Lighting Design: Carolina Ortiz
Extra Sound Design: Rosana Cabán
Stage Supervisor: Robert McIntyre
Dramaturgical Help: Stephanie Acosta
Administration: Michelle Fletcher
Analysis Assistant: Amit Noy
I as one other is supported by a Caroline A. Hearst fee from Princeton College and contributions from particular person donors. It has been developed by way of a Resident Artist Residency at Motion Analysis in New York and a residency on the Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago.
BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER SPRING 2023 ARTIST RESIDENCIES
BAC Open Spring 2023
A two-week or four-week residency designed to assist the inventive course of by offering artists chosen through an open software course of with assets to develop concepts, initiatives, and collaborations. This system presents a pressure-free surroundings for artists, who’re inspired to deal with their present priorities with out the expectation of delivering a completed work. The BAC Open format, which hosts a number of residencies concurrently in BAC’s studio areas, supplies alternatives for artists throughout disciplines to satisfy and alternate concepts. BAC Open concludes in a day of voluntary public studio showings – extra particulars to be introduced quickly.
Dance + Theater Residency, March 6-18: Monica Invoice Barnes & Firm, NYC
Dance Residency, March 6-18: Daniel Evan Kersh, NYC
Dance Residency, March 20 – April 1: binbinFactory / Satoshi Haga + Rie Fukuzawa, NYC
Theater + Multimedia Residency, March 6 – April 1: Zbigniew Bzymek + Kuba Falk, NYC and Warsaw, Poland
Multidisciplinary Residency, March 6 – April 1: Haruko Crow Nishimura / Degenerate Artwork Ensemble, Seattle, Washington
Dance + Efficiency Artwork Residency, March 20 – April 1: Denisa Musilova, NYC and Jihlava, Czech Republic
Dance Residency, March 6 – April 1: Claude Johnson, NYC
Dance + Theater Residency, March 6 – April 1: Welcome to Campfire / Ingrid Kapteyn + Tony Bordonaro, NYC
The James and Martha Duffy Fellowship
By means of a fund sponsored by the late BAC Board Member James H. Duffy, The James and Martha Duffy Fellowship supplies monetary assist to chose BAC resident artists working within the dance self-discipline.
Dance Residency, April 3-15: Leslie Cuyjet, NYC
Dance Residency, April 3-15: Raymond Pinto, NYC
The Princess Grace Basis-USA Works-in-Progress Residency
This residency is for Princess Grace Award winners who’re creating initiatives of a multi-media or interdisciplinary nature. Princess Grace Basis-USA Works-in-Progress Residents are recognized by way of a panel course of and are supplied vital funding, unique use of a BAC studio or theater area for between one and three weeks, and full technical assist.
Multimedia Residency, April 18-23: Rose Bond, Portland, Oregon
Dance Residency, January 30 – February 4 + November 27 – December 9: Shamel Pitts, NYC
The Bogliasco Fellowship
An expanded residency alternative for artists to develop initiatives first at Bogliasco’s facility within the serene coastal Italian surroundings, after which proceed at BAC’s studios within the city setting of New York Metropolis. The Bogliasco Fellowship contains an honorarium in addition to use of BAC’s studio areas.
Dance Residency, June 26-30: John Jasperse, NYC
Music + Theater Residency, June 12-16: Melisa Tien, NYC
Residency for Mid-Profession and Established Artists
Artists are invited to develop new and present initiatives in BAC’s studio areas.
Aszure Barton
Jodi Melnick
David Neumann
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Vertigo Dance Firm
was based in 1992 by Noa Wertheim and Adi Shaal. The corporate has established a definite presence within the up to date dance scene in Israel and across the globe. Vertigo Dance Firm is without doubt one of the main dance corporations in Israel and is invited to carry out inside essentially the most prestigious Worldwide festivals and well-known theaters across the Globe. The Firm has turn into a worldwide Ambassador for Israeli Artwork. By means of Noa Wertheim’s distinctive inventive inventive expression and motion, Vertigo is dedicated to increasing the boundaries of dance to boost social and environmental consciousness. Noa Wertheim, Vertigo’s Inventive Director, works and creates from her dwelling studio situated on the Vertigo Eco Artwork Village, the place she lives with Adi and their three sons, in a neighborhood that fosters the humanities in an ecologically and socially accountable method. The essence of Vertigo Dance Firm and Vertigo Eco Artwork Village is to affix the universe and the power of life, continually looking for out new and attention-grabbing collaborations.
Israel Galván de Los Reyes
stands out for proposing an expressive language of his personal, not solely as a dancer, but additionally as a scenic creator, creating a language, unknown till now in flamenco dancing, primarily based on fragmentations, mixtures, and sums of gestures. Winner of the Nationwide Dance Award 2005, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Tradition for his means to generate in an artwork like flamenco a brand new creation with out forgetting the true roots which have sustained it to today and that represent it as a common style, he has additionally acquired different awards throughout his profession together with the 2012 N.Y. Dance and Efficiency Bessie for Excellent Manufacturing and the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes granted by the Spanish Ministry of Tradition. In 2016, he was appointed Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France by the French Ministry of Tradition. This honorary ornament was in recognition of Galván’s work in France. He has acquired a complete of six Premios Max de Artes Escénicas and the Barcelona Critics’ Award in 2014 and 2018. The son of Sevillian flamenco dancers José Galván and Eugenia de Los Reyes, from the age of 5 he started to expertise the environment of the flamenco venues, events, and dance academies the place his father took him. Nevertheless it was not till 1990 that he discovered his vocation for dancing. In 1994, he joined the lately created Compañía Andaluza de Danza, directed by Mario Maya, starting an unstoppable profession. He has collaborated in quite a few initiatives with varied artists together with Enrique Morente, Manuel Soler, Mario Maya, Sol Picó, Pat Metheny, Vicente Amigo, Alfredo Lagos, Manuela Carrasco, Nick Lizard, Fernando Terremoto, Miguel Poveda, Diego Carrasco, Gerardo Nuñez , Belen Maya, Chicuelo, Joan Albert Amargós, Diego Amador, Arcángel, Inés Bacán and Estrella Morente. Galván’s’s credit embrace: ¡Mira! / Los Zapatos Rojos; La Metamorfosis (2000); Galvánicas (2002); Enviornment (2004); La Edad de Oro (2005); Tábula Rasa (2006); Solo (2007); El Remaining de Este Estado de cosas, Redux (2008); La Curva (2010); Lo Actual / Le Réel / The Actual (2012); FLA.CO.MEN (2014); Torobaka (2014); La Fiesta (2017); Coplas Mecánicas (2018); Gatomaquia (2018); El Amor Brujo (2019); Mellizo Doble (2020). In 2021 he conceived and directed the brief film Maestro de Barra. In summer season 2022 he opened at Grec competition in Barcelona his newest manufacturing Seises, impressed by his hometown Sevilla. Israel Galván can be featured in a Netflix docuseries about dance known as Transfer. He’s an related artist at Le Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.
AMOC
based in 2017 by Matthew Aucoin and Zack Winokur, builds and shares a physique of collaborative work. As a bunch of dancers, singers, musicians, writers, administrators, composers, choreographers, and producers united by a core set of values, AMOC artists pool their assets to create new pathways that join creators and audiences in shocking and visceral methods. Most lately, AMOC served as Music Director for the 2022 Ojai Music Competition-the second ensemble and first explicitly interdisciplinary firm to carry the place in OMF’s 75-year historical past. Over the Competition’s 4 days, AMOC supplied 18 performances, eight world premieres, and 6 new theatrical productions. In July 2022, AMOC premiered a brand new manufacturing of Harawi at Competition Aix-en-Provence, an affecting interpretation of Olivier Messiaen’s track cycle that breaks open its explorations of affection and demise right into a newly physicalized and theatrical dimension. AMOC’s 2022-2023 season additionally contains the world premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s Damaged Theater, introduced in partnership with New Dialect and Carolina Performing Arts; the New York premieres of Carolyn Chen’s Find out how to Fall Aside and Anthony Cheung’s the echoing of tenses, and the world premiere of Comet Poppea on the Spoleto Competition USA, which incorporates an AMOC-commissioned opera by composer George Lewis.
Eunbi Kim
(pronounced OON-bee, like ebook) curates applications that compel audiences to meditate on the components of themselves which might be deeply buried. Creating performances expressing dreamlike “liquid magnificence” (Instances Union), her intimate performances draw from collaborations with composers, filmmakers, and theater administrators to create experiences past the boundaries of the standard piano recital format. Kim’s latest album “It Feels Like” debuted at #2 on Billboard Classical Charts and confronts the multiplicity of truths behind recollections and id. It options world premiere recordings of works written for her by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Pauchi Sasaki, Angélica Negrón, and Sophia Jani. Drawing from the album and its themes, Kim moreover created a 4-night efficiency and dialog collection, additionally titled “It Feels Like,” as an Artist-in-Residence at WNYC’s The Greene House. Kim holds a Grasp of Music diploma from the Manhattan Faculty of Music. She at present serves on the Board of Trustees for New York Basis for the Arts and is co-founder of bespoken, a mentorship program for female-identifying and non-binary musicians. Her academics previous and current embrace Elena Arseniev, Anthony de Mare, and Rosemary Caviglia.
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
is a motion director and performer who emphasizes humanity in his work. Following seven years creating and performing full time with Pilobolus, he moved to Belgium the place he spent 4 years as lead performer and choreographic assistant to choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Now primarily based in Berlin, Shawn engages as a contract performer, director, and choreographer in various initiatives all over the world. Fitzgerald has contributed to greater than thirty main productions throughout a variety of platforms together with three Grammy Award nominated dance movies and two Academy Award profitable movies. He has carried out over one thousand reside exhibits in theaters and opera homes worldwide and his work has been seen on reside tv, in cinemas, and on display by tens of millions. His newest reside choreographic work, Elsewhere, was counted within the Irish Instances’ “Better of 2021,” lauded by main print media as, “A radical and well timed work”, “Fluidly bodily”, and, “Superbly choreographed.” His unbiased movies have been featured and awarded in movie festivals in North America, the UK, Europe, and Asia.
is a contract performer and creator, primarily based in Berlin, Germany. From 2017-2021 she danced with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani beneath the inventive course of Katrín Corridor Previous to her transfer to Sweden, Leriche danced 4 seasons with Hubbard Road Dance Chicago beneath the course of Glenn Edgerton. Beforehand, she danced two seasons of their Second Firm, HS2. Lately she has created work on Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and ISHIDA dance firm. Her newest work Nicely -a new creation for NDT II- premiered at Korzo Theater in The Hague as part of NDT’s Up & Coming Choreographers program. She is part of Yoann Bourgeois’ inventive and efficiency group for his newest collaboration with Patrick Watson. Collectively, Leriche and Ahern’s challenge, On Mending, was chosen for Orsolina 28’s “Name for Creation” fellowship the place the work was initially developed as a dance for movie within the spring of 2021. With the beneficiant assist of the Princess Grace Basis, in 2022 the work was developed right into a reside manufacturing on the Baryshnikov Arts Middle in New York Metropolis. They’re thrilled to be returning to BAC to current their subsequent digital work One & One Different.
Miguel Gutierrez
is a choreographer, music artist, author, visible artist, educator, podcaster, and Feldenkrais Methodology practitioner primarily based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. His work creates empathetic and irreverent areas exterior of conventional discourse. His work has been introduced internationally in over sixty cities. Latest initiatives embrace I as one other, a duet that examines unknowing and relationship, This Bridge Known as My Ass, a efficiency that queers tropes of Latinidad, and sueño, his music challenge of melancholic songs sung in English and Spanish. He’s a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, Basis for Modern Arts Award, 4 NY Dance and Efficiency “Bessie” Awards, and a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. He was a particular artist for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. His podcast Are You For Sale? examines the moral entanglements between cash and artwork making. He’s an Affiliate Professor of Choreography at UCLA within the division of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.
About Baryshnikov Arts Middle (BAC)
BAC is the conclusion of a long-held imaginative and prescient by inventive director Mikhail Baryshnikov who sought to construct an arts heart in Manhattan that might function a gathering place for artists from all disciplines. BAC’s opening in 2005 heralded the launch of this mission, establishing a thriving inventive laboratory and efficiency area for artists from all over the world. BAC’s actions embody a sturdy residency program augmented by a spread {of professional} companies, together with commissions of latest work, in addition to the presentation of performances by artists at various phases of their careers. In tandem with its dedication to supporting artists, BAC is devoted to constructing audiences for the humanities by presenting up to date, modern work at inexpensive ticket costs. For extra data, go to bacnyc.org.
