Mondo Cane! Commissions @ Dixon Place
MEAT
written and performed by
JACK FERVER
Thursday-Saturday, Aug 21*, 22, 23, Wednesday & Thursday, August
27 & 28
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, Sept 4, 5, & 6 at 8pm
Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, 2nd Floor, between Houston & Prince
Gen Admission: $15, Stu/Sen $12; TDF (Mon-Thurs), *$10 Preview
Advance tickets and more info www.dixonplace.org (212) 219-0736
A new evening-length work written and choreographed by Jack Ferver, MEAT examines America's over-saturation with sex and the impossible standards it demands. Drawing from the real life tale of femme fatale Lisa Nowak (astronaut extraordinaire), a cautionary fable unfolds as told by four performers. Employing darkly comedic candor and fever pitch performance styles, MEAT elevates the state of desire to an explosive end.
W/ Reid Bartelme, Liz Santoro & Jason Akira Somma.
Jack Ferver was the first choreographer presented at The New Museum with his work, I Am Trying To Hear Myself. He received Dixon Place's Mondo Cane commission in the summer or 2007 for his evening length dance/theatre work, When We Were Young And Filled With Fear. Before that, he performed Eshge Khoda va Sheitan or God and Satan Fucking at Dixon Place, created with Matthew Rogers. Other self-created works include Why Can't Condi Sleep (BRIC and Makor), Cliterature ,and Camille vs. Karen (HERE, The Culture Project, BRIC, and The Oni Gallery), Bad Dating (The Oni Gallery), and The Ophelia Project (The Culture Project). Meat marks Ferver's second Dixon Place Mondo Cane Commission. As an actor he has appeared Off Broadway and regionally. His film and t.v. credits include Outside Providence, The Devil and Daniel Webster, and as Jimmy Tickles in Strangers With Candy.
Reid Bartelme was born in New York City. He began his dance training at Interlochen Arts Academy where he was studied music. He continued his dance training at SUNY Purchase, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He has danced professionally for Ballet Met, Alberta Ballet, Los Angeles Chamber Ballet, and has been working for Shen Wei Dance Arts since April of 2007.
Liz Santoro was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received early dance training with The Boston Ballet and graduated with a BA from Harvard University. Since moving to New York in 2003, she has performed her own works and those of Ann Liv Young, Jillian Peña, Emily Wexler, Beth Gill, Trajal Harrell and Sam Kim. This is her second work with Jack Ferver. Liz is a certified instructor of Pilates and the M.E.L.T. technique.
Jason Akira Somma is a practicing choreographer, director, and photographer in NYC. His dance/ film work has been featured on the Sundance Channel, Independent Film Channel, PBS, NY Dance Film Festival, MTV Europe, American Dance Festival, Dance Theatre Workshop (NYC), Seoul (Korea) Film Festival, SPEX Magazine (Germany), and Impulz Tanz Festival in Vienna. His photography work has also been featured in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, Village Voice, Time Out NY, and LA Times. Jason recently became the first American to receive the Rolex Mentor Protege Grant through Geneva, Switzerland and will be collaborating with Jiri Kylian on the Nederlands Danse Theatre's 50th Anniversary show.
Forever.
by
Laura Peterson Choreography
Premiering AT 161 Chrystie Street
Thurs, Fri, Sat, October 23, 24, 25
Thurs & Fri, October 30 & 31
Sat, November 1
Thurs, Fri, Sat, November 6, 7, 8
ALL SHOWS AT 8PM *
**dates subject to change
Highly saturated, seamless, patterned geometry. There's nothing else… Forever.
Performed by Christopher Hutchings, Kate Martel, Stephanie Miracle & Laura Peterson. Music by Lumberob.
Laura
Peterson is a NYC-based dance artist and Artistic Director of Laura
Peterson Choreography. The company just completed a residency at the Queens
Museum of Art where they presented an excerpt of their new work Forever.
Forever. marks Peterson's second Dixon Place commission set to premiere
in their state-of-the-art facility this October, 2008. Laura was awarded
a 2007-08 Artist-in-Residence at DNA in NYC where her piece Electrolux
premiered in March. In 2007 the company received their first Dixon Place
Mondo Cane! Commission for I Love Dan Flavin. She has been presented at
DTW, PS 122, Danspace Project, Joe's Pub, throughout the US, Germany and
Argentina. Her dances have been commissioned by Hartford Ballet, PA Ballet
and DROP Dance. She holds an MFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School where
she received a fellowship in Dance History and a BFA in dance from UArts
in Philadelphia.
Christopher Hutchings is a dancer and choreographer. His work
has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as in Germany,
Taiwan, and the US. He has performed with Connecticut Ballet, Jody Oberfelder,
Virginia Ballet, and Second Wind Dance. He holds a BFA in dance from Tisch
School of the Arts and has guest taught at Loyola and Rowan Universities.
Kate Martel graduated from Goucher College in 2002 with a B.A.
in Dance and Education. Since moving to New York she has had the good
fortune to work with several dance artists including Nora Stephens/noranewdanceco,
Jessica Morgan, Juliette Mapp and Luis Lara Malvacias.
Stephanie Miracle earned her BA in Dance from Belhaven College.
She created The Marionette and the Music Box and the children's ballet
Robinson the Cat which toured nationally, including a residency at the
Smithsonian. She has worked with Avodah Dance Ensemble, Elizabeth Dishman,
YelleB Dance, BJ Sullivan and Deganit Shemy.
Rob Erickson (Lumberob) plays a solo vocal show called Lumberob.
Recently he was Artist in Residence at Dixon Place with performances of
Off the Hozzle. He provided music for Nature Theater of Oklahoma's NO
DICE, which won a special citation Obie. He holds an MFA in Playwriting
from Brooklyn College and BA from Brown University.
Theses Dixon Place Mondo Cané! Commissions are made possible with
generous support from NYSCA, a state agency: The Jerome Foundation: The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & the Peg Santvoord Foundation. [Laura
Peterson's photos by Steven Schreiber.]
Potatoes of August
written by
Sibyl Kempson
A theatricalist fugue wherein four retirees encounter
a sack of sentient potatoes, and find their outworn belief systems forcibly
confronted by the challenges of a highly-integrated, enlightened metaphysics.
And potatoes, as it turns out, don't always play fair.
With songs by Mike Iveson. Video by Karinne Keithley. Set by Eric Berninghausen.
SIBYL KEMPSON makes theater plays in NYC since 2000, with titles
like This Property is BAUHAUS!; SPARGEL TIME!; The Wytche of Problymm
Plantation; Robert Stack: Homoferus Untitled; Crime or Emergency; The
Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or) Puppets Die in Secret;
Bad Girls Good Writers; (In)communicable, (Con)Genital, Incommensurable;
Zeit af der KurbisGeistNachten (or) It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken;
and Potatoes of August. Also Kyckling and Screaming which is an adaptation
of The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, and At the Kingdom's Gate: Prelude which
is a translation of Ved Rigets Port: Forspil by Knut Hamsun.
