Christopher Williams: A Glimpse into the World of NARCISSUS Program

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Christopher Williams

A Glimpse into the World of NARCISSUS Live and Virtual Presentation OCT 6 AT 7 & 7:30PM

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A Glimpse into the World of NARCISSUS Concept & Choreography: Christopher Williams Live Performers: NARCISSUS (a Boeotian youth): Cemiyon Barber AN OREAD (a mountain nymph): Logan Pedon Music: Excerpts from Narcisse et Echo - Opus 40

by Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945) recorded by the Residentie Orchestra The Hague conducted

by Gennady Rozhdestvensky Costume Designs: Andrew Jordan & Iggy Soliven Video: Choreography: Christopher Williams Animations & Designs: Andrew Jordan Watercolor Illustrations: Clifford Faust Editing: Erik Thurmond Animation Assistant: Brett Mercer Run Time: Approx 10 mins

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BIOGRAPHIES Christopher Williams (choreographerer), dubbed “one of the most exciting choreographic voices out there” (The New York Times) and “the downtown prodigy” (The New Yorker), is a choreographer, dancer, and puppeteer devoted to creating movement-based works in NYC and abroad since 1999.

His work has been presented internationally in France, England, Italy, Spain, Holland, Colombia, Malawi, and Russia, nationally in Philadelphia, Princeton, and Kalamazoo, as well as in local venues including City Center, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, P.S. 122, the 92nd Street Y, and La Mama. His collaborators have included renowned directors Peter Sellars and Michel Fau, conductor Raphaël Pichon of Ensemble Pygmalion, members of the Anonymous 4 and Lionheart, as well as critically-acclaimed composer Gregory Spears, and visual designer Andrew Jordan.

His recent commissioners include The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Interlochen Center for the Arts, 10 Hairy Legs, and the Wiener Staatsoper, and he has previously

been commissioned by the Opéra National de Bordeaux, English National Opera, Teatro Real, Perm Opera & Ballet Theater, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton University, the Harkness Dance Center, DTW, and through HERE Arts Center’s Dream Music Puppetry Program. His awards include a 2005 New York Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award, fellowships from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation, as well as residencies via the Robert Raushenberg Foundation, at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Kaatsbaan Culture Park, the Harkness Dance Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, Movement Research, Joyce SoHo, Djerassi, Yaddo, and The Yard.

His collaboration with director Michel Fau and musical director Raphaël Pichon on a production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Dardanus presented at the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles won the Grand Prix du Syndicat de la Critique 2015 in the category of “best Spectacle Lyrique of the year” and his collaboration with Peter Sellars on a new adaptation of Henry Purcell’s The Indian

Clifford Faust (watercolor illustrations), born in Oklahoma and raised in Oregon, enjoys working and living in New York City. After graduating from the Los Angeles Art Center School, and then working in San Francisco, Faust set out to see the world in a Volkswagen Beetle, aiming in the general direction of New Cemiyon Barber (dancer) York. Along the way he met a is originally from Jackson, multitude of charming people and Mississippi, and began training saw a lot of weird and wonderful at Idyllwild Arts Academy in places which would eventually California. From there, he moved on to study at the SUNY Purchase influence his work. Arriving in NYC for Cliff was like entering College Conservatory of Dance wonderland. Whether it was the where he was fortunate enough flower children floating through to dance works by classical and Central Park or fashion models modern choreographers such strutting down crowded 5th as George Balanchine, Merce Avenue, Faust was “high” just Cunningham, Jose Limon, and Martha Graham. Since graduating, watching the millions of crazy characters all around him. He also Cemiyon has had the pleasure found Jack Potter, one of his idols, of dancing for choreographers teaching classes at the School such as Bill T. Jones, Liz Gerring, Vladimir Varnava, Dylan Crossman, of Visual Arts. Through Potter’s classes, Clifford developed his and Christopher Williams. He original, mixed media, cut paper has also been recently featured style. Faust is also influenced by in fashion editorials for Vogue Bernie Fuchs, Mark English, the Russia Magazine & Numero French Impressionists, Van Gogh, Berlin Magazine, while making Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele. small television appearances on networks like PBS Social and MTV. Clifford has worked with major NY advertising agencies and Cemiyon is currently cast in the also illustrated a number of book principal role of Company XIV’s covers for publishers in the U.S. newest production Seven Sins. and Canada.

Queen presented at The Bolshoi Theater won five Golden Mask Awards in Moscow. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College as well as a diploma of study from the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Andrew Jordan (visual designer), whose work has been proclaimed “sensational...a visual feast” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “a sculptural wonder” (The New York Times), is a Brooklynbased artist and costume designer exploring the possible relationships between sculpture, installation, puppetry, and the moving form of the human body.

He has designed for both stage and screen, including projects spanning opera, contemporary dance, experimental performance, and parade. His most recent collaborators include choreographers Douglas Dunn, Ellen Cornfield, Michelle Dorrance, Cori Olinghouse, Raja Feather Kelly, and Christopher Williams.

Working over the past few years with photography and video, he has also collaborated on projects (animations, projections, music videos) with video artists Mike Olenick and Grant Worth. Andrew has worked as Props Master on projects for Caramoor Center for Music and Art, Classical Theater of Harlem, and Gotham Chamber Opera and has assisted theater and design artists Mimi Gross, Wade Laboissonniere, Anka Lupes, and David Quinn on several productions. He has also created designs for multiple

Fringe Festivals and Mermaid Parades. For several years Andrew freelanced with Izquierdo Studio, NYC, a costume-design and prop shop specializing in sculptural costume work. While at Izquierdo Andrew completed projects for The Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, MTV, Marc Jacobs, Wes Craven, Madonna, Heidi Klum, Ralph Lauren, and Julie Taymor, among others.

Andrew also teaches a class, Hot Mess: Wearable Sculpture, which he co-created with the artist Mike Andrews at the Ox-Bow School of Visual Art focusing on costume construction, wearable sculpture, and performance.

Andrew received his MFA with an emphasis in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA in Fine Arts, with a minor in Media Studies, from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Andrew is also known under the moniker andytoad. www.andytoad.com..

Brett Mercer (animation assistant) Detroit. Professional Graphic Designer. Amateur Musician. Comedy Enthusiast.

Logan Pedon (dancer) began his dance training at the age of 13 in a small studio in Columbus, Ohio.

After attending Walnut Hill school for the Arts he graduated with a BFA from SUNY Purchase where he performed work by Ori Flomin, MadBoots Dance, Shannon Gillen, 2nd best, and Ellen Cornfield.

Since graduating he has trained at Springboard Danse in Montreal and worked as a freelance dancer in New York performing work by Christopher Williams Cornfield Dance, the Dive collective, and Althea Dance Company in Manhattan and Paris.

Erik Thurmond (video editing) is an artist and teacher based in Atlanta, Georgia. He uses music, language, and action, as vehicles of transformation for himself and the ever expanding world around him.

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