Yanira Castro's "a canary torsi's trilogy CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR" a canary torsi
The Chocolate Factory - Abrons Arts Center - The Invisible Dog Art Center
September 13-16 & 21-23
Choreographer Yanira Castro presents the world premiere of a canary torsi's trilogy CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR which will be staged concurrently at three venues: The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center and The Invisible Dog Art Center. Each part has its own home: CAST (Chocolate Factory), STAGE (Abrons), and AUTHOR (Invisible Dog).
CAST is a concentrated study of what constitutes a cast. Each performance features a random selection of four performers from the ensemble of fifteen who negotiate a new score of movement and text at each performance. A computer-generated script is culled each night from transcripts of over 100 hours of conversation with the full ensemble. STAGE is a visual and aural fantasia that explores the Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center as a center for spectacle. Guided by longtime a canary torsi collaborators, Kathy Couch and Stephan Moore, three improvising musicians will join a rotating cast of performers to compose a score with amplified sound sources: instruments, objects, and software. STAGE explores the role of theatrical devices in forming what an audience is intended to see. AUTHOR, continuously open at the Invisible Dog through September 17!
The trilogy draws from a collection of audio and video recordings (the project’s “archive”) that Castro generated with fifteen NYC performing artists including: Kyle Bukhari, Simon Courchel, Leslie Cuyjet, devynn emory, Iréne Hultman, Luke Miller, Sai Somboon, David Thomson, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Pamela Vail, Tara Aisha Willis, Darrin Wright. Stage Manager: Lillie De. Installation/Lighting Designer: Kathy Couch. Dramaturg: Susan Mar Landau. Composer/Programmer/Interaction Designer: Stephan Moore. Find out more at links below:
CAST at The Chocolate Factory. Purchase tickets HERE
STAGE at Abrons Arts Center. Purchase tickets HERE
AUTHOR continues at The Invisible Dog. Free RSVP HERE
Nora Chipaumire
FIAF
September 14 - 15
As part of FIAF’s annual Crossing the Line 2017 Festival, Chipaumire will premiere #PUNK, “… inspired by 1970s independent music, ‘Americana,’ and her own formative years in Zimbabwe in the ’70s-’90s … #PUNK paints a riotous sonic and visual landscape with voice, dance, installation and performance. #PUNK is the first part of a triptych titled #PUNK 100% POP*NIGGA,” a live performance album that confronts and celebrates three sonic ideologies: punk, pop and rumba, explored through the radical artists Patti Smith, Grace Jones and Rit Nzele,” according to the release. Find out more here
Maria Bauman
Gibney Dance Center
September 14 - 16
Kicking off the season is Bauman’s evening-length dying and dying and dying which calls “… attention to dwindling opportunity and capacity for rest, stillness and renewal and asks: “What could it mean for our lives if we gave death its rightful place? How can we communicate with our ancestors in 2017? How can the conception of capitalism as the opposite of death affect how and when we work and rest?” notes the release. Find out more here
Fadi Khoury’s FJK Dance
New York Live Arts
September 14-15
FJK Dance returns to NYLA with premieres and repertory works in two different programs. Premieres are Mundo and Tango on Point, and repertory works Echoes (2015) and Reflections (2016) round out the season. Find out more here
Antonio Ramos and The Gangbangers
Dixon Place
September 15-30
Ramos and The Gangbangers, will present ALMODOVAR DYSTOPIA, a “…humorous celebration of queer culture, and part an outrageous political statement against the body-negative and repressed nature of the world we live in,” notes the release. Find out more here
Soaking Wet
West End Theater
September 14 – 17
Curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, on two shared programs, featured will be: Sarah Konner and Austin Selden Dance, Doppelganger Dance Collective (Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson), Beyond the Bang Group: 5 couples are Jason Collins/Lindsay Harwell, Sarah Hook/Elizabeth Johnson, Louise Benkelman/Tommy Seibold, Chelsea Ainsworth/Doron Perk, and Alison Manning/Jesse Keller . Find out more here
Leimay
BAM Fisher / Fishman Space
September 14 -17
Leimay will premiere Frantic Beauty, Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya’s return to BAM for the third installment of their BECOMING pentalogy, a dance-theatre work that “…reflects on society’s pursuit of and relationship to beauty,” notes the release. Find out more here
Fridays at noon – Kathy Westwater & Wendy Whelan
92nd Street Y
September 15
For this version of “Fridays at noon,” choreographer Westwater builds a solo for former NYCB dancer, Whelan. “The two explore the development…a dance portrait entitled, Sophie, discuss their childhood friendship and their divergent artistic paths,” notes the release. The curator is Catherine Tharin. Find out more here
YY Dance Company
Peridance Salvatore Capezio Theater
September 16 – 17 & 23 – 24
Dancer/choreographer Yin Yue will present the world premiere of Vanishing Point, for an ensemble of five plus more. Find out more here
CUNY Dance Initiative
John Jay College
September 16 – 17
As part of the CUNY Dance Initiative, choreographer Melissa Riker of Kinesis Project dance theatre will present TimePiece, or: Another imperfect measurement of us, in collaboration with NYC costume designer Asa Thornton and Seattle visual artist Celeste Cooning, “…a site-specific dance about time, perspective and connection over distances,” on the rooftop plaza at John Jay College, according to the release. Find out more here
Movement Research at Judson Church – various artists
Judson Church
September 18
Movement Research at Judson’s Monday night series continues their “…free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress,” according to the release, with Nia & Ness, Oxana Chi, Feng Jiang, Melanie Maar, Zac Mosely and more. Find out more here
“Fast Forward”
Dixon Place
September 19
“Fast Forward,” curated by Sangeeta Yeseley to “…provide opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop longer, more developed pieces…” features Janice Rosario and Company, and many Carson Reiner & Artists. Find out more here
The Chocolate Factory - Abrons Arts Center - The Invisible Dog Art Center
September 13-16 & 21-23
Choreographer Yanira Castro presents the world premiere of a canary torsi's trilogy CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR which will be staged concurrently at three venues: The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center and The Invisible Dog Art Center. Each part has its own home: CAST (Chocolate Factory), STAGE (Abrons), and AUTHOR (Invisible Dog).
CAST is a concentrated study of what constitutes a cast. Each performance features a random selection of four performers from the ensemble of fifteen who negotiate a new score of movement and text at each performance. A computer-generated script is culled each night from transcripts of over 100 hours of conversation with the full ensemble. STAGE is a visual and aural fantasia that explores the Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center as a center for spectacle. Guided by longtime a canary torsi collaborators, Kathy Couch and Stephan Moore, three improvising musicians will join a rotating cast of performers to compose a score with amplified sound sources: instruments, objects, and software. STAGE explores the role of theatrical devices in forming what an audience is intended to see. AUTHOR, continuously open at the Invisible Dog through September 17!
The trilogy draws from a collection of audio and video recordings (the project’s “archive”) that Castro generated with fifteen NYC performing artists including: Kyle Bukhari, Simon Courchel, Leslie Cuyjet, devynn emory, Iréne Hultman, Luke Miller, Sai Somboon, David Thomson, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Pamela Vail, Tara Aisha Willis, Darrin Wright. Stage Manager: Lillie De. Installation/Lighting Designer: Kathy Couch. Dramaturg: Susan Mar Landau. Composer/Programmer/Interaction Designer: Stephan Moore. Find out more at links below:
CAST at The Chocolate Factory. Purchase tickets HERE
STAGE at Abrons Arts Center. Purchase tickets HERE
AUTHOR continues at The Invisible Dog. Free RSVP HERE
Nora Chipaumire
FIAF
September 14 - 15
As part of FIAF’s annual Crossing the Line 2017 Festival, Chipaumire will premiere #PUNK, “… inspired by 1970s independent music, ‘Americana,’ and her own formative years in Zimbabwe in the ’70s-’90s … #PUNK paints a riotous sonic and visual landscape with voice, dance, installation and performance. #PUNK is the first part of a triptych titled #PUNK 100% POP*NIGGA,” a live performance album that confronts and celebrates three sonic ideologies: punk, pop and rumba, explored through the radical artists Patti Smith, Grace Jones and Rit Nzele,” according to the release. Find out more here
Maria Bauman
Gibney Dance Center
September 14 - 16
Kicking off the season is Bauman’s evening-length dying and dying and dying which calls “… attention to dwindling opportunity and capacity for rest, stillness and renewal and asks: “What could it mean for our lives if we gave death its rightful place? How can we communicate with our ancestors in 2017? How can the conception of capitalism as the opposite of death affect how and when we work and rest?” notes the release. Find out more here
Fadi Khoury’s FJK Dance
New York Live Arts
September 14-15
FJK Dance returns to NYLA with premieres and repertory works in two different programs. Premieres are Mundo and Tango on Point, and repertory works Echoes (2015) and Reflections (2016) round out the season. Find out more here
Antonio Ramos and The Gangbangers
Dixon Place
September 15-30
Ramos and The Gangbangers, will present ALMODOVAR DYSTOPIA, a “…humorous celebration of queer culture, and part an outrageous political statement against the body-negative and repressed nature of the world we live in,” notes the release. Find out more here
Soaking Wet
West End Theater
September 14 – 17
Curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, on two shared programs, featured will be: Sarah Konner and Austin Selden Dance, Doppelganger Dance Collective (Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson), Beyond the Bang Group: 5 couples are Jason Collins/Lindsay Harwell, Sarah Hook/Elizabeth Johnson, Louise Benkelman/Tommy Seibold, Chelsea Ainsworth/Doron Perk, and Alison Manning/Jesse Keller . Find out more here
Leimay
BAM Fisher / Fishman Space
September 14 -17
Leimay will premiere Frantic Beauty, Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya’s return to BAM for the third installment of their BECOMING pentalogy, a dance-theatre work that “…reflects on society’s pursuit of and relationship to beauty,” notes the release. Find out more here
Fridays at noon – Kathy Westwater & Wendy Whelan
92nd Street Y
September 15
For this version of “Fridays at noon,” choreographer Westwater builds a solo for former NYCB dancer, Whelan. “The two explore the development…a dance portrait entitled, Sophie, discuss their childhood friendship and their divergent artistic paths,” notes the release. The curator is Catherine Tharin. Find out more here
YY Dance Company
Peridance Salvatore Capezio Theater
September 16 – 17 & 23 – 24
Dancer/choreographer Yin Yue will present the world premiere of Vanishing Point, for an ensemble of five plus more. Find out more here
CUNY Dance Initiative
John Jay College
September 16 – 17
As part of the CUNY Dance Initiative, choreographer Melissa Riker of Kinesis Project dance theatre will present TimePiece, or: Another imperfect measurement of us, in collaboration with NYC costume designer Asa Thornton and Seattle visual artist Celeste Cooning, “…a site-specific dance about time, perspective and connection over distances,” on the rooftop plaza at John Jay College, according to the release. Find out more here
Movement Research at Judson Church – various artists
Judson Church
September 18
Movement Research at Judson’s Monday night series continues their “…free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress,” according to the release, with Nia & Ness, Oxana Chi, Feng Jiang, Melanie Maar, Zac Mosely and more. Find out more here
“Fast Forward”
Dixon Place
September 19
“Fast Forward,” curated by Sangeeta Yeseley to “…provide opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop longer, more developed pieces…” features Janice Rosario and Company, and many Carson Reiner & Artists. Find out more here
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