CONVERSATION SERIES: INTERROGATIONS OF FORM ARTIST TALK: THE SIX BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 6:00pm Veterans Room Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory Featuring:
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Amandine Beyer Moderated by RoseLee Goldberg
SEASON SPONSORS
The Six Brandenburg Concertos is supported in part by the Harkness Foundation for Dance. Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, the Altman Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Kaplen Brothers Fund, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Cover image: Anne Van Aerschot
MEET THE PARTICIPANTS ANNE TERESA DE AMANDINE BEYER For several years, Amandine Beyer has been recognized as a KEERSMAEKER leader in the interpretation of the baroque violin repertoire. In 1980, after studying dance at Mudra School in Brussels and Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker established the dance company Rosas in Brussels in 1983, while creating the work Rosas danst Rosas. Since these breakthrough pieces, her choreography has been grounded in a rigorous and prolific exploration of the relationship between dance and music. With Rosas she has created a wide-ranging body of work engaging the musical structures and scores of several periods, from early music to contemporary and popular idioms. Her choreographic practice also draws formal principles from geometry, numerical patterns, the natural world, and social structures to offer a unique perspective on the body’s articulation in space and time. In 1995, De Keersmaeker established the school P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels in association with De Munt/La Monnaie.
Her recording Sonatas and Partitas by J. S. Bach in 2012 has received a number of international awards (Diapason d’or de l’année, Choc de Classica de l’année, Editor’s choice de Gramophone, Prix Academie Charles Cros, and Excepcional de Scherzo, among others). The work on this masterpiece has continued with Partita 2 with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz. Beyer plays regularly in the most important halls and festivals worldwide (Théâtre du Châtelet, Festival de Sablé, Innsbruck Festwochen, and Wiener Konzerthaus, among others). She shares her time between different music ensembles as well as her own ensemble, Gli Incogniti. Beyond performing, Beyer teaches at the ESMAE of Porto, Portugal, as well as international masterclasses. She has taught baroque violin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland since 2010.
ROSELEE GOLDBERG RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Chief Curator of
Performa, is an art historian, critic, and curator whose book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art and has since been translated into thirteen languages. She has previously held positions as the Director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and Curator at The Kitchen in New York. In 2004, she founded Performa, a non-profit arts organization committed to the research, production, and presentation of performance by visual artists which launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05 in 2005, and has since completed its seventh edition. Goldberg’s new book, Performance Now (Thames & Hudson), charts the development of live visual art across six continents in the years since the new millennium.
NEXT IN THE SERIES POW WOW AND SYMPOSIUM Sunday, November 18 from 1:00pm to 9:00pm
Join us for The First United Lenape Nations Pow Wow and Standing Ground Symposium featuring native art, food, dance competitions, and special performances in addition to a symposium that explores indigenous culture with Inuit (Inuk) vocalist and artist Tanya Tagaq and fellow artists, writers, scholars, performers, and community leaders.
FASHION: A NEW SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD Tuesday, November 27 at 7:00pm
Sustainable fashion pioneers Amanda Hearst and Hassan Pierre explore the power of fashion to affect social change in a conversation about the future of fashion. Also on display is an interactive exhibit demonstrating the lifecycle of ocean plastics from sea to sustainable fashion products, produced in partnership with PARLEY (November 27–28: 12:00pm–8:00pm).
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