OUR SEASON OF ANNIVERSARIES CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LIVE ARTS AND 40 YEARS OF THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
FRESH TRACKS: NEW WORKS APR 15 & 16, 730PM
Artistic Advisor: nia love Production Stage Manager: Megan Dechaine Jacob Zedek: Lighting Designer Lilach Orenstein Don’t pick the flowers Direction and Choreography: Lilach Orenstein Performance: Lilach Orenstein with Sigalit Mudahi (my mom) and, Eran Nussinovitch (my partner) Music: Israel Philharmonic and Roni Dalumi Dramaturgy: Meredith Glisson Set Design: Sara Brown Executive Production: Kristen Kelso Costume Consultation: Kenisha Kelly Sound Consultation: Avi Amon Running time: 15 mins SPECIAL THANKS MIT School of Humanities and Social Sciences and MOtiVE Brooklyn FUNDING Lilach Orenstein’s performance is supported in part by the Israel Office of Cultural Affairs.
Jesi Cook Interiors Choreographed and Performed by Jesi Cook
Running time: 15 mins SPECIAL THANKS To the Cook-Choi family, Daniele Sarti, NYLA staff, and my Fresh Tracks cohorts.
John Maria Gutierrez quieted (stillness) en Maria Choreographed, Directed and Performed by John Maria Gutierrez Music, Audio, and Video by John Maria Gutierrez Running time: 15 mins SPECIAL THANKS John would like to shout out some of the incredible mentors/collaborators they have worked with who have influenced how he thinks/moves through the world and making work. Miguel Gutierrez, Maura Nguyen Donohue, Beth Graczyk, Mia Yoo, MOTUS, Liz Swados, george emilio sánchez, Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, Pilobolus, Billy Clark, Full Circle Souljahs, Raja & the feath3r theory, Allyson Green, BAIRA, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Martha Tornay, Stephen Petronio, Uwe Mengel, Davien Littlefield. Thank you to the team at New York Live Arts, Veronica Falborn is the best! Thank you to my partner in everything, Kim Savarino, te quiero mucho. quietud (stillness) en Maria was stitched together with the support, fostering, and guidance over many years from generous artists at Culture Hub NYC (RE-FEST 2020), La Mama (Resident Artist 2020), BAAD! (Dancing Futures Resident Artist 2021) and explorations from the EMERGE NYC 2021 cohort. I dedicate this performance to Barbara. You helped me believe in myself and my voice, and encouraged me to share my music with the world. There are no words that could ever describe what you have meant to me. You are love. Thank you para siempre.
Maleek Washington Spectrum Choreographed, Directed and Performed by Maleek Washington Music by Kwinton Grey and KAMAUU Set Design by Alex Ustach Running time: 12 mins SPECIAL THANKS Edward Fallon, Niya Nicholson, Alex Ustach, Nisani Lopez, KAMAUU, Kwinton Grey and the Staff at New York Live Arts for assisting me in bringing this work to life. Thank you to Dance Place DC and Bronx Arts Council for your support, and creating a platform for my work to be shared within the New York arts community.
Majesty Royale the space between the riot and i Choreographed and Performed by Majesty Royale Music by Majesty Royale, featuring archival recording of Hillside High School (Durham, NC) 1994 Marching Hornets Running time: 15 mins To those who have been mentors: keyon gaskin, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Niall Jones, nia love, and Jesse Zaritt. SPECIAL THANKS To the peers and friends who watched, listened, and held me; those who helped me to shape this work: jess pretty, J. Redwork, L. Graciella Maiolatesi, miracle faith, Maleek Washington, Jesi Cook, Lilach Orenstein, and John Maria Gutierrez. To those others that have shaped the world, which shapes me: Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Octavia E. Butler, Tina Turner, adrienne maree brown, Katherine McKittrick, Tricia Hersey, and the legendary Hillside High School. To everyone who donated to my fundraising campaign… …for their support of me and this work, thank you.
ABOUT FRESH TRACKS New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks Residency & Performance program is a season-long residency for emerging movement-based artists in support of new work creation and professional development. This season marks the 57th year of Fresh Tracks which was a signature program of Dance Theater Workshop created in 1965 to bring new choreographic artistry to the forefront. For the 2021-2022 season we unrolled the revamped version of Fresh Tracks to produce a shared evening of new work in the theater developed during the residency. The professional development workshops and meetings focused, in part, on applying learned knowledge and skills towards the shared production. The five artists who are selected for the program receive a 50hour studio residency, $3000 fee, work with Artistic Advisor nia love, take part in professional development workshops led by renowned professionals from the field, exclusive access to Live Arts’ Communications, Development, Production and Programming staff, a Live Core Artist Membership and a fully-produced shared program in the New York Live Arts theater.
FUNDING Fresh Tracks is supported in part by Partners for New Performance.
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BIOGRAPHIES Jesi Cook is a movement based artist residing in NYC 2005.
performs on screen and stage, nationally and internationally. Originally from the small island Her practice combines sound, of NYC, John was raised in drawing, and channeling in building a hood commonly known as improvisation scores. “Little Dominican Republic,” aka Washington Heights, and has spent Cook has been supported by most of their life on Lenape land. the Movement Research 2019 As a first generation DominicanxAIR program, 2020 Foundation Americanx and the first person in for Contemporary Art Covid their family born in the US, John Emergency Grant, Mertz Gilmore is carving out and balancing their Late Stage grant for Dogflats, and own identity within his family, Roulette Intermedium. cultural hxstory, and artistic expression. Cook has presented her own work and collaborations at Movement Their personal work combines Research at Judson Memorial acting, b-boy, and postmodern Church, MoMA PS1 Dome, 92nd aesthetics with original music, St Y Sundays at Noon, Pieter writing, bi-lingual singing, and Performance Space (LA), AUNTS, experimental theater to unwind a Roulette Intermedium, LmaK complex urban disparity brought Gallery, and PAM Residencies (LA). on by social and systemic failings. The work reaches for healing and Her dance drawings were recently dialogue within a world actively published in The Capilano Review facing, reflecting, and surviving Winter 2021 Issue, im looking for a global colonization and systemic way to dance, and a writing piece oppressions. in the online archive Interlude Docs curated by Rebekah Weil. Their works have been presented at The Rubin Museum, Dixon Place, Cook graduated from the SUNY Gibney, Judson, BAAD!, and La Purchase Dance Conservatory Mama. John is honored to add New in 2005. York Live Arts to this list!
John Rafael Maria Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary actor, mover, maker/creator, and educator who
John is a proud member of the legendary Great Jones Rep Company of La Mama and
G^2, a duo-ship launched with Beth Graczyk that has led to the performances of their queer works and teachings at the Shanghai Tower, China, Wayne State University, Detroit, Triskelion Arts, BK and Judson Church, NYC. John is faculty at Peridance Center and the Terry Knickerbocker Studio, a studio specializing in the Meisner approach to acting. Recent credits. 1001, starring Teyana Taylor dir. AV Rockwell, Focus Features/Warner Bros., Law & Order: SVU opposite Ice-T dir. Norberto Barba, NBC Universal, King Lear In The Forest, (Cocreated with Beth Graczyk, Center at West Park Resident Artists Spring 2021), La Mama ETC (2020 Artist In Residence) Coming soon. Brothers In Arms (Co-created with James Clements, Culture Lab LIC 2022 Resident Artists), Rockefeller And I (Presented at La Mama, May 2022 dir. Uwe Mengel), Pregnant Speakeasy (Philly Fringe, Fall 2022, dir. Josephine Decker/ Dan Rothenberg, Pig Iron Theater Company) Follow John on insta @jmg160 johnmariagutierrez.com
Lilach Orenstein is an Activist, Choreographer, Performer, and Producer best known for combining diverse types of arts from multiple disciplines into poetical synergies. She is an Israeli immigrant with Yemeni roots based in New York City. Orenstein earned her B.Dance from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in 2017 and her M.F.A from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, in 2019. Among her awards are The Presidential Scholarship (U.Arts), Outstanding Dancer from the Israeli Ministry of Culture, Excellence Award by The Jerusalem Foundation and was featured on the April 2022 Dance Magazine on-therise column. Orenstein’s works performed internationally at Impulstanz - Vienna, L1dancefest - Budapest, and the International Dance week - Israel and nationally at EMERGENYC2020, The Center at West Park, Beam Center and is a 2022 fellow artist at The Workshop JTS. Lilach is also serving as Co-Director of MOtiVE Brooklyn, a community-oriented space she founded in May 2021 together with Meredith Glisson, to provide opportunities for independent movement-based artists such as custom-tailored residencies and international exchange programs.
Sigalit Mudahi is the head of Medical Laboratories Quality Assurance in Israel’s largest Health Care Organization, Clalit. Mudahi holds a Ph.D. in Agriculture and studied Microbiology in her Postdoctoral research. Mudahi has a master’s in Public Health Management and is certified as a Quality Manager and Organizations’ Excellence Leader by the American Society of Quality. In her spare time, Mudahi engages in fields of modern art and hiking.
Majesty is a 2020 Pina Bausch Choreography fellow and a graduate of the University of the Arts with a BFA in Dance. Majesty has performed in the US and abroad with renowned artists including: Bouchra Ouizguen, Gerard & Kelly, Jocelyn Cottencin, jumatatu poe, and Niall Jones.
Their work confronts claims of ownership on the body by engaging in radical defiance of how one should be. Majesty uses flamboyance, language Eran Nussinovitch is an Artificial reconstruction, community Intelligence researcher working building, coded language, misas an Applied Machine Learning representation, voice, glitter, and Manager in Clarifai, best known for sweat. Through these practices, his contributions to advancing the Majesty intends to lose the self of safety of Autonomous Vehicles the constraints of a singular reality and transforming enterprises in search of new realnesses. using Computer Vision. Nussinovitch earned his M.Sc. in Maleek Washington is from the Computer Science and B.Sc. in Bronx, New York. A alumni of the Electrical Engineering from the Boston Conservatory, where he Hebrew University of Jerusalem studied on full scholarship, he where his research focused on began his dance training at Harlem augmentation dualities across School of The Arts, Broadway Natural Language Processing and Dance Center and LaGuardia High Computer Vision. School for the Performing Arts. He has danced with CityDance Majesty Royale is a dancer, Ensemble (Washington DC), performance maker, sound Montreal’s SpringBoard Danse explorer, and ghost occupying (working with Jose Navas & liminal spaces. They grew up in RUBBERBAND), and Kyle the unseeded land of the Eno and Abraham’s A.I.M for four seasons, Occaneechi peoples (Durham, NC) before becoming the first Africanand are currently based in LenniAmerican male to perform in Sleep Lenape land (Philadelphia, PA). No More. He has also performed
nia love (Artistic Advisor) was most recently awarded the DiP Gibney residence and the 2019 Gibney Presents Artist in Residence. nia love is a 2017 Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Performer as part of the Skeleton Architecture ensemble, convened by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. She is a daughter, mother, grandmother, activist, choreographer, and educator. She is a two-time Fulbright Fellow, a two-time recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange/BAX Artist-inResidence program, and two-time recipient of New York Live Arts’ Suitcase Fund Award. Her work has been presented at NYU Skirball, Danspace Project, Harlem Maleek was a guest choreographer Stage, Judson Church, Kennedy and adjunct professor at University Center, New York Live Arts, NOLA School of the Arts for fall 2019 and Cultural Arts Center, MOCADA, Bard University 2020. Finished Montpelier Arts Center, PS122, his 3rd year choreographing Snug Harbor, and the Nafasi Art at Sydney’s premiere Full time Space-Tanzania, among others. training program Brent Street Presently, she works at BAX as and was Movement Director for both the Artist Advisor to the Fenders “Inside the Box” with Artist-In-Residence program and guitarist Nile Rodgers. the Racial Equity Advisor. love also serves as Assistant Professor Currently Washington is the at Queens College, Bard College, assistant choreographer and The New School. In Sp. 2018, to Camille A. Brown at the love was a Visiting Professor at Metropolitan Opera for her UCLA and Sp. 2019 at University of directorial debut for “Fire shut Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. up In my bones”. Which will make history for being the first Opera composed by Terrance Blanchard an African American Man.
for Sia, Phish, and Rihanna (for an immersive experience for her AntidiaRy Campaign) and ASAP Rocky. Maleek was part of NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live and performed with Camille A. Brown and Dancers in the 2018 Ted Talk Conference in Vancouver. Maleek has been a member of Camille A. Brown and dancers for 5 seasons having the opportunity to work on shows like the Grammy winning Porgy and Bess of the Metropolitian Opera as an assistant choreographer, Spike Lees Mont Blanc Commerical as assistant choreographer, and Camilles Alvin Ailey piece entitled City of Rain.
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
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