August 20, 2008 at 12:47 pm · Filed under ballet, dance, dance event, KATE, manhattan, art, modern, city, new york, nyc, mercecunningham, new york city, abt, choreographer, modern dance, contemporary dance, new york dance, companies, city center, dance culture, dance companies, american balet theatre, KATE-M, SYREN, kate mehan, chroeographer, SYREN modern dance
This is one of the posters starting appear around the city (this one at 5th Ave N/R/W train stop). This is a great event at City Center (all tickets $10!!!) The shows are in Sept. Everything from Shen Wei, ABT, Cunningham, to Oregon Ballet Theater and much much more. A great mix, the right price, and a SUPERB venue. One of these days, we hope SYREN will get on the bill! In the meantime, we are enthusiastic supporters.
Check it out!
http://www.citycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=3775
www.syrendance.org
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March 26, 2008 at 2:18 pm · Filed under dance, choreography, BRIAN, tag sf, chroeographer, paper magic, online showing
…This was a one-day only showing on March 26th. Maybe if you ask Brian nicely, he will do this again for his next work!…
Why did I decide to do Paper Magic? My honest answer is that I want to date Natalie Portman. It’s true.
The real reason why I want to do an online showing is because I want to get my work out to the general public after it is complete as soon as possible. I am always thinking about different performance ideas with a huge back catalogue of movement that I have created solely for the purpose of being able to retain the choreography. The Artist Group San Francisco (TAG SF) was created for this reason.
We want to be able to produce and create our own works. Seasoned mature artists, along with younger dancers whom bring a different dynamic mixed with visual artist’s, filmmakers, musicians and other artists of different backgrounds all working together to make the highest quality work possible. Thus far we have been able to do so with no to very little money. We are self-producing all of our own works because we genuinely want to create and collaborate with different artists whom share the same interests.
If I were to wait for grants and commissions to get works produced we would have very little to show. You have to do work to get work, if you don’t get work how do you do work? So it ends up being a catch 22. The talent, imagination, creativity is all there, we have things to say and we do. The works that we make are all things that we would be interested in watching ourselves.
Paper Magic was created as a companion piece. It is two parts of a much larger whole. I made a conscious decision to not use any multi-media this time around so that we can use other inventive ways to set up tone and atmosphere for the works. Paper Magic is simple yet effective.
I had a great time making this and I hope that you all enjoy!
Peace,
B.Gibbs
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