PREVIEW of 2010 Performances:
VARIETY SHOW
Saturday, August 14, 8pm
@ Luther Barn Auction Ring
Performers and Artists Include:
George Terry will be presenting “The Dark Cowboy Redux.” George Terry’s Performance of “The Dark Cowboy” touches on themes of seduction, temptation, power, and the devil. The character is a hallucinatory, rhinestone, demon, with a face that cannot be seen. The ideas for this character were developed out of, country songs, real experience, and Appalachian folklore.
Blake Carrington will be presenting part of “Suomenlinna Ornithological Society,” a multi-faceted project created while at Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Program (HIAP) in May/June 2009. The island of Suomenlinna is a sea fortress located 15 minutes off the Helsinki coast. Built in the 18th century, it has witnessed years of bloody conflict, forced labor, and prisoner executions. Common wisdom says that the island is haunted.
Christopher Domenick will be presenting “Waterfalls.” “Waterfalls” is a meditation on memory in the form of a powerpoint presentation.
Joel Fisher + Justin Leonard will be presenting “Landmark”, a month long project/experiment based on chance consists of video projection, photographs, writing, and drawings made in Pontiac Michigan. Given only a departure time, place, and instructions to open an envelope once in transit, we left each moment, every encounter, our living, and the development of work over a month up to happenstance. Once we realized we would be living in the Detroit area, we decided to challenge the status-view representing the depopulation, and perils of economic downturn. Instead, we focused our attention on individuals and social contact allowing a new representation of the landscape to emerge through character study.
Darryl Lauster will be presenting “We the people: The Hudson Valley’s History Then and Now.” This documentary project seeks to focus and reflect on the crucible of historic sites, events and structures wherein the birth of our nation can be traced through the Revolutionary war. The film highlights stories told by the people of Dutchess, Ulster and Orange County who have dedicated their life to the preservation of their communities’ historic legacy, often in obscurity, the absence of funding, and frequently besieged by industry.
James Wiengrod will be presenting “The Universe.” a performance demonstration of creating universes.
OUTSIDE PERFORMANCES
James Weingrod
Hannah Ireland
Michael Sarff
Gary Garrido Schneider
Eliza Stamps, “The Reader and the Read” A Relational Tarot Interactive Performance
Michael River
DANCE
Malinda Ray Allen - ”The Part of Me In You,” Saturday, 2pm @Maxon Mills Porch
Through dance, song, and monologue, Malinda Ray Allen explores the thrill, the madness, and the science of love. See video here!
Naomi Goldberg Haas
@ Luther Barn and Maxon Mills, Sunday Morning
Out of the Canvas – The Miller Dances: Charmaine Warren (Movement), John Ehlis (Music)
@ Maxon Mills, Saturday Afternoon
Part of what it is, in our moment of creativity, is to tell a story. We bring into a three dimensional experience, the two dimensional imagery of the artists, giving the works a new life and spontaneity. There’s probably another dimension in the mix too. In a sense we are retelling fragments of time, connecting the various artists and images, in vignettes of creative impulses.
Otis Cook & Jamie Verazin
“Untitled Duet” (10 min. dance)
Otis Cook is an choreographer, dancer and teacher. His works range from small local performances to large international corporate events. Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, Otis discovered the stage life at the early age of 15 as a professional break-dancer. He left his small town, with a scholarship to study for two years in Japan. When he returned to the United States he entered Kent State University, focusing on Architecture and Asian Languages. After a visit to the see the Beijing Opera in China, however, Otis experienced an epiphany and returned to Kent State as a student in the Performing Arts Department.
In 1998 he joined Pilobolus Dance Theatre as a core dancer and choreographer. His work was highlighted in Mira Banks’ film “The Last Dance,” a collaboration Pilobolus did with children’s book author Maurice Sendak. He also appeared as a shadow on the 79th annual Academy Awards, Oprah, and the Conan O’Brien Show. He has choreographed and toured with Diavolo Dance Theater, and Momix. He founded Movement Under Development, and in 2006 co-produced, choreographed and starred in GRiMM, an evening length infusion of dance, theater, puppetry and aerial silk which ran at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street. One of his duets can be viewed on www.ted.com. He is currently performing around the US. and directing events of art for galas and corporate events, as well as teaching master classes in parkour, creative movement and choreography. As an active amateur naturalist, Otis continues to fold nature and the human struggle into his works.
PANCAKES AND COFFEE
@Luther Barn Luncheonette, 9am Sunday
A performance by Jeff Barnett-Winsby and Bowie Zunino in which the artists take over the old Luther Barn Luncheonette and serve visitors pancakes and coffee!
THE RELATIONSHIP
@ Luther Barn Auction Ring, 3pm Saturday
(working title) Bluebeard is the first of Fiona Templeton’s texts we are working on since The Medead, this time in an intimate work for 2 performers, for which we’ll have 2 alternative casts. The language slips between 2 people imagining what each other are thinking, in a tissue of suspicion, seduction, voyeurism and ventriloquism!
IN MAXON MILLS
Jesse Kauppila: Operation of Bitmap Machine: 12 – 2 on the 13th and 14th, Maxon Mills
Combining antique printmaking technology, ball bearing puzzles, and advanced mathematics, Bitmap Machine (20 x 20) creates (almost) random 2D bar codes. In an unfolding printing process, a series of these bar codes will be created and incorporated in a composition which synthesizes their formal similarities.
Remastering the Anthology of American Folk Music Listening Party: 3pm on the 14th, Maxon Mills
Harry Smiths “Anthology of American Folk Music” helped spark the American folk revival and through this music propelled thecivil rights movement. We will listen to hand cut “remasters” which update the revelatory strangeness of the “Anthology” for a contemporary audience.
