Crossing Boundaries Natalia Fernandes, Laura Shapiro, Kyle Georgina Marsh, Amos Pinhas

About This Show

New work by choreographers who cross cultural, geographic & disciplinary boundaries. Curated by Marcia Monroe.

Featuring:
Natalia Fernandes
Laura Shapiro
Kyle Georgina Marsh
Amos Pinhas

About the Artists

Natalia Fernandes is a brazilian performer and choreographer living and working in Tanger/Morocco at the moment. Her trajectory includes, mainly, works as a performer fir various companies in Brazil, Europe and USA: Mauricio de Oliveira, Morena Nascimento, Nir de Volff/TOTAL BRUTAL, CocoonDance,VIGA212, Alessio Silvestrin, Sebastian Hirn, and others. She attended the undergraduation in Dance at UNICAMP/SP, 2010-2012; with the support of the University and a schoolarship of Pibic and SAE/UNICAMP she conducted a research about Dance and Cinema. As a choreographer, her outputs are generally connected with the body inside a structure that is both quotidian and imaginary, reality and fiction. Her first output, in 2011, a site specific work ´Prologos para um Jardim´,  got grants from the CCSP, and the support of UNICAMP and the Festival ´Lugar Nomade´/SP. Later, in 2014, in a artistic residency in Jordan, Fernandes started her project ´The Oldest Thing in the World´. She is still working in this project, travelling and researching between Jordan, Germany, Brazil, USA, Spain and Morocco, She just finished a residency in Tanger/Morocco with the support and grants from the American Legation and ALC. ´This is not mine´ is a fragment of this project and has been performed at: AckerStatdPalast/Berlin, Judson Church/NYC, American Legation/Tanger, BETA PUBLICA/Madrid, INTERNATIONALLE TANZSOLO/Bonn, etc.

Amos Pinhasi was born in Israel where he performed and choreographed for Tamar Jerusalem Dance Company.In new York he has presented his own work since 1985 and has been produced by DTW, DIA ,Joyce Soho, Dancenow,The 40Up Project and Danspace Project among others.He has toured his solo work in Switzerland, Austria, Germany.Sweden and Israel.He teaches dance improvisation and Yoga internationally.

Kyle Georgina Marsh, is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Dancing Georgina Project. In June 2015, Kyle was one of four emerging choreographers presented in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s production, Jersey (New) Moves!. Kyle’s work has been featured in: Grounds for Sculpture (2015) Triskelion Arts Center’s Dance Film Lab Festival (2015), Under Exposed (2015), WAXworks (2015), Your Move (2014), Brooklyn UPSTART Festival (2012), and the College Partnership Program (2012), among others. Kyle holds a B.F.A. in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts, and a Masters Degree in Dance Education from The Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University. Kyle was born in Tokyo and raised primarily in Hawaii

Laura Shapiro’s independent artistic journey has taken her from New York to the Northwest, Asia, and Europe. From the energy medicine of meditation and chi kung to the energy policies currently under public debate, she is interested in exploring the elements of which we are comprised and the elements in nature—in our experience of movement in daily life and onstage. She is currently developing a multi-piece, movement-driven performance project that is sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts. She also teaches Chi Kung, Experiential Anatomy and Pilates Mat as well as Contemporary Dance, Improvisation and Composition.

 

Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students / Seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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