OUR SEASON OF ANNIVERSARIES CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LIVE ARTS AND 40 YEARS OF THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
Milka Djordjevich CORPS JUN 30 & JUL 1, 730PM Choreographed by Milka Djordjevich Performed by Martita Abril, Dorothy Dubrule, Ayano Elson, Allie Hankins, Tiara Jackson and DaEun Jung Music by Celia Hollander Lighting Design by Madeline Best Technical Director & Lighting Associate: Katelan Braymer Vocal Coach: Odeya Nini Dramaturgy: Tim Reid Company Manager: Gabriella Rhodeen Running time: 1hr 15min
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FUNDING The creation of CORPS is made possible, in part, by individual donors, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, CalArts Dance, Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow and by a commission from New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Residency program with additional support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Partners for New Performance and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
SPECIAL THANKS Justin Streichman Chris Peck devika wickremesinghe Laurel Atwell Annabella Vidrio Shannon Nulf Josie Bettman Tara Sheena Shannon Scrofano Dot Armstrong Clare Croft Ben Johnson Miranda Wright Megan Steele Leon High School JROTC The Cuffs Luke McGowan And extra special thanks to the UCLA and AMDA students who took part in the research and development.
BIOGRAPHIES Milka Djordjevich is a choreographer, performer and educator who questions preconceived notions of what dance should or should not be. Her work has been shown at many venues across the country, including the American Realness Festival, BAMPFA, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, the Hammer Museum, the Kitchen, LAX Festival, Machine Project, MAK Center, PICA’s TBA Festival, The Philadelphia Thing, REDCAT, Santa Ana Sites and the Whitney Museum, and internationally in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and the UK. Djordjevich was a 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award recipient, a 2017-2018 Princeton University Hodder Fellow, a 20062007 Movement Research Artistin-Residence and a 2008/2010 danceWEB Europe Scholar. She has had residencies at Abrons Arts Center, ARC Pasadena, Baryshnikov Arts Center, CAP UCLA via Los Angeles Performance Practice, Fabrik Potsdam, Jacob’s Pillow Lab, LMCC Swingspace, PACT-Zollverein and Workspace Brussels, among others. Other projects include serving as guest editor for Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence and
initiating the Monday Morning/ Night Class series at Pieter. She has taught at CalArts, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), Pomona College, Pasadena City College, and University of California at Irvine, Riverside and Los Angeles, Wesleyan University, among others. In 2016, Djordjevich established STANA, an organization cultivating local, national and international dance connections. Martita Abril is a performer, choreographer, and teaching artist from the border city of Tijuana, México. When she moved to NYC, she was selected for the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts and has served as a mentor for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program. Her work has been supported by New York Live Arts, Sundays on Broadway, The Chocolate Factory, Sunday Service at The Knockdown Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYFA, HERE Art Center, The Lumen Festival, Potiker Theater at UCSD, Casa de la Cultura, and site-specifics throughout NYC and Tijuana. Martita-abril.org Dorothy Dubrule is a choreographer and performer
based in Los Angeles. Dorothy She is an inaugural resident artist received an MFA in choreography and current steward of FLOCK, and performance from UCLA and a dance center and creative was the Executive Director of home to Portland’s experimental Pieter Performance Space from dance artists, and in 2013 she 2017 to 2022. Prior to moving to LA, co-founded Physical Education, she danced with DIY performance a performance co-operative/ art collective Club Lyfestile and support group of sorts, comprised comedic fly girl crew Body Dreamz of herself, keyon gaskin, Taka in Philadelphia. Following the Yamamoto, and Lu Yim. Physical publication of her essay, “What I’m Education hosts open reading Doing When I’m Selling Out,” on SF groups, curates performances, MoMA’s Open Space, Dorothy will and teaches workshops nationally. be publishing a collection of writing Allie’s current endeavors include by performers contracted by visual learning sign language and teaching arts institutions in the spring of step aerobics. Her website is 2023 with Insert Blanc Press. alliehankins.com. Ayano Elson is an Okinawan– Tiara Jackson is a performance American choreographer and artist, choreographer , model, and performer based in New York. Her all around funny gal based in Los choreography has been presented Angeles, CA. She uses movement by the Chocolate Factory, Gibney as a way to transcribe gut feelings, Dance, ISSUE Project Room, subconscious thoughts, and Knockdown Center, Movement strange dreams. Her work billows Research, and Roulette. She’s been between bliss, sorrow, and comedy an artist-in-residence at Movement to represent the vast range of Research, Art Cake, Abrons emotions one may experience Arts Center, Lower Manhattan at any moment. Jackson earned Cultural Council, and Center for a BFA in Dance with a minor in Performance Research. She has Natural Science from the California performed in works by Laurie Institute of the Arts (2013). Berg, Kim Brandt, Jesi Cook, Milka Djordjevich, Simone Forti, Kyli DaEun Jung is a dancerKleven, Abigail Levine, and Haegue choreographer whose work Yang in Chicago, Los Angeles, and reveals her past and present New York. ayanoelson.com body memories. Jung’s work has been supported by venues and Allie Hankins is a dancer and organizations including REDCAT, maker based in so-called Portland. LA Performance Practice, Pieter,
Electric Lodge, Movement installation and text. Her work Research at the Judson Church, and critically engages ways that audio Korea Foundation. She has been and the act of listening can shape awarded artist-in-residencies from temporal perception and question Brockus Project Dance, LA Dance cultural infrastructures. Her work Project, Santa Monica Cultural has been performed or installed at Affairs at Camera Obscura Art Lab, institutions and venues including LAPP at Automata, and Show Box MOCA, The Getty, Skirball Cultural LA at We Live in Space as well as a Art Center, Various Small Fires, residency-lab Forward Dialogues Human Resources and Zebulon. 2019 at MANCC. Jung is invited to Her discography includes releases a 2022 Loghaven Artist Residency on Leaving Records, Recital and as a collaborative group with Daniel Noumenal Loom and she is a Corral and Alexander Gedeon. resident dj on Dublab Radio. She holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts where she Madeline Best is a Lighting studied music composition. Designer, Performer, Mother and The Director of Operations at the Chocolate Factory Theater. Katelan Braymer is a Lighting Madeline’s design practice Designer and Technical Director for comes from an interest in the Theatre, Dance and Opera. Designs: way light affects space and the Drift, 90Sugar, Time, ROSEWOOD way the light feels as an audience (Micaela Taylor); It’s Alive, Fefu and member or performer. Her lighting her Friends, Underneath/Silent/ design subtly supports the work Forgotten, The Hairy Ape (Odyssey of collaborative artists. Recent Theatre); Land of the Sweets, projects have included the Company Debut (Movement following artists Katy Pyle/Ballez, Headquarters Ballet); Terra Heather Kravas, Ursula Eagly, (LACDC); Safe and Sound, Gnarled Milka Djordjevich, Efrian Rozas, (Kevin Williamson); and Daughter luciana achugar, Andrea Kleine, of the Wicked (Shanit Schwartz). Anne-B Parson/Big Dance Theater, US/International Tours: All the and more. Madeline grew up in Sex I’ve Ever Had: Chicago / Austin Durham, North Carolina studied at / Belgium / Finland (Mammalian Bennington College and currently Diving Reflex); Halfway to Dawn, lives in Long Island City, Queens. Stardust (David Rousseve); Inflatable Trio (Lionel Popkin); and Pang! (Dan Froot). Katelan has been Celia Hollander is a Los Angeles based composer and artist working a Lighting Assistant at the LA Opera since 2011. KatelanBraymer.com with audio, scores, performance,
Tim Reid is an artist, writer, and facilitator for others. He makes performance and theater. He has been presented in Los Angeles at Human Resources, PAM Residencies, Machine Project, Highways, and Pieter Performance Space, as well as Links Hall (Chicago) and Chicken Coop Contemporary (Portland) as part of PICA’s TBA Festival, among others. He has been an ensemble member with The Neo-Futurists (Chicago), with whom he wrote and performed for their long-running late night show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, and Gawdafful National Theater (Los Angeles). He is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU where he writes about clowns. Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. Her solo vocal work extends the dimension and expression of the voice and body, creating a sonic and physical panorama of silence to noise and tenderness to grandeur. Odeya’s work has been presented at venues and festivals across the US and internationally,
such as the LA Phil, The Broad Museum, The Banff Centre, Merkin concert Hall, MONA and Art Basel Miami, from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Australia, Mongolia, Madagascar and Vietnam. She also leads Voice Baths, seminars, workshops and retreats exploring the transformative and healing qualities of embodying the voice. odeyanini.com
LIVE ARTS CONTRIBUTORS New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year: $500,000 and higher Anonymous Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker $100,000-$499,999 Eleanor Friedman Ruth & Stephen Hendel Alex Katz Foundation Ellen M. Poss Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel / Semel Charitable Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Anonymous Lorraine Gallard & Richard Levy Suzanne Karpas $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Patricia Blanchet / Ed Bradley Family Foundation David Dechman & Michel Mercure Zoe Eskin Adam Flatto Helen & Peter Haje Alexes Hazen James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Barbara & Alan D. Marks Randy Polumbo / Plant Construction Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Starry Night Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Diana Wege / Wege Foundation $10,000 - $24,999 Colleen Keegan Julie Orlando Andrea Rosen Ruby Shang Nina & Gabriel Stricker Leslie Weinberger
$5,000 - $9,999 Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Caroline & Paul Cronson Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Anne Delaney Agnes Gund Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt Robert Longo Deborah Ronnen Melissa Schiff Soros Cindy Sherman Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler Kristalina & Jack Taylor Williams Family Foundation $1,000 - $4,999 Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation Anonymous The Angelson Family Foundation Jonathan J. Cohen Charitable Fund Jeannie Colbert Kim Cullen Emily Dalton Joan Davidson Lil & Jim DeMarse Dobkin Family Foundation Margaret Doyle John Fitzgibbon Mimi Garrard Judith & Steven Gluckstern Michael & Deborah Goldberg Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk Jeanine Heriveaux Jenny Holzer Otho Kerr Spike Lee Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Meridee Moore & Kevin King Thomas Nichols & Daniel Chadburn Mark O’Donnell Deborah Pines Rita Salzman The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Catharine R. Stimpson Megumi & Bruce Williams Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy
$500 - $999 Arthur Aviles Timothy Benning The Marshall Frankel Foundation Sharon Gerstel Tom Hennes Lauren Hutton Olivia Katz Kenneth Machlin Wayne Norbeck John Sansone Deborah Swiderski Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2020-6/30/2021 Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/ NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Tides Foundation Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Otter AI, Tito’s Handmade Vodka. Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Correction, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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