Albert Ibokwe Khoza
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
Jasmine Hearn
Miguel Gutierrez
Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory
Wally Cardona
Troy Anthony | Fire Ensemble
Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective
Kimberly Bartosik/daela
Photo: Sanele Thusi
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Photo: Jeremy Lawson courtesy of MCA Chicago
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12 DAYS 18 EVENTS 26 ARTISTS Live Artery is a dynamic festival featuring new and recent works by resident commissioned artists and curated guests. For the first time, the 2024 festival includes co-presentations with partner Under the Radar, and off-site performances at The Chocolate Factory, Gibney and The Collapsable Hole. Live Artery provides a space for artists to network and share their work with presenters from around the world, which has led to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships. We acknowledge and pay respect to Lenape people, elders, and ancestors past, present, and coming in the future. We acknowledge Indigenous people who may be present right now. We acknowledge and offer deep gratitude to Lenapehoking where we are now - the land, and waters of the Lenape homeland.
SCHEDULE JAN 9-12, 7PM JAN 13, 3PM JAN 11-14
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JAN 11-13, 730PM JAN 11-13, 8PM
Theater OFF SITE OFF SITE Studio
Faye Driscoll: Weathering Juliana F. May: Family Happiness Co-presented @ The Chocolate Factory
Roderick George | kNonAme Artist Co-presented @ Gibney
Albert Ibokwe Khoza: The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu Presented in partnership with Under the Radar
OFF SITE
Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein: Deepe Darknesse
JAN 13, 12PM
Studio
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
JAN 13, 2PM
Studio
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
Studio
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith: Zero Station
JAN 14, 11AM
Lobby
Artist Salon
JAN 14, 1PM
Studio
Jasmine Hearn
JAN 14, 3PM
Studio
Miguel Gutierrez
JAN 14, 6PM
Studio
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
JAN 14-15, 18-20, 730PM
Theater
Dynasty Handbag: Titanic Depression
JAN 12-15
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JAN 13, 5PM
Co-presented @ The Collapsable Hole
Presented in partnership with Under the Radar
JAN 14, 9PM
Studio
Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory
JAN 15, 12PM
Studio
Wally Cardona
JAN 15, 2PM
Studio
Troy Anthony | Fire Ensemble
JAN 15, 5PM
Studio
Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective
JAN 15, 7PM
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Kimberly Bartosik/daela
Albert Ibokwe Khoza Photo courtesy of African Entertainers
Albert Ibokwe Khoza The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu JAN 11-13, 8PM
Presented in partnership with Under the Radar Created and Performed by Albert Ibokwe Khoza Producer and Director: Princess Mhlongo Run Time: 60 minutes
FUNDING Presented as part of a North American tour with Boom Arts in Portland, Oregon and San José State University.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Albert Ibokwe Khoza is an internationally acclaimed performance artist who continuously reveals and projects the state of mind of a loner individual who is a non-binary womanly man and a Sangoma (traditional healer). Through their sexuality and traditional practice, they express their thoughts by moving between different artistic mediums to outline social ills and what their divergent nature sees and interprets about the world they live in, critically questioning their surroundings, their leaders, and life itself. They received the Bessie award for their performance in “And so you see … our honorable blue sky and ever enduring sun … can only be consumed slice by slice …” African Entertainers Consultancy is an artist and asset management entertainment company. Our strength lies in the development and representation of African artists. We champion provocative stories in all genres and our aim is to put Africa on the world map, one artist at a time. Established in 2017 by award-winning Theatre maker Princess Mhlongo and
award-winning film director Norman Maake the company has worked with leading artists and organisations in both Theatre and FIlm.
A.I.M If We Were a Love Song Photo by Christopher Duggan
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham MotorRover & If We Were a Love Song JAN 13, 12PM
Excerpts of If We Were a Love Song (2021) Choreography: Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M Music: Nina Simone Lighting Design: Dan Scully Costume Design: Kyle Abraham and Karen Young Performers: Listed below Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair Jamaal Bowman, Amari Frazier Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Catherine Kirk, Donovan Reed, Keturah Stephens ,Gianna Theodore Keeper of the Flame Donovan Reed Little Girl Blue Gianna Theodore If We Were a Love Song was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. If We Were a Love Song was created in part through a residency at the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow; and during a “bubble” residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and LUMBERYARD, made possible by the Mellon Foundation. If We Were a Love Song is commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works. Touring support for If We Were a Love Song provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation.
Just Your Two Wrists (2019) Choreography: Paul Singh Music: just (after song of songs) composed by David Lang from the album, the little match girl passion performed Trio Mediaeval By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., o/b/o G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH. Publisher: Red Poppy, Ltd. (ASCAP)/Universal Music Publishing Group Label: Cantaloupe Music, LLC Lighting Design: Dan Scully Performer: Amari Frazier MotorRover (2023) Choreography by Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M Lighting Design by Dan Scully Costume Design by Reid & Harriet Performed by Jamaal Bowman, Donovan Reed MotorRover was created in part during a “bubble” residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and LUMBERYARD, made possible by the Mellon Foundation. MotorRover was commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Center through its 2021 Commissioning Initiative. This initiative was made possible with generous support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, and Jerome Robbins Foundation. MotorRover was choreographed in response to an excerpt from Merce Cunningham’s 1972 dance Landrover, and first shown digitally as part of “In Conversation with Merce,” an online program co-produced by Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Merce Cunningham Trust. Additional support for MotorRover generously provided by Michéle and Steve Pesner, and Peace. Touring support for MotorRover provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation.
Kyle Abraham was the 2013-14 New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist
BIOGRAPHIES
Contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, considered “one of the most consistently excellent troupes working today” (The New York Times), provides multifaceted performances, educational programming, and communitybased workshops across the globe. Led by acclaimed Choreographer and Artistic Director Kyle Abraham’s innovative vision, the work of A.I.M is galvanized by Black culture and history, and grounded in a conglomeration of unique perspectives; described by Abraham as a “post-modern gumbo” of movement exploration. A.I.M is one of the most active touring dance companies in the United States, with an audience base as diverse as A.I.M’s movement vocabulary. To expand its repertoire and offer a breadth of dance work to audiences, A.I.M commissions new works and performs existing works by outside choreographers, such as Trisha Brown, Bebe Miller, Andrea Miller, Paul Singh, former company members Rena Butler as well as Maleek Washington,
and current A.I.M dancer Keerati Jinakunwiphat. Kyle Abraham’s unique vision and illumination of poignant and relevant issues set him apart from his generation of choreographers as a leading creative force in dance. A.I.M extends this vision and amplifies surrounding artistic voices to share movement and community-based work with audiences around the world.
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE Touch of RED JAN 13, 2PM
Concept Direction & Choreographer: Shamel Pitts Performers: Tushrik Fredericks, Shamel Pitts Artistic Production Manager & Lighting Designer: Rus Snelling Video Light & Mapping Designer: Lucca Del Carlo Scenic Design: Mimi Lien Costume Designer: Dion Lee Costume Stylists: TT Britt & Tushrik Fredericks Shoe Apparel: Fulton Cobbler (Brooklyn, NY) – customized “gloves” Original Musical Score: Sivan Jacobovitz Additional Music: Ben Frost – A Single Point of Blinding Light Burial – Forgive Dramaturge: Ashley Pierre-Louis Lindy Hop Instructor: LaTasha Barnes Cinematographer: Taylor Antisdel Photographers & Cinematographers: The Adeboye Brothers Stage Manager: Kaz Russell, Chanel Pinnock Video Installation Consultant: Rumwolf Video Productions Assistant Lighting Designer: Domino Mannheim Creative Director: Mirelle Martins Artistic Administrator: E Katrina Lewis Managing Director: Brittany Wilson Social Media Manager: Pam Panozzo Press Agent: Kamila Slawinski
FUNDING Touch of RED is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow, YoungArts, Miami Light Project, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, New York Live Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Office of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). Touch of RED is also made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; developmental support and the world premiere presentation is made possible by co-presenters Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and Jacob’s Pillow. We would also like to thank the Consulate General of Israel in New York, Trust for Mutual Understanding, GIBNEY, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and Artis. Bubble residency guidance provided by Duke Dang and medical consultant Dr. Wendy Ziecheck. For more information: www.npnweb.org Additional TRIBE commissioning, development and core operating support is provided by the Mellon Foundation; Arison Arts Foundation; the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; The Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation and Ford Foundation; 92Y Harkness Dance Center; National Performance Network (NPN) Creation, Development & Artist Engagement Fund Project. The Creation, Development & Artist Engagement Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency); New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
BIOGRAPHIES
TRIBE (TRI314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performances, Inc., d/b/a TRIBE), is a Brooklyn, New Yorkbased multidisciplinary arts collective founded by Shamel Pitts in December 2019. The arts collective, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is composed of international and local artists working across mediums such as movement, choreography, lighting design, video mapping projection, poetry, spoken word, painting, cinematography, scenography, dramaturgy, costume styling, and music composition. Learn more: itsatribe.org Shamel Pitts (Concept Director, Choreographer, Performer, Founding Artistic Director) 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Shamel Pitts is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, and teacher. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Shamel began his dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts and, simultaneously, at The Ailey School. He is 2003 YoungArts Finalist and a first prize winner of the YoungArts competition.
Shamel then went on to receive his BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and was awarded the Martha Hill Award for excellence in dance. He began his dance career in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal. Shamel danced with Batsheva Dance Company for 7 years, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin and is a certified teacher of Gaga movement language. He is an adjunct professor at The Juilliard School and has been an artist in residence at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Choreography, a 2019 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellowship Award winner in Choreography, a 2020 Jacob’s Pillow artist in residence and a 2021 New York Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award winner. Shamel is the Founding Artistic Director of TRIBE, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts collective. TRIBE is a 92Y Harkness Dance Center’s Artist In Residence for the 2020-2021 season. Shamel Pitts | TRIBE is also a New York Live Arts Live Feed artist in residence. shamelpitts.com
Tushrik Fredricks (Performer & Costume Stylist) recipient of Princess Grace Award (Chris Helman dance honor), nominated by TRIBE in 2021 is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up he found himself drawn towards the style ‘KRUMP‘. He graduated from the Peridance Certificate Program in NYC in June 2015 and has had the opportunity to work with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY (Danielle Agami, Artistic Director), Sidra Bell Dance New York and UNA Productions. Tushrik was an assistant lecturer to Sidra Bell at The University of the Arts Philadelphia for Sophomore students (2016-2018). In May 2021 Tushrik received 3rd prize for dance at the SoloTanz Festival in Stuttgart for his self choreographed solo (territory) of the heart and in November 2022 it will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. instagram.com/tushrik
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith Zero Station JAN 13, 5PM
Choreographed and Performed by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith Sound Design by James Lo Lighting Design by Thomas Dunn Run Time: 60 minutes
FUNDING Commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for River to River 2023 as part of the Extended Life Residency. Premiered at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center June 12, 2023.
BIOGRAPHIES
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith are New York based feminist artists whose partnership spans the last two decades. Their collaboration deconstructs neoliberal images of female objectification and presents new versions, coming from the potentiality of movement to express inner landscape. Their practice is in continuous dialogue with building a sustainable life as working artists in New York. Works: Zero Station (River-toRiver 2023), (gloria rehearsal (excerpt) LIVE (Jane Hotel 2022), gloria rehearsal (excerpt) (Baryshnikov Arts Center 2022), Gloria (Abrons Arts Center 2021, NYLA 2022), Body Comes Apart (New York Live Arts 2019 and 2020, archived in The New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division), Basketball (PS122 and Baryshnikov Arts Center), Rude World (PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater for), Tulip (Roulette 2013, Danspace Project 2012), Beautiful Bone (The Chocolate Factory Theater 2012). Residencies/Awards: 2023/2024 LMCC Extended Life Award, 2021/2022 Artists in Residence Movement Research, 2021
Jerome Hill Fellowship Finalists, 2020/2021 Jerome Foundation AIRSpace Residency Abrons Art Center, 2019 FCA Emergency Grant, 2019 BACSpace Residency Baryshnikov Art Center, 2018 Family Residency Mt. Tremper Arts, 2018 Bessie Schonberg Fellows The Yard, 2018 DiP Artists Gibney, Featured in The New York Times “Best Dance of 2017”, 2016 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performance (Molly Lieber), 2016 LMCC Process Space, 2013 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award Nomination Emerging Choreographer, 2013 NYFA Fellow Finalist Award. Recent teaching includes Connecticut College 2015, Sarah Lawrence College 2018, The New School 2019, Pratt 2023, and Sarah Lawrence College 2023. They participated in the Mnemedance Conference in Venice and have an upcoming chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Memory.
Jasmine Hearn Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr JAN 14, 1PM
Performances: M. Charmaine Warren, Dominica Greene, Pamela Pietro, jhon r. stronks, and Jasmine Hearn Additional collaboration: Toni Whitaker (Design), Ingrid Burley (Sound Design), Coline Creuzot (Vocalist), Ashley Teamer (Sound Design), Jo Stewart (Poetics), and Myssi Robinson (Videography) Direction and Creation: Jasmine Hearn Project Management: Areli Navarro Magallón Production Support: jhon r. stronks
Houston, TX Co-Commissioner: DiverseWorks Co-Producer: Houston MET Dance Organizers: Begee J. Hearn, Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, and jhon r. stronks Project Coordinator: Areli Navarro Magallón Collaborators: Ingrid Burley, Coline Creuzot, Sandra Organ Solis, and Johari Pittsburgh, PA Co-Commissioner: Kelly Strayhorn Theater Organizers: dana bishop root Collaborators: Kijuanta Lucas, Bekezela Mguni, Staycee Pearl, and Alisha Wormsley New York, NY Co-Commissioners: New York Live Arts and the Chocolate Factory Theater Creative Producer and Project Coordinator: Nora Alami Collaborators: Dominica Greene, Symara Johnson, Pamela Pietro, Kendra Portier, Myssi Robinson, Jo Stewart, Ashley Teamer, Charmaine Warren, Marýa Wethers Memory Fleet is built from the wisdom of participating Matriarchs, Aunties, and the Mothering folks of many circles and lineages. The list will continue to grow.
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Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater, D C Wheel Productions Inc, Kelly Strayhorn Theater / Community Theater Project Corporation, New York Live Arts, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www. npnweb.org
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Jasmine Hearn is a migrating interdisciplinary artist, director, performer, choreographer, organizer, doula, and teacher. They are committed to performance as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance and somatic traditions and techniques, sound design, garment design, and the archiving of matrilineal memories. They give gratitude to Spirit, their mothers and aunties, and all the mothering Black people who have supported their moving, remembering body. Hearn has performed their work at venues such as the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA (2021); New York Live Arts, New York, NY (2021); Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX (2021); Danspace Project, New York, NY (2019, 2017); and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx, NY (2016). They have also performed with the companies Helen Simoneau Danse, Urban Bush Women, and David Dorfman Dance, among others, and collaborated with many artists, including Holly Bass, Maria Bauman, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Gerard & Kelly,
Vanessa German, Li Harris, Bill T. Jones, Solange Knowles, Ayanah Moor, Lovie Olivia, Staycee Pearl, Alesandra Seutin, and Alisha B. Wormsley. Hearn is the recipient of a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with collaborator Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency (2023), a Creative Capital Award (2022), New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017), a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants (2022, 2017). They have been awarded residencies through Movement Research, New York, NY; Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA; and the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France. Hearn, born and raised on occupied lands now known as Houston, TX, studied dance and sound with a multitude of teachers, including their sister, cousins, aunties, instructors, and friends at family events, church, and took class at the Houston
Metropolitan Dance Center. They have also been greatly influenced by teachers, mentors, and collaborators, including Byronné J Hearn, Claudette Nickens Johnson, Joy KMT, Barbara Mahler, Pamela Pietro, Kendra Portier, Samita Sinha, Sandra Organ Solis, jhon r. stronks, Sherie van den Wijngaard, Charmaine Warren, Marýa Wethers, Bennalldre Williams, Marlies Yearby, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Hearn received a B.A. from Point Park University.
Miguel Gutierrez Super Nothing JAN 14, 3PM
Performer collaborators: Ajani Brannum, Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray, and Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez Miguel Gutierrez is the 2023-24 New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist
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Since its inception, the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program has received support from the Mellon Foundation and has been named for lead donors Jon Stryker and New York Live Arts Board of Directors Vice-Chair Slobodan Randjelović. The 2023-24 Randjelović/ Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist is made possible in part with lead support from the Mellon Foundation. Super Nothing is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, New York Live Arts, On the Boards, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, theMellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org The Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program was created in 2011 by New York Live Arts to address what we perceive to be an overall lack of support for mid-career artists. The program is byinvitation only and offers a salary, health benefits, two years of residency time and a commission of a new work to premiere at New York Live Arts. Select works will then be chosen for a fully produced national and/or international tour managed by New York Live Arts.
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Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, music artist, writer, visual artist, educator, podcaster, community advocate, and Feldenkrais Method practitioner living between Lenape/Canarsie land colonially known as Brooklyn, NY and Tongva and Gabrielino land in the area colonially known as Los Angeles, CA. His work centers attention as a material form and as a means to unravel normative belief systems. He creates empathetic and irreverent spaces for QTPOC folx (including himself) to dream and find agency. His strategies include, as Siobhan Burke has written in The New York Times, “trenchant, darkly funny structural critiques, addressing the faults in the very systems that undergird his artmaking.” His work has been presented nationally and internationally in venues such as Festival d’Automne/Paris, the Walker Art Center, and in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, four NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards, and a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award.
He is an Associate Professor of Choreography at UCLA in the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he also serves as Vice Chair for the MFA in Choreographic Inquiry.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company FUTURE/PRESENT/PAST JAN 14, 6PM
Curriculum III: apatride (working title) recently premiered work excerpts recently revived work Co-Founder & Artistic Director Bill T. Jones Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong The Company Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Nayaa Opong, Philip Strom and Huiwang Zhang
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The creation of new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible in part by the company’s Partners in Creation: Anonymous (2), Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, Michael P.N.A. Hormel in Loving Memory of Jim Hormel, Suzanne Karpas, Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel, in memory of Linda G. Shapiro, Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker.
BIOGRAPHIES
Bill T. Jones is recipient of the 2022 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for Black No More; 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; 2013 National Medal of Arts; 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed Fela!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.” Bill has been nominated for the 2022 Tony Awards for his work on Paradise Square.
Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting, and educating. Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company (1982-present) Over the past 40 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its everenlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 40 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director and Janet Wong is the Associate Artistic Director. The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/ The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000, Bologna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL); Another Evening: Venice/ Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time
(2012, Peak Performances); A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill); Deep Blue Sea (2021, Park Avenue Armory).
Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory The Absolute Future JAN 14, 9PM
Conceived, Written, and Directed by Raja Feather Kelly Performance by Chris Bell, Ashley Chavonne, Ami Gernux, Alexandria Giroux, Sara Gurevich, Amy Hoang, Nicholas Sciscione Sound by Christoph Mateka Video by Laura Snow Photography by Kate Enman Lighting Design by Tuce Yasak Raja Feather Kelly was the 2019-20 New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist
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The Absolute Future was first developed with a Research and Development Commission as a part of the Live Arts Bard commissioning program at the Fisher Center at Bard. fishercenter. bard.edu and Co-Commissioned by NYU SKIRBALL Center. Other support for The Absolute Future includes a technical residencies at the National Center for Choreography (NCCAkron); The Church at Sag Harbor; The Mercury Store; a Guggenheim Works-in-process residency at Bethany Arts Project; BAM; The Park Avenue Armory, where Raja Feather Kelly is an Artist in Residence, This work was created with support from Simons Foundation & Gibney’s Open Interval Residency Program.
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the feath3r theory (TF3T) is a New York City based performanc company that creates deviseddanced-theatre and media. Devised-danced theatre – is the feath3r theory’s method and style of theatre-making. The script, physical work, and performance score originate from collaborative ideation and results in narrative structures that rely equally on behavioral storytelling as much as text and media. The work is created and performed by and ensemble of dancers and designers. Founded in 2009, the title: the feath3r theory is based off a manifesto about how and why interpersonal relationships come together and fall a part— much like feathers lilt. The number 3 in TF3T speaks to the equal importance of dance-theatremedia in the work. TF3T seeks to broaden the space for unheard voices and repressed histories; to bring into the theatre those sometimes left out; and to use theatre to provoke muchneeded public conversations.
Wally Cardona a work-in-progress showing of a plump single-color bulb, or a dance JAN 15, 12PM
Made & Performed by Wally Cardona
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Wally Cardona is a 2023 - 2025 Live Feed Residency Artist at New York Live Arts. For inquiries about this work, and how to support it, please contact: wallycardonax@gmail.com IG: wallycardonax
ABOUT THE WORK
A plump single-color bulb, appearing in the morning, seeming to be fully formed by early evening. It is multi-tiered, efficiently breaking open into a complex construction, hard and soft. In the center, the long style, tipped by a dotted stigma, plunges into the weight of gravity. The single style, surrounded by too-delicate-looking versions of itself; multiple filaments with an anther at each tip. The delicate filaments poke out from the corolla, its many petals - usually most-noticed - now playing a supporting role. The corolla cluster, protected by the sepal, formerly closed, now separated into four distinct curvy panels arcing up, then down. Like a pagoda. Or a dance. This text is born from a memory of mine when I was 9 years old. There are not many memories from that period as I was being moved from place to place, foster home to foster home, living with strangers in strange places. But in one place there was a vivid memory. On the front porch of wherever I was staying, fuchsia flowers reigned supreme, bursting forth in hanging pots overhead and all around, perpetually budding, opening and dropping with a gentle plop to the ground. In a time of total darkness, this spot was a bright place that kept my curiosity and fascination alive. It’s one of my only memories from this period. So how does curiosity stay alive when all seems dead and lost? How does one organize that curiosity and find meaning in times that make no sense? Live music for a plump single-color bulb, or a dance will be created by the composer Jonathan Bepler. Image by Adam Shecter
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Wally Cardona is a choreographer, dancer, and educator. His choreographic works include Son of Gone GIVEN, GIVEN on a Sunday and GIVEN in the Blackbox; The Set Up: Island Ghost Sleep Princess Time Story Show, a 7-part dance made over the course of six years with dance artists Jennifer Lacey, I Nyoman Catra (Bali), Proueng Chhieng (Cambodia), Junko Fisher (Okinawa), Saya Lei (Myanmar), Jean-Christophe Paré (Paris), Heni Winahyuningsih (Java), Kapila Venu (India) and composers Jonathan Bepler, Reiko Fueting, and Megan Schubert; TOOL IS LOOT, resulting from games of aesthetic disorientation, made with Lacey and Bepler; Interventions 1-7, encounters between Cardona and the requests and opinions of a sommelier, astrophysicist, architect, social activist, among others; Movements within Stream, an outdoor mini-myth; Really Real, a “people piece” for 100 individuals, including the Brooklyn Youth Chorus; Revival, performed by 30 dancers in the abandoned balcony of the old Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia; and A Light Conversation, a physical
dialogue on aesthetics vs. ethics, love, commitment and sacrifice, made with choreographer Rahel Vonmoos. As a performer, he has appeared in works by David Gordon and Deborah Hay and in Matthew Barney’s film, Secondary. Cardona was honored with a Bessie Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, and Doris Duke Artist Award. Born in West Covina, California and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cardona now lives and works in New York City.
Troy Anthony | Fire Ensemble The Revival: It Is Our Duty JAN 15, 2PM
Written and Directed by Troy Anthony Additional Song by Johnathan Johnson Co-Directed by Brisa Muñoz Music Direction by Sam Appiah Set/Prop Design by You-Shin Chen Lighting Design by Daisy Long Spiritual Dramaturgy by Ava Tiye Kinsey Originally Developed with performers Genesis Adelia Collado, Alysha Deslorieux, Manny Dunn, Josh Walker, Nat LouisCharles, and STONES.
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The Revival: It Is Our Duty was originally commissioned by The Shed. Developmental support has been made possible by residencies with The Shed and Chelsea Factory. The work of Fire Ensemble Inc. is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Darnell-Moser Charitable Fund.
BIOGRAPHIES
Troy Anthony is an awardwinning composer and director living and working in New York City practicing Black queer joy. As a composer, he has received numerous commissions from The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Civilians, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and The Shed, in addition to residencies with BLKSPACE on Ryder Farm, Chelsea Factory, Musical Theatre Factory (MTF), The O’Neill Theater Center, and Village Theatre. Fire Ensemble Inc. is a community-centered production company that creates revolutionary new work rooted in music, ritual, and revelation by gathering through choirs that foster collective liberation. At the center of the company is The Fire Ensemble–an intergenerational pop-up choir community that centers BIPOC and queer folx. As part of a multiyear residency at The Shed, we invite a range of community members to rehearse, workshop, and perform in transformative large-scale music theater works and rituals rooted in predominantly Black musical
styles including gospel, R&B, and musical theater. Although performances will be moments of culmination and expanding the circle of sharing, the emphasis of our projects are on the process, and the space of community that is built through gathering. Additionally, The Fire Ensemble works with many other artistic institutions to produce a number of workshops and commissioned projects by Troy Anthony.
Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective An Immigrant’s Story JAN 15, 5PM
Choreographer and performer: Wanjiru Kamuyu Dramaturge and producer: Dirk Korell Texts: Laetitia Ajanohun Music composition: LACRYMOBOY With the voices of Sherwood Chen, David Gaulein-Stef, Naïs Haidar, Karine Hanselmann, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Dirk Korell, Crystal Petit, Monika Schwarzl, Sean Seago and the stories of Tout-Monde Lighting design: Cyril Mulon Costume design: Birgit Neppl Production Intern: Yvan-Loïc Kamdem Djoko Special thanks to Robyn Orlin, Jean Gaudin, David Gaulein-Stef
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Executive production camin aktion Co-production Espace 1789 de Saint-Ouen, scène conventionnée de Saint-Ouen La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux • La Rochelle L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration Théâtre de la Ville – Paris L’Onde Théâtre Centre d’Art, Scène Conventionnée d’Intérêt National – Art et Création pour la Danse micadanses, Paris Funding Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France Région Ile-deFrance SPEDIDAM Residencies Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville d’Aubervilliers – Espace Renaudie SUBS, Lyon, Saison 2019-20 Partnership - residencies L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux • La Rochelle La Place de la Danse - CDCN Toulouse/Occitanie Partnership – studio space Atelier de Paris / Centre de développement chorégraphique national Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, CN D Centre national de la danse, Pantin micadanses, Paris (as part of a specific partnership)
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Wanjiru Kamuyu, native Kenyan based in Paris, France, is associate artist with Theater L’Onde (Vélizy, France) and a Live Feed artist with New York Live Arts (USA). Her career began with its genesis in New York City. As a performer she has worked with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Bill T. Jones, Molissa Fenley, Anita Gonzales, Okwui Okpokwasili, Nathan Trice, Dean Moss, Tania Isaac… and in Europe with choreographers Robyn Orlin, Emmanuel Eggermont, Nathalie Pubellier, Irène Tassembedo, Bartabas, Stefanie Batten Bland, director/writer Françoise Dô, visual artist Jean-Paul Goude and TV director Christian Faure. Alongside Kamuyu has performed in industrials, television and Broadway musicals, The Lion King (Paris) and FELA ! (UK and Equity European and US tours). Kamuyu founded dance company, WKcollective, which is associate company with creative production agency camin aktion (Montpellier, France). Her choreographic projects include tours in the US, Africa, Asia and Europe. Commissions include musical À la recherché de Joséphine, director Jérôme Savary (Paris and International tours); Love is in the hair, director
Jean François Auguste (France tour); Maître Harold, director Hassan Kassi Kouyate (Paris); US esteemed dance departments (Mills College, University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Stephens College); artistic consulting/outside eye for choreographer Bintou Dembele’s ZH; choreographer assistant to Nathan Trice’s Their speech is silver, Their silence is gold; storyteller Nathalie La Boucher’s La Chevauchée du Gange; and community engagement projects with New WORLD Theater (USA), choreographer Eun-mi Ahn’s project 1:59 (Festival Paris Quartier d’Été), Euroculture and the National Center for Dance project Assemblé (France). While touring she offers master classes and workshops for dance companies, universities, community and dance centers. Kamuyu holds a MFA (performance & choreography) from Temple University (Philadelphia, PA). She has served as Visiting Guest Professor at Mills College (USA) and is currently core faculty for University of South Florida’s Dance in Paris semester and summer programs (France).
Wanjiru Kamuyu Photo by metlili.net
Kimberly Bartosik/daela bLUr (work in progress) JAN 15, 7PM
Performed by and created in collaboration with Burr Johnson, Joanna Kotze, Donovan Reed, Hannah Straney Original sound by Sivan Jacobovitz with excerpts from Arca Lighting Design by Roderick Murray
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bLUr is a Chocolate Factory Theater commission. Work-in-progress material was developed in residency at Marble House Project and the Ragdale Foundation during a Sybil Shearer Fellowship. bLUr is also made possible, in part, through the generosity of individual donors, with major support by John Robinson.
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Choreographer, writer, educator Kimberly Bartosik creates viscerally provocative, ferociously intimate choreographic projects that critically, tenderly, and violently etch away at deeply distressing threads of our society. Her work has been commissioned by BAM Next Wave Festival, FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival, ADF, Torn Space Theater, New York Live Arts, LUMBERYARD, American Realness, and others. She has toured to Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic (Australia), Bratislava in Movement (Slovakia), Wexner Arts Center, Dance Place, ADF, The Yard, MASS MoCA/Jacob’s Pillow, FlynnSpace, Bates Dance Festival, Columbia College, CCN de Franche-Comté à Belfort, Festival Rencontres Chorégraphique Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis, Artdanthe Festival, and others. Bartosik is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation Performing Artist Recovery Fund in the New York Community Trust as well as the Virginia B. Toulmin Women Leaders in Dance Fellowship at Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Other awards include National Dance Project (NDP) Production & Touring Grant and Community Engagement Fund; MAP Fund; Jerome Foundation; FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance); USArtists International; Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Grants to Artists & Emergency Grants; American Dance Abroad; and others. She was a 2023 Sybil Shearer Fellow at The Ragdale Foundation. She was a 2023 Sybil Shearer Fellow at The Ragdale Foundation and was chosen to participate in the inaugural International Choreographers Retreat, organized by Montréal Danse and c.a.t.a.m.o.n Dance Group in 2024. Her ongoing project, The Encounter, comprises a series of works being created with communities around the world merging professional, non-professional, and preprofessional performers. Bartosik is a 2020 Bessie Award Honoree for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Performer (Burr Johnson) for through the mirror of their eyes (New York Live Arts). She also received a Bessie Award for Exceptional Artistry for her 9 years of dancing in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Bartosik is the BFA Advisor for Seniors for The Ailey School/ Fordham Program and teaches at SUNY/Purchase Conservatory of Dance, the Merce Cunningham Trust (MCT), and DeWitt-Clinton High School (Bronx, NY) where she spearheaded a partnership between the MCT and the NYC DOE to bring Cunningham practice into NYC public high schools.
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 Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker $100,000-$499,999 Anonymous Eleanor Friedman Ruth & Stephen Hendel Alex Katz Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Barbara & Alan Marks Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel | Semel Charitable Foundation Suzanne Karpas Helen Haje Matthew Putman Colleen Keegan in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro $25,000 - $49,999 David Dechman & Michel Mercure Zoe Eskin Adam Flatto Andrea Rosen Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Bloomberg Philanthropies Dance/NYC Ylva Cavalli-Björkman & Willard Ahdritz Jennifer & Jonathan Soros Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy William Floyd Diana Wege / Wege Foundation $10,000 - $24,999 Ellen M. Poss Pat Stryker Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Anonymous Patricia Blanchet/ Ed Bradley Family Foundation Agnes Gund Jody and John Arnhold Michael Malafronte and Julia Haley Alexes Hazen Nina & Gabriel Stricker $5,000 - $9,999 Patricia Blanchet | Ed Bradley Family Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Barbara and Henry Pillsbury Cindy Sherman
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