Vanessa Anspaugh "mourning after mornings" Program

Vanessa Anspaugh mourning after mornings

NOV 10-12, 7:30PM

Created by Vanessa Anspaugh in collaboration with the performers

Performed by Anna Azrieli, Becky Serrell-Cyr, maura nguyễn donohue, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone, Jo Warren, C Green, Pia, Umechi Born, Amelia Koper Heintzelman & Leah Fournier

Sound Design by Vanessa Anspaugh & Soraya Odishoo with original compositions by Leslie Allison & Guillermo Galindo

Leslie Allison for Claps, Rock the Baby & Harp Howl

Scene 19 composed by & Guillermo Galindo courtesy of artist

Additional sounds by: What Cheer Brigade, Lean Year, OKRAA, Sarah Devachi & Emilie Mosseri

Lighting & Scenographic Design by Kathy Couch

Costume Design by Becky Serrell Cyr (with an original Fringe piece by Jess Feury)

Total running time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Stay Late Discussion Nov 11 with Shoshona Currier

SPECIAL THANKS

Thank Maura, Anna, and Becky, C, Jo, Laura, Pia & Umechi & Kathy for being who they are in the world, and for bringing fierce love, strength, critical thoughts and generosity to this process. They were patient and forgiving with me as I fumbled through the weeds trying to find my way. Thank You to Janet and Bill for giving me this opportunity. Thank You Kati Payne for radical organization & positivity. Thank You Shoni Currier BDF, Jen Pollins, and SCDT for being a champion and friend to me as an artist and for continuing to support my work. Thank You to my friends and community who show up to support me as an artist in all your many different and generous ways. Thank you Tara Willis, Cat Gallasco, Amber Bemak, Olga Dekalo & Connor Voss for taking the time at different stages in the work to give me thoughtful feedback. Thank you to our generous understudies: Aurelius Millspaugh-Robbins, hana huie, Erin Kouwe, Eddie Savage, & Sasa Yung. Thank you Linda Burton, Keltie Ferris & Anna Craycroft for cozy beds and coffee. My biggest Thank You to my sweetheart Hayes Handler, for holding my hand and believing in me the whole way. And of course, Thank you Mom, Dad, Tera, Roma and my Ocean.

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.

FUNDING

This program is supported in part by Dance NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund: New York State Edition, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts; and New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Residency with support in part from Partners for New Performance.

Thank you to my community of donors: Tristan Koepke, Okwui Okpokwasili, Juliana May,Joan Handler, Peter Born, Kate, Faye Driscoll, David Thomson, Ezekiel Baskin, Lailye Weidman, Sophie Hamacher, Ruth Ann Binder, Nikki Zialcita, Reilly Anspaugh, Genevieve Nicolas, Rob Okun, MS, Kennis Hawkins, Kevin Carraher, Shannon Sennott, Serena Kabat-Zinn, Terri Carraher, Seth Warren, Marcia Heinegg, Jackie Schneider, Tsiambwom Akuchu, Jennifer Polins, Laura Nicoll, Alex Ripp, Tere O’Connor, Tori Lawrence + Co., Jacquelyn Moorad & Carolyn Hsu, Ava Berkofsky, Leslie O’Neill, Chaydha Plesant, Penny Cheng, Judy Allison, Nicholas Croft, Peggy Gillespie, Yarina Castro, Ira Jaffe, AC Hocek Architecture LLC, Dennie Eagleson, Roma, Whoopie, & Kevin Carraher.

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.

BIOGRAPHIES

Soraya Arjan Odishoo (she/ they) is from New York City. They have been a composer for work at Jacob’s Pillow, the Brooklyn Museum, and Dixon Place, among others. They were sound designer and composer on Company SoGoNo’s bird suite and Polybe + Seats’ Anna Asli Suriyah. A certified This Naked Mind Coach and Kula Yoga teacher, they practice @ A Little Thunder Coaching. Arjan Odishoo released their first podcast, Where is Everybody, about re-imagining connections in uncharted territories. They are now about to release their second podcast, We are the Content, focused on recovery and how we bring insight into our bodies.

Anna Azrieli emigrated from the Soviet Union/Ukraine at age seven. She danced for years with Miguel Gutierrez and freelanced with many artists including Abigail Levine, Vicky Shick, Mariangela Lopez, Heather Kravas, Yanira Castro, robbinschilds, Clarinda Mac Low, luciana achugar, and Wendy Perron. Her choreography

has been presented by the Chocolate Factory, Gibney Dance, the Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Elastic City, and other venues in NYC. Themes in her work have been her transformation through childbirth and childrearing and using repetitive movement to explore ritualized thoughts and feelings. She teaches dance, movement improvisation, yoga, and pilates. Thank you to Vanessa, Becky and Maura for this process.

Umechi Born is a ferocious fifth grader who loves creating her own dances, baking, crocheting, calligraphy, Venetian glass, playing the cello and especially hanging out with her friends. She has previously appeared in Abigail DeVille: Empire State Works in Progress at the Whitney and Sitting on a Man’s Head at Danspace Project.

Kathy Couch is an artist, educator, and Bessie Awardwinning designer in Northampton, MA. Working with light, space, and improvisation, Couch

creates visual landscapes for performance. She works collaboratively with a canary torsi and collaborates with Adele Myers + Dancers and Deborah Goffe. Her work has been experienced at Danspace Project, the Chocolate Factory, the New Museum, and numerous locations nationally and internationally. She is co-director of A.P.E. (Available Potential Enterprises), an organization stewarding arts space in Northampton, MA. Kathy is a founding member of the Northampton Community Arts Trust which seeks innovative ways to preserve space for creativity and imagination.

Becky Serrell Cyr (M.A.Ed., Lincoln Center Scholar) explores strategies to deepen artistic expression through movement. She received a NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for her work with Donna Uchizono, was nominated for her work with RoseAnne Spradlin, and performed works by other artists including Jeremy Nelson, Amanda Loulaki, and Anna Sperber. Her choreographic work has been presented at The Kitchen (Dance As Process), JACK, Movement

Research at the Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop (Fresh Tracks), AUNTS, and CATCH. She taught in North America and China and currently designs and teaches curriculum for students in the NYC DOE. maura nguyễn donohue (she/ they) Director of MFA in Dance at Hunter College. From 1995-2005, her work was produced regularly in this space once known as Dance Theater Workshop. She’s toured the world playing mortals and goddesses in La MaMa’s Great Jones Rep Co since 1997 and her ongoing Tides Project uses reclaimed plastics to examine the legacy of bodies ecological and diasporic. She has written for Danspace Project, Gibney, Dance Magazine and Culturebot. She co-curates the estrogenius festival, serves on the Bessies Steering Committee and thanks the ancestors and offspring for keeping the path clearly lit.

Leah Fournier is a dancer and dance-maker based in Brooklyn. She has performed with artists including Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Barbie Diewald, Juli

Brandano, Sara Shelton Mann, and Nancy Stark Smith. Her own choreographic work is in collaboration with Amelia Heintzelman. They have been supported by Fresh Festival (CA), Centre Pompadour (FR), Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA), Chashama, The Floor, and University Settlement. Leah currently works for Movement Research and Contact Quarterly. C Green is Vermont-based farmer, choreographer, performer and poet. Their work is full of the fear, hurt, vigor and anger of the world today and attempts to straighten it all into an order that they can understand. This year they have shared two poems as a part of a poetry exhibition, collaborated with Maria BC on a music video for their song The Only Thing and choreographed and performed a duet with Leila Faulstitch-Hon in Vermont. They are thrilled to be making their New York City dance debut with Vanessa and this incredible group of performers.

Amelia Koper Heintzelman is a dancer based in New York City. Amelia has been an Artistin-Residence at Chashama ChaNorth, Chez Bushwick, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, a Fellow at University Settlement, and Associate Artist studying under Deborah Hay at Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her work has been presented at Contemporary Arts Center, Essex Flowers Gallery, Lubov Gallery, Center for Performance Research, and other spaces throughout the US and France. As a performer, she has had the honor of working with Phoebe Berglund, Christine Bonansea, Juli Brandano, Jemila MacEwan, Sara Shelton Mann, Alexis Zaccarello and collaboratively with Leah Fournier.

Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone is Minneapolis-based artist and educator excited by dance as a medium to explore the various and simultaneous duets we move within daily. She was a member of Zenon Dance Company (2016-2019) and is the artistic director of Slo Dance Company. Throughout her professional career, she has performed in the

work of luciana achugar, Stefanie Batten-Bland, Michelle Boule, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sam Kim, and Colleen Thomas, among others. She is a member of Kia the Key & Company, a Hip-Hop and street dance company led by Shakia Barron, and an instructor at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts.

Pia is a fierce Brooklyn-born artist who enjoys writing music, making dances and creating graphic novels. She is currently studying guitar and piano alongside her 6th grade peers. She has appeared in several episodes of Liquid Science, hosted by GZA on Netflix; was casted in a campaign ad for Hilary Clinton; featured on Sesame Street’s “The Letter C” episode and made appearances in music videos: “Baby Shark” with Drag Queen Marti Gould Cummings and “What are you gonna do/ Qu’est-ce que tu veux être?” by Dana and Le Petit Punks. She is proud to be making her stage debut at New York Live Arts.

Jo Warren is a New York based artist working at the intersection of dance, performance,

image-making, writing, tattoo, relationship and healing practice. Their practice as a Breathworker, tattooer and embodiment practitioner blurs with their creative work - which slides between embodiment and dissociation, reclamation and the dissolution of the self.

As a maker, dancer and human in the world, Jo is interested in catharsis, transcendence, and the kind of connection that reminds us we are not alone. They are a current company member with the acrobatic dance group LAVA and collaborator with Lena Engelstein.

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:

$1MM and higher

Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker

$500,000-$999,999

Anonymous

$100,000-$499,999

Anonymous

Eleanor Friedman

Ruth & Stephen Hendel

Alex Katz Foundation

Ellen M. Poss

Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel | Semel Charitable Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999

Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation

Lorraine Gallard & Richard Levy

Helen & Peter Haje

Suzanne Karpas Barbara & Alan D. Marks Matthew Putman

$25,000 - $49,999

Ylva Cavalli-Björkman & Willard Ahdritz

David Dechman & Michel Mercure

Zoe Eskin

Adam Flatto

Agnes Gund

Michael P.N.A. Hormel in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones

Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore

Amy Newman & Bud Shulman

Alanna Rutherford

Jennifer & Jonathan Soros

Starry Night Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Diana Wege | Wege Foundation

$10,000 - $24,999

Caroline & Paul Cronson

Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy

Alexes Hazen

Julie Orlando

Andrea Rosen

Nina & Gabriel Stricker

Pat Stryker

$5,000 - $9,999

Patricia Blanchet | Ed Bradley Family Foundation

Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae

Joan Davidson

Anne Delaney

Laura & Richard Hunt

Glenn Ligon

Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt

Robert Longo

Margaret Morton Jeffrey Schneider

Melissa Schiff Soros

Cindy Sherman Catharine R. Stimpson

Kristalina & Jack Taylor Billie Tsien & Tod Williams Steve Wilson

$1,000 - $4,999

Derrick Adams Rosio Alvarez & Jennifer Brody

Anonymous

Alberta Arthurs

The Brant Foundation, Inc.

Jill Brienza

Catherine & Paul Buttenwieser

Reggie Browne Carmine Boccuzzi

Rose C. Cali in Memory of John J. Cali Jeannie Colbert

Joan Davidson

Lil & Jim DeMarse

Beth Rudin DeWoody

Dobkin Family Foundation

Margaret Doyle

Terence Dougherty & Pierre Duleyrie

Gina Duncan

Nancy & Stephen Gabriel Mimi Garrard

Michael & Deborah Goldberg

Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk

Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown

Tom Hennes

Jenny Holzer

Scott Hudziak

Joanie Johnson

Judy Johnson

The Joyce Theater Foundation Emil Kang Amir Karby

Hedy Klineman

Oscar Mack

Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss

Susan Micari

Linda Murray

Wangechi Mutu

Samira Nasr

Richard Plepler

Randy Polumbo | Plant Construction

Margaret Selby

Jeffrey Seller

Céline Semaan & Colin Vernon

Caroline Shapiro & Peter Frey

Shinique Smith

Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler

The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation

Mickalene Thomas

Robyn Trani

JP Versace

James J. Williams, III

Jacqueline Woodson Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy

$500 - $999

Stewart Adelson

Mary Ann Ashley

Arthur Aviles

Carol Bryce-Buchanan

John Fitzgibbon

William Floyd

Jeremy Henderson

Karen B. Hopkins

Brinton T. & Francis C. Parson, Jr Robert Ross

John Sansone

Ellynne Skove

Deborah Swiderski Wade Turnbull Gilbert Williams

Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2021-6/30/2022

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, One World Fund, 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, 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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